skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a fascinating read, thank you for sharing. Were there really no lasting effects? I'm curious why the introduced bacteria didn't flourish and permanently change your microbiome. Can anybody weigh in?
Boring Company will build a 34-mile tunnel network underneath Las Vegas
Almost certainly usable by the military, but not the way most people in the thread are responding. The military does a lot of humanitarian aid and rebuilding type work outside of war zones. If this solar array can be quickly and easily deployed off a boat and then you just drag a cable on shore to power a local town that could be very useful compared to having generators and having to ship diesel constantly.

Massive Earthquake knocks out the infrastructure in Haiti? Just send the solar boat and, even without batteries, you have a daytime power plant set up in a day. I wonder how much power storage you could get with a hand full of tractor trailer/shipping container sized batteries.
Edit: very disappointed to see Mercury denied my LLC as well. I guess they don't care about small businesses either?
Because you want to make a product that doesn't look silly / is worth all the effort to maintain it.

Having an noncompetitive product means fewer and fewer customers so the cost keeps going up per customer.

It also looks really bad. I know when I'm shopping around if I see sticker shock for some service even when it isn't exactly what I"m buying that is a big turn off for me as I assume that's how they price things ...
If I where to guess it would be to act as a spring to push the sensor against the ball
> In crypto, there is no buffer. Auto liquidation of undercollateralized positions occurs. All of those humans in the loop, “unfair rules”, and settlement delays crypto proponents complain about are the very things that make traditional finance stable.

Is auto-liquidation a bad thing? It leads to more volatility in the short-term, but it seems that there might be long-term benefits of ensuring that players with unresponsible business practices will be forced out of the market.

"Traditional" crypto holders will be affected too (the value of their investment goes down while people are forced to sell), but this looks more like a temporary impact. As long as they don't trade on margin they won't be forced to sell and as long as they hold their own keys they are unaffected if exchanges are crashing.

From a "price" perspective the current events might be bad for the crypto ecosystem, but from a "health" perspective I think that they could be positive, as only the responsible players with healthy business practices are going to survive.
If my store refuse fiat, then the police may come

If my (oil) nation refuse their fiat, then their military may come

Sounds like pretty convincing arguments to me to "believe" in said fiat
I think this really lays it out clearly now where you're coming from. I point to a whole series of judgements that lay out in clear legal text why and how they came to the decision to extradite Assange and you reply with essentially a claim that one of the most respected judges in the country is biased because he's friends with a government minister. Guess what? That is literally not evidence.

It's literally a case of: On the one hand we have the expert legal opinions of a series of the top judges in the country, on the other hand we have some amateur internet slueths.
FWIW conda has mamba as an option now which (mostly) fixed the slow SAT silver
The word "stupidity" is confusing, as people use it to refer to different things.

1) People can do stupid things, because they are mentally incapacitated, either permanently (e.g. mental retardation) or temporarily (e.g. drunkness, tiredness). There is nothing they can do about it, so it is morally neutral. In case of drunkness, the moral failure could be getting drunk, especially if you know it will result in you doing stupid things.

2) Willful (and often joyful) irrationality. This is the kind that Bonhoeffer points to, I think. I agree that it is a moral failure, but for many people "morality" simply means "what my friends approve of"; so if they get irrational together with their friends and in the same way, they see no moral problem in doing so, and their friends would agree.

3) People can also do stupid things simply because they are misinformed, either by mistake, or by being manipulated. That again is morally neutral. If it was a mistake, and they get feedback that they are wrong, now they have a moral choice: either start thinking and stop doing stupid things, or double down (which now makes it willful irrationality).

Yes, from this perspective, many people are immoral. Note that even a group that seems "homogenously stupid" from outside can still contain all three kinds of members; some members are willfully irrational, others only made the mistake of trusting the former.
In a similar vein: Python projects can use `auditwheel` to automatically relocate (fixup RPATHs) and vendor their "system" dependencies, such as a specific version of `zlib` or `libffi`[1].

[1]: https://github.com/pypa/auditwheel
That's not correct. The Constellation program (which would eventually morph into the SLS via Ares) have been in development with the goal of returning to the moon since before the F9 launched even.
In my opinion Musk is to SpaceX like Jobs was to Apple. Apple today wouldn't exist or would be in a much different place if not for Jobs and his vision. I believe the same for Musk and SpaceX.
I use Notes.
> then I'll be sure to change my password manager.

And change all your passwords as well? I don't think you can import your passwords into a new manager if the old one gets broken.
Surprise, CEO's don't actually do a hell of a lot to earn their 100x salary
For the few websites that I need to do frequent posting, I just write a bookmarklet for each. It is one line of javascript.

This can be useful for people that don't want/don't know to code though.
I've been using Brex for a few years. I didn't ask for much beyond an Internet bank into which Stripe and clients could deposit income, and from which I could make payments.

If they had said, "Below a certain balance, we'll need to charge you a fee," I likely would have paid it. The annoyance factor of switching banks, payment from my various vendors, etc., is not small.

Instead, I got a completely out-of-the-blue e-mail telling me that I have about two months to switch banks, and that there's nothing to talk about.

I'll echo those who wrote that if this was, as the CEO wrote, "an incredibly difficult decision for me and the team," it should have been given more thought than a "We're kicking you off -- good riddance" message.

I'm disappointed as a customer. But I'm also disappointed as a person in the tech space, where such poor behavior toward your customers is considered acceptable. More transparency and empathy could have turned this from an infuriating PR mess to a frustrating-but-understandable pivot by a fintech startup.
As a lifetime Windows user who started using Macs for the day job about a decade ago, it was clear that Windows came from a keyboard-oriented background, and Macs come from a legacy of focusing on doing as much with a mouse as possible.

I have a lot of internal thoughts about why I like what I grew up with (particularly with respect to discoverable keyboard shortcuts), but it's just not worth the mental energy of exploring that with internet strangers. The bottom line for me is that a decade on, I still split it between a Macbook for work, Windows desktop for home/creative/gaming, and if I could reasonably work without MacOS I would, but I can't.
What’s wrong with living life care free and restaurants? If they get their work done I see nothing wrong with a positive outlook on life and supporting the economy with restaurant dining.

If someone’s productivity slips from wfh then address the issue sure.
You'd expect the file picker and nautilus to share behaviour though, right? Also for me, if I open the file picker from Chrome/Edge/an Electron app it's forced full screen and there's no preview on the right either.

I love GNOME, use it on both desktop and laptop, but this is one of those things that's just bad.
Gnome design is sometimes weird.
Of course, if one were to switch measurements for that reason it'd be better to use the Japanese shaku [1], which at 30.303 cm is closer to a light-nanosecond than a foot.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_units_of_measurement
Yes, he's chosen his politics to pitch to that crowd. That's why we're so sick of it, it's the same grift you can get from youtubers and talk radio stations.
Every kind of medical discrimination should be enforced the same way as it is for people with chromosomal/transcriptional abnormalities that make them transgender.
Not directly related, but I have fond memories of finally getting a Kensington Expert trackball (the old big, white one) to work with mame versions of Missile Command, Marble Madness, Golden Tee Golf, etc.

There's something about the trackball oriented games that just really hit my nostalgia button harder than other games.
I'm sorry, C++?!?

Granted, C is underpowered and I would like namespaces and generics. But from a safety standpoint nowadays, C++ is just as bad. Not only is is monstrously complex, it still has all the pitfalls of C. C++ may have been "more strongly typed" back in the day, but now compiler warnings made up for that small difference.

Granted, C++ can be noticeably safer if you go RAII pointer fest, but then you're essentially programming in Java with better code generation and a worse garbage collector.

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There's also a reason to still write C today: its ubiquity. Makes it easier to deploy everywhere and to talk to other languages. It's mostly a library thing though, and the price in testing effort and bugs is steep.
I think the success really got to him. As a (cured) ex Elon fanboy who used to like him way before he was widely known to a non-nerd community, I distinctively remember this interview around the pre-Falcon 9 times with him which is like

Interviewer: Neil Armstrong says he doesn‘t want a private company like SpaceX to launch humans to tue moon because it‘s unsafe. What do you think about that?

Humble Elon, literally crying: I… I just wish he could come out here and see what we are doing.

That‘s the picture I carried with me for a long time, together with some really smart remarks about climate change on panels that were way ahead of their time.

These days, it‘s really all an ego shitshow, memes and YOLo. He definitely changed a LOT the past few years.
Yes, but usually cross-site tracking is the creepy stuff that people are concerned about. I don't have much of a problem with first-party cookies, personally, but some browsers (Firefox) are now offering "Enhanced cookie clearing", which can automatically clear first-party cookies at the end of each session, configurable per site.

And every browser offers a private browsing mode which is more or less the same effect.
Think of the PC as an example. Everything (or almost) is standardize. You can replace you CPU from Intel by another from AMD.

The mac being the opposite strategy of tight integration.

It seems to be that tight integration lead to a better overall product but the prices are higher and the environmental impact worst indeed.
I hate to dove into another country politics on the open internet. But I’ll bite as simile things are happening in canada which ended up with Ontario conservatives dominating the provincial election.

The left needs to pay attention to every day issues. It’s not that the right has answers but they have acknowledged these issues as being the main issues. For instance, it should be absolutely not shocking to anyone that inflation has happened and is a direct result of our fiscal policies. Well, some did not seem to be concerned about printing money to buy bonds to fund record deficits which actually paid people and companies to reduce productivity and output. Surprise! School closures are another huge issue. Most of us with children saw the massive harms from keeping them home. It was absolutely devastating! I could go on. The left NDP party of Ontario admitted they focused too much on the chatter-class (Reddit, Twitter, journalists, etc) and not the working class
There never really was a chance of that. There was nothing Trump could of done that day to make that happen. Even if the process would of been disrupted, it wouldn't of caused that.
https://twitter.com/cooperx86
Definitely going to try this too. I go though periods of acid reflux and it wakes me up. I sleep with 2 pillows so raise my head and shoulders to prevent it waking me which helps most of the time. But will give the probiotics a try. Thanks.
Feel free to fire him
Gwynne looks after the business, not the Engineering. She's been clear that's Musk's department.
> This means significantly more requests per page, even if the responses are mostly 304 Not Modified,

How expensive is that? I would naively have expected that comparing timestamps and sending a 304 was cheap to execute.
All these ridiculous Rube Goldberg contraptions for solar and wind when we could just build more and different types of nuclear reactors.
> If Apple or Microsoft had something like this "misfeature" in their OS, they could and likely would lose sales.

I disagree. Microsoft and Apple[1] had both had immense blunders that users hated, yet those users still paid money for the blunders.

At least with Gnome, people switched.

[1] I've used almost all the Window Managers and Desktop environments since 1995, I've used Windows since 1995. The current apple GUI is more painful to figure out than I had expected when I started using it last year. It's easily one of the least intuitive environments that I've come across, and watching non-tech users struggle with it reinforces my point.
I can't stand comments like this, pointlessly berating the CEO when you're not even a client. This is a forum for startups: startups frequently pivot in their search for product market fit. What do you expect him to do, have the company go under to maintain an unprofitable business segment? Have a layoff to cut costs? Who would that benefit?

Guess what: if every time a CEO writes a comment on this forum, angry-for-no-reason people show up to hurl vitriol at them, then eventually they will stop showing up to write comments. Stop it.
The devil's advocate response is "How essential could they be? We went decades without 'em."

I don't think it's the right answer, but it's an answer that works (GNOME continues to be the dominant Linux desktop environment in spite of lacking that feature).
To be clear, there are humans involved if the amounts are large enough - if you're playing with stocks and margin in your brokerage account it'll probably liquidate automatically, but even when I got a "margin call" by accident they gave me three days to resolve it before liquidation would happen.

Part of it depends on what the margin is used for - margin for VTX is going to be handled differently than forex margin.
Hey abofh! I lead the engineering team responsible for payments at Mercury. We're definitely looking at adding better and faster payment rails in the future, but I think that your scheduled ACHs should go out in the first ACH window right now. It's possible that your receiving bank isn't posting them until later in the day, but we send those first thing in the morning when pre-scheduled. If you want to email me, I'm happy to double check that for you. jake at mercury dot com
And if you answer the phone with "this call may be recorded" (as corporations always do)?
Remember when DeVore got fired from Google, and there was a massive "free speech" outcry?

Very odd that it's not happening now. People feel that it's OK to disparage lots of fellow colleagues with bad interpretations of science, but not OK to critique the CEO for specific actions are not a group of people I want to be associated with either, even though I have always been a "free speech" proponent. I just use different terminology.
I've not seen anyone using a tiling window manage with 32" and larger 4k displays. It's just an awful experience.

I would use a tiling window manager (and have) on something like a chromebook or if I'm a youtuber that does everything in a VM at 1080p. I have a hybrid approach that I use with XFCE (aggressive window snapping with custom shortcuts), but it's hardly a typical tiling window manager experience.

Regarding Thunar, I don't have any issues, but if you are not using it in XFCE, you might want to try and see what plugins you are loading. Some expect XFCE and could be the root of your issues.
Yeah what a cop out. "I've tried to improve on TeX but I'm not going to bother finding out if I actually did!"

Makes me suspect he tried it and it wasn't any better.
And he clearly doesn't / didn't get enough sleep for a long time.
So wrong its funny. Maybe if you assume the pre-existance of the nuclear supply chain due to a weapons program.
I challenge you to actually follow the sources on any of estimates like that, or the hilarious "12g c02/kwhr" quote. It's all ESTIMATES (not measurements) FROM The nuclear industry. But keep on believing.
ls doesn't show a preview either.

When forced to use windows the first thing I do is turn this feature off. Something doesn't feel right when a tool to list files tries to process content of files (e.g. image processing did come with severe security holes in the past, and it probably still does today).

Both of my toilets are working perfectly though.
He would be tried for terrorism even if all he did was releasing facts...
Yeah right, non-retaliation. Shit the bed like Amber Heard and then dont expect any consequences from it.
“We” aren’t building anything. Utilities are an income producing asset for their investors. There are, in fact, a multitude of utility solar installations going on right now all over the US. These things take time to build and learn from. It’s not a slam dunk and the profits aren’t guaranteed. Not withstanding the unsolved engineering challenges, of which there are many startups exploring.

We’re not stupid it just takes time.
I'm no stranger to OnePlus devices. I've had a OP5 and 6T.

They have repeatedly released ROMs full of bugs, crashes, and required factory resets on major version upgrades. Their update lag has increased since being combined with Oppo/ColorOS, while their value has decreased/cost has increased.

They've peaked in terms of hackability and software support.

Even if we disregarded their (worse than google but better than say, Xiaomi/moto) software support, which is more important than the hardware itself, OnePlus hardware is frequently worse (mic, speakers). The only win you get here is a latest gen SoC for pricing that is barely (~10%) cheaper than the Samsung counterpart with a worse build quality.

OnePlus' proprietary warp charge isn't doing then any favors either. Non-standardized charging is frequently a pain point for me when most other devices have moved onto USB-PD.
Yeah, the US far left has 3 congress people and one youtube news channel no cable news presence at all.

The actually difference in beliefs between Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell is paper thin.
I bought an X-arcade which has dual joysticks and a center trackball. Just to play Marble Madness.
100%. As a Brex customer who is getting kicked off, I would have paid $10/month to avoid the hassle I'll now deal with.
To an extent it can be a protected class (and this may even be protected) https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-right...
I had always associated the Eternal September specifically with AOL.

However, the Wikipedia article seems to be accurate as far as I can tell from referenced sources--even if some other sources conflate AOL offering Usenet access beginning in, apparently, March 1994 with the September 1993 Eternal September date.

It's probably the case that access was starting to significantly widen c. mid-1993 and the expansion to AOL early the next year amplified the trend.
I couldn't help notice you've exploited your observation in order to promote your blog. There seems to be an awful lot of Apple shaming for self-promotion and entitlement to do so without reciprocating the free attention by taking 5 minutes of your precious time to file a bug report. And I, for one, love how you don't even provide any version information, no iOS version details, no mobile Safari version details. Nothing. Maybe your bug reports are discarded because you fail to provide any salient details.

But I think you're absolutely right. A bug report will serve no purpose, because this is definitely not a bug, i.e. not a flaw in code that causes the software to crash or explode. It is instead leveraging a quirk of interface design in order to garner attention for an otherwise unremarkable blog.
I do think that's central to it, the managerworld is not profit driven necessarily, but it is quite focused on success, failure, and iteration driven by these heuristics. The focus on management prevents the creation of a central legitimating narrative, which differentiates them from the central political sphere of the state, even as their ideology infects the state.
You just don't get that website owners want basic metrics to help them understand the health and performance of their website?
I feel like Adam Kinzinger talks a similar talk to you, if you're looking for more republicans you can respect (I'm not affiliated in any way, just came across him via twitter)

https://twitter.com/AdamKinzinger/
Emacs' calc too.
See also: touchscreens in cars.
My wife, ever the empathetic, reminds me constantly that Elon is not neurotypical. He has aspergers, and that can explain some of his bluntness, some of his work-life demands, etc.

I don't want to generalize or stereotype ASD in general, but it does produce tangible differences in how people relate to the world.
EU only but a viable option there
The only one I've ever taken is "Culturelle Digestive Daily Probiotic". It comes to $0.50 per pill. There are much cheaper generics but I haven't had the guts (no pun intended) to switch away from what's working to try them.
It looks like the Meta was the official distributor / licensee for Turkey, and the ads warning about the region lock certainly have Atari logos on them. So I'd say it's fairly official, if not Atari directly then an affiliate.

I was personally wondering if main reason for the the region lock was Meta wanting to lock out European games, or Atari wanting to lock out (cheaper?) Turkish games from the European market. Either side has reasons to want it.

I'd also kinda note that although not a direct region lock, AFAIK the way the 2600 handles video timing (generated by the game programme, not the video chip) would have basically mutually locked out 50Hz and 60Hz regions at the time, as 1980s TV usually didn't "multisync" (plus there are palette differences between PAL/NTSC/SECAM systems as well).
> Let people wait on the platform as the train arrives. This is something that basically every train operator but Amtrak does.

In no small part because the platforms are too narrow — something that getting rid of several tracks would readily fix. (Just fill in the space between two platforms and you have a nice, very wide platform.)
But even in high school topics start to talk about functional equations (calculus, e/ln). I'm not sure the <function> vs <value> doesn't come from the mainstream imperative paradigms and only that.
I can't speak to the other countries, but I have no recollection of a bank run here in Canada in my lifetime. Do you have a link?

And the scope of my comment is clearly limited to the USA. We don't have a "fed".