skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The way ride-hailing works at airports is super dumb.

Yellow cabs? They form a line. The passengers form a line. Passengers get into cabs, in order. Very simple and efficient.

Ride hailing? Everyone's playing some idiot game of matching-riders-to-cars, and it's totally unnecessary. At any busy airport, it's a complete shitshow.

Uber/Lyft drivers should have the option to accept rides from pickup stations, riders should be able to do the same (or it should be automatic based on GPS), there should be a convention for how it's organized, and, at a really busy place like an airport, there should even be a person who is paid to organize the process. It'd be worth it to everyone.
Fed Flags Crypto Assets for First Time in Financial Risk Review
It's wrong to threaten to punish a child just for the fun of it, even if "fun" is cloaked in a scientific study.
On the other hand customers don't really like their house looking exactly like the rest of the 'hood. HOAs are bad enough, but even the basic structure of all the houses looking identical? That's an eyesore.
Suspending IP protection does nothing to increase production capacity.
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Given that my iPhone 6 cost $200 and I break a screen every 1-2 years, 5 years is more than enough. I’d never pay to replace a screen or battery on an old phone. I’d imagine a significant portion of devices have been accidentally smashed or dropped in a lake by that time.
Tesla Vision FSD Beta 9 First Drive
I don't understand what you are implying. After looking it up, a kugelblitz is a type of black hold. What does it mean to go to a black hole to set up a black hole?
Invest time into what you need to get your job done. Easy when summarized like that, but lets dig in.

First consider what systems you want your skills to be applicable for.

Do you need tools that work on many random Linux machines that you have little control over? Then go with the lowest common denominator - bash, and various command line tools (sed,awk,grep) included with every system, and get good with the subset of command line options common on all of them - most likely limited by the oldest system you need to work with. (There are still Windows XP and Redhat 4 systems out in the wild, if you're unlucky enough to have to work with them.)

Do you need to work with OS X at all? I never learned to use Apple's outdated versions of programs, instead I heavily customized my laptop to have compatible versions of things but this only works because there's 1 os x machine I ever deal with.

Then it's about the right tool for the right job. Do you want to process text? Awk will take you a long way, but ultimately, Perl is your friend. Do you want to want more structured programming type things (aka objects/classes)? Then Python is your friend. There's a certain mindset that thinks that if everything is in one language things are better, but that's a trap. With enough work, you can do the same thing in any language, but each languages is better than others at some specific thing. (working legacy code is that something that a language can be better at than others.)

These days, it's more important to learn what tools are available and how to use them, but because you can just google 'awk print second to last column' and plug that into your script, and continue working, there's less of a need to truely grok awk's language (for example). (I mean, spend the time to learn it once so it will come back to you the next time you need to do something more custom with it)
Bitcoin is 12 years old, and supposedly 60% is held by long term investors.

https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/bitcoin-market-data-exc...
> Some will make decisions that are uneconomic because captive rate payers have no choice

If that’s the case then you have bigger problems. Rather than applying bandages on top of a broken system you should figure out how to align incentives.
> Easter is a fertility festival!

That’s a common myth. In most languages (English being an exception), Easter’s name is derived from Passover. Eggs and bunnies are a later development, but through medieval Christian traditions, not pagan fertility connections.

Much is made of the fact that in English, the name “Easter” comes from Ēostre, a pagan goddess. But that’s accepted to have happened because the holiday falls within the month Germanics named after her. Easter isn’t co‐opting Ēostre worship any more than Good Friday co‐opts worship of Frigg.
In the US there is regulated process, soil testing and cleanup costs in decommissioning underground gasoline storage containers. Average cleanup is $130k. This does affect property values and can take a while.

https://www.epa.gov/ust/frequent-questions-about-underground...
I read an old paper from the 60's on electrowinning iron from a sulfate solution. They claimed around 4.5kwh/kg. Read a more recent paper (2019) reporting on same process with modern separators[1] got energy requirements down to 3.5kwh/kg.

3.5 kwh/kg is probably 20 cents worth of electricity.

[1] Separators are used to isolate the anode and cathode in electrolytic cells in order to suppress side reactions. Modern separators allow specific ions to pass while blocking others.
That's an implementation detail, not a necessity. It's also a source of inefficiency.
I wonder if this was part of union negotiations.
I assumed it's not just darkness but mud.
If you aren’t familiar with letterpress, you can watch this fantastic short documentary from Field Notes:

https://vimeo.com/458343472
Basalt: A Benchmark for Learning from Human Feedback
Your remarks hint at insight into deeply relevant, if broad, topics - but each merely glances and the topics are many. I think I see the unifying thesis and how it relates, though through a glass, darkly.
Using local retail electricity prices, the idle power draw of 20-40W for the AMD CPUs comes out to $20-$40 per annum.

If THAT breaks the bank, run screaming from your workplace as fast as you possibly can. The bean counters can't count, and they're being penny wise and pound foolish in the worst possible way.

AMD CPUs run circles around anything Intel makes. Total performance, performance per core, price/performance, and performance per watt.

Giving all of that up for... $20? Seriously?
> Maybe, you know, most of these people actually got covid-19, in the months after their quarter-strength vaccination.

No need to speculate. This is easily disproven simply by checking for antibodies against the viral capsid and other non-RBD proteins. Those antibodies would not be present in someone unless they were actually infected.
>KDE is my desktop environment of choice. KDE5 is rock-solid, configurable in any way possible and works great. It treats you like a responsible adult instead of a child like GNOME does these days, and after XFCE switched to GTK3, the RAM usage is on-par, more often than not a bare KDE install (Debian or Arch) uses around 300MB ram. This is with Baloo (search indexer) and Akonadi (PIM database backend) disabled.

The GNOME Foundation's supposed rationale for removing basic functionality from its desktop is to help inexperienced users, and international users. However, those are precisely the same users who are more likely to have a shortage of computing resources. GTK's bloat is really indefensible.
how does micronuclear replace coal for producing carbon steels?
People who profit today and won’t be here tomorrow cannot have their prioritizes aligned with mitigating climate change. If I were to want to go with some hyperbole, I’d call them apathetic antagonists.

The system is broken because you can’t align the incentives.
Not declarative, but Perl can do something like that.

Delimeters/Regex:

$ perl -ne '($name,$pass,$uid,$gid,$therest)=split(/:/);print "$name $gid\n"' /etc/passwd
root 0
daemon 1
bin 2
...

Fixed width:

$ printf "1234XY\n5678AB" | perl -ne '($f1,$f2)=unpack("a4 a2");print "$f2 $f1\n"'
XY 1234
AB 5678

I believe Rexx's parse is fancier still, but this is reasonably close.
Are there any repairable, washable, wireless earbuds out there that are decent with Bluetooth 5, noise cancelling, etc.? I haven't found one yet but I'd love to know if there is a site or wiki that lists repairable consumer electronics similar to /r/BuyItForLife/.
It's not uploading, it's making available for scraping.
Crushing heat wave in Pacific Northwest cooked shellfish alive by the millions
This sounds more like a negotiating position with the union than a public health policy. They know the union will seize upon any pretext to stay home.
Every desalination process uses a lot of energy, too! However fancy a membrane they're using, they need to force the salt water through it, and push hard enough to beat the osmotic pressure.

This is a reversible process, as you can get the energy back by using the osmotic pressure to drive a piston. A desalination process that used a lot less energy would let you build a perpetual motion machine, and is seriously against the laws of physics.
A) that’s not true, you can design proper incentive structures

and

B) I thought the claim was that coal is uneconomic regardless of environmental considerations
This isn't true at all. If you get outside the niche tech field, you'll see that GA is blocked by 6% - 10% of unique visitors... less on mobile, which is growing.
Elon Musk is a real engineer, especially if other engineers said he's an engineer.[1]

Whatever his history is with other people or whatever his personality flaws or weakness, he's the real deal.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
Ok, how about does anybody have a need for a big hole in the ground? Swimming pool? Storage? Carbon sequestration, maybe even?
I don't see any mention of xacros in the article.
Seeing the responses to this, maybe governments should require people opening these types of places to put down a deposit for the cost of the cleanup in advance.
Horses spooked by unexpected street markings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMyf6ewi7E8
He has himself, Rick and Tom. He’s said before he’s a one man band when it comes to filming, editing and the business.
> "No one bats and eye at a heater"

Then where did the sitcom style stereotype of Dad always turning the thermostat down come from?
Moderna has said for over a year that anyone is free to use their IP. Intellectual property has precisely zero to do with production capacity.
There's plenty of Pi projects, here's one article https://robotbuildingkit.com/the-6-best-raspberry-pi-robot-a...
You said in your previous comment that phase II was about finding the "optimal dose" but that testing hospitalization data is not within the scope of phase II.

In a very real-world sense the "optimal dose" is 100% about finding hospitalization/health data. The "optimal dose" in phase II is about the microbiology and isn't very precise in terms of how it translates to real world effects.
So I can implement code smell without ever leaving the comfort of C++? I've seen much scarier footguns in C++ than I've ever seen done in the C preprocessor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_box
Unfortunately that’s not what the vocal proponents of defund the police mean. When asked they say yes it literally means defund and reduce the police force.

It's like saying, here, we'll keep the price of a box of cereal the same (but reduce the mass on the sly).
Here's an example research article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03605...
> Germany closing even new coal plants

Please don't greenwash Germany's horrible energy strategy after they prematurely closed nuclear plants because of Fukushima-based populism. One example: They brought a new 1.1 GW coal power plant online last year that they expect to run until at least 2038. (Datteln 4: https://www.reuters.com/article/deutschland-klima-uniper-idD...)
The US has something similar, the American Institute of Architects has standardized construction contracts that are in wide use.
URLSession and Result
Armed UAVs: an asset, but not alone all-conquering
I was thinking that too but I also was concerned that new bacteria would join the party since it’s not in a bag?

Could throw it on the asphalt I guess and maybe get some browning to boot.
ok course, who would fund their ad campaigns on pushing carbon tax?
It's also not just the age pyramid.

In covid deaths occurring in the under 65 population, there is often a significant comorbidity that contributed to severe illness. Obesity, diabetes, etc, are at the top of that list.

Africa by and large does not have the same health profile or concerns as Japan, the UK, or the U.S.

None of this is to suggest that vaccines should not be distributed there. I think they should.

What I'm questioning is if COVID-19 deserves to be even on, let's say, the top 10 list of problems facing Africa in 2021. Probably not.
There were other open source licenses at the party before the GPL dropped its controversial "viral" turd in the punchbowl - and many of them still exist nearly unmodified. (e.g. BSD with attribution removed, etc.)
What is stopping us from linearly scaling mRNA vaccine production?

If throwing money at it won't help, there should be specific answers to that question.
https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix is a pretty decent list.
It’s not easy but can be done if you look closely. Here’s one I like for floss (there are other similar brands too) The Humble Co. Dental Floss (4pack) - Vegan, Eco Friendly, Sustainable Waxed Dental Floss with Natural Xylitol, 55 Yards of Adult and Kids Floss for Gum Care and Dental Care (Mint) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DCGMXVB/

There’s also a blog on the topic which I’ve come across from time to time https://myplasticfreelife.com/
I ordered a new laptop and... I had already a "discount" (1) and I used a coupon code to get another one, but I'm pretty sure that I've paid the normal price of the product.

(1) Student discount.
(2 Just searched the Internet to another code and tried every code until I stumbled upon that worked.
I played with this kind of C, and it seems to be attractive to HN. Applying C's own (albeit limited) type-safety and encapsulation features where I can, but not going too exotic or trying too hard to be another language, seems to be the right compromise for me.
You can power the process using a feedback loop where a small amount of the output gas (prior to condensing into liquid form) is used to heat the plastic. There's videos on YouTube of folks rigging up a system in the back yard with basic pipes and drums, and obtaining usable output liquid fuel. You just need enough initial energy input to reach the target temperature, after which it can self sustain.

The issue with plastic pyrolysis is it's turning fossil fuels sequestered in plastic form back into burnable fuels that end up in the atmosphere, further contributing to climate change. A better option is to sequester that plastic permanently back in the ground again. Even landfill, using this lens, is a better option.
> And that is never going to change.

Not necessarily, but the cure could be worse than the disease.

The problem is that the stakes are getting higher and higher for all software. Every app developer is trying to turn their program into a PID collector, and they are storing the PID in leaky buckets.

I mean, why would I get an account setup screen to play a solitaire game? Sheesh.

But politicians and bureaucracies have a nasty habit of imposing fairly ridiculous and/or out-of-date remedies.

They could make it a requirement to fax your PID to play solitaire.
No, they don't.

> in a proof posted in December, a team of five mathematicians has come closer than ever before to proving that conformal invariance is a necessary feature of these physical systems as they transition between phases. The work establishes that rotational invariance — one of the three symmetries contained within conformal invariance — is present at the boundary between states in a wide range of physical systems

Can we stop inflating titles, especially for mathematics?
Space Force opens facility to improve war-fighting capabilities
I really find it hard to believe that you have never heard of Mafia involvement in Cola mines of Bihar even though your dad worked in Coal India. However just because you did not hear of it does not mean it doesn't exist.

There is a while section about this on Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_Raj

And this : https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...

Also this : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suryadeo_Singh

There are also a bunch of Bollywood movies with Coal Mafia as a background. "Gunday", though not about coal Mafia, is pretty entertaining.
Reference models are fun, but for anything more than a simple web app, if you try to make them sufficiently different in implementation, you end up re-implementing not only your business logic, but also a RDBMS functionality in your testsuite.

Also verifying state of the app against the reference model after each testing step that modifies the state of the app also gets quickly out of hand. Even more so if you try to do it via public interfaces only.

And there's no guarantee your model is right.
Bigtable, Firestore and Spanner run directly on Borg.

Cloud SQL V2 runs in hidden VMs.
Isn't consciousness a perception?
It does burn so a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crude_oil_engine works okay, it’s just not as clean or efficient as an engine with tight temperature/pressure tolerances for very specific fractions of the fuel.
Is it though? I'd assume that too, but we don't really know, do we? I mean to ask, what have Microsoft stated that leads you to believe this? (Maybe there's a press release I missed?)
The strange, sketchy emails a browser extension developer receives
yes, well you can get a cheap transceiver for that. You're still going to have to talk to something else and that all goes out the window if you have existing copper in your house or need to have wired devices (NAS, smart TV, xbox, literally anything at all). You probably can't even find a wifi AP that has SFP+ that doesn't cost you 3 arms and 5 legs.
Deploy Machine Learning Projects Online Using Flask
It's happily spitting out licenses and copyright notices with other people's names on them, it's pretty clearly half-baked.
Amazon published a paper describing how Aurora works:

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/p1041-verbitski.p...
> instead I heavily customized my laptop to have compatible versions of things but this only works because there's 1 os x machine I ever deal with.

This is all good advice, but to be fair, "heavily customized" these days is nearly:

brew install awk coreutils findutils gnu-tar gnu-sed gnu-which gnu-time
I'm an introvert and I did win lockdown. So that article is wrong. In science, if you make a statement like that, all you need is a single example to disprove it. It's like saying there's no such thing as a black swan.

Sure there was a bit of unhappiness with the virus situation, but once I figured out that I didn't have to constantly watch the news for scraps of info, and got on with my day, and once I figured out that every day looked the same, and I needed to change it up a bit, it was nothing but happiness.

Recently one of my coworkers got lonely and decided to tell everyone else to come work from the office one day and we could go drinking afterwards. Nope. As much as I like my coworkers, but I've zero desire to commute to the office.

Another thing that I've noticed is that now that there's no external interaction with those same coworkers, I have zero desire for alcohol, and I've never felt better.
I think you missed the point of the comment you replied to.

It's possible to be extremely introverted, preferring no explicit social interactions, while still getting a noticable peace and energy uplift from being able to just watch and be surrounded by other people doing their things.

Think of someone quiet in a coffee shop or library who never talks to anyone, but likes being there, not for the coffee or the books, but for the ambience.
> A Lambda that can run perpetually is made redundant by EC2

Is only conceptually true outside of "EC2 Classic", because (to the best of my knowledge) every other EC2 launches into a VPC, even if it's the default one for the account per region, and even then into the default security group (and one must specify the IDs). That may sound like "yeah, yeah" but is a level of moving parts that Lambda doesn't require a consumer to dive into unless they want to control its networking settings

I would think removing the time limit on Lambda would be like printing money since I bet per second for Lambda is greater than EC2
English, do you speak it?

I never said anything whatsoever about them. I asked a question.
https://twitter.com/NoraDotCodes/status/1412741339771461635
I don’t think adults are much better. “Listen to the experts” and all that.
France is actually a significant market for McDonald.
It was the second one a decade ago, no idea if it’s still the case.

They also have some type of coffee shop/pastry joint inside, where you seat and the waiter brings the food.
There is no real reason for copyright terms to exceed patent terms.

(And FWIW, patent terms should be inversely proportional to the number of patents issued in that category the previous year. This would automatically reduce terms in categories where innovation is rapid, promoting competition and drive to get to market, but preserve maximum protection for inventions in mature categories with a slower pace of innovation.
And only 2 million coins are left.
Narh, it's 100C. Sauna can be pretty hard-core.
It's difficult to find the right words. Just reading this felt like a million times more intense than anything I ever experienced. I felt the stress and claustrophobia the whole time as I was reading it. Just wow.

Except Elon Musk is a total juvenile jackass. Those words are easy to find. It's a pity he has no shame.
I'm GenX and in my youth in Toronto I'd only go to the Fox and The bloor movie theater and they only played old things. I have not been to a theater in years after walking out of 10 movies in a row for so boring/silly.
My Netgear access point consumes 7-8watts.
My home server, with 2*12TB drives, 2*3TB, and 1nvme, which also acts as NVR (for POE cameras), recording 24x7, and which also acts as owncloud server (and few other things) consumes 40-50watts (and it includes a 10gbps SFP+ fiber). It also includes a wireless card and acts as an access point. It also runs a few VMS, continuous integration server, pihole and other stuff.

This is not x100, it's x7 times. And the utility is much much higher.

Before, i was using amd Apu, and it consumed 20-30 watts, but did not support AES-NI, which made the disk access limited to 60MB/s :-(

It's way cheaper to run everything at home than paying for the cloud, even if u include electricity cost.

It's about $50/year for electricity (1 watt 24/7 =~ $1 per year)
Worth mentioning, you can buy small-run, newly-manufactured Apple II Z80 cards now in the 16-20MHz range (way faster than the host system), some even have a TMS9918 VDP chip for compatibility with MSX-1/Colecovision/SG1000 stuff.
Target and Walmart are the most likely. They just have to work on their search and recommendation engines.
And from the pagan tradition of the yul festival, only a few millennia prior.
Thank you, DIY options are attractive because of price, and it's impressive there are even 6DoF projects, but many seem to lack the repeatability I am after (or their repeatability isn't clearly stated). If you have personal experience with one, I would be interested to hear about it.
I left comcast for at&t fiber, paying $60/month for 1year. If I learned anything since then is to make sure you attempt to leave and they will start calling you with better offers..all of a sudden lol
This response seems like a bit of an over reaction to me. Why get so concerned about the comparison that adds another country into the mix? How else was this mean to be debated?

Maybe we are all wacky, but clearly Americans are sensitive…
This reads more like a comedy. Gen Z and their "problems"

You want everyone to stop using email? step 1 create something better for everyone currently using it