skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A relative of mine ends _all_ of his whatsapp messages with ellipsis, often multiple ellipsises per message. Drives me insane, I don't even understand what he's trying to express with these. He's also innovating by using the half-ellipsis: only 2 full stops rather than 3, which is even more efficient to produce confusion.
Contextual ads were generating revenue before google had access to every single http request
Japan's private rail system is sometimes characterized as a real estate development scheme with a railroad attached.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2012-05-18/the-secre...

>That's the most of any private railway in Japan, as of 2006, according to Calimente. That year Tokyu generated $2.63 billion in revenue en route to $587 million in profits. Rail fares brought in about a third of that figure, real estate holdings reap another third, and retail about a fifth.

Even in a highly managed economy, private or semi-private rail may be able to compete under the right circumstances.
Possibly true now, but not in Roman times- cave-ins are more dangerous than angry draft animals.
Clearly writing stuff was so much effort for them that they/you couldn’t be bothered to comment the code/document/make a good commit message.
I am the opposite of you. I live in NYC and my parents in Boston, and I take the train all the time.

Flying is very unpleasant, as you still have to deal with getting in and out of airports, the whole stay in the TSA line, remove your shoes and belt thing. You are completely omitting the security crap you have to deal with air travel.
Meanwhile the train trip starts and ends in downtown. (I live in manhattan and can just walk to the train station).

Also, just the taxi fare from JFK to Manhattan is about 70+ tips. Sure, you can take the subway ($8), but that will add another 1hr to your trip.
Huh. A lot of Bank Python sounds eerily similar to Zope related tech:

'Barbara' (which I suspect is JP Morgan's Hydra) sounds like a brutalist version of the ZODB created with scalability in mind.

The hierarchical overlays sound like Zope's Acquisition and Containment.

Even storing (and running) code in the object database has it's equivalent in Zope's Python Script Objects.
The lottery approach pissed me off so bad, I decided to leave Scaleway altogether. They also aren’t upfront about their contingents. I wanted to try out an M1 instance and before registering and putting my credit card info in, it seemed like it’d be all fine, I just have to put in cc info. I did, they told me there are no instances available. The fair way would be to be upfront about it in my opinion.
What is your opinion of Bill Nye? He's been anti-nuke since BNtSG.
If thats all a person can do would you rather them sit on a couch and live off of/depend on the state? No it's not a super fun existence and that's what my life was like right after high school in the early college years.

The real problem comes in when someone in that situation gives up and does nothing.
This ZOE business is something else. Their website is 75% building up their credentials, 25% promoting their app and 0% substance, e.g. what the actual formulas are or a link to code and data dumps. Or at least a research publication with some details. Perhaps there is a link hidden somewhere, but neither their Home, About or FAQ point to it.

They literally changed their formula because the trends in the unvaccinated population didn't to conform to their prior biases. Though the formula details are still a mystery.

"Last week, we reported a plateau in new COVID cases based on our methods at the time, which relied on a small number of unvaccinated people in our dataset compared with the wider UK population. The number of daily new cases in the unvaccinated group appeared to be dropping which in turn resulted in our overall numbers trending down. This meant the figures were accurate to our dataset but didn’t represent the full picture in the UK."

https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/covid-estimates-updated-vacci...

I'll grant that UK has no vaccine mandates (including for kids!) and none of the craziness. Have a great one!
Update last night updated Outlook's UI, now the top bar is taking up way too much vertical space that I had to configure ribbon to autohide to not have 20% of vertical space eaten up. Just adds on to start bar being stuck at bottom as opposed to the left where I liked it. No respect for vertical space
It pains me to see how far Firefox has fallen. It's still a pretty good browser overall, it's a shame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...

The first sentence of the first article:

> All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

You're complicating things. I believe in republicanism (ie. not monarchy), freedom, equality, etc... The existence of a monarchy means we aren't born with equal rights and dignity.
cool, we also implement the bitmap on mysql with the similar way.
Does anyone know if this dorm has the simulated window feature that the UCSB dorm has? No mention of it in the reviews that I can find so I'm guessing not. Either way, I wonder how far that goes to addressing the downside of no windows?
3) It is fine with a slightly uneven production of hydrogen as it only means you have to build up a buffer of it for sustained usage. This means it is ideal for hydrogen produced by wind and solar power.
Old normal is gone and will never come back - instead we are building a new normal, but it will take at least another year or two to solidify. It probably will be similar to what we had before. It's kind of like after 9/11 - we wanted things back to normal, too, but that old normal never returned.
The thing is, it’s not that old to be so obsolete to not be a pile of vulnerabilities/lack of advanced feature that actually provide an attack surface, but it is old enough that one should simply not run it.

I have nothing against running lynx where you don’t even have js support.
Many comments also seem to be grounded in the false notions that running a store is easy and inexpensive.
Of course. If you want to have his vision of a building where students are forced to spend 90% of their waking hours in mixed spaces, and have all of those spaces in the same floor, and have windows in every room, you need to have two students per room.

If you go for a traditional design that isn't trying to force students into mixed spaces that are inside the same floor, but instead placing these mixed spaces inside different floors or different buildings, you can have every room in the same building.
Dialup will perform terribly now over international and long distance -- our voice is compressed and converted to voice over IP for travel internationally. That's great for voice, it's terrible for modems. International ISDN might still work, but most circuits even if they are supposed to work are being discontinued.

Make sure you have shortwave radio and know frequencies for things like BBC, that will give you general information on what's going on across the country if nothing else.

Be aware even if you have internet access, not many people in country do, so things you read will likely be exaggerated rumours at best. It's this sort of environment that things like genocide can thrive.

The best bet would be something like an inmarsat bgan, which do work, and are fairly small, but obviously aren't cheap.
> One of the big surprises for us was that the gains column was significantly longer and more robust than the losses column.

Most of the purported gains are matters of freedom, whereas most of the losses are matters of life and death.

I don't know how dogs themselves would rank freedom against life if asked about it, but even humans often trade quite a lot of freedom for a hint of food and safety. Nobody has a right to tell other people to risk a much, much higher chance of death in pursuit of someone else's ideal of freedom. When you do it to humans, that's called a cult. I wonder why anyone thinks dogs will be okay with it.
The article mentions that UCSB essentially runs its own separate building department. Guess what, that department answers to the same idiot who decides whether to accept billion $ gifts from other idiots. Et voilà!
It's not as though they won't ever see the sun, they just need to leave their room, its SoCal ffs

They will be living in a vibrant college community, with common areas, beaches, parks, libraries etc...

I've lived in a room with a Window against a brick wall in NYC.
Offline Linux Minecraft launcher in pure Bash for standard and Forge versions
A bit off-topic, but how did the city cope with the mine closure and loss of so many jobs?
and most datacenters are. A lot of accounting is. PR mostly is.
They are just working two jobs.
> And I refuse solutions that involve limiting population (i.e. genocide),

What's your limit on population growth? When we all have one square meter of space? Is that when it should stop? I'm really curious to know where you draw the line.
This https://twitter.com/Merocle/status/1407684311344730117 is quite a nice approach, albeit using a CM4.
Christopher Alexandar listed IIRC "light on two sides of a room" as a design pattern.

He also went into detail about the need for "intimacy gradient" in housing designs -- another design pattern.

Room for tradeoffs.

If you want to talk about harm reduction, he also suggested a case against high-rises with million-dollar views. Apparently above the ca 12th floor or so, occupants mental health began to suffer. Perhaps too removed from ground-level experience.
Well, as much as some of the (usual) points make sense about Amtrak sharing rail unreliably, the role of subsidies (hidden or overt) compared to other modes, I find that stories like this miss a fundamental truth / constraint that I have come to believe.

For better or worse, we have a country that is in its middle age of infrastructure and people. We are a rich country with established interests and property rights where land for railroads can no longer be just appropriated or bought cheaply to reconfigure a rail system. We have people who can pay to have individual transportation and not have to put up with the minor inconveniences of public transport. We have all the debt of a middle aged country, plus we need to think of our other healthcare expenses in middle age, and don't have the appetite to pay for another muscle car from our youth.

All these reasons make investing in rail a relatively expensive proposition compared to alternatives, and not only that, but it's especially expensive because of our high wages, standards of construction, environmental reviews, etc. So we stop investing in it.

By the way, what happens along with this? When you get into this phase of a country, your engineering capabilities change, and specifically, your ability to even build these systems even starts to degrade and fall out of practice.

Take rail, or any heavy construction/engineering industry. People working in such a field join it to have exciting careers, see growth, etc. Generally few people join just to maintain a static system. Unfortunately, there's much less excitement in being "maintenance" although some people are quite innovative even in such fields.

So where you used to have a cohort of thousands of people trained and skilled at all aspects of rail building (engineering, operations, finance, project management, etc), now those people have either consolidated to the few projects remaining in the US (traveling around, moving cities to where the work is), work for Parsons or others who can aggregate enough work to keep a team together, or aged out, attrited away, gone to where the actual business is booming: Asia.

You think about how in the US, if you had to get together the expert team to build a new rail connecting 2 cities, you would have to search far and wide to find the people qualified, and pay them huge contractor sums. Not only that, they would be out of practice of how to pitch such a deal to the cities and the people along the route. Everything would have to be done custom.

In China, just to take an example, there are (up until just recently) 10,000 rail engineers who stamp out such a rail every goddamn month. How can you compete with a country that's in such a growth phase, unless somehow your country has an active strategy about how to renew itself in middle age?

It's a problem. A very hard to solve problem, deeper than just rail schedules or simple subsidies.
For a bit of info on why it is often faster, you can look at https://github.com/AsyncBanana/microdiff/issues/2. I will probably add something to the README about that soon too.
If you are in a new relationship with management and they are already hitting you with vague "let's talk" statements, you are pretty much guaranteed that they are bad communicators and that you won't be able to glean much of anything from what they say to you.
It's very interesting to think about how the data structure and API of the app interacts with its social function. How you organize the messages, what ways you can reply to people, what options you give to who. It feels like we've only begun to explore the possibilities.
What did you do and what did they get you for can be wildly different questions and realities.

Unsolicited personal advice: The latter opens more doors of meaningful conversation, the former can slam those doors before you can walk through them.
Somewhat tangentially, I watched a recent Not Just Bikes YouTube video that discusses the merits of commuter rail [1]. The video is obviously trying to discourage infrastructure that supports car-based suburbs, but another point came out that struck me: commuter rail is very expensive infrastructure with very low utilization, say 4 incoming trains in the morning and 4 outgoing trains in the evening. Any public transportation option needs to be compared against the default choice of "run more buses," which it turns out is pretty hard to beat in terms of cost-effectiveness.

[1] https://youtu.be/vxWjtpzCIfA
Im really surprised that there is no "Train Ferry" -- A train that one drives their car onto and takes the train across country/states and then disembarks with their car...

I used to take the train very often from sacramento to the bay area... It was clean, has wifi, quiet, power, drinks, food...

It was a great commute - but the prices are still too high...
There are basically two modes of operation where trains can really be competitive:

a. Suburban-to-city center commuter trains stopping every two miles or so, vacuuming up all the people from the suburbia that want to get to the city without the hassle of endless traffic jams. These need a certain density of the suburbs, so that the stops make sense and the train is "just full", but not absurdly crammed.

b. High speed connections between metropolitan areas, like Madrid-Barcelona, Tokyo-Kyoto, Köln-Frankfurt etc. Usually, at least a million people must live on either end of the connection.

One of the problems is that these two services need separate tracks. Suburban commuter trains are much slower on average than high speed trains and they cannot share the same track, unless you want to risk chaos every day.

Unfortunately, few densely inhabited places in the U.S. have space left for so many tracks, especially in the wider city centers. A potential renaissance of rail travel in the U.S. would likely require underground tunnels. Which is possible (see London's Crosslink project), but not exactly cheap.
Yeah for a site that used to pride itself on nuanced conversation they've decided this is something too dangerous to discuss. The obsession amongst educated elites when it comes to second order effects of speech is really disgusting.
Are you really that desparate to dive into a war, it sounds like you have a choice?
No, that is the language of somebody who does not need or want to speak differently than he thinks. And there is no hint that he does not understand the criticism he dismisses with his own good reasons.

Although, yes, that «Everybody who sees the models goes ape-shit for them» sounds a bit odd, off expected statistics.
I’m not really a fan of agile but I like the simplicity of OKRs if done well. It’s not easy and time consuming like you mention. My guess is it rarely gets done correctly.

One of the main benefits of OKRs imo is helping each person understand where they fit into the big objective. I don’t see the value in management using them to set lofty goals or push their team.

In threads that complain about work, I see a lot of comments about a desire for ownership of their work. OKRs can play a role in describing a persons ownership.
Those pods are the dumbest invention that consumers have fallen for. Pouring powder from the box works much better for cleaning because you want some washing soda in the pre-wash as well as the main wash. Pour some in the compartment that closes and some on the door, or the little compartment that automatically leaks onto the door. Dishwashing pods are a total scam and they clean dishes less well than pouring powder for 8x the cost and a worse environmental impact.
It's funny to see so much serious conversation on this. On my team we always take the opportunity to roast the "see me after class" pair because 99% of the time it's unintentional and everyone does it at some point.
That last sentence is inspiring.
Pop _OS to use it own desktop environment, written in Rust
As a recent Mazda buyer, absolutely love the Mazda approach. The physical interface makes sense to me. The buttons feel right and work with a near-perfect springiness.
https://www.amtrak.com/auto-train
and no money to sustain itself
There is no fancy Latin name for the error of giving known liars the benefit of the doubt, but there should be. Google has been caught with their hand in the cookie jar, and your protestations that you work in a different department provide negative reassurance.
For example, you can read the cache configuration from CPUID and the different cores have different cache sizes. You can also detect hyperthreading using CPUID.
As a general rule of thumb, this is a truth worth remembering about online fora in general:

In general, the voices with the most power aren't the most correct; they're the boxes with the most time (leisure or paid) to dedicate to being online.
Mod support via Workshop is pretty sweet, too. I don't use mods much but when I do, and the game supports it, workshop makes it incredibly easy to plug an go.
previously,
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1964060

correct link, http://cam.ly/blog/2010/12/code-fearlessly/
Trust alone isn't enough to make a cryptic message not cryptic. I can 100% trust someone, but still be scared when they send cryptic messages like that. With a cryptic message, you won`t be able to predict what they are going to say, and they still might have to deliver bad news like "X has been fired", "X has passed away", "there was a critical failure in product Y", "our department has been having financial problems and we will have to layoff you and your team"... Not to mention the asymmetric power relationship, which exists regardless of trust.
Try reading "Panic Free" by Tom Bunn. It approaches the fear of flying from a psychological perspective, has concrete cookbook style suggestions, and definitely appealed to the engineer in me.
Lots of drinking and a significant loss of younger population that went to study elsewhere and never returned. A sad sight.

The environment is much better, though. The air is mostly clean, while it smelled like burnt tires in my childhood.
What are copyright strikes, then?
Can you imagine - college students on the streets? This isn’t the usual detritus that ends up homeless, we’re talking about actual humans here!
The only thing making me want to upgrade my mostly fine Pixel 3 is a better camera, actually. While the quality of photos is still decent, it can't compete with newest models.
fizzix_is_fun does a really good job laying out flaws in the reasoning that Elmar puts forward. The remarkable thing is that it's not just Elmar -- the Helion website seems to be the source of some them.
You can’t figure out why he’d personally rather be a billionaire and not be liked by everyone vs. not have any money? Which would you prefer?

The people who are so negative about this are completely unrealistic. UCSB is putting students in off-campus hotels right now. There is an incredible housing shortage. Munger is taking a very tangible step to fix it. Some students there live in their cars (plenty of windows, I suppose) Give me a break.
If you have further questions ask them and I can see about writing a full blog post which touches on everything I know.
That makes sense I guess.

Assume enough energy is supplied to charge the batteries. So lets say we want 1kWh during 4 hours, that puts our capital cost at 4 kWh*200$/kWh = 800$. Now we assume this system runs every day for 4 hours during ten years. Ten years sounds reasonable, but it could be less. 7 years maybe? So about 1kWh*365,25*10=14610kWh in total. That gives us 800$/14610kWh = 0,0548$/kWh or 54,8 $/MWh in 2030 if I didn't make a major mistake somewhere and assuming no efficiency losses. That's pretty good.
To track from impression to purchase you would probably be using one 3rd party service. Google has the best capabilities but you are still relying on them to not have any vulnerabilities and their incentives of selling adds and verifying them for you aligned.
Thanks for your interest! Currently, Microdiff does not have a patching functionality by default, and the API is different. If there is enough interest, though, I might make a compatibility layer to ease the differences, and it probably would not be hard to do yourself too.
What I don't get when people say "the blockchain" is: which one are they talking about? And how do we know this chain will still be around in a few years? And how do we know it won't fork? How do you know if an NFT certifying someone as having ten years of experience as a chef at a five-star restaurant is trustworthy? We can already buy fake paper certificates for nearly anything and this sounds even worse!

NFTs are magic internet beans that don't solve any problem they themselves didn't create.
Not just the browser. They also own text search, video search and display advertising.
I'm not certain that is actually correct. The biggest steel maker here in Sweden is in early stages of replacing coal with hydrogen in their new production chains they are building, based on wind power. The really good part is that it is a consumption of electricity that is pretty resilient against varying production volumes, which make it pretty ideal for renewables.

The same logic could very well work with fertilizer.
Const Generics in Rust
Maybe this happens in the US.

Here (Italy, but I believe that several EU countries are in this same situation) they won't touch an electric vehicle with a ten foot pole.

They are not authorized to handle or store lithium batteries (that are considered dangerous wastes) and don't have the (safety) qualifications nor tools to handle mid-range voltages.

There are in the making some new EU norms (and investments) related to "circular economy" for the EV batteries:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_...

but right now they are e-waste, the so-called RAEE/WEEE, and while there is a code 160005 (that is for batteries coming from phones, notebooks, etc.) EV batteries are likely to fall in the 160215 code (which is dangerous parts removed from assemblies).

We are talking (if you can find anyone that will dismantle them) of roughly 4/5 Euro/kg for the disposal fees.
Doesn't really strike me as the opposite. If the GP post is talking about being on time for specific meetings and you are talking about visiting family, you're optimizing for different objectives.

Personally, I use the train vs fly to NY from BOS depending on my objective.
The people capable of tracking starlink terminals (assuming they are camoflagued enough so they aren't visible from the street) are unlikely to be too concerned with an average person, they've got bigger fish to fry.
my father was in sewage treatment - at least then, and according to him, metals were really the problem.