skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You shouldn't use a debit card for everyday purchases. Use a credit card since it offers you far more protection against erroneous and fraudulent charges.
Yeah, and it sounds like they can't fly that long without parts failure. It's hard to find thorough information on how long heavy lift helicopters can run for, but a new CH-54K only has an 88.6% reliability rate for missions lasting only 2.25 hours. Shit's looking bad for the helicopter idea.

However, the current estimate for mission reliability is still below the required threshold (i.e., minimally acceptable) requirement. The program office reported in November 2020 that the helicopter demonstrated an 84.5 percent reliability rate, which is short of the program’s threshold requirement and below where the program office expected the reliability to be at this point in development.15 The program office projects that the helicopter should reach mission reliability of 88.6 percent after operational testing.16 According to program officials, the main causes of the reliability shortfalls have been technical issues identified during developmental testing. For example, the reliability of the main gearbox has been one of the main factors affecting the helicopter’s overall mission reliability metric.17 As mentioned, the program office has mitigation plans in place to address many of those technical issues, but has not yet demonstrated the required level of overall helicopter mission reliability.

Source: https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-21-208.pdf (p13/14)
Neat content but the “secret sauce” is really the willingness/ability to take advantages of the employees they call contractors. Throughout human history exploiting people has been one of the most effective business models imaginable and yet somehow Instacart (and others) have figured out a way to lose absolutely astounding amounts of money doing it.
After trying many HTML2PDF libraries we're doing the same thing and are quite happy with this approach. I've tried using "professional" solutions like iText pdfHTML[0]. They all seem to be based on flyingsaucer[1] which only supports HTML4 and CSS2, and will fail rendering pages that use modern CSS let alone JavaScript.

[0]: https://itextpdf.com/en/products/itext-7/convert-html-css-to...
[1]: https://github.com/flyingsaucerproject/flyingsaucer
There's Emoji Mashup Bot+ - "Tries to create new emojis out of three random emoji parts"

https://twitter.com/emojimashupplus
https://archive.is/jToyZ
I can put one datapoint: a person i know closely forgot a bag on a train in Switzerland, with significant valuables inside. This was in a rural area, with a tiny train station.

He told the local staff, they told the train driver, and at his next stop he passed it to the driver of a train going the other way. The guy had his valuables back withing 40 minutes.

He tried to offer some cash to the guy as a token of gratitude and he got offended. The dude was left feeling very uncomfortable and not sure what to do or how to soove over the situation.

That guy is reasonably aware of how europe works, but old habbit die hard. Also switzerland is probably one of the most orderly places around
Galerkin Approximation
The canal was expanded in 2015 to support bigger ships. You can lookup how long that took and treat it is a lower bound because this would not have most of the work already done like when expanding the existing canal.
G+ had events, I used to use them all the time. And then they removed them from communities, which was a large portion of how people (in my circles at least) used them. So that made it a lot less useful.
That's at the max takeoff weight (56,000kg), including the weight of the helicopter, fuel, crew, etc.

Depending on the temperature as the site, that could be a lot lower.
Why is there such an enormous drop in bandwidth as the file gets bigger?

Worse cache coherence? Youd expect the overhead of not having to initiate TCP handshakes, etc... to mean less overhead for a bigger request. Maybe Wrk is keeping connections open which reduces overhead in lower filesize conditions?
No, if you just need to read some text a lot of sites function with JavaScript disabled. Also, you can permanently enable sites, so often it is a one-time flip of the switch.

I think (but never really researched and enabled it) you can also have it run in whitelist mode by default, so that you can disable JS for specific sites.

Best to give it a try though.
The intention is to emphasize that the state of being unhoused is not some internal/inherent characteristic of the person, within the wider effort of adopting people-first language. The phrase "people experiencing houselessness" is sometimes used but it's fairly clunky so unhoused is often used instead.

Plus, you know, they do have homes usually. Their tent on the side of the street. Not housed, though.
Removing 10% of containers by helicopter also would take unreasonable time, removing 1% of containers might be plausible but I don't think it would make enough of a difference to justify the risks.
You’re points assume that OOP programs consist of a single god class stuffed full of nothing but mutable properties... which is obviously not sound OOP design.
Do you have any info on this? The only imaging I'm familiar with are medical.
I don't know about you but I don't want my police officers to be "negotiated with". I want them to enforce the law fairly and evenly, and not waive laws for their personal gain.
That sounds so crazy, it might just work. One would need to build a wall, possibly out of sand, around the ship, including blocking off the suez Canal itself at two spots.

It’sa bit like that Ceasar built two rings of walls when he was besieging the Gauls but was in turn besieged by the Gaul relief army, greatly and suspencefully explained in this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SU1Ej9Yqt68
So many permissions, but meanwhile autoplaying video and audio is still hidden behind a horrible heuristic model in Chrome that fundamentally prioritises internet giants like YouTube, Netflix and alike.
> we should explore the boundaries of the paradigm by making a popular language that's based on prototypes, or that privileges composition over inheritance, or pulls apart the various pieces of OOP into standalone concepts that can be mixed and matched.

JavaScript? ;-)
Have a look at my other post in a sister thread.. the reliability of heavy lift helicopters is... garbage.

Sounds like efforts are going into offloading fuel and water tanks while they continue to dig up sand.
BTW, here is the site: https://about.gitlab.cn/
I can only hope someone reading our Confluence docs in a couple thousand years would get something interesting out of it.
USA, as in the article.
What a fascinating watch. To think this was possible in 2001, I wonder how the capabilities have improved since.
Not just a professional in the field, he works for the company that got the assignment.
In case, like me, you are confused by units, "23000 TEU" refers to the number of 20 foot containers they can carry.

The average value of a container is thought to be somewhere north of $50,000. Even allowing for a fair margin of "it's a bit more complicated than that", you're in the region of $100,000,000 cargo-value per ship.
This frustrates me though.

My POV ("Writing functional stuff in Java is a headache") gets lost between the much larger camps of "Functional bad, Java good" and "Java is functional and therefore good". Or worse "Java is better because it's both OO and FP".

I want to type inference to work as well as ML. I don't think it ever will.

I want to be free of nulls. I don't think I ever will be.

I want the language to just let me implement `interface Monad<A>` and not need to generate code to arity 30.
There are also people who consider the world to be flat though. There is a very thorough mathematical definition of prime numbers and 1 is not prime according to that definition.
Well, they're using an awkward euphemism to refer to homeless people, so I would bet somewhere in the US.
That is a good challenge, as I am sure their reasons were extremely technical. Twitter also uses Lucene and also in different ways. And I am not at Amazon or Twitter, so I just go by their public presentations, quite technical ones.

But basically I suspect it is like this.

Vast Majority of actual search magic (vector analysis and heavy math and optimized index management) is in Lucene. But Lucene does not care much about getting data into the system (json, csv, xml, etc) or getting it out. It just has internal representation of documents and fields. Plus it does not do any sort of multi-index management, needed for scale.

So, both Solr and Elasticsearch build on top of Lucene to do the user-friendly and scaling parts. Solr allows to send data in multiple formats, Elasticsearch sticks to JSON. Solr has multiple way to build search queries (url params, xml, json, changed over time), Elasticsearch sticks to JSON. Solr is a bit rigid about how schema (field collection and type definition) is done, Elastisearch is a bit more hands-off. Solr has composable pre-processor chains and explicit field analyzer chains, Elasticsearch focuses more on logs and has external pre-processors and custom scripting language. Solr uses Apache Zookeeper to coordinate distributed state, Elasticsearch rolled their own. Solr has one particular way to split data into replicas and shards and throw them from one server to another, Elasticsearch has another. Solr is perfectly happy to run a single node=server=collection=core. Elasticsearch starts with fully distributed cloud setup.

All of these are trade-offs on top of actual search. That's why most of the consultants work with both Solr and Elasticsearch, the most difficult search optimization concepts are same for both.

Bloomberg, I think, uses Solr directly and builds on top of that. They contributed Machine Learning ranking to Solr, for example. They also use Elasticsearch for log analysis, I believe.

Amazon's needs are different again. Their data comes in through different routes (direct from databases?), their multi-tier replication and sharding strategy have different needs, they don't need user-facing user interface, etc. So, they take Lucene directly, and build the rest on top. And then contribute back to Lucene, which makes it available to both Solr and Elasticsearch. Everybody benefits in the end.
That's how it works in Australia, on the fairly rare circumstance that you come across an option to even leave tips. Generally everyone just presses enter through it.
Sorry I am not here to write lengthy topics. I'll give you one glaring example: "In an OOPL data type definitions belong to objects. So I can’t find all the data type definition in one place"

Absolutely wrong. Nothing prohibits you to define all prototypes, data structures and whatever the f.. one pleases in a single place. The author just has no clue what he is talking about. And any normal versatile language supports numerous paradigms so one does not use the hammer where screwdriver is needed.
I don't know about the whole of Europe, but here in the Netherlands when the bill comes and it is €45.87 I'll say "make it €50" so we pay once for bill and tip.
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Just an order of magnitude viz-a-viz a winch:

-- the Ever Given has a mass of ~220,000 tons (2.2e8 kg)

-- let us very conservatively assume that it is a homogeneous block, 1/3rd of which is on sand, 2/3rds of which is on water

-- the Coulomb coefficient of friction for steel on sand is a very complex function of sand composition and size, but roughly it's about µ=0.5 and F=µR [1]

-- For the 2/3rds of the ship that are in the water assume that it moves frictionlessly in an inviscid liquid (not true at all else ships wouldn't have huge engines!)

-- You therefore need to apply a net tension of ≥0.3 x 0.5 x 2.2e8 ≈ 33 MN to a wire to have a remote chance in hell of accelerating the ship backwards

-- This is about twice the thrust of a Space Shuttle solid rocket booster at liftoff.

[1] https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/sandf1972/26/4/26_4_139...
I investigated a little bit and it was a problem with certificates, the internal error message was "could not resolve kube integration (x509)". I was using a single-node k8s cluster hosted on Digital Ocean that I created myself.

I'm a beginner when it comes to k8s so I ended up just provisioning from the dashboard, everything's working now :)
edit: I hadn't really woken up when I first read the article, so I read it again after my morning coffee. I can't express how nice it was to read it, it sums up my experience perfectly. I'm teary eye'd writing this, I had just finished reading it, and then look behind me and see mom and baby on the sofa passed out next to each other, we've literally only been home about 15 hours, and I'm so happy seeing them together, I've completely forgotten about the past 6 months in the ICU.

A nurse gave us a copy of "Welcome to Holland" not too long after we had gotten the diagnosis. It was a beautiful explanation as to why life is going to be different than we expected, the same destination, just a different path. It wasn't until a few weeks later that we realised the author's name is Emily Pearl Kingsley, which is oddly coincidental as my name is Kingsley. Weird.

https://www.emilyperlkingsley.com/welcome-to-holland

This is an interesting time to read this, thanks for sharing. My wife and I just brought our 6 month old daughter home from the ICU after spending all but 2 weeks of her life there.

Our lil baby has Kabuki syndrome, it’s extremely rare, but has similar attributes to Downs. Kabuki can and has affected multiple organ systems with our girl, she has very complex heart disease, a pelvic kidney, hypotonia, hip dysplasia, malrotation, right isomerism, asplenia, immunodeficiency, endocrine issues, severe hearing loss etc, etc.

It was a hard pill to swallow that I am a dad to a special needs child now. Kabuki kids have varying levels of mental and physical disability, but we were told she will likely be generally happy, which is all mom and I really care about. We’re at peace with everything now, and are just extra loving on the small things (like her smiling!)

I do plan on blogging about being a dad to a medical 1%-er, tips/tricks, especially as I am originally from England and now live in the US, if anyone is interested.

https://kingsley.sh/posts/2021/staggering-cost-of-surviving-...
I do. Mostly I just use my phone for browsing. So, I want my phone to only have firefox browser wit uBo installed. No need for other apps (messages, phone, contact, any 3rd party app)
'Airport Culture', Gen Z's New Favourite Pastime
Signing is becoming less common in the US but there are a few local places where I have to touch pen to paper. When I use US cards in Europe, I often have to as well given lack of PIN--it's one reason I try to use Apple Pay when traveling there.
Async - clipboard: does this mean with a button press a site can copy what’s in your memories “copy”/clipboard functionality?!
static to dynamic power ratio isn't efficiency though (and static power in modern desktop chips is tiny compared to the dynamic power). The dynamic power is not linearly related to processing speed (in fact it's much worse). If you downclock and undervolt a ryzen processor it will use much less power than the decrease in speed (e.g. from stock, if you drop performance by ~20% you might get a ~40% power decrease). Obviously at a certain point you will start to get worse again but most chips are not at peak performance/watt at their stock settings because raw performance and performance/cost also matters.
Nice! A more "old-school" procgen-like approach, but that makes it all the more elegant in how effective it is in its simplicity
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Since a large part of the Java world revolves around Spring I can hardly see Clojure being relevant. Now Kotlin, that's a different story.
This really needs a tl;dr summary. And I think especially so given that they want to make things “simple”.
Trust me, unhoused is also clunky.

This is not how English works. Who thinks it does?

If I'm shirtless, is that an innate property of me as an individual? Should I refer to myself as person without shirt just so people don't get confused?
I was thinking of GPU cores having random write access, but yes that has concurrent access problems.

BTW how do GPUs solve the concurrent bus access you mention, with many cores are writing pixels?

Also, is this GPU-style processing, where each core writes a separate result (a texture/display pixel or transformed vector) but can read randomly (from textures), the only approach to parallelization that works? It's a form of scatter-gather.
That'd be quite the can of worms too? Access the the sea from South West Israel is via Gaza...
31 December 1990, and 30 June 1993 for the florin (10p).

A new, smaller 5p coin was introduced in June 1990, and the shilling-size 5p coin (and remaining shilling coins) were withdrawn at the end of that year.

In theory, some very old shillings and florins from 1816 could still have been in circulation in 1990 and 1992. But, the Royal Mint and coin collectors would have removed those whenever they could (only pre-1947 ones by Mint for the silver content).
Except in practice police are above the law. Prosecutors refuse to prosecute, bias grand juries, etc.
You can trust us here at OCP. The encryption backdoors we include in your autonomous vehicle's operating systems can only be accessed by authorized police personnel. Your safety is our number one priority®.
> Browser pdf styling is quite good actually

It is but I remember going through so many hoops to do it, when a "browser.export_pdf()" would have been so handy.

Does yours live in some repository online?
I think its going more like this:

Cycle 1
1. Have you seen this new thing called X? It's like Y only with more coolness.
2. X is pretty good!
3. X is great!
4. All the X!
5. Problems I've had with X
6. You know, X is pretty bad

Cycle 2
1. Have you seen this new thing called Y'? It's like X only with more coolness.
2. Y' is pretty good!
3. Y' is great!
4. All the Y'!
5. Problems I've had with Y'
6. You know, Y' is pretty bad

Cycle 3
1. Have you seen this new thing called X'? It's like Y' only with more coolness.
2. X' is pretty good!
3. X' is great!
4. All the X'!
5. Problems I've had with X'
6. You know, Y' is pretty bad

Where X and Y are concepts which get slightly better in each cycle.
Oh man, I wish I could upvote you twice. Thanks for the laugh!
And in practice they carry 40-foot containers. So 23,000 TEU is probably 11,500 containers.

In practice you can stack 40-footers as you wish, or stack 20-footers as you wish. But you can't mix them easily. See, two 20-footers are 'broken' in the middle, and will stress a 40-footer in the (unreinforced) center to the point of failure if stacked high enough. Which of course they do.
Yep, although I'm interested to see what'll happen with card schemes if Open Banking in the UK/EU allows direct peer to peer payments.
I don't think you can be paying bribes while claiming not to be corrupt yourself. By participating in corruption you are enabling it. In some places there might be no way around that but that's why I don't go to those places.
Interesting to hear that Just-Eat acts this way; Takeaway (Thuisbezorgd) has similar practices in NL.

They take no liability on anything (delivery delays, food problems, missing items, etc). They have no customer care number, and take days to respond to emails. If anything goes wrong, they make you call the restaurant, and of course they redirect you back to Tkwy. In the end, you will receive no refund, none of the missing food, and have waited 1-3hrs for an order that should've taken <1hr.

It's a horrible experience, but they get away with it because they have a near-monopoly. Uber Eats & Deliveroo have <25% of the restaurants on Tkwy.
I think there's a real difference between a "facilitation payment" and a "bribe". In each case, the official intends to use their position for personal benefit - and yes that is clearly problematic - but in the former case, the payer has no corrupt intent.
Your frustration may come from a good place, believing gov and big orgs want to be efficient. They don't and they don't have to. They are super efficient when it comes to taxes though. At least in my country, every department is trash except the revenue service which is so forward thinking and effective, they put private business to shame.
Ask HN: What features you expect from the remote only job search service?
You can use embedded Lucene if you want great search but no UI/schema management and you are happy to code the integration. You can start with 3 jars (5Mb) in size and add additional jars as your needs expand (e.g. multilingual processing).

You can use a single node Solr, if you want UI and send data in multiple formats and may eventually need to scale.

You can use Elasticsearch if you know you are starting big and deal with scaling from the start.

You have the choice. It is not just clustered Elasticsearch vs code your own.
Some times yes, the handheld card machine they bring over will give you the option, but its not super common in the UK. Most likely people will either tip in cash if they have any they can scrape together (becoming increasingly rare) or just say "round it up to Xyz" and get them to charge us that.
Would a good old ship camel work? Position some huge water-filled tanks underneath the ship, pump the water out and replace with air, to lift the ship up. Then hopefully it becomes unstuck enough to tow it clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_camel

In comparison with other proposed solutions I've seen, it would probably not rip the ship apart if distributed evenly over the hull. Yes, the ship is huge, but plain plastic containers and pumps scale quite nicely. Although in good armchair engineering tradition, I have not run the numbers.
Same here. Counter offer, took it, still there 4 years later.
This is an exceptionally wild take considering you're trying to compare the US's regulatory landscape to Europe's or Australia's. Both of their banking sectors are much more regulated.

I don't agree with your conclusion at all.
Every argument against OO seems to ignore the success of OO programs in the wild. Where are all the non-OO competitors?
According to traditional stereotypes, a nimble and competitive banking system should be one of the US's key strengths. Taking risks and powering good investments, style of thing. A combination of bailouts, regulatory capture and greed have really worn that edge down.

I note the "Square charges 2.6% on the average transaction; Stripe’s fee nears 3%. By contrast, China’s big fintech firms charge below 0.5%". Any difference is 100% regulatory.

In terms of raw economics, payment processing should be one of the most competitive markets bar none. Little details like that are reminders of decades of banks leeching productivity out of the real economy in the States. I expect people have been angry about that for so long they've lost any passion for it.
Homeless is saying they don't have a home and it's their fault they couldn't manage to acquire a home. Unhoused is saying we failed to provide them with a home and we should figure out how to provide them with homes.
I completely agree. MacOS, atleast since Catalina, has been seeking more specific permissions for apps which is good.

One particular video conferencing software asked for permission to read key strokes from any process! A very weird request. The only non-nefarious use case I can think of is that they want to allow keyboard shortcuts to work even when their app isn't in the foreground.