skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another reason is that longer trucks are harder to overtake on motorways, the longer the truck the higher the risks for accidents. Europe has smaller highways and country roads.

Furthermore truck logistics in the USA is mainly based on FTL (full truck load), which means the truck just drives from A to B. In Europe LTL (less than truck load) is more common, which means pickup and delivery on multiple stops. This requires a better maneuverability, hence shorter trucks.
In the US their Sprinters compare to the competition about the same way an S-class compares to a Camry. In both cases it's generally considered ill-advised to own it into old age.

I wouldn't call that "entirely different"
I see no reason why not do this in proper spot market way. Calculate it every 5 minutes, what you supply you get accounted for and what you use or that is withdraw you get accounted. At certain intervals these are matched and you pay the difference.
https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2101/rr-0
In most of the US life has been back to normal (give or take) for a year or more. A lot of people are still dying, but they are primarily higher risk individuals who have chosen not to get the vaccines that have been free and readily available for about a year.

So in terms of goalposts, what exactly is your goal? I'd like to see international travel normalize - it's maybe one of the few restrictions I still feel is constraining me - but there is little my government can do about that.
Vaccines have mostly eradicated other viruses. It's at least possible we could do the same here if we didn't have such a high level of resistance to getting vaccinated.

It was only after (in the US) vaccination rates levelled off and Delta came along that I began hearing people talk about COVID as endemic.

As for evidence, the continued efficacy of some vaccines against variants suggests that, with high levels of adoption, it's at least possible that after a few years of periodic boosters and targeting emerging strains that we could have reached an extremely low level of circulation.

Also why wouldn't you move the goal posts when the data changes? You get new data, you reevaluate prior assumptions and models, and adjust accordingly. Is there a particular instance you're referring to here?
The 99 Percent Invisible has an episode on this, one of my favorites, for anyone interested:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/
So 36 hours a week are better like having Friday off every second week. But making 40 hours in 4 days - nope that is not a good idea.

I did experiment last year when I was doing 32 hours a week so I was taking vacation days every Friday for a month. I felt a lot better, salary hit was not that bad.

I have a small loan to pay back, when I am done with it I am going for 36 hours - well it will be one week 40 and other 32. I expect it still will be huge improvement for my well being.
If there is a commute then it needs cut down to three days.
>What leads you to believe that measures such as pushing vaccination haven't been having tremendous impact on that issue?

Do you believe that health care systems are currently overwhelmed by COVID?
If you had quoted the whole sentence you would've seen it's Wormhole that's down for maintenance and not Solana. Bridges aren't fully on-chain by definition and even if they were just a smart contract you can definitely have a pause clause in your code.
That's a very good point - within our current democracy, it seems impossible to have "unbundled" policies. Part of Allogov is to change that - so you can't necessarily tack on a food bill to a medicare bill, and so forth. All the rules that we take for granted now (in legislation) were invented between 1776 and today - they're not necessarily optimal for democracy. I think we do need to think about which rules we want to keep, and which ones we don't.

With that said, Allogov is meant to be a software for the "hardware" of government. Given that we have existing political systems, it's unfeasible to change large portions of our existing democracy. Instead, it'd be much easier to change the "rules" via software, and have representatives plug into the existing system to implement those rules.

For example, if citizens decide in the app that they want the food portion and not the medicare portion of the bill, then the Allogov representative will propose an amendment to strike the unwanted portion out. Ultimately, the efficacy of Allogov will depend on how much "real" power it has (ie, the real number of representatives & voters), just like in a real party.

I do assume that Allogov can effect change, even at 1 or 2 "real" representatives. In politics, even a few representatives can make or break a bill, so both parties will be incentivized to keep Allogov on their side. Negotiating with Allogov representatives is easy (since everyone knows what they want by looking at the app).

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So I call them users, because we're all users of democracy! As a product, democracy isn't great, and hopefully we can make it better.

For the user, Allogov is meant to be better at uncovering "true opinions" and implementing them, so the outcome is more satisfactory to more people. We do this by implementing governance/deliberation/voting schemes that would be impossible to do in real life (think of how long it'd take to implement ranked choice voting). So instead of doing 10 political campaigns to pass 10 issues, we're doing 1 (Allogov), with all the campaigns after that easier to pass.

In that sense, Allogov is meant to be a platform - for building new kinds of democracy. You can be conservative, or liberal, or any number of ideologies. Hopefully the kinds of public spaces we build will be more satisfactory than yelling into the void (ie, voting in gerrymandered districts), and will more truly reflect what constituents want.

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I think you raise an important point - is the app signal the same as what the entire population wants? There's a good chance that it'll skew towards urban millennials vs rural baby boomers, for example. While I think it'd be important to eventually get everyone represented fairly - i'm not sure what the best way of doing that are. We'll definitely address the biases as we see them, though.

Happy to chat more if you want! (zen@allogov.us - it might fall in spam, idk why)
> DACA is a true slap in the face to everyone who made the decision to follow and respect the law.

It's different if you had a choice in the matter but how does DACA affect the decisions that you made? If you knew that DACA was going to be a thing, would you have decided to illegally immigrate instead? I think that would have been pretty much impossible if you were a kid.

> apply for the proper visa from their country

If you've been living in the US for as long as you can remember then the US is your own country.
And these services would all take a 15-30% cut. It wouldn't be profitable otherwise.
And to whom are those bytes being served? Who owns the edge?
Building for Balance. How we developed a unified marketplace
That hasn't completely played out yet. Spotify also lost a lot of share value over this stunt. Organizations certainly are trying to shut him down, which is scary in and of itself, regardless of the outcome. CNN is talking endlessly about this.

If Joe Rogan was a smaller fish, it would have been easier.
> T-cell immunity was considered borderline conspiracy theory until recently.

This surprised me, so I checked my cell biology books. The role of memory T-cells in the adaptive immune response is clearly described in Garland, "Molecular Biology of the Cell", (c) 2002. Not sure in what sense T-cell immunity is a conspiracy theory, unless it's being used as code for something else.
That’s not true though. Users can already sign and sideload apps from a Mac. It’s just that doing so imposes annoyances (have to manually update apps, and resign every week). Allowing proper sideloading would only eliminate annoyances associated with current capabilities.
I definitely have to check out Binary eye. Have you tried scanning the marker from Egypt with it?
> , few people have the time or want to make the effort to comb through and analyze original sources.

I mean, unless it's your profession, you're not. At best, you're reading an article (with summarized data that you hope was aggregated correctly) in a journal. To the best of my knowledge, the raw datasets that those are based on are rarely shared.
I work for myself and usually work 4 hours in the morning and 2 hours after 20.

I'm writing this comment in the shore of a river nearby, making tea in a fire.
Amazon.com announces fourth quarter results [pdf]
Is your code too complicated?
> When work is squeezed into four days, the human interactions that fill the interstitial time can suffer. “There wasn’t time for banter,” said one employee whose startup made the switch. Another said that he no longer had “time to daydream at work.”

So?

I for one am fine with this, thank you. If I want to socialise, I can have plenty with actual friends and family.
That first video is amazing, what a dedication. And they got it working in the end. Super impressive.
In other words, people will have more freedom, and with that comes the freedom to make bad choices.
“Git” is literally a random word. “Kubernetes” also doesn't tell you anything.
Independent of this subject, he is a very strange person in communication. Take a look at the tweets he shared on his twitter account and you will understand what I mean.
This; "adaptive streaming" is the keyword. A video on the web is actually a series of mp4 files which are a few seconds length each. They are generally assembled at runtime via JavaScript or native technology into continuous playback. The browser/app monitors whether chunks are downloaded fast enough to assure continuous playback. That's also why often streams start in low quality (to minimize buffering time) and once the app knows it can go to higher resolution, it switches at the next boundary between the chunks.
How to Annotate Entities with Spacy PhraseMacher
> DataStoreThatLosesAllYourData

Perfect name!
I would love a 4d/10hr workweek. This schedule aligns much better with how I work. Starting work on any effort requires an initial investment of time to get spooled, and then anything after that is productive. This makes me prefer large chunks of working time, rather than smaller ones. Additionally, once I've started on something I feel a strong impulse to finish it in one sitting, and a 10 hour workday lets me do this without compromising my time off.
No they aren't allowed whether they are muffled or not if it says "no engine breaking".
The rationality is: I get a lot of value, so it's worth my money.

I just compare it to other services I pay for that have no free option (e.g. Netflix) but provide less value, so it's a reason for me to pay for Signal because I want them to keep existing and improve the product. Is that irrational?
Codementor is good. Doing one-on-one calls at a reasonable rate is good, but even better, many of those "mentoring" calls can turn into long-term engagements.
Why is this premise of this 40 hours compressed into 4 days? To me, reduced hours means making more of the time you actually spend working. 40-50 work weeks involve a lot of thumb twiddling and doing nothing in between the impactful stuff.
All of the stuff your talking about could be solved by not upgrading to the latest X. If you want headphone jacks, etc, etc just search for a phone that has it and that lets you add music to it. If you want a 90s experience you don't HAVE to buy the latest iPhone or download the latest app.
I'm absolutely itching to give this a shot but I really should be concentrating on other things right now.
> Would people play less if such mechanisms were left out? I'm sure of it.

I already addressed this point earlier:

> What effect? Getting people to play more? Do having a good story or tight mechanics count as dark patterns too then?

I'm going to call out now that you ignored this question. Was that just because you didn't have a good response that fit your argument? It sure seems like it.

> I don't see how it couldn't, or what this adds to a good game.

This is just you asserting your own preferences as an Objective Moral Good. "I don't understand why other people would like <thing>, therefore I can conclude that their enjoyment is irrelevant or objectively incorrect."

Part of having an open mind is learning to accept that other people may enjoy things that we find odd or even bewildering. Asserting that if other people find different things enjoyable, then Other People Are Wrong is the mark of a closed mind.

If you actually believe the point you're putting forth here -- that RPG fans don't truly enjoy the mechanics most closely associated with a game being an RPG -- then I suggest you go to an RPG forum and ask them yourself. Because your whole argument here smells very strongly of, "doesn't understand the perspective of others, and doesn't want to understand."
that's a good idea. we'll try adding that, but i still think there are a lot of situations of "dead air," like between takes or long pauses.
Yeah, I don’t think people really grok that. They think “US hates rail, Europe loves it,” but this only applies to passenger travel and for freight, it’s flipped.

Maybe part of the reason the US has less passenger rail is because freight rail is prioritized and we use airplanes and automobiles instead due to the vast distances between many of the population centers and the lower overall population density (a given random two geographic locations will have fewer people moving between them and therefore will be tougher to justify passenger rail). Also, sea transport between different coasts of Europe is a little easier than between East and West Coast in the US because you don’t need to go through the Panama Canal. Then again, the US does have a very good inter coastal waterway and good navigable rivers both via the Mississippi and through the Great Lakes (thanks, Canada!).
It's new to me. Sometimes it's nice to have an article rehash old knowledge and bring it into the current context. If for nothing other than to educate the ignorant like me.
Levitation through forward motion, passive magnetic bearings, what's not to like?
As an adult gamer with limited time, I'm not a completionist at all, so I sympathize with feeling that achievements can be kind of naggy, like I'm being scolded for not investing further in a title. Part of that is just facing my own demons— like, Spider-Man PS4 was a super fun time; I played it through twice and got almost all the trophies, but I'm not a bad person for being done with it before getting the platinum.

On the other hand, recently playing Nobody Saves The World, I've actually come to enjoy the little mini Form Quests that it gives you— you have to complete something like 200 of these to progress the main story (they award stars that are needed to open key dungeon doors), but more importantly, they encourage you to engage with the mix-and-match abilities system that the game offers, which preps you with the mindset that is needed to take on certain late-game challenges.

Into The Breach is another excellent title that has in-game completion tracking, encouraging you to get a 2-, 3-, and 4-island victory with each set of mechs, and awarding unlocks at certain milestones of those.

So I think I slightly resent but am happy to ignore "bolted on" achievements that are purely observational, but I also appreciate some games that do more with achievement-like challenges in terms of pushing the player to try new strategies.
Your spell metaphor doesn't serve you being this handwavey. What are you even saying happened on the ethereum blockchain during this?
I adore flying in Elite Dangerous, but holy shit it's such a grindfest I feel like I'm playing a free to play game.

I shouldn't have to minmax some community derived mining plan just to get a ship worth playing in.

It seems like they developed the grindyness of the economy back when there was very little content in the game in order to artificially increase playtime, and haven't fixed it now that there is a lot more content.
I really hope someone familiar with this the tech used in restoration of ancient sites can provide more insight into how they work.
Yes, but is that inevitable? Facebook tried to take advantage of Android's open nature in the past and failed outright, and that wasn't even an app store but an app launcher (Facebook Home). The Amazon Appstore is mostly used for their Fire Tablets anyway. Ditto Samsung Galaxy Store is specifically for their own devices. Epic's attempts at building their own mobile app store hasn't gotten anywhere. So what other phantom third party app store are we so afraid of? Steam?
You cannot unfortunately:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211825

Maybe certain streaming services allow you to download as well though their app on the Apple TV, but most of the big ones don’t (Apple, Netflix, HBO, etc.)

I really don’t like it because, besides wanting to pre-download something for higher quality, there are often certain shows and movies my kids want to watch over and over and they might as well just live on the hard drive.

So I have a 64GB Apple TV and most of the storage is empty. Theoretically it’s for games, but ATV games are limited to 100MB and then anything else has to be downloaded after the game has installed. (In practice there aren’t any games near that big). I suppose device might also progressively download the video in the background and that would use storage, but that’s all an implementation detail and entirely up to the heuristics of the device.
I agree that sounds and details play an important part of the game and there are sounds that are quite famous (Mario). I am merely saying that it not u reasonable to be question whether or not sounds can be a dark pattern. I didn't draw any conclusions myself.
You can passively share albums on a number of platforms. Why would you email them actively?

As you say, that’s a bit weird.
Yup, this sounds like the same people that have to go into the office for "culture" or some BS.
Answer to the question in the title, hidden deep inside the article: Length limits.

"Maximum length of a truck with a semi-trailer in Europe is 18.75 meters." so length is at a premium that cannot be outweighed by the other benefits of the "classic" US style design.

Higher speeds and bigger roads are other reasons to have the US truck in the US but not Europe (among many other advantages of the design) but the stated fact that "European style" trucks were much more common in the US when the US still had length limits indicates that the length limit is the deciding factor.
Before CRISPR came along, I remember talking to someone working in archaebacteria who went on and on about these arrays of sequences in archea that seemed really fascinating to him, but I never quite got the implication of what this would eventually develop into before it actually did become CRISPR (by other people working in the field).

I remember ~20 years ago hearing about nanopore DNA sequencing, and wondering if it would ever work (it does!).

I would have definitely funded both of these people, but I wouldn't necessarily have funded the projects. I knew they were brilliant, but I didn't know exactly where it would lead or if it would work.

The key really is to break out of the current "big famous lab" approach, IMHO. Or at least have two tracks of funding. I'm not sure about how to fund people not projects in a systematic way, but we definitely need more random shots on goal and more stochastic exploration of the space of possible research areas.
Windows ME was strange. In some computers it was a modernized Win98, not really better or worse. On others, it caused all kinds of crashes, including total irrecoverable data loss on hard disks.

One of the weirdest examples I know of was a particular series of desktops, sold in the supermarket with ME. I knew 2 people buying identical machines in the same week from the same supermarket. One of them worked flawlessly. The other one was such a miserable crash prone machine. We forced Win98 on the crasher and all was well again.
You can sue anyone for anything in my country (USA), but I don't know if you'd win, for so, so many reasons.
> aggressive dismissal and censorship of natural immunity

The 'natural immunity' argument never makes sense if you think about it. You're comparing the chances of a SECOND covid infection of an unvaccinated person to a vaccinated person's first infection. If you compare vaccinated vs unvaccinated people and their chances of their first and second covid infections, the vaccinated person wins in both cases.

Also, the first infection is the riskiest one. So going through the riskiest infection to get immunity for a second, less risky infection doesn't really make sense.

If it's about whether someone who had covid already should count as being vaccinated, maybe. But that also risks incentivizing people catching covid on purpose instead of taking the vaccine.
I would assume that with physics, unlike psychology, or anything that involves biology, is that it's generally much easier to eliminate variables.

Testing a new drug, for instance, is very difficult because there are about a billion chemical processes going on in the human body (or whatever body is being tested), and trying to distill the effects of adding one more, and making sure that the effects are correctly attributable to the right causes is something we can almost certainly never know 100%.

This kind of thing certainly happens in physics, and we can see results like neutrinos appearing to travel faster than light until they are corrected, but it's usually much easier to isolate the processes of interest in a physics experiment than in a biological system, or at least easier to eliminate most extraneous effects.
Well as long as you don’t have I-485 approved, you don’t have Green Card approved. Adjudication of I-485 is an entirely different process than I-131/I-765 or I-140, which are the ones you get approved for real. The 2 year Combo card is not a green card.
It's interesting reading the comment from Microsoft welcoming Flutter on Windows. Clearly it's good for Microsoft that Windows is being supported, but maybe this could lead to Google & Microsoft working on Flutter together? I think Canonical is already working on Flutter Linux support.
CI pipelines are a Good Thing. While we didn't get bogged down by them
ten years ago, our testing wasn't nearly as formalized nor robust.

If you're using any one of the popular suites (github, travis, circle),
you should be able to fork your own little CI fiefdom insulated from the
depredations of the incompetent.

One team member in particular is talking about it constantly.

You have to understand only a small fraction of the tech workforce makes
a living off code. The rest of us have to do it by talking.
Agree. There are other types of games besides straightforward puzzle and platforming games!
Interesting challenge, can you 'microstep' along two axis at once without losing sync? That would be neat. I think I've worked out a way to rotate them as well!