skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tracks fail all the time due to natural disasters... or even just wear-and-tear (heat causes expansion / contraction of lines). Or snow covering an area, making the tracks unsafe.

The answer is simple: a 2nd or 3rd track for redundancy. Which is needed for maintenance purposes anyway. And flamethrowers for snowy areas.

From this perspective, the infrastructure to prove a line of track is safe is just "part of the cost" of a modern rail line. And any such failure is fixed as part of the maintenance costs.

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In any case, if you really wanted to stop a train during rush hour or something, I suggest a crowbar on the rail lines. There's easier ways to derail a train, and sabotage is a known problem. Physical security measures are available, camera systems etc. etc.

But a saboteur with a crowbar is roughly the same problem as too much snow on any given track. We definitely have more to worry from Mother Nature rather than our fellow man (at least.. for now).
Yeah absolutely -- the sneakers I buy (Vans) definitely can't be resoled, but they last a long time.
I've been a Windows user since Windows 2 and I'm hoping I never have to run Windows 11. I've switched to Ubuntu on my work laptop and my (System 76 Meerkat) side-project/consulting work mini-PC. Desktop Linux is not great but is good enough, especially when running under alternative DEs like Regolith.

I used to be a diehard Windows user. I was even a contractor on Longhorn for Microsoft and I have a DLL I wrote that still ships in the System32 folder (it used to be two but I don't see that one in the System32 folder now in Windows 10). I used to be proud that I could walk up to any PC in a store and hit a key combo and tell me kids "I wrote that" when the Narrator window popped up.

I still run Windows 10 on my old personal laptop just to run Quicken/Quickbooks but my current side-project is an app to replace both of those with a single app. I'm looking forward to the day I can wipe Windows off that laptop and install Ubuntu (or maybe ElementaryOS as I've heard good things).

Goodbye Windows.
Knitters got knotted in a purity spiral (2020)
I think the idea with Loom is that you won't have to deal with the red/blue pill bifurcation of sync/async code anymore. It's a return to basics where everything is once again a thread and can be written synchronously, with the runtime handling the scheduling of the userspace threads.

In theory this would be very similar to what Go offers, in practice I guess we'll see once it's released, whenver that is.
Decades is a short time on a planetary scale, at risk of sounding alarmist I really do believe we should be hoping for the best but preparing for the worst when it comes to climate change. If there was ever a time for action it was fifty years ago, but now is better than further delay.
Nice way of gaslighting him into thinking he's insane
yeah, I started because my body was getting creaky after years of judo and I wanted something lower impact - it's definitely significantly less stress on your body than either wrestling or judo, but you still get jostled around and in more competitive situations (i.e. in my last tournament I gave myself a concussion and nearly got choked unconscious bc I was out of it) the chance for injury is higher.

It's definitely safe if it's the first thing you've ever done, as the lower levels of bumps are new, but if you've done similar things for a long time, you definitely feel the accumulation in your brain and joints. It's super dumb because it's literally my favorite thing in the world, but I want to be a sharp tack when I'm old and I couldn't sustain it.
More head injuries. The gloves are to protect the hands.
I would argue it’s always useful to see their tech deconstructed and explained. If nothing else, so we get an idea what the reality is to counter possible outlandish claims from overly-enthusiastic followers of the company (and its CEO)
Gender has nothing to do with it.

He has no chance of passing on his mitochondrial DNA, whether or not he has children. On the other hand, should he choose not to have children, he will represent a change of behavior that has lasted as long as the Y chromosome has- he is the end of the line.

The same would be true if by chance he only passed on his X chromosome, but at least then the attempt was made, and he could keep trying as long as he had willing partner(s).
On one hand, the multiple levels of bureaucratic red tape and regulatory approval keeps a lot of technology from progressing onto the market and into people's lives at the rate it could otherwise.

On the other hand, the multiple levels of bureaucratic red tape and regulatory approval keeps a lot of technology from progressing onto the market and into people's lives at the rate it could otherwise.
> You’ll need the help of your parents, your spouse’s parents, siblings, neighbors, etc

This touches on a really important factor for people like me with families like mine. Their involvement in the parenting process could be nothing negative and stressful. I'd never feel comfortable leaving my kids in their care.

This is not just a pessimistic fear, but a reality I see in my siblings and their own interactions with our parents.

This further complicates things, because I think one could argue that people with my background need more support than average, but we're less likely to have access to that support given our origins.
Well I don't think Shaw was thinking that everyone should become Karen or all progress depending on acting as one.

Reasonable person principle is about being a decent person it is not about Copernicus accepting geocentric model and living rest of life with it.
Those are all tractable problems. I don't mean overall, but the impact of all of those things on you is something you can control.

It's possible that society has imposed ridiculously stringent "requirements" for raising children (apparently families are buying a second washing machine just for their baby's clothes) that raising children responsibly is viewed as financially unachievable for most.
The whiplash from getting tackled in the shoulder is enough to cause a concussion itself.
> “Um, I’m at a house,” [NAME] said, with hesitation, giving a [STREET NAME] address in [CITY].

This should NOT have been publicized. There is enough information in the above sentence that I was able to Google for her exact address. This is a gross danger to violence victims.
The main premise of the article seems to be;

'You cannot reduce the complexity of your problem by increasing the complexity of your language.'

Disagree; eg. DSLs. Here "Simplicity" is born out of a large array of "Complicated Constructs" in some language. The size of the surface area encompassing the various constructs is directly proportional to the expression of various possible models of computations and thus effective problem solving. This idea is what is behind the Mozart/Oz language (and of course C++ :-)
The Safari content blocking API makes sure of that. Content blockers can only provide a list of rules for content to block (based on URL regexes, CSS selectors, etc) but can't actually access the content itself.
obviously the question is, are there cases of witness intimidation that aren't being caught?
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Yes this is very true

As long as both people are open minded and try to assume positive intention (unless proved otherwise) I think differences are just fine.

I don't think I could date someone who could only accept the party line, whether D or R. It astonishes me the arrogance of people who think they have the world completely figured out and know the best solution for everything.
Part of the issue with GM crops is the corporations involved, and how to operate them ethically under capitalism. The EU has a much stronger stance against capitalism run amok, than the US' does, so even if you do trust the science, the science doesn't operate in a vacuum. The EU understands this.
I remember years ago dealing with a then obscure online bookseller. I bought a book and after about 2 weeks it still hadn't arrived. I rang them and they said "oh no problem we believe you, we'll send you another, hang in there". In the next week i received 2 copies of the book. One which had been stuck at the mailcenter and the other they resent me. I rang up again and told them i now had two books and they said "that's fine, it happens, keep both". I've since used that company over alternatives despite the fact they sometimes cost more since it's nice to live life stress free.

Anyway we all know which online bookseller I'm talking about because it turned out they were pretty smart in how they operated and they grew and grew.

Just thinking about the stress that this causes means i won't even hesitate to pay $10 a more per night for the same lodging from another provider. Stress and being treated unfairly motivates people a lot more than a few dollars.

So yeah dumb business logic. I can call out a whole host of management books that all in unison tell you not to do this or anything like it.
A lot of these sorts of issues tend to spring up around specific hardware.

Point in case, proprietary drivers for Broadcom wifi/bluetooth and Nvidia GPUs. I had a problem where every N rounds of updates, Fedora would just eat the Broadcom drivers and I'd get stuck tethering from my phone over USB to fix it. Similar things happened albeit much less frequently with the Nvidia drivers on various distros.

Of course the best "solution" for this is to use hardware supported well by the FOSS drivers; Intel wifi/Bluetooth, Intel/AMD graphics, etc. For desktops and a shrinking number of laptops that's an option, but people using machines with soldered components are just stuck with a crappy experience and are probably better off running Windows/macOS.
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I think the people this effects the worst are those who don't subscribe to either party, or the idea of a "one-dimensional political spectrum" in general. The dominating political "sides" are full on ideologies at this point, and if you don't worship their sacred cow: you could only ever be the other side in their eyes.

So the price for not falling into the two-party trap is that you have to just keep your mouth shut in all situations, lest you be ousted.

Anecdote: all of my friends who very much aren't falling for this two-party nonsense have had a common experience of being called Trumpers, Leftists, Anti-fa, Rednecks, and every other slur one side throws at the other. I'm not sure if it's a real litmus test or not, but I start to worry now when I've been getting too much of one and not enough of the other.
EBITDA is a useful measure for understanding how much cash a business generates if you were to strip it down. E.g. EV/ebitda is the most widely multiple for buyouts and most accurately takes into account operating leverage. It’s less useful for a business like this, but saying “ebitda is a scam” is illiterate.
I actually specifically moved off of Ableton and a midi keyboard because I wanted more constraints. It was getting boring to have the entire world as an option.

It's also portable which has been really fun to have while traveling.
Getting the regulatory piece right is also difficult...
Out of curiosity, I graphed the childless ratio for all ages based on their data: https://mod.ifies.com/f/210831_childless_ratio_by_age.png

Eyeballing, it looks like 55-64 is more childless than 40-54, but I haven't done any deeper analysis to be able to project how the curve might change in the future.

Data from here:

https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/sipp/data/datasets/2...

Graph is made with their example pandas pandas code with the TCEB (total children ever born/fathered) column added, then:

(df[df['TCEB']==0].groupby('TAGE').size().div(df.groupby('TAGE').size())).plot(); plt.show()
I think the ratio of kicks to the head in the mean MMA bout and punches to the head in the mean boxing match is a lot more than 1:20; probably closer to 1:500.
Maybe not unusual for a young, growing company, but its obviously not sustainable for each dollar in profit to cost more than a dollar in sales/marketing effort. Thats a negative ROI.
I might go with “because they are lazy” for many of the shortcuts we take. We have one well-seasoned cast-iron pan and several not-so-well-seasoned which I’ve been too lazy to properly treat, so for now I spend the extra time scrubbing. I even use soap (!), though only after the dog gets the big stuff off. Teflon pans required too much care, so we never repaced them.
I agree that rice sticks easily to iron pans, so I usually cook rice in inox/stainless saucepans or in ceramic in the pressure cooker.
Eggs we cook in the seasoned iron pan.
We can change our habits so that we don’t do so much harm to life on earth.
This depends quite a bit on location. I live in a West coast US city, and you see almost no hats in the city. If you go out to more rural areas, almost all men wear hats, either cowboy type or baseball type.
Anecdote incoming: I was hit by a car while bicycling home one night about ten years ago. I was knocked over and broke my collarbone in two places. I remember thinking at the hospital, "It's amazing I didn't hit my head. A broken clavicle really isn't that bad." (it's basically nature's crumple zone)

Only a couple days later did I think to check my helmet. It had a huge crack on the outside and two smaller ones on the inside. I absolutely smashed my head on the pavement. That helmet saved me from serious head trauma, if not worse.

From a random stranger on the internet: Please wear your helmet while bicycling. There are many ways to end up hitting your head after a bike crash, and all of them are bad.
Why not optimize Blue Apron and HelloFresh style meal kits so that they involve even less labor, then distribute the production to local commercial kitchens? There are already businesses that package this kind of prep work for restaurants.
Awesome, thanks! I might check this out.
There is a difference between wants and needs.

You have a giant industry trying to change your wants, making sure you are not satisfied with what you have.
Ok, I gave it a try. It's given me two K8s errors before any meaningful container work can be done. Not going to waste further time given a first run experience this bad. I'm interested in investing in my tools, not alpha-testing.
The court discovered the problem in this instance. Further, the parent provided an alternative suggestion. Another commenter elaborated on that "dedicated platform" idea: A dedicated device.
Let’s not be so cynical here. No amount of mustache-twirling evil robber barons would change the fact that for any nationwide rail system to be useful at a last mile, billions (if not trillions, if we’re talking coast to coast) of dollars of existing real estate and infrastructure would have to be bulldozed, or else you end up with California’s joke of a Central Valley rail that will never connect Los Angeles to San Francisco and recreate the Shinkansen miracle between Tokyo and Osaka.

In other words, the problem is not a matter of engineering (it can be built) or finance (it can be funded) - it’s politics.
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I think since flags effect on ranking has becoming more known, there's more people using it as a post downvote, too.
This is not a bad idea actually
Also, California's law that makes everyone label everything with "this product contains some measurable level of an identified carcinogen" means that no one pays attention to those labels when it's plastered on something like an asbestos breathing mask or lick-and-paint radon clocks, making them even worse than useless.
They didn’t receive updates. Now Windows pushes ads in the OS as a mechanism of recouping the cost of developing and testing updates for old hardware.
I think an ideal heat recovery system would probably sit mid-stream in a central air system with a built in CO2 trigger. Basically, the return air gets exhausted while heating the incoming/supply air when CO2 concentration > X. Obviously you run into the capex vs ongoing energy cost tradeoff in designing the system.

Strangely, I couldn't find a ventilator on market with a CO2 sensor, but there are plenty with humidity sensors. I think CO2 sensors are on the horizon though, here's a study featuring such a system: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43245317.pdf

My current system is actually ductless however, so I will probably have to rely on natural diffusion... I do have an air quality monitor which indicates that diffusion is likely sufficient (for a one floor open plan condo), but you'll optimally need to sleep with the bedroom doors open.

Edit: I haven't looked too deeply at the standards. My little sensor indicates that if you keep CO2 in range, VOCs will also also be in range, which conforms with my intuition.
> A hat signifies status.

In the past, maybe. I don't think it does so much now (at least in my part of the US). If it signifies anything besides aesthetics, it's signifying that the person is part of some defined group. Status doesn't enter into it.

> while disporting the mark of your superiority.

So, keeping your "low status" hat on would be OK? (I'm assuming that there is such a thing -- that some hats are "high status" implies that there exists the opposite).
Guess drone assassination didnt bring good PR they were counting for last week, time to establish Space Corp..no that one is taken, Digital Corps!
A lot of e-ink devices just run Android so it's relatively easy to run whatever you want on them.

Refresh rate depends on how much of the screen is updating at once. Scrolling a whole page is pretty bad, updating a small region is reasonably quick. Some devices have an 'A2 mode' that makes it somewhat faster by just doing black/white instead of grayscale.
Do you intend to support self-hosting option? Considering the sensitivity involved in giving access to the business cloud
The Mac App Store came after there was a thriving ecosystem for Mac apps online/organically and without a middle man, and it provided close to zero value for developers on top of that. I don’t think it’s a fair comparison.
Yet this experience is subjective; the cone of visual attention is a selective cocktail party effect. In an objective measure of the physical optics, wider is truer, but note that I'm not necessarily saying 'better.'
OpenBSD: Hackathons
Chinese components double to 60% in new Huawei smartphone
Who mentioned gender? He's talking, very literally, about sex.
The rise of MMA severely damaged the popularity of boxing.
> ... sitting around calmly in a "Star Trek" style bridge isn't very fun IMO.

You need to embrace the whole experience. Your RL STDs? You've just been to a planet where you encountered a very demanding warrior queen. Can you get medical to sort it out before it wipes out your crew or your extracurriculars? Can you get Comms to alter the ship records? All the while acting normal at your station?
Not on my work machine, its not approved by Global.
You might be interested in this core:
https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/MacPlus_MiSTer
A study finds median traffic to blogs to be 56.8 monthly pageviews per article
Well, I wouldn't stop talking to you for thinking that - if you are a decent person with the attempt to defend your points, I wouldn't want to sever that for a single misunderstanding or disagreement.

To move off-topic, it is infuriating that people think the Democratic party (and the people who vote for that party) are effectively the same in their stated policy goals as the Republican Party.

I believe the two party system is awful, and I think the need for large reforms of our voting systems to something (anything) other than first-past-the-post is critical. Golly Gee, which party is advancing infrastructural changes to voting and districting for the advancement of democracy?

Two party system is bad. Democratic party has its own issues of political machinery and infighting. ALSO they are objectively a hell of a lot more pro-democracy and pro-America than the Republican party.
Also. They can create flickering sun which is unpleasant and unhealthy. During cold weather they can shed ice. And they might fall over or catch fire and hurt someone. A safety zone is an easy way to eliminate any danger to the public.
Well, if it makes it easy to cancel a subscription or get a refund. Sure. And yes, if I don't need to use Paypal I am happy to pay a 15-30% premium.

I am worried that using other payment systems make it much harder to achieve that.
Mac OS X Server 1.0 was released in March of 1999, and I used it everyday as a desktop OS at work.

Windows 2000 was released in December.
so right!!
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Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. https://photos.app.goo.gl/p6B6oeEs6dpzziaP7
>I stand by my position that end users don't actually want competing third-party app stores.

I have 9 chat apps on my phone. I just counted, and that's skipping things like email and basecamp that I might have included to inflate the number. It's not ideal, and the downsides can be exaggerated for the sake of banter, but overall the chat app situation is fine. Similarly, I wouldn't mind having more app stores.

I expect there'd be one all the free software hardcores believe in, one that fills the role Steam does on PC, another with all the "too hot for TV" content that Apple and Google won't touch with a 10 foot pole, a few developer-publishers big enough to get traction, and dozens of also-rans that nobody uses. Yes, slightly more inconvenient like all the chat apps, but in reality it'd also be fine.

I don't think it makes sense to say what consumers do and don't "want," because largely they don't understand the terrain the App Store and Google Play put down. Ask people if they'd like a 2nd store that lets them install apps that contain porn without putting it behind hidden curtains in otherwise general-purpose apps, then we might expect positive responses. Ask people if they want an app store that contains more malware because the app store monopoly provides a chokepoint to enact user protection that on-device sandboxing can't, then we'd expect negative responses.
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That's good news, but I'm kinda stuck using the web interface because the desktop client doesn't allow sharing single Wayland windows in presentation mode. Unless they've changed that too recently?
Unless I need to use specific Windows-only apps, Linux.
Long-time CentOS user transitioning to Rocky Linux.
A couple of my VMs at work are Debian; they came from bitnami with particular apps installed (ProcessWire, MantisBT, etc.)
My webserver at home is CentOS 8 for the time being.
Of course, I also have about 7 classic AmigaOS machines :)
The reason you don't know any is because

>policies for the common good coming

Is a political thing. You disagree with the average conservative on what constitutes policies for the common good.
This bit me really hard as I only come into contact with Go occasionally.

First, I couldn't understand how GOPATH worked (many years ago :) ), then that changed, and recently (last year) I spent something like three days trying to figure out why some dependency wouldn't fetch (it was because modules).

:)

For a person who works with a language daily such changes are not as obvious.
Those episodes were fantastic. It really shows how commentators latch on to the optics of the situation rather than the actual substance of what's trying to be addressed.

"We agree date rape is bad, but someone threw together a kinda-cringy powerpoint when trying to address it, so I guess we should do nothing"
2 things that surprise me:
- Why did it take so long? This is clearly an abuse of monopoly power
- The App Store is Apple's biggest cash cow, yet despite Apple losing it's ability to charge its 30% racketeering tax their stock is at an ATH.
Related history, <canvas> came about from Apple's Dashboard in 10.4