skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Supreme Court came down against those prohibitions in 2017, although I am not sure if that only pertains to state laws and not business agreements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressions_Hair_Design_v._Sch...

Either way, due to wanting to avoid risking anti trust action and to stay out of the headlines, I think the payment card networks (PCN) are not going to want to try imposing any of those credit card surcharge terms.
Oh, yeah. I never went to max level in an MMO I used to play. Once you reach max level in a skill tree, there's no more point in exercising that skill. The reward is that you no longer get rewards. So, why bother? The goal of reaching max level (especially over those huge time investments) doesn't make sense. There's no higher enjoyment at max level, and many games even get boring once you get there.

It's a circular incentive. You level up to kill better mobs. You kill mobs to level up. So, unless there's any other reason to kill mobs, the game dies when everyone reaches max level.
The Most Shameful RPG Dice (2009)
> silly gimmicks

You haven't proved this claim.

> Maybe you are depressed, not in a career you enjoy, ...

So, as you point out, there are many factors here (some out of our control). And the post offers some strategies. Why is quitting a career better than reframing it more positively?
Did you notice how this post is talking about academics? Convenience is a thing and it doesn’t matter how technical or not you are.
Google is just mad they can no longer steal startups/competitors IP. See Sonos v Google at the ITC.
The current state of WASM is not really at this level yet. You can't call directly into the browser APIs from WASM, you need a JS layer to do the API call, and that involves interpreting WASM linear memory. This is slow. Yes, interface-types is supposed to fix this, but it hasn't; it's caught up in a bunch of spec drama, just like the GC proposal.

WebGL still requires a lot of API calls per frame; WebGL 2 is better because of UBOs and VAOs, but not substantially.

The rust/wasm story is also really bad right now; the latest wasm-pack release has been broken for 6 months now (corrupt release tarball) with nobody interested in fixing it, and wasm-bindgen is practically on life support. Debugging is such a sad experience, too. I regret trying to use rust/wasm, personally.
Trolleybus routes require additional costs for maintenance. This might be significant
> It's been almost 24 hours since it was posted, a majority of posts are buried by then.

No. Here's a post with much less upvotes, much less comments still on page 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31205139

There are many other examples if you care to compare.

Meanwhile this post is nowhere to be seen because most conversation here is not up to HN standards.

Flagging is detrimental to post ranking. And rightfully so.
Don't take a comedian literally.
You've unfortunately been breaking the site guidelines a ton lately. We ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. That means no more personal attacks, not using the site primarily for ideological/political battle, and more.
That's beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
> There might be benefits with trams, but I do not know what.

Good tram systems don't share the asphalt except at intersections making public transportation a win for the individual which in turn reduces traffic. Buses always suck, that is an important part of their design.
Tolls. Privatize the roads.
Because I’m replying to someone who would know what those acronyms are.

The ELI5 is that the Navy pays officers who do the core ship/flying activities quite well. Compared to their civilian peers, Navy lawyers, doctors, and cyber people don’t get paid well.

The posted article is about rust on ships. A ships management team is paid well. Low pay is unlikely to be the cause of dissatisfaction.

To be clear, “paid well” is not “paid well” as measured by FAANG tech salaries. A submarine officer with 8 years of experience is making something equivalent to $200Ks if I am to believe the calculators that adjust for tax advantages of military pay, discounted value of future retirement cash flows, etc.
Instead of obsessing over learning facts, let’s teach children how to think
In a library. Loom is more about adapting the JVM itself for continuations and virtual threads than adding to userspace.
Those are definitely the three biggest weaknesses of the Spectrum. They fixed only the sound with the 128 onwards. Was the success of the Spectrum based on its price, though? If they had added those features, how much more expensive would it have been?
1. BECOME RELAXED: Take care of the fundamental issues in your life, health, finances, burnout, or whatever else might be preventing you from being relaxed enough to focus your mind. Eat, sleep, and exercise well. Consider this an absolute prerequisite and don't feel guilty about it.

2. FIND MOTIVATION: Get excited about why you started in the first place. Go over the plan from scratch with a co-founder, talk to users, visualize the end goal, use the product, or do whatever it takes to get back some of the initial excitement.

3. BUILD MOMENTUM: Be as self-indulgent as necessary at first. Don't worry about doing the highest priority tasks, just get going. Do whatever part of the project seems most fun/easy/interesting, however trivial. Do whatever it takes to start building back your speed. Once you're at speed, the hard stuff won't be so hard.

Now you're relaxed, motivated, and have momentum so it's full steam ahead!

Fall off the wagon for some reason? Don't waste time feeling bad, just accept it. Then repeat steps 1-3.
> wars are becoming so rare

Arguably, in a nuclear era, this state of affairs is managed by maintaining the undeniable obviousness of mutually assured destruction. Securing peace by preparing for war.
The systems aren't bad, the sqlite developers are just holding it wrong.
Yep, he may have just gone off into obscurity and we would have been worshipping Mithra or Isis or Odin
There's a lot here to respond to, and in the end it's mostly speculation, but a few things.

In regards to the comparison between Franks and Goths and Saxons, it's not really the same. In those cases they took over the existing Roman state and continued its administration, leaving the institiutions of civil society much the same and even adopting Latin as a language and Roman cultural practices for themselves within a couple generations.

By the time the Saxons arrived en masse in what is now England the existing Roman administration had pretty much collapsed. That seems to be the archaeological evidence in my recent reading: drastic declines in the economic vibrancy of British communities. Things like amphorae and other mediterannean trade goods vanishing. Rich people burying their wealth to hide it from invaders. And, yeah, the stories told by Gildas & St Patrick, our only real contemporary accounts from this general period, seem to agree with this: decline of local British power, retreating into small cloistered communities, Saxon (and other Germanic) raiders wea continual pest even in Roman times, yes, but after the departure of the Roman administration it becoming drastically more aggrivated, the locals were incapable of defending themselves, and the British turned to Germanic mercenaries as a defense (a common Roman tactic). Which predictably backfired.

I've read two books commenting on this period of British history recently, and both disagree remarkably on the degree of cultural and physical replacement. But on the whole the genetic and archaeological and linguistic evidence seems to me to support the statements by Gildas and St Patrick: the British were on the whole replaced & expelled (to Wales, Cornwall or Brittany), or exterminated. This is reflected in part by the fact that only a few Saxon settlements carried forward on top of existing Romano-British settlements, and most adopted new names entirely. Even some prominent ones like London were left pretty much uninhabited for generations before being re-settled later.
My take before reading the article was that “earth is already collapsed”. After reading the article, this still sounds like a fine explanation. Am I wrong?
I'm not exactly sure why, but I never found Oliver to be as funny as Jon Stewart, and I find his aggressive style rather offputting. This article though, doesn't make much sense. Why would Oliver get off his hugely influential platform and "[campaign] for change in the real world[, s]tarting small if he had to and working his way up"? He can affect far more change with the platform he has rather than the one blog-author aspires to.
(pretty sure that's related to 'can't comb a hairy ball flat', so assuming a topologically spherical earth)

and any four-legged table that wobbles can be rotated to a position so as not to wobble (assuming the floor has no cliffs or other topological oddities in its unevenness)
No dog in this fight, having left Christianity in leaving behind a tumultuous youth -- but question.

Why aren't Coptic christian sects more representative of what would have happened without Christianity usurping/inheriting Roman authority?
We also used SQLite and leverage PRAGMA user_version to do the trick. But decided to move to PostgreSQL mainly due to the schema migration constraints.

Our experience is SQLite is OK for small to medium projects, but when the business logic/data model becomes more complex, SQLite is not sufficient.

More discussions are captured here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31038614
Not sure what the intended use is, but traditional modbus is generally regarded as insecure. It's difficult to implement and meet requirements for cyber security required by functional safety, as one case example.

Here are just a couple of many possible references:

https://www.incibe-cert.es/en/blog/deconstructing-modbus

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290732323_MODBUS_pr...

Additionally, managing address based protocols like modbus, esp where they span a battery limit or responsibility boundary can be far, far more expensive in engineering alignment efforts than most people realise. Once you go tag based, your never willingly go back to address based.

These days the use OPC is often preferred, having the ability to be both secure and encrypted, as well as all the advantages of being a tag based protocol.

NB: In my younger days I implemented many, many modbus links, over RS-232/485 and TCP and it really filled many practical needs, not least of which being a default industry standard that vastly increased you chances of communication between devices made by differing vendors.

But these days, the focus on cyber security has really started to curb enthusiasm for modbus, but there is a drive to a newer version with security addressed. I would think the complexity added means, just go with OPC where possible.
I'm not sure what that means, but she definitely was outright wrong on that one, and she used all her skills to make what looked like a convincing argument for "there just isn't enough data there to conclude gravity waves".
What's the population density of Austin compared to San Francisco?
> It is unfortunate that a science communicator would express her research preference in such a way.

Why is it a bad thing to have preferences?

> but for people unfamiliar with science it may sound like "defund LHC" (that would be unfortunate)

She's on the record against building bigger colliders. It follows from her views that we should fund other stuff and not colliders.
Regarding bullet 4. Provisioned Concurrency:

If you use AWS SDK v3 and use node.js runtime 14.x, you can use top level await. Using top level await lets you more easily do async initializations outside your handler code, before invocation. This has a major benefit of reducing cold start latency when using provisioned concurrency.

See https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-node-js-es-module...
I'm glad the Spectrum's manual gets a call-out here - that thing really was a masterpiece of accessible technical writing.
Actually, it's organized religion that can be good or bad. Personal religion is a personal affair, which seldom concerns society. But organized religion has been critical in the establishment of laws and customs, ethical change, societal norms, national expression against opression, etc.
On Twitter, briefly
What about an hybrid solution? Smaller batteries could let trolleybuses venture from their infrastructure as needed, but at a reduced cost.
China, a polytheistic/non-theistic culture in those times, being the progenitor of many fundamental technologies, even while ultimately failing to propagate many of those technologies, is a good example.

If the intelligentsia are focused on climbing fruitless political ladders steeped in theology versus scientific endeavors, you have less progress overall.
Whelp that shows you how much I remember from middle school
1. Practice getting hit. (Preferably with a partner who has enough knowledge and skill to avoid injuring you.)

2. You can practice at low risk of being seriously injured. Again, you need a partner who is sufficiently knowledgeable and skilled to help you without hurting you.

Grappling arts that emphasize groundfighting give you more practical experience of fighting usefully with lower risk of injury. Because you more often start out on the ground, you're much less likely to be injured in a fall. Because you strike less, you're less likely to injure yourself either by striking something or by being struck.

If you want to get past the non-useful reactions to being struck, though, then you probably also want to do some striking artor sport with contact--boxing, kickboxing, muay thai, et. al. Just be sure to use safety equipment and work with someone who has both skill and empathy.
What Hubble? If you're a Boltzmann brain, the Hubble is just an idea you have in your temporary brain, before it pops like a soap bubble.
It has long been up to the merchant to display different prices for credit cards and non credit card payments. No one is stopping them.
Sure, I wrote some myself. Q is what libraries you can use on top of the userspace thread package that are aware of the userspace threads rather than just using OS APIs and thus eg blocking the current OS thread.
Haven't changed since Goddard? Oh my! Here's a list of the innovations the Germans made to Goddard engines in order to scale them up for the V2:

1. turbo-pump

2. building a jacket into the nozzle to both cool the nozzle and pre-heat the fuel

3. putting tiny holes in the jacket so the leaking fuel would form a boundary layer that would protect the nozzle from heat

4. baffles in the combustion chamber to damp out pogo-ing

There's a picture of Goddard looking at a captured V2 engine with his mouth hanging open in astonishment.

The Saturn V engines were scaled up V2 engines.
The empire created the conditions for a 'pandemic'-style spread of religion in a meme-o-sphere unadapted to such -- and probably any Mediterranean-wide integrated economy would've been similar in that way.

Some features of the winning religion seem convergent (e.g. intolerance to rivals). But I think expecting Christianity in particular would be like expecting a rewind of evolution to end up at humans.
That's true, but in any scenario where it mattered, I'd hate to rely on it. Compilers have the idiom recognition pass as a sort of hack for speeding up existing codebases but it's ultimately just a heuristic. When I write code, I would much prefer to be explicit about things like that.
No one here is even questioning why we need motivation.
Ask HN: What do people want from SaaS nowadays?
I have a strong desire to start a SaaS company, so I followed the usual advice of bringing myself to the cusp of a problem domain — twice(!) over the past 13 years — only to come to the realization after considerable investment that any products on the edge would have limited market appeal because both problem domains likely had their heyday 30+ years ago.

I don't regret the time spent as I'm now something of a domain expert in one of the two and I have some neat hobbies to pursue in my down-time.

With all of this being said, here's the question…

*** How can I find problems other people want/need to have solved without diving all the way in or fundamentally changing myself as a person? ***

I have a healthy social life, but my interests and daily activities don't really align with my peers. Outside of the two aforementioned problem domains, I don't have any itches to scratch, but the strong desire to start an SaaS company remains.
This is not tech related but geopolitics.

A few years ago, YouTube introduced me to a man, Peter Zeihan. He focuses on geopolitics and the future of nations. I thought his presentations were informative yet I was skeptical. Always kept him and his predictions in the back of my mind.

Fast forward to now, covid and the Ukraine-Russia war. Now I can’t get enough of his words and thoughts

On my reading list, is his books.

- The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World Without America

- Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World

So far, his predictions have been accurate. And that scares me about the next few years

*edit for formatting
There are some fabulous stories about Christopher Lee, and some rather distubing ones.

The Knife: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-c...

He witnessed Eugen Weidmann's execution by guillotine – the last public execution performed in France.

He sang a duet with Fabio Lione, lead vocalist of the Italian symphonic power metal band Rhapsody of Fire on the single "The Magic of the Wizard's Dream" from their album Symphony of Enchanted Lands II – The Dark Secret.

There's more ... he was quite a character.
Populism is like gravity, to paraphrase the Joker in the dark Knight.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31203907
Ok, makes sense. If we are focusing specifically on business school professors then I agree.
>every other ad is what i would describe as "dancing happy diverse young people in colourful clothes" [...] , but with TV ads it isn't even clear what the product they are advertising

That type of advertising using "abstract visuals" has been going on for decades. It's basically what some call "aspirational lifestyle" type of advertising.

I wrote some previous comments about that particular type of aspirational communication style that deliberately avoids mentioning concrete details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20034558

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9877422
Despite the way this is presented as a productivity / life hack, the broad principles are backed by good science.

Specifically, the process of positive reinforcement and challenging assumptions is a cornerstone of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy movement in psychology and counseling.

CBT has been shown to be as effective as medications at treating a wide range of mental health issues — depression, anxiety, obsessive compulsive, substance abuse, and so on.

Anecdotally, this type of reinforcement is hard, but worth it. By definition you are trying to retrain your brain to be wired to better habits than it’s trained to now. You’re violating your comfortable response with a decidedly different one. But after you’ve practiced enough, these methods can provide real relief for mental health.
It's interesting what/when/if will unsettle Python.
And what the adoption would be like.

Julia has been <designed> to unsettle Python in the data space but to no avail.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Have you heard how the military makes a lot of technology that benefits society? Well, it's the same principle for esoteric experimental science: unique requirements leads to new tech being developed and then you can turn around, and if you find some use for some bit of the new tech you can tout it as a "boon to society".
I'm a big fan of always expanding acronyms when used for the first time myself, so I hear ya on that point. That said, I find it slightly more excusable here because the source publication (cyclingtips.com) is targeted to a specific audience, and most members of that audience (as opposed to the public at large) would generally know what a Strava KOM is. I'd find this a more egregious issue if this were in the Washington Post or another "general audience" publication.

It's kinda like how many articles meant for the "standard HN audience" (to the extent that one can speak of such a thing) might use TCP or DNS without expanding them. Not an issue when one of "us" is reading the article, but might trip up a less technically inclined person.
It depends on where.

In EU there is IFR that covers almost any debit/credit card transaction capping the interchange rate to 0.2 or 0.3%:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee

(doesn't apply to corporate cards and to American Express)
I think the story is really one of the failure of the ability to raise taxes for the maintenance of armies and civil infrastructure rather than some inherent "civilized" or "uncivilized" character of any particular people.

You can't raise taxes when half or more of the population is gone. As per WP: "Some historians believe the first plague pandemic was one of the deadliest pandemics in history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 15–100 million people during two centuries of recurrence, a death toll equivalent to 25–60% of Europe's population at the time of the first outbreak"

And this is after a couple generations of political turmoil, other plagues, and invasions.
Understanding the (EU) Digital Services Act
You need both your operating system and your application environment need to be up to the task. I'd expect most operating systems to be up to the task; although it might need settings set. Some of the settings are things that are statically allocated in non-swappable memory and you don't want to waste memory on being able to to have 5M sockets open if you never go over 10k. Often you'll want to reduce socket buffers from defaults, which will reduce throughput per socket, but target throughput per socket is likely low or you wouldn't want to cram so many connections per client. You may need to increase the size of the connection table and the hash used for it as well; again, it wastes non-swappable ram to have it too big if you won't use it.

For application level, it's going to depend on how you handle concurrency. This post is interesting, because it's a benchmark of a different way to do it in Java. You could probably do 5M connections in regular Java through some explicit event loop structure; but with the Loom preview, you can do it connection per Thread. You would be unlikely to do it with connection per Thread without Loom, since Linux threads are very unlikely to scale so high (but I'd be happy to read a report showing 5M Linux threads)
Old tracking systems I tried were really uncomfortable due to that and couldn't be used long. Hope these are better (disclaimer it was 10 years ago).
UHI is mostly due to the materials cities are made of and lack of evaporation from plant life which is why it was noticed 200 years ago. AC has such a small effect it would be hard to measure.
I don't necessarily disagree, but as a parent you have to be careful what you say to your kids because (particularly when young) they are prone to repeat it to the worst people at the worst possible time.

If my sister was constantly making up fantastic stories and I told my kids privately that she was lying, I'd be better off saying it to her face because when my kids tell her (or someone else in the family) what I said, it will be a disaster and the kids will end up in the middle of it. At least a direct confrontation keeps the kids out of it. But, it better be worth tearing the family apart because that is what would happen.