skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Finally, companies don't want to anger the unions for something that is happening anyway regardless of their support or not.

Is it really not happening? AFAIK the EV revolution is happening underneath their noses and German car manufacturers are letting Tesla and Chinese/Asian companies eat their lunch and their move is to sleep on it to not anger their ICE-focused Labour unions. Not a good strategy long term.

Kodak also shelved their digital camera Invention in the '70s to not disrupt their film business, and guess what, the digital camera revolution happened without them anyway so they missed out on it costing them the company.
The entire travel industry is shaddy. I used to work for a price comparison site for holidays that had a side business as a travel agent. It was well known that none of the prices listed were the real price. Even with a rather generous staff discount being applied the sales agent was one surprised that it was just x over the listed price. They would say you were buying a package holiday but in reality they were just doing bookings for you via the standard public website for everything but the hotel. They would take the hotel payment first and then look at the price for the flights by which point you're already sold what the company sells and you need to pay for the flights no matter what. They'll then suggest that you do the transfer booking yourself to save money but it'll literally be the same price.

When I joined the first meeting my first day had people talking about how they got up at 2am and then 4am to make sure internal processes were still working. They had people who were barred from the office and were massive screaming matches if they came in which was mostly management yelling at people for talking to them.

On the money laundering aspect, I doubt this since most gangsters are busy with other businesses such as running taxis and bus services that are mainly cash businesses while hotels are mainly internet and card payments and largerly coming from business accounts unless it's a tourist spot.
Google Translate is a horrible tool for "translating" single words or lists of unrelated words.

Use a proper dictionary for that. The very nature of statistical models makes proper translation without context impossible for these systems, especially when uncommon words and diacritics are involved.
> Doesn't quite have the same vibe, does it?

It does. There are also a lot of jokes about burning babies etc. Just because you don't understand that sort of humour doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
Any public company, perhaps. Private companies could decide to care about profit not as much and be genuinely 'nice' -- though the invisible hand would probably come along at some point and replace it with something more profit oriented.
nullbecausehackernewsz0mgpostinglikeCitadel-86hadbettereditingfeaturesinthe1980s.
I live in the northeast and used to flip shitboxes. I understand why anyone working a flat rate environment would rather not deal with old vehicles.

Also the rusty bolt thing is over blown. You learn what you can and can't get away with and stop snapping them pretty quick.

Also the mechanic we're discussing is in CA so it's not like he has that problem.

Obviously everyone wants moneyed customers. The closer you are to the money the more you get.

I'm not saying the primary purpose of his messaging was to tell the poor to screw off, just marveling at the fact that it does nice double duty.
You can have a look at https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php and its reviews section. This is a good site in general (there are others) if you are interested in audio reproduction topics and reviews that are supported by science, not flowery prose of reviews in so called HiFi magazines and sites.
That’s exactly why maybe they would do this? They’re self aware of their reputation, try to go above and beyond to counter it, and then chose to publish a damning report against themselves in that effort.

Note, I hate Facebook, but there’s nothing worse than when someone/something tries to get better in good faith, and we shit on their efforts simply because their starting position is weak (aka fat shaming the new person at the gym).
Jamie's channel is one of my all time favorites. I love watching him work exactly because of his general attitude toward problem solving and how different it is from mine.
This type of questions - "is this knowledge useful?" - is hard to answer. Is music theory useful for musicians? But Jimi Hendrix didn't know music theory! You can get by without reading this book, most language designers probably hasn't read it either, and lots of programming languages were invented long before type theory was a real thing.

The formalisms introduced in the book are absolutely applicable to dynamically typed languages (such as JavaScript) and "less strict" statically typed languages like Java and Go. The book teaches you that there is a logic framework which you can use to analyze any programming language you can think of. It's not something you use in everyday life but it is very interesting!
It used to be the case that the CCP was decentralised: the regions had their own parties that were not ideologically answerable to the central party. Then, popular unrest could lead to the leader losing support of the regions, which could lead to the leader being deposed. Mao liked it this way, because his popularity in the regions strengthened him against his enemies in the central party.

I don't really follow the minutia of today's politics in China, but my impression is that Xi has taken away power from the regions. If so, then this former route for change may have been blocked.
Sure, but if I post data to the blockchain (perhaps a URL to an XKCD comic) and someone else posts that exact same data another time, how would we even know each other posted it? At some point, it's practically impossible to search the entire block chain.

Now suppose each of use are selling the 'first' post of that data. How does a buyer know that we're really the first?

And so I'm saying that even claiming 'first' is practically impossible via blockchain. Even if someone knew about both of the instances above and could arbitrate between them, there might be a third, older instance yet.
If we had the ability to transport large numbers of people to the moon and set up civilisation, we'd probably also have the ability to bring a minable carbon-rich comet or two into lunar orbit or smash them into the surface.
Funny how Americans want to be able to buy cars directly from the forecourt of a particular dealer then and there. When I buy a new car in the UK I order from the manufacturer.

In America how do you get the spec and colour you want if they've already made the car?

And don't you object to buying something that's been sitting around outside for a while with lots of people getting in and out of it?
I never said that people should continue making rape jokes, I don't find them funny either.
> I don’t always see the value in having 5 commits that say “fixes lint error”

That's a problem I avoid by spicing the log with commit messages from http://whatthecommit.com/ ! :)
https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&th...

"I have been sitting for hours debating whether or not to disclose this, and I feel like it's something I do need to get off of my chest.
Frankly, I'm tried of being quiet. I've mostly had to stay quiet for years about things happening behind the scenes. I've held things inside so long and so hard my chest physically hurt the same way it is now.

I considered not sharing this out of respect for Rich's parents and sister, but after thinking on the incredibly vitriolic wall of text Rich's Mother sent to me this morning, saying upon many other things, that his blood is on my hands, I need to share it to regain some sense of control over what's taken place in the past 48 hours.

Yesterday I recieved a divorce ruling that would help me and my daughter stay in our home in Canada and allow me to provide a good life for her as well as pay back numerous debts that had accrued during the past two years when I was receiving $350 a month in child support.

In the divorce ruling the judge found that Rich had willfully spent down the martial fund, confirmed his treatment of me was Domestic Violence and put together a plan to pay for the attorney fees etc. He would still retain custody settled on previously in mediation. He was due to get our daughter for Christmas.

An hour later I was contacted by my attorney who informed me that Rich had shot himself earlier in the morning.

So. There it is.
His other ex and I got to tell our children that their father died without saying goodbye to them, or that he loved them, or to my knowledge, left a note for them.

If you've made it this far thank you for giving me space to let this go so I know longer have to hold onto it. "
Whilst the UK did indeed have 5 days with less than 2GW wind (not weeks with 0 like you claim), the situation is not as simple as news outlets and agenda-pushers would have you believe. A bunch of other plants (including nuclear) going offline was a major contributing factor.
Future of no-code: domain driven no-code platforms
It should, but I'm not an audio engineer, so I don't know for sure. The bigger problem is that there's very little demand for it, as far as I can tell.
I think apple claimed that it requires a database agreed to by at least two governments. Count the countries that discriminate against gay people or authoritarian regimes that regularly cooperate with each other and you quickly realize that Apple just advertised its services to the most morally corrupt and evil people alive.
It's the hard landings I'd worry about more than the shadows.
Which is a justification for the objective metoo set out to achieve, and it seems one a lot of people agree with.

However those objective are very clearly to undermine the foundational principles of justice. Perhaps you find the arguments for this to be very compelling, but it’s simply a fact that metoo set out to promote a presumption of guilt, in all areas of society that it was able to influence. Most metoo advocates entirely avoid addressing this fact, and a lot of people reasonably disagree with metoo because of it.
> But it does feel a bit aggravating to throw something out every 10 years or so when you know it's probably just a couple caps or the like that have gone toast, but it's just not feasible to repair these DIY.

It’s often a power supply that’s failed and those are quite easy to test and DIY replace if it’s the caps that have failed. I know a lot of people don’t even consider doing it, but for those few who are inclined to ask the question “could I fix this?” the answer is often “yes”.
Belarus leader floats idea of cutting gas to Europe in migrant standoff
I'm with you on physical value being a bad concept, but I still have to push back a bit

>Money doesn't really have physical value, only speculative (you want it because you trust that someone else will want it in the future).

And because you need it to pay your taxes in it

>Shares in public companies don't really have physical value unless you own enough to change the management. Sure you 'own' that fraction of the company and their assets, but the managers of the company don't ever have to pay you out any of it. Almost all the value of a share for most people is in its speculative value.

Nowadays the price depends mainly on that yes, but dividends are a thing, and legally (which is the only thing that matters in finance anyway since private property is also only legally a thing) you own that slice of the company and its assets. The price and the value are different

>Art generally doesn't really have physical value, the value is almost entirely in the story that goes with any specific piece. This isn't just true of modern art, being part of the story of the Mona Lisa is much more important than the aesthetic experience of looking at it (they let plebs do that for free!).

And in the tax avoidance schemes it enables

>Education certainly isn't something with physical value. Sometimes it has utility value for what you can do with it, but more often it's just something that people want you to have because it distinguishes you from people who don't have it.

Now we are getting more interesting, what's the difference between physical value and utility value? What's the difference between social value (it will make me desireable) or personal value (it will make me happy) and "physical" value?

>Insurance doesn't have physical value, it's more the value of feeling safe, which is a meme.

Only if you don't understand probabilities and risk management. Also, good luck buying a house without life insurance

Things have value because we need them (inelastic part of the supply-demand curve), things have a price because we want them (elastic part of the supply-demand curve).
Can you link one of those models? Extremely curious to see wired ANC headphones that don't need a battery at all.
Finally every svchost.exe instance on Win 10 gets a core.
What definition are you using? The idea that autistics don't empathize is, put it simply, false.

And difficulty reading social cues doesn't apply in cases where many, many, many people openly and directly explain why jokes at someone else's expense are bad (and correlate with the people being the butt of the joke being mistreated).

I have deconstructed the rape joke in another comment. Maybe to you immediately feel why it's not an OK thing to say. I go through the analysis. We both arrive at the same destination by different means.
How is it a "trend"?
Facebook never had dislike. So does instagram.
Even Twitter never had a downvote as far I can remember.
Issue is that Google is removing it after entire YouTube culture was built around it.
Sounds like a plot of Artemis by Andy Weir.

They are literally scraping top layer and smelting it for aluminium with oxygen as a side product.
> It seems like the box is perfectly timed to come up at just the right time to get me to accidentally click it while trying to click on the result below.

I wonder if it's intentional, since the timing is so perfect. I poked around with inspect element, but the JS is both obfuscated & beyond my skill level.
The Windows filesystem API supports CS file- and directory names just fine.

It can be enabled on a per-directory basis like so:

> fsutil.exe file setCaseSensitiveInfo C:\folder enable

NTFS had support for this for decades now - it was designed that way to be POSIX-compliant.

It's shoddy software that lacks support for it, not the OS or the file system.
This is a difference between $@ and "$@" (note the quotes):

$ cat proba.sh
#!/bin/sh
echo "Using quotes:"
for i in "$@"; do echo "$i"; done
echo "No quotes:"
for i in $@; do echo "$i"; done
$ ./proba.sh "ho ho ho"
Using quotes:
ho ho ho
No quotes:
ho
ho
ho
AKA: We need to stop a metric that puts Democrats, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris in such a bad (horrible) light. This has nothing to do with content creators or audience. This is all about elections, politics, and most of all Joe Biden/Kamala Harris.
Of course they could. Why are people this naive? Nevertheless the administration simply did not care. It was time to shift the theatre of war elsewhere and that's that.
International Space Station fires rockets to dodge chunk of destroyed satellite
What is amazing that apparently investors are fine with having no say how the company is run:

"Scaringe will hold all outstanding Class B common shares after the IPO and get 10 votes per share,"

The new normal (see Google, Facebook, Zynga, etc). You can own 6% of the company but retain full control.

You get to have your cake and eat it too if you are a founder.

As an investor in these modern Class A "shares" you are just playing the game of musical chairs.

Where is the fundamental value in Class A ?

It used to be that if you did not care for control, you either bought bonds or preferred shares.
Geophysicist here.

"Sillicates." (Emphasis on the "ates".)

Oxygen is an integral part of most rock-forming minerals.

'Nuff said.
> word is starting to get out that 'carbon footprint' is a scam, but most folks haven't gotten that message yet, so get some plausible deniability by saying, 'call your reps' first.

Article from the site's FAQ:

https://www.wired.com/story/does-climate-change-mean-you-sho...

"Voting is crucial, but this perspective misses a large point of individual actions. We don’t recommend taking personal actions like limiting plane rides, eating less meat, or investing in solar energy because all of these small tweaks will build up to enough carbon savings (though it could help). We do so because people taking action in their personal lives is actually one of the best ways to get to a society that implements the policy-level change that is truly needed. Research on social behavior suggests lifestyle change can build momentum for systemic change. Humans are social animals, and we use social cues to recognize emergencies. People don’t spring into action just because they see smoke; they spring into action because they see others rushing in with water. The same principle applies to personal actions on climate change."

Government and companies are less likely to act when they know individuals aren't willing to change their lifestyles. Nobody is saying individuals have to do everything, but individuals, governments and companies all have a part to play instead of passing the blame around and doing nothing.
> Does anyone know how this compares to earth?

Oxygen is the single most common element in the Earths crust.
I don't think services should be allowed to mislead their users in this way. If 'delete message' does not delete the message then it should not be labelled as such.

The option should be labelled as 'Hide Message*' together with a link to an explanation of the feature & its limitations.
Why maths is an art not a science
> There are still judges in the US giving lighter sentences or no jail time at all and citing this sort of reasoning.

Name one case in the last 5 years where the judge uses the victims clothes as a reason for a light sentence in USA, and where the judge wasn't punished for it. It should be possible to find one right? If you can't even find one for a whole 5 years I wouldn't say that this is a problem we need to care about, once per 5 years in a population of 300 million is basically never.
> if one of her guests, who wanted a baby, should trick her boyfriend into fathering a child

> This is called paternity fraud

It's called rape. He consented to sexual activity under the impression birth control was being used. If it wasn't, the consent was invalid.
We can export CO2 from earth.
Don't want to be grouped with some shiba fanatic but lots of misunderstandings in that paper (although always nice to hear arguments from both sides to avoid becoming a fanatic). The biggest root misunderstanding in the paper is comparing bitcoin to shares of a company instead of say usd. There's also a ton of final consumer use cases nowadays and don't really buy the negative sum game either, would be fun if he used the same logic on shares here for comparison but no surprise he doesn't.
This is nonsense. Source: I have been working in the cyber security department of a major Dutch bank.
>But you shouldn't assume that those people are rapists or domestic abusers just because they make those jokes.

No such assumption is made. However, rape jokes are a signal that gives some credibility to such accusations.

Just like the knowledge of someone making constantly jokes about murdering a particular person (say, Jensson) would be very much on the radar as a suspect in case Jensson accuses that person of attempted murder.
If Germany will not commit to combustion engine phaseout their market will dwindle.

Not only countries will be banning combustion engines, but major cities too.

Also, probably by 2030 we will have big switch towards self-driving cars, by 2040 self-driving cars will dominate across all developed economies.
What would it take for people to stop trusting facebook? Universal outrage doesn't seem to be it.
Samila v0.3 Released: Generative Art Generator
For convenience, here's the article linked from the Twitter thread: https://www.lx.com/environment/a-woman-tried-to-warn-us-abou...
In the US I believe a Check is the same as a Cheque in the UK. Granted cheque is a homophone but both usages denote money (more so with the US title) with the added benefit of the connotation of arriving at a hotel. I am a big fan of puns.
Plus sign actually came from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_string#Indexed_search
I don't have ADHD, but can't deal with writings like this. The flaw is mine, I'm losing out, I'm sure of it.

Others here write about the beauty of the article. All I read are convoluted, never ending paragraphs that don't tell me anything.

I stoppend reading carefully after 1 minute, started jumping ahead to see if this is leading somewhere. Finally, hopped to the comments here in hope they'd tell me the gist of what the core message of the article is about.

It's funny, I like reading fiction, well written sentences with grand narratives and all of that. But not in an article.
I don't think disassembling colonists is going to be a very popular way to source carbon. /s
He invented Fiddler checks notes one of the most widely used web debugging tools in the world.
"The space shuttle was cheaper to operate per payload in orbit"

This is somewhat surprising to me. SS launches were very expensive. Is it possible that SS was cheaper per maximum payload?

The catch is that maximum payload for SS was pretty big and its capacity was underutilized.

"Most of the cost of the program was R&D."

Well, refurbishment of the orbiters after each return was a significant recurring cost in both work-hours and money. The heat shield was a maintenance nightmare.
The Sony wh1000xm4 can function passively (minijack connection) and the noise absorption happening just because they cover your ears is sometimes enough. When you switch them on it’s another world.

https://www.sony.com/electronics/support/wireless-headphones...
Sorry for making it read like a conspiracy. When I typed allowed, I didn't want to ascribe any particular interpretation so I settled on that verb. In that sense, intelligence was gathered, reported and then something happened. I have zero problem believing it got lost in the shuffle as I have seen some big entities fail in that regard.

If more malicious interpretation is followed, your guess is as good mine. I am willing to accept a proposition that political considerations took over at some point.

We might find out come 2024 elections. Who knows given the odd times we live in.
I think maybe our disagreement is based on us talking about different categories. The category I'm looking at is not 'things that generate money', and I'm not taking things to an extreme here.

I'm much more talking about things that have value only because people think they have value. That's mimetic value. These things are valuable because the meme of them being valuable has infected society.

Like money, or art, or education (except in narrow practical fields) or entertainment or a notional (but rarely practical) ownership claim on a company, or intellectual property,

None of those things would have any value at all if people didn't think of them as valuable, or treat them as valuable, or respect them.

Notably, a farm does not fall into this category. It is a physical asset that produces other physical assets; that's utility value, not mimetic value. You can eat its output for food or burn it for energy.

The more meta stuff is about how even physical and utility value assets are often partially acquired based on mimetic elements. So people pay more for a car that makes them feel like an international spy than they do for a car that gets them from A to B, so the meme of feeling like an international spy has increased the value of the simple physical asset.