skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EVERYTHING fails and dies (entropy) so it's really a matter of choosing how you "live the life and deal the the inevitability death" (of the battery, not your own).

Having a choice with more openness of controls is probably the best customer feature.
Is this news?

IIRC it was in the book "Treasure Islands: Tax Havens and the Men who Stole the World" by Nicholas Shaxson that I first learned about the existance of the City of London.

I don't even get indignated anymore... The thing is, as a society, we're fine with tax evasion ad high levels. Had we not been so fine with it, something would have been done about it.
> This seems like a strategy designed to kill airframes via sheer number of pressurization cycles?

That's what planes are for - to use them. They are not museum pieces to be preserved.
Ah, yeah, fully agree - I just saw your mention of having 25 years experience, which made me think basically "if not you, then who?"

I didn’t intend to imply that the problem could be solved by an army of people fresh out of boot camps with no senior level supervision.

I'm also realizing now that just because you "would consider it extremely daunting" does not necessarily mean that you don't think you could be a net positive contributor.
What percentage of existing people are actively working on solving these problems?
Correct, and certificate transparency exists pretty much specifically to counter this threat.

By requiring certificates to be publicly logged to be valid it becomes trivial for domain owners to monitor all publicly valid certificates in existence for their domain(s). A CA that has been compromised or is being compelled by a government can still issue a valid certificate, but it becomes impossible to hide both that it was done and who did it.
Well you haven't. I have. Multiple documentaries I remember seeing as a kid mentioned it actually. Not just sugar but also starches.

Not sure what you mean by "the tribe's toothbrush" being passed down. You can make toothbrushes (that don't last very long) from small branches by feathering out the end. You can also use toothpicks (e.g. made from bone).

Anecdote: My dad was not really good at brushing his teeth at all. "Forgot" about it quite often. He was "always" using a toothpick though. He'd be watching TV and you'd see him poking around with his toothpick. Sitting in front of the computer doing something and he's be poking around with his toothpick etc. He never had a single filling done or any issues with his teeth whatsoever. Try it some time. When the wooden toothpick is new, it can be used to get larger sticky things out from in between your teeth, which is only a problem if you have something sticky to eat in the first place. Once the toothpick has "feathered out" naturally from that, it can be used like a mini toothbrush and you can get your teeth squeaky clean little by little. I guess it's not a 3 minute brushing ritual, more of a lazy do-something-with-your-idle-hands while doing something else but hey.
You have also had countless family members in your family tree that didn't reproduce. (Not your direct ancestors of course, but their family members.) Choosing not to reproduce is also a perfectly valid and natural choice.

Not arguing for whether you should or shouldn't, but the fact that your direct ancestors did shouldn't be the reason that you do.
I can’t name three because the first one I bought is perfect for my needs on iOS. Guitar Tuna https://apps.apple.com/us/app/guitartuna-guitar-bass-tuner/i...
For anyone deciding whether or not to read the review, this is not an accurate description of how the piece treats "work" throughout.
I guess the deeper question is why you feel you owe that to them? Would the gift of life from your ancestors be selfish if it was given to you with the assumption that you would pass on their genes? If it's a true gift to you, then they should be happy for you to use it freely in whatever way you choose.
The US is an exception in its fragmented banking system. Usually there's no conflict of legality between state and federal government, and banks are consolidated in a few big players that are pretty eager to satisfy business owners demands so having bank accounts is not usually an issue (even for somewhat-illegal or unregulated market business). Even startups nowadays are getting fast access to corporate credit cards.

But credit cards are on scope of an entirely different order of magnitude compared to a local bank checking account. Visa and Mastercard are global authorities on cashflow. And this is exactly why they're accidentally becoming regulators, they transcend the US weirdly fragmented banking system.
> For her first six weeks, she would be a Little Sister. She had to stay six feet away from people, including staff. She was not allowed to speak, except to her two Big Sisters

I feel like they're somehow violating Margaret Atwood's copyrights with the naming, nevermind the religious oppression.
I think that would be something well-adapted to our future of conserving energy. Less planned obsolescence, more maintainability. In a perfect world, we could put all our advances in the 'atom' world into appliances that make everyone's life better.

That's one reason why I really like 'simple' engineering projects that aim to translate scientific/technological advances to communities in developing countries (the good ones, there are many well-meant-but-too-high-tech projects). One of the best ones I can think of is the self-made charcoal barrel and based on that water filtration setup.
I wouldn't let my 10 year old children watch/listen to "news". That's too young for such toxic influence.
Why didn't the UK use its veto to prevent the "shackles of EU banking and financial regulation" from ever being implemented?
1980s, and I make no claim to having invented it - just that it was what I was doing, and that it worked but others hated it when they tried it out.

However, I did not hear the term spaced repetition until around 2000 or so and I realized it was very similar to what I used to do back in college.
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I wouldn't put it quite that harshly, but yea, I also think about this all the time.

I worry for my kids. I am pretty much convinced their lives will not be as good as mine, and I fear with the way a lot of things are going these days, without any serious effort in course correction...in fact quite the opposite, that at some point during their lives things will be bad, very bad.
If anyone is interested, here is a simple symbol recognizer using backpropagation I wrote in Python a while ago with the help of the book "Make your own network" by Tariq Rashid. Numpy is a great help with matrix calculations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAQyVmTDz0A
Agreed, and I like the libraries I saw in the past that deliberately only support a small subset of all XML extensions (sadly now I can't remember the names). Reducing attack surface and increasing sanity in one stroke is a policy that much more open-source software has to adopt.
From the article:

>But neighbours complain it has gotten out of control, with competing groups blasting their music over each other in small areas, and bullying those who try to intervene. Viral videos and reports have shown the groups arguing and fighting with basketball players to take over their court, or, in one case, breaking into a football field and stopping the game to dance in the space, prompting a police response and arrests.

>Some disputes have escalated to violence.

>“Most of them are the products of the Red Guard era, they don’t respect society or the environment,” said a young Chinese resident of Guiyang, who did not want to be named.

>“Square dancing is a problem left over from history. Many elderly people feel that the whole China is built by their generation. They have the absolute voice and status. We young people have done nothing, and of course are not qualified to question them.”

>“I tried to communicate with them once, but the police stopped me,” said the Guiyang man. “They thought I was going to do something bad. You know the golden rule of Chinese policy: the larger number of people matters. Everything is based on social maintenance.”

Hardly sounds like a "really good" part of culture to me.
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> That's not rhetoric. It's a real question. [...] If it was really about the environment and people's health, then they should be pushing reel mowers.

Yes, there are potential benefits to your Modest Proposal. But none of them provide any further improvement to the specific harms that the law in question explicitly seeks to reduce. Instead, you ignore those stated objectives and pretend that the law has (or should have) much broader goals, so that you can propose a much more radical alternative. And you haven't tried to explain how your proposal would be a reasonable tradeoff given its obvious and considerable downsides. You've also thrown in a bit of a straw-man ("If most lawns are small, then reel mowers are a suitable replacement as well"). I'm still not seeing a reason to take you seriously.
This conversation must happen daily on this site. Re-reading the same arguments from opposing viewpoints is really getting old. Did you want a genuine response to your question was was it inflammatory?
What would be the impact on consumer protections like chargebacks if banks were forced to process transactions they deemed to have a high risk of fraud?
That's an interesting POV.

In the US my local parks and public spaces have exercise groups (of all sorts), music events, kids activates, farmer's markets, ... events OFTEN.

The fact that there is so much space might make it seem like some are empty, but there's always something going on near me.

But it's almost never with loud music outside the dedicated music events that have spaces for just that.
The commenter to whom you are replying did not seem to misunderstand the term, they called for the use of more meaningful terms that do not rely on slang which is potentially subject to regional or experiential biases. To that point, I highly doubt that "everyone" has the same view of the word "bro" that you do. That will only become more true the further you get from America and American slang.

The fact that you felt the need to explain the term even when the person seemed to already know what you meant is an excellent example of why this terminology is unhelpful.
"erode trust" seems like a bit of an understatement. If your doctor whispers all your secrets directly to the police he quite simply becomes an enemy, instead of a (nominal) friend.
Decentralized crypto networks moved more than $10T in 2021
> I'm a little suprised to learn there's no self-reference support in protobuf, as I wouldn't have assumed parsing that would be an issue (as all it really is is a pointer to an existing object in the message to say, put a ref. to it here), though I guess it might be a problem in supporting certain languages.

That's a tradeoff more designs should have, IMO: reduce the feature set as much as possible, but in return make the implementation vastly simpler. :)

I assume it's not only about support in programming languages, but also exactly to eliminate the entire class of bugs that stems from back/forward-references in serialized data, and to generally keep the wire format as simple (to parse and to implement a parser for) as possible. The few usecases that could make use of references are not worth the pain inflicted on everyone if they were implemented.
Yup. I prefer old papers because, among other reasons, they tended to finish a line of investigation before publishing. Nowadays, due to pressure to inflate publication numbers, the same amount of research gets chopped up and spread out over 2-3 publications. It's not just 2-3 times harder to read -- it's worse because I have to keep referring between them to understand things.
I think you are missing the point, knowing is not about conviction but facts. OP put emphasis in it, he not just think he knew. If you say you know something it is expected that you have reasonable arguments and evidence to back them up. It is fine if you are wrong but if you do it without anything to show then you are just bullshitting.
> I like protobuf for some use-casess (namely grpc) but a) it's a binary format and sometimes (often times) it's nice to have a text protocol

Protobuf (and flatbuffers) supports parsing messages from JSON instead of a binary blob. Best of both worlds IMO.
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https://archive.is/JM3Eu
For sites where there is a peak usage time, it's probably obvious what that peak usage time is. A news service (their example) presumably primarily serves a country or a region - then off-peak traffic times are likely at night.

The Internet has no time zone, but its human users all do.
> If you believe that "humans are as cancer", you are as justified today as you had ever been, but as a human, forgive me for not being interested when someone who loathes my species suggests it'd be better if we died out.

Scale makes a difference. Going back centuries and millennia is not comparable when talking about problems caused simply by the numbers in existence today.

I do not think anyone is suggesting humans die out in this thread. But it is a mathematical fact that it is possible for the number of humans (or total consumption of humans) to exceed boundary conditions that would allow humans to exist in a stable environment.
Washington, DC was made a federal district so that the seat of national government would not be dependent on any particular US state for its security, but would be able to provide its own security force.

This was because the Congress had been beseiged by disgruntled citizens when it met in Philadelphia, and the state of Pennsylvania had refused to intervene.

I'm getting this from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C.#History
okay interesting observation, but why is the device bad?
I find Slackware easier to install.

There is slackpkg for package management, and sbopkg for “ports.” (What is “missing” is dependency management, which often turns out to be a blessing.)

(pkgsrc also supports Slackware.)
> For the important things (health and safety) it's never been a better time to have kids.

Last night I walked into a supermarket and in front they told me to wear a mask because of Covid delta. Then I went to a restaurant and they asked to see my vaccination card. 700,000 dead of Covid in the past 18 months in the US.

For the important things (health and safety) it's never been a better time to have kids!
It's long term impacts are completely unknown. It's a pandemic that is already endemic. It's the theft of people's livelihoods by forcing irreversible medical procedures that they've determined they don't need and wont' give their informed consent for.

To anyone still pushing vax mandates, you're a fucking monster.
> It was then that I first learned that my conscious is only a small part of my mind, and not in direct control of everything.

That's probably the craziest takeaway from these. In my experience, losing half the vision + the middle part was the most often one. However, the craziest attack was when I temporarily lost the control of speech. The mind and thoughts were there, but nothing verbally said made sense when listening to myself. I'm so glad that taking a nap was enough to resolve that...
Hopefully, someone (maybe me) will step up to plate and maintain the Debian fork of CDR tools again, for Schilling’s memory if nothing else (and to fix bugs, such as the issue with post-2027 CDR images [1] which I have already fixed).

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=990468
> What changed in Denmark between the 90s and now?

> Why do people, even in Denmark, send their kid to

> private schools if they can afford it?

I'm not speaking on behalf of the OP here, but my interpretation is that what changed _was_ people sending their kids to private schools instead of intermingling as they did before. I believe you are asking about the "why", why did they start sending them to private schools or why did they stop sending them to public or community schools.

That could be a multi-faceted answer, and it could be very difficult to pin down even what the dominant factors are. I would also like to know about Denmark.

I will add that this same problem exists in some form in my own home town, so I don't know if it's something unique to Denmark. My guess is that it's probably something to do with competition in generation from many more people consuming increasing amounts of a diminishing supply of resources.
The Washington Post has been running negative stories about Bezos and his companies for a long while. They always include the disclaimer because that's what a responsible company would do.

Sorry you felt mislead that they included it in a place you didn't appreciate, but so far it doesn't seem like they are treating him with gloves.
The Brazilian government created an instant payment system that doesn't depend on payment processors. You can send money to anyone in seconds using their tax id number or their phone numbers, it clears in seconds.

It is named PIX.

All banks implemented it, so, no matter what is your bank you're able to do payments from your smartphone using your banks app.

It is so popular and easy to use that even street merchants accept it.
The lose-your-teeth thing seems to be more of a problem for poor farmer societies. IIRC skeletons of earlier foragers mostly had good teeth.

On lifespans, expectation at birth was very different from expectation for a young adult. (The latter was still much less than now, yes.)

Similarly I think we need to know more about the distribution of good years and bad years -- when your numbers are limited by famine, which you can't really store up for, it's not strange for the good years to be relatively light on the day-to-day work needed. If this long article mentions this, I missed it in my skim.
I wonder why the frame is made out of bolted beams with holes in them, are bolts and holed beams easy to find or something?

I mean I can imagine that if you have the tools to build those, you'd have a welder as well. Granted, welding might be a bit more challenging than cutting beams and drilling holes.
This is great! Had a similar idea on my implement-someday list - in terms of file size & bloat these tracks are about 1000x more bandwidth-efficient than streaming them on YouTube which is what I think most people do for retro chiptune music.

Marketing tip, I would downplay the MIDI side of it, maybe say chiptune or retro sound synthesis or something instead - this has accurate sound-chip emulators built in, wheras MIDI files / general MIDI are historically pretty cheesy and inconsistent due to the variety of General MIDI playback devices and sound sets.
No, from the company's perspective, it is not a success. The company's purpose is to generate a return for their shareholders. In this context, that means an exit over their last valuation. Not over zero, not just good for the founders, not just what they were really worth after all, sucks to have belived the pitch deck, too bad if you invested in the last round.

The investor's initial valuation was inflated because the company failed to develop anything that would be worth an exit appropriate to that valuation.
This is organizational rot in action.

The former CEO of Honeywell is not the right guy to be at the helm. To be fair, this problem predated him. But it's just exacerbated BO becoming just another Corporate America drone factory of useless management and no leadership.

Just like Corporate America in general, risk not only isn't rewarded, it's actively punished. Barney Stinson said it best, "doing things gets you fired" [1].

I honestly think BO needs to clean house and almost start over. The culture is just bad at this point and throwing money at the problem just makes it worse.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoGwD-Ik7R8
It's baffling how anyone can simultaneously believe:

1. climate change is an existential threat to humanity

2. having one or more children is a good thing

If you believe one, you need to yield on the other. The article yields on (1) to support (2).

The thing is that (2) faces headwinds that have nothing to do with climate, namely economics. It's insanely expensive to have children. Not just the actual out-of-pocket, but also the opportunity costs, not to mention the emotional toll if the marriage becomes unstable.

Then there's the toll on children raised by people other than their parents due to the horrendous economics of both parents being at work.

So in this sense, the climate crisis as broadly defined, has a finite amount of room to run. Economics acts to cap births in developed economies. The rest of the world eventually catches up. Before you know it having a couple of kids has become a status symbol.
That a huge stretch to come to that conclusion and stereotype people like that. Humans are not at risk of going extinct from a lower reproductive rate.
It's crude oil, so this topic is a bit of a tanget. EVs will reduce consumption, but not make it zero.
Wouldn't it have been simple/easy to define a facade in front of sqlite as the standard?

Like some basic SQL select/insert/update/create table/drop table syntax and semantics? In a way such that advanced/specific features are not available in order to not be relied on and then let all browsers just use sqlite as implementation detail?
That's got to be a tough pill to swallow for a radiologist. Getting beat by a massive computing capability built over decades through millions of hours of applied human science and engineering is one thing, but a bird brain?

Pretty incredible. I wonder if you forced a radiologist to make a decision within a second or two if it would improve their scores...allowing them to rely on the instinct they've developed vs the cognitive wet blanket that factors in all of the externalities of making a decision.
The big problem with addresses and all that is the same whatever you use JSON or not (in the DB or in the app logic). I concede that using JSON in the DB and move the logic to the App is ok and in part because SQL is an incomplete language.

But that is orthogonal to move out completely to a nosql. That is going too far (in this case).
There’s a pretty simple solution there: move the fossil fuel subsidies to subsidize people directly. For instance by paying the first $N of their fuel bills (where N is determined based on something like the expected required energy for the month). This way people in smaller-than-average and more energy efficient homes don’t get slammed by high prices, but they can still save even more by reducing their energy needs.
"Before contraceptives" isn't really a thing, we have evidence of contraception methods being used from 1850BC...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control#Early_history
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It's not "bro culture" or anything "male" - it's just regular lack of leadership at the top.
> A workplace where "the guys" are loose and relaxed around each other, but when a women comes around they either tighten up around the "outsider"

You're jumping to conclusions here (relaxed guys rape women?!). A simple reason why men do that, is to avoid accusations of "bro culture" that quickly escalate towards "rape" as you did here.

On the other hand, it's obvious that any tight-knit group of people (casual or workplace) will develop its own internal jokes and other cultural artefacts. No need to attack this process wholesale as "bro culture".
Entrance is not codified in law, mostly ceremony- but it may as well be law the way our monarchy is tied to traditions

There's a commons MP for the City of London _and_ Westminster (jointly) but that arrangement is... peculiar and not like other regions of the UK at all. She doesn't officially represent the CoL from their perspective.

There _is_ a member of the House of Lords who is directly posted by CoL and his job is to prevent the erosion of rights that City of Londoners enjoy.