skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buses can compete quite effectively with trains. Germany ironically allows very little competition on its rail network so buses have become quite popular as an alternative. They are a lot cheaper to use than trains (the tickets tend to be less than half the price of a train ticket to the same destination). Autonomous, electrical buses would be cheaper still. Less fuel cost. No driver cost. Basically a very long train would have maybe around 1500 people in them. A big bus can transport about 60-80 people and you could feasibly make even larger capacity buses. So, it only takes about 15-20 or so buses to replace most trains. Trains are expensive. You can easily build 15 buses for the money it takes to even buy a single carriage. Road congestion is indeed a thing. But buses are a lot more efficient than suvs when it comes to using them.

The reason that Asia is building so much rail is that it is growing so fast. China has literally been designing and building cities from scratch and moving millions of people in to them. E.g. Shenzen grew from less than a million people to 12 million people in roughly the time it took Germany to figure out a rail connection between Berlin and Munich. China has built more sub way lines for new cities in recent decades than exist outside of China. Building rail is a lot easier and cheaper when you have a green field approach to city building like that and a state that can just tell people to shut up and move somewhere else because they need to build a railway where their house is. Much of European and American rail was built when the world population was a lot smaller than it is today. Having about 7x more people complicates things. Ironically, the US used a lot of Chinese labor for this at the time.
Hangul is still quite finicky to create a movable type with though. Although the basic letters themselves count in the dozens, they can combine not only horizontally but vertically (and even both at the same time), so in practice you would have to create every block for each possible syllable. It's still a lot less than the Chinese scripts, but large enough to make the printing press less practical than the alphabet. (Here's an example of a Hangul movable type: https://www.museum.go.kr/files/zin/curator_14_3.jpg)
Varnish Cache with VCL allows you to create custom edge logic for things like header manipulation or backend selection.
Get a Chinese romantic partner I am told (I went with SE Asian by chance and pushed back by learning a few years. ;-) )
As long as the user still has control over their machine (i.e. the browser) this approach doesn't work very well. You can't really run trusted code on an untrusted machine.
Are you actually inventing things or just filing a bunch of patents?
Hygiene doesn't matter that much. Humans evolved in environments full of pathogens, and most people survived. You'll probably be fine even without obsessive cleaning. There is some evidence that living in overly sterile environments is a risk factor for autoimmune diseases.
> The trouble with legalization, rather than decriminalization

I'm always intrigued that drug advocacy draws a careful distinction between "decriminalization" (the conduct becomes legal) and "legalization" (the conduct stays mostly illegal), while prostitution advocacy draws the same distinction between the same words, but swaps the meanings.
Anti-Chinese racism is stupid and toxic, yes, but you're missing the point.

People here generally aren't blaming China because that's where COVID-19 originated. That would be stupid.

No, they're blaming the CCP for covering it up in the early days, which allowed it to spread and become the global pandemic which it became. Big difference.

It's not China's fault that COVID originated there (lab leak or otherwise). It is their fault for covering up the scale of the problem and thereby helping it spread.
This comment may not age well.

The truth is, we may never know the psychological pressures they've endured, or will.
Odd, I didn't need to but thanks to know.
That’s why you need strong labor laws as a balance.
Lebanon’s Forgotten Space Programme
Previous discussion about the research paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24477099
Just “misrepresenting things”? Amazon did everything they could to crush the effort.

“The retail workers union said Amazon was trying to surveil employees in Bessemer and even changed a traffic signal to prevent organizers from approaching warehouse workers as they left the site. Last month, the New York attorney general said in a lawsuit that Amazon had retaliated against employees who tried to protest its pandemic safety measures as inadequate.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/technology/amazon-unions-...
The hygiene hypothesis is about infectious agents, not toxic chemicals.
actually there appears to be a limit to this. i’ve never been able to perform more than ~50 http requests per invocation, leading me to believe that they are “billed” with 1ms cpu time.
Try basmati rice. It has a light bit of nutty flavour. You will never eat Uncle Ben again.
Firefox cannot remove that option to use system-provided DNS API instead of own implementation of HTTPS DNS. Doing that will prevent using it with intranets.
I'm surprised the the amount of deaths due to "poisoning" ... does anybody know where I can learn more about this?

Edit: I found a Glossary on the site, which states that poisoning "Includes deaths from drugs, medicines, other solid and liquid substances, and gases and vapors. Excludes poisonings from spoiled foods, Salmonella, etc., which are classified as disease deaths."
> If your reaction to Rust actually following the prototype of chmod but not accepting conversions

Eh... as the article points out, the chown documentation specifically says that you are expected to provide negative numbers. The spec is obviously bugged.

This limits the amount of righteousness you can claim over "but we followed the spec (that we knew was wrong)!"
Yes, and that is independent of the MIME type; there is a response code to specify that input is required.
Ive simplified it but it still requires me to tell you about a lot of tea? Dont fukken hoist me! Stop!
Hi you sound upset about having skills that allow you to participate in a profitable business as an employee. Working on ones own project is very rewarding though not necessarily profitable in $$. It’s best to follow your heart though and do what you are passionate about. If it’s not coding, try and think long and hard what it is. Look to your hobbies. I’ve been doing this coding thing and app development for over 2 decades and I still love it. It’s my first love that I tell my woman that coding is first and she is second! Some women can’t take that but others do. In the end we are here for a short time; make it the best time you can.
There's some oversimplification of things in that even the first countries to adopt the Gregorian calendar (Spain, Portugal, France, Poland, Italy, Catholic Low Countries, Luxemburg, and their colonies in 1582), lost 10 days in the transition. They make it seem as if the 11 day discrepancy happened in the relatively short time between the creation of the Gregorian calendar and its adoption in Britain.

Wikipedia is silent on this, but the skipped days are there to make up for the errors in the Julian calendar dating back to the beginning of the common era, and not merely the transition as decreed by Pope Gregory.
Penicillin and ether were not covered by patents. Pretty sure those were two of the greatest of all time.

On the patent side you have such modern marvels as OxyContin, which has arguably caused more loss of life than COVID-19.

Patented drugs are generally awful. The idea that it costs $1B to make a game changing drug is a lie. It costs $1T. The US taxpayer pays 99.9%, and the big pharma company spends a billion to generate some shitty subpar derivative that they can then get monopoly protection on and create an artificial racket supported by false marketing.
Text classification might be very good at identifying ad text. There's a popular fake news dataset where models hit 85% accuracy https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-68787-8_...

Ads are highly tuned for click through rates. Even if the model isn't 100% accurate, it would force advertisers to use less effective ad text to avoid filters.
System DNS should always be used (unless the user configures it otherwise, e.g. by using a proxy for all connections). If you want DNS over HTTPS, this should be implemented as part of the system DNS, so that it can be used with any program that accesses the internet, rather than only the web browser.
You can at least guess the answer must be 1 instantly based on the idea that tan(x) and sin(x) equal x up to first order, and so therefore their inverses do too.

(So the limit is essentially (x - x)/(x - x) )

To make this rigorous do as you say about expanding the series.

Edit: Up to beyond first order actually*
All developing nations ignore international copyright, trademark, and patent IP rights. The US did it back in the late 19th century, other nations in the early 20th, Asian nations in the late 20th century. What is happening now is nothing new.

China is now starting to enforce IP rights because as they move up the industry maturity scale, the rights become more important.

IP rights only become relevant to developed nations, where manufacturing and other primary/secondary industries become less important than service industries.

There is no "global turning against protected invention".

There is "developing vs developed nations ongoing opposing interests".
I do understand what you mean. I have a personal philosophy that deals directly with existential dread. I may not explain it well here, but I'll give it a go: In the face of the yawning void both physical and metaphysical, we humans have the preternatural ability to construct meaning where none exists. We are smaller than mites, floating on dust, vulnerable and doomed; and yet, here we are, defying that nothingness; writing, loving, making things against odds so unlikely we have a difficult time comprehending it. We have the nearly divine ability to pick something arbitrarily and declaring "This matters. This is important, because I say it is." and therefore it really is important and meaningful. Until we decide it's not. This ability to construct meaning is extremely powerful, and will serve us as we march into the trillionth eon at the end of time.
It's been a handy way for cops to bust anyone they feel like busting on the spot. They can "find" a small quantity of cannabis on that person.

If they need to lock someone away for a long time, or develop leverage against them, they can "find" a larger quantity off cannabis in that person's car or abode. Trafficking is a federal offence.

Without being specific about race, let's just say the sudden appearance of a certain profile of wealthy cannabis entrepreneurs in states such as Colorado and California where pot has been legalised seals an ironic legacy.
Every software company in the world violates dozens to thousands of patents. If we all properly “played by the rules,” we’d be paralyzed by patents. No software could exist without a patent licensing team (internal or external), the overheads of which would make many ventures not worthwhile to pursue. Often you’d need to pay twice or more for the same concept, because most patents are vague and overlap with others. The combined patent licensing fees & terms would be crippling.

Software businesses (and others) currently exist at the mercy of patent-rights holders. As soon as they grow fat enough, the ROI on suing them makes it worthwhile. The case of PMC vs YouTube is a representative example.

The US patent system, as it is now, does not make the world a better place. It stifles innovation, where it should be fostering it.

Copyright, on the other hand, is much harder to violate. A software company can do business with much less fear of unknowingly breaching copyright. The copyright discussion is sufficiently different and unrelated to the patent discussion that raising it as an argument seems a little whataboutery.
> Many Chinese felt that America deserved what they got.

I don't see how their opinion matters, since they're misinformed and orchestrated by the CCP.

The Hainan incident was caused by a Chinese fighter pilot running into a US surveillance plane. The former is agile, the latter is not, so that's the fault of the fighter.

Also, a plane in distress doesn't need permission to land. For the CCP to make a big deal out of that when there's no other runway available shows their true nature - evil and authoritarian.

The CCP has been at war with the US since the 1950s over ideology. If the US was not their enemy, the CCP would just pick another country.

I've noticed that otherwise intelligent people seem to place significance in "man in the street" conversations with people who live in totalitarian countries and have no power.

There's a phrase for that, useful idiot:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
The technical problems are solvable, while the social and legal ones are not.
I’m that friend for all of my friends and I wonder how I have any friends left from the number of people I’ve had to say “you’re being a pillock, and this is how you fix it”

Good to know I’m providing a valuable service
> Funny, I see the possible future differently. I am inclined to predict that the option to use ad blockers may come to an end because browsers and other software financed with online ad-derived revenue have full control over what extensions users are allowed to run. They have full control over that system for extending the functionality of their software.

They are starting to do that. Therefore, better web browser must be written, with the user having full control, and not having things that the user cannot override (assume the user knows what they are doing; you must have enough ropes to hang yourself, and also a few more just in case).
People spent billions on "blockchain" too, this isn't any sort of indicator in the current economic climate.
Yes, that's what he's saying. You campaign until you're sure it's going to go the other way, 30/70, and then you call for a vote.
This article is very on point and every team benefits tremendously from people who do just spend the time and sleigh the monsters.

In a bigger team, a big second reason why these kinds of very uncomfortable tasks aren't done is that they also often don't produce immediate business value. You then have double resistance: the PO wants features from you and grinding is boring.

The people who first get to a position where they can spend the time and then do spend the time (instead of doing the even more fun tasks), are worth their weight in gold.
Why reveal the secret tech?
I think at this point, no country really wants their people to be doped up, and the negative side effects that prohibition has are just ignored.

Except in the US. I'm convinced the legislature is working on a way to monopolize the medical benefits. Free easy to grow medicine is bad for profits. Hence delta8 being legal, but delta9 being schedule I.

Edit: also in many countries enforcement is so lax that it does not matter much. E.g. central america and mexico.
Exactly this. I worked for a few years in big tech, and it was crystal clear that patents and copyrights were awful in tech. But I believed the lie that maybe in medicine, they were needed.

I spent a few years in medical research and realized that ohhhh shit, even worse in this industry.

The whole thing is a big lie.

End copyrights. End patents. The ideal length is zero. There is no case to be made to support them. We need to abolish them outright.
I just recently walked past a hotel advertisement display that had blue-screened, so not well
Whatever actually happened, people have a pretty hard time with random chance. They need someone to blame, and a good reason as to why something bad can't happen to them. If the reason is "it just happened randomly", that's uncomfortable. There's nothing you can do to fix the problem, you just have to accept that every 100 years there's a 0.3% probability that you'll die from some random incurable disease. But if the reason is "some scientist was careless", then they can put that scientist in prison and society is saved from all future pandemics, and they can stop worrying. Of course, that won't actually fix the problem, but it doesn't need to, it just needs to make people feel better.

Especially for claims like this, they're nearly impossible to conclusively disprove, so people will cling to it regardless of whether or not it's true. You'll see this come up again and again forever.
I definitely love coding, I just find working for companies, dealing (yes that word) with coworkers/superiors, and developing on their admittedly unkempt desktop application code bases to be soul sucking.
Doesn't that UI only present itself if you declare yourself an advanced user?
Any prototype released?
You're revealing more about yourself than either the advisor or the advisee.
A Ceph war story
It is obviously not possible on Wayland without a compositor either?
Container proxy does that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-pro...
Unconventional Python and ML Tricks. Delivered Weekly
"Johannes Gutenberg is famous for having designed and built the first printing press to incorporate movable type and mechanized inking and for using his invention to produce the Gutenberg Bible."

-- brittanica.com

"Gutenberg's technique of making movable type remains unclear. In the following decades, punches and copper matrices became standardized in the rapidly disseminating printing presses across Europe. Whether Gutenberg used this sophisticated technique or a somewhat primitive version has been the subject of considerable debate.

"In the standard process of making type, a hard metal punch (made by punchcutting, with the letter carved back to front) is hammered into a softer copper bar, creating a matrix. This is then placed into a hand-held mould and a piece of type, or "sort", is cast by filling the mould with molten type-metal; this cools almost at once, and the resulting piece of type can be removed from the mould. The matrix can be reused to create hundreds, or thousands, of identical sorts so that the same character appearing anywhere within the book will appear very uniform, giving rise, over time, to the development of distinct styles of typefaces or fonts. After casting, the sorts are arranged into type cases, and used to make up pages which are inked and printed, a procedure which can be repeated hundreds, or thousands, of times. The sorts can be reused in any combination, earning the process the name of "movable type.

"The invention of the making of types with punch, matrix and mold has been widely attributed to Gutenberg. However, recent evidence suggests that Gutenberg's process was somewhat different. If he used the punch and matrix approach, all his letters should have been nearly identical, with some variation due to miscasting and inking. However, the type used in Gutenberg's earliest work shows other variations."

-- Wikipedia
Metastudy: Unattractive people rate themselves higher than they are perceived
Yes. But since there was an initial RFC, I would expect there to be another RFC when flakes are ready.
Got some time to try this now. It worked as expected, I have vgpu_vfio. However, it doesn't perfectly fit my needs. Particularly, my host system is "heavy", I need it to run CUDA etc, while the VM just to run games. However, it seems the 460.32.04 driver on host doesn't have full functionality, hence, cannot run CUDA on the host any more.
... so if an open investigation and free access would look better then a cover up then by your logic they would allow it leading to the conclusion reality looks worse?
> One more time

You snipe at me then criticize me for matching your level of in-graciousness.

Growth was unprecedented before the FED, even with the short-lived ramifications of the crashes. 1929 & the 1930's lasted longer than previous downturns. 1971 was a complete failure of Bretton Woods & we were only bailed out by Oil & wars. It was pretty big failure in monetary policy. 2008 was bad. The 2020's are not looking good as well. Record & increasing amounts of money are being printed. Income disparity is increasing. Life expectancy is going down. I'm amazed that the plates have been kept spinning this long...

> You're being downvoted because you're wrong, and because you're being gratuitously abrasive

I've learned a long time ago to not care about silly karma points (distilling karma to a number is a complete misrepresentation of karma anyways) & these sort of passive-aggressive games. I'm not the only one being "gratuitously abrasive" in this conversation. I see myself from your perspective. I also see how I have been treated as well. If you want to call me a troll, then so be it, I'm a troll.

> As Jane Austen said, "You tell yourself that, if it gives you comfort."

I bet you felt all sorts of self-righteous endorphins when your wrote that. Too bad it was not in good faith. You have to dig deeper into your own actions to see the bigger picture here.
The purpose of IPR is not to "keep[ing] creators in control of their creations". It's to "promote the progress of science and useful arts". That's the whole point, to "allow... commercial activity to continue around IP".

Creators are given a limited period of monopoly over the rights for reproduction and use of expression (copyright), ideas (patents), branding (trademark) to allow them to earn some return on their creations, but at the same time put the expression, ideas or branding into the public domain.

Copyright terms have been bastardized by Disney et al and author estates to extend the terms beyond anything reasonable.

Patent trolls and an unfunded USPTO and compliant court districts have bastardized patents.
You seem confident that it wasn't a lab leak on the basis that Chinese scientists have no reason to lie and that the (alleged) first case wasn't a scientist.

What about the CCPs long track record of cover ups and lies instills you with confidence that there isn't a top-down effort to coverup a possible lab leak?

If the CCP wants a cover up, then the scientists under their employ will probably lie. Very few would be brave enough to be publicly truthful in such a situation.
That's not my premise though, that is a misinterpretation. There will be issues discussed at work by you and your coworkers that involve how the business affects your community. That's an example of what I mean, there will be (a nonzero amount). Nowhere did I say politics must invade every aspect of your life (a 100% amount), so I don't know why you keep saying that.
It's even more interesting than you say—the Greeks (and some other Orthodox churches) use the Revised Julian Calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Julian_calendar which aligns with the Gregorian calendar for roughly the millenium spanning 1700–2700. To make this work, they had their own skippage of days in 1923.
Bill Hwang of Archegos Capital lost $20B in two days
The Product-Minded Software Engineer (2019)
6 minutes read.

Gergely Orosz with a blog post that I'm going to use as a reference when people ask me for advice on "how can I increase my impact as an employee?". Whether your customers are internal or external, we all want to build useful products/tools that are being used and provide real value. Share it with other engineers in your organization and have a discussion. Who's doing it exceptionally well today? Are you investing enough time with them to see how they do it?
Am I understanding correctly that this affects any kernel where custom BPF rules can be applied? Can this be done from within a linux container?
Or try Arborio rice and cook a risotto
Thanks a lot for detecting this bug! Nigel's numbers were right, mine were wrong