skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Free State Project did this to the town of Grafton, New Hampshire, invading to turn it into the country's first libertarian majority city so they could take over the government. And yeah, the locals were not too happy about it. One of the reasons they chose Grafton is there were no zoning laws, so they could move in quickly without having to build housing, which meant many of them were living in the woods, and since they had no experience doing that and kept leaving food out, the town became overrun with bears.
I bought an ARM server (no longer available, now they only sell Xeons unfortunately) and a friend bought one of their laptops.

I was very happy with the server, it’s been an easy and convenient way to get a decent ARM board.

The laptop is unusable due to the keyboard, the space bar broke almost immediately. The speakers are really bad.

We immediately installed Debian, so we can’t judge the hardware support in PopOS.
ANA, JAL plan drone services to boost remote areas, own bottom lines
So, uh... how exactly are places like my own state health and governance system justifying their actions scientifically when they trot out "due to surge in Delta variant cases"? Are they simply speculating? Because that doesn't bode well for any of this ever ending.
An excellent point: some are, but many aren't, particularly in fields like emergency medicine (EM) and anesthesia. 1099 work is common as is hourly w-2 work.
I had one of those Clevo laptops. So many problems!
Exactly. That's why whenever ivermectin shows up in the news, it's because someone has taken so much of it that it made them ill. A 900 pound animal dose for a 150 pound human is quite a tall order.
Back to the Future [audio]
In recent centuries, flowers have evolved to be more attractive to humans because we've intentionally manipulated the evolutionary pressure on them. So it's not accidental, but it's our volition driving it, not the flowers'.
Also, NetBus ...
Someone sent flowers to a good friend of mine.

Her cat chewed on a few of the flowers, and died of renal failure a few days later.

Don't send flowers that might include lilys
to anyone who might have a cat!

Since I made it to age 30 without knowing about the toxicity of lilys to cats, I feel obligated to mention this anecdote every time someone talks about sending flowers.

I also consider it completely unforgivable that florists don't mention this to every customer who is purchasing lilys (often in arrangements where the customer doesn't even know the contents).
I have an inkling as to why this comment is being downvoted, but I'd love to see some actual responses to it that refute or at least engage with the claim that "adoption is an option".
What if my life is finite? What if I want to accomplish something with my time, rather than "learn linux noob"? Rebooting Windows is 10 seconds of my time. Learning Linux took me hundreds of hours. Hours I want back, frankly.
There are very few servers that would really benefit from this. But perhaps the reason is that it's incredibly difficult to form large communities in minecraft.

I could see this really changing how users interact with each other.
In all of these cases you also outsource the security to someone that you trust. How is that different from curl https... | sh ? Who says that no one took over the github, or the debian package?
> Or it will just cause the women to get abortions elsewhere

Some will, but some won't or can't, and for many of the supporters of that law, any number >=1 is a success.

> or let the kids grow up in homes that can't support them.

The general argument at that point is that life/society is punishing the parents and family for being immoral or irresponsible, which is kept separate from the goal of saving lives/enforcing punishment by preventing abortion. In other words, the quality of those lives (or lack thereof) thereafter is seen an unrelated concern.

> What it's more likely to accomplish is to make Texas even more republican

I wouldn't say it's planned but I think Republicans are quite happy with an outcome that creates more Republicans.
Their Thelio desktops are awesome, and I hear good things about those new keyboards - although I haven't tried one yet. They manufacture their desktops and keyboards in Denver, which I like. Awesome people too. I've never used their laptops so I can't speak to those.
Was going to recommend this too, one of the few biographies I have read cover to cover.
>I have had to go out of my way to break the habitual "Hey guys" -> "Hey all/Hey folks" though, and I don't find that one unreasonable.

I thought "guys" (plural) was already considered gender neutral?
I'm not sure if this is entirely true but it does seem like the lesswrong community happened to peak around this time.
Sure, once we were already interested enough in flowers to bother doing that.
Web Accessibility Best Practices for Developers
On the other hand, if I know exactly what I want and can afford it, I have already bought or ordered it. Probably the question is whether gifts change what you can afford - for example, it does so for kids, but doesn't do so for a median middle-age person where a random gain or loss of e.g. a day's wages does not (or should not) change your behavior but only slightly change the current balance of your pool of savings or debt.

So from that perspective, decent gifts are exactly those that you would like to have but in an ordinary situation would not buy; like something that's nice instead of the "best price/performance" option that you might buy otherwise if you'd have the cash, something a bit extraordinary (even if it's a small thing) for the celebration.
A Retrospective on the Dorado, a High-Performance Personal Computer (1983) [pdf]
I very much agree with you, and I think an important reason to do so is that there isn't necessarily an objective "better". Debian's conservative release is great for production servers and stability. Ubuntu and many of these "OS" vendors' choices are great if you want exactly what you get and don't care too much about the things under the hood.

I love both Arch and Debian, but I usually use them for very different things.
Oh, for fuck’s sake.

The people of Texas, of course, have limited right to self-determination; whether the absurd law their government had just passed falls under that or not will be determined later.

However, in this case, it’s nothing to do with the people of Texas. This is a private vigilante group, not the government.

Not, really, that it matters in this case. Even the full majesty of the Texas state government presumably can’t force a webhost to ignore its ToS if it doesn’t want to. But in this case it’s not the government, it’s a weird private organisation.
The ability to use custom typefaces has been available on the web for over a decade with the @font-face rule. You don’t need to rely on system fonts or fallbacks. The main concerns are the hinting differences between platforms, aliasing and hi vs low resolution screens.
>Once again comparisons ignore the time associated with owning and maintaining a car.

Amtrak isn't exactly cheap. A 300 mile trip with Amtrak is the equivalent of 3 months of full coverage auto insurance for me, or 3-4 oil changes, or a brake job. I can drive a lot further than 300 miles with those services performed on my car.

>Next time you’re standing on line at the DMV, ask yourself “Self, right now would I rather be sitting in a comfy seat on a train sipping an adult beverage and looking out at the spectacularly beautiful Pacific coastline?”

I'm a huge car enthusiast, so definitely no. For me, driving a fast car on a road trip is just as much fun as the destination itself.
Ask HN: Why do you do, what you do?
Open question.
They complained about lack of guidance from Microsoft. Guidance from Apple is Catalyst is for porting.
What evidence are you referring to? Trying to search for this is impossible, keeps throwing SCP results.
It really is a tough problem I think.

If you put in high speed rail from my small town in the Sierras down to a nice beach, I'd be all over it. As you probably know, there's really not much in the way of point to point mass transit needed. Vacations are well served by air and car, commutes are everywhere to everywhere within urban and suburban areas.

In addition, there's the personal security angle. The US ain't Japan.

I figure if people wanted mass transit to be a thing, they'd start by heavily subsidizing comfortable buses. Super scalable, pretty quick, relatively cheap.
Security has been outsourced ever since hardware.
Where in the article does it suggest that they are faking this illness?
> Absurd arguments both for and against standing are hardly new

Narrowly crafting laws to avoid pre-enforcement review specifically to maximize the impact knowing that they will almost certainly be struck down as unconstitutional is, on the other hand, unusual, if perhaps not completely new (something similar may have been done before, but I am not aware of any examples.)
The pandemic caused companies to buy chips like people were buying toilet paper.
I find that PDB++ (on Pip as "pdbpp") is better in its role specifically as a debugger.
I'm asking this because I live in an urban area, but I still have to rely on a car, unless I want to pay >2x for my groceries at the one place that is with in walking distance. And I don't have enough of a death wish to bike to places except directly to the trail neary my place for pandemic exercise.

I would love it if the public transit around me was good enough to go grocery shopping regularly. But it's either a five minute drive or a 45 minute bus ride. With than I'll just pay for the car. I'm lucky, I can afford it. But I still hate that it's my only real option. (I'm still super sad that Car2Go left MPLS and no real replacements have shown up.)

I dream of some sort of PRT system pushing out cars, at least from the urban area. Ideally grade separated, like a suspended monodrail pod system. But, even I can't pretend that that is anything that could happen anytime soon.

Are you working on something more realistic? It's probably not an end game solution, but are you working on something that improves the status quo? Or if not what do you wish you could work on?
In practice it really isn’t. The city sprawls endlessly with no mass transit, so you end up staying in your corner of the greater Houston area all the time, which is 90% suburbs with no walkability. Urban Houston is more diverse yes, but once you get beyond 610 you lose all city benefits and all the neighborhoods are homogeneous and monocultural. Houston is ok. Greater Houston is a terrible place. Great food though.
I was not very impressed by the token bucket example. Firstly, it is totally ridiculous to need to write your own implementation of gcd and the comment is silly and unnecessary.

Secondly, the implementation for the token bucket seems to just be bad. A simpler implementation is as follows:

- Input number of tokens and refill time.

- Output the constant state describing the limiter: the max number of tokens and the time to get a single token (= refill time / size, ignoring rounding issues which shouldn’t generally matter if your times are in nanos)

- The only mutable state is a single time instant: the time when the limiter becomes full

- to attempt to take a token, compute max(0,full_time - now) / new_token_time and if this is less than or equal to the size of the bucket minus the number of tokens you want, you may withdraw and set full_time := max(full_time, now) + tokens_to_withdraw * new_token_time

If that division is concerning then you should either attempt to withdraw from the rate limiter less frequently or you should not be using one at all.

The rest of the code is about scheduling events to happen when there are free tokens in the ratelimiter. This is a different problem and also over-complicated. You should either poll and retry periodically with your most important event (rather than whatever event you thought was most important when the bucket became empty) though you then want to be careful about stale tasks never running, or you should just have a queue of pairs (Task, cost) where cost is an int. after withdrawing tokens from the ratelimiter or when the queue transitions from empty to non-empty, peek the top item and set a timer for rl.full_time - rl.new_token_time * (rl.size - cost) and when the timer fires (or immediately if the time was in the past) you can dequeue, withdraw cost tokens, and run that top task (then repeat.)
You can buy any chip that is not available from legitimate sources in China in pretty much any quantities. I wonder at this point if this is not a part of hybrid warfare.
>This may yield car redesigns with less touchscreen dependence, simpler electronics in the essential systems, and an "infotainment" system that's less integrated with the vehicle and can be added or replaced later. Already, some new cars have shipped with a blank plate in place of the entertainment system.

I'd personally see that as a major improvement.

The highly integrated infotainment systems are going to make a lot of these vehicles feel obsolete before their time.
> A non-profit sued it's way to SCOTUS a few years ago in defense of frogs.

Is a non-profit defending frogs meant to be self-evidently absurd?
The more abortions the better?
Smaller Discord servers are close
There's definitely a sort of "keeping up with the Joneses" that goes on in technical fields with regard to hardware. I do all my personal projects on a 2013 model Ultrabook. Sure it's underpowered, but not for editing text, compiling small codebases, or building CRUD WebApps. If I need to do some derp learning, I can just spin up a cloud instance. There are certainly productive tasks that benefit greatly from newer hardware (video editing, compiling the Linux kernel, launching a single instance of the Android Studio emulator), but most of this hardware capacity is probably for gaming and, like many people, I'm not much of a gamer.
The first time, I changed jobs. The second time, I quit my job to work on my own business. For those burned out, I would recommend changing jobs. No business is worth your mental health. It’s just business -- you don’t owe them anything.
Carbon was 32 bit only. macOS is 64 bit only now. It isn't a point of view.
I don't want to detect from her crime, but the negligence of not having sufficient backups and not doing basic security (restricting access to data, disabling logins) should be addressed too.
I would also love to hear answers to this. I need a vacation. (Though I probably won't go until the pandemic is better taken care of...)
Oh, you're not from the USA? So, uh, we have a lot of mass shootings. A common point of discussion is whether we should publically discuss the details of mass shootings, because discussion can easily excuse and glorify the shooters.

The dog whistle in your earlier post is that the mean old liberals wouldn't let you talk about violence committed by Muslims, but fortunately Donald's fans were there to give you a space; how generous of them.
When you factor in the value of a person's attention, a slower train can still be a solid win. If you have work that can be done locally on a laptop, a trip that would otherwise burn a day driving can be converted into a productive workday. That can mean saving a vacation day etc
Please enlighten me as to how seeing a word in a list of other words can do any physical harm to anyone.
Some of the airline contracts are really odd. IIRC: Some roles are paid only when the door is closed. Some flying roles are paid one rate while the airplane is chocked and another rate when it’s unchocked. Pilots are paid a minimum number of hours per month; some are paid to sit in ready reserve and others have to sit on reserve as assigned as part of the agreement to get the monthly guarantee.

It’s messy for sure.
The Vietnam War and the Revolt of Black GIs (1995)
If floppy drives were common today I think many of the issues you highlighted like increase power usuage would be solved and applied to this domain. We don't have to be past that power.
I'd be more supportive of this if it mattered but it doesn't. Worse, a lot of it is probably virtue signaling.

Here's what we really need. We need a blue state to pass a law, the substance of which is this:

> No person with the state of X shall possess a firearm. Any citizen but no government official may sue anyone who possesses, attempts to purchase, attempts to sell or gifts a firearm to any other person for $10,000. They may also sue anyone aiding any such person. No court shall award costs where the case is decided for the defendant.

You get the idea.

Then let's see how supportive conservatives and the Supreme Court are of the idea that this isn't an end run against constitutionality.

The most disturbing thing to me is that such a novel law wasn't stayed pending full judicial review. It really exposes what a self-serving hypocrisy "constitutional textualism" really is.

As for companies, any action less than leaving the state entirely I will view as empty posturing.
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I don’t see how something not deliberate can be rude, to be honest…

The fact that someone is offended doesn’t make it rude. People get offended for pretty much everything these days, yet not everything is rude!
I’m life long Texan and Yes that is one purpose. It’s excessively conservative to keep hold of the state. But also a reminder that our GOP state politicians are horrible Trump humpers and morally corrupt while believing they are righteous by enacting these laws. They are the worst people but unfortunately this is the reality of Texas. It’s like pockets of high diversity and rational thinkers surrounded by hoards of wackos.
Ya I wonder as well. To me it seems like Linux will always need a gooey center of tinkerers and builders. But it needs to establish mutual respect with people who can't use the CLI but need to get work done. Open source is important to the success of Earth.
I prefer this too, but sometimes poor type-narrowing support hinders it. For example, TypeScript only recently added support for aliased type-narrowing:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...
It means not carrying needless excess work-in-progress that cannot be delivered to the customer but may very well go stale or never be sold at all.

This is a balance point, not an optimization problem where you're supposed to go to the extreme.

In fact, one of the books that popularized Lean manufacturing, Eli Goldblatt's "The Goal", explicitly makes the point throughout the book that making work centers within a plant locally optimal will cause your overall operation to fail to deliver efficient outputs.

To make global efficiency improvements you have to accept that individual work centers may be inefficient. Rather, just like a developer optimizing their software program, you need to look at your entire organization and find where the actual bottlenecks are, and improve those specific bottlenecks, potentially by running "inefficient" (but non-bottlenecked) work centers to assist the teams that are the current bottleneck.

And then as you change things you'll have to be willing to address a different bottleneck.

Moreover, unavoidable variances (which the book describes in a story about a Boy Scout camping trip) means it will be potentially disastrous to 'optimize' even your critical path, just like you wouldn't want a network router to be consistently near max capacity.
Some articles in no explicit order with some fairly visible biases but:

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2014/03/chicken-from-china-yo...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-seafood-industry-vulnerable...

https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2016/12/05/tale-fish-two-cou...

https://boingboing.net/2018/09/14/usda-approves-shipping-sla...

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-chicken-reshipped/

https://weuseit2.com/blogs/we-use-it-2/shipping-live-hogs-po...

I'm unfortunately still not able to remember for the keywords of the one good reputable article I know of that details most of what is shipped for processing and back to multiple countries and the margins involved, but it's out there if you ever feel the need to dig into it.

I am aware of the fish being canned on board vessels and factory ships. There are still a large amount that aren't.

Here is one video demonstrating a large amount of people being involved in the simple canning of cheap sardines... It's definitely much better and more orderly than another video based out of a somewhat open-air assembly line in Portugal I believe.

https://youtu.be/WPpFjl8qeM4

I could however be completely wrong about all of this. There is some information on the internet that is not amazingly easy to find and verify. When you think about the fact there are many countries with large populaces that are still treated as literal slave labour though and also lesser quality standards involved, so more ability to quite literally cram a shipping container to the brim with whatever they want, margins are incredibly slim, but still money is being made.
I always feel the need to point out that "5 hours" is an idealized drive time only happens when you get incredibly lucky with traffic and drive way too fast. You're also not going from city center to city center (which is where passenger rail hubs tend to be located).
> the military industrial complex has been discussed since the 70s

For...broad definitions of “the 70s”

---quote---

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.

---end quote---

- Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States, Farewell Address, Jan. 17, 1961