skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the market will solve this soon on its own and it won’t be pretty. Amazon may be a great stock but everything falls in a market crash. I wonder what will happen internally when that happens. I never knew so much of Amazon structure was tied to the stock price until reading this thread.
Google as an inovative company with amazing things to try died almost a decade ago. Today its more or less IBM. Would you try IBMs new chat app?
> It’s a place to re-plant native trees.

Not as common to grow food, but planting native trees/flowers/bushes is not uncommon.
You sure there isn't someone there doing A/B experiments for motivating the pickers and having to choose whether or not to try motivating them with the message "how would you feel if you have to tell your children they don't get to eat because you didn't pick enough items."
It really depends on the Toilet or Bidet. The house I'm in at the moment has a bidet hose, depending on how much you press the button dictates the pressure of the water.

The Japanese style toilets have a little button, there's 2 versions. The first uses the water pressure to function, so when you press it, the water causes it to come out and spray, these don't have any control, it's dictated by your taps water pressure.

The other is the fancy eletric ones that can go from very basic, to multi adjustment, temperature, self-cleaning, etc.

When I first saw these in Asia I thought they were absolutely stupid and pointless.

But one night I got food poisoning and ended up on the toilet, a bit messy, and i used the bidet to clean myself and...

Ok when I got gastro living in australia, I went to the toilet so many times i made my bum raw with toilet paper that it hurt.

After having food poisoning in Asia and cleaning with the Bidet then just drying off, even tho I went to the toilet many times, I didn't get a sore butt. This convinced me that they are awesome, and I've used ever since.
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> Fuel pump operator hasn't been a job in most Western countries for decades, as you just pump fuel yourself

Nope. See Oregon and NJ, unless you don’t these American states to be part of these “Western countries”.

In general, don’t respond to examples of jobs that actually exist now with a hypothetical world where they don’t exist to state something about the current world.
That doesn't explain why it's less significant. It is a large cohesive city with elements of consistency, including its own culture. I have friends on the extreme east and west of the city. Less density is the result of insane central planning that resulted poorly, although predictably. That doesn't make it any less of a place.
How do professional opinion havers on Twitter make a living? Normally "influencers" get paid to feature products/services on their social media or YouTube adverts, I don't see that happening with these trolls. Someone must be funding them.
Drinking coffee may cut risk of chronic liver disease, study suggests
I found this podcast [0] by Radiolab on the topic to be quite the eye opener. (ear opener?)

[0] - https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/alpha...
I didn’t say scaling wasn’t a hard problem. I said that they aren’t doing the hardest problems at scale.
I'm not sure what you mean. Can you please explain more?
For my entire childhood my mom’s email name was alphagal. You know, because she’s a gal from Alpharetta. Or at least that’s what I thought.
> A base model Toyota Tacoma isn't even rated to tow that weight

Isnt this rating more about supporting and breaking force for the combined vehicle and load weight.

My understanding in this case tow means 'pull the vehicle' vs carry the front weight. So I think even a smaller car would be fine to pull a Tesla.
Garmin has the first fully automated emergency self-landing on the market: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcVuubU4BTU

It's only available on a few aircraft and only certified for emergency use. The biggest problem here is not so much the landing as the air traffic control, as the autolanding aircraft is unable to understand and follow directions and so control basically has to treat it as if it is transmitting in the blind. Surprisingly, only a GPS approach is required, not ILS.
Hyundai acquires controlling stake in Boston Dynamics for $880M
> If you want or need your API to be idempotent, use POST for creation and updating.

This bit is wrong.

First, implementing idempotence for your endpoint is UP TO YOU, no matter what method you use. For some methods (though not POST), idempotence is a requirement for spec compliance, not a thing HTTP somehow magically gives you.

Second, although some methods (notably PUT and DELETE) are required to be idempotent (though that's really kind of a freebie when you read the rest of the requirements for those methods), you're welcome to implement idempotent endpoints behind a POST.

> If you use POST or PUT to update...

You're correct about PUT, but POST has no such requirement. You can send anything you want in a POST, because you may legally define whatever semantics you want on the fictitious purpose of the entity you're including.

Circling back, PUT and PATCH give no advantages over POST. :)
> In my opinion, people have given up caring about privacy and expect to receive an inferior experience from products that proclaim this.

Such as Apple products?
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I don't think that explains what changed, if anything. Life has always had work and drudgery. By most metrics life is better than it ever has been.
Well, this is true. In general when Western media says "the international community" they really means Western Europe and North America.

The international community includes China, Russia, all of the African countries whose capital you probably don't know, and more, and they never agree, so you can never say "the international community" meaningfully. It's always a borderline supremacist equivocation.

And in the case, probably the majority of the actual international community would agree with China. That doesn't mean that they're right, it's just how the world actually works.
Amusingly, Microsoft provides their own tool (1) for excellent insight and enabling/disabling of all the various places applications can put their startup executables.

1 - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/auto...
I don't think that's unpopular.
And then there are so called experts who are charlatans as well. Dont ever forget that possibility.
I've ridden with some others on big KTMs who struggle a lot more than the guys on the smaller bikes. I think once a certain weight threshold is crossed there's no argument that the bike is appropriately called an "off-road" bike, no matter how knobby the tires. Conversely, aesthetics are always in play. Especially for the GS guys at Starbucks ;)
This article is from 2010. However, the last author in this study was just prominently mentioned in an article published last week:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S003306202...
I think the larger amount of damage is done to the marine mammals, sea turtles, and other animals that are sensitive to sound waves.

The real damage isn't from the actual explosion per se, but from the massive sound wave which propagates far from the site underwater[1]. That assessment is discussing explosions much smaller than the one the Navy just did (and is scheduled to do twice again).

I'd like to believe to do something to mitigate the damage, but I don't know what they could possibly do for something this violent.

[1] https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/migrated/deepwaterho...
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I don't see why not. Might be something fun to try tbh.
I feel like it is necessary to be scared of it an amount proportional to how bad it is times the expected chance you get it. And as bad as these are, they're just not likely, and even less likely if you're careful at all.
> it wouldnt really work. China negotiated a clause in the Joint Declaration giving them total control over national security matters, and sadly the argument that Apple Daily collided with foreign elements making it a national security matter is simply too strong.

I doubt it would work, not because of national security, but because of jurisdiction. Unlike some other countries, China has not accepted the general jurisdiction of the ICJ. That greatly limits the ability to get a case against China before the ICJ. A case could be brought with China's consent, but obviously in this case China will not consent. The Joint Declaration itself has no dispute resolution clause. I think the UK's only hope is to find some other treaty it has with China (or maybe even Hong Kong SAR) which does have a dispute resolution clause, and use that to try to backdoor the issue of the Joint Declaration into an international court (ICJ, PCA, etc). That's not impossible, because there are actually some treaties to which both the UK and China are parties with mandatory ICJ jurisdiction. However, these treaties are on seemingly unrelated topics like racial discrimination or health. Trying to squeeze the dispute about the Joint Declaration into a dispute about some other such treaty is going to be legally rather difficult, and the odds are against the UK succeeding if they tried, but I don't think we can rule it out as completely impossible–lawyers can be very inventive.

If we assume the UK manages, against the odds, to overcome the jurisdictional hurdle, and some international court accepts the case – I'm not convinced they'd give China as much deference on the "national security" issue as you think. If "national security" means whatever China wants it to mean, it turns other provisions of the Joint Declaration (such as the guarantee of freedom of the press) into a nullity.

> Even if it wasn't, the international courts have no power to compel any judgement

That's true. If an international court rules against Beijing, Beijing will just condemn the court and ignore the judgement. International legal action against China has no hope of making any difference on the ground in Hong Kong. But it does have some hope of infuriating Beijing and causing them to lose face. That's not much, but it isn't nothing.
4chan will ban you or hide your posts for asking the wrong questions or writing things the "jannies" don't agree with. I don't know about Gab, but 4chan is free-speech in name only, if you make left-wing arguments that are too convincing your posts will be hidden or removed. Happened to me before.
Thanks mate. Will look into it. I've been following this youtube tutorial to set up a basic report frame from my data sources.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mfIK8zxUds
Clearly you are passionate about your work and I don’t blame you.

But I would recommend that if you do want to grow a business out of this, please think a bit more carefully about your responses. Because they are distracting from what could be a really useful set of early conversations, and pushing away people that might engage in a conversation about where your product may or may not be a good fit. Ultimately it’s about finding your ideal customers.
I doubt it. I have a dishwasher but don't use it. I wash and dry dishes by hand. It takes no more than 10 minutes to wash and dry two persons' dishes and cookware. I often cook and wash dishes at the same time!

But I've been washing and drying dishes since I was a child and my early years of conscripted dish washing were spent learning to optimize washing and drying procedures. So I'm very fast and efficient.

For a family of more than 4 persons, a dishwasher likely is handy though by no means a necessity. In the absence of a dishwashing machine, one person washed and a second dried.

As for the "pre-clean" phase - soak dishes and utensils in a sink or bowl of warm soapy dishwater for 5-10 minutes to loosen/remove most food residue. Then the dishwasher (wo/man or machine) will work properly.

But the true conundrum is this: in all my years of washing dishes both for myself and for commercial firms (college jobs as dishwasher) I have always washed knives - sharp knives. Yet I have never cut myself on a knife or a sharp utensil. I have learned that I can grab a handful of sharp knives from a soap-and-water filled sink blindly and quickly without fear of cutting my hand.

Something is going on that I don't understand: possibly the soap modifies surface tension around the blades and prevents them from penetrating my skin. This happens whether my hands are dry or soaked by hours of dish washing. Any ideas what is happening here?
HarmonyOS Distributed Scheduler How to launch ability from one device to another
You are being a serious bro, Matt, and I commend you for it! But I would hate to see you get deluged by phone spam as a result. Please consider spelling out the letters of some of the digits in your phone number before it gets scraped.
At least 4chan's /pol/ isn't actually free speech, the mods will remove your content if they don't like it and think it will harm their Nazi project.
We'd like to try some further GTA stuff, as well as some IRL stuff. Have seen some recent IRL GAN stuff, and it looks super interesting.

There's just something about AI-based environments that is particularly intriguing!
I have a feeling the reason that quote makes little sense is because it's a portion of a multi-sentence answer to a question that is not included in the article.
As someone allergic to penicillin, I've wondered if there is any residual trace in meat, and possible implications, given that animal feed contains antibiotics that include penicillin.
> Can’t they just fire like 50 missiles in the carriers general area to airblast detonate?

A supercarrier would not sink from a nuclear airblast in the general vicinity.

In 1946, the US performed an experiment to see how such an airblast would destroy or damage ships, in the operation Crossroads, test Able. The bomb was a 23 kT one (so a bit higher yield than Hiroshima). It detonated at a hight of 158m. The light aircraft carrier USS Independence (10k tons) was only about 500m from the point of the detonation, and although severely damaged, it did not sink. The fleet carrier USS Saratoga (37k tons) was about 2 km from point zero. It suffered even less damage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads#Able_targ...
Well that's great for seeing commit message but not the actual contents of the commits. And I can't click on those commits and get context verbs.
Hah, awesome! Any plans to apply GAN Theft Auto to something else? :o
Gary Taubes has done a pretty comprehensive takedown of the Nurese Health study[http://garytaubes.com/science-pseudoscience-nutritional-epid...] and all the wrong conclusions the good folks at Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health have managed to torture out of it.
How about incentives.

Incentivizing bad behaviour for a feel good doesn't tend to end well.
Seems like an especially poor way to get votes based on California demographics[1], and how divisive perceived "handouts" are politically.

Poverty-line renters are most likely pro-Newsome or unregistered, and too few Rep landlords to convert with this $Bn rent subsidy.

[1] https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-likely-voters/
If we're talking nukes maybe (although if we're talking nukes carriers are largely irrelevant and nuclear missile subs become the primary threat), but once again the ocean is big. However huge the ship is, your search space is far larger. Even getting a siting from orbit could potentially be disrupted by weather. In the case of the pacific ocean you're literally looking for a moving football field in ~60 million square miles of ocean. Carriers in wartime wouldn't be sailing in straight lines over long distances either.

National interest had a good line about it:
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-its-really-hard-s...

"And because carriers are constantly moving when deployed at up to 35 miles per hour -- fast enough to outrun submarines -- finding and tracking them is difficult. Within 30 minutes after a sighting by enemies, the area within which a carrier might be operating has grown to 700 square miles; after 90 minutes, it has expanded to 6,000 square miles."

Binkov on YouTube did a good analysis of the threats modern carriers face as of last year:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ui8sBMA3VGM&t=205s

TLDR there are some technologies likely to show up in a decade or so that may make carriers harder to use, but would hardly render them obsolete.

As for conventional missiles, Binkov also did a good analysis on how many missiles it would theoretically take to take out a single AEGIS equipped destroyer. Carrier battle groups would have multiple such destroyers in addition to their own missile defense and those of other accompanying ships.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcwDfaY4OW4
If you don't really care that much, you could try TOSS. Which would be useful to tell the server, "Hey, you deal with this, it's not my problem anymore."

But you seem like a thoughtful person, so maybe use CAREFULLY. To indicate to clients that they should handle data with love and attention to formatting.

:)

GET and POST should cover most of your bases. I like PUT and PATCH, too. I think you should use them when you want to keep your HTTP API nice and neat, because they provide useful intuitive signals to developers. Remember, as others have mentioned here, not all clients have the ability to send those verbs, so provide a way to override POST.

Oh, and sort of unrelated, not sure if you need to read this, but just in case you get to feeling playful, keep in mind that WebDAV verbs are for WebDAV. Not that you've mentioned anything WebDAV related, but I've noticed some developers who ask questions like this end up reading the relevant RFCs and start thinking to themselves, "...well what if I..."
Probably unrelated, but the ruling in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group Brands LLC made it somewhat harder to sue in EDTX.
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Am I the only person who has a laptop that boots as soon as I push the power button and also the only person who remembers when doing an OS update was an entire days work and involved babysitting the whole process to swap out disks and make sure nothing broke? My wife recently threw her hands up and said “Five minutes?” When I told her how long her over the air software update would take on her phone. There are plenty of things that could be better about new systems and I would love nothing more than to see more optimization of our software and hardware, but let’s not look too long through those rose colored glasses. The past was painful too. Maybe we’re stuck playing whack-a-mole, but maybe things will get better.
Any manager at Google who quotes "lines of code" in any context other than actively defending someone or noting something truly exceptional is doing so because they have no idea what their report actually does, or whether it matters.
a one off jubilee does not create an expectation or incentive. the pandemic was (hopefully) a once in a lifetime event.
> Do people have lost hope? Do people want to just watch negative content?

No, their priorities changed. American kids want to be Youtubers and Tiktokers. They want followers and likes. [1]

Those aspirations do not require any vision or aspiration for the future. It just requires that you manage to get attention - which political trolling achieves easily (see: Twitter or Reddit). Women - and some men - have the highly-incentivized option of achieving this through varying degrees of pornography, but for most men and many women, political trolling is the easiest and fastest way of achieving this goal.

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[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/american-kids-would-...
My company uses a lot PHP, the problem that prevent me uploading file via PUT is PHP didn't parse `multipart` to `$_FILES` in PUT request:

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55815
> By most metrics life is better than it ever has been.

I imagine people whose wages haven't risen meaningfully in the last 20 years would disagree. So would people who can only get wage increases by constantly switching jobs.
This really does feel like nobody seems to understand second order effects.

Either that or somebody up there in power is really invested in the current dysfunctions.
> Supporters of the procedure, called inter partes review, which is Latin for “between the parties,” say it helps combat patent “trolls,” or companies that obtain patents not to use them but to demand royalties and sue for damages. Opponents say the procedure is skewed toward the cancellation of valid patents.

> The decision on Monday means the challenges will largely proceed as before, without changes to how the judges are appointed. The court’s narrow fix, subjecting the judges to additional supervision, fell well short of upending the current system.

This does not help patent holders. The invalidation of patents will continue. There used to be a contingent on HN who profited off this system and would defend themselves in comments, but I haven't heard from them lately. Are any patent holders on HN still making a living doing the patent shakedowns? Genuinely curious.
Podcast on this was good: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/audio-player/18620183
The pace of technological change makes predicting a viable but exciting future pretty much impossible. Back in 1960s to 80s the futurism of scifi was lots of computers, screens, automation, etc. You could make something look beliveable but far off by applying the cutting edge of tech that people knew about but didn't really have access to and making it look commonplace.

Today the cutting edge of tech looks pretty mundane. It's usually software, which doesn't really translate to looking futuristic. If TV show makers go too far it looks like magic and stops being an achievable dream.

Essentially, the reason why making high quality "dreams of the future" hopeful TV shows doesn't happen any more is because hardware innovation stopped looking exciting. The brilliant thing is that happened because we actually have the hardware now, and that had taught us to be realistic about the (near term) future.
Well yes, why not? If there is no connection to anything else (of importance) anymore, one could call it autonomy :-)
Not sure about the sitting ducks part. Carriers have mini iron domes to protect themselves from incoming ballistic missiles. Not to mention that they are moving targets, often themselves loaded with nuclear armed missiles (in case of an actual war).

They are a very very effective way to project power. It takes a lot to down one and in the process, the enemy will take a tremendous amount of damage.
The SKS keyservers pool is dead
Mercurial was good but awfully slow, particularly on medium to large projects. The lack of APIs didn’t help either.
I don't have the links but @richgel999 talking about being ready & able to live in a tent & work on texture compression sounded all the real to me, in a world where few are able to carve out that concentrated dedicated do.
You can refuse to accept the device.

If you work at a place where part of the job description is that you must work on devices that you refuse to accept, then you can always choose to leave that job and go somewhere else.

Don’t pretend that you don’t have a choice here.
Growing from seed. I think growing your own wheat from seed can be considered bootstrapping since it is impossible that anyone could go back to the original wild plants and re-domesticate back to having wheat like we do now. Certainly not within a single person's lifetime. So, I say that growing from seed is realistically the closest we can come to bootstrapping it.
The damage they're doing to themselves will eventually trickle down to those they live with - spouse, kids, parents, friends, etc.