skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 25 × 10^6 is, roughly, what separates us from orangutans: 12 million years to our common ancestor on the phylogenetic tree and then 12 million years back by another branch of the tree to the present day orangutans.

> But are there topologists among orangutans?

> Yes, there definitely are: many orangutans are good at ”proving” the triviality of elaborate knots, e.g. they fast master the art of untying boats from their mooring when they fancy taking rides downstream in a river, much to the annoyance of people making these knots with a different purpose in mind.

https://www.ihes.fr/~gromov/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/manif...

Whenever anyone refers to another sentient being as stupid, the assessment tends to say more about the speaker.
OTDR - optical time domain reflectometer, you connect it to the fiber at one end and it'll tell you where the break is, accurate to plus or minus 20-30 meters
> I'm sure there's a literary or philosophical term that captures this feeling.

It's not 100% that, but "schadenfreude" comes close.
I love the Lamy-to-Chicago train. I've taken it several times. You get to sleep through Kansas (where there's nothing to see anyway; no offense to Kansans!) and you wake up crossing the Mississippi River. There's 110v power and cell service for most of the trip.

(I always get a sleeper; without that it wouldn't be worthwhile.)
What other solutions did you look at?
> A lot of people that invest simply lack better alternatives

Yeah, stocks haven't had a good year in over a decade /s
The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved
About 30 years ago one of my managers used to say "get the data model right and the application writes itself" and I have found that to be mostly true. What I have also often found is that people who create spreadsheets in business don't understand data modeling and even if the spreadsheet solves some business problem it's often very brittle and hard to change and adapt or generalize.
I saw a thread of many women talking about similar issues in a pro-vaccine Seattle group (where younger people were looking to get extra vaccine doses before the vaccines were open to all ages). There are also threads in women's subreddits.
i only eat steamed broccoli (15min for the stalks and 4min for the greens), and the frozen variety never has the familiar "crunch". Maybe I tried only bad quality frozen stock.
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Whether consideration of gender should be allowed in setting auto insurance rates is indeed the subject of debate. It seems to be allowed in most US states but illegal in the EU https://www.investopedia.com/gender-and-insurance-costs-5114...

Back to the point of regulation, the fact that we're able to have a conversation about the factors that are/aren't allowed to be taken into account relies on the pricing model being relatively transparent about its inputs. Unrestricted machine learning leads to better predictions but often at the expense of transparency about what exactly is going on. If you feed first and last names into a model for example, it might learn things that correlate very closely with ethnicity
My point is that the eventual level 5 system will also be called FSD. And they sell FSD but they clearly state it in the Beta and you don't actually get Level 5 autonomy.

When you buy it they are very clear on what features are included and what features are not. And they say what features will be added soon. Promising more updates as features come online.

This is all clearly stated when you buy the car.
Couldn’t they just restrict the communication on that cable at one of the buildings on either end of the cable? Seems likely that they’d still want to use the cable for some approved communications and would have no trouble controlling things without resort to a robotic cable-chewer.
Not to be a Debbie downer but I was an elected city councilman in an Illinois city for 8 years (4 elections). In 2012 during Obama years we were told a new Amtrak rail line from Iowa City to Chicago with a large new station in the quad cities had been approved. (first pitched in 2009/2010 from Obama admin)

We were told that funding was already approved and project would be completed by 2018.

In 2018 we were told project and money were allocated and the project would now start in 2019 but had been delayed.

Fast forward to 2021 ... nothing ever happened. Some people inspected the rail lines.. they improved a couple of crossings. That’s it.

Honestly it’s been a bit disheartening to see how slow and difficult things seem to move at the federal and state level :(

https://www.rtands.com/passenger/intercity/quad-cities-to-ch...
Time will tell. Let's come back here in five years.
Enables distant parties to be confident that there is only one specific version of the document that is valid, even when each of the parties could have an interest in creating and spreading its own version.
On the Syntax of Pattern Matching in Python (2018)
> Sometimes it's as simple and silly as using a list and constantly iterating over it instead of using a dictionary/KV-map.

It's pretty easy to walk away from an algorithms course with the very basic intuitive understanding that "dictionaries trump all other data structures." Certainly that misses out on all of the cases when hash maps are a liability, e.g. when dealing with sequential data, but most questions end up being pro-dictionaries anyway.
Some rabbits got my car earlier this spring in the driveway. The price to fix wasn't astronomical, but luckily their little nest was quite visible once they jacked the car up. The wires they chewed were close to that.
It's certainly an improvement over nearest-neighbor, but one thing it doesn't take into account is that pre-millennium pixel art was designed on and for CRT displays. If your goal in up scaling is letting modern audiences enjoy the art, you can't ignore that.

https://i.imgur.com/jd0M8jI.jpg
Toyota?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-07/how-toyot...
U.S. military starts Afghanistan withdrawal
Meanwhile in real world we've still got a pandemic going on and the internet allows us to communicate more.
> Is it? I have access pretty much all the time and can’t name an outage (that wasn’t caused by me), ever.

I think that's because the system is designed to be resilient to random failures (e.g., disgruntled beaver). Submarine cables fail all the time and there are repair boats constantly fixing breakages caused by fishing, wildlife, etc.

All of the submarine cables failing at the same time (e.g., terrorist beavers) is most definitely not a random failure and would, I suspect, cause some proper havoc and take months to fix.
You're missing my bigger point, which is that I want to use off-the-shelf tools because I can explain it more easily to other developers and management.

GitHub Actions is not complicated.
Absurd conclusions drawn here. Is the author supposing that they conceptually didn't understand different enthicities before Darwin? I highly doubt the basic premise that they are drawing conclusions from.

The concepts of different people being, well, different, existed before Darwin did. The article is confusing semantics with concepts
In my opinion totalitarian governments willl not allow an ungovernable population to exist anywhere on the globe. Also, a majority of the population will not care as long as they're fed and amused. It's still just about food and games.
Bingo! Architects don't get to debug their building with the press of a button.
It's a tiny town with only a few road routes in and out. Now go do the budget in dollars per km to build a fully redundant ring topology of fiber, via diverse routing, to the nearest mid size city. Lots of rural places are effectively a singlehomed stub, and you take your chances with a flash flood washing out a conduit alongside a road, trees falling on lines, beavers, etc.
I thought recent JDKs had the tools to build executable jars with the JVM built in. Can't find a reference now, though.
And rail would literally not exist without way more government intervention (eminent domain), subsidies, and bailouts. On the eve of self driving it is actually obvious that rail is economically inferior by several orders of magnitude.
The blockchain, consensus algorithms and the whole shebang are only needed because cryptocurrencies do not want transactions to be mediated by a central authority that would need to be trusted. Crypto is about trust, or rather a lack thereof.
I strongly believe that every tool, every invention, can only innovate/be innovative in one area.

As such what we need is to have the right building blocks and abstraction layers which at the end will mean that something like no or low code will work. It will only work when all the tools that underpin it have been crystallised over the years.

This happens on every layer and is fundamentally why we see so much work repeated, but slightly different. Every language makes different trade offs, therefore all the libraries implement the same functionality but just a bit different this time.

Every once in a while something like UML (too complicated, e.g., due to the use of EJBs), Business Works (too slow), etc comes along which has promise and offers value at the time but just misses the boat to survive until the next generation of revised underlying tools.
Ingenuity: NASA's Mars helicopter makes it three from three
I wonder if there's some applicability in other spaces. Maybe, for example, in scaling up some part of a quilt, cross-stitch or needlepoint pattern.
I agree it is unlikely. I can imagine something like the compiler realizing that some computation is pure, so it caches the value across invocations of the function, essentially adding addition arguments that push the actual arguments onto the stack. Of course this is an unlikely edge case but a reasonable set of possible optimizations that would work together I'm a surprising way.
ICT Act: How the government is taking another shot at censoring social media
My reply was to the banal statement, "Maybe the API of a photograph or other piece of work is how you perceive or appreciate it"
The Alnwick Poison Garden
I have to say, you never disappoint: you've moved the goalpost again.

You're implicitly conceding that contrary to your earlier assertions, there have been hospital overflows, but now are further restricting your claims to only apply to first and second world countries.

You're also ignoring the fact that I chose this particular article not because I couldn't find first world examples (I already did, see above), but because this one was from a source (Reuters) you've already endorsed by citing articles from it yourself.

Now you're writing a rambling attack to distract from the fact that you have nothing to support your claims, and can only try to evade the evidence against them.
I think you might need a reality check and see how many systems run C code in production.
I had similar troubles trying to find the Swift ecosystem. The author's opening statement that Swift is everywhere rang hollow, even if it might be technically not strictly false when viewed from a certain angle under the right lighting conditions.

So, I'm playing with Rust.
That whole western north-south corridor is heavily populated by freight trains, and Amtrak trains have to sit on sidings to let the freighters go by. As a result, the train spends a lot of time not moving. It's one of Amtrak's worst lines, IMO. I did Seattle-to-LA once on Amtrak. Never again.
A spreadsheet is a low code app. Less flexible than a general purpose programming language, but still extremely valuable.

If low code apps simply provide more flexibility and maintainability than a spreadsheet, they’re already winning.
No Code is mostly a code word for outsourcing. You use their app to get it started, realize it won’t meet your requirements, and then pay them to work on it forever. Unless it’s just a marketing Website.
I'm not sure the timeframes quite line up. Lie-flat seating was coming in when the Concorde was retired (after an accident and in the wake of 9/11) but I'm not sure how widespread it was.

But, yes, I've been in a Concorde (not flown in one) and the seating is, at best, modern domestic--non lie-flat--business class.

I actually think this is something that a lot of modern supersonic travel fans miss. If you're willing to spend the money that supersonic travel will cost you can travel very comfortably. And 12-24 hours of time spent relaxing comfortably is not actually a problem for most people.
I think there's a bit of complimentary too.. like you say, buses are easier to build up, which helps grow the market for shared transport between population centers. That's the market that needs to be big to justify rail investment. Also eg in Europe, they live together nicely with FlixBus providing frequent, fast and cheap service between cities but seemingly not killing the rail. Maybe this is an example of the Jevons Paradox.. it's actually the greater efficiency of each (over cars or air) that creates the greater demand
Yea but, why do we have to speak in Greek in the first place?
Apple Moving Forward on App Privacy Update Despite Pushback
11 years payback is pretty good when you are lucky to get 1% interest on savings at your local bank.
What did I miss?
I use it every day and it works perfectly!
I'm pretty sure it's the exact same. Both of them use what looks like Chicago (!) as the typeface for the text in the edges.
How to Build a Card Game with Headless Chrome and HTML
You could do a lot worse than read about the concept of a Zettelkasten or Commonplace book. Here's my notes on the two. I am currently using the app Bear to take notes on everything and anything, tagging as I go, and trying my best to link notes to other meaningful notes. Less formal than a Zettelkasten but more digital than your average commonplace book.

1. Commonplace Book
This is a book of thoughts, findings and general collections of information captured throughout your life and brought together into one place.
[How And Why To Keep A “Commonplace Book” | Thought Catalog](https://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2013/08/how-and-why-...)
[Commonplace Books Part 3: Choosing a System - GeekDad](https://geekdad.com/2020/03/commonplace-books-part-3-choosin...)

2. Zettelkasten

A different concept, but also with relevance to storing information for a lifetime. From my brief readings, there’s more emphasis placed on two stages of note. The first is a quick jot - an addition. The second is a more thought out, self-contained existence of the note. There’s also focus placed here on _linking_ notes together.

A good example of someone’s Zettelkasten is [[Andy Matuschak’s Note Collection]]: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes?stackedNot...

[Zettelkasten - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten)
[Bear App: A Solid Zettelkasten Solution for iOS Users — Mental Pivot](https://mentalpivot.com/bear-app-a-solid-zettelkasten-soluti...)
> Don't like the bubbles? There's billions in stable coins tied to the dollar, like the $11 billion in US based USDC.

Unless I'm trying to avoid high transaction fees when exchanging currency with an undeveloped banking system with dollars, what's the point? My dollars already work fine, and for large amounts, international wire transfers work well.
Unless you opt for SpaceX's Starlink. Still expensive, but bandwidth is usually better than without it in remote regions.
Mice too.

There was an interesting lawsuit a while ago about how newer cars use a plastic for the wire insulation that's alledgedly more attractive to rodents, although I don't recall the outcome.
Perhaps the better choice was to have automated tools to turn source code into understandable business diagrams to allow business analysts to partner with software engineers, instead of the other way around.
This is so that country A can prevent communications between country B and country C in case of war.

I'm not sure it is an especially valuable war tactic, because while you can probably take out some cat videos for a few hours, serious military and political communications will be redirected over satellite links quite quickly.
When they dropped DRM, they raised the price a bit. I don’t remember them ever offering a choice, but I could be wrong—regardless, the slightly-more-expensive, DRM-Free songs are all that’s available today.

If you purchased music before the switch, that does still have DRM. (As an aside, you can get rid of it by setting up a VM with an old version of iTunes and Requiem.)
As a heads up since you mentioned "class method syntax", methods are one of the most important places to have lexical `this` binding in many scenarios.

Take the following example, which is a normal class method:

> alertSum() { alert(this.a + this.b); }

And here we have an arrow function used to create an instance method (just an arrow function assigned to a property on the instance):

> alertSum = () => { alert(this.a + this.b); }

Then let's say we want to pass the method directly as callback:

> this.button.addEventListener('click', this.alertSum)

The first example (class method syntax) won't have the necessary `this` context unless it has its context bound to the instance through `Function.prototype.bind`. There are other patterns to avoid this (e.g. wrapping all callbacks in arrow functions when passing them), but it's useful to consider that classes methods can easily create confusion because that's _exactly where_ someone more used to a different language may assume the `this` context is bound lexically.
Widespread access to low-fee index-fonds is pretty new and alternatives were not as bad as they are now. You could at least get inflation back by just letting your money stay at the bank, which is not possible now anymore.
It's quite a bit different, since your donation doesn't imply ownership of the plaque (or even of anything built by the donation). The non-fungibility of the plaque is irrelevant because you don't own it, and therefore can't resell it, and therefore can't expect it to appreciate in value, and therefore nothing approaching a pyramid scheme is possible.
it's true once a business is set up to do this it will want to do things to perpetuate itself, but obviously it only got set up in the first place because it was obvious and easy to do and therefore really cheap, if it was far more difficult to do it would become expensive to do because difficult things must be managed with work which costs money.

In short I am not sure you are correct that there will be uncountable adversaries trying to do this.
While your broad point is correct, that's not at all how you would gauge eBay / marketplace values correctly. The $0.99 one bid example doesn't reveal much about what people are willing to pay. At a minimum you also want to use completed / historical sales, not pick out an item with 0 or 1 or N bids that is an auction in progress.

People often place an initial entry bid on items when the auction begins just to keep track of items of interest as an alternative to the watchlist, and typically there is a rush of activity in the last minute courtesy of robobids.

That Claude the Crab or Diana - depending on condition - might go for $10, $100 or $5,000+. We wouldn't know unless we check historical sales and keep in mind how condition drastically alters the value of collectibles.

Using eBay's filters you can switch to only showing sold items. Or you can use one of the numerous sites that make it easy to check historical prices.
It does, but I’m not quite sure why you’d use it instead of apt or dnf or pacman...
Ontological Qualia: The Future of Personal Identity [2015]
Nice. I can recommend trying the demo which compares with a few other algorithms.[1] (Just drag in a PNG with some pixel art.)

This algorithm doesn't seem to do a good job of handling anti-aliasing or dithering, which I would have expected to be listed among their style-preserving properties. Their R vs Я example is a very good illustration of why that's difficult, as it could also be interpreted as a small dithered gradient.

1: https://morgan3d.github.io/quadplay/tools/scalepix.html
Agree. It's 30 more minutes to read or something and 30 less minutes at my destination.

On other routes being slow is a massive liability though. If people could get from San Francisco to Portland in 10 hours, or even 12 hours, instead of 18 hours, it would be much more practical. At 18 hours it messes up your sleep schedule rather than just giving you more time to read.

It might just not be worth it to spend more on rail travel from Portland to SF though. It's just a reality of geography rather than somebody's mistake that travel from SF to Portland is harder than travel from DC to NYC.
This is what happens when writing documentation owuld take the same or more time than writing code. We all see that most "no-coding" auto generating approaches to software development did not work except for simple solutions, and the irony was that the people who had time and manpower for uml where the one with most complex need of software.
The car wires are because people started using insulation out of peanut, soy, and rice husks. Good example of something that seemed superficially good for the environment but had unforeseen consequences. I'm not advocating for asbestos here, but there are certainly non-edible, noxious alternatives.
I think it should be set at the first to sequester a ton of CO2. Which would be in that neighborhood.

You can't do that overnight, that'd be a huge shock to the economy. But you can implement it over ten to twenty years, ramping it up gradually.
For me there's a sweet spot that is meant for languages like Java, C# and now Swift.
For me at least Swift is the natural successor of this family of language for a bunch of reasons.

I would'nt create a program in C++ or Rust if i can do it in Swift, because its much more pleasant, productive and safer (while i love the level of control and speed C++ and Rust gives you).

I would just go for C++ or Rust if the domain i'm solving require this. Even because for some problem domains there are very few languages you can use. And i'm glad that now we have more options on this space like Rust and Zig.

But for business kind of languages, applications with common business logic, for me at least there's nothing better than Swift.

Script languages can be even better at ergonomics and productivity, but they tend to have a price that its only perceived later in regards to efficiency and the lack of a proper type system.

On the server side unfortunately, Swift is too late to the party and Go is already eating the Java cake. But i see a tremendous potential in Swift for user facing applications.
Thanks, I appreciate your hint. We are aware of the app store policies -- and we are not affected. Our apps are owned and customized by our customers and each app has their own content. Imagine our solution as an app building toolkit.
One of the large problems is a shortage of some common part that is widely used.
I recall when 74LS245 were selling for over $100 each to people with $500,000 machines that needed that part. During that shortage we actually built small boards with 3-4 lesser chips that fulfilled the need for the part. When a genuine 245 was obtained, it could be easily swapped in, but many machines lived out their full life with this kluge in it. That one series of chips built Future into the colossuss it is today because they had the smarts to get their engineers to spec in that family (and many others) and Future booked huge orders with Japanese suppliers and enjoyed huge margins. ClassIC did the same thing later. Now Asia dominates.