skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your examples are all commercial trucks, not personal cars.

If so many individual people across America didn't need to own multiple cars to commute long distances to work every day, and could simply take decent government subsidized public transportation, or ride their bike safely on well designed ubiquitous bike paths, like I can where I live in Amsterdam, then the world would be a much better place.

Just as the world would be a better place if cryptocurrency's shrill shills and speculating "investors" didn't gamble their money and buy their drugs by burning huge quantities of coal.

There are much more efficient heath-friendly and eco-friendly ways of gambling money and buying drugs than by burning coal to mine cryptocurrency.
My landlord demands cashier's checks or money orders. It is really annoying. I just want to automate it. With my previous landlord I had automatic bill pay set up.
> I have yet to meet someone who bought something real with crypto.

I bought a car last year with Bitcoins

Hi, nice to meet you.
What kind of stuff are you searching for? If it's as crap as you say it is, doesn't this just mean there's a massive opportunity to create some genuinely useful content around the stuff you're talking about?
Animal milk is ok but coconut milk is an exception I guess. I don’t really know why.
Not possible unless majority of the nodes accepts the change.
> This article sounds very naive.

I am getting PETA vibes from this article actually. Plus the listing of pain management via acupuncture as a benefit makes me question the author.
Playing devils advocate: sounds pretty complicated. We'll just use Javascript and have access to an ever growing pool of cheap devs.

Not saying your approach isn't reasonable, but c suite execs are not always reasonable, and it may be hard to justify this whole setup just to use language X.
> it will still work.

Technically, sure. But without sufficient network capacity, there won't be much demand for it.
>It’s almost if the rich people stopped caring about morals and just started setting up traps to entertain themselves with the suffering of others.

There is even a successful Korean TV show depicting this current situation.
Or like reading it on a screen size other than a printer paper.
Congratulations! Take care of your wife! :)
I've had people make fraudulent charges on my debit card. The answer to your question: It wasn't a big deal.

The bank contacted me immediately and said they noticed strange behavior on my card and had thus blocked it. They sent me a transcript with the obvious fraudulent charges highlighted, and asked me to identify any additional ones.

When I asked about reimbursement the man sighed and said they might not get everything back, but then quickly corrected himself: they were legally required to reimburse me, it was just the bank that would potentially loose some money. I had everything back in my account within 24 hours.

So I have a question, to people who warn me of the dangers of debit card fraud and preach the advantages of credit: was I just exceptionally lucky with my bank? My bank was just a run-of-the-mill small town local bank, I wouldn't have expected anything extraordinary out of them. But yet their response to fraud was stellar. It's really left me wondering what all the hype is about.
Gene common in south Asian people doubles risk of Covid death, study finds
> The Commonwealth is neither a set of vassal states nor a defensive pact

Countries within the Commonwealth have gone to war against each other.
I haven't used this method for Google, but I have blocked some other domains using hosts file entries.

Here is an example for Google: https://superuser.com/questions/1135339/cant-block-connectio...
> how close France was recently, to Marine Le Pen and genuine fascism. Or how quickly Venezuela turned into a one-party state under Chavez.

People who have strong opinions against proportional representation invariably seem to be completely uninformed about its particulars, and love nothing more than to bring up random countries that they know nothing about and that have little to do with proportional representation, or blame all the country's problems on an election system for no reason.

1) Both French and Venezuelian presidential elections were held under a simple voting system that is a lot closer to FPTP than to proportional representation in its mechanics. The only difference from FPTP is that they have a second round between the two candidates who got the most votes. In the US two party system that second round wouldn't make any difference 99% of the time.

2) It takes some epic lack of self awareness to complain about some right wing loser in another country, when your own country's FPTP system elected Trump despite him losing the popular vote, and then almost elected him again. Whereas the French loser you're complaining about lost 66%-to-34%, and even worse than that the previous time she ran.

3) Venezuela's problems have nothing to do with their election system. Nor do presidential elections have anything to do with proportional representation. But if you like looking at random countries and assigning all their problems to their voting systems, why don't you look at this map and tell me how well those countries have been served by FPTP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#/me...

> most Americans prefer political gridlock to any well-tuned agenda

You don't know what Americans prefer, because currently they are exhibiting their preferences under duress. The primaries only serve to choose a candidate who will be "electable" under a broken FPTP system come election time – it is a losing proposition from the very start. Americans are only given the illusion of choice, with all the fanfare to keep them happy. They never see any real choice the way people living in proportional representation countries do.

> a lot better than letting the more extreme left or right-wing agendas come in and flip the table.

Lol. US politics is disintegrating largely because of FPTP elections, UK did Brexit largely because of FPTP elections, you think other countries on that FPTP map are doing much better? Proportional representation systems are a lot better at keeping extremists out of power, because in FPTP extremists hijack mainstream parties who win elections and end up governing.

In proportional representation systems, extremists get elected in small quantities and then productive coalitions form to keep them out of power, so they end up just warming the seats in parliament instead of destroying the country. This isn't just my opinion, it's been studied, researched and proven. Look. It. Up.
I also mentioned it…

> Note that my above post specified “most merchants”, not all merchants. Obviously, some merchants do benefit from dissuading credit card use, such as the examples I gave, or many gas stations and small restaurants or convenience stores.
Sweden wouldn't be the first western country to ban crypto mining if it was just about power. Sweden has a lot of environmentalists in its government though, so it makes sense that Sweden is the first western country to ban it for environmental reasons.

If you think a government wouldn't ban crypto for environmental reasons, can you believe a country would ban drinking straws for environmental reasons? Yeah, that happened, banning crypto is much more reasonable than banning drinking straws.
You can find a number of technical deep-dives for classic video game consoles where people have had do deal with very limited resources.

This video springs to mind as one example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfAnxaWiSeE
The Linux x86 Journey to main()
At some point, there is an irreducible level of complexity. At this point, adding tools simply results in pushing complexity around like an air bubble trapped under a plastic film.
For a very deep and specific dive, Fabien Sanglard has explained in detail Wolfenstein and Doom games technical implementation in his books Game Engine Black Book: DOOM and Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein. The writing is from the point of view of reverse engineering and understanding why they were implemented as they were.
Hosts file on Linux (also works on Windows for those still stuck there).

Something like Lockdown on iOS (works nicely even on unrooted devices like mine.)
Fisher Price Music Box Teardown
Will an gas welding tip be better to target the weed? And can we build it much cheaper if its like a wheelbarrow that needs a person to push?
And don't even get me started on sustainability. I wonder how much trees we lose yearly because printing is the most convenient way to interact with a PDF document.
I've noticed that channels tend to be used as a sort of garbage bin, such as the popular 'memes' channels. If any of your friends are insistent on spamming them constantly, you can just direct them to the waste channels to ignore them easier.
It is the same thing if the end result is prices differing by the same amount.
As someone keenly interested in such topics, would you permit using these pictures, and if so, how would you want to be credited?
(the background is https://TorchDrift.org/ , and the image reminded me of the right hand side of our poster here https://assets.pytorch.org/pted2021/posters/I3.png)
I don't believe this is true. Humans also find other animals, mostly mammals cute too. Eg: cats big and small, rabbits, squirrels, birds. Why? I don't know. Dogs/Wolf's are just one the animals that we find cute.
> This is purposefully reductio ad absurdum.

It's not, he's making a valid point.

To put it in a maybe a more arguable way:

where do you draw the line at a government deciding what you can and can't run on your computer?
You don't need to invest if you just want to use it.
I wonder if this is more common in the US where the separation between work and free time is quite blurred. It's seems like you are always working and expect to be always available. Vacations are also minimal.
Go down the Robert sepehr (has a channel on youtube) rabbit hole my friend. He's an anthropologist who has connected the dots in an interesting way if true.
Hard to disagree, the amount of energy and CO2 emissions are staggering especially considering how little you can actually do with the end product. Their "We therefore call for" section seems reasonable as well. I like that the article is concise, clear, and that the authors understand the difference between proof of work and other mining methods.

Interesting that they call it crypto-assets and never refer to it as a crypto-currency (not disagreeing; you can't use it to buy very much in Sweden, just thought it was an interesting observation).
Lately I’ve been binging on live solo performances from early in the careers of songwriter/musicians who went on to bigger, flashier things. (Elton John, Old Grey Whistle Test, 1971; Greg Lake, Cal Jam, 1974; etc.) A recurring comment has been the expression of gratitude to have been alive in the same “blip” of time as the creator/performer and to have seen them perform during their prime.

There’s a sense that in the history of the creation of music, the living presence of the creator/performer wasn’t huge until recently, surely due to acceleration of distribution and access via broadcast media, and remained so for a decade or two (bobby sox, fainting at the sight of Elvis, Beatlemania, etc.). Then, as music has become more mediated through electronics (click, autotune, synth, DAW, etc., etc.) arguably the importance of the presence of the creator/performer themselves has increasingly been buffered, muffled or otherwise reduced.

This helps me understand SETI and the Fermi Paradox. We’re not just looking for music, we’re looking for the pure signal of Elton between Reg and Captain Fantastic, maybe a 3 year window out of his 60 as a performer, and out of billions of years on the cosmic timeline. Before that he wasn’t on the radar; after it he became part of the background noise.
I specifically noted it at end of my comment:

> Note that my above post specified “most merchants”, not all merchants. Obviously, some merchants do benefit from dissuading credit card use, such as the examples I gave, or many gas stations and small restaurants or convenience stores.
> Perhaps partial stone-age reversion is an acceptable solution.

Good luck winning an election with that program.
It seems strange to talk about reduced distraction and saved brain cycles as a justification for writing and maintaining an entire VCS (with a rich UI) and project management tooling
Dude, are you trying to miss the point to score internet argument wins?

This man is writing large, thoughtful explanation -complete with concessions and limits- that is not hyped and not biased and you’re latching on to minor details and using that as a reason to poo-poo the logic? You’re petty arguing against a calm factual explanation. They’re not even good arguments.

“You could have done that by putting it under your bed” is so silly and intellectually dishonest. Try to imagine the other side here, and at least consider the possibility that there is room for additional value beyond your world view. At least try to see the other side even if you won’t want to see from the other side.
> but this sounds like words of wisdom from someone who doesn't have much real world experience

Did you read the part in the first paragraph where the author complains about people shutting down the idea without even giving it any discussion?

I mean you just dismissed the idea entirely and went off on a "have you tried jQuery" tangent.

> one of their biggest mistakes was not to upgrade often enough, which made each upgrade more painful.

The mistake isn't not updating frequently enough. The mistake is that the industry thinks maintaining backwards compatibility is a waste of time.

Updating more frequently doesn't magically make updating less painful, it just spreads the pain out over longer timeframes.

There is some benefit given that you won't be building on top of more and more stuff that may eventually be rug pulled by something that may already be released, but again, this isn't about update frequency, it's about a lack of respect for backward compatibility.

If everyone maintained backwards compat indefinitely we wouldn't have so many damn problems and updating would be nearly painless at whatever frequency you like.

Maintaining backwards compat isn't actually all that hard. There is two types of change. Breaking and non breaking. Most changes can be done without breakage. Want to make a breaking change to that function? Make a new function, put a 2 on the end. Problems solved. How often does leaving that old function actually cause you problems? Technically it's tech debt, but tbh it's the most benign tech debt you'll ever see.

So anyway, my point isn't that we should update frequently or not at all, it shouldn't matter. My point is that semver gives inexperienced devs a pass for lazy development practices that cost everyone instead of eating the cost themselves.

Want to release a major version change? Go for itz but understand it's a fork and not everyone needs your special new features you think is so important.
Including security flaws, which is a big deal. I still have not figured it out how to sanitize pdfs in any reasonable way. (If someone has any suggestions here, please share.)

Not to mention need to save file in original Adobe Reader ("do you really want to overwrite this file?') every time you add a comment.
career-ending unhinged display...why do people ruin their lives to make twitter mobs happy?
A paper copy is still one of the most fun ways to read
Which, to be fair, isn't exactly a high profile game a lot of pirates are clamouring for.
Please provide evidence for that statement.
I swear google outright punishes you for using Firefox with any of their services. Major annoyance for me right now is paste is broken on their terminal emulator when connecting to a Compute Engine VM instance over SSH.
I agree completely that HR mostly exists to protect the management and company, but I wouldn't go as far to say that you should always avoid them - a paper trail with HR often helps with any lawsuit.
> ...you could find out the problem with quite a good chance.

It's not that it's impossible to do so due to technical limitations. Even without JFR, there's still VisualVM and any number of APM solutions, like JavaMelody, Apache Skywalking, Stagemonitor etc.

It's rather a problem of telling the clients/business:

Hey, look, for the next X days/weeks i won't be developing any new features or tending to your user stories, but instead will attempt to track down this persistent, yet somewhat hard to reproduce problem.
And because of limitations in place that pertain to accessing production environments, this process will likely take much longer than it otherwise should, especially in case of blocking synchronous communications when asking for production logs or heap dumps, which are sometimes wrongly exported after the server restart, which makes them meaningless.
Alternatively, i will spend a similar amount of time attempting to first get the application instrumented and then we'll run into similar challenges regarding the access permissions for those, before returning to the aforementioned attempts to debug and solve the application issues, because adding instrumentation doesn't magically solve those.

Depending on the environment that you work in, this proposition might either be accepted, you might also find yourself fighting an uphill battle, or people might just look at you like you have two heads and without having proper backing support of the other engineers you'll find yourself for critiqued both for wasting the time on debugging with no guarantees of actual payoff in the end, as well as the application quite possibly still not working.

I'm actually in the middle of implementing an APM solution to hopefully give better insights into how the application works, but in many of the environments out there this will be a Catch 22: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/catch-22

So, if you have control over the application from day one instead of being onboarded into a maintenance project with SRE not having been a concern throughout its development, consider building for failure - treat it as a "when?" question instead of "whether?" and do what you can to mitigate the actual user impact even when components may fail.

Horizontal scaling is one way to achieve that, and a pretty decent one, as long as you don't attempt to scale your single source of truth.
> I voted for a republic. I wouldn't have, if the intent was to make it a direct election.

What is wrong with the Irish model? A President who is directly elected, but also largely apolitical, a mostly ceremonial role with strictly limited powers. A key element of the Irish model is tough nomination criteria - to run for President, one must be nominated either by 20 members of Parliament (9% of the total), or by 4 county/city councils (almost 13% of Ireland’s total). (A former President can self-nominate, although a President can only serve two seven year terms in their life.) This helps stop Presidential candidates coming from the political fringes.

Although Ireland has less than one fifth of Australia’s population, its Parliament (the Oireachtas) has almost as many members as Australia’s does, so the 20 member nomination threshold would be approximately equivalent in Australia. The 4 councils nomination threshold does not translate so well, since Australia has three levels of government (federal, state or local) while Ireland has only two (national and local). Roughly equivalent would be nomination by one of the state/territory governments, or by 69 LGAs.
The idea of "getting away from paper" seems to be so challenging for many in its implementation that at that point they stopped thinking any further.

I work in a soewhat big corp. and PDF is viewed as the basis for the digitization of existing documents, be it for archiving or for the exchange of data with business partners. Also, we still have a fax machine in the company.

But, this is not just the opinion in my company. The public service also envisions sending and receiving digital documents using PDF as the future.
E.g.: at the end of my digital tax return everything is summarized in a pdf (great), which then has to be signed and sent by post (lol).
Isn't freedom always a freedom to do something the majority won't like and/or find absurd. Most of it is really absurd, but some things pave way for the future, and it justifies tolerating the rest of it.

I personally don't believe in cryptocurrency and blockchain in general, but also I must say if I believed in it 10 years ago I would be financially much better off :)
I wonder how many Firefox downloads a week originates from HN these weeks.

Also, recent research has svown me that people on Slashdot doesn't like Google Chrome either.
> could simply take decent government subsidized public transportation, or ride their bike safely on well designed ubiquitous bike paths, like I can where I live in Amsterdam

That sounds preachy and pretentious. Like Paris Hilton saying homeless people should just stop being poor and go to an ATM and take out money to buy a house like she did. Not everyone has access to Amsterdam like infrastructure since not everyone lives in Amsterdam and usually people have no direct say in the public infrastructure of the place they live so they adapt in way that improves their live, the best way they can, usually by owning cars.

Have you considered why 85% of Germans own cars and drive almost everywhere? Same in Austria, outside of Vienna or the city center of the other "bigger" cities, you absolutely need a private car to get anywhere in a timely manner as public transport is sparse and infrequent.

You can't just come in on your high horse flat and dense rich city with top infrastructure and preach that everyone else is doing it wrong and should live like you do, because most people don't have that luxury of such choices where they live and instead have to deal as best they can with poor infrastructure choices made by governments and interest groups way before they were even born, choices which take decades and millions to reverse, if they ever even do.

So please consider this next time.
Could the slime grow thin extremely small exploratory network first and then decide how to grow its main body?
For me both cities feel completely different. Tokio definitely is much more lively / action packed. Whereas Kyoto has a much slower vibe...
Pi-hole, DNS66, uBlock Origin
Quite simply: No frameworks.

Some games nowadays are built using Electron, which means they include a full web browser which will then run the game logic in JavaScript. That alone can cause +1000% CPU usage.

Unity (e.g. RimWorld) wastes quite a lot of CPU cycles on things that you'll probably never use or need, but since it's a one-size-fits-all solution, they need to include everything.

For Unreal Engine, advanced studios will actually configure compile-time flags to remove features that they don't need, and it's C++ and in general well designed, so that one can become quite efficient if you use it correctly.

And then there's script marketplaces. They will save you a lot of time getting your game ready for release quickly, but they are usually coded by motivated amateurs and super inefficient. But if CPUs are generally fast enough and the budgets for game developers are generally low, many people will trade lower release performance for a faster time to market.

=> Modern games are slow because it's cheaper and more convenient that way.

But there still are tech demos where people push efficiency to the limit. pouet.net comes to mind. And of course the UE5 demo which runs on an AMD GPU and a 8-core AMD CPU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIDzZJpDlpA
Most of the stuff I run via Termux is open-source.

(FWIW, Termux on an Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 is really nice; I got mine via on sale for about $100.)
Many places in the world can offer you such life even now. Yet you are writing it from a cozy sofa or something.