skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that the esri one is bad. It's that the GE one is amazing.
Why haven't y'all moved to Render.com already? It's awesome; It's like as if Heroku never stopped innovating and much cheaper.
> I'm trying to give examples of different degrees of mutilation to understand where circumcision fits on the scale of "accepted body alteration" and "unacceptable body alteration."

We aren't talking about temporary and reversible body alterations, we're talking about amputations.

Amputated parts don't grow back.
How can you be pseudonymous if you work in person like this post: https://anonfriendly.com/jobs/62a278494d70510878922082

It will be very weird if people call me badrabbit in person.
Anyone pointing a gun at me is not my friend. Anyone that chooses a gun to get their way is not my friend.

I don't trust people with guns. They are the same because they all choose violence to get their way.

"Democratic" gun holders point more guns at me today than mobs.
Are labor costs a significant percentage of the cost to run a route? A smaller airplane with less passengers will need less flight attendants but I'm guessing it'll need nearly the same number of pilots, co-pilots, and relief pilots. Given the ever-worsening pilot shortage, simple staff availability might be an issue regardless of labor costs.
Well that article is just flat out wrong. There are significant differences in carbohydrate count in 8 ounce glasses of skim, 2%, whole milk and half & half. At least in the US. I know because I pay close attention to labels.

I use cronometer to track nutrients (macro & micro). It uses data source directly from NCCDB from the University of Minnesota.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TUv5xkY0wic
Apparently much of the debt is in short-term bonds (which is expected, since the interest rates were low why would you want long term bonds?).
"Watercolor in a month of lunches"
The Linux desktop is unpopular because people don't like the responsibility that comes with freedom. People like ChromeOS just like they like candy.
They are already very effective at smoking cessation, and the inclusion of MAOIs could make it more difficult to stop vaping.
Reminder that if data caps were actually to prevent congestion or any other legitimate reason, then having any exemptions would totally defeat the purpose.
You must also report to work daily in a rabbit mask. Welcome to the future.
Interesting! But that's precisely my point: iMessage does not have anything comparable to DKIM, as far as I understand (it's using ECDSA internally for authentication, but as far as I know, signatures are not stored to the persistent message database locally). A copy of the local message database "without headers" is no better or worse than a screenshot of a message contained in it.

Apple might be able to provide the original ECDSA signature from their server-side logs, but even there, nothing changes with editable/deletable messages: If that capability exists, it will continue existing (unless Apple somehow starts dropping traffic logs specifically for edited/deleted messages).
Hey, hey, this looks great! Thanks!
I'm expecting retail gas stations to be common for the next 20-40 years, with some density reduction towards the middle of that period is what I'm saying more or less.

To say leaded fuel is still available is a little bit of a misnomer, in the states anyhow, its not legally available as a road fuel, nor is a TEL additive - there are lead substitutes, but they're potassium I think, largely to prevent valve seat wear.

As far as I know, low octane unleaded fuel has always been available, you could always get a 'regular' grade gas without TEL, and premium fuel was marketed as with TEL.
Likely smallpox.
Nothing really, but they are mainstream languages and OCaml is (currently) not. So if you really need one of those then there is already a more widely adopted option that gives it to you. It's not that OCaml is bad (I like it a lot) it's that to adopt it you need a really compelling reason to do so.
If you've come here for informed commentary on economics, so far it seems the comments section is about par for the course by internet standards. If you're looking for informed professional analysis, I highly recommend the Inside Economics podcast by Moody's Analytics[0].

They post at least once per week and they often discuss recession odds, they break down the causes of inflation, and regularly host industry experts. (One of my favorites was an episode featuring an economist that works for a US car manufacturer and the insight they could give into the economics of new vs used cars and how auto makers are having to adapt to new economics of vehicles.)

[0] https://about.moodys.io/podcast-series/moodys-talks-inside-e...
My biggest issue with writing is the fear of shouting into the void. What if no one wants to read what I've written? What if no one finds it?

I'm trying to get in to the mindset of just writing for myself, but it's hard.
Maybe.

There are some experiments using turret style drones to maintain like DMZs. They still need a human operator. That is a case where you are mostly just waiting though.

Seizing a town means dealing with a ton of civilians - negotiating, handling mixed reports, etc. Drones may become part of that but cameras are imperfect and you will need people unless Drone tech has a giant leap in human interfacing.
TL;DR: earliest evidence of ancestor to Yersinia pestis found in Kyrgyztan. Not saying that's the origin, just the earliest known find of an ancestor so far.

Condensed version:

"People who died in a fourteenth-century outbreak in what is now Kyrgyzstan were killed by strains of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis that gave rise to the pathogens responsible several years later for the Black Death, shows a study of ancient genomes."

"Other evidence puts the origins of the Black Death in this part of Central Asia. Among modern strains of Y. pestis bacteria, those sampled from marmots and other rodents in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Xinjiang in northwest China, surrounding the Tian Shan mountain range, were most closely related to the Kara-Djigach strain. 'We can’t really say it’s that village or that valley, but it’s likely that region,' says Krause."

"[Miscellaneous scholar] is less sure of the study’s conclusion that the plague’s ‘big bang’ occurred around the time of the Kyrgyzstan deaths in 1338–39. Green has hypothesized, on the basis of genetic evidence, that the thirteenth-century expansion of the Mongol Empire catalysed the spread and diversification of Y. pestis strains responsible for the later Black Death."

"Where is Kyrgyzstan":

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kyrgyzstan/@36.2729637,68....
Semiconductor theory is more interesting, but don't even consider it unless you love math and can do standard integrals without having to look up tables.

Also, the mistake I made when I went to grad school: Semiconductors seemed to be a
"new" field compared to the rest of EE. One of my undergrad professors said "They still haven't figured out what a standard textbook should contain."

In reality, from a research standpoint, it's a very mature field. Don't expect low hanging fruit. If you're going to focus on theory, expect it'll take a number of years of dedicated study before you get to the frontier. You'll need to know quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics, and some electromagnetics, just to begin studying semiconductor theory. Then a whole bunch of specialized solid state courses. Then you start studying the specific subtopics (reading key journal papers).

> But later I'd want to work as compiler engineer

Why are you wasting time with semiconductors...?
If your life is boring and you have tried everything you should try heroin.
At $WORK we use a tool named Cloud Custodian that does this, and can do so for almost all resources. We use it almost exclusively for EC2 and other resources in our dev account where at midnight EST it shuts down all resources.

Users can override it by adding a custom tag to their resources to change the hours or not have the workload shut down. It's reduced our AWS costs tremendously.

Since we heavily push using terraform even for dev stuff, users can quickly re-spin up their instances, fix DNS records and the like with a terraform apply to get back up and running when they get back to their desk.
I'm not versed on specific water usage by rice paddies but am aware that:

The inland Central Valley of California was historically a seasonal or episodic lake. The Great Flood of 1862 saw 3m (10 ft) of water dumped on the state over 43 days from December 1861 through January 1862, followed by a warm storm melting much of the snowpack:

The entire Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys were inundated. An area about 300 miles (480 km) long, averaging 20 miles (32 km) in width,[21] and covering 5,000 to 6,000 square miles (13,000 to 16,000 km2) was under water.[15] The water flooding the Central Valley reached depths up to 30 feet (9.1 m), completely submerging telegraph poles that had just been installed between San Francisco and New York. Transportation, mail, and communications across the state were disrupted for a month.[22] Water covered portions of the valley from December 1861, through the spring, and into the summer of 1862.[15]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Flood_of_1862

Much of the valley still floods seasonally, with designated flood zones such as the Yolo Bypass, between Sacramento and Davis.

A key problem within the central valley has been groundwater loss resulting in subsidence exceeding 15 m (50 feet) in places. Flooded paddies might help contribute to groundwater recharge.

Much of the paddy water is through-flow, which I'd presume returns to river flows. What the impacts of ag practices (fertiliser, pesticides) are I'm not sure. There will also be evaporative losses, of course.

I'd like to see a net impact / net flows analysis. The picture's likely more complex than a brief glance from the highway would afford, however.
This article contains what I would call unorthodox advice.

Here are my own recommendations regarding tools (I won't give advice how to paint, unlike the OP): you will need 5 tools only:

- colours: get a Lukas (preferred) or Schmincke set, a box with 12 half-bricks of colours will last for a long time and provide plenty of choice, 50-70 €;

- 2-3 brushes: only natural horse hair, one medium, one thinker and if you can afford three a thinner one, 30 €;

- paper: thick watercolour paper A5 to A3, well-glued, 15-25 €;

- 1 soft thin pencil to pre-sketch, e.g. Faber-Castell, 2-3 €;

- a glass (e.g. ordinary drinking glass or former pickles container) 200-400 ml, 0 €;

So 120-150 € give you a fantastic equipment, which may not be cheap but the cost of a good table-tennis bat is in the same range; the paper will be a costly repeat purchase if you stick to it, but the other tools can last for a long time (depending on how prolific a painter you are, of course).

(In my opinion, the quality of the brush and the quality of the paper matter the most.)

Edit: This selection has a strong German bias based on where I grew up but also because Germany, Japan and a few other countries also have a long-standing reputation for high quality stationary.
> The indelibility robs the person of the agency to choose not to belong to that community.

Most males born in the US are circumcised regardless of religious affiliation. It's not like circumcision alone makes someone part of the Jewish community. As I revealed earlier, I am a circumcised Jew, but What authority is controlling me? I am free to observe (or not) Jewish practices and traditions as I deem fit. Now having a US passport, or a driver's license, or a mortgage, or student loan debt? Those definitely place me under under control (financial or otherwise) of an authority. Being circumcised? I don't see how or by whom I am controlled.

> Could they leave anyway? Sure, the same way a person with gang tattoos can leave the gang.

Comparing membership of Jewish to membership of a gang seems pretty judgey. Maybe you're just anti-religion, and that's cool, but lets not compare Judaism, a world religion with thousands of years of history, to a gang. Unless you think all Christians also belong to a gang? Or like the vast majority of the world?
> held an unusually high number of tombstones dated to 1338 and 1339, ten of which made explicit reference to a pestilence.

> “When you have one or two years with excess mortality, it means something funny is going on there,” Slavin said at a press briefing.

When you have more than a couple of years of 'excess mortality' the ratio of tombstones to deaths may also decline. That's why we also look for mass graves. They can contain people nobody wants to bury (eg, dead Vikings after a failed invasion) or people nobody can bury.

An unusually high number in 1338 and 1339 may indicate a two year plague, or that people gave up it 1340.
This was triggering to read. Some highlights:

> Another company, Hometown Equity Mortgage LLC, which does business as TheLender, is promoting its “Non Owner No Income,” or “NONI,” loans to mortgage brokers. Its acronym is also Italian slang for “grandmother.” A Facebook ad features a gray-haired woman in a red bathing suit, a straw hat, and red heart-shaped sunglasses who floats in a pool, a martini glass in hand: “Our NONI likes to Airbnb. The NONI program allows borrowers to use income from vacation rentals, like Airbnb and VRBO … Results without the B.S.”

> Over the past year, Wall Street firms such as Credit Suisse Group AG and Barclays Plc have helped package and market hundreds of millions of dollars in mortgage-backed securities sold to institutional investors that included loans from these three companies. Some were rated investment grade; others, below. Credit Suisse and Barclays declined to comment. It’s unclear how many of the Airbnb-style loans are making their way into these offerings—or even how many have been sold overall—because no one has a full accounting.

> “The influx of the starry-eyed inexperienced investors is artificially boosting demand and causing the rental market to be overheated,” she says. “This whole class of loan and, in particular, some of these underwriting practices are a sign of market euphoria. That rarely turns out well.”

> A woman, eyeing retirement with her husband, has already bought one home to rent out by the day and is scouting others with the hope of creating an inheritance for her millennial children. “You’re my favorite call,” Carles says. “You’re going to live a long life, and you’re going to be partying it up, because you’re going to make a lot of money on these rentals.”

> In January, Winterberg quit her job as a manager at a radiology imaging company to become a broker at the Mortgage Shop, using her experience to evangelize and sell. “I get to help people literally do what I do,” she says. “It’s like, ‘Hey, let me tell you how you can make money and leave corporate America.’ It’s awesome.”

> After her morning Zoom presentation, Carles brushes away such concerns, saying her mortgage company and its customers are sure to keep thriving because of the enduring popularity of the Smokies. In her $80,000 SUV, she’s negotiating a tricky turn on a mountain road, still listening to the BiggerPockets hosts and their guests’ tales of real estate riches. “Even if the economy goes to crap, people will still vacation here,” she says. “No matter if your family is in debt, most people have to have a vacation so they don’t go insane. They’ll put it on a credit card.”

History repeats. Fuck. This. Shit.
Would the web have been a different place if IE had gone a different way instead of its current bullshit? I mean, I wonder what effect this would have on the current state of the web if it complied with general standards.
I would imagine though that he is also very often selling / buying so that hes not just sitting on a pile of cash for months at a time?
What kind of emergency would:

1. leave me with cash

2. not affect the ability of shops, hotels, etc to process those cash payments and render goods and services

3. prevent me from driving to the next town, county, etc
I think that the Fed has significantly extended its scope over time. From a pure backstop for banks towards quantitative easing and even buying of corporate bonds. And that's true for the EZB and other central banks as well. Overall, central banks do indeed seem to have a dampening effect on the economy, preventing some of the more extreme swings of the pre-Fed era, but I would argue that the Feds sustained injection of cash into the markets over the last decade has created a lot of the inflation the Fed is now trying to solve
We're happily using Heroku in prod.

One nice thing for us is that we also use Heroku CI so our tests run on the same infrastructure as prod, and the pricing for Heroku CI is just based on usage with no concurrency limits so everyone can have their CI runs across all their branches happening at the same time. We tried Github Actions when Heroku CI was ahem "down" and it was slower & more expensive + the concurrency limits meant we had to wait in line to get a CI run though. Nobody else seems to use or even talk about it though, so either we have a crazy CI setup or Heroku just never marketed it.

We occasionally do the math to see if Heroku is still a good deal and the answer is always that the amount of time we estimate we're saving on devops more than pays for itself in extra time spent on app development. There's a break-even where that will no longer be the case, but as engineering & devops get more and more expensive Heroku seems like a better and better deal.

The scariest part isn't really the product itself but all the recent talk about how it's a ghost town and nobody works there anymore. It's a great product but I do hope they start innovating again.
Is Shopify Payments worse for chargebacks?
Well how wonderful for you to be part of a certain privileged subset of people whose banking is fully accessible, easily usable, flows smoothly and has no political obstacles binding it. There are many others for who this isn't the case and all shills, NFT hustlers and cryptobros aside, the basic functionality of cryptocurrencies allows an excellent, hard-to-block workaround of these possible problems that many people I personally know have used to save their own assess in countries such as Russia, Mexico, Venezuela and (oddly perhaps) Hong Kong.

I don't understand that logic in your counterargument (and it's common among many people who hate on crypto btw. I don't single you out on this). It amounts to, "I can do this in this way and I love it, so I'm going to shit on alternative means that others might have to use for doing the same thing because they can't use my method" Really?
Primer Prism
Unless you are going for their post-bacc (which is a really good deal), doing their full online undergrad program would be an absolute nightmare. I'd go just about anywhere else.
Replying to "Why Decentralization Matters"

https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/03/change-my-mind-abo...
The comment I replied to was making a normative statement, not a descriptive one. If we were talking about the realities of the world (which we weren't), then I would have agreed with you.
Yep! Exactly like this!
This impression does not match reality. It's great to work with. I'd certainly take it over ocaml (having spent probably thousands of hours on both).
I would think that would be an excellent idea, and with a very large margin for error on gestational age.
And, waste is the least of its problems.
No. A physical menu is only a menu. All that it can do is show me what the restaurant offers. On the other hand, a phone is a device that is full of software designed to distract and consume attention.

A group of people sitting at a table looking at physical menus is such a completely different thing than a group of people looking at their phones. Maybe it's just me, but people seem to spend a lot more time choosing what they want when the menu is online only, because they actually already decided ten minutes ago and are now just looking at facebook.
Ah the old patronizing saw "you just want free stuff"... no sir, I don't. I'm just playing another Game with a different equilibrium. One where everyone doesn't get to die for lack of health-care, like animals in the wilderness. One where my neighbor's education is not considered a threat to the small place under the sun I've managed to rip out of their hands, like predators quarreling for some spoils.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/12/russia-threatens-retaliatory...

https://nypost.com/2022/05/14/russia-threatens-nukes-for-us-...

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-threatens-finland-sweden-nat...

This was major news and carried by almost every outlet. It is almost certainly just bluster, but escalatory bluster for sure.
This feels like an opportunity to link my own, much sillier, raytracer: https://github.com/chunky/sqlraytracer
Company docs (onboarding guides, developer wiki, guides for maintenance, decision log...), scrum board, ticket prioritization/estimation list, idea archive, ...

Endless. It serves as our source of truth.
“ We could see an unprecedented ramp down in the already unprecedentedly low inventory.”

What do you mean by this?
What is the medical benefit of a frenectomy? Or of braces? Tooth extraction to straighten one's teeth? Removing a mole? The list goes on. Procedures are performed on kids because parents think it will give them a happier life. Not everything in this world is based on measurable, medical benefits.
> (Owner of Pixel 3a) Yeah, that's a bummer. There's not something else I'd rather own right now, so I'll likely keep running it for a while.

I have the 3a and 4a (non-5G), if you can find a 4a someone is trying to give away on the cheap it's basically a nicer version of the 3a IMHO. It's going to EOL in a year so I wouldn't spend much on it, but if one crosses your path for $100, well...
As should everyone! If your finances would be wrecked by house prices staying stable, let alone decreasing, you're in for a world of hurt.

Also it's amusing that everyone wants lower cost housing but wants house prices to appreciate.
> When it comes to performance, rust+tokio is going to be much more performant

This is nonsense without significant further qualification.

I guarantee the tokio scheduler and async stack model gives you net worse results for many real workloads.
Have you used paypal extensively? Have you not read the MANY horror stories about its arbitrary blocks, lockouts, outright thefts of funds or at least months-long freezes and so forth? All of these things happen with many other corporate platforms. Sure, they also work for millions of people but it's good to at least have an alternative that can be called on for when things go bad or you live in a place where banking isn't as smooth as it often is in interconnected western countries. What's wrong with having that? One doesn't need to be an NFT hustler, cryptobro or shitcoin scammer to appreciate these basic benefits of a means of wealth transfer that it's very difficult for governments to control.
V8 is still very hard to escape -- an escape is a remote hole in Chrome isn't it? To be honest, I'm happy to base my security on "as safe as Chrome".
So you can selfhost our storage and we are making it easier and easier. Mostly we want to write one helm chart that will package it all.

We are not planning to support on prem deployments commercially. We are working with partners like Percona to do it eventually, but those conversations are too early to commit to anything.
Nope. I buy manufactured goods for a couple of businesses and everyone blames the price increases on supply issues.

Also, Google MMT. Printing money is only inflationary of the economy is running near capacity.
Thank you anon. You are my hero.
> a lot of that gas consumption is spent commuting, which makes people miserable. Murdering the daily commute is a good thing Covid-19 did

I guess this applies more to those who drive from the suburb.

I lived in a dense city with great transit. I miss the commute, which forces me to walk a bit, starts myself up, and helps me compartmentalize my time.