skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those are rare here but it will get fun in some European countries. Your regular license is not enough if mass is over 3500kg
Conveniently, this bill sounds like it will also help protect the profits of our parasitic payment networks.

WePay/AliPay merchant fees are around 0.6%, competing against that could dull some shine.

I’m not claiming it’s the only or main reason, but I expect a lot of lobbying dollars will be backing it.
Mh, I'm European, I have two "SUV", I see USA vehicles in USA, yes they tend to be bigger but not that much these days, we are not in the '60s anymore, that's not size the real difference but engines: USA engines are terrible, big in physical size/weight, far less powerful than EU one for their size and consumption. That's the substantial difference.

A 4 liter Jeep can easy be towed by a 2 liter EU engine, one against the other, that's the point. Perhaps cheaper oil prices and lack of environmental regulations have made the industry far less interested in expensive engine research preferring just aesthetics and optional on board.
Right, threats against Ukraine and Taiwan were made up by checks notes Raytheon. Is the current, ongoing war in Ukraine "fake news" too ?
The last update to the repo was 4 years ago. So you'll should probably not hold your breath and just chuck this into the browser console:

oscillators[0].context.resume()
> My point is the same as the original article. Calculations like this, of single routes, are pointless and mislead rather than inform. But it's an intellectual honeypot, because it seems interesting.

He doesn't calculate single narrow routes. In fact that's almost entirely opposite the purpose of his articles, which is to take a step back and look at things from a very broad perspective: what's the scale of our energy use, what's the scale needed to replace it with something else, and what are some back-of-the-envelope calculations we can do to get an intuitive grasp of the problem?

It's essentially applying fermi estimation to the problem, which I think most people would agree is far from what you're accusing.

> We didn't run out of food.

This was never claimed?

> Technology changes, and we become far more efficient and productive.

This is addressed, particularly in the second article linked, which itself is a highly-summarized form of his entire position.

> And pretending that there's a physical limit somewhere without bothering to peak around is a classic way that we trick ourselves about the future.

There's no pretending. There are real physical and thermodynamic limits that physicists currently know no way to circumvent, and that we have increasingly convincing reasons to believe are fundamental. Pretending these don't exist is a classic way that we trick ourselves about the future.
Also, the list of limitations on the self-hosted open-source version reads like something that is only offered to tick an open-source checkbox: https://docs-v2.envkey.com/docs/self-hosting-open-source-env...

Very clearly cut down to the point where it's not feasible for anything outside of toy projects.
Yeaaaa... no, no it doesn't.

Even with all the anti-government rhetoric in the US when it comes to political discussions and the dysfunctional state of congress it's pretty clear that the US has a much more pleasant form of government to live under.
Garage Band or Audacity and a USB mic (generally better sound + less background noise for non-audiophiles). You can upgrade later if/when you care to.

You don't need to take that advice commenter dontbenebby gave, unless you want to get discouraged and quit.

PS: Reaper is good, too, but has more of a learning curve.
I want to appreciate your comment, and this may be off-topic possible pedantry, but the text formatting in your comment makes me so conscience of way the text looks "off" that it gets in the way of your message. Basic and common English syntax like capital letters would just go a long way to making things easier to read.
Time to invest in tire companies! A family member got quite a shock when buying winter tires for their car, the extra weight of the battery necessitated higher rated and more expensive tires.
The most important part of scrum and the only part that is important is retrospectives, because it allows the team opportunity to step back and make changes to their processes. Everything else is mostly arbitrary. Want to stop doing stand ups or change how you manage work? Go for it, nobody is stopping you. Do what works for you.
You mean how Americans are despised for their murders in the Middle East?
A nuanced view of any sort of economic change will include analysis would objectively consider all the pro's-and-con's, and the media knows that con's sell better because of heightened emotional response.
I don't dismiss. And while I don't specifically encourage anyone to do anything illegal, script kiddies are probably on balance a good thing. That's just free pentesting.

(This is part of my broader idea that "cybersecurity" will remain nearly entirely impotent until we figure out a way to inject real liability. When something breaks, someone needs to pay or be punished. It's that simple. Perhaps start with Microsoft.)
I still use WinAmp with Internet Radio, and pretty much only that. Works wonderfully, although you do have to hunt for those stations. And you need to bookmark them correctly, otherwise you’ve bookmarked an IP address that can suddenly go silent when the station hops to a different IP.
Every government historically becomes an entity in it's own right. Government rights slowly become more important than citizens rights.
As does America. Internment of Japanese Americans, Vietnam War, Iraq War + the various war crimes committed there etc etc. most countries have things about them worth despising. Just depends on how long your memory is.
Because then they would get the backlash and bad PR instead of scalpers.
>Isn't this the limit that governs pumped hydro as a storage technology?

I was nitpicking there, yes. Pumped hydro has an "asking if we [could/should]?" problem: extensive use of pumped hydro would be devastating to ecosystems. There are a number of "clever" strategies, such as allowing the lower reservoir to be the ocean:

https://municipalwaterleader.com/implementing-oceanuss-pumpe...

but I did not intend for that sentence to be read as advocating widespread uptake of pumped hydro. It's convenient in certain places, and it can fill in gaps for communities in need, but it comes with a big cost not measured in dollars. And the use of saltwater makes this problem much worse.
As written below, "Introduction to Modern Cryptography" by Katz & Lindell. Another option would be "A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography" by Boneh & Shoup. However, for starting out, I would definitely recommend the former as it's more polished and focuses on the essentials.
Centrist candidate for Governor of California Michael Shellenberger, who has interviewed many addicts on the streets of SF and has a credible plan to address homelessness and open drug abuse:

https://www.shellenbergerforgovernor.com/issues/homelessness...
Oded Goldreich's "Foundations of Cryptography" books are the rigorous, theoretical oriented books used in many grad-level crypto courses:
https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~oded/foc-book.html

Neil Koblitz has "A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography", which I haven't read, but is often used: https://www.amazon.com/Course-Number-Cryptography-Graduate-M...

Also, Boneh and Shoup is good and mentioned in other comments: https://toc.cryptobook.us/
I've been lucky enough to be able to spend my entire software engineering career so far working on software that end users use and pay directly for. I often say that I really only want to work on software that makes money because it does an excellent job of solving a problem for its users, and that's the only reason they use it.

When you have other financial relationships and monetization strategies in the mix -- advertising, monetization of user data, virtual currencies and loot boxes, etc. -- the incentive structure is such that you have to focus on goals other than "make software that our users love".

Of course, it's probably not a coincidence that I haven't spent my software engineering career working for high growth startups or big companies. But that's a plus too. I really enjoy working at a company with 10-20 people making a product that people love, a completely straightforward business model (users buy our software), no VC money, and no ambitions to grow like crazy or get huge.
Why not? Most game purchases are downloads now. They don't need 3rd party retailers.
Exactly. There is nothing magical about a digital yuan. It's just a bank with a nice API.

The only reason why it's popular is because our traditional banking system is so anti innovation and refuses to offer decent APIs.
Raytheon shareholders are counting on you!
That is not the problem. Just because an agency is funded by fees does not mean that it has perverse incentives nor corruption (though it can be the case). After all, the FDA has to assess all of Pfizer's drug applications -- do you want to pay for all that out of your income tax, or should Pfizer be paying it? Furthermore, the USPTO has had the same issues described here long before they were self-funded by congress.

The problem is that that the USPTO doesn't have enough money to hire inspectors and officials. They are woefully, desperately underfunded. The same problems that plague the USPTO also plague the IRS, and for the same reason. The USPTO would do much better if they were permitted to double the fees, or more, for patent application.
Compare this with the first sentence after the abstract:

"Data-oriented design (DOD) grew when game developers needed to use modern hardware architectures for performant games, and existing software processes did not meet their needs."

So, I think performance and DOD have been closely tied together from the start. There has been some evangelism to push it out of "it's just for optimization" territory (and reasonably so), but I'm not sure I agree with their notion of "core".
The point of the median is that it's an actual existing price, and that it filters out extreme outliers.

If you add a datapoint where somebody is renting a castle for $100K/month, that skews the average way up. Similarly, the existence of a few people being paid $1M/month can make it look like the area is a lot wealthier than it is, because the average is pulled up.

The median is useful because it gives you an actual datapoint in the middle. It's an actual price that exists.

Of course, the devil is in the details, and there are situations in which the result is not entirely satisfactory. But on the whole is an useful measure especially when there's more than 5 datapoints.

Of course any kind of statistics is a simplification of the actual data, so sometimes you have to dig into the details. But often times we want something like checking 10 potential cities to see which place is desirable to stay in -- it doesn't matter if things are not entirely right so long they're right enough to quickly produce a reasonable answer.
Externalities on others should be taxed, yes.
It's hard to position Russia as a state enemy when half the politicians keep apologizing for and justifying their every action and decreeing any criticism of them as "a hoax".

Two party political systems are the worst.
Why do you prefer Google Meet? Browser based is better than fat client?
Look into all those new gTLDs being released lately. .party .club .blog etc Snap up the shortest one you can. This is a golden age to snap up short domains since the squatters will catch on to this and snap up short ones in bulk as an 'investment'.
> I propose that extraterrestrial civilizations may use free-floating planets as interstellar transportation to reach, explore and colonize planetary systems

If you can muster enough energy to accelerate a planet, you probably don't need a planet for migration in the first place.

Also, the planets would get cold during the journey. Very cold. You'd better pack a load of welding kits for the brass monkeys.
Very good: I'm healthy and my wife is healthy with our first baby on the way. A couple siblings+spouses and my parents live in the same town, I see them all regularly, and they are all healthy. I lost 10 pounds over the past couple months. Blood pressure is still a little high though.

I'm 7 months into a new job, good pay in a LCOL area, 4 minute commute, enjoy going into the office, learning a lot, and have a great boss.

We have a fixer-upper house with several ongoing major projects to keep me busy and entertained. Also we have plenty of new trees, flowers, and bushes to nurture.

Winter is gone and the trees around the neighborhood are leafing out--I really love having four seasons! In six months I will have equal excitement for snow and blizzards.
When did the consumer stop being the ones who consume the product?

I’m sure many farmers would consider John Deere’s practices regarding DIY repairs, anti-consumer, as they are the consumers. Any person who might reasonable be considered an end-user of a product, or might buy a type of product might be considered a consumer of that type of product.

Anti-consumerism and protectionism do not even require that you be a customer of the company in question, some practices extend beyond the product itself when the company seeks to stifle competition.
Thanks for the feedback. We're considering some changes here: specifically, reducing the limits of the free tier a bit and then adding another tier in the $50/mo range between the free tier and the $150/mo tier. Would that be a better fit for you?
Microsoft is already going in there direction with Xbox game pass and cloud gaming. The writing is on the wall.
Creator of Codeball here, somebody beat us to sharing it :).

Codeball is a result of a hack-week at Sturdy - we were thinking about ways to reduce the waiting-for-code-review and were curious exactly how predictable the entire process is. It turned out very predictable!

Happy to answer any questions.
That is also the only meeting (or doc; communal collaboration) prescribed by the Agile manifesto.

People get so caught up in the process trappings of "agile" they miss the point.
>emit more brake dust

This is false.
nvALT: https://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

Ubuntu's Unity

Slackware (not technically dead at all, but it was so great, back in the day).

Google Reader
I don’t understand what a CBDC is. To the best of my knowledge, it seems like money that is backed by a SQL DB in DC or Beijing rather than paper with anti-counterfeiting measures.

It sure seems a lot harder to trust that a CBDC wouldn’t be abused than a cash-based system, which at least has a paper trail (literally).
Have you heard of TRIPS and how that was negotiated and led by the US? Might change your mind
A ML is personal. You can move it from a hoster, potentially yourself included, to another. You can't move GitHub because it's not an implementation of something standard but a proprietary service...

That's the issue. You ML can be down, other 99% of FLOSS ML projects will not even notice the downtime, if all are on a service and the service goes down all are affected. Your ML is yours, a political issue between two government will not block you, GH can be blocked and actually was blocked and is still for various countries and reasons NOT directly related to individual projects on it. And so on.

Peoples these days tend to think that mega-IT-giants will always be up and running, so being on their shoulder is a guarantee of stability, actually is the contrary is a threat.
If you think it is nothing more than a "bank with a nice API", I've got some oceanfront property in Kansas to sell you.

It is a specific CCP initiative to project power and track both its citizens and foreigners and undermine the power of western democracies and the power of the Euro and Dollar.

We were fools to not resist the offer to give away strategic manufacturing technologies and capabilities to China in exchange for cheap labor and a few quarters of profit. We'd be even greater fools to allow this next camel's nose under the tent (Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me...).

Even if the senators are typically Luddites, this is a very good move and cannot happen soon enough.
Spin rite is only designed to work with spinning-rust drives.

SSDs, with their wear-levelling tech, prevents SpinRite from working correctly.

And unless you are dealing with large-volume, cool storage, or cold storage, who TF uses spinning-rust drives anymore?
I'm expressing a very uncontroversial opinion, which is that the state should have a monopoly on violence, and that the state should be run of, by, and for the people. If the roles that should be assigned to government ever become so corrupted by corporate interests that the institutions that control our life are no longer recognizable as democratic they should be overthrown by force if necessary.

This is the founding principle of America, and I'd be happy to advocate for it in any forum. It sounds like you have an alternate worldview and that's fine too, perhaps we can agree to disagree on this point.
The obvious reply here is that WePay/AliPay are also parasitic payment networks, whose parent companies are propped up by the CCP for gains of their own. I also enjoy the spirit of this law, frankly, because China has a default-no attitude towards the outside world, so why the hell would we openly accept something like Digital Yuan? I see no reason why we should let China out of it’s corded-off world only when it finds it beneficial.
Let me see if I can remember some of them:

Say I have a node. I want all the children in some form (tree, list, whatever).

Say I want to move a node and all its children from one location to another.

Given a node, I want its text, but not its children.

Given a node with a subtree, I want to manipulate the document so that it becomes flat. All its (nested) children are elevated to the level just under the node.

I want to compare if two nodes are "equal" (same text, and recurse downwards).

Given a node with a subtree, I want to traverse in some order of my choosing (DFS, BFS, etc).

I want a count of how many child nodes there are (1st level)

I want a count of how many children there are (all levels).

The API may have some of these, but likely not all of them. All of these are trivial in Leo, as Leo gives this to you as a tree. Most of Org's API involve some level of parsing, manipulating the cursor, etc.
There's another data point that supports this view of remote work: retirement

Many people, when given the chance to not work at all, leave their residence or make a decision to split their time between their old home and a new home in a location with a better lifestyle, friends, family, whatever.
Probably nobody is reading this thread anymore, but I remembered an analogous situation in a casino with a slot machine (it credited $1 inserted as $10) and the people who kept playing it for that reason were potentially liable for fraud.

https://www.techdirt.com/2007/07/24/criminal-charges-for-usi...
That's how it works in well-functioning agile teams, but in "Agile" teams the team can't decide on their own to e.g. totally ditch standups. Management won't allow it, or they've set up the project manager to be God of Agile and they get last say on that kind of thing, and so on.

"Agile" teams outnumber agile teams by a large margin.
Ah yes, I'd agree with that. To be fair though as well, many languages have struggled there; re: Java/Joda/Java 8's java.time
The laws are a direct result of these people existing and voting for them, and a symptom of the oppressive environment that awaits for LGTBQ+ folk who visit, or - worse - live, there.

And of course I would never visit Afghanistan, either!
I distinctly remember seeing one day in Palo Alto, a pristine pearl-white lifted F250 alongside a battered old Ford Ranger that was actually carrying tools in its bed.

The Ford Ranger was no larger or heavier than my sedan.
UK unis are a lot better at using the full grading scale, in my experience. 70% gets you a 'first class' [0], but there's a lot of room in the 70-100 range to differentiate performance. It was a nice system because there's almost always space for able students to really push the boundary. The idea is that getting >80% is for students doing really exceptional / original work.

[0] A "1st" (A) is between 70-100%, "2:1" (B) is 60-69%, "2:2" (C) is 50-59%, and "3rd" (D, lowest passing grade) is 40-49%. UK degrees are awarded one final grade at the end, rather than a GPA, usually based on your last two years of study only.
That's always the answer. For some reason it's makes some people on here angry, but the only long term viable solution to expensive housing is to end NIMBYism and draconian zoning laws. Anything else is a short-term half-measure, including affordable housing, rent controls, etc.

If you want to actually solve the housing crisis, you just have to build more housing. It really is that simple.
Thinking (analyzing) is a superpower and Overthinking (over-analyzing) is an unfortunate application of Thinking.
To clarify for non-EU readers, that's 3,500kg fully loaded (gross vehicle weight), not just curb weight. Everything over 3,500kg requires you to get a special license and regular medical tests by a physician.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the inevitable web assembly port, orgWASM.
They already de-facto did this. There were times where Best Buy and Walmart had supply, but you had to sign up for a subscription service like Walmart+ to be able to purchase. GameStop had a few "bundles" with a bunch of items that you wouldn't otherwise purchase, effectively raising the price. It just didn't make a dent when the actual eBay margin was $X00 over the retailer pricing
Tom Murphy covered this in the series as well. While there are absolutely cases where pumped hydro is extremely effective (e.g., Dinorwig Power Station), the inherent problem is that it requires need very specific geological features. Unsurprisingly, we've hit much of the good low-hanging fruit, so future projects will be less efficient in terms of capacity per dollar invested. And also unsurprisingly, these features are not evenly geographically spaced around the globe.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/pump-up-the-storage/
We triply live in a post fact world. You can find “facts” and dismiss inconvenient “facts” in order to support whatever you happen believe. In fact you can even find a nice comfy echo chamber to keep you immersed in whatever you believe.

However in this case, I am pretty damn sure history will be on my side. Absolutely none of what we did over the last two years made a lick of sense. It is the first real mass hysteria of the internet age.
Are there no water taxis?

In Vancouver you just hop on a small boat and get a quick trip across, I think with your bus pass
> Given that immunity eventually wanes and new variants show up

Immunity isn't one thing that wanes.

T-cells are largely permanent and cross-reactive. Somatic hypermutation means that you have B-cells to variants which don't exist yet which can be quickly activated if you encounter them.

There's more to the immune system than circulating NAbs.

The 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic was a bit of a nothingburger because after mutating in pigs for at least 50 years, people born before 1957 still had cross-reactive T-cells to the H1 protein so old people were already immunized.

This is not the human immune system's first goat rodeo with a pandemic virus.
When I feel that dramatic I usually need to get lunch, but you might have other reasons.
Two things can simultaneously be true - the military industrial complex can exploit global politics to make money above and beyond what's necessary to actually provide aide to countries.

I think the last big weapons deal the US signed before agreeing to help Ukraine was subsidizing Saudi Arabia killing Yemenese in a bid to extract value from their civil war.
For cities in general there's much more to do compared to low density areas. Restaurants, entertainment, other people. All of this within a decent traveling distance.