skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Though Diet Coke all but eclipsed Tab, the beverage company kept the throwback brand alive. The reason was customer relations. Tab fans were relentless, calling Coca-Cola headquarters and signing petitions if they couldn’t find their soda.
'We want to make sure those who want Tab get Tab,' Douglas Daft, Coca-Cola’s then-chairman and chief executive said in 2001, when Tab’s market share had fallen below 1%. 'It shows you care.' "

Sweetened with saccharine, described as having a metallic aftertaste.

I have had it but it's been awhile and I don't recall it well. My sense of the fan base is similar to what is mentioned in the article, that it had sort of a cult following. I'm surprised the company stuck with it so long. It makes me wonder if there's some genetic studies of taste preference it might have inspired.
> lately I’ve actually been considering the opposite: that the two-party system is the only thing truly holding the country together as a union. The two party system has two consequences: one, making the federal government more amenable to bottom-up change; and two, by making fringe movements morph themselves to fit into the federal structure, rather than simply exit and secede.

I don't understand what evidence has led you to these conclusions.
> I wasn't thinking 'how do they do that', I was thinking 'this is a bit pretentious'.

Everyone experiences things differently. Some people see a sports car and think, "Wow, I wonder how it works?" Others, "Wow, I hate that colour." Doesn't really matter.
This is the same party that gave us "you have to pass the law to know what is in it..." so...

You have to elect them before you know anything about them...

Seems like a good way to get the best leaders
The original Amiga hardware (which was later sold as the 1000/500/2000) was developed by a startup which was later bought by Commodore. After the Amiga was a success, they failed to develop the platform further. Ok, it was arguably hard to introduce changes to the existing custom chips while keeping at least a degree of compatibility with old games that relied on all sorts of timing etc. details of the old hardware, but still... When the first Amigas with really improved capabilities (4000/1200) appeared in 1992, it was too little too late.
The problem is the same as in lots of mechanical engineering designs - accumulated tolerance.

Imagine building a wall that is 100 blocks long with lego bricks. In order to fit well, the length of the first row has to be close to the length of the second row (etc.). Otherwise you will have the feeling of forcing it into place (if it's even possible).

That length difference is the accumulation of the error on each of the 100 bricks in a row so to get a good fit each brick needs to be made incredibly precisely. The required tolerance is approximately 1 micron.

Injection moulding is a surprisingly imprecise art (if you're not careful), so making them repeatably to that tolerance at high volume and low cost is a difficult skill. I can't find the reference now, but Lego has developed the skill to the extent that in the past they have been asked to advise defence companies about precision manufacture.
It's implementation defined (by the hardware). They could be stored in a reserved part of the RAM, or you could build special RAM that can store the extra bits alongside the data, or any other compatible solution.
It seems obvious that the real question that was being asked was "How hard can it be to bake a piece of plastic into shape [given the current state of the plastics industry and technology in general]?" and the answer to that question is "not difficult at all."

If you consider everything that goes into setting up an email filter in your mail app, starting with how transistors work but also including ocean cables and the liquid crystals of your display, well, sure, it's crazy how much is needed just to drop a couple of emails into the right folders... but outside of a science documentary, that's not really what people have in mind when they ask whether something is difficult.
Any point on the shell, whether the shell has zero thickness or not, has zero mass, but a finite mass density is assigned to it. Any finite mass is spread out, so you cannot have zero distance to enough of its points to feel infinite force.
After how Analogue ran the Pocket sales I just can't get excited about this. Running a five minute long first come, first serve pre-order is a great way to alienate your customer base. No one is eager to pay eBay scalpers because Analogue couldn't be arsed to estimate their demand.
But you can find examples where the shift has gone the other way too. They have always, and still have, a range of qualities. We just bought a pair of armchairs that seems to be quite solidly built and with nice material and finish, but I also had to throw away some kitchen chairs after just few years that we bought in 2010 because they were falling apart. In my experience, even pieces that has the same name can change from year to year (in either direction quality wise), because they have found a way to rationalise the manufacturing further or found a different factory that will produce it slightly cheaper but with slightly different standards.
I bike alone in the woods, and once beyond the initial few km it's quite unusual to see anyone else until I come back to the edge of the forest. It should be said I do prefer these less traveled sections.

Anyway, if I have an bad accident[1], I might not be able to operate the phone. Either the phone could get damaged or I'm passed out, hurt or similar.

Sharing the location in real-time with my gf, Google and possibly various governments seems preferable to lying hurt alone deep in the woods without anyone having a clue where I am.

[1]: Friend of a friend had a front wheel puncture in a turn at the bottom of a hill, causing him to crash into some rocks. By sheer luck someone found him. He was passed out. The crash crushed his jaw, and he sustained severe brain damage. It's years since and he's still not recovered 100%.
Google have a couple of good courses on technical writing - https://developers.google.com/tech-writing
This is definitely the case when you are only interested in a specific part of the content. There is no Ctrl+F for video.
Here are other visual JS Demos created by p01 and others using just 140 characters of code (or less!): https://www.dwitter.net/top/year

Dwitter is a collection of amazing short JavaScript codes that can be explored, remixed and voted "awesome". It works like a living portfolio of short code/graphic creations where one can learn by exploring other people's code.
You can get robbed anywhere (yes, even if the area isn't "sketchy") and if you do, it's not your fault. Of course, this does not mean that afterward you shouldn't take the right steps (perhaps you'll go to the police, or take self-defense classes). Knowing that it could have happened to anyone doesn't take away from your agency.
>it is unlikely that the EU referendum would have been held.

If the UK had actual proportional representation, it is also unlikely the EU referendum would have been held. The referendum was entirely a fault of the conservative government at the time, a gambit made not to appease potential UKIP voters but instead to satisfy in-fighting within the conservative party.

>some even getting reasonable levels of parliamentary representation.

Your definition of 'reasonable' differs from mine. Reasonable implies that the representation is fair/proportional to the amount of votes received. In 2010, the results were as follows:

Conservatives: 36% of votes, 47% of seats.

Labour: 29% of votes, 39.7% of seats.

Liberal Democrats: 23% of votes, 8.8% of seats.

A 'reasonable' level of representation for the 2010 election would've drastically reshaped British politics and the country would be much less divided than it is now. I feel strongly about this, since the UK used to be my home, but I couldn't bring myself to continue living there as a contributor to such a broken system.
Will the Bolivian people now possibly profit from the electric car boom? Or Elon Musk will support another coup?
China's $1.5m digital currency giveaway impressed analysts. Shoppers not so much
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> I would argue that technology that is better designed to make nefarious purposes harder to achieve, rather than just dumping features onto the user, is innovative.

Redefining general terms is the thing that adds the least possible value to a conversation. It often just makes things worse.
It is amazing how much one can achieve with so little code. I would dare to say that such demos are a kind of...indie art?

Can you give us some pointers, which APIs and algorithms did you use to generate the demo? I bet it will be an interesting lesson on math and web
But there are cows, people on the road, overloaded trucks with drivers hopped up on drugs, etc. I agree you're unlikely to die in a traffic accident (as a driver/passenger, at least) during the day in any of the perennially clogged metros, but the highways and expressways sprouting up are another story.

I once took a cab from DEL to Gurgaon. The driver drove up an offramp of the (then) NH-8, along the shoulder against the flow of incoming traffic, and then exited via an onramp. And then they were surprised that I didn't tip them despite this efficient shortcut.
It acts like an acceleration, rather than a force.

Imagine a bowling ball and a marble at rest from your perspective, and an apparatus with a pair of pneumatic guns that eject pistons with the same precisely-calibrated amount of force. You arrange the guns so that they will hit the marble and the bowling ball at the same moment, and you trigger them together. The marble and the bowling ball are hit at the same time by the same amount of force. The marble, being much lighter takes off much faster than the bowling ball.

Now take the same marble and bowling ball to a place a mile above the moon (so that there is no confounding atmosphere to complicate things) and release them next to one another at the same moment.

If gravity is a force, then we should expect that the marble will fall much faster than the bowling ball, because the same force is acting on two different masses; the lighter mass should be accelerated more, just as it was when the source of the force was the pneumatic gun. F = ma, after all. If the force is the same and the mass is less, then the acceleration must be more.

That's not what happens, though. The marble and the bowling ball fall together at the same accelerating rate.

Gravity acts like an acceleration, not a force.

Lo these many years ago when I was an undergraduate physics student, my advisor told me that we should say "the force due to gravity", not "the force of gravity".

In every day colloquial speech it doesn't matter, of course.
Ah, an internet psychiatrist and control freak all in one.
> It's often more expensive to buy the wood stock materials than it is to buy the finished Ikea piece.

Well, yes, we're back to supply chains here; just as on digikey you might find that the unit price for 1x an item is twice the unit price for 100x or even 10x, the supply chain to bring you a tiny quantity of wood to enjoy the premium experience of being a craftsman is quite expensive compared to anything mass-produced. You are paying for the experience of making it yourself.

(And this is before we get into relative wood pricing between countries; it took me a long time to understand why America had all those wood-framed and paneled houses while they're virtually absent in the UK, and of course it's because the local old forests were depleted in previous centuries. To the point where there was a whole pre-20th century peasant architecture of stone houses with only a single piece of serious lumber in: the roof beam.)
Entertainingly, at least in retrospect, I made the same mistake a couple of times when I switched to using GPS - I descended the wrong ridge from a top. No real harm done but I do think GPS made me pay less attention to where I was than I would have before when mainly using a paper map.
> Do we have to use this knowledge to toss nukes at each other?

ICBMs were never used to toss nukes at people.

Pretty sure their existence saved the world from WW3.

> Surely there's something else we could be doing instead?

The application most useful in everyway life is GPS.
IMHO it's less of a security feature, and more of a debugging aid (the overlap with security is when a failed check causes program termination). You might get more fine-grained overflow checks (vs guard pages), or dangling pointer checks (depending on how that key is stored, e.g. more than one key per memory page?).

It's faster then doing the same in code (e.g. via 'tagged handles': https://floooh.github.io/2018/06/17/handles-vs-pointers.html), or memory debugging tools like Valgrind or clang ASAN (and unlike Valgrind or ASAN, the checks are always enabled, also in the "release version").
There's a 160-Year-Old Tunnel Full of Rusting WWII Cars Under Streets of Naples
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We live in NZ. Suburbs here are not like in US. There's usually a corner shop about 20 minutes walk max away, some connecting bus not too far away. Cars move OK - not too fast to be annoying.

However I found the houses tiny (compared to a farm we've lived in recently), backyards minimal and just so claustrophobic.

Country roads here mean people driving past you at 70-90 kmh - you can bike and walk relatively safely, but it's going to be too far to get anywhere unless it's just for a hike. Also not super pleasant to have cars rushing past you where as traffic in suburbs is much slower and you've got a sidewalk.

The cost in country is also much higher, especially in areas that are not too far from city. Of course you get 10x more land that's going to appreciate like crazy in future, but you also shelve out at least 2x initial cost + more on maintenance.
Can this be turned in a browser extension that would allow a nicer view source?
US specific. Interesting project though.
Why is Mother Jones egging on Syrian rebels in yet another Middle Eastern war? [1]

The rebel group they're supporting regularly commits war crimes including beheading men accused of working for the Syrian government.

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/syria-al-qaeda-...

I'll give you The Nation though, they seem to be anti-interventionism.
I'm willing to bet their next ones won't have it.
> I can't imagine that many corners being cut during construction of bridges and cathedrals in medieval times.

You can't imagine it because those bridges and cathedrals collapsed (and were probably rebuilt).
https://github.com/flowplayer/flowplayer/blob/dev/LICENSE.md

The Flowplayer Free version is released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 (GPL).
The GPL requires that you not remove the Flowplayer logo and copyright notices from the user interface. See section 5.d below.

You may convey a work based on the Program, or the modifications to produce it from the Program, in the form of source code under the terms of section 4, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:
* If the work has interactive user interfaces, each must display Appropriate Legal Notices;
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Yeah because Scotty had no interest in money but in Whiskey.
You should get diagnosis before doing anything else. After age 2, a diagnosis by an expert is very reliable. The sooner autism spectrum disorder is diagnosed, the better.

It could be some other problem. Relying on what kindergarten or you think is not enough. Pushing child into some special kindergarten before any diagnosis is irresponsible.
Sugar substitutes promote weight gain. Also a good trigger for migraines.
neat! and it has demos
"C++ is C because nobody writes C", you can't be serious.
Yes, that is a more precise term that I should have used. On the other hand, I’d argue that survivorship bias is a type of selection bias.
https://www.starvoting.us/pr
Smartphones have been getting less repairable over time, including iPhones. If you scroll down, there is a noticeable trend towards greater repairability in older models.
I would want an explicit prompt for that. Or eg. "Track me for 8h" if I ski home through the snow in the middle of the night after a dinner or w/e.

The thought of being looked up like this is very uneasy.
If you have more than two without proportional representation it doesn't tend to work out very well. In the UK the main party got 51% of seats with 36% of the vote in 2015. Their share actually went up 5% in the next election two years later but they lost a bunch of seats as the opposition votes weren't split between multiple parties as much.

Voting reform _should_ be the long term goal and choice would come from it but the main reason the US is in a rot to the level it is is probably more down to the various areas of control (specifically the Senate, judicial system and the utterly insane amounts of money running through the whole political system).
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If you have some time check out our app at https://www.paymoapp.com - it's quite versatile (has boards and gantt)
Not sure if it counts as beyond playing around, but I used Wolfram Alpha quite a bit through school & university for checking my answers or how to do something I didn't have an answer for (it shows steps to get to solution, not just the solution) or to play around with parameters to get a better understanding of something - 'what if..' - pretty useful. More useful and easier to use than the TI Nspire CX CAS (I think) that I had, briefly, for that reason.
Have they scanned the book yet? Nope. Case closed.
This was my finding as well. A pity that expats aren't able to participate.
A couple of their examples at least seem a bit off - apparently Youtube Music isn't as good as the previous one, and Wave, while incorporated a bit into their office products, lacks the central feature that made Wave Wave.
or: "waste your personal life, one competitive year at a time"
Here’s a good interview with Morales from last month talking about the coup, the election, and the multinationals that tried to suppress MAS in Bolivia: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/10/evo-morales-interview-bol...
If you're interested in quines, see also TiddlyWiki[0] (and specifically this[1] great talk by its creator Jeremy Ruston and the late creator of Erlang, Joe Armstrong)

[0] https://tiddlywiki.com/

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv1UfLPK7_Q
> It was fun seeing how that too became optimised for quick turnaround - sometimes mailed without an envelope, just the protective cover taped in place... And with a lot of the more prolific traders eventually getting caught using wax over the stamps to allow them to scrape off the post mark and reuse the stamp to save money.

Same in Australia. My friend had feds staking out his place for reusing stamps :/
Isn't the country already heavily divided into "blue states" and "red states"? Especially ones where the entrenched party can gerrymander their way to permanence?

But I'm not sure why you think having more parties would make them more regionally split, they could (and arguably "should") be more interest and policy based, but still nationwide.
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Anecdotally, a lot of people I know who have trouble losing weight drink diet soda. I don't know what mechanism would cause that, but metabolism and satiety are complicated enough that I could believe there's a correlation. I'm lucky that artificial sweeteners taste disgusting to me anyways.
Can you be rejected instead of higher premium? IMO that's the case where gov should pick up the tab.

Also not having insurance doesn't mean instant death sentence. You can still pay yourself, however crazy amounts they are.

Disclaimer: I think whole US healthcare system is insane, especially the part where employers negotiate better rates. It's like socialised healthcare where higher earner pay more, but without any benefit to private companies...
On the other hand, the Internet is black with the ink of people who think they understand physics but do not. Credentials do help you to distinguish someone who has a chance of knowing what they're talking about.
psychologist seems to think that he also has autism, however the process is being speeded up a bit as they don't think the kindergarten is the right place for him.
A port[0] of FPGAPCE[1] exists for the miSTer[2]. This is all open source.

What does this commercial, proprietary, closed solution offer, if anything, over that?

[0] https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/TurboGrafx16_MiSTer

[1] https://github.com/Torlus/FPGAPCE

[2] https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Main_MiSTer/wiki
There are some Ikea products that are difficult to assemble in a lasting way. They are the exception though, and they're always the cheapest things.

The smallest Lack coffee table (€10 or so) is assembled with double-ended screws from the legs into the tabletop. There's no way it can take any sideways stress, e.g. by someone leaning or standing on it. A child falling onto the table can break it.

The larger Lack coffee table has the same legs, but adds a thin shelf for additional structure. If the shelf is loaded with a few books, it bows after a while. (I have this table.)

There are similar problems with the €10 metal furniture.
Have you found reliability problems with eMMC? I've found it to be a lot more reliable than SD cards, faster too. Of course with 1 Gb networking you can move the heavy lifting storage for containers and VMs to something like Ceph and only use the eMMC for OS root disks and local storage.

For my Turing Pi, when it's delivered, I'm hoping to start with a small Kubernetes install for testing. Then when the TPi 2 is released next year, build a second one with CM4 modules for more involved Kubernetes testing/development while putting Ceph on the old one.

(To head off inevitable comment: no I'm not expecting this to perform well, and it's not for production work, it's purely for experimentation with clusters)
The old H.L. Mencken quote applies here: "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard"
But given the multitude of parties, they tend to work together in groups (blocks), right?

So in the end, there are fewer sides/groups/blocks than parties and people tend to switch between parties within a block, but rarely between blocks.
this is... very good to know. yikes.
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An(almost)identical product was available 20+ years ago in Eastern Europe(most likely all of Europe and Asia).

Edit: Link to pic https://ro.pinterest.com/pin/559713059931829100/
Obviously I bought something else than IKEA product some 15 years ago. It was 5x5 huge wooden shelf. Had problems to lift parts of it and sold later for more than I paid. Deal of lifetime!

Expedit and Kallax have different size, German description: https://new-swedish-design.de/de/blog/expedit-vs.-kallax-reg...
It's quite remarkable how many voting systems we have in the UK; STV, D'Hondt, AMS and so on. The parliament with all the real power, and the constitutional ability to erase the others at will, is of course entrenched in FPTP to preserve conservativism.
That will be the Turing Pi 2, expected next year.
Many archives have lost their books due to fire, war, flood and theft. Texts are lost all the time because no copies exist.

What don't I understand?

There's the HP archives that burned down, for one.

For another, in a vault at the bottom of the World Trade Center, there was an archive of thousands of unpublished Kennedy photos. No copies were made of those photos. You'd think it would be safe in that vault. Nope. All gone.

Unless the book is a suspected palimpsest, a phone photo will preserve the text more than adequately, and would take an hour or two to accomplish. Then the risk of total loss is averted, and they can relax and do their proper scan whenever budget and schedule allows.