skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nuts are much more expensive than milk

Milk is heavily subsidized, nuts are not. We could integrate (nut) trees into our agricultural fields, it would help with local temperatures, water retention, soil erosion, biodiversity, nutrition availability, the list is endless ... and the price of nuts would go rapidly down.

> require a gasoline to be transported to places that are quite close to actual cows

https://ychef.files.bbci.co.uk/1600x900/p0c41fcj.webp - Emissions (in kg CO2e) from the food supply chain – the climate impact of food miles is often a small proportion (Source: Our World in Data/Poore and Nemecek, Science, 2018)

> that thing you described does not sound like milk

That is a universal recipe for a plant based milk (lookup some recipes on the net if you don't believe it).
Oh, I didn't notice Vala had this new(?) web site, it looks good.

From my early experiments with Vala, years and years ago, what I remember is that it had nice error messages and the author was very consistent in releasing new versions even when there wasn't too much momentum.
__thread is essential for some applications, what's wrong with it?
Would you ever use either in a real codebase though?
There were optical telegraphs before electrical: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_telegraph

"The Early History of Data Networks" is a good read on the topic: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Early_History_of_Da...
¿Por qué necesito recordar que el sábado es "Saturday"?
See also: all the companies scrambling to circumvent App Tracking Transparency, in which they are not only being duplicitous, they're also breaking the new agreements formed with the app store and the customer.

Tracking has been a grey area in technology. Now that regulations and users are trying to scrape back some control over their privacy, it's going to be a lot clearer to see the line between moral and amoral behavior in companies.
That was Shunra, I worked there for a brief time. It was sold to HP at some point and I don't know what happened to the product afterwards.
It's live on the website
There is a study here which looks at that: https://t.co/xYJvPJRUCj (
"Memories with a blind mind: Remembering the past and imagining the future with aphantasia").

I assume I have aphantasia, and I have bad episodic memory -- so to me linking the two makes sense. However, I don't remember (hah!) if the study linked above was able to establish that link as well.
One of the things that frustrates me is that ISPs have successfully lobbied broadband surveys to exclude "inconvenient" plans.

AT&T asked that their DSL plans were not counted towards their "average bandwidth" because they were "obsolete and no longer being marketed".

To be clear - they were still _available_, and in many cases, your only option, but they were an anchor pulling down the average, so AT&T just "didn't want them to count".
You’re absolutely correct. That’s how XML was written in the late 1990s.
Often with amazingly crappy internet what you want are "one packet wonders" - do everything possible in single packets, so that if one gets through you win.
Are you aware of how different Miyazaki’s adaptations generally are from the original works?
Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it
Dart died when Chrome competitors - mostly Mozilla at the time - refused to include another VM in the browser. On the one hand I think it’s a shame because Dart is much better than even the last version of JS. On the other hand wasm and transpiling solved a lot of the issues Dart was trying to solve with less fragmentation so all things considered maybe it was the right decision.
>> The cooling gases in ACs also leak over time, and contain very strong greenhouse gases.

> As far as I know, modern appliances use gasses without this problem. It also holds for fridges.

Completely wrong, and the exact opposite of reality.

The currently-used gases are such a problem that the plan is to phase them out for new one in the upcoming years. Just do a search for "R410a phase out".

> Because of the global warming potential of many HFC refrigerants, the latest amendment to the Montreal Protocol, the Kigali Amendment, has proposed to phase-down the use of refrigerants such as R-410A. The phase down is expected to begin sometime in the 2020’s. The leading replacement for R-410A refrigerant is a pure, single component refrigerant called R-32, which has one-third the global warming potential of R‑410A.

* https://www.goodmanmfg.com/resources/hvac-learning-center/hv...

One possible replacement is R-32:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difluoromethane

Automotive AC has already moved to HFO-1234yf (from R-134a, Freon):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,3,3,3-Tetrafluoropropene
Fighting in wars is good for your health? That's news to me.
There's an old paper on that networking, by design, is not reliable or efficient - which is more cogent than ever in large scale distributed systems. What Comcast would cite would likely be that, so I doubt it would reveal the quiet part said out loud about the reliability of Comcast's services.

A couple citations I liked:

https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2655736

https://blog.acolyer.org/2014/12/18/the-network-is-reliable/
Archive: http://archive.today/2022.07.15-085235/https://www.nytimes.c...
I loved coding in Ruby. I also wrote a Ruby book for Apress, my last book for a major publisher before starting to self publish on leanpub.com/u/markwatson

Two factors made me leave Ruby behind: I am somewhat known for Common Lisp, and so CL jobs would come my way. Also, in the last 8 years, a huge amount of my work has been in deep learning and Python wins there.

Anyway, Ruby was designed to make programmers happy, and it is a big success at that.
Isn't that better than living in colder areas, as heating usually takes more energy (and solar energy is more plentiful in hot/sunny periods)?
The only way I learned was the "main guy" flipped off management and walked out. You start learning real fast. "WTF IS PXE BOOT. Session vms aren't booting. Oh jesus, JEFF! HA_ERR_KEY_NOT_FOUND people can't login ". I couldn't learn anything otherwise due to nerves, PR gating and risks of catastrophic failure. But, when I was the only person left, let's roll it. PR approved!
Class is relatively subtle because it is context dependent - classic example: a rich person wears ripped jeans to show they are rich, a poor person wears ripped jeans because they can't afford new jeans. And the situation seems silly until you cotton on to the insight that this game is being played around the ambiguous middle who can afford new jeans, but if they wear ripped jeans would be mistaken for the poor...

"White trash" would be a reference to a culture - beliefs, expectations and norms held by a group of people. Paris Hilton may have acted trashily, but is not part of that culture. The beliefs, expectations and norms that she is working to would be different and probably upper class ones.
Love it!, i’ve flown my dji mini2 for exploration porpoises and got decent cartography with ODM i used later some abseiling and the measurements where off by 2 mts (not bad since the GPS wasn’t RTK or similar)
Consider me from a different universe.
You can get lion meat in the USA if you want to shock people:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/03/25/175296454/wh...

Lamb and duck in particular are very common here in Australia. Personally, we seem to eat them more often than chicken.
But did they cross state lines?
I tried the Steampipe CSV plugin on the taxi dataset that is used in the OctoSQL benchmarks. Simple grouping.
> ILECS were required for a while (still are?) to sell access to their central office DSLAMs.

It was just the copper, not the DSLAM access. What you could do is buy colo space at the CO and install your own DSLAM, and the ILEC was required to cross connect the copper to your cage. What you did from there was your business, as was all of the CPE.

I worked at a CLEC for 10 years during the good times. Even set up a few of our colos myself back in the day. I still think we (the US government) should have kept going and required incumbents to lease access to any last-mile wiring technology. It should be part of the price for enjoying what amounts to a government-sanctioned monopoly. Even better, just make the last-mile network a regulated utility like water & electric.
Yes but those things don't get called 'riding'. I didn't claim English was logical.

Even if they did, 'a ride' is ambiguous at least over horse and bicycle. I didn't claim it was unambiguous either.
It is a tiny bit sexist to be honest - not catastrophically so or anything, but a bit.

Getting 13-year-old girls interested in computers turns out to be not that hard. Lots of programs do it. (Maybe it's harder to get them interested at the same rates as boys, but I wouldn't die on that hill.)
Thanks!

Big shout out for Regoli, best "maritozzi con la panna" on Planet Earth!

How could I forget about it?!
Not GP, but I experience the same thing. Wife remembers everything, I only remember extremely significant events, and not that much about the fine details.

My capability for creating visual scenes is great, I really enjoy books because of the vivid scenes they paint in my mind.

My visual memory of events is often literally fuzzy and in the third person(out of body, spectating myself in the scene).
Unfortunately selling out a brand generally means the quality tanks because it’s easy way to boost margins.

Food gets a few more preservatives and slightly worse ingredients until over time it tastes like cardboard. Video games become ever more blatant cash grabs. Clothing becomes more fragile, with cheaper materials and worse craftsmanship.

Trying to appeal to the widest possible audience means removing that which makes art interesting, but maximizing short term profit means taking the same shortcuts as everyone else in the industry.
Change your pronouns and see what happens
Supply chain disruption is only a problem because central banks from around the world tried to print out of the pandemic.

If they just let market run its course, we'd have a severe recession caused by shutdowns and job losses in early 2020. Demand for consumer goods would be significantly reduced and the crippled supply would be sufficient.
HERE is wonderful for international travel - you can download entire countries or subsets thereof, and turn off data roaming and just use GPS. Then you can stick to free wifi.
We do the same. Subscriptions and rentals are 1080p. 4k versions of content usually cost twice as much. A few simultaneous compressed 1080p streams easily fit in the slowest broadband service I can get.
Our early analysis suggests that men and women actually appear to leave engineering at roughly the same rate and endorse the same reasons for leaving. Namely, that there were little opportunities for advancement, perceptions of a lack of a supportive organization, lost interests in the field, and conflicts with supervisors. One key difference between men and women was women wanted to leave the workforce to spend time with family.

https://sites.uwm.edu/nsfpower/gears/
Very common in Zürich also.
> Yes, that means less for the executives and shareholders. They may have to sell some of their properties, oh dear.

Based on retail business profit margins, it would mean higher prices for customers. Not that that is a bad thing, less consumption would be great.
You should look at Apache Calcite[0]. Like OctoSQL, you can join data from different data sources. It's also relatively easy to add your own data sources ("adapters" in Calcite lingo) and rules to efficiently query those sources. Calcite already has adapters that do things like read from HTML tables over HTTP, files on your file system, running processes, etc. This is in addition to connecting to a bunch of traditional databases including SQL databases, MongoDB, Redis, and several others.

Disclaimer: I am a member of the PMC, but not unfortunately not particularly active atm.

[0] https://calcite.apache.org/
Breastfeeding and sleep aren’t mutually exclusive.
I feel that the complaints about "old tech", like comparing XML-RPC to XDR or the DEC Alpha at the time isn't very helpful, and maybe lacks some context. The specification came out in 1999, which means that people were discussing the spec for months or even years beforehand. Was any Microsoft-associated engineer using a 64-bit computer during that time? Did they even care? It's a guess on my part, but I wouldn't be surprised they couldn't put 64-bit in the spec since their competitors may have had patents in that space, and some tech companies weren't being friendly with each other at the time.

Also, messages that look like a HTML web page at the time also could have made it seemingly easier for developers to work with, and be attracted to use a new platform.
You were not supposed to try to break through, because that meant becoming part of the establishment. Doing cool things was what mattered. Success was tolerated when it arose organically, but it was not a positive thing in itself. People who were deliberately trying to be successful were branded mediocre and boring, because only mediocre and boring people wanted to be part of the establishment.
Why just horses?
To clarify, my question was basically asking whether the author of the parent comment is satisfied by my comment.
Perhaps you should consider that maybe some of those shareholders are your parents whose retirement future depends on those investments?
I see a borderline failed state. The fact people are rushing there from other failed states is no signifier of confidence as far as I’m concerned.
Generally I see it as a warning sign for western ideals, and a great tragedy waiting to unfold if the shit hits the fan.
When pressed, I’ll express my concern that a population of people who have had it so good for so long have done so little to agree about what it means to be human and autonomous and as a result have completely failed their founding fathers.
A union is just a way to make a multilateral contract negotiation between one huge party and hundreds of thousands of very small parties into a bi-lateral contract negotiation between two equals, it’s a completely rational negotiating tactic in a pure capitalist system and it can only be prevented by restricting basic human rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of contract and the right to live without fear of violence.
"Trading Places" is still the best movie about class in America.
Best way to fight inflation in the US? Buying Euros.
Icelander here. Horse foal meat is some of the more expensive meat you can have at the finer restaurants in the country. At every butcher shops you can find foal meat, and most if not all supermarkets carry horse meat in some way (frozen, salted, smoked or as a sausage etc).

The finer foal cuts are really some of the best meat I have ever tasted. Highly recommend.
JEPA – A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence (Paper Explained)
How can you ban people from going on strike? The entire point of a strike is that you're not working when you're supposed to be.
Agree Ruby code is super hard to understand, this seems largely overlooked by the community
I'm not following and, so far, strongly agree with the parent here (the fact that Veritasium didn't mention the CMB a single time really surprised me when I watched the video for the first time).

Why wouldn't we be able to measure the differences in the CMB, depending on the direction?

What do you mean by "linear flow"?
Applying social networks to the analysis of cuneiform tablets
At the end he is presenting his software: https://github.com/admndrsn/Gephi
I tried for many years to be happy with Ruby.

Ended up leaving it behind because more often than not, when I revisited a Ruby codebase after a while, Bundler would complain and tell me that I’m supposed to run `bundle install` something, and sure enough, doing just that sent me into a rabbit hole of errors.
My frustration is that you can't pass foo as an argument to another function.
As an omnivore, at some point avoiding the dissonance became a zen of embracing the dissonance.
That's a feature, you should be using the latest minor/patch release when developing. If you really need to lock a dependency to a specific version it is possible, but you shouldn't be doing it. If a dependency is constantly breaking on minor/patch releases you shouldn't be using it.

I think it's a lot of javascript developers who end up having this problem, and all I can say is that the python package ecosystem is not the same. Please don't lock your dependencies to specific minor/patch versions, and please don't use so many dependencies that it becomes tedious to deal with changes. Especially when you're writing a library. If you're locking to anything other than a major release or a minimum minor/patch revision when producing a library things have gone very wrong.
It's supposed to shift focus from your identity to your actions.
"I code for a living" / "I code often" or even "I like coding" are very different phrases than accepting the programmer identity/label.
It's not about what you are, but what you actually do. Focusing on your actions instead of yourself is a lot less narcissistic.
I'm not sure. Childbirth and rearing is a concern for most women, statistically speaking, so if it were only about childbirth and rearing, we'd see about equal numbers of females dropping out of tech as we do females dropping out of other professions, but we don't see that. (If anything, I'd expect it's less of a factor in tech in the last two years because the main issue there has been the pandemic's effect on childcare, and swinging a remote or odd hours job is easier in tech.)

We'd have to know where in the pipeline the women are leaving to investigate causality.

Anecdotally, I ended up working on my own for most of my programming because while it was fine when I was a child (under the age of about 12 or 13), mostly single-sex spaces of adolescents (including college students) are REALLY hostile. Being a 16-22 year old female in a room full of 20 to 30 something males is REALLY uncomfortable and I felt literally endangered on some occasions. Adolescents are both insecure and new to their sexuality, which they take out on other people. It's gotten much better now that young men see me as old; they don't hate or resent me as much.

I've seen similar dynamics with, for example, men who want to work with young children. There are some young women who really invested their sense of self into being the person who's good with kids, and someone of the opposite sex coming along and being just as good/interested in the topic makes their insecurity and nastiness flare. Teenage boys who want to be camp counselors, babysit, etc.
There is no such thing called bad cholesterol. Just make sure triglycerides/hdl < 3
You are not even be attempting to discuss this in good faith. You attribute ridiculous statements to me, such as that the breakaway republics do not exist, and there was universal support in Ukraine for Euromaiden, just so you have something to argue against. You throw complex topics such as the Crimea referendum out there. (For the record, the 97% support that Russia claimed is clearly false, but a majority support is probably true. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum for more.) And then you disingenuously ask that if I don't disagree with these, which do I disagree with?

Meanwhile you continue to avoid calling Russian genocide by its proper name. You continue to claim that Russia had legal justification. You continue to deny the truth of Russian actions, and continue to blame Ukraine's situation on the West rather than on the country doing the invading.

The truth is that it is a tragedy that Ukrainians are faced with the choice of fighting for their sovereignty or submitting to a genocidal Russian oppression. The record of Russian rule being terrible is supported by extensive history, current events, and ongoing Russian policy. By contrast the specter of Germany launching another invasion through Ukraine is rather ridiculous given the current culture of the German people and government. And Russia wore that excuse rather thin after using it to justify decades of tyranny over the Eastern Bloc during the cold war.

I wish you would portray my position honestly, engage with the truth of Russian crimes, and start accepting facts. I also wish you wouldn't support a genocidal dictatorship.
You could setup toxiproxy or something similar (slow squid cache maybe?) and then setup a DNS server that overrides the domains of some of the big names and redirects to it. Microtix routers have an easy way to do this; will probably throw SSL cert errors but you could solve that with some self-signed trusted certs.
I'm not so sure many believe in Agent Smith's diatribe from the Matrix that humans are a disease, cancer or virus. I think most people adopting this kind of narrative have bought into some Edenic mythology they've bought into about pre-industrial civilization.
My guess is that sometimes people misinterpret it as gendered or racialized, but a lot of times they may actually live in an environment that really does treat them differently. It's hard to know without being in their shoes to see and hear it.
The money printing argument a lot of people make for inflation implies that a) all that money made it into people’s hands and saving accounts and not as debt to companies which a cursory look at saving rates and excessive reserves of banks during that period or now is incorrect. Banks are not just going to donate money around when the Fed gives it to them — they are going to direct them towards let us say housing assets — the entities buying your bids out with cash.

Also recall when looking money supplies that the M1 definition simply changed.

We have an energy problem — we could barely keep up with energy demand growth pre pandemic and now it’s 1970 all over again.

Also all the comparative advantage impact — that is the advantage in production of having eg Argentina focus on agriculture and exports which reduce overall prices requires predictable demand and solid transportation/shipping. Both as you can guess were “nuked” the last year and for the next couple of years at least.

The Fed can do nothing about any of these topics. Even if you have 3 billions if there are no pears in the market you are not going to eat pears. But people have to eat and commute and travel and live. Companies got to function. Thus, inelastic demand. Thus, inflation.

The Fed’s job is to keep its cool. It is political and it shouldn’t but it is what it is. Don’t expect anything they do to be different than TSA at the airport. Good luck to all of us.
no, but the interrupting itself tends (of course not always, just tends) to be a male habit, and we males are kind of used to interrupting each other kind of like an extension of boyhood rough play, or something, but it's not the same experience as that experienced by many females.