skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> militia is not going to have tanks, bombers, fighter jets and nukes anyway

One, guerrilla warfare works. Two, the point is to increase the cost of suppression to requiring U.S. tanks and bombers and jets deployed against the homeland. An unarmed population can be more casually suppressed.
CR also tends to limit itself to middle-of-the-range items. If you're actually interested in the best, their surveys don't always cover it, since they prefer to review things that most people can/would purchase. This has changed a bit in the last few years, but it's still the case that if you want to find solid unbiased reviews of, for example, high end ranges or washing machines, CR is not always the most helpful.
If the robot is perfect, then there is no one left to prosecute a war crime. It's only a war crime if someone can accuse and prosecute, thus only losers commit war crimes.
What this clock does not compute, is how much money you leave on the table by reducing your meeting count/time and have your engineers/workers dive straight into the problem without talking enough to each other or with the stakeholders beforehand.

Sometimes it leads the death of many man-month projects, or worse.
Are you in PR? :-)

I think paved ways is canonical ( not a native speaker though ).
This works better if a large enough portion of the soldiers are conscripts (possibly rotated in and out) and not career soldiers. The conscripts know they will go back to their normal life, day job and be part of the civilian society again.

If it's just career soldiers, then it's in their career interest to enlarge the military's influence on society, increase budgets etc.
> The other outcome of this streamlined construction process is a reduction in labor. This reduction in labor costs is a boon for investors and project managers, but a loss for the workers that would otherwise be employed for more varied labor over a longer period of time.

I struggle to understand this. Do people who hold this point of view wish we got rid of cars and instead manually carried materials everywhere? Should we ditch earthmoving equipment in favor of shovels? After all, that would employ more people for longer.
And what is "the issue"? Is it people saying they are being "dehumanized" because the propaganda they watch makes them feel uncomfortable with something that has already had four billion doses given out?

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=OWID_W...
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The median Google search user probably never learned to use any of these "advanced" features in the first place. For them, having Google ignore the precise wording of their query and show results for more common related terms is almost certainly an improvement.
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Asking why to a part of code or workflow is a good thing, even only because of curiosity. After knowing it, you may find the reasoning brilliant, or ridiculous and dismiss it and that's it.

However if any chance you have the same situation as OP, it may come out valuable, either currently or in the future.
Hugo doesn't execute any server-side code at run-time though does it? I believe the content in that data directory is made available to the templates at compile time, but the actual deployed asset is still just static files.
GSuite is separate from Google Cloud.
Agreed — Google search is most useful to Google. I'd prefer it be most useful for the actual user of the service, but that makes me crazy, I guess.
I've always found Duolingo too boring and it didn't help me at all.

I was able to learn 7 languages using different routes. I already knew Russian, I've learned English the usual school + moving to the country route, and I've learned Spanish, French, German, Italian and Latin by mostly reading books and watching online videos and movies.

Having bookstores nearby (especially the Strand) with a lot of interesting books in Spanish, French, German and Italian were key for me. I completely switch 100% of all book reading to the language I'm learning.

I would not be able to learn anything without a steady supply of interesting books.

For Spanish, most movies on netflix and disney will have subtitles and dubs.

For French, there's Arte Karambolage and the newer Disney films are available in french.

For German, there's also Arte Karambolage and newer Disney films and 'Dark' on netflix.

For Italian, there's a great youtube channel by Iliana Zodiaco with interesting book discussions and reviews. Again newer Disney plus films have Italian. And italian is just very easy in itself.

Latin is a lot tougher because there's not as many books in it, and they tend to be not as easy. I've only read Caesar's Gallic wars and Winnie the Pooh. And the grammar is hard. I recommend checking out Lingua Latina Per Se, and youtube channels on Latin Grammar (there's one really good one, 'latintutorial'). Still, this is by far my weakest language. I've started Cicero orations against Catiline, but it's tough going!

I didn't learn to speak in any of these because I don't have daily contact with native speakers, but once I do, it will be fairly easy.
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> So as far as I can see it's definitely in Google's interest to provide good and useful search results.

A shame Google didn't get this memo, or buried it somewhere.
Only if you want to be a real mathematician. Most people don't and are better served by learning to calculate, since that teaches you how the techniques of linear algebra are applied.

You actually do need to learn to do row reduction by hand because it teaches you what is going on. Same reason you need to learn to integrate by hand even though you'll never do it again after your coursework.

BTW, I learned linear algebra from Axler first, so I have some basis for comparison. There is a reason Axler is not considered an introductory text even though it is not very hard.
Absolutely in agreement. IMHO in Germany the main reason is budget, defined quarterly. So of course a Doctor might push out appointments to the next quarter if he can when he ran out of budget already. And the ratio by which doctors practices are assigned and planned. That leads to an abundance in cities and a shortage elsewhere. And that imbalances cam, and do, drive wait times up. Going from experience so, it got better.

Theoretically I could switch to Germany's private insurance scheme. I have no willingness to do so.
Zuckerberg thinks Facebook will profit by building a ‘metaverse’
We took a baby to the hospital while in NZ. Thought baby had chicken pox, turned out to be just "Hand Foot Mouth" which is not as bad. There was a big price list on the wall at check in. Paid $70 up front and baby got to see a german doktor, all done in half an hour. I think the price was cheaper or even free if you were a NZ citizen.
Older I get, more I realize the market is just a game of human psychology. Stocks, housing, crypto, etc. History says speculative 'investing' ends poorly but this time, who knows? If you happen to have the answer, I'm all ears.
Apples and oranges. NKLA has a daily volume of 11M shares. I’m not saying there isn’t shenanigans involved, but it’s much harder to do at that scale v.s. a handful of thinly traded OTC shares.
She risked everything to expose Facebook. Now she’s telling her story
Yep. I'm proud of what I'm doing with my house. Installed heat pumps, put in $5000 of new insulation, replacing propane stoves/fireplaces with electric. Next car will be electric.
Or 10mm if you’ve wrenched a car
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That's not what they wrote.
You can always threaten to sue, that is often enough of a deterrent.
I see, that's good to know. Thanks for digging into this.
this has always befuddled me. why use google at all to search a specific site rather than searching on the site directly? why give google the traffic? because lazy/convenience of google being the default page for new browsers and/or google the default search associated with the location bar?
My dad can't seem to recognize spam pages 99% of the time...
Nothing new under the sun. Take a look at Central Park in New York. Almost everything you is is constructed. They dug the ponds and built up the hills. They didn't have geofoam but if they did they would have used it. Look a Tunnel View in Yosemite. It's there because NPS manages the trees below the view to frame it. Hell, the very idea that there is urban space and nature space is something we humans invented.
I can't comment on your particular situation, but my partner and I just went through this (closed in May 2021).

Our thought-process was that we would only purchase if we could:

- Plan to live there for 5-10 years

- Plan finances to be able to weather a recession and housing bust within the next 1-3 years (related to the first requirement)

- Plan to live in a place which would have been tolerable Pre-COVID

This is a hard set of requirements for most people but fortunately we are in a good financial situation to be able to meet them.

Pre-COVID: Both of us are remote now (with me having been remote for 3 years prior to COVID). Her commute would not be bad if she had to go to the office. It's not common for technical sales to be in offices, so I am not seriously impacting my career options.

Live there for 5-10 years: We moved back to be near her aging parents. We don't plan on moving _away_ from them and like the area. The area is great for both of our careers and has fantastic schools.

Recession weathering: We had enough available to put down a sizable (50%+) down payment so our monthly mortgage is do-able on 1 income.

The net/net is that I'd hate to be a person who wasn't in a well-paying career who hasn't been fiendishly saving for many years.
Having done sweng in various roles, I think in aerospace I wouldn't want a UI programmer working on autopilot or fly-by-wire code, but that's just me.
Olympic Tracking Systems Capture Athletic Performances
Exactly. First rule is making a fraud is to associate it with something credible.
Good luck. There are some people in organizations whose entire job is to schedule and attend meetings.

No matter how you say it to those kinds of people, expressing that meetings are keeping you from getting engineer-related work done will be viewed extremely negatively.

I’ve been in IT decades and still don’t know what the best answer is.
Looks interesting!

You may want to consider renaming the tool, it's overlapping with getclockwise.com, which is quite popular.
Man vs. food: is lab-grown meat going to solve our nasty agriculture problem?
"Identity fraud" or worse, "identity theft" are BS terms made up by the organizations responsible for the actual underlying crime. Example: a criminal gets credit cards issued in your name and your bank screams "Identity Theft!" when this is just good ol' fashioned fraud enabled by their crappy process and antiquated security. The difference is the former is your problem while the latter is all theirs. Plus they get the chance to sell you another service to protect you from their mess. $PROFIT !!!
I would love if sites containing too many affiliate links were de-ranked in google. Google doesn't get a cut of the affiliate revenue, so I don't understand their incentive to let this kind of spam proliferate.
If the requirements are weak. These meetings try to shore up weak requirements. If the requirements are strong these meetings are not important and wasteful.
Can't agree more with this. I too am a (neo)vim + tmux dev, and I made the same progression in shells. Fish just works out of the box. I actually stopped using autojump (see Better CD in the article) because Fish's context-aware auto-completion is that good.
This connectivity kit will be awesome for my global drifting buoy project. I will be able to communicate two ways with the buoys anywhere in the world.
> troops will mutiny if told to destroy their home country for said general's benefit

I’d generalise this check to all leaders. No man rules alone. Power only exists in its relationship with people.

Robotic armies permit force projection without any people. That changes the political calculus in all sections of society, from military leadership to billionaires to members of a terrorist group.
snapshots are usually just named based on the date, like

2021-07-29-10-hour
2021-07-29-10-53-minute

or similar. Then it's just a matter of ensuring that you have NTP working and your clocks are in sync.
> Why exactly would Google want people to thoughlessly click on Amazon affiliate links

I don’t think it’s specifically Amazon links, but if they’re mindlessly measuring metrics without thinking about “why” things happen, the affiliate link spam that dominates results might increase ad buys. Think about it. If you can’t rank on the first couple of pages due to affiliate marketing spammers, you might buy an ad. If you’re competing with some of those spammers for ad buys, you might pay more.

It’s just super poor leadership and a lack of critical thinking that has let it happen IMO.
> finding a way to communicate the opportunity cost of a meeting ... I don't need this app to do it, but it could help.

The terminal UI is one thing. From my personal experience, displaying the running cost of meetings in my Zoom camera would always be a bad idea. It's an optional feature of this program so it doesn't detract away from the entire idea, just saying that from my experience, managers already know that meetings cost money so displaying the cost of the meeting is pointless, you need to instead argue why your manager is wrong that the cost of the meeting is worth it.
Good info. As a non-rich person I do appreciate their emphasis on highlighting the products that provide the best value for the money.
"I've noticed you around. I find your microbiome very attractive. Would you... um..."
> I know I haven’t gone into a lot of specific details about GCP’s deprecations. I can tell you that virtually everything I’ve used, from networking (legacy to VPC) to storage (Cloud SQL v1 to v2) to Firebase (now Firestore with a totally different API) to App Engine (don’t even get me started) to Cloud Endpoints to… I dunno, everything, has forced me to rewrite it all after at most 2–3 years, and they never automate it for you, and often there is no documented migration path at all. It’s just crickets.
>... simply acknowledging small communities curate the best content

This is true for some things. But for reliability reviews, for example, there's a certain power in large numbers. I'd much rather see reviews for common appliances from 200k people (or more) than the same from a group of 2000 appliance-centric folk. That's true even though the 2k set will likely know and care a lot more than many of the people in the 200k set.

On the other hand, with large numbers of people, it's much harder to deal with "95% of reviews are complaints" problem, which tends not to be so much of a problem with "enthusiasts".
What you are saying here is conspiracy theory nonsense unless you can source substantial evidence or even explain how any of this could be true.

What would not be experimental to you? There have been 4 billion doses given out. How many more billions of doses do you need before you start saying things that have evidence instead of things that do not?

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations?country=OWID_W...
What makes you think what you're reading on reddit is not already socially engineered advertisements and bot spam?

People have been paying attractive people to "hang out" in bars and pitch gizmos and doo-dads for decades (citation needed); absolutely there are accounts on reddit shilling gizmos across relevant subs.
A cure worse than the disease. Also wouldn't stop the military from building up a drone army and then someone within it choosing to go rogue and take it with them. It only ensures that no one else can stop them.
This is pretty rad. Growing up I used to be into model trains and one thing that always blew me away was model train landscaping. You know, those amazing basement setups that recreate the Rockies or insanely detailed recreations of westchester subway yard. One of the main ingredients for building a model train layout is foam. Simply put, you lay foam down and then carve into it the landscape you wish, paint it, and then cover it with fake greenery. With the right setup it cured hard as rock and provides a foundation for the layout to sit upon. Reading this article it seems Sweden is making 1:1 layouts for engineering projects. This, to me, seems like a really great application. What I want to know is, how does it hold up to time, elements, curing, etc in the long run. Fascinating stuff though.
Part of the spam is clearly condoned by Google, probably for a mix of reasons.

An example is Pinterest, Google can drop or deprioritize their properties, like they do with other actors. But for some reason they do not. Maybe they are scared of litigation.
Reminds me of:

https://smell.dating/
This does feel like a screen reader bug though. I would expect software like that to be advanced enough to know from "context" (twitter.com) that it's probably not reading mathematical formulas.

I don't think it's dismissive at all (let alone extremely) to say "this might cause a problem [and by extension, if this is important, do more research], but it shouldn't." It's pointing out an area where screen readers fall short unnecessarily.
Heat pumps change the equation a bit. Yes, 1 kWh of resistive heating is a lot more expensive than 1 kWh of natural gas. But with high-efficiency heat pumps you can produce a few kWh of heat in your house with 1 input kWh, so it comes down to just how much cheaper natural gas is per kWh.
"My microbiome is signalling to me that it likes your microbiome."
They were already making money from the power company for the wood- no idea how much, but enough that they didn't seem open to it.
I would pay to have every page with an affiliate link removed from results.
Gut microbiota are increasingly being linked to immune system health.

Despite the old "disproportionally more bacterial cells than human cells" myth, we can still have twice as many bacterial cells in our bodies than human cells [1].

Humans are a commensal organism of many colonies of bacteria. Without them, we'd be in bad shape.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2016.19136
If there ever was an example of "f-ck you, future generations", it would be this.

These blocks will eventually need to be disposed of, or they will become rubble which will "naturally" decay - and by decay I mean gradually have bits eroded off and scattered into the wind/water.

Once they cease to be solid blocks, they become virtually impossible to clean/dispose.
Your wrong. That's like saying a taxi cab driver who drove a criminal to a place where he committed a murder is partly responsible for the crime.

The virus is the thing that's causing harm. You can't blame an individual for being skeptical about a vaccine (that has more voluntarily reports of causing harm than any other vaccine in recent history, btw) that's experimental, and unapproved.

Also, the science is in on there being an effective treatment, therefore emergency use isn't even warranted. Seems cut and dry to me .
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Doesn't looks better than the ones available at www.svgrepo.com. Also, SvgRepo has many icons under CC0 license.
previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27925250

RNA demethylation increases rice and potato yields 50% (nature.com) 6 days ago
In a war situation, likely supply chains will be disrupted, so the regime will have to use whatever it has in the country. There are chips in circulation, but each different chip needs different drivers, has different performance characteristics, etc. E.g. I read that Tesla changed a bunch of chips due to the current shortage and they had to write new drivers for them. That's one chip they had to replace.

Of course you could make your population turn over their old smartphones, remove IR filtering from the camera lenses and solder them to a robot body. But this will slow down manufacturing as it isn't well suited to mass manufacturing processes. Furthermore, it's a limited resource so you might have to deal with attempts by your enemy to exhaust it. Last, you'd be limited in fanciness, as in your robots can only process limited amounts. The best place to source the computation needed for really "smart" robot soldiers would probably be self driving cars as they have the AI processing power needed.
Filtering based on domain reputation has the same problem as trying to filter based IPv6 address reputation. They can easily change thier domain name at any time, and most spam operations do it every 15 minutes or so.

This also has a secondary problem for legitimate domain buyers. If the domain name they buy was previously used for spam that reputation will affect thier business for quite a while. There's actually a market where people buy domains with bad reputations, setup small legitimate businesses and get the reputation cleaned up, then sell the site domain and business for a substantial profit because a site with a good reputation history and established line of business will show up higher on internet searches.
Poll: Do You “Fire and Forget” on HN?
With reasonable regularity I see a submission to HN that has some sort of minor issue ... a missing word here, an incorrect link there ... and I reply to let the submitter know.

It's possible (with some exceptions) to edit your submission within the first 2 hours, and yet so few people do, leading me to believe that they are operating a "fire and forget" policy.

Submit, then ignore (for a while).

So, when you submit something, when do you check for comments?
Rabidly and constantly
Every 5 minutes
I give it an hour or so
Maybe the next day
This is spot on. I tried reaching out to some local mills and forestry folk, and dealing with a single tree was simply too small a job for them to bother with.
In all fairness there was a non-zero chance of Tesla running out of money at one point. At the final word on Tesla being worth what it is hasn't been spoken neither. I do have to give Musk credit for being able to maintain Tesla the way he does, under everyone else the company wouldn't exist anymore. Not that I think Tesla is particularly well run so, but Elon's ability to entertain the market and keep money flowing is impressive.
The East German secret police used smells to find suspects:

https://m.dw.com/en/the-stasi-had-a-giant-smell-register-of-...
The Remote Work Debate Is a Generational Class War for the Future of Work
Seems like you don't know much about building frontends.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f8457e20-c3cc-6e56-96a4-3090d7d... I tried to kick of more discussion of spawning processes with pidfds --- I think sticking with fork + (fanicier) exec was the weakest part of CloudABI, but understandable at the time given one was trying to be implementable by all Unix-like kernels. The response from the main pidfds person is that plan should be forthcoming this fall!
> Backends are so much easier to build compared to frontends, and I mean decent and reliable ones.

That's actually true. What makes backends harder (or rather slower?) to build though is the longlivety of the data involved. Backends that don't deal with data are indeed simpler than frontends in my experience.

> The attitude of the backend people of looking down upon frontend people

That has nothing to do with the complexity. It comes from the fact that frontend is more approachable and also more hip. It attracts more "amateurs" or people who don't know what they are doing, for one reason or another. The result is that technology on the backend-side is more advanced and mature than on the frontend side - though that might be a bit subjective and not apply to specific areas.

You actually give your own example: "frameworks with millions of entry points" and a dozen new ones every year. :) However, I think frontend is in the progress of catching up - e.g. Javascript is currently replaced with Typescript, which is not being looked down upon by backend people, at least not as much.