skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like to think we can, if we decouple our self-worth from what we do, internalize “I am better than no one and no one is better than me”, and recover from all the variations on trauma going back generations to the Puritans and beyond, and what we did and do to those who were here in North America already.

Among other things.
Most of the EU language barriers and assimilation is hard.
In this case it's the bridge that's fairly centralized. There wasn't any hard forks or other manipulation of the underlying blockchains (except for sending transactions on them).
And the hardware quality and features aren't things that android can just copy, because Apple has numerous government enforced monopolies on their technology called patents. This isn't a free market.
"With a broad stroke, male and White/Caucasian workers simply earn more than their counterparts. "

Why does this sentence leave out Asian workers, when the Asian workers' bell curve actually skews towards even more pay than White/Caucasian workers'?
I don't think your sources support your claim -- but it's complicated. The first link: https://theicct.org/planes-trains-and-automobiles-counting-c... has a graph showing that bus achieves ~150 passenger miles / gallon gasoline equivalent, compared to amtrack, plane, and car all at ~50 +/- 10 miles / gallon gasoline equivalent. Bus is 3 times more efficient than the average car by that measure -- but it really depends what kind of bus loading they assumed. The second link: https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa-615.pd... is mostly arguing that trains should not be built _in the US_ for environmental/efficiency reasons. One strand of the argument is that building rail is less flexible and takes away ridership from the more efficient bus mode. I think this is the passage you were trying to quote:

> Two commuter-rail systems —New Jersey Transit and the Northern Indiana Commuter District—are the only transit systems that use less energy per passenger mile than a Toyota Prius. All other commuter-rail lines, except for the SEPTA system in Philadelphia, use less energy than the average passenger auto.

Quite the contradiction to "none are even close to being as efficient as driving a Prius".
This is the conclusion I have come to for myself. I got the initial COVID vaccine but the flu vaccine doesn't seem worth it for me and I won't be getting any boosters or further vaccines.
Speaking of software, does anyone know of a library or scriptable tool to convert SVG to HPGL? (That supports text with custom fonts.)

Like another commenter mentioned, HPGL is still used in cutters and engravers. we have a project where we're generating custom SVG files and need an automated way to convert them into HPGL to be laser engraved.
Slackware is more bare bones, so its good for learning linux.

It is also stable, people set up slackware servers and let it run for years.

But to be honest, modern distros are much more convenient esp for workstations. These days Slackware wouldn't be my first choice, but it brings up memories, had a lot of fun tinkering with it.
If you don't happen to have your 2000s-era iMac or iBook running OS 9 currently in arm's reach here's an online version of the same sort of game: https://www.unixpapa.com/floodit/?sz=14&nc=6
I'd played with Linux before, but Slackware 7 was my first full-time laptop linux distro. My laptop when I was at uni used to always overheat when trying to boot into Windows; Slackware would easily boot before it overheated and then just idle. Loved Slack, ran it on other machines until v12 when I got lazy and started running Fedora Core. Might try this out.
Slack was my second distro with the first one being the original Red Hat, but i discovered them on IRC, through the glorious mIRC Simpson, if any other Italian is around, back then ^^
FYI: The Tetrabyte SSD is by the same guy as this, Glen Akins.
> They are dehumanizing.

Just curious, but would you feel comfortable elaborating on how? I haven’t found them all that bad personally, but maybe there’s something I’m not as attuned to.
I have tried Arch and found it more cumbersome to install. (And systemd, eww..)
Sounds like we basically agree even though we are coming at it from different angles.
Africa includes 54 countries, so there are lots of politicians. A couple of members of the US Congress died from COVID, and former presidential candidate Herman Cain. I guess some countries have more luck than others.
I started with Slackware in the early 1990s, downloaded it over a 2400 baud modem (I skipped downloading X11 stuff at 2400 baud, and just got enough for text terminals and GNU compilers, Emacs, etc. Good times, even with my family almost killing me for tying up our landline telephone for so long while downloading Slackware.
Not GP, and not expressing agreement or disagreement with GP, but those of us of Hungarian descent make up less than 1% of the population nationally according to 2018 census estimates, and 1% or less of the population throughout much of the Midwest according to data from the American Community Survey as recent as 2019.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Americans
Why is this article focused on whatever is happening on some social media site when schools are banning books, barring teachers from teaching subject matters deemed obscene, and churches are hosting book burning parties? I feel like there are some wacky priorities going on.
Which of my tweets do you find strange? (If you don't mind sharing :)
If I see Nazi flags and Swastikas being waved proudly, and I say, "Man, I can't believe there are Nazis over there, I thought we first world countries absolutely hated Nazis!", why would that be a me problem?
Indeed, you can also create a Jinja macro to auto-insert the token into all of your forms too, here's a code example[0]. It's a 100% solved problem both on the Flask back-end and template side with an ability to opt out of it when you need to on the back-end such as when accepting webhooks from another service.

[0]: https://github.com/nickjj/build-a-saas-app-with-flask/blob/1...
Clearly you are missing my point. I am not saying it's bad economics.

And yes, a wind turbine would be seen as a less frivolous reason to take down the bridge. Do you really not understand that most people are more sympathetic towards clean energy than to billionaire toys?

You are talking as if everything revolved around money, but money is only a means to an end, and it's not the only measure of things.

You also seem to think that legality is the only measure of good and bad.

> If city of Rotterdam doesn't want their historical bridge dismantled then it simply....shouldn't have allowed for the project to go ahead.

Yes, the entire point is that they _should have_ said no.
I haven’t seen any Nazi flags in the crowd but I haven’t been following it closely.
Talk about bloat - so we now need to install another mini os in our os to run a text editor? :)
The other major reason everything is deployed on 443/tcp is that middleboxes ruthlessly block everything that isn't 443/tcp, and your stack design won't change that. There's huge incentive to fit everything (or, at least, everything TCP) into TLS on port 443 --- and it's mostly fine, because 443/tcp has better mux/demux features than plain-old-TCP anyways.

People are already doing work on moving TLS into the kernel. There are two big challenges with universalizing the idea. The first is that there's a lot of policy code that accompanies TLS, and having kernel state for all of it doesn't make sense. The other is that TLS changes a lot more frequently than TCP, and some of those changes are urgent, and you don't want to have to update a kernel and reboot your machine when all you really need is a service update and restart.
oh this is very cool - haven't seen this one. thank you for sharing!
although too late to help your father, anyone facing acquired resistance to PARP inhibitors should look into novobiocin [0].

novobiocin is an antibiotic developed decades ago but recently "rediscovered" as offering anti-carcinogenic against some cancers which resist PARP inhibitors. in short, it targets an enzyme (polymerase theta) critical to these cancers.

thanks for sharing this story.

i'm so sorry for your loss, but it is amazing how such persistence and critical thinking offered your father and family another treasured year of life. he must have been unbelievably proud.

[0] https://www.dana-farber.org/newsroom/news-releases/2021/anti...
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"Upgrade Treadmill" is a very nice way to put it. I'm using this term from now on.

All your points are pretty much how'd I put it. If the core gameplay loop is all about leading me to the microtransactions window, it's an instant No for me.

This goes for almost all free games such as Apex, Fortnite, Destiny, etc... where skins are the primary source of revenue.

That's without mentioning "games" which I consider gambling like Genshin impact, Fifa ultimate team, and all kinds of shameless gacha out there

"It's free" is not an excuse for preying on people's psychological weaknesses.
Gamekid, a Game Boy emulator I built for the Playdate (2020)
I just don't think Sonos speakers are built for that type of use case, they are first and foremost a wireless speaker and always have been. They were never designed to allow for devices to plug directly into the speakers, as it wouldn't then be controllable across the array of other Sonos devices, which is the point.

I agree that it wouldn't take much to do so and it would increase its accessibility, but I just don't think they have an appetite to do that.

The Sonos port device which they have had to allow you to physically connect devices has always been atrociously expensive. To think that I could buy two of their rear Sonos speakers and still have money left over be cheaper than the port is just silly.
Oil pipelines on average leak less than truck and rail transport for the same volume of oil [1].

1. https://pstrust.org/rail-vs-pipelines
>And voluntarily unvaccinated people should not fill ICU beds that other people need.

Wow. I'm speechless.

Blacks (along with some other minorities) are the group with the lowest vaccination rate, for rather obvious reasons. If you aren't familiar, look up the Tuskegee experiment.

You are proposing to flat out deny life-saving medical care, in a critical illness situation, to those very vulnerable groups that have completely justified distrust of a government that abused them for hundreds of years.

>there are still unvaccinated people occupying ICU beds, leading to non-Covid related treatment getting postponed, and sometimes leading to deaths.

Did you have a flu shot every year? Are all other vaccines you had in childhood boosted on schedule? Looking forward to you send us proof.

Also please prove you wash hands everytime you go to the washroom. Until then, I expect you aren't going to seek treatment for any infectious diseases, after all we don't even have proof you wash hands, and how can we waste precious medical resources on such irresponsible citizens who voluntarily refuse the best medical intervention of all time, basic hygiene? /s

The real biggest problem is people that do not understand why informed consent exists in the first place.

Lack of political will to expand the ICU capacity does not override informed consent. Even completely broke countries like El Salvador have been able to roll out field hospitals, it can be done.
I think we'll display a transcript like this eventually, but I still believe the timeline should be the core driver of control
Stop: Do Not Create an Issue
"Understanding unknowns" is a perfectly good motivation for a grant - it just means that instead of seeking a grant to do X, you'll be seeking one for what amounts to a feasibility study on X-like stuff; this is not a bad thing for either 'impact' or 'risk tolerance'. Of course, it goes without saying that work where there are fewer "unknowns" to explore will be funded more directly.
You didn't read at all. The stats are adjusted for populations within those cohorts.
I think you're moving goal posts. Not all problems with our market are the result of simple consolidation of market leaders.

Put simply, don't buy products that lock you in if you don't want products to lock you in. It seems like consumers are capable of making decisions based on price, durability, features, color etc. why is any other variable sacred?

The answer is consumers don't care about these issues enough to pay for them. Would we have this right-to-repair argument if consumers went out of their way to buy repairable devices? Lenovo, Apple, Google, et. al. have been moving to solder more and more components to the board and glue everything together and consumers haven't punished these producers with their wallets yet. If you want a repairable device, buy one -- this isn't a consolidation problem. If you want a phone that you can run a different OS on, buy one. If you want a red toothbrush, don't buy a blue one and complain (or make a law) that it should be red.

Pine64 is a for-profit entity. If you want a repairable phone that you can side-load anything on, maybe give your money to them instead of Google-Apple. Likewise, if you want a repairable laptop maybe buy a Librem 14 instead of an MacBook. Maybe if you want an open hardware ePub reader buy an InkPlate instead of a Kindle. These things exist and more would exist -- with more polish -- if people voted with their wallets. These are real companies trying to make real money with real products for real people.

The smart phone operating systems you listed would have flourished if more people purchased their respective devices. You can't install Sony's OS on an XBOX and while I don't purchase consoles and think buying a single-purpose gimped device is almost always a bad idea, if people want to buy what XBOX is selling, so be it. Apple consumers are not left in the dark about their ability to use an alternative app store and while I think it's a horribly limiting experience, Apple consumers keep throwing money at the company.

I'm not just blaming the consumer. I'm also stating that the consumer is a vital part of the market and their action or inaction results in a market more aligned with those decisions.
That is a refreshing twist.
That Chinese WZ-8 looks just like the paper airplanes I made as a kid.
Honestly, it looks more like there's a lot of women with very low earnings, that perhaps skews the rest of the data.
Right and there are no other exogenous factors that could impact Russia's desire to export fertilizer, like an ongoing global pandemic wreaking havoc on supply chains. It must be biological weapons.
Update on Firefox Reality
No they are not. One can write / use a progressive web app and have the app installed and running without the need of an App Store at all.
The problem with that narrative is that it absolves responsibility for further action by pretending that the vaccines are the best we can do about this pandemic. It becomes a show and that's not good
A Complete Rethinking of Server Virtualization Hypervisors
The point is to be a /permissionless/ network. That includes permission to build dapps that require KYC and are managed by centralized institutions.

It's very much like saying "I thought we had free speech in this country" when your post is being deleted from the New York Times comment section.
Kindest interpretation is that the 'and' there is a restrictive and subsets to the male and White.

Alternative is that Asians are a minority in the US, being 6% of Americans, while White people are 60%, and so it is more interesting for talking about this larger group.
Ask HN: Where Are the Rust Meetups?
Rust is a popular, exciting, modern programming language, but I've had trouble finding Rust events, meetups, and user groups in my area (San Francisco). There have been essentially zero Rust events on Meetup in the last six months. None of the groups that were active when I looked two years ago have any activity.

Where does the Rust community gather and hang out IRL to discuss projects and exchange ideas? Where are upcoming Rust conferences announced? Is anyone organizing lightning talks or meet-and-greets anymore?
Accidentally leaving a secret aircraft out during the day at Area 51? I'm fine with leaving that in the impossible category.
No first hand experience, but perhaps vpype with this plugin: https://github.com/zxsq-cc/hpglpype
You'd similarly not see any issues with human meat substitutes being sold at your local grocery store? Curious how that's not a thing, huh?
> Violent reactions are really the only deterrent left to keep thieves at bay.

This is objectively false. There are laws, which are enforced by courts, that provide sufficient deterrent.

I cannot stress this enough; if you respond to property loss with violence, you deserve anything bad that happens to you.
On that note, another slept-on website is OpenBase[0] which allows you to find and rate alternatives to different packages/libraries and gives you information like weekly downloads, github stars, last commit, etc. It really makes a big difference in comparing different options

[0] https://openbase.com/
Or, you know, they could use shorter trucks. What a concept.

It's nice of you to opine on how traffic enforcement should happen in a place you (clearly) don't live. The NYPD choose not to enforce traffic laws across the board, and it leads to some dire consequences. In any case, whether or not longer trucks would be better for New York, the decision has already been made that they're not allowed. It's not up to the NYPD to second guess the law.
Lot of people working in overdrive to excuse displays of Nazi symbolism these days. Never would have thought I would see it on y-combinator but here we are.
Linux Lite Gets Updated to Version 5.8
Would anyone be interested in actually building this? I would love to work on something along these lines.

An open protocol would mean trackers could be built right into things, like a keychain flashlight with a tracker.

You also wouldn't need a phone to pick them up, an ESP32 could handle the relaying to WiFi, so something like a school's lost and found could have a fixed base station for $5.

Even better, devices could relay microscopic amounts of data through nearby nodes. It would be like the Things Network, but at a quarter of the cost and with zero new hardware to get started.
But then how is it the tech capital of the world? I think they do come. But there are still many talents outside.
> People won't like game design that encourages slow walking for long.

You don't have to do "slow walking". By default the controller included in almost every VR platform allows you to move faster if you want within an VR FPS game. Anything available in a pancake game is also available for VR so I still don't understand this complaint. If you want more immersion, then you can get a movement rig like KatVR or run in place with Vive Sensors using NaLo.

> Your human meatbag is not particular dexterous and it shows in the VR games coddle you with their enemy design.

I would disagree. It works just fine, because it's actually easier to aim with a blaster in your hand vs indirectly with a mouse. If you have issues with hand eye coordination, that is not an issue with VR itself.

> And the experience of shooting and taking cover is very hard to differentiate in VR across titles.

Because the actual physical mechanics of taking cover doesn't change. The only reason it's different in 3rd person games is due to the controls. Again, I don't understand this complaint unless you just don't like physically moving.

> I think classic controller games will end up being a popular format for VR when the motion control gimmicks wear off.

I feel that this is only true for anyone who have issues with physically moving their body. I don't feel that this applies for most of the populace. Then again I could be wrong.

VR does have many issues and problems, but the issues you bring up seem more like personal ones.
Interesting to see the pay gap charts.

> our gender gap data shows that companies are still struggling to offer their female and BIPOC workers equal pay for equal work

Does this data account for levels or years of experience? For example, if there are more junior-level women in the industry than senior-and-above level women, then of course you'd expect women to earn less, percentage-wise.

If it's not accounted for, then the quoted statement seems false.

Similarly, how come asian workers are left out in the following statement:

> With a broad stroke, male and White/Caucasian workers simply earn more than their counterparts.

It seems asian workers earn even more so it's weird how only white/caucasian is called out.
We tend to be quite building inspection heavy over here in the UK but I gather if you work with people who know the system well, you can get off-grid style buildings built. Hopefully this is quite a useful example that featured on two episodes of Grand Designs.

Original:
https://vimeo.com/28848933

Revisited (apologies for the C4 link which requires hoops to watch):
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs-revisited/...

Ben Law's website:
https://ben-law.co.uk/
I was surprised by gender pay gap that follows tenure. Very interesting. Would have expected that total pay gap exist since proportion of women in junior engineers is higher than in senior engineers.

Interesting stuff for future perhaps: foreign vs. domestic; and breaking out Chinese + Indian at least for Asian.