skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Yes, many older truckers retired instead of dealing with COVID. This applies to many other sectors, most notably in my area school bus drivers. Other countries (notably, UK and EU fuel truck drivers) are also facing shortages of truck drivers. Nursing, retail, hospitslity have all been in the news recently for the same issue. Recent reports show 12 million open positions and only 8 million people seeking employment (estimsted, of course)

- physical layout only allows for so much throughput at a time. The bigger the jam, the longer it'll take to clear

- yes and no. Rail doesn't (directly) go to most places, and those that it could, often don't have distribution logistics in place from the customers since they already have their chain configured for trucks

- it is a net loss all around for everyone. Any higher prices on goods are offsetting losses from reduction in volume. Theres no evil fairy tale villain to blame.
Camera + beefy computer + input device, maybe an external motor based thing if controllers are crypto locked by manufacturers in the console case.

Even if you made a specialized item it would still cost a lot mostly due to the ML requirements. Maybe smartphone + a specialized input device would reduce the 'cost', but you still need to buy a several hundred dollar cell phone.
What are the top three Postgres configurations Otter changes? e.g. parameter x from y to z
That's a very difficult balance as an author writing a project-based book for a language. It's really difficult to know how much time to spend where: the language (Rust), the projects background (gamedev patterns) or the project code.
> Btw, that anyone needs to see studies to be convinced men has significant advantage in sports over women is already a sad sign of common sense often being lost nowadays.

I for one appreciate data, even if it's obvious to others that are more familiar with the sport. It's interesting to me to see exactly the % difference rather than just intuitively noticing that there is a difference.

Also, women do dominate some sports.

For example, woman dominate ultra-long distance open water swimming (marathon swimming):

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/marathon-swimming...

> women hold 14 of the longest 23 current neutral endurance records

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/why-women-have-be...

> the best women per year were 12-14% faster than the best men

Just focusing on the narrow selection of swimming on TV I would have assumed that men are always faster than women at swimming, which isn't the case.

Common sense will get you pretty far, but it shouldn't be the final verdict.
> It really is hard sometimes, to not just withdraw into a shell of isolation and decide "fuck it, this world is too damned stupid for me to bother with."

In moderation, I think this is actually the correct response. Unless you live in Missouri, who cares what stupid things the Governor of Missouri says?

In a previous era, you never would have heard about this story at all. It's just a politician in a minor state trying to score some political points. It's very unlikely they'll actually charge the reporter with anything, much less convince a jury to convict.

In today's connected world, it's easy to get news from anywhere at anytime and be outraged. Sometimes you just have to ignore it for your own sanity.
It applies even more outside of a courtroom. Most people get information via very agenda-driven news articles, and not having "making sense of weird situations" as their day job, they're even more likely to be misled than judges.

At least a court has lots of rules built in to try and provide some amount of fairness to both sides in a debate. The political and public sphere has no such rules, making it even more vulnerable to such railroading.
This isn't about recycling, but REUSE, and extending the life of a computer instead of pulling another one out of the supply chain and all of the consequences which follow.
You see this same model with legacy enterprise software and other long tail recurring revenue soures. You largely give up on growth, but drop costs to near zero if you can and buyout based on the tail that will stick for a while.

Sure, it's a dynamic that makes a whole bunch of things terrible. Local news indeed has lost money-making potential and this approach makes sense economically. But the dynamic you describe essentially "zombifies" a whole bunch of enterprises, which in turn makes them fragile and we can see the results today.

And yeah, it's not shortsightedness on the part of a single investor, it's shortsightedness on the part of this society.
Nah. SUVs above a certain weight pay less taxes [0], that's why automakers aggressively marketed them for decades and finally managed to convince Americans that SUVs are cool.

[0]: https://www.irs.gov/publications/p946
Common mistakes by indie game developers
The kids got used to masks ... and that is it. They are "strapped" as much as on adults meaning like wearing a scarf or shirt.
websites attempting to poorly comply with cookie banners and other GDPR regs that block a site from working without accepting something. I just display:none the offending elements and then remove the overflow:hidden. Disabling JS usually works, but sometimes the images in the page are lazy loaded via JS and will not load without.
I don't think you're coming out of this looking too great, either. After finding the vulnerability, you then exploited it to gain an advantage, in addition to reporting it.
> This was also the era of when the news would run phone polls on whether the Internet should be allowed or not.

Given the way things are going, perhaps we should revisit this decision. It seems that there's a population that isn't quite ready for this level of access to [mis]information.
I appreciate these points, especially about the chain of dependent probabilities. Things can become much less likely depending on many different variables and such.

I guess for me, and maybe for the person with the grandma as well, emotions sway my perception of how risky something is or not, especially with covid. While my mom was going thru chemo, I was already worried that she might die from cancer, and then more so that I would bring a regular flu to her when she was immunocompromised and accelerate that process. Covid-19 stopped me in my tracks, a level of fear I can't recall feeling, that just by being in the same room with my mom and having conversation with her, I could possibly cause her death.

If a grandma of mine were to die from a broken hip, which is probably much more statistically likely than covid-19, I most certainly wouldn't feel as much anger towards myself and regret as if she would die from covid-19 and I had thought I gave it to her.

When my parents got vaccinated, I felt a huge relief, knowing that their probability of dying seemed to drop even more than where it was, almost to zero (I believe), which I probably had originally exaggerated due to fear, and yet, almost all of that fear disappeared for me.

I guess if anything, this thread has helped me pause and reflect on just how much my own emotional state can influence how I see risk, both amplifying or minimizing it away from its more mathematical reality. Thank you for helping me realize this.
Depends on your bank.

One large bank I do business with doesn't care, or recognizes that pre-'rona I used to do a lot of international travel.

Another large bank I do business with locks me out if I'm on VPN.

I also suspect it has to do with bank balances. The more money I have in my accounts, the better customer service I get, even to the point of them answering the phone more quickly.

It also seems to help to have a business account with a bank, too. I get all kinds of free perks on my personal accounts with the bank I do my business banking with.
Y'all are going to prison now, I hope it was worth it! =]
Do you have sources for this? Here in El Salvador we have highways without lamps, streets that drivers treat as highways, crosswalk where you cannot longer see the painting.

I guess you're referring to the U.S., right?
If people were starving on the streets due to a shortage of food then yes, states could activate the national guard for help.

However getting your new iPhone a couple of days late doesn't constitute such an emergency.
ELI5: why not pay more per hour for drivers to get more drivers?
and pass on the costs leading to inflation.
This has a rather deep philosophical basis.
Ok? The blogger wasn't a Brit.
That's a long time if they're actually working to rehabilitate prisoners.
I don't think they had the IQ in the first place.

More than half of sampled Maps couldn't calculate the probability of two heads in a row from a fair coin
Just think how much trouble we would have saved if only we'd been able to call Mussolini a Fascist in the 30s.
That’s a neat idea for an accessory. I bet you could make a little stick-on or clip-on light pipe that redirects the built-in flash to a tiny ring diffuser around the macro lens.
It’s different and each has its own qualities.

I noticed it during my vacation in Italy. Yeah, I still run around with a big mirrorless camera with a huge zoom lens (Fujifilm’s weird X-H1 absolutely no one bought but I still love very much with the very large and heavy 16-55 mm F2.8 lens) and I’m sure I will only use its photos for my 2022 week calendar or whatever else photo projects I will do – but the photos from my iPhone still provided an instant satisfying value in the way in which they are instantly and easily shareable and just immediately can populate my digital live (even if I have the huge camera with me – which I don’t always have!).

These are two different ways of using photography and both are valid. More importantly, both benefit from any new capabilities you gain.

I guess what I want from my Fuji is to integrate itself more tightly and easily with my smartphone, something they really suck at. And I want my smartphone to be good enough in more situations. Like macro photography.

And the weird thing about macro is that even if you do have a big camera and great lenses (I have the 35mm F1.4, 23mm F1.4, 16-55mm F2.8 and I sometimes rent the 90mm F2.0) you might not prioritize macro photography, so if you just get a new thing that’s pretty good at it that just very cool to play around with. And I don’t think your sneering attitude is justified …
Two things popped out to me, under the disclosure requirements section:

> c. Digital tokens that are earlier in the life cycle, and not yet decentralized, should have a minimum set of disclosures.

This seems odd to me, because aren't tokens "earlier in the life cycle" full of scams and dishonesty? Shouldn't the disclosure requirements be higher?

> d. Asset-backed tokens, like stablecoins [...] require a different type of disclosure. The disclosures should be appropriate to how they are being used, which is inherently different from money market funds.

Disclosures "appropriate to how they are being used" seems like it could easily be interpreted as "whatever the stablecoin provider thinks is appropriate." In any case, since stablecoin providers promise a specific amount of value in assets for every coin, they should require full transparency to ensure that value actually exists.

Overall, this piece seems like a clear attempt at bypassing regulation, instead of actually trying to obey the existing regulations. The question I have is "what problems do you have with the existing regulations", and I suspect the answer is "because we would be caught doing shady shit."
I recently heard (second hand, so take with some salt) that there are two causes of problems:

First, California passed a law that trucks had to be newer than 10 years, or else face an expensive refit for pollution control. (At least, I think it was pollution control.) Point is, the average truck was 14 years old. The obvious-in-retrospect consequence is a shortage of trucks that can legally work in California.

Second, there was this recent law that required Uber to treat drivers as employees, not contractors. Well, a lot of the truck drivers are owner-operators, and they fell under that law. The consequence: You can't just contract with an owner-operator to move your container.

As I said, I don't know any of this first-hand, so take with some salt.
We probably should have built more nuclear plants, but it's too late now. Any plants we started planning today would not come on line for 10-20 years. In the meantime, renewable energy is cheaper, simpler, and quicker; any money we might be able to spend developing additional nuclear plants would be put to better use developing more wind, solar, and long-distance transmission infrastructure.
Raymond's comment about not being able to find the collision code is a bit absurd. I can't recall if Danny or I named the top-level collision detection function, but it was just named 'pb_collide'.

It's nice to be able to point to this line: https://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball/blob/5947727f80...

And, while it is true that the code is sparsely commented, the geometry code that computes ray intersections is commented.
The National Guard Transportation Corps does have units qualified to load and unload container ships that can be called up in the event of a true emergency, but I doubt this qualifies. They still have regular full-time jobs. The active duty military can't be used for something like this unless we're actually at war.

Of course, me saying I "doubt" this qualifies is a personal opinion. As far as I know, it's pretty much up to the governor of each state to decide what counts as an emergency worthy of activating the Guard. I don't think it's ever been done as a response to somewhat higher than average inflation rates, though. It's usually natural disasters and long-running riots that the police can't control.
Is prosecuting reporters not, like, definitionally fascist?
Content does not exist
There's a limit to how closely I want insurance companies (or any companies, really) to monitor me. Virtually sitting in the car with me is one of those limits.
Just hope you never need to get someone over the phone to visit slashdot
I believe I saw it once, at the beach looking out on the ocean. It was very brief and a long time ago.
I forget where I learned VSE, sadly, but came here to say that Blenders video editor is not so bad, if:

a) You want to assemble only rendered footage. If you have real footage, well the greenscreen node is actually good, but for color grading DaVinci or Premiere are more advanced (though you can get a lot done in Blender here as well if you fiddle with the right nodes compositor).

b) You can accept some limits wrt adding text overlays. There is no simple way of doing that like in P or DV. But: You can trick with preparing some .png's and fade these in and out (which works but limits you on the effects), or add the text during render, but that limits you on flexibility (someone needs a text change in last second, yay!).

But I think you can go with basically any tutorial you find, it is not complicated in general. And a lot of your general blender knowledge transfers to VSE, which is a huge bonus in comparison to learn DaVinci or Premiere (which are monsters, crashy monsters).
It wasn't just plan details though... They accessed names, SSNs, etc.
> I realize that I still believe in the basic strength of the US democratic system: it will survive whoever wins the presidential election, for example.

Will it? It barely survived 4 years of Trump. If he gets another crack at it he'll know exactly where to strike to bring it down.
Depending on how cheap your friends are, they might not have effective backups because they wont spend money for the iCloud space to have enough space for their backups in the first place.
I was hoping to read something about the crimes the US government has committed (of which there are an endless list) or another reason to feel a deep regret and bitterness at being betrayed by the country, but it's just banking and tax annoyances.
The states Chief Information Security Officer left the post on Friday
https://www.govtech.com/workforce/missouri-ciso-stephen-meye...
didnt see anyone mention that elsewhere in relation to this story.

getting a 403 here without a vpn, but
https://cybersecurity.mo.gov/
doesn't look like its been updated since 2018
The last CISO left in 2018 (~3months after the current governor took office), and the current ciso was appointed by interim then
https://www.govtech.com/blogs/lohrmann-on-cybersecurity/miss...
Some investments would turn out to be scams and the cheated would decry the lack of oversight, so rigorous oversight is what they got —- since you’re not rich enough to handle risk, we’re going to prevent you from taking any at all. So yeah, the rich get rich and remain unchallanged, while the common folk is protected from scams. Perhaps not a conspiracy per se, but the good ol bureaucratic status quo.
Is dual citizenship any help with this issue?

Say you're a dual US / German citizen. Will that help a German bank more easily bank with you? Do you even have to disclose to the bank that you're a dual citizen, or can you simply present yourself as a German citizen?
Obviously, if a developer sees it as "deal with the configuration" then no, go with macOS, Windows or any other zero-config operating systems. But many see that part as a feature, not something to "deal with", and for those Linux is rescue in a sea of the infantilization Apple and Microsoft engage with.
Even when a "version jumping" upgrade is allowed, I usually do them in order, unless I'm going from LTS to LTS.
I had my Amex card cancelled for "non-payment," even though I paid.

Then a month later, Amex mailed me a check for the money I paid because it had no account to credit it to, because it cancelled the account.
Major drawbacks are closed-source applications intended for RedHat. These might work with some kind of binary emulation, but the vendor will never support it.

My focus would be database. Microsoft's binary ODBC libraries and Oracle Instant Client are Linux binaries. FreeTDS and Oracle SQLcl/JDBC are options on a BSD, but there are drawbacks, as there likely would be with any binary packages.

I know that both RedHat and Oracle will migrate an installed CentOS to their platforms (RedHat does it more violently, by replacing every installed package). Alma & Rocky might also be migration options.
Introduction to Hybrid Numbers: A new non-commutative number system
Funny -- I presented a paper at that very same conference! Mine was 2011-01-0755.

The money shot is here. Note that '5.5 kg/ton' refers to the rolling resistance of the tire.

> At this point the 5.5 kg/ton value is still only a design target, and this study serves mainly to confirm the environmental value of achieving that target.

Essentially, this conclusion is tautological. "If there were a tweel that had better rolling resistance than the best pneumatic tire on the market, then it will have a better fuel economy and environmental impact." Obviously!

I seriously doubt Michelin's tweel is anywhere close to that 5.5 kg/T mark. It's more likely something like 12 kg/T.

The purpose of this particular paper is not to show that tweels are better environmentally, it is to show an analytical framework for calculating the full-lifecycle environmental impact of tweels vs tires. Sort of like a "here are the equations, plug in real numbers later" kind of thing.
Borrowing Chinese money to outspend China?
They all borrow one from Slackware Linux.
I haven't run into much trouble, though maybe I just got lucky with Nordea.
Not true. Someone could take an image that I've created, stick it on a server, create an NFT with a URL pointing at it, then sell it. Likewise, others, including me, could then create an NFT with a URL that points at that piece of data. The original creator (me in this situation) wouldn't have created the 'original' NFT.

NFTs don't solve counterfeiting when anybody can create a 'counterfeit' at any time.
I've upgraded from 18.04 in the past, but via intermediary LTS releases (i.e. 20.04). Going all in one step is not possible IMO.

Also note that Ubuntu LTS releases only do upgrades after the first point release of a new version. You won't be upgraded to 21.10 until it hits 21.10.1.

[edit] Apparently the holdout until point release .1 only applies to LTS versions:

> Upgrades from one LTS to the next LTS release are only available after the first point release. For example, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS will only upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS after the 20.04.1 point release. [https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/upgrade-introduction]
Did that IT manager ever apologize for accusing you of being the problem?
Great question. Skimming through the Spherical Earth page on Wikipedia I don't see it, though it could conceivably be among the phenomena listed by e.g. Strabo and not enumerated there.
To anyone. Also, the Board of Regents is elected.
The probability of a prosecutor filing charges decreases significantly if the victim does not want a case to go forward, and even more if they actively do not want to cooperate with the court case.
As a foreigner, who has lived in the US for ~9 years, I can say that I mostly admire the "sane" patriotic spirit that most Americans have ("not sane" would be the racist, xenophobic type, which I instead condemn).

Your points about where money is spent still stands; but I don't think it makes Americans less patriotic.

You might also be true that they are "a very confused tribe", but rest assured that most people in the world think the same about their people.
Cheers! I appreciate the constructive feedback.

> It seems like you're suggesting we all revert to subsistence living by growing our own food on little family farms or something.

Ah, no, not at all. I do think we should integrate natural systems into our homes and cities to a much greater degree. E.g. Village Homes, urban Permaculture, Integral Urban House, food forests, etc.

> Village Homes is a planned community in Davis, Yolo County, California. It is designed to be ecologically sustainable by harnessing the energies and natural resources that exist in the landscape, especially stormwater and solar energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_Homes

"Urban Permaculture with Geoff Lawton" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qXgbrIYcFE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Urban_House

"Amazing 23-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest - An Invitation for Wildness" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GJFL0MD9fc

I also think we should try to live within our "solar budget", the incoming solar energy per m², rather than burning fossil fuels. However, I hope clean atomic power becomes available too. (And rockets.)

> Modern civilization has led to an unprecedented quality of life for a larger portion of the human population than ever before in recorded history.

I agree, but it's not without its discontents, eh? When I said "Civilization as we know it is a kind of hypnotic trance." I wasn't referring to the technology, rather to the cultural influences that keep us from applying science and technology to make our civilization work in harmony with Nature instead of against it.

> Put another way, humans prefer to reduce their current misery than ensure all the future's climate issues are solved.

That's my point: we can reduce misery and solve our climate issues. It's the same solution, eh? Living in harmony with nature feels great! It's fun and fulfilling. I don't want to go backwards to some previous harsh lifestyle, I want to go forwards to a better (technological) civilization. (For example, the folks in the "Amazing 23-Year-Old Permaculture Food Forest" video above seem pretty happy and fulfilled and they haven't turned their backs on the benefits of modern civilization, eh?)

Ecology is a science, after all. We can apply what we've learned about how natural systems work to improve our civilization. We can reduce misery, increase happiness, protect and even increase biodiversity, solve our climate problems, all by application of ecology.

My puzzle is why don't we? What's preventing the rapid and widespread application of ecological knowledge and practice?