skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That thread is completely tone-deaf as to why Truck Owners buy trucks

And EV's are completely turning the road-wear argument on it's head
Ron Popeil died yesterday
The answer to the title is simple.

"It depends on the person".

Each individual has so much going on today, that you could create a billion environments and people would still not be satisfied with the weather.
I've found that immersion alone doesn't work for me either. I've lived with roommates from China who spoke primarily Mandarin, and despite spending a lot of time with them, trying my best to learn, and them being very patient, I never got anywhere. I was also going to a university in Germany where students could enroll in German-language engineering programs with only limited proof of German proficiency. A lot of the less-experienced German speakers ended up just hitting their heads against the wall and not learning anything (about German or their field), even though they had significant pressure to pass their classes.

In my experience, most people need both some explanation of the fundamentals of grammar/pronunciation (formal education) combined with opportunities to use the language (immersion is perfect for this, but you can practice on your own as well). Figuring out what differences in Mandarin pronunciation are essential for meaning (tone) vs. which ones are meaningless, for example, is very difficult to do from immersion alone.

It's possible for the formal education to be in the target language, but if so it has to be very carefully designed. In my experience Duolingo does a somewhat decent job at the formal education part, but is more helpful if you had some formal education in a language, so you know what variations to look out for.

It sounds like you already had quite a lot of formal education before you had a chance to do immersion. Glad it worked for you!

Duolingo has been very effective for me, not because it's perfect, but because it's something I can actually do, while moving to a Spanish-speaking country or getting a job at a restaurant run by Spanish-speakers is not. Could I learn faster? In theory, but in practice it's the only strategy I've been able to stick with and I still am making progress. It's given me the foundation to practice using the language in other ways.

Language learning also requires you to actually be invested in the learning. I don't think any learning method works if you are totally passive. You have to be trying new things. You don't have to necessarily put yourself in a situation where you need to use the language. I've seen plenty of homesick people studying abroad who really need to learn the local language, but resent it, and end up sitting around learning nothing. But you do have to want to use the language. My German teacher was great at this. German had no practical applications where I studied, but we would play games, make jokes, and generally toy around with the language, which helped us push the boundaries of our language knowledge.
> I use data warehouse, data mart, and data lake interchangeably here. Zhamak uses the term data plane.

Nit: "Data plane" usually points other thing (the data plane / control plane distinction). I'd would that part of note since it'll add another layer of confusion.
How do you enforce if they still don't leave after 30 days?
These are misleading, cherry picked examples:

- Your first link is comparing a new lifted truck with aftermarket body mods to an older model of a stock SUV.

- Your second link is comparing one of the smallest vehicles on the market, an older Mazda Miata, to a newer F-250 (a larger Ford "Super Duty" truck) with a lift, aftermarket wheels, and aftermarket tires.

- Your third link is comparing a boat of unknown size to a full-size pickup truck, and even from the angle provided, the boat is bigger.
This is one of the ones where I read one paragraph. Have no idea what's going on, so go the comments directly.
I don't know much about Dwarf Fortress, but why is that a bug? It sounds like it follows reasonably well from the behavior in the game.
Pfizer immunity drops to 83% within four months bolstering the case for booster
>Facebook employees will ignore your calls for help, and there is no proper way to contact them regarding a disappeared account.

That's me. I don't have an Oculus but have heard good things about it. But I can't get one because my Facebook account was shut down without explanation in 2019. Despite its age (15 years) I barely used it, let alone for anything "controversial", but did regularly log into it. I repeatedly tried to verify my identity by submitting an image of my driver's license, without any response.

If a Facebook employee is reading this ... I don't want to create a fake new Facebook account. I want my own back.
this is one of those statements that's 100% true, and yet is a total distraction - like banning plastic straws to help climate change. It's such a tiny part of the whole it is not really a problem.
Uh, damn, you're right. Honestly, he's been in jail for so long now- 2.5 years and 22 counts against him- that I wrongly assumed/forgot he wasn't/Mandela effected it.

At the time of this writing I had 13 upvotes for a mostly wrong take. Still maintain that the jail time puts Kelly closer to Cosby than Jackson.
The commenter first said to Rick Astley “tell me to go fuck yourself” and then edited his comment.
After a year and a half, they claimed to be prioritizing this for Q2, which seemingly ended last month, and they still haven't offered anything.

Heck, there's people on the thread offering them build scripts that will create debs and rpms for them. It isn't that hard to do.

I can understand why they don't give a crap, though. The people responsible for setting up recipes to build and deploy a few thousand servers with AWS tooling on them that would sure like to be able to automate updates of the packages aren't the ones forcing their companies to use AWS, so Amazon prioritizes meeting the needs of the people making purchasing decisions rather than the people who actually have to use the tooling. With enough vendor lock-in and long term contracts already signed, they don't need to care about improving user experience to come up to par with system maintainer expectations from the early 90s.
Know people who tried this.

They smelled very bad.

Also see lots of posts about Steve Jobs smelling bad
The first large project I contributed to was GIMP in the mid-1990s and that was under CVS. I think the oldest personal repositories I have are a little later under Subversion, so yeah, certainly my personal projects in the era where I first used CVS to work on GIMP did not have version control.
I don't like the perfumes so I use baby shampoo. I use it for everything. It's my shampoo, face wash, body wash, and shaving gel.
Average height isn’t the most useful statistic for this. A quarter of men are 6 feet or taller. When you factor in the fact that people aren’t likely to buy cars that their spouse can’t drive comfortably, there are an awful lot of people who just are never going to buy small cars. You could make a smallish car for tall people, but no one does.

The other issue is that modern cars are designed differently because of safety concerns—they have less interior space for the same exterior width. Plus kids have to use car seats until they are much older than they used too. Try putting 2 kids in car seats in a subcompact with a tallish driver with the seat pushed back.

Btw I’m 6’5” and it’s tough to even find an intermediate SUV where my knees fit comfortably.
From just having skimmed the top of the linked article… I think the conclusion to draw is that “enterprise focused” security advice pretty mush ignores the existence of Apple devices and oses. They’re not part of the gravy train of enterprise 3rd party security billing.
The problem is that almost any positive statement can be shown to be objectively wrong. "F=m * a", "x^2 = -1 has no solutions", "light travels in straight lines", etc. There are always conditions under which those are true or are good approximations for specific purpose.

Spelling out those applicability conditions explicitly is critical in research publications (but even then, only used for the topic under investigation). In all other contexts such pedantry is impossible. My 2c.
I don't understand why anything needs to be built here. Zoom already lets you export this data per meeting.

https://www.eduhk.hk/ocio/content/faq-how-retrieve-attendanc...
Apple doesn't make any corporate IT infrastructure products.
There's actually an 8k version out as well although the interpolation is a bit funky in some places:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
If you go into the wayback machine WHO says in plain wording that the PCR false positive rate was higher than desired: https://web.archive.org/web/20210120083427/https://www.who.i...
The simplest answer is:

Well printed material is much easier to read and handle than anything electronic. Eink was a step in the right direction, but there's virtually no innovation in the interfaces of ereaders. Heck - even regular PDF readers on computers/phones have a fairly poor interface.

Screens shine when it comes to dynamic content - particularly videos of phenomena (animations of functions as you change the parameter, etc). However, being able to change the form factor of paper (not all books have the same size page), as well as the ease with which one can bend pages is really helpful. Nothing electronic has yet replaced my ability to flip back and forth between two pages.
People choose to exchange money for goods and services that improve their life. Rich people generally became rich by directly or indirectly providing goods and services that improved the lives of a great many people.
Emergency Bans on Evictions and Other Tenant Protections Related to Coronavirus
I don't think it's an exaggeration, and I wouldn't flag it, but I worry about the attitude. Officials are telling the truth about the danger of the coronavirus, but sometimes they do lie! We can't afford to cultivate an attitude that only raving lunatics accuse government agencies of lying.
When I moved house literally the first post I had sent to me at my new address was Rick Astleys album. Took me years to find out who Rickrolled me IRL too.
The hand that prioritizes the execution order of that search seems to be taking the scenic route to effectual change to the point it makes one suspect whether they are optimizing to get anything done at all, or maximizing odds of holding on to the reins of power.
Lets see some of the quotes and think if we
could get away with it...

Aug 7, 2018
"Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured."
Elon Musk

Aug 7, 2018
"Shareholders could either to sell at 420 or hold shares & go private"

After paying 20 million dollar fine referring to the
Securities and Exchange Commission tweets:

"Just want to that the Shortseller Enrichment Commission is doing incredible work," "And the name change is so on point!"

2018

"I want to be clear: I do not respect the SEC, I do not respect them,"

2019

“By the middle of next year, we’ll have over a million Tesla cars on the road with full self-driving hardware, feature complete, at a reliability level that we would consider that no one needs to pay attention,”

October 21, 2019

"Next year for sure, we will have over a million robotaxis on the road," "The fleet wakes up with an over-the-air update. That's all it takes."

2020

"All Tesla cars right now have everything necessary for self-driving available today. All you need to do is improve the software."
Rick is one of the loveliest people in the business. I've had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times when we've worked on shows together (as well as various members of his band) and he takes a genuine interest in everyone's lives, insists that his band and crew are put up in the same luxury hotels as him, etc. A rare gem in the industry!
There are people which distribute false information which use extreamly clever highly manipulative methods which more often then not show a clear understanding of the matter in question. And I feel that it's a degree of understanding of both the topic and method about how to subtitle manipulate people that I think they themself should be clearly aware about them spreading false information.

One method often used is to take some "official" article, paper, etc. which is not targeting a general-public audience but a audience of people with specialized knowledge and then twist what it supposedly says and spread it to people which in general do not have this specialized knowledge but
where they know that with the given combination of
pre-feed misinformation and non-understanding of the content and complex language/terminology their targets will see it as proof for the false information. Even if it might proof the exact opposite.

Examples include:

- this link

- a case where two very different statistics of the CDC (from different sources) used the same "label name" for a graph with similar but very different data

- cases of studies showing that e.g. some vaccine is not perfect in some very specific situations being taking as proof that it's not working at all

- same for tests etc.

- court cases won due to formalities being taken as proof that vaccines don't work (e.g. anti-vaccer creating a bounty for a proof of them being wrong but intentionally formulating the requirement for the bounty submissions subtle in a way that no submission is ever valid for submission and as such they won the court case about not paying out the money, even through the submission proofed them wrong)

A commonly used fallacy of the mind is that people jump from "this solution is not perfect" to "this solution MUST be replaced" to "a solution which is perceived to be the opposite is therefore true".

Like "this test has wrong results in rare cases" => "this test can not be trusted at all" => "all tests of this kind are untranslatable" => "there is no need to test because all tests are fake anyway" => "covid doesn't exists".

As a side not I have seen that kind of thinking to often in IT too like: "this library turned out imperfect once we knew more about it" => "we must replace this library" => "this other library which used the imperfection of the first library in it's advertisements but of which we don't know anything about is correct and must be used".

I believe it's of upmost importance to improve science to general-public communications and argument all kinds of reports, articles and papers with a section targeting the general public. As well as rehabilitating state organs which are focused on providing easy understandable content and explanations, while being vowed (by law required) to objectivity and transparency and making it highly punished for politicians, other state organs or well any kind of institution trying to influence it.
worth watching the first 4 minutes -- might be a surprise as to what's in these modules ...
No. An important recourse is to complain. Not engaging is one, but complaining and highlighting the problems is perfectly acceptable.
Unnecessary may simply be the % of use by the truck dedicated to just commuting, where that % is so high as to not justify the negative externalities imposed by such a vehicle.

Pretty standard stuff in actuarial work.

Anecdotally, my compact, hatchback Kia Rio and can fit four +9ft surfboards just fine. A solution would be taxing larger vehicles to take into account the externalities they create, or do like myself and purchase a safer vehicle that can load just as easily.

If you’re not moving heavy equipment, you don’t need a big truck. If you are, treat it like a fork-list: assign a license.
That would make sense, but it's not in fact the case, many second-gen Kindles don't have wifi.

...I'm actually quite confused as to why the people with the oldest devices—whose Kindles presumably had the longest usable life—are the only ones getting free replacements.
I started this subthread, and I'll be the first to admit that if I needed a pickup or other large vehicle I'd get one. But there is a difference between owning a dangerous tool (and using it responsibly) because it's practical for you, and acting like there is nothing wrong with a general automotive trend that has caused thousands of preventable deaths and stands to cause thousands more. Casting this as some trendy "urbanist" ideological concern is, frankly, totally asinine.
> How is such a decision possible after this ruling just three years ago?

Very easily, given the extremely narrow, case-specific procedural facts on which the Masterpiece Cakeshop case was decided.

Given the way the court has handled similar cases since Masterpiece Cakeshop, I'd not be surprised if they don't take this one up either (but, I wouldn't be too surprised if they did take it up, either.)
You are right it does ignore it. I would be fine to make an exception for someone who has natural immunity. It might make it needlessly complicated which explains why businesses are making it simple and mandating vaccinations.
I only uploaded Arizona hiking videos, perhaps a few kayaking videos also. I did say that I am not a FB fan, but the Oculus is a very fun product.

re: wasting bandwidth or computer resources. Compared to what has been used in my work for customers, this is a drop in the ocean.

This is probably more detail than you want, but since you mentioned FB’s business model (and thanks for your comment): I had all but stopped using FB until Apple placed restrictions on apps sharing information without permission. Now I probably spend 4 or 5 minutes a day on FB. I seldom post but I like to see what my family is doing. That said, I have spent almost an hour today with family on FaceTime and the phone, and a 2 hour coffee with friends this morning. Much more satisfying than social media!
It was one of many pop hits of the time.

If I remember right, I mildly enjoyed it.
This is why those dumb rednecks didn't want marriage equality. Cuz the gays may actually form a powerful political block and impose themselves on others free will. So much for "we just want respect. Stop the hate"
It's unfortunate that it's not so uncommon for upstream software developers to express distaste for packages managers. While the reasons given aren't totally misguided in many cases, it quickly degrades user experience when each software has their own mechanism for installation.
Eh yeah! The charts were full of that kind of thing so seemed kind of normal.
One time a raider broke into my animal pen and started attacking my animals, but got shot down by a turret before they could cause any lasting damage. I didn't pay it any mind, but that raider had brought in a good chunk of Yayo (the game's cocaine analogue) that had scattered around in the pen when he died. By morning I had a herd of inebriated megasloths hunting down my colonists en-masse.
It was also on the front page of reddit this morning, after Rick posted a video to youtube just amazed about the number of views.

It's going around everywhere, wouldn't make any assumptions about where OP found it.
I like to refer to Canada as a Cold Australia.

And Australia as a hot Canada! (Not that I've been to Canada, but on paper the similarities are there)
Entirely depends on the work that needs to be done. That quote will implode at times when actually applied in reality. Sometimes you need to marshal the soldiers to victory, and you're not typically going to do that by your soldiers barely knowing you exist. You're going to have to inspire them actively, so they better know you exist, and they better believe what you're saying, they better believe in the mission.

There is also a valuable spot in some parts of the business world for the Barnum & Bailey promoter. It can be extraordinarily difficult to stand out from the crowd, often while competing against far larger companies, even if you have a superior product. If you can't be outgoing and draw attention to your superior product (get in front of a major tv audience and nail it, present effectively to audiences on stage at COMDEX, etc), perhaps against far larger ad budgets, your great product may be doomed.
Nuanced, from a credible source: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2021/07/disrupting-ra...
lol, I got a 1% "raise" this year. That's about 10-20% of inflation, so I call it a pay cut.
I’m sorry but my profession is vaccine hesitancy and persuasion researcher and OP is just wrong. I have n=20,000 polls showing people get disinformation from Facebook that informs their decision to not get vaccinated and hours of focus group recordings also showing this.
Well played...
That thread is supplementary to this thread, which discusses safety.

But I’d be interested in the improvements on road wear from new ev trucks - I haven’t heard of any.

To be fair, they’re definitely better for the environment. And as someone who has worked construction, the multi charging ports are a game changer. But, again, this is about safety.
I'm talking about services provided to the market. Services can naturally include expressive or creative products, or even literally speeches.
The common thread though is this is a business and you can’t discriminate against customers. I’f you were a town crier and offerd the service of walking around town announcing weddings you should be compelled to not discriminate in offering your service despite it being literally your speech. It’s not free, you’re being paid, free is your own time.
I help run the data mesh community and yup, 100%. There's a reason data mesh is catching on as fast as it is because, if done right, it really feels like it can solve a lot of the agility/scalability problems people feel re data/analytics now. It is NOT a silver bullet but it can potentially really help companies towards that (obnoxiously named and overused) goal of being data driven.
Facebook cares about their bottom line more than anything else. In a vacuum, they're pro free speech because there's more content to serve ads off of. However, presently people will get companies to boycott ads on your platform if they see something on it they don't like. Also Biden just blamed Facebook for not censoring enough so they're likely facing pressure from Washington as well.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/politics/biden-facebook-covid...
This makes a good case for visible data lineage (external system coupling), in conjunction with clear program/ETL documentation (internal data coupling), so you can see the full data transformation.

There are a few cross cutting concerns with a data mesh, namely authz, schema and cacheing. Most companies don't consider the data mesh at a company level which is a shame as solving all the above should be doable at a company level.
only if tax accountants could use github and were eager like SWEs to put themselves out of work.
Volunteer to track internet speeds for the FCC
The author also wrote an excellent perspective on management/worker relationships and other corporate shenanigans called "The Gervais Principle" [0], set against the series "The Office.". It's definitely opinionated.

[0] https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Is that true? The comment is edited, but according to this (https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/56cdgm/ama_im_really...) OP edited their comment to thank someone for gold and grandstand, so presumably they edited it back.

You could be right, I've just never heard that.
Rimworld is a better game but not really the deeper sim (I feel like it worked on distilling a lot of what made dwarf fortress compelling while making it much more accessible, and part of that is simplifying).
Whoever took the Nuremberg marching scenes from Triumph of the Will on YouTube and matched the tempo to Never Gonna Give You Up has a reserved seat on the first train straight to hell (à la Grim Fandango)
It started on Slashdot IIRC. Maybe 'nerd culture' works better to include 4chan.
This is correct. In both this case and "cake guy", the parties explicitly stated they had no problem serving homosexual customers, just that they refuse to design certain custom messages/art, this case being same-sex marriage.
I appreciate that Firefox is listed before Chrome in the list of suggested browsers.