skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe to you, but until online shopping will be realizable via user chosen User Agent (like e-mail, etc.) via open API, online shopping will continue to suck horribly for anything but single items. Shopping for groceries online is complete hell, for one.

There are queues online too. They are just at the delivery side, not at the checkout side.
I can't see the comment you replied to but I assume it was about the US. If so, I'd recommend the South Park episode about the US's genius innovation of having its cake and eating it, too :)
Isn't it one of those things where they make it consistent for the platform, rather than across platforms?

It's like the browser tab close button is on the right on Windows but left on macOS, which always annoys me.
One assume, since this was days in the making, that the GitHub security team had operations spool up extra auth tier capacity before booting all sessions.
China’s Covid-19 anal swab test policy angers foreign visitors
To a large extent, car ownership is already a perk of being “rich.” Looks how many people have trouble getting to voting locations or to vaccination sites.
This is what the phrase "design by committee" summarises succinctly.
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I have two conflicting thoughts on self-driving cars.

* On the one hand I totally agree with you, the majority of people don't care about driving and just want to get from Point A to Point B. Given the opportunity to sit back and watch Netflix vs fighting traffic and having lower insurance premiums I think will make self-driving cars a tempting combination.

* On the other hand though, outside densely populated places where there is less traffic and more unpredictable terrain, self-driving cars are going to have an extremely uphill battle. First with the lack of extreme traffic, there isn't much of a case for needing for a car to drive itself.

Then there's the issue of trust. Say you're out in rural Idaho, nearest anything is 50+ miles away. Out there all those cool tech gizmos and self driving tech is a massive liability. If you're out in the boonies and your car looses connection and refuses to drive what do you do? What about if some wired internal computer system breaks? This is why cars like the Toyota 4Runner and Tacoma are so so popular, they are old school simple cars but more importantly, you can take the thing out the middle of nowhere and trust that you won't get stranded by "cutting edge technology"
These regions would bleed extremism into the government controlled areas. This isn't a theoretical, we have live examples.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federally_Administered_Tribal_...
Why forex trading is exploding across Africa
Not quite, alternatives are co-operative, since all packages need to opt in.

In this case, diversions would be more suitable, but in this case probably not necessary, since at the moment it’s only for testing.
Sure, the American ass-in-seat mentally is not efficient. The American for-profit healthcare system is not efficient. And the American way of leaving its poorer citizens to fend for themselves instead of investing in them is not efficient. That's not an indictment of America's belief in efficiency, that's an indictment of its blind belief in the market as the best source of all solutions.
I usually find that JS heavy approaches can shine here, like with Chart.js. Here on the donut pie [1] you can hover with your mouse and see the name of the labels and the amount.

Where I like this approach is with big line charts like this one [2] (here it's D3 that's used). I am colorblind, and also not good at following things in general (I can have a hard time counting sequences of similar numbers), and I find charts made this way easier to read.

[1]: https://www.chartjs.org/docs/latest/charts/doughnut.html

[2]: https://observablehq.com/@d3/multi-line-chart
They have Amazon stores in the US. There's one I know of in downtown Chicago. I don't know if it did particularly well but it wasn't robbed bare every day.
I'm pretty sure the regulation is violated all the time everywhere, i.e. vending machines that require some local electronic card (e.g. to prove your age for sigarettes).

It's a pity, of course, but not a "new" problem.
More problematic issue with smartphones these days is the baseband; hard for any phone to be free.
There are certain extensions that I use on Firefox on the desktop. I would like to have some of those extensions available for my mobile device, in such a way, that I can enhance the usability of my mobile browser.
Let’s extrapolate then. Assume these stores spread to an entire country, since they’re not just located in rural areas. We'll also stick with 1% of the population losing jobs. In the US that’s over 3 million people. What should those people do instead?
A word alone on its line is also often referred to as orphaned.
Have had the same experience :-) It took two weeks of course.
Isn’t he already selling as many as he can build?
For those that need a concise refresher on - or introduction to - linear equations there's an (as usual) excellent series of 15 short videos from 3blue1brown:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFit...
I used to shop daily when I was poor.
The reality is that average human reaction times at speed are not very good and many people do not care to pay much attention or even follow the rules of the road. Most roads are also not designed for safety. They are usually designed for speed/throughput.
For people asking why Urbit created new programming languages and architecture, this is big reason why.

Owning something should mean that you are able to fix it.

A single person can peak under the hood of the entire OS and know what's going on (provided they learn the language). This is inconceivable even in something like Linux.

Simplicity is required for true ownership.
It could make for solid comedy. I'm thinking something about the ick factor about assisting someone void, like an elderly person or a person with a movement disorder, as revulsion humor with a growing dawn of the human feeling that eventually we all become frail or incapable (if we are fortunate to live long enough, or survive an accident, or survive a life being born with an ability different), and that by serving others all benefit.
> But much less efficient for the customers.

I don't know what your experience is, but I always find self-checkout massively more efficient for me and I'd always prefer it and would choose shops that offer it over those that don't.

I can just breeze through with my AirPods still in listening to my podcast, not having to wait for anyone else or have anyone else wait for me, not having to say anything, and just get on with the rest of my day and what I really want to spend my time doing.
Modern glassblowing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oETDTbzFJss&list=WL&index=3&...
You mean theft?
Isn't shrinkage just term for employee theft?
There will be a market for both automated and manned grocery stores in the future.

Until we have developed artificial general intelligence, I wouldn't trust a computer to recommend a cheese to with a certain kind of crackers. In stores with a reasonably wide selection of goods, I usually have to ask for the location of at least one thing.

Although locating stuff _could_ be solved by looking it up with an app, I would rather pay the markup. And I'm quite certain that a lot of other people will, because as opposed to with a lot of other goods, you're often low on time when shopping for groceries. I guess the urgency of shopping is why online grocery shopping hasn't taken off as much as even I would have predicted a few years ago.
Hi! I added a screenshot of the poll just as a way of an intro, the content of the post is actually just below: maps of the Java community on Twitter.
It’s really easy to make flippant statements like this when neither you, nor anyone you love, nor anyone you even know is being subjected to the terrors that many Uyghur people face on a daily basis.
The requirements in my US state are very similar to yours, except the amount of time you need to spend with a licensed instructor in an adapted car is fixed (don't remember the number). But after that, and before you can take your practical exam, you're required to spend a significant (fixed minimum) amount of time driving with a parent or guardian in the passenger seat.

And the cost is far less than the nearly $3000 you paid.
India did decline by 4%. But, the headline 20% considers only the population of countries that are "Free". India gets excluded from that list, as far as I can see, because of its new "partly free" status. Hence the entire pop of India, or around 14% of global pop, is a contributor to the drop.
> Wireless carrier tells subscribers it could share their masked browsing, app data and online activity with advertisers unless they opt out

Wow. This is really unexpected from T-Mobile, who has been the most customer-focused option for me when in the U.S.
From the non-coded stuff, this is my favorite!

https://soundcloud.com/ghalestrilo/fivni
That was 2014, what does it say now?
You will get some drivers at most, so maybe you could architect this drivers in such a way you could re-use part of teh code on the alternative kernels.

What is missing is someone with big pockets to pay very competent engineers to work on such kernels full time and setup a decent test lab with different hardware. Hobbyist might take a long time to finish the job.
>In the US, unless things are different from TV, you can get trained by someone else with a license in a regular car and do an exam.

What is this TV source you speak of? 11 o-clock news? Seinfeld?

> Over here, you need a driving instructor in an adapted car (dual controls),

Same.

> ...and depending on how well you pick it up, spend anywhere between 15 and 50 (or sometimes more) hours practicing driving and traffic rules.

Yup. We do that too.

> There's a written / theoretical exam you have to study for (traffic rules), then a practical exam with an examiner.

Again, we do that as well.

> In my case, it cost me about €2500 in lessons to get my driver's license. Then I spent another €1500 or so on top of that to get my motorcycle driver's license, where there's even more emphasis on personal safety and safe driving.

That is a lot of money.

> With that in mind, I'm confident in my claim that Dutch drivers are better than American ones.

The ones on TV or in your imagination?
Bigger discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26364993
Haha, yes! And that book is pretty ancient. I think the first edition dealt exclusively with building Windows desktop apps because the web wasn't ready yet. It lays out some of the blindingly obvious UX axioms that a lot of devs just don't bother to think about. One of them is "hide the ejection lever" (a metaphor for the ejection lever on a fighter jet) for exactly the kind of thing MJD is discussing. Have those irreversible, destructive controls be present and findable, but really hard to click by accident.
There was a nice Numega (later acquired by and rebranded as Compuware)
BoundsChecker tool for MSVC in early 200x that also worked good. IDK why they eventually discontinued the product though...
They can work without a return wire. It sounds like this system is designed to be able to work that way in case of faults:

>The use of two HVDC cables will provide the link between all four sites. The use of two cables constitutes
the bipolar operation of the project. A return path through earth, however, is provided in order to allow for
the reinstatement of rated or half-rated power transfer through converter switching, in case of faults and
disconnections of one of the two 500MW elements of the converter, or one of the two HVDC cable
links.

(https://www.euroasia-interconnector.com/wp-content/uploads/2... p17)
I think if you live in a free country, then the amount of freedom that can be taken away without criticism is extremely low. The US is a great example, there has been, and still is, a high level of freedom, trying to tamper with that, just a little, will be meet with massive criticism.

On the other hand, in a non-free country, you can give just the tiniest amount of freedom back to the people and it will be seen as a huge positive move.

Of cause anyone in the US or the EU is objectively much more free than someone in almost any random African country, but any attempt at tampering with those freedoms will be seen as a massive move in the wrong direction by the population.
God, I wish buying things in person was as smooth as buying them online.
Being able to add and remove things from your cart in near zero time, being able to shop at any time of day, being able to search for things by name
If I could get all my groceries delivered at negligible cost I would do so
Homeboy never heard of Linux.
> Is this a problem?

It's a problem if one applies the typical to the specific. If a woman is sitting in front of you and you assume her characteristics match the mean of all women's characteristics, congrats, you are sexist.
CORS Misconfiguration in Verizon’s Residential Account Portal
If the SCOTUS says yes, would the original GNU coreutils even retain their GPL license given that they reimplemented pre-existing, non-GPL utilities?
Data Science for Psychologists
I'm hoping this can have even wider implications for society and the way people interact. In rural Sweden the last decade all the small local village stores have totally disappeared. This means that when people who are spread around the countryside could previously just cycle a few kilometers to a nearby shop, they now need to take their car and drive (say) 25 kilometers to the nearest town - which also has usually built an out-of-town shopping area that sprawls enormous car-parking over land that might previously have been forest or farmland.

The roads are therefore constantly clogged by speeding cars, and have become seriously bike-hostile, discouraging local interactions even more.

I think these small stores could actually become a focus for local activity again - even without staff.
> I've long wanted to make something similar to Make but simply with better syntax...

If you haven't, I'd suggest having a look at pmake (sometimes packaged as 'bmake' since it is the base 'make' implementation on BSDs) - the core 'make' portions are still the same (like gmake extends core 'make' as well), but the more script-like 'dynamic' parts are much nicer than gnumake in my opinion. It also supports the notion of 'makefile libraries' which are directories containing make snippets which can be #include's into other client projects.

freebsd examples:

manual: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=make&apropos=0&sek...

makefile library used by the system to build itself (good examples): https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/share/mk
Most countries reversed the decade of progress in favor of CCP dystopian bullshit.

I could not visit my friends and extended family abroad because "IT IS NOT ESSENTIAL TRAVEL".
It's for this reason that I only ever open my investment account on tablet or desktop. I'm much more comfortable with the full-size dashboard and more visible information architecture.
That’s what’s so awesome about it. All the elitist notions of what a programming language or database cannot be or has to be, about speed, best practices, standards, safety, harmful functions like GOTO, etc, fall to the wayside with a pragmatic interface that gets rid of all the required cruft and toolchains, just giving all the users direct access to power. And practically everyone in a desk job uses it occasionally. It’s as ubiquitous as coffee.

It’s a refreshing rebuke to modern convoluted toolchains, binary signing, prohibitions against doing this or that, all the ceremony of modern programming. It goes directly against the trend to make computers increasingly locked down in functionality, mere appliances for passive consumption by and harvesting of data from the masses. It’s like giving everyone in a desk job a Leatherman multitool and a lighter. A bicycle for the mind in actual truth. Permissionless innovation at its finest. Excel! Excelsior!
Isn’t it caused by the bill that makes it impossible for Muslims to become citizens? I’m not that familiar with Indian politics but from what I read[0] that’s more than just a small detail in my book, that’s a clear authoritarian move.

So far everything I’ve seen regarding Modi’s politics has this same authoritarian flavor.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/11/india-to-bring...
No price reduction as compared to what? Maybe all the prices would be 0.5% higher if all the checkout was human-only? At the end of the day, the customer is paying for most everything in the shop. (They're the one bringing the money into the system. There may be a small amount of payment for placement or other advertising, or financing via invoices, but the vast majority of money coming into the shop is coming from customers.)

I can't see a reason why self-checkouts should be forbidden. If people don't like them, don't use them. Why should people who do like them be forbidden from shopping in a way that they prefer?
How is it as the expense of novices? They were fine without it before and they’re fine without knowing about it now. But if they do end up wanting to do some of that advanced stuff, it’s one Google or friend-suggestion away.
That's quite a blast from the past :)
Yes, at least in Rails you see this a bit:

> Thread.current[:key] = value

Typically you’d only have one request at a time on each thread though. So your examples feel unlikely. Looking forward to finding out what happened here.
Tibetans aren't Westerners.
I hope that's a small number. Hate to think there are as many logic-intent sorts of bugs as well.
> An obituary where the author casually drops that he was the youngest receiver of this-and-that award?

It's more a eulogy than an obituary. It is common in eulogies for the speaker/writer to explain how the subject's life tied in with their own.

His being the youngest winner in the first batch of MacArthur awards is completely relevant because that was why Astrid Golomb came knocking on his door.

> That everything becomes so easy with the Wolfram Language?

He gave one specific example as something that is easy nowadays on computers that Golomb had to do tediously be hand when he needed it in 1954. Nowhere does he say anything about the Wolfram Language making everything easier.
> That, or you accept it and become a Java shop.

This, in a topic focusing on HR... It hits far too close to home. Java is now our recommended language, and HR is implementing all kinds of policies like “pay leveling” and “engineering promotions require job reqs complete with interviews” and “pay raises can only occur in N month”.
I've heard "Wow, you speak English better than I expected!", "You have no accent at all!" and similar said to Indian and Asian colleagues, some of these colleagues were born in the US and for all intents and purposes shared the same American childhood as you and me. Is it racist? I don't know. It does imply a ready and closely-held stereotype, though.
Couldn't this be replace with roaming alexa style bots on r even something stationary at the end of each aisle?
> freeing them to do something else instead.

Yes, the'll be busy looking for other jobs.
Having more "trainers" probably doesn't matter one bit to Tesla, but their $10k is quite useful
> EUT can be used descriptively because you can just pick any utility function to fit whatever behaviour you are trying to explain, but that doesn't offer any insight.

Well, using EUT descriptively is useful when you're objective is to create a model from empirical observations. I agree that this is irrelevant in this discussion.

> Again, the EE claim, and one which is demonstrated for at least some simple cases, is that you can recover a range of behaviours without adding in parameters by considering time explicitly.

Sure. You can recover the same using EUT in prescriptive mode. Which is not about fitting observations to a general parametric utility function or anything like that. It's about using a model of the problem (p.ex. multiplicative dynamics) to derive the right utility function to use (p.ex. logarithmic) when possible (just like EE does). And using an approximate model that is hopefully not too wrong when the problem is not so easy.

> In the question of whether you take that bet, you get the same answer whether you play once, or ten times, or one million.
If you are only playing one round, you should take the bet, if you are playing more than one round, you shouldn't.

The question in equation (2) is of the form "you are only playing one round". But the answer is not "you should take the bet", because we're told that to answer you need to consider an hypothetical infinite sequence of bets.

If I offer you the possibility to win $10000 or lose $9999 on a coin flip, only once, do you play or not?

> EE gives you the correct answer however many rounds you choose to play (one, or more) without requiring any additional modification.

So there is one answer for "one" and one answer for "more"? When you said that it could depend on "the number of periods" I thought you meant that the answer could be different for two periods than for seven, for example. (Of course EUT with logarithmic utility is equivalent to EE and won't make a difference between playing twice or seven times either.)
Re. docs - not really, the "via" prefix is not documented in any RFC, it's Google who are ad-hoc defining this and making up a new standard.
For anyone looking for a forwarder that has done their homework, I can recommend forwardememail.net [0]. The developer has commented on the issues here on HN a few times.

[0]: https://forwardemail.net/
I would wager it is an empire judging on how many military bases it has all pver the world, global cultural influence, global trade and monetary influence.

If it looks like a duck.
If it quacks like a duck.
Their O&M is higher than the 'capacity' figures make it seem. They run under 25% capacity on average.

This site https://www.scottmadden.com/insight/solar-photovoltaic-plant... estimates $60 per kW-year for maintenance. Half cleaning; most of the rest in inverter replacement. How does that compare with turbine I wonder.
No changes: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/ext4/resize...
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Very true, but they also do not own any chip Fab nowadays, having shifted that to Global Foundaries iirc. Which is one area that Intel still have in house. But given how much research IBM has done, I do wonder how many patents they hold in the FME feild.
Second sentence in the first section of the article:

"It was originally designed and implemented for the LLVM/Clang compiler."
never heard anyone claim to love their commute, but luckily working from home doesn't prevent you from going for a recreational walk/train ride/drive to make up for the lost commute
Which EU countries have cigarette vending machines? I've never seen such a thing, in the countries I shop they're behind a cashier. Sometimes even hidden so that if you don't know what to ask for you're not getting it.
> Governments seem to be universally terrified of even the slightest possibility of anyone in the world having a private conversation.

We used to make fun of the countries behind the iron curtain for their lack privacy. The thought of living in a surveillance state seemed horrible as well as unrealistic in "the west". Freedom / democracy loving people like us would never have that kind of problem. Now it seems the whole world has gone mad, and it seems that people looking for privacy, are just considered as people looking to do something terrible that the state needs to stop anyway.
I once spent two days debugging confusing behaviour in a serial command interface before discovering the line:

#define CR_LF "\n"