skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if it can't be made to work economically then there is no need for regulation to explicitly ban it. That is like saying 'nuclear fusion can't be made to work economically, so lets introduce regulation to ban it.'

That is just an incredibly mindbogglingly stupid way to handle regulation in this sector.

If anything regulate the SOUND being produced and how loud or often they can be.

In fact, with the coming revolution in electric aviation, we could actually have super sonic over land travel. A possible solution beyond the airframe for the BOOM problem is to fly higher and in lower density air.

But if you start flat out with regulation that makes any such innovation incredibly difficult and risky its unlikely people are gone invest in such innovation.

And with electric flight its exactly the case that it would be overland, as it would start out with shorter routes and not cross Atlantic flights. Thus this regulation literally kill possible investment in such architecture.
The damn downloader in MSFS is the most infuriating thing. In Canada on either of the main ISPs I too out at 40ish Mbps whereas Steam and anything else really does close to the full 500Mbps. It also only downloads sequentially, pausing to decrypt each tiny file. And the updates are huge so it takes a good long while to download 2+GB.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211004120442/https://www.washi...
Doubtful they’d spend much time parked. These seem to be geared toward bespoke cabin robotic ride sharing. They’d almost always be on the move except for when charging, which could be helped along with induction plates at traffic lights and pickup/drop zones.
Berkshire has different classes of share so that people could invest at something lower than $250k+ a share (Buffett didn't want to split the stock).
Very Sinister, it doesn't allow you to input location. Almost like a location backdoor.
I'm pretty sure I know what I replied to, and it wasn't that. If you want to go get into some grary internet argument with someone else about that, feel free, but it's off-topic in reply to my comment. Thanks.
Santa Barbara has a lot of seeps, that's the source of the tar balls. It has absolutely nothing to do with off shore drilling.

http://seeps.geol.ucsb.edu/
It also represents a significant effort in collecting data.
> No doubt it would improve as more users offered up information, but unless there is a way to automate the data the majority of more rural areas (perhaps even anywhere that is not a large city centre) will never find any use for this.
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I disagree - I uploaded a simple shared spreadsheet to our neighbourhood Facebook page last week. When I added it, it had 20 garages - all unknown, other than 1 - which I filled in. A week later it is getting a lot of use.
Yeah, I am totally with you on this one. Code style shouldn't be up for debate anymore. Nowadays we have plenty of linters and code style fixers that automates the whole code style of the project. That wasn't even the point I was trying to share on this article. PR and PP are on another level, focus on sharing knowledge rather than "code style", for sure :)
Facebook is like an octopus on your brain.
> and what justification he has for using the name

Because he's a free man ? And free men get to choose their words. All by themselves.

I do it all the time. You should have a go at it.
People usually go to a doctor and say they don't have motivation and get Vyvanse for this sort of thing
Same with Twitter.
Well there are always ADHD drugs (if you have it). Otherwise, check therapy to find out and/or get help with it.

If you really have ADHD and take the drugs, also use them + therapy to form good habits.
> Wouldn't this be the task of your distro's mainteners, not you?

Sure, and when they’re done, they can recompile the static binary and send me an updated copy.

I don’t want to update until they’ve finished testing the dependents. At least with static binaries, I can update some of the dependents sooner as the maintainers work through their lists.
You don't have iOS 15 with the Private Relay enabled, do you?
Let's say that Facebook was killed off by the government. Does that mean no more social networks?

The problems that were 'leaked' are public problems that any such company at scale deals with. They are problems that banning Facebook won't solve.
My point is that a UI that meets the needs of as many users as possible, including things like internationalization and accessibility, is much more complex than a typical game UI. That complexity drives developers to use abstractions that often make it much more difficult to optimize. And in the big picture, support for these things that add complexity is often more important than top-speed rendering.
The Record Layer provides mechanisms to get around the key size limitations and the the transaction time/size limitations.

See section 4: https://www.foundationdb.org/files/record-layer-paper.pdf
Well you have to get into planes or rockets, so that time is likely not that different. If its not worth it for rockets, its not worth it for supersonic flights either.
Show HN: VanillaTreeViewer: a minimalist file browser for blogs, tutorials, etc.
A lot of webdev content (tutorials, blog posts, documentation, etc...) relies on being able to display multiple files and code snippets at once.

I've always felt these files take up too much space on the page, and that there's a more compact and intuitive way to display them.

I created `VanillaTreeViewer` as a minimalist file browser for compactly displaying several files at once. It's modeled after the look and feel of an IDE, so it provides a clean way for viewers to see multiple files and their directory structure at once.

Demo: https://abhchand.me/vanilla-tree-viewer/
Cruise Sees Robotaxi Business Growing Past $50B
>Java also could not fix it (which may be one of the main reasons behind Kotlin).

C# added some null-safety features despite having a 20-something year baggage of legacy code. While it might not be the perfect solution (these checks work only at compile time and you can enable them per-file), I find that they work great for new projects. You have to be extra careful at boundaries (interfaces with third-party libraries which have not added ? annotations yet, API calls, and so on), but they save a lot of headache inside your own code.
Thank you. It actually started for photography reasons when I knew a (friendly) rival photographer who worked for one of our customer organizations.

[Edit] That and my liking for the Space Opera novels written by E.E. 'Doc' Smith.
> As a foreigner, why is it that select states are absolutely riddled with water contamination while most are not (and some are pristine)?

Historical reasons, for one - for example, the Silicon Valley has the most Superfund sites in the US (https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/09/silic...) as a legacy of the chip production that was concentrated there. For PFAS contamination specifically, part of the answer is the distribution and size of airports and military bases, where PFAS are / have been used in firefighting activities and the runoff water was not filtered.

Another reason is lax supervision, enforcement and willful ignorance on part of politics - many local politicians don't want to disturb the major employers in town for fear of driving them away and the federal government isn't much better, the Trxmp administration was notorious for de-regulating (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/climate/trump-envir...).
I belived that for the first week. I's harder to stockpile petrol than toilet paper, though.
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.. and while the others produce concepts.. tesla produces cars..
I assume you'll only be able to legally use these logos on your products and packaging if you actually pay for certification. Most USB devices/charges/etc aren't certified today, I don't see this new logo scheme changing that.

Certification costs money, and you might fail. No consumer really cares (or probably no consumer understands) what buying a "certified" USB thing even means.

If your existing USB things don't have the red white and blue USB logo on them, they're not certified. Info: https://www.usb.org/logo-license
That's a recent thing. Last time i needed to renew it was paid.
Pandora papers reveal hidden riches of Putin’s inner circle
That sounds like an Option type to me:

String? :: Option
String :: Option.Some
null :: Option.None
Some urgency since they don't give the award to people that have passed away.
https://i.imgur.com/WrsVwFz.png

absolutely standard
That's an unnecessarily xenophobic way of saying what the article does, which is that VMWare has decided to shift their focus to server virtualization at the cost of desktop virtualization. They're a business, and if they're making more money from one product line than the other, it's their choice to abandon the one. Don't buy the product if you don't like that, sure, but there's no reason to disparage outsourcing as the problem here.
That's one option, but not everyone has £350 to spend on cables. (Especially when next year they'll all no longer be the full-featured-est around, there will be some newer thing only newer cables do).
Even something like a JSON parser is often claimed to be IO bound. It almost never is because few could keep up with modern IO and some cannot keep up with old HD’s
By taking a cut of the sale price of the banana as margin to cover it's costs and profits, and then passing the rest down the supply chain to Some Banana Company?

Flipping your question around, why does the banana cost 20 cents and not 5 cents? Where do you think the upward pressure on the price comes from?
I've used Addressbase a LOT before and they're separating out the core[0] of it to give it a more permissive license[1]. It has the Classification Code attribute which has an identifier for the kind of property you're looking for[2].

Not sure on the licensing details for this but I think your use could be accepted. This could work as a more established alternative from the true golden source of property records in the UK - if you ever fancy switching over.

[0]: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/product...

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/access-free-address-data-using-a...

[2]: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-government/tools-s...
Is this a joke?

"As a result of the lawsuits concerning the PFOA class-action lawsuit, DuPont began to use GenX, a similarly fluorinated compound, as a replacement for polytetrafluoroethylene in the manufacture of fluoropolymers, such as Teflon.[71][72] However, in lab tests on rats, GenX has been shown to cause many of the same health problems as PFOA.[73][74]

The chemicals are manufactured by Chemours, a corporate spin-off of DuPont, in Fayetteville, North Carolina.[75] While PFOA was phased out by 2014, Chemours was already found to be dumping GenX into the Cape Fear River in 2017, with the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) ordering Chemours to halt discharges of all fluorinated compounds on September 5, 2017."
Ah, yes, pods, the favorite ideas of grifters trying to reinvent mass transportation but making it less useful than public transit, while making a ton of money out of it.

See: Hyperloop
Agreed, as a young performance oriented coder I've been often looked down by people who used Knuth almost god-like authority to dress up all sorts of awful engineering.

And of course most people don't know the full quote and they don't care about what Knuth really meant at the time.
Yes, of course and copying and use something is almost for free in the digital domain vs real world.
They can just take the nobel they censored from ivermectin and attribute it to the mrna shots, no? /S
Not -Werror considered harmful
The NYT does not have an axe to grind with Brexit, an issue for a foreign country. Even when it does have an axe to grind, it's default flex is "to both sides" an issue to the point of parody. Yet even the NYT can see the elephant in the room the UK media refuses to address.

Don't trust the NYT?

https://www.vox.com/22700343/uk-fuel-crisis-brexit-covid-19-...

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/09/28/business/brexit-fuel-food...

https://www.indiatoday.in/business/story/uk-fuel-crisis-chao...
That's the current practice, but siva7 is right in regards to timing and Nobel's will:

"to be distributed annually as prizes to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." (https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/full-text-of-alfred-...)
Tongue in Cheek Classroom Guidelines
LOL. I am not collecting location data at all. Not even session data.
This is all done on client.
And then seemingly over-corrected for it - a while later (late 2020 iirc, or early this year) a Waitrose delivery driver gave me a pack (I hadn't ordered) for free.

I was quite confused at the time, but I assume they were just dishing them out to free up capacity for other products. (I also assume stock control is quite highly automated, so you can certainly see how it would happen.)
An advocate tries to convince people to do something without forcing something. CEO's doesn't try to convince everyone that working from office is great, they just say that if you don't come to office you are fired. A CEO advocating WFO would be if he was trying to convince other CEO's to also adopt WFO policies. But doing something yourself doesn't make you an advocate.
> Developers are quite a small segment of Apple's customer base.

Yeah, but they're reasonably influential. At least my friends ask me what to buy. Not that I always recommend Apple, but they know I use that exclusively which counts for some mind share. And that will end when I make the jump to arm.
> If your build has really custom stuff

That's the biggest problem. Nearly every developer thinks their build has *really* custom stuff whereas it's wrong in 99% of the cases.

Then comes Gradle with its so-much-vaunted flexibility and deliver you exactly what you think you need. And who is going to maintain the clusterfuck of spaghetti code that your build has become?
My dodgy shoulder can do 4 hours.
Portfolio diversification is the only free lunch for investors. If you diversify and periodically reallocate, you protect and grow wealth really well.

Except that the benefits from diversification have been decreasing over time. The lesson of diversification has been learned so well and permeated the financial industry that everything is now correlated.

The rise and rise of correlation
https://www.ft.com/content/5a40b6a8-d176-11df-96d1-00144feab...

It used to be that stocks, bonds and gold moved differently. Now they are more or less correlated because all asset managers diversify. When the global markets are stressed. Those who get margin calls sell their diversified assets in diversified manner and all asset values decrease.
Yes, that's a consequence of just in time supply chains. The benefit is that you dont' have to store a lot of product, but the downside is you run out unless you're careful about demand prediction.
You can - one can put an exception handler at the place one truly wishes to handle the error as opposed to always introducing repetitive code at every single place in the call chain.

The latter tends to make the eyes glaze over in tedium after some time and due to the signal/noise ratio one misses real bugs in the error handling.
Reasons Great Software Engineers Leave Their Jobs (2021 Update)
> f you can actually hack linux, and you can't get a job, or can't get a job you like, etc. -- something else is going on

Well yeah that’s the thing. Can I at the current moment no? Could I with some time invested in it? Probably. But throwing together a kernel module that no one cares about and having an actual contribution are two different things.

> that i've seen, most programmers who can't find work are either not real programmers, or not interested in it anymore/burned out

If I had to guess, I’d say I’m a mix of the first two.
They should use their purchasing power to force companies into having better software.

Have you ever seen good software written by a hardware company?
To combat your anecdata: I have an ev, and a pile of solar, I charge at home on a standard plug that goes into a wall socket. I don’t use any grid power and my car stays charged. I don’t put any strain on the grid.

Pretty obvious how ev ownership will play out. More chargers, more pv.
Proof it's about punishmnet and nazi control. Obey or you lose your life. Fuck you tyrant pussies. You don't scare me.
the point is that when academics and private entities start throwing around the word "AI" for anything digital they are cashing in on other people's hard work and diluting the positive effects of actual AI research.
Conversely, I got an M1 machine for work and I've found that it's pretty useless unless your workload has been specifically tuned for it (like YouTube browsing or Twitter scrolling). There's no way in hell I'm using Rosetta to compile my x86 binaries, especially on a professional basis.
Phone calls still exist, but for most people Whatsapp seems to have overtaken SMS even here in Germany (From what I’ve heard, I’m not a WA user)
Assuming 2 day shipping, you probably lose ~2 real hours of time, but have no working cable for at least 4 days.

- a few minutes to order the cable

- 2 days for the cable to arrive

- ~2 hours to realize it does not work, complain, initiative a refund, print a return label, and drop it off at a post office

- another 2 days to wait for the next cable.
Citroën has a electric car (the E-C4) available for 33k euro?
Build a team, share the project and finish on time
first thing I wonder is whether it's a stimulant or not.
https://twitter.com/StartupLJackson/status/32983572490604134...
I can build stuff sure, but the lack of interest of my non-professional stuff in the past leaves me a little jaded.
I'll add more funny story to my own comment above.

My boss usually pings me to do pair programing with him when:

- He wanted to write some half-thought codes he also wants me as co-author to it (literally 2 names on git commit)

- He wanted to do some dangerous things on production DB, he wanted me to be his witness, in case something went wrong, I would also share some guilt

It's really funny I would call this "pair responsibility"
> Have always been curious why people use Facebook.

It used to be a great communication tool via "Facebook Groups", then people moved to other platforms and our groups lost their critical mass, and all gone silent. In these days I'm just occasionally sharing photos I'm taking with an international group of friends for showing each other nice things.

It also reminds some birthdays to me, so that's nice.
could use other physiological signals, heart rate, nerves etc
The "U" is for "Universal."

As in,

Q: Will this cable work?

A: Well... there's a universe of possible answers...
Thank you. It is indeed time.
Turned out it defaults to Cascadia Mono, my bad. Still your argument is wrong, because, like it doesn't work on your machine, on mine it does.
Speeding up an eBPF optimizer by 1.4-1.9x with a few easy tricks
> 6. Rule of thumb with cash investment is a 10x return

Over what time period?
I highly respect Casey but given his abrasive communication style I sometimes wonder if he is not trying to trigger people (MS devs in this case) to push him back so he can make his point.
Well given how absurdly big the difference is, and the main thing he did was render on demand instead of 7000fps I think he has a good reason to be condescending and they totally deserve it for wasting millions of people's time with this shit.
I don't think that the only (or even most common) source of power supplies in people's houses are from the OEMs of laptops.

In an alternative timeline where DC barrel jacks were the standard form factor, you'd have just as many sellers of the cheapest possible power supply in that form factor as you do in the USB-A form factor today. Engineering choices have to take into account the reasonably foreseeable uses and misuses of a design. In this case, having current relating to the barrel diameter seems reasonable. (A phone might prioritize thin-ness and doesn't need a lot of power. A 100W piece of desktop/benchtop gear or a laptop can better afford the increased diameter of the higher current supply. Not to mention that it gives a somewhat intuitive sense to non-engineers.)
Standard outlet can add about 2kw/h so Rooftop solar cam more then cover most use cases if charging.
I generally agree with your points, but nowcasting is definitely the less exciting problem for ML to solve. Also, applying a GAN to nowcasting is definitely not a novel idea.

You'd hope that given that modern ML methods can handle crazy high dimensional data that someone would be able to do something with weather forecasting beyond current models. However, there are many factors that render this a 'hard' problem.

I guess, starting off with nowcasting is a neat way for DeepMind to become acquainted with the topic matter, but I'd hope they have their ambitions set a little higher.

Here's an interesting paper on this topic:

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2020.009...
"Find My" is designed to rely on pseudorandom advertisement beacons, not on MAC addresses. Sending MAC addresses is much more invasive.
How would it work, BTW?

In Rust, you're forced to match against the enum before you can look at the value, but in Go you even can't match. So unless it's implemented as a type cast, testing optionality would be just like testing against nil. The current internal "optional" package just panics, which is just as useful as a panic on dereferencing nil.
The New York Times has consistently awful UK coverage. And it certainly has an anti-Tory Remainer bias. Personally, I think the shortage is related to Brexit, and it's a short-term consequence of not being able to import cheap foreign labour instead of paying reasonable wages. We do have a driver shortage because haulage firms don't want to pay drivers a competitive salary. Plus, COVID disrupted driver testing and the issuing of new licenses. Plus, some in the media over-egged the problem and created panic buying. It's a multi-cause issue.
Where? He started completely neutral here:

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362

We live in a time where every competent developer is slandered in public if he isn't fully submissive to the great corporate powers.
> That is precisely equivalent to "additional years of survival at year n plus year n".

But that's (minus n) not what I suggested; it's not equivalent to the probability of living another ten years (say).

E.g. the life expectancy of five year olds (plus that they are five years old) is not sufficient information to determine how many of them (the probability one) will live to fifteen.
We're a week in, nobody's "panic buying", they're just... buying. People don't - can't - have giant fuel stashes at home. You fill up your tank and that's it, nowhere else to put fuel. There's a limit to how much demand can be explained by people with jerry cans - there simply aren't that many jerry cans around.