skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Light rail in the US in the past 50 years has objectively been an over priced under utilized boondoggle. It's entirely believable buses may well have been the far better option for crossing the golden gate, even if a guy who works for the light rail system today doesn't think so.

BART is not light rail, it is a fully grade separated heavy rail rapid transit system. Muni operates San Francisco's light rail network
When evaluating popular media and especially that which is popular with women, it's not too surprising. How are "uneducated" men portrayed in the media? They're clumsy stupid goofballs. Even the fictional men with degrees are often portrayed as aloof and not knowing what a woman wants.

Entertainment aside, growing up I was told that a college degree is the only way to make any real money, and I know for a fact that young people are still taught this. If her parents insist she go to university, why would she come home with some trade school bum when she believes her parents think she's better than that?
situation 3: we invite Putin to Nato and compensate the families of Ukrainians who have died and rebuild Ukraine together.
Water supply is also considered a utility, but that doesn't make it reasonable for a stove to require a water connection.
And this time, a cold war started not by Russia completely steamrolling Nazi Europe, but completely showing its ass.
I was curious about BLR so I had a quick look but there isn’t much around other than what’s on Firebird’s website.

Their description of BLR makes it sound like an eagerly-evaluated equivalent of SQL Server’s Execution Plans, but are compiled on CREATE instead of on first-use, and are comprised of machine-native (i.e. raw x86/x64 + disk read syscalls) operators arranged together - or maybe slightly higher-level? It’s unclear how schema-binding works.

I’m curious what advantages there are to that approach anymore: databases are invariably IO-bound, not CPU bound, and things like well-maintained indexes and statistics objects are far more important when it comes to DB perf than the ISA of the query engine. I’d wager an ultramodern engine running in WASM or even interpreted Java will run faster on the same hardware than JET, I’d think.

On a related note, why are we still stuck with 4K/8K-sized pages?
Where is the actual source for this book? It's 500 years old and we have the internet, it should be the easiest thing to find a PDF of this.

For some reason there isn't a link for the book and some of the sources you have to sign in to view it.
You seem to not understand that gun owners train how to use firearms, and a proper one will practice high levels of gun safety in a home. Sure, there's going to be morons who own them and make the news. But it's not a toy or for fun. Just as they find out.

No worries, the “hyper-masculine” men with badges will come save you. I have no problem with you wanting to take your chances and let someone with evil intent to have their way with you or your loved ones. Just don’t try and take the ability to defend, from others, because you have a problem with masculinity.
iCloud Keychain works across devices, backed up automatically to iCloud. Only for Apple devices but works great.
Not Delaware, Wyoming.
When you typed this out, did it not occur to you that this feels this way to you due to a self-imposed bubble?
That's the key problem, the conflict of interest as separate native apps are much better for users but a single cross-platform app (often web/Electron based) is much better for the developer due to cost, compatibility and maintenance issues.

So the endgame is probably resigning to having lousy non-native software until/unless there once more comes a time with a single dominant/monopoly platform where people just make a single native app for everyone.
In fish...

"Contrary to expectation, the synaptic strengths in the pallium remained about the same regardless of whether the fish learned anything. Instead, in the fish that learned, the synapses were pruned from some areas of the pallium — producing an effect “like cutting a bonsai tree,” Fraser said — and replanted in others."

This is a very counter intuitive. So there are existing neural connections (formed somehow previously...) and new memories form by pruning these connections? Crazy
I wonder how much money has been lost hiring software developers to implement something that Excel was handling fine. (snark snark, sorry, of course there are a lot of good reasons to move away from excel, but many projects fail or money might have been better spent elsewhere given how expensive it is to contract out for something new)
It's not like you're freezer will stop operating if you don't run a water line to the ice maker.
You're right. Hitler or Hirohito winning their war means something so utterly small compared to the US losing theirs.
Let's say 2 million people are on the streets protesting. What's next?
The United States would also face huge shortages and other problems if they couldn't trade with China. China also realizes that too-- it's a two way street. Globalization makes everyone vulnerable
yeah but could have Japan defeated the US? It's clear they could have won their objectives, but Japan could not have rolled tanks all the way to New York to defeat the US.
You are correct.

I should have been more clear. It leaves a bad impression and all parties should want to clear it up. The issue of copyright isn't insurmountable. They would simply license the the works from Martin on a limited basis. Obv. it is short-term because we are only talking about the two missing books which were originally promised. No extensions to fatten the publisher's pockets. And I did say that we don't actually know the terms of his deal...but the perception is pretty ghastly. And yes, that is just my opinion....and matters it not a whit.

For an industry that constantly complains about how poorly it's doing, you'd think they would be more careful. Things like this have a tendency to leave a permanent stain. Look at journalism....it may never recover from the reputational damage done by the Buzzfeed era...and you have no idea quite how much it pains me to say/think/type that....but I believe it to be true. Publishing is facing the same Rubicon...and this the Vanguard.
>to quickly de-escalate a protest that was anything but peaceful.

It wasn't exactly violent either. Better hope you never have to actually use violence against a corrupt system
We had a water heater installed a few years ago, that along with a heat exchanger heats the house, so it comes with a thermostat. Salesman tells me in glowing terms about the WiFi-enabled thermostat they're "giving" me, to which I reply "ABSOLUTELY NOT"... turns out they have an old-style one that's $300 cheaper, and... has worked fine for the entire time, without poking a severe security hole in my WiFi network.
I don’t think that was their only goal but they can certainly fall back on it now.
UK could be resupplied across the Atlantic by world's preeminenant industrial producer while German power projection of era couldn't comprehensively cripple GBR. German Blitz+blockade didn't achieve strategic goals of destroying GBR industries while also being distracted by land war. TW has even less food/resource security and entirely within range of PRC weapon platforms, who has more industrial capacity than US during peak of WW2 production. Also consider UK managed to hold onto Falklands. It's really about industrial capacity to wage attritional war - TW has an initial defensive bonus but massive resupply penalty. If PRC gains air superiority and deter outside intervention, taking over island is only matter of time. Merchant fleet assets alone is enough to ferry 100,000s anywhere on TW if PRC wants to human wave / million man swim in days. Dunkirk moved 350k bodies on 800 ships in a week. PRC has 50-80k fishing boats that can make the journey. It's hard to overstate PRC industrial advantage relative to TW.
I've never know someone to be particularly more prone to food poisoning from eating something fresh like a salad?
NATO enforcing a no-fly zone over Ukraine would entail NATO blowing up radar and SAM installations manned by Russian soldiers in Russia near the Ukrainian border. I'm no expert on politics or warfare but it sure seems like NATO directly attacking Russia like that would be pretty likely to result in MIRV launches.
Right, this is what I was thinking. Like with a quick Google for "wet markets" prior to 2019 I see tons of articles warning about the dangers and calling for China to close them:

2007: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-foodmarket-idUSHKG2...

2012: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/12/wet-markets-in-china-...

2013: https://qz.com/141596/chinese-bats-carry-viruses-primed-to-c...

2017: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/china-ground-z...

I was more aware of this danger and I guess the lab leak theory sounds more like a sci-fi plot to me before the pandemic.
Looking to hire a REMOTE Senior VueJS developer for 5 days a month ongoing. Must have 4+ years of Vue experience. Will be working on an advanced task management app (think Asana or Monday.com). Will largely be left on your own, you can work whatever days you want in the month. Email me drew@funkhaus.us.
>Western Union and Moneygram exists in Russia no?

What aspect of 'sanctions' do you not understand?

Edit: Oh, I read your other contributions in this thread and see you're just trolling. My mistake.
> [A DVD] offers nothing more or less than streaming does

No way! DVDs have all sorts of extra features you can’t get via streaming services, like director commentaries or even feature documentaries. Plus alternate language tracks.

Keep that library, sounds valuable!
I wonder if this decision contributed to San Francisco's population declining year after year from 1950 until 1980, before growing again. SF's population today is only about 12% larger than it was in 1950. Basically, SF has looked the same from a traffic standpoint for the past 70+ years, which is pretty astounding.

Reading the article, it mentions that "traffic control" for buses was one of the reasons pushed for why a subway wasn't needed. Interesting! As someone who lived and worked and rode the bus in SF for a total of six years, I'd just like to know what happened to that plan?? Buses should never have to stop for traffic, in my opinion.
very nice.
with pedagogy potential
There are dictators doing crazy things all around the world, you just hear about this one more.
I had my home built. I used a local builder and had complete control over everything that went into the build, from the type of foundation to the make and model of the oven. If you're paying the money you have the control.
>if you own your own truck your walking away with 7k - 10k+ per week, per mile rates are the highest they've been in years.

Do you "walk away with" your per mile rate? Or do you have to pay for gas and other things first?
well.. define 'witch'.

were 'witches' so called because they wore witch hats? or were witch hats so called because they were worn by 'witches'?
Assange: “Populations dont like wars and have to be fooled into war”
Thanks for the link- exactly the sort of thing that I was looking for in feedback. I'm aware it's conjecture, but do you think this sort of precedence would be useful in airing doubts about the trustworthiness of an Ed25519 signature in court? Do you think the wording on the site is problematic in regards to this, or would you have any thoughts on how concerns about this would be best communicated?
Discord is rightfully _terrified_ of a news story like "top Discord bot in tons of servers hacked, every message it saw in the last 3 years has been leaked via bittorrent. there are about 300 Million unique users' messages in it". It only makes sense to start clamping down on what info bots can receive while still allowing them to achieve interactivity via slash commands and whatnot.
Right.

Really utter madness in so many ways but a thing of its time.

I am reminiscing right now about two whole volumes of the Orbis collectible magazine, The Home Computer Course.

I believe I have a complete set stashed away; it has amazing photos of the insides of all of these machines, including the Jupiter Ace.
I did not. Talk to some MacBU people.
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Looking to hire a REMOTE Senior VueJS developer for 5 days a month ongoing.

Must have 4+ years of Vue experience. Will be working on an advanced task management app (think Asana or Monday.com).

Will largely be left on your own, you can work whatever days you want in the month.

Email me drew@funkhaus.us.
The "fat cats" don't seem to be in charge? Russia is turning into a totalitarian regime.
Anne Applebaum Is Not a War Profiteer
The army has bullets stockpiled. If Russians refuses to run any factories starting today the war would still be on. It's not hard to find arms if you have money-- which Putin has
Okay... that doesn't change a thing though. People still have the right to defend themselves. I don't care if someone is stupid with a weapon. You can find occurrences of a weapon, tool, vehicles, any object, being used improperly and in an unsafe manner that can cause harm or death.

All you illustrate is that being a responsible gun owner is important (which is not debated whatsoever in any firearms community.) The vast majority of law abiding gun owners are responsible with their weapons.
Please god, someone just give me a single piece of evidence of a lab leak so I can run with it and decry the corruption of mainstream media. Nevermind any evidence to the contrary; it's plausible that there could be a conflict of interest, therefore I can throw all of that evidence in the trash. Something something Occam's razor.
> Providing material support can be a crime.

Yes, and? That's not a reason to freeze the account.
Einstein developed General Relativity despite all the available evidence being against it; he did not carefully study existing evidence and realize it supported General Relativity. I.e., it was developed purely by using "common sense", which is just a derogatory term for rationalism.

Famously, when asked what his response would be if a certain piece of evidence turned out to be against relativity, Einstein replied that he'd feel sorry for who obtained the evidence, because Relativity was certainly right. And much later it transpired that the evidence matched the theory merely by coincidence; that the experiment was flawed. So Einstein nearly had to face that fight. Anyone following the position laid out in your comment would have been on the wrong side of that debate.

This demonstrates perfectly that rationality can be superior to empiricism because it is not subject to the same flaws and contingencies as the gathering of empirical evidence.
Since they're affordable and you can still use them as cars on the road, it makes "sense". Just the little issues like extra difficulty when overtaking.

The further east you go in Russia the more you see RHD Japanese second hand cars.
I've had a linux desktop/laptop for twenty years now and never used an Electon app to my knowledge, so don't care either way. Just curious why both of you seem to think they are required? The "apps" mentioned so far work fine in a browser, or have native alternatives.
So in regards to raw fish. Back when I had my first daughter I asked our Japanese co workers who said no way to eating raw fish. It must be cooked. Or if you do eat it, it must be with REAL wasabi. (This is when I discovered that wasabi we get is fake!)

The salad thing appeared to be true. It’s because salad is often not washed properly or prepared with bare hands not washed properly. It’s more likely to cause food poisoning than chicken…

We ditched a lot of other myths. There was no way my wife was going to drink only hot drinks in singapore. (We were told not to drink cold drinks)

My wife had really bad morning sickness and we were told not to have junk/fried food. But the only food she didn’t throw up was steak and McDonald’s.

Still washed hair / haircut, ate watermelon, didn’t do confinement properly. Etc

At the end of the day most of its rubbish or a valid warning. But nothing to be stressed about.
Definitely not global (probably NP hard) but it’s likely optimized in some basic sense would be my guess. (Probably still using very specific parametrizations of the lenses and such.)

At some point we’ll just use metaoptics for lenses that are fully optimized using some general heuristics, but so far I am not sure they (both lenses and heuristics) are ready for prime time :)
It all begins with a card and an exchange, it’s irrelevant who you send it to. The exchange already knows.

The ramps that allow these purchases to happen will be closed once tight regulation comes in and tanks the prices rendering the tokens useless.

> I'm not interested in anyone knowing, including my bank. I like my privacy.

What is the point when you need to buy the crypto tokens using a card? Even then I am sure Kraken and other exchanges have a log of what coins your purchased and they already know you through KYC anyway.

So it seems that privacy coins were a sly facade to get you give up information (card, kyc exchange, etc)

And when this happens, how do Monero users cash out? By meeting in a dark alley trading worthless coins?
I feel so so stupid right now. I believe I've read about the Arc language in one of the essays written by Paul Graham himself! hahaha.
It's the exact same for me. It's like at eight hours exactly something "clicks" and you're fresh, but anything before that is a weird uncompleted process where I feel like garbage all day yet I can't go back to sleep. I can even feel the weight of my eye bags. Then, I take a short (20 min) nap at some point in the day and I'm completely recovered.

It's frustrating because just 15 more minutes would have prevented all that suffering.
Maybe a dumb question, but would a backslash have worked?
Currently Ubuntu is the most popular distro for Linux container and 6th in overall Distrowatch ranking [1]. VyOS is not the most popular NOS and does not even feature on Distrowatch top 100. Not sure why but there's that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://ubuntu.com/containers
This will keep all non-subscription software from being sold there for a long time.
The only time I've heard investigators seizing specific amounts is when the money is cash. To my knowledge, access to all bank accounts belonging to a suspect is frozen as a matter of routine: feds don't wire out the $92,464.27 suspected to be related to fraud and leave the suspect with the balance.

To be clear, I'm not saying ots not a problem - it absolutely is[1]. However, it is not new.

1. It gives undue leverage for plea deals, and leaves suspect unable to pay for legal representation.
Yeah, that would be a hard no for me, personally. I wouldn't let them hook my generator up to the internet either.
Why replace a domain-specific heuristic with domain-agnostic machine learning? And where do you get high quality training data?
So much electronics makes me nervous. Compared to the old rugged SLRs this camera seems a lot less reliable.
>break very soon by Discord shutting people out?

Discord is not shutting people out. They just aren't going to keep legacy versions of the API around forever. Especially when newer versions provide security benefits. Discord as a platform is constantly evolving so it makes sense that its API is too.
>They can't even arrest 1% of population - detention system can't handle that.

Why can't they? In free and democratic USA 5% of the population is incarcerated.
off topic: one paragraph in and I already found what looks to be a grammatical error

>[...] Alvarez promotes the general welfare to insure the domestic tranquility of manufacturers, shopkeepers, and consumers

shouldn't it be "ensure"? I find it strange that a 32 year old magazine with over 31k subscribers can't afford a good copy editor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Prospect
You don't have to "buy." Fabless as an advantage for AMD is not a story, it is actual history.

AMD used to run its own fab and nearly went bankrupt doing so. It spun off the fab as Global Foundries, and still couldn't catch up due to contractual obligations to use GF which was behind Intel. By eventually switching to TSMC (with new/renegotiated GF contracts; GF still makes glue chips on chiplets and also got some AMD stock), AMD beat Intel with more advanced process (it was already competitive in architecture).

Intel is now the one that's disadvantaged by using less than state-of-the-art fabs, the position AMD was in until about 5-7 years ago. Not only is Intel disadvantaged, it's doubling down on fabs, imagining that it will somehow overtake TSMC in the future.
Yes. It’s MAD, without the “everyone is on fire in 15 minutes” aspect. I’m inclined to see that as good.
> actually an area of open and honest debate in 2020 and the first half of 2021.

Of course it wasn’t. On one hand, there was no evidence of anything either way—partially due to the situation, and partially due to China not wanting to answer any questions. And on the other hand, half the country was trying to use any possibility as a wedge to say “look China causes this on purpose as a deliberate attack!”

At no point was there a possibility of open debate.

Honestly, there still isn’t—there’s no good evidence in either direction, so it’s just people shouting their side’s talking points at each other.
For general cars it’s negligible, but for formula 1 it matters: I think it’s in the order of 1/10th a second per lap or something - the car get multiple seconds per lap faster over the course of a race (despite the lower grip as tires wear)
One other question, did you look at using Chromium instead of Chrome?

It has a smaller attack surface which is a plus, correct? Does Chrome add any security features to Chromium?
“High fidelity” web apps, and their electron kin are pretty terrible at basic macOS tasks - they generally use non-Mac shortcuts, and lack many of the standard Mac-isms that make mac software pleasant (for Mac users - obviously matching windows behavior for windows users is fine).

To be completely clear: this isn’t just a “web apps being limited by the browser” issue, because the same problems exist in electron apps.

The core problem I think for new Mac apps is the market for apps that charge enough to cover dev costs has shrunk considerably.

The App Store model encourages software that is priced far too low to be cover costs unless you sell in sufficient quantities, but at the same time it’s created the idea that apps should be less than $10 even on non-mobile platforms. The result is that if you’re not a triple-A game with marketing to match you’re unlikely to be able to charge $60.

That means an indie dev needs to serve as many people as possible, as cheaply as possible. Whether Mac users like it or not that will in general mean things like electron or crummy iOS ports. Even apple’s own catalyst apps can be annoyingly buggy, what hope does an indie dev have?
Yes, well, that is what I was trying to elicit. No idea why they were beating around the bush about steroids. FWIW, I had a good idea what they meant, but they were being vague and ignoring the side effects which take careful management with bloodworm and other hormones off cycle to prevent estrogen / test ratio induced issues (gyno, natural test function). Also, men gain muscle in studies with steroids being sedentary. And lose fat as you said
VSCode is slower than vim, this is true. So are Xcode, Visual Studio and MonoDevelop, so it's hard to say that being native would automatically fix it. But at the same time, VS Code is doing more for syntax highlighting than out of the box vim, and heavily plugin modified vim can get slow too.

I can't say search and replace has ever taken a noticeable amount of time for me, on all my projects and devices it's perceptually instsnt, unless I'm doing a project wide search and forgot to exclude node_modules or something, a performance problem vim avoids by... not having project wide search.