skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A huge percentage (about 20%) of all cars I see are SUVs. Even for smaller cars there seems to be a trend towards really bulky bodies. Cars have become larger and larger over the years.

We have a giant problem with climate change yet car manufacturers keep making larger and larger cars. And people buy them. This does not make any sense to me. It only accelerates climate change, parking spaces become even harder to find in cities, and most people don't need an SUV at all.

I think SUVs and all large trucks that are not real utility vehicles should be outlawed.
I did it. This is officially supported [1].

[1]https://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/coming-to-france/coronavir...
I would be more from a dev perspective here

*nix OS's and their terminal with various commands. The idea of pipe operator in terminal is just mind blowing, high praise to the guys who came up with this, they literally included FP concepts inside a terminal back in the late 60's.
A Linux tablet? LTT reviewed this
Here in the UK a lot of bathrooms in pubs and other places have push to get in, and handles to get out. Never understood that, I'd like to push to get out once I've washed my hands!
What a bizarre take on this.
I have never seen Terraform crash in the years I’ve been using it. Optimizing based on a lottery event seems counter-productive

EDIT: Alright guys, good points all around. Mainly what I meant is the ratio of useful of Terraform vs its shortcomings. Not hating on the Cluster API pattern, but imho better to stick to standardized approach.
Grow Model for Decision Management
Why, I mean, why ? I am serious, why ?
I agree.

[Written from my 5-10 years old notebook with a dying battery that can be used unplugged for half an hour.]
> It was all lies but still most people believe those lies because propaganda of fear is strong.

No, it was all evolving knowledge of an ongoing situation involving an unknown virus, with the initial outbreak happening in a not very transparent country. Many people haven't bothered to keep up with the latest information, even with the efforts of local health authorities to bring that information to them.

> We still don't know origin of virus

Yes, and? Would that change anything in our understanding of it and how to combat it? Or do you just need someone to point s finger at and say it's all been their fault? Even in that case we'd still have to combat spread and hospitalisations ( which vaccines help with). In any case, i personally doubt we'll have a conclusive origin story of the virus. It has been more or less ( as much as possible) conclusively confirmed that it came from around a Wuhan wet market, but it'd be pretty much impossible to retrace the steps of random animals there and the event(s) that passed it to the initial humans after so much time has passed and so many have died.
Core strength training like planks and squats, also biceps and legs, bench press, essentially lifting in all forms - except anything that is related to bending over. I don’t do any exercises that involve bending or leaning forwards if it doesn’t involve using the bench for support. Also a lot of cardio.

In terms of work I’m a software guy and WFH, I rotate between standing, sitting, and laying throughout the day. Sometimes I work on the floor. Basically I work until I start to feel sore then I switch positions.
usa has a real problem with this, afaik there is no way to get a duplicate/back up of your hard copy vaccination record. so i’m supposed to carry a piece of paper with me, and not lose it, i guess that’s what makes it a passport.

meanwhile ime most places with vaccine requirement accept a photo on my cell phone - not exactly cryptographically signed stuff over here.
Thank you for sharing, thats actually quite impressive!

The numbers I found for Germany seem to support my initial comment at least from a German point of view. The median software developer salary in Germany is €62k ($70k) [0]. Seeing that high of a median in the US is quite impressive. Do high salaries like those usually include benefits like healthcare?

[0] (German) https://web.arbeitsagentur.de/entgeltatlas/beruf/15260?alter...
I have a strong feeling that Covid-19 is going to be with us for a long time.

The problem with that is with a lot of the vulnerable population. This isn't "the flu".
> Second, the medical system just gives up on you if the issue is psychosomatic. There are no treatment protocols that work, so agreeing that something is psychological is just having your case tossed on the trash heap to be ignored.

Maybe it's because we need to change our approach to psychotherapies in general. The reason psychology as a whole is not considered hard science is because replication is hard and in some cases impossible (good luck finding subjects who haven't heard about the Stanford prison experiment today). Why don't we accept this is just the way it works. That some therapies will work for some people and won't work at all for others (or might even make their symptoms worse). That therapy needs much more time than a pill to work - instead of hours, we're talking weeks and months, possibly years. That the evaluation of the results always has an element of subjectivity: sure, you can measure some physiological aspects, but there is always the internal component of well-being.
Ah, European standard plugs don't have that. I guess that makes it mandatory to have the power switch interrupt both wires, at least that's what lamps here tend to have.
Go to eton is common
There was a Xenix version for the 8086. Of course, without memory protection, a misbehaving process was able to wreak havoc.

You can run the system in your browser using the pcjs emulator: https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/unix/sco/xenix/086/2...
Google Inbox: The perfect modern frontend for mail. RIP.

Sonos Playbar (got the Arc for free, sold the Playbar): Perfect sound, a timeless design, software was dope around 2015-2016. All downhill from there, when Sonos decided to pivot to supporting Alexa/Google Assistant and attempting to become smarter.

Google Pixelbook: Super thin, light weight, super clean Linux system with first class support for Progressive Web Apps, Android and Linux apps. Chrome OS features the simplest software update process I've seen in action so far. The design is unique, the keyboard was perfect when right when Apple decided to ship shitty butterfly keyboards. 7 years of software updates.

Rancilio Silvia: Budget Espresso maker that's close to indestructible. Everything can be serviced, replaced, upgraded, there's no shortage of replacement parts, the Espresso is great once you know how to use it.

Aeropress: Simple to use, fits well into almost all travel luggage, and produces great coffee with little effort.
They ask you to take it down momentarily to check your face. Come on now, a kid could have thought of that and it has been used for months ( just go to an airport or whatever).
Hijacking of our primitive vices, isn't that the basis for most economic activity? The food industry, television/movie industry, all of social media including the site we're on right now, the list goes on indefinitely.

Normal video games without a crypto element do this as well. I currently have real money tokens in at least 4 of the most popular games, none of which I can ever get anything back from except in game cosmetics. But even games like Stardew Valley that wouldn't dream of taking extra money from you are tapping into our vice centers to keep us playing.

As someone deep into video games to me this is just an evolution of world of warcraft gold, or what steam has going on with their in game items and trading cards. I can exchange wow gold/steam items for real money, which blizzard or valve takes a generous % of. I can then only use that money to buy blizzard/steam products from their respective stores. People grind for countless hours in games even for these relatively worthless (when compared to crypto/nfts) currencies. Hell people spend countless hours grinding for in game currencies that will never have any real world value at all. Mostly because it can be wildly fun to do.

I feel like a whole lot of the hatred towards the crypto space will go down in history as an old man yells at cloud moment.
https://old.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/

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This is a total non issue as indexing is an operation that is subject to multiple dispatch. For a humorous example see https://github.com/giordano/StarWarsArrays.jl
A website for the author’s foundation

https://www.aldoleopold.org/

https://www.aldoleopold.org/about/aldo-leopold/
If Google search went away for more than 24 hours, Bing/DDG/others would quickly get overwhelmed as people learned about alternatives and switched.

Bing might be able to auto-scale using Azure infrastructure but there might not be enough hardware even there.
Only tangentially-related but this reminds me of something interesting I encountered since Venezuelans playing RuneScape to farm gold since that currency was more stable than their irl currency

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1018915121

More related, I’m from one of those countries where people are doing that and it is truly a tragedy but it’s not as widespread (at least in my bubble). But the thing is, a lot of people quit jobs for “get rich quick” schemes here and this is just the latest chapter of that tragedy.
It would be nice if those labeled blocks could be written inline and anonymously - just pass a block as an argument rather than having to actually name the error handling block. Is that supported?
A purely intolerant society would necessarily also have to have some tolerance, or else it would collapse upon itself when there is no acceptable in group. Thus a natural stable zone in between total tolerance and total intolerance exists. Karl Popper's and Richard Rorty's views on tolerance are only rationalizations which attempt to position democracies intolerance as somehow justifiable in the name of "tolerance". What is stopping an autocratic regime from stating the exact same thing? They are intolerant towards x group or y idea to preserve tolerance to w group or z idea. Truthfully humanity has a certain capacity for tolerance, as defined by a zone between total tolerance and total intolerance. This capacity may have increased over time (although I would argue for technological reasons, not for cultural of philosophical reasons), but it will never reach total intolerance or total tolerance. They have both deluded themselves in the hubristic and elitist view that our shifting of the tolerance zone is in some way a testament to an increase in potential tolerance or tolerance "capacity", and have come up with such schizophrenic arguments which claim that a tolerant society must be intolerant. While natural law continues to prove them wrong and they themselves prove their positions wrong.
It's exciting to read the comments - Why are we comparing Compose Vs Kubernetes?
Ambition and curiosity are separate instincts from greed. If you think all innovation comes from greed, that itself is a cultural belief and cannot explain the greatest innovators in history like Einstein, Newton, Da Vinci or Tesla.

The icon of innovative greed would be someone like Edison who was a profoundly cruel and greedy man who stole the ideas of others more tab he created himself. There's your icon of capitalistic innovation.
Also there’s BPAY for bills and things which must be pretty cheap to vendors because it’s almost always an option for any kind of internet/phone/utility etc. invoice and never has a surcharge unlike credit card payments sometimes do.

I’ve seen it for web payments but it’s not ideal because of the delay (usually like next business day) in processing.
The problem is that, by definition, it isn’t malicious: it’s just incredibly poorly planned legitimate communications. Filtering it out will just make it harder for users to get key information.
getting a ?404?

https://qengineering.eu/install-vulkan-on-raspberry-pi.html

seems to be the needed link
I’ve never experienced that with any of the banks I have accounts with…
> The connection has timed out

Now I really can't download the image
Running Revise in production sounds unwise (sorry for the pun).

Also you can very much not redefine functions on the fly due to world age (assuming the caller doesn't pay for invoke-latest).
> What is so evil about a central bank?

Don't know about India's central bank but US Fed plays with interest rates, bails out risk taking companies or their close friends creating moral hazard, prints money recklessly destroying your savings.
It has always been predominantly a text-oriented platform but there has been some graphics support over the years.

IBM ported their mainframe graphics package GDDM to the AS/400. I don’t think many people used it but it could be used for drawing charts. It required a special version of the physical 5250 terminal with graphics support. Standard 5250 terminal emulators don’t support the graphics extensions; IBM had a 5250 emulator with graphics support for MS-DOS; apparently they never ported it to Windows or anything else.

GDDM saw more use on IBM mainframes. On mainframes it has 3D graphics support with PHIGS as the API. Several late 70s / early 80s high-end CAD systems (such as CADAM and CATIA) used GDDM, before moving off the mainframe on to Unix (and later, Windows and Linux). Don’t think the 3D part was ever ported to OS/400 though, I think GDDM/400 is 2D only.

At one point (years ago) IBM was pushing a technology called RAWT (Remote AWT) which is basically Java AWT over RMI. I don’t think it is supported any more but older versions of the 400/i JVM included the RAWT JAR.

400/i also ships with a (deprecated) Java/XML based GUI framework called Graphical Toolkit - however, it is actually intended to run on client machines (primarily Windows), not the host.

The AIX compatibility environment (PASE) includes X11 ported from AIX (and more recently IBM has made X.org X11 available as well, which is more modern than AIX X11). I believe the only local X server supported though is Xvnc; the operating system doesn’t support graphics cards.
That's fair, if you're really that isolated then fair enough. Self sufficiency is great if you're able to achieve it, I commend you for that. My point is merely that the behaviours you describe (not wearing a mask, not being vaccinated) are counter to the self-sufficiency you're so fond of. Being that self sufficient sounds like something you wouldn't want to lose because you happened to catch COVID from your irregular contact with the rest of civilization.
I can recommend Kalashnikov's autobiography - a short and interesting read:

Mikhail Kalashnikov -
The Gun that Changed the World

https://www.amazon.com/Gun-that-Changed-World/dp/0745636926
The pandemic has helped transform the e-bike into a juggernaut
Operator overloading has been traditionally overused, especially in C++ (shift operators for iostreams, C++ iterators).
Java was the peak of the push-back against that. C# has operator overloading, but forbids many things that were possible in C++:

* `operator=` and `operator ,`
* `operator new` and `operator delete`
* `operator +=` overloaded differently from `operator +`
* `operator &&` and `operator ||` overloading works differently in C#, so that it preserves the short-circuiting behavior
* `operator ++` only can be overloaded once in C#, with the compiler automatically handling the difference between pre- and post-increment

But more crucially, the C# standard library uses operator overloading only for types like `decimal` and `BigInteger`. C# programmers can go years without ever overloading an operator, while still profiting from it whenever they use `BigInteger`.
It's very different from the C++ culture where

* everyone needs to learn about how to overload `operator=` (for memory management)
* the standard library encourage abuses of operator overloading such as shift operators for iostreams

It should be unsurprising novice programmers abuse operator overloading when the C++ language teaches them exactly that.
Also applies to the iron law of wages where productivity gains are captured in profit and wages are held as low as the market can sustain.
Seems strange to compare to China when in fact this trend is happening everywhere.

China thought they needed the government to enforce low birth rates, but they were wrong, so it turns out they needlessly abused their own women with forced abortions and sterilizations. Wups.
My friends daughter is only 17 and quite radicalized, detests anyone who can afford a home, car, etc. It’s quite sad.
France Connect [Government SSO]
It is elegant until it happens to be an important file now lost forever on process shutdown, and yes it is pretty much UNIX.

A very basic attack vector, to yank files used by other processes and not take place in the traditional lock file dance.
New research suggests literary relatives share similar writing styles
There is no reasonable scenario under which it goes away at all.
> As of 2016, the New York Times notes that over 90 percent of Italian homes had one.

It would be more correct to say that 90% of italian homes have at least one... We for example have three: one is the one we're phasing out (three cups), the new one (four cups) and we have a snoopy-themed moka that I don't really want to put in contact with fire.
…in terms of software, yes, Turbo Pascal is - at least for me - one of the finest software ever created…
20 years ago I reverse engineered the command line compiler BPC.EXE, 80kB of code, 40kB data, absolutely mindblowing whats in there. A masterpiece of software which should be open sourced (never going to happen…)
Anyway, thank you Mr. Anders Hejlsberg for Turbo Pascal!
people with normal vision
I’m glad you were able to get the vaccine, and I hope you beat cancer. Cancer has taken many loved ones from me.
"We are not so inclusivist as to tolerate intolerance such as yours."

This is exactly what you shouldn't do. As long as you can talk to people you should. These people are talking, they aren't out there being violent or murdering people, they are just sitting there talking, if you attack verbally them like this then their kids will hate you as well. Like "my parents aren't racist, they just want us to get the best books we can get instead of just forcing us to read books based on the skin of the authors", do you really think that view is so intolerant that we need to create a huge rift in society to fight it? I don't.
If there are no protections, describing it as removing protections is correct.
yeah but never in the thinkpad lineup
Easy to clean is so important. My parents’ garlic press is far superior to the one we have
This comment is in the top #10 of the stupidest things I've read on this site. Congratulations!

As personal advice, I suggest not being annoyed about a thing you're totally wrong about.
Popper at least has the decency to call it a paradox. This quote fully assumes that anyone that does not agree with the author on everything is intolerant and deserves to be excluded.

I have a hard time imagining that that's what Popper meant.
There isn’t really an affordable option for people with kids, so it’s not a great idea regardless.
The chance of dying of Covid-19 while being unvaccinated is very low. The benefit of being vaccinated is a further reduction in the chance of dying if infected and a reduction in symptom severity if infected. There is still a very low chance of severe symptoms and/or death if infected while being vaccinated. Also, there have been cases of people dying within weeks of receiving a vaccine dose; I won't comment on what that implies.

I'm not vaccinated. I did get Covid-19 and recovered well. The only lasting effect seems to be that I smell an anti-freeze odor at times. I don't feel like I was putting my life at risk by not getting vaccinated, in fact, I feel even more strongly against getting a vaccine that appears to be more beneficial to those who are at high risk of severe symptoms and/or death than the general population.

In any case, I respect others' opinions on the matter and don't judge them for their decisions on vaccination. The fact that vaccinated people can still get infected and possibly transmit the virus to others seems to indicate we should stop focussing on a general solution and focus on those in high risk categories. The Covid-19 pill seems like a good first step in that direction.
Which parts in specific would you say are wrong?
I like how truelayer operates. Takes me to my banking app where I authorise the payment using my bank auth.
No middlemen "value-adds" -X%, no keying in card details, no crappy browser autofill and CVV. Admittedly this only seems to work via mobile at the moment and haven't seen it on the web yet.

The Amazon VISA announcement shows that maybe card providers and their payment service providers are next on the disrupt list. They might go the way of the dodo.
Nowadays IBM supplies X11 as part of PASE - AIX X11 is included and IBM offers X.org for install using yum. But the OS doesn’t support graphics cards so X11 is either using Xvnc or X11 forwarding.
I don't think I was born as an aspie, but I developed a large number of these traits in my late teenage/early 20s by consciously adopting a black-and-white approach towards truth and reality, and a consequent value system.

My profession rewarded some of these traits at first. Later in my mid twenties, I switched into performing arts and over a period of 7 years, I have been able to reverse many of these patterns of behavior because they were coming in my way (and now my old friends barely recognize me duh).

Is there any research on attempts to change these traits in someone who is diagnosed to be on the spectrum?

I don't mean to suggest these traits are inherently good or bad. For me, personality change was like pulling teeth, day after day. But I did it purely to learn a new field, not because I was previously "wrong". I'm curious about any attempt at changing personality, in any direction, because it's so deeply educational.
Not in PL/I or in the other languages with this feature (ALGOL 60, FORTRAN IV).

This could be an easy syntax extension, but then the only advantage remains the more efficient hardware implementation of the error handling.

In that case you no longer have the separation in program text between the normal execution path and the error handlers, which removes visual clutter.
LONG Pfizer et al I guess
The maestro cards in Germany aren't real maestro cards, but co-branded girocards that only use the maestro network outside the EU.

They end up making an actual, real chip+pin authorized bank transfer.
The short answer for me is “no.” And that’s why I just can’t bring myself to sever the cord (and never will). I just don’t trust myself (and only myself) with a lifetime of photos of the kids.
> there are no real tests for determining if something is psychological or physical

This is not true. Also, even if it was true, it's not a reason not to treat a patient.

> the medical system just gives up on you if the issue is psychosomatic

Both pain killers and psychiatric drugs are often overprescribed in some countries, especially US, as the health system is focused on profit.
You have good points here for scientific understanding vs cultural in general. I wasn’t specific enough.

The planets formed as cultural concepts in the sense that they were absolutely divorced from tangible experience other than in their role as mere “wandering stars,” allowing them to exist as pure symbolic archetypes. The idea of Mars bringing war has little to do with the fact that it and related objects have cleared their neighborhoods.

There’s a distinction here between the planets, which are the symbols that can be enumerated, and a planet, which is what the categorization problem for scientists involves.
Why is that unreasonable? I might be missing something (I have no formal CS education), but I can imagine it, e.g. a base graph datastructure library, and then two libraries dependent on the base library being used together for some graph traversal work (where callbacks are used).
Maybe an alternative would be to convert all major roads to tolls, then offer discounts for HOV and electric.