skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This data looks a few years old and questionable. Anyway, my opinion (China on-off since 2001, multiple businesses):

1. The government recently banned using personal electronic payment accounts to receive business funds (affects 2022 only).

2. To be listed on an ecommerce site you need a company.

3. Government handouts. To obtain local government handouts you have to put forward a corporate identity as a potential employer to justify receipt of funds. There's a lot of funds to receive, and all sorts of excuses for doing so. Some people's entire business is just a front for handouts, especially many "technology" businesses.

4. Face. If you are unemployed it's easier to maintain appearances with a company, even if you're not doing any business.

5. If you run your own company you control how much income is declared, which potentially increases profits at the expense of the tax man. A huge proportion of China's economy runs on the slightly cheaper ordering option of "不要发票" (don't need a tax-receipt). This is not a huge thing since it's rife in large companies too but it does allow for back-scratching deals that are of greater utility in a slowing economy (ie. now).
So interesting that you post this, it's really what I've been working on in my spare time for the last few years. I have a GitHub with my current roadmap: https://GitHub.com/bootdotdev/curriculum
Yeah it was a tough tradeoff for the default case, because the team didn't want to use too much memory in everyone's binary since the RPC metrics were on by default. This is easily changeable by the user if necessary, though.
This looks great!

It is unfortunate that it is KDE based though.. I think having it be DM agnostic would give it more users and contributors.

(I haven't checked, but I assume that even if it can be started with other DMs, it will still require most of KDE's daemons, effectively forcing users to run two DMs at once)
To me it seems like it helps with some of the physical symptoms of anxiety, but not so much the anxiety itself. So, it's efficacy depends a lot on the pathology of a specific individual's anxiety. For many people the physical symptoms of anxiety become self reinforcing, and short circuiting them can stop the anxiety. For folks whose anxiety takes a different path it may still be slightly effective but not quite as much.
Much of the infrastructure cost is boring stuff like earthworks and retaining walls and moving existing services that are in the way. The shift to in-cab signalling saves/will save a bunch of money on lineside equipment maintenance (because you don't need it).

I was thinking about your comment and one way to save considerable infrastructure costs is more level crossing and less overpasses/bridges, but train vs pedestrian or train vs car are common and messy. Plus level crossings wreck traffic flow on the surrounding road network.
The Wikipedia article on shaped charges is fascinating:

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

The penetration distance is proportional to the diameter of the charge (counterintuitive; you'd expect the height), and can be up to 7x as large. So a ~5 inch charge shown in the film can penetrate up to about 3 feet of solid steel.

Also, all of our known defenses against shaped charged rely on the assumption that the same spot won't get hit twice. Composite armor breaks and deflects the geometry of the jet through its deformation; reactive armor relies on a mini-explosion to defeat the jet. This has interesting implications in a world of drones and precision-guided munitions, and in fact the Javelin missiles we've been shipping to Ukraine have double warheads, the first to destroy the armor and the second to destroy the vehicle.
Probably didn’t get written that way but arrived there when that class was refactored somehow.
Imagine a picture of the jet coming out of a black hole.

Something very roughly similar is happening here. The shape of the cone as the detonation wave goes through the explosive forces copper into the center and the only (or lowest resistance) way out is a straight jet through the target material.
Thanks. I think your napkin estimates work out and tell me this is trivially possible for free.

I’m not sure I need a database though. Just a single timestamp in memory with a file to back it up and a “just assume the button was pushed” if that ever gets corrupted somehow.

Of course I didn’t specify how rigorous the solution needed to be: not very.

I want a website where if the timer ever hits 0 I donate $100 to a charity. And it’s called “This is why we can’t have nice things.”
For good and/or bad: The ESC doubles as a vent for political concerns. A lot of Europeans are frustrated with Germany these days. And France.

(Germany ended up at last place - #25, France at #24.)
Well, PoI said some of the right things, but everything was too easy, frankly. So, I'd say just Mr. Robot.
The amount of skill shown in the videos is incredibly mind-boggling. One wrong move and you're starting over on the entire part, which would be bad enough using modern tools he's using now and I can't even imagine what it must have been like at the time when the mechanism was designed. What a marvel of engineering considering the time it was made. Makes me wonder what other ancient inventions were out there that we'll never know anything about.
The fact that people don't stick to diets is why they don't work. This is what I mean about discounting the human element. A solution requiring every individual to do something incredibly difficult is no solution at all. It's like if we tried to help everyone having a hard time with technology to RTFM and ridiculed those who didn't. It's not what you do when you're actually trying to solve the problem.
You can, but it is not the proper way to work HTTP.
I use KDE Connect every day.
I use it to control the volume and screen brightness of my laptop when it's out of reach and many other things.

The mouse cursor functionality is great and works flawlessly.
The bad demomen had to be glued back together. In hell.
> Also, multiple people analyzed the content voting for that subreddit and it significantly deviated from every other major subreddit.

Here are 2 ways to look at this. There's no way to prove which viewpoint is correct, but anybody who spent time there will know exactly what I'm talking about.

1) One way to explain this is bots.

2) Another way to explain this is you actually saw genuine enthusiasm for the first time. As somebody who has spent a long time on the Internet, I've never seen a large forum like that devoted to some cause that was basically a 24/7 party-like atmosphere with genuine extreme enthusiasm and people having fun shit-posting, not worrying about political correctness, and making memes. If it was the case that the enthusiasm was indeed an outlier, then the level of activity would also be an outlier.

In light of actual evidence, how one interprets this is pretty subjective and minds are already made up. You be the judge, but I think the answer is obvious.
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We all adhere to that mantra already. That's why we're not being assholes to each other, we're just being assertive/straight-talking/pragmatic/realistic/tough-love. And if we were being an asshole, it was unavoidable / necessary in that situation. And if it wasn't, it was just a rare slip-up on our part, we're not normally like that, everyone slips up sometimes, to err is human, and only a total asshole would call us an asshole for such an trivial and inevitable lapse in our normally-impeccable judgement.
That’s not a measure of real world success. If you max “thinking about stuff” and not the other traits they’re actually talking about but haven’t specified (and I can’t either), you’ll daydream all day instead of doing anything productive.

Or even if you try thinking about a real problem, you won’t get the right answer because the way to do that is experiments, not thinking about it a lot.
I see from your name and profile that you're from Australia. Suppose you play a game set in Australia and there's a scene where you have snow in January. The first game you play like that you might just laugh, but if every game you play has snow in January in Australia you would probably get annoyed.

Having more female game devs is like having more Australian game devs who know when it's summer there. A big difference though is that unlike Australia which has less than 0.5% of the world's population concentrated in one area, women are over 50% of the world's population and are evenly distributed. You can have a lot of games without Australia but almost every game with people in it needs to have women or you'll be telling a strange story. Imagine a situation where most games have scenes in Australia but most game devs don't know it's summer in January there. That's a problem.

Where it can get mixed up is that a lot of "knowing the seasons" as a woman is knowing stuff that makes men uncomfortable. A female game dev making a realistic female character can introduce everyday factual experiences about things like sexual harassment, birth control, or feminine hygiene, and some male players might say she's trying to make an activist game and she can reply, no, this is just my life. It would be like getting mad at an Australian game dev for always going on about summer in January as if it's their fault the sun spends a lot of time in the sky around that time.

(This is leaving aside the economic argument that developer jobs tend to be good and therefore desirable, and it should be suspicious when any particular demographic is dramatically underrepresented in a field with mostly good jobs.)
I would ask when was this facility built? And has it always produced baby formula?

"Clean-in-place" has not always been a thing, and when it arose it was kind of expected to become a more feasible approach as newer facilities were built which had the concept in mind to begin with.
Damn I can’t use it on
My iPhone 8 Plus it’s not compatible
The killer feature would be message integration, but their own Features page in the app says it’s unlikely.

Dell had a mobile connect app that’s artificially limited to Dell machines on Windows that somehow is able to accomplish this feat.
It's been used for plutonium. The explosive lenses used in implosion-type nuclear weapons are extremely-precise shaped charges, and work by focusing all the explosion's energy into compressing the plutonium down to critical mass:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design#Implosio...
A couple of years ago I watched a lot of Coffeezille, Spencer Cornelia and some others who exposed online scams. Initially, I found it entertaining but over time I came to the conclusion that their videos aren't really protecting anyone. They themselves (Coffee, Spencer, etc) admit on some of their videos do basically nothing to protect anyone from scams. You can literally shove tons of evidence in someone's face that guru X is a scammer, and they still won't believe it.

So, I have come to the conclusion that they (Coffee, Spencer, etc) are as much part of that whole ecosystem as the scammers themselves.

They don't do this to protect anyone - if they wanted to they can simply go with their evidence to the authorities. They depend on these scammers to make videos from which they can make money. And that is all it is about to them in the end - about making money. If the scammers went away tomorrow they'd be out of a career as well.
then turn on the firmware TPM...
A nitpick - there actually are small cell phone providers that operate their own network.

They usually have expensive and slow roaming on one of the big providers once you leave their area though.
ASP.Net core is powerful but even with it being my day job I still wouldn’t recommend it for this niche.

* It’s damn complicated with a real learning curve to get your head around dependency injection, the vast standard library, heavy abstraction and Microsoft terminology. Day 1 basics can be easy but there’s a steep intermediate learning curve.

* ASP.Net has some nice plug and play stuff for generating Open API docs or logging for example but take a look at Laravel mentioned above and see how focused it is on making it easy to add features that the customer cares about.

* Documentation is expansive but not great, heavily focused on brand new user tutorials but terrible for quickly answering how do I do X? They struggle to stay up to date and i recall spending a good hour going down a rabbit hole because none of the tutorials were using the up do date magic spell to enable something.

* For pretty much everything you can think of there’s 3 ways to do it, good luck figuring out which one is the ‘correct’ way.

This may seem like a rant, I think ASP.Net Is good for a larger, more long term project where these annoyances are outweighed by performance and maintainability but I recently did a quick project in NextJS and the difference was night and day, despite it being my first ‘real’ project with the framework.
It's a twin prime (8675311).
You're assuming that the goal is getting to zero CO2 emission? There is no reality where that is possible.

Edit: I hadn't read the article. That indeed seems to be the goal. On that basis, yes the math appears wrong.
Antidrone warfare is very very difficult. They are small and go slow and are thus difficult to shoot down. See how Iraqi militias fly drones into US bases and how Hezbollah regularly flies drone into Israel unpunished (sometimes Israel even has to resort to fighter jets to shoot them down).
They should open source it like they did Kubernetes. Otherwise the world will (continue to) converge on the Prometheus model and Google will be left with this weird system that may be technically better but is unfamiliar to incoming engineers
> If you don't order the large portion, people wonder what is wrong with you.

I think if 'order the large' is an option, you're already ordering from a takeaway/in a 'junk food' place.
I admit I'm distrustful of such a dramatic title. The central message from the originally posted article is that losing weight is mostly a matter of maintaining a caloric deficit. This is has been understood for some time now. What is the "new research" that is so important, in this case?
We use 80 mesh garnet.
A plasma technically. And it doesn't exactly penetrate, it pushes the steel atoms aside very literally like sticking your finger in butter.

Edit: obviously it penetrates, but not in the way that you would expect.
It's more that the GPL and the default App Store licensing are incompatible, because Apple essentially asks you to follow the usual DRM and not copy the app.
your computer your decision, you're right.

don't use windows, then. I WANT to know that my computers are up to date at all times. you don't. great. use something else, then, and quit complaining.
This is especially true with design. My experience in becoming a professional graphic designer before switching to code is that it is often very hard to create something that looks simple and natural/effortless. You face many iterations of doubt and frustration before you get to the point where it “just feels right” (in a direct, non-convoluted way). Eventually you become so attached to your design that it is hard to look at it through the eyes of someone who has never seen it and doesn’t share your experiences.

I believe it actually becomes harder the more experienced you get, because you anticipate the struggle and cannot really approach design from a naive perspective again, where everything just seemed a lot simpler. I sometimes see works by amateurs that I really like, because they seemed to have a simple perspective on typography and composition and never thought about it in an overly complicated way.

I don’t think many professional design tools even today are simple in the way Rich Hickey describes (I am mostly talking about Adobe software; I am not very familiar with Figma, Affinity, etc., maybe they improved). I think they are rather too twisted and complected, especially because they try to do too many things and have gained a lot of weight over the decades.

Templates and very constrained/opinionated design tools reduce selectivity/complexity and therefore a lot of uncertainty that comes with design. They make things simpler in a lot of cases where “great” design just isn’t worth the effort/time/money, because what you need is not a masterpiece, but something that just works. If they are simple enough and well made by professionals I don’t see why one shouldn’t use them.
Sure, in society at large, you’re often going to go without reward for doing good things, because of some confounding nonsense. This article breezes past that. But the author seemed like they were trying to speak on a personal level, and I can see why it would resonate with a lot of people on that personal level. There are plenty of other thinkpieces out there if you want to dig into all of society’s woes.
First, I want to acknowledge your situation so I don't want to belittle what you went through in any way, but I had a catastrophic series of events happen in my life almost 9 years ago, and Xanax was literally a life saver for me.

Taking the Xanax allowed to me relax enough to do the work to figure out how to relax naturally. Before the Xanax I was having crippling panic attacks 24/7.

My only point is, you're a data point of one, I'm a data point of one we both had very different experiences. I don't tell people to take, or not to take benzos when they ask me, I just give my objective experience and let them make their own decision.
This might make sense if we were talking about the same resources being distributed in different ways, however this is not the case in many fields. Gas is a good example, Russia sells to Europe and China from completely different wells. It is not the case that when Europe stops buying, they can just sell the same gas to China. It's not economically feasible to transfer all the way across Siberia, they simply end up selling less.
Lactose-intolerant to mother’s breast milk? Had to look up, apparently it is a thing. Thank you mother nature…
Also reminder that it works with mconnect [1], an implementation in vala.

I'm linking a fork since the original repo hasn't seen any recent commits (at least in master, looks like the owner has been trying to rewrite it first in Rust and now in Go)

1: https://github.com/grimpy/mconnect
It’s about half of the UK govt’s target for engineered removals. Page 189: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
You can only use it once before it gets earth contamination. It's been 50 years an we haven't got anymore. Even though there are missions planned the might lose funding or fail, so who knows when they might get more? Also, science advanced with time, if it's all used up, we wouldn't be able to use future tech to analyze it.
lol I think I'm on a list now for watching that :)
> Basing anything off of his antics is asinine. So weird to see people who put him on a pedestal on HN.

not sure if its putting him on a pedestal as much as an example of what some prescribed drugs can do to people when they aren't careful...
Not sure what the parent post would recommend, but l-theanine is supposedly well tolerated and moderately effective as an anxiolytic. Annecdotal personal experience supports this.
I figured they would have an internal build of macOS for servers, seems like the logical thing to do.
The article does point out that the folks who studied this accounted for the carbon cost of doing that in estimating the capture benefits.
Yes. In my defence it is a large glass :) When I do that, I'm drinking it for the sugar + caffeine boost. Like I would a can of Coca Cola. It's about the same amount of sugar as a standard can. Absolutely not healthy, I know.
If all they ask for is a zip code, I usually give an accurate one. If it's a store I visit often, I'd appreciate a closer location.
Eurovision 2010 was one of the most epic:

This song (from Moldova) is like the essential/prototypical over the top yet catchy euro song:

https://youtu.be/pHXDMe6QV-U?t=27
Was this ancient vessel a hand grenade?
Exactly, this is what dummies (the inanimate ones), cameras, and sensors are for O_O
Robot Operating System 2
Dear Leader is as Dear Leader does.
Did the dog write this?
Russia cuts off electricity to Finland amid growing international tensions
Why would those skills make money? Would you pay someone "with 10 hertz" to demonstrate his cleverness, or at least what he sees as cleverness?

Intelligence is ability to build mental models that predict reality. If you see a lightning strike, build a correct mental model of it and use it to create electricity to power a light bulb - that's intelligence. But cracking a clever joke about the lightning strike that rhymes with something doesn't need intelligence - that's a purely mechanical skill.

Intuition is a very different quality. If intelligence lets you build a somewhat accurate map of reality, intuition is a bird's eye view of that reality.
(Almost) monochromatic light theme for Visual Studio Code (VSCode)
Might need to be studied in different regions to determine whether there are any detrimental effects. It looks like it might alter the soil pH which could affect crops.

Sounds promising though.
2010 was such a great year.

This was the song that first introduced me to the ESC community:

Eric Saade - Manboy (Melodifestivalen 2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtK7lsAdBos

:)
What was genuinely unexpected was the UK coming second. I thought our entry was, at best, mediocre. I was hoping somebody would like it enough to secure us a few points, and yes I was expecting the popular vote in particular would be heavily for Ukraine (it looks like most countries gave maximum points to Ukraise in the popular vote) which was, depending on your tastes, one of the better entries even disregarding the political situation.

After we got points in the first expert vote, I though that's nice, we can take that, and then they just kept coming.

The real irony now would be if Ukraine decides next year that the Russians are still blowing up bits of their country and so it's unsafe to hold the Content in say, Kyiv, and... they ask the UK to proxy. See, it's often considered especially good to come second because the winner hosts and hosting is expensive. But if a winning country can't host for practical reasons (and Russians blowing up your country seems like a reason to me) they can ask somebody else to proxy, and seems like we'd be as good a choice as anybody...
The true dogecoin
Jews around the world today still use a very similar lunar-solar calendar.
What?

matmul: (+/*)\:
Regexes in the Unix tradition are a user interface as much as a programming language. Not that there's a sharp distinction, but it's almost a trite observation that regexes per se shine for ad hoc string searching but show their weakness when they start becoming parts of programs.

When writing a program, I prefer to use a PEG, giving the less compact notation `'a'* 'b'` but also letting me say `'a'* b` and define b as its own rule, including recursion for the useful cases. It helps that it's more powerful, being little more than a formalization of the post-regular strategies used in Perl-style 'regular' expressions while embracing recursion.

For '/' in vim, grep, wherever? Yeah regex is fine, that's what it was designed for.
I remember buying 2 new SL-1200s for $400 a pop 15 years ago. I have 3 of them collecting dust in my parents basement. Shocked to find out that a pair of new ones will cost over $2k today.
Exploiting a Use-After-Free for code execution in every version of Python 3