skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some back-of-the-napkin math: Suez canal is about 200km and was built in ~10 years, that's about 20km per year (ignoring start/stop time and everything else). It was built around ~1860 so let's say we're at least 20% more effective at this time (probably more), leaves us with 24km per year, or 2 kilometer per month.

Let's say we start digging around the ship (I did a very shitty sketch with Google Maps here: https://i.imgur.com/A6sdvBn.png) and it seems we're ending up with about 6km, so doable in ~3 months. Add in the panic of countless of countries to unblock the canal itself and we could probably do it in a month if we really try.

At least based on my estimates (I'm a nobody with no formal education and also zero experience in shipping/logistics/boats/canals/construction), it seems it wouldn't be a multi-year project, but I'm more than eager to hear why I'm wrong.
Well, I'm getting one then!
Get a smartwatch. Not kidding.

It might sound stupid, but since I have a smartwatch and only filter the mot important notifications on it (calls, SMS), all other notifications can sit on my phone & wait for hours. Whatever. I still can be reached in an emergency.

I don't event check my phone to get the time, duh, that's a watch !
You could say the same with Just-Eat. In Denmark, I know they have a markup up to 15%, even though they have a lot of competition.
So honestly, I am a bit sceptical if we will see a much lower markup. One might hope though.
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I hate it. A massive amount of massive container ships is now heading to the 2-3 weeks longer route - and remember what fuel they use and how much of it...
That's a long diversion! But probably quite picturesque. Must be annoying for the crew, I can imagine.
That Uber eng comment reads like list of features and approaches that are necessitated by an overstaffed engineering department than stuff that necessitates it.

Yeah if you have 40-50 (!!) “product teams” fiddling with the Rider app, it’ll get complex and sure it’s impressive it works. But uh... why are there 40-50 product teams working on the Rider app?
React Redux Thunk vs. Elm (2019)
Solving the National Radio Quiet Zone Causing Extreme Economic Hardship
In brief as part of the infrastructure that we are about to embark the entire state of WVa be re-wired with undersea cable spec clarity and development of next generation communication standards where it is wholly light based where work performed-gotta have that music - gallium arsenide chips etc. it’s in a tweet thread. https://twitter.com/bondkentbond/status/1375389994529910784?... Consider an idea given back to society adapt as you see fit this should be designed by @DARPA as likely to be working on similar USArmy Corp of Engineers to do the work of Scale. https://twitter.com/bondkentbond/status/1375393794615480327?... As with other ideas this is public domain with caveat US.gov gets dibs if built
Deis Workflow is not abandoned! Just changed names, and teams, (but it's still my grandfather's axe!)

https://web.teamhephy.com

If porter-dev is selling managed hosting platform services, they already have a stronger business model than Deis did (which was, I guess, to get acquired by Microsoft and subsequently never provide any form of managed version of Workflow)

I don't know what Deis Labs business model is/was to be honest but it seems to have been a success, :-) there are worse footsteps to follow in
Egypt State Income: ca 95.8 billion
Canal Revenue: 27.2 billion
Makes per revenue per day 74.520.547
74 Million dollars Tax Revenue consumed by ship so far * days: 4 days * 74.520.547 = 298.082.191

If this blockade lasts for 12 days it has reached 1 billion loss >= 1/100 of the egypt household. That household is already under stress from the "escape from cairo"-plans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Administrative_Capital) and covid.
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When to Sell a Stock
I agree that that stat is unsettling, but I really can’t judge the people making this choice. It’s an impossibly hard situation to be put in, and you can’t be judgmental. Decisions like these are never easy, and never taken lightly by anyone.
From my experience in many places drivers actually use multiple apps at the same time. This means that there's less and less of a distinction between the safety, ratings etc. of each individual app.
Why to have empty files?

Can't you put disk size monitoring?

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This is the moment for Egypt to learn about backups. Dig a secondary canals next to the existing one. Under normal operations, have one serve the southbound traffic and the other one serving northbound traffic. In crisis, one can be blocked while the other switches direction every six hours or so.

Yes, it is expensive. But not as expensive as having a canal blocked is for the world economy and the Egyptian government.
Fair play - it must have been tough with that pressure to support your family...

I'm a bit frantic for more mundane reasons - suffer from an anxiety condition that triggers sometimes. It's ironic, working in that home with the residents brought my own condition to the surface. I got diagnosed soon afterwards...

Thankfully life more peaceful now... and I'm trying not to be as rushed ...
Ah yes the Cape of Good Hope (an euphemism for "Good luck crossing that")
JACs version for the Atari 400/800 is also impressive. Using the ANTIC for character set compression and displays as overscan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiLB8PQUJtc
b) people who cultivate this skill are unable to do deep work during the day;

For me, it was the other way around: inability to do deep work during the day (due to all the distractions already mentioned) forced me to cultivate a 10h-19h work schedule, with the accompanying sleep schedule (roughly from 01h-09h).
er. Apparently, I can't order from France...
Because you still need to use the canal afterwards. And you need to convince the crews of the ships that the radiation won't be a problem. And the authorities of the ports they go to. And so on.
In Belgium we were told yesterday on the news that we should expect all freight to be belated at least three weeks due to the knock-on effects of the Suez blockage.
The secondary effects of the blockage at our harbours are massive due to all the rescheduling chaos.
It all depends if you consider basically all non web GUIs developed the last 40 years or if you limit yourself to reactive web UIs developed the last few years. Tongue in cheek :)

Sure, reactive frameworks in js that mainly operate on the DOM/HTML/CSS stack may be very little OO, but Swift/Dart/Kotlin are OOP languages and Flutter for example, while using a reactive model, is still 100% OOP with Widget classes in a composition and so on.
Yep. Doing it with a HD is soooo much easier it's not even funny. Onslaught is definitively 10000x much more impressive. I can't resist to post my own version on Apple 2 too (without sound because I was not fluent with MockingBoard at the time):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiSFeqedcho

Compression is the real deal !
In the UK flour and yeast disappeared from the shelves for quite a while during the first lockdown baking boom.

The issue wasn't a shortage, but a shortage of flour in small bags.

Interestingly I saw some supermarkets fill up bags they usually use for bakery items to just sell the flour which seemed like a smart solution!

Also in March/April last year hand soap and toilet roll was hard to come by.
I suspect any nuke smaller than the Tsar Bomb would leave top large pieces in the way.
Elon Musk was able to fix his hair loss, Mark has the money to fix it as well.
I've known and loved a delightful list of people with Down Syndrome throughout my life. My late sister also had such a special place in her heart for them. The bonus chromosome certainly seems to do something beautiful to all the rest!

As the article mentioned, though, there is often a risk of congenital heart defects, and particularly in developing countries, obtaining heart surgery within the first few years can be prohibitively expensive, and end up cutting lives short.

I've recently become a supporter of Hearts of Joy International[0], which has partnered with surgeons in India and helps mothers and their little ones travel from Uganda and the Philippines to get this lifesaving surgery.

I'm not any kind of affiliate or anything, just an enthusiastic supporter!

[0] https://www.heartsofjoyinternational.com/
That explains it, I noticed that if my machine was on for a while a degradation in performance happened, it was probably the swapfile then too, especially when it only has 2GB to work with.

Yes, I probably need to set my swapfile to 16GB, I'm also investigating the swappiness setting, default 60 for desktop.
Quick explanation: the original song is from one of the video games in the video game series Touhou. The creator of the video game series allows fans to create derivative works. As a result, there are lots of interesting works that its passionate fanbase has created, and many of those works build on others' works.

As more examples, here are more recent videos also inspired by the Touhou series:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xRSlq42_sUE&vl=en

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KjJMWj6BYhY
If it makes your life harder, yes, it's premature optimization. But Rust, Nim and Zig are quite high level languages, they don't drag me down in terms of developer performance.

With C/C++ I agree, you'll spend weeks and years debugging depending on how long lived your application is, that you wouldn't have in Java or C#.
>> Qualified immunity is a shield from civil suits not criminal liability.

"generally requires civil rights plaintiffs to show not just a clear legal rule, but a prior case with functionally identical facts."

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/public_education/publicat...

It's not a crime if there is no precedence; cannot establish precedence because there is no precedent.

Sounds like immunity to me; but please, feel free to point me to the high number of court cases of criminal cops held accountable in a court of law.

You should also send that to the american bar association; they are clearly wasting their time pursuing criminal justice reform for the complete lack of accountability.
Ah, thank you! Searching for "gnufont" brought me to[1], which looks pretty nice indeed.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
Banks get to privatize the profits and socialize the loses often.
There is a cheap alternative to Prince called DocRaptor which uses the prince engine but is pay per use

Basically prince adds a watermark on the first page - so you do all your revisions and then only pay for the final copy to remove the watermark (however as any editor would know, we always have many final, final final, final v3 versions ;) so paying for prince once-off at 500$ is probably the best way for anyone who needs professional pdfing.

I wrote a latex / markdown / html editor with a simple mechanism (using the browsers default print settings), I think it’s not too bad for those looking to pdf from html:

https://writer.math.dev

Issue with mine is you would have to do all style sheets in line. I would recommend serious users to either pay for Prince if they want header/footer/page number control or just use print style sheets and code the html / css themselves and use headless chrome or chrome itself to print. Many people want JavaScript in their pages, I can’t recall if headless chrome can correctly account for that. File > print is the best imo :)
That looks incredible complete, thank you!
It's kind of evolved starting from the ancient canals of 500 BC or so. They've upgraded some of it to 2 parallel channels but not the bit the Ever Given is stuck in yet unfortunately.
Push notifications in Safari just suck because the discoverability method is a dialogue box that interrupts and blocks all other user actions.

The browser should never let a website interrupt unless allowed by the user. Place a bell icon in the address bar and make it translucently balloon up when triggered for visibility.

Side note: Browser interface should stay outside the untrusted zone of web content. Whenever it can't, interface could have an unobtrusive unimitable background pattern extending from the trusted zone into the untrusted zone. The user should always know what is browser or website.
It's the "Cape of Good Hope" in summer. In winter it's the "Cape of Storms".

In the original Portuguese: "Cabo da Boa Esperança", "Cabo das Tormentas". Thanks, Bartolomeu Dias.

The worst weather is actually slightly south-east of Cape Town & the Cape of Good Hope; around Cape Agulhas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Agulhas ).
could you tell us more ? It looks like a very in depth / interesting benchmark
They're missing the attribution to OpenStreetMap.
The most effective thing for me was to find an organic matter supply that has worms. If it has worms, it will have worm eggs.

An extra thing that helped was to take some of the worm organic matter (it was a trailer full of well rotted donkey manure) and stir it into my compost heaps. My compost heaps then also got infected with worms.
I use SQLite with GORM pretty regularly, and it works pretty nicely unless you're working with composite primary keys[0]. I've ended up writing some raw SQL to work around that, it's kinda annoying.

[0]: https://github.com/go-gorm/gorm/issues/3585
If you're honestly asking;

The problem as I see it, is that it feels disingenuous.

There are many still suffering similar attitudes in the UK, and the health service is still dealing with issues of identity and sexuality in the wrong ways based on those I know who've experienced it and from what I've seen/read.

Don't get me wrong, things are improving, and putting Turing on a bank note will bring discussion, but I don't believe for a second that this is the goal, it's a PR stunt (for lack of a better term). Just because Turing is in the past doesn't mean it should be forgotten though and more effort needs to be made not just to apologise but to condemn the behaviour from others.

Anyway, I'm just having a discussion, I think my point was that standalone, Alan Turing on a bank note is great, but I don't think I can look at it in isolation without thinking/discussing how it's not quite good enough. I hope that makes sense since I'm struggling to articulate my meaning.
I do have 5 tablets in my home, held with magnets against the walls, which do nothing else but have a custom app running which displays a full-screen WebView.

It shows stuff like weather, clock, calendar, land-line phone calls and has buttons for light scenes.

I used to use Chrome for this, but I always had to manually maximize the page, and hosting it in a custom app has additional benefits, like loading and maximizing the page as soon as the device boots, and offering a JavaScript interface so that the page can interact with Java functionality. It's much better that just hosting the page in Chrome.

Each time Chrome gets updated, the app gets killed. And even though the app has set up an alarm which makes Android call into the app every minute to ensure it is running, for some reason this doesn't bring up the UI (probably something which I need to debug).

But I know that if this app were running on Linux directly, in some Python Qt app with a Qt WebView, it would never get killed, as it has plenty of resources available.

I've also considered integrating Mozilla's rendering engine into the app, but decided not to, I can't remember why, but there were some drawbacks in doing so.

It would be hard to imagine using such an app in an industrial setting, where the app would need to be visible all the time, displaying gauges and stuff like that. The hardware could do that, with a proper OS.
I didn't know what to expect when I posted the question but this is really good advice. Thank you.
There are many negative things that could correctly be said about Javascript.

But this? This comment is absolutely special.

ActiveX controls were native code, with full system access by design. Possibly even worse, it was an absolutely blatant attempt by Microsoft to monopolize the web and maintain Windows' and Internet Explorer's dominance, as the controls were of course (in practice) intimately tied to IE on Windows on x86.
For $1trn you could maybe nuke it and then rebuild the ship plus adjacent bits of Egypt? I'm not sure health and safety would approve.
I'm not taking a swipe at the Swiss, and 'pretty currency' doesn't necessarily mean 'culture'.

I'm saying that elevating people who have materially contributed to the nation, it's character and history is a positive cultural artefact and it's worth an occasional fuss.
Thanks, but unlike the open source android version we completely mirror the Clubhouse API. Our beta testers have been using the app for more than a months and never had any issue
The Search for a New Physics
This may be related to the recent controversy over RMS at the FSF foundation:

https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix.html

In 2015 and 2016 RMS made three posts on his website about Down’s syndrome.

- He recommended that, should someone find out they are pregnant and the child tests positive for Down’s syndrome “the right course of action for the woman is to terminate the pregnancy.”

- He referred to people deciding to “carry fetuses with Down’s syndrome to term” as “perverse” and said that there is “nothing virtuous” in “[increasing] the number of people that have Down’s syndrome.”

- He also said that “when a fetus has Down’s syndrome, you should abort it and try again.”

- On at least one occasion RMS likened having a child with Down’s syndrome to having a pet.

The whole point of the pro-choice movement is to allow the woman to make her own decision. This is a really common choice, recommended by most medical staff (see other comments). Stating this opinion (even as a man) should not be more controversial than the typical abortion, which I presume is not for fetal abnormalities.

Presenting your choice as the only moral option is rude.

Comparing people to animals is horrible.
Either you’re being a contrarian troll, or think all video games are inherently bad.

Both “addictive elements” and “grind” have layers of nuance to defining them, particularly when it comes to intended game design. I’d argue if you apply the “you know it when you see it” test, neither of those pass for Animal Crossing at least.
Who Gets a Slice of Apple’s Pie?
Basically Postgres in Docker would be highly flexible in terms of what versions (major or minor), extensions, your own customisations for the configurations in pg.conf you want to go with.

You can upgrade/patch as soon as Postgres community makes these available. With RDS you have to wait and for Aurora surely significant waiting periods! e.g. Aurora Postgres is currently 2 major and 2 minor versions behind - meaning you would be missing the latest and greatest of Postgres!

I would suggest to use Postgres from community on EC2 or Containers or if you want Postgres as a service then use Postgres operator on EKS or any K8S distro available on AWS. You can easily go back and forth between this env and RDS or even any platform making your Postgres databases completely platform agnostic.
This moves things further forward into the non-ownership model of usage for autonomous vehicles. If you're in one of these cars, you're effectively in a taxi and its going to be up to the driver what to do if the police show up. So probably you should just hail an autonomous vehicle, not buy one.
What I've found with all these "paradigms" is that they're only beneficial some of the time, usually not most of the time, never all of the time. It takes some experience and and an anti-dogmatic attitude to judge, for example, when a black box is a good choice and when plain old data is a good choice. Woe to those who attempt to shoehorn their idea of purity unto every application domain they encounter.
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Completely true. It's a serious risk to be creating great things, impressing yourself but never making time to share with anyone else. In the modern world, you can't assume that your potential audience will see what you put out either - you need to repeat the news with a bit of variance, catch different timezones or people who don't see everything in their feed. Share a behind-the-scenes, share the finished product, a recap or case study, etc.
In the 1990's I serviced computer printers and monitors. Juki made a daisy wheel printer called the 6100. It was unique in that it used mag-lev to suspend the print head.
It came to mind regarding this story because someone had written software to convert the Juki 6100 to a graphics printer, using the Period Key Only. It printed at 18 characters per second, try to imagine how slow that is.
> That chopper has a max payload of 32000 lbs and a 40ft TEU has a max gross weight of 67500 lbs. Maybe you get lucky... but you'd need a lot of luck.

1. This assumes that the containers are actually loaded to their maximum gross weight. That doesn't seem likely; you're much more likely to run out of volume first - even if you're deliberately "optimizing" for as much weight in those containers as possible.

1a. This assumes that the heavy containers are at the top rather than the bottom, which would be backwards from how containers are supposed to be stacked (or even allowed to be stacked per your average safety guidelines around center of mass, stack limits, etc.).

2. This assumes that multiple helicopters can't work in tandem (which they can, from what I understand).

So yeah, even if there are some containers that are too heavy to safely unload via helicopter, I strongly suspect that quite a few - most, probably - of those containers could be readily unloaded. And further, even if that ain't enough to get the ship moving again, it's at least a good start.

> the Eisenhower last I checked a few weeks ago was near Italy and surely that group has at least a few Sea Dragons...

Even better.
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You seem to have missed the point that making fun of Down Syndrome is not appropriate.
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Some years ago I actually owned a ZX Spectrum and I managed to run some demos on it loaded via my PC audio out. I'm still searching for that one great track it played.

It sounded similar to this tune: https://youtu.be/QZnOd_f9YjQ?t=371
I like this scavengers idea. How far is it to Cairo, and what's unemployment like after Corona killed the tourism industy? Unlock all the containers, tell people you're paying them fifteen bucks an hour to come unload, AND they get to keep whatever they can carry off. How many people can you fit on that ship at once?