skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sentence uses "Diesel trains are" and "steam trains of yore were" - past vs. present.

Take the 2-8-0, which https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-8-0 comments:

> From its introduction in 1866 and well into the early 20th century, the 2-8-0 design was considered to be the ultimate heavy-freight locomotive. The 2-8-0's forte was starting and moving "impressive loads at unimpressive speeds" and its versatility gave the type its longevity. The practical limit of the design was reached in 1915, when it was realised that no further development was possible with a locomotive of this wheel arrangement. ...

> During World War II, 14 of these locomotives were equipped with superheaters, which raised their tractive effort from 28,777 lbf (128.0 kN) to 33,557 lbf (149.3 kN)

Then compare to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMC_E3 , a diesel from 1938 with "Tractive effort Starting: 56,500 lbf".

That's from time when people became convinced that diesel was better than steam. Why? Quoting https://www.american-rails.com/diesel.html

> This changed after General Motors successfully demonstrated the diesel's viability during testing of its FT freight design in 1939.

> The demonstrator set toured the country, convincing skeptic after skeptic that diesels were not only efficient and reliable but could also outperform the iron horse.

Not simply because it was dirt cheap.

Stats at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMD_FT . The top speed of 95 mph is 15 mph higher than the Union Pacific Big Boy.

Note also "Steam locomotives could be built with fewer precious materials, and with less conflict with military needs.", which is yet another factor that OP's thesis didn't consider.

Did you catch things like "no further development was possible with a locomotive of this wheel arrangement" and from earlier "the six cylinders could easily consume more steam than the boiler could produce". These designs were pushing the limit of what steam could do, and diesel looked like it could pass those limits. And did.
Phil Cutler is probably a better equivalent but yeah, definitely legend status either way.
Not sure if spewing badly written propaganda about the bloodiest war of invasion America ever waged could be considered doing good
Or even 'hash pling'.
Yes that's a good point, but I'm not sure if the bugs in QT etc. are inherent, i.e. we probably can fix 'all of them'. You're right to point out 'a' model should be a reference though.

Honesty though I fear in attempt to 'find' a model, we get forced upon us this FRP stuff for academic reasons of architectural purity. Despite QT's bugs, it mostly works just fine.
It's already in the article.
Not rally, if you take the reality of it a big further i.e. 'there is an FB in every vintage' or more like 'there are a 'few big hits' in every vintage' - you'll find that the pattern is repeated over and over by good VC's who can demonstrate their consistency.
If Conservancy win their latest court case, you wouldn't even need to be a copyright holder to sue for GPL compliance.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
> Yes evidently many children grow up fine on formula. So given that the effect of breastfeeding is capped, it’s reasonable to choose to optimise for other factors such as practicality, father-child bonding time and so on.

Does breastfeeding negatively impact father-child bond ? I find it highly unlikely. We do know for a fact that it’s better for health.
You can pretend a small web app is a bigger one with a load testing tool like locusts[0]. If your design is good, it should be able to scale and handle more load. There are some more testing approaches listed here[1].

[0] https://locust.io/

[1] https://github.com/asatarin/testing-distributed-systems
Nice to see that someone gets it
Ask HN: SQL Query Google (Or Other) Calendar
Is there a way to easily run SQL queries against Google calendars? Or run them against ical files?
Practical ideas off the top off my head:

Take a fast moving input data stream, and map it to some slower moving output streams.

Use a message queue, a web tier, a worker, and implement private and public caching internally in something like Redis. Implement HTTP caching.

Implement backups, failover, and recovery. Create runbooks and checklists.

Secure everything with MFA auth for admin-type users and design and implement lesser privileged user access.

Design and implement RBAC.

Add reporting, logging, fault-tolerance.

Make it platform agnostic and support multi-tenancy, i18n, and WCAG.

Support and test for HIPAA and GDPR compliance.

Document the whole thing.

Figure out how to write automated tests for all of these aspects.
If requesting http paths result in accessing the equivalent fs paths, then yes, you can dos it. But nowadays it’s uncommon for a webserver.
Breastfeeding isn't only beneficial for babies. Even mothers who can express will benefits from it.

Reduces `type 2 diabetes` risk. https://www.nmcd-journal.com/article/S0939-4753(13)00274-3/f...

It reduced the risk of reduced risk of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and endometrial cancer.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4670483/

Do I need to mention maternal bond as well as weight loss? Instead of dieting or stuff like that, it's a more healthier option.
Yeah, i agree, but still, i believe we should even aim for higher standards than what you propose: actually licensing current relevant IP is not enough. At least in the sense that we actually have to develop IP that is small-scale operable, easily shareable, etc. Current techniques are mainly geared toward large scale, investment heavy and resource exploitative applications. It's a start to at least be open about these techniques and share them, but like the article i shared above explained, if you're sharing monoculture technology, you're actually not giving away resilience and robustness. Tons of our current technology has to be reevaluated because it optimized the wrong things.
It’s maybe a bit big to call it a “thumb drive” but I’ve been putting backups on a 2TB usb “portable ssd”. I’ve also got a 256GB thumb drive, which isn’t too far off.
Do you know what is there business model?

As in do they charge per unit sold? Or have a flat license? Do you know what would be aprox costs per unit for a startup say for QNX Neutrino?
> A Twin study is hardly comparing Sierra Leone with Japan, or the Netherlands with North Korea. Extremes like iodine deficiency, disease, or fetal alcohol syndrome are similarly excluded.

Sure. To take this line of reasoning to its conclusion, an environment that has no oxygen or is otherwise uninhabitable, would prevent any human from living or having any mental abilities whatsoever. In this sense, environmental influences would completely dominate genetics. Similarly, changing 50% of a human's DNA would have them live life as a stalk of wheat.

What's your point?
The vaccine probably saved a million lives in the US alone.

It's great that newer, vaccines are being developed. But in the meantime, the Novavax vaccine is not available. I'll take the one that is available. I'm not really interested in dying waiting for the perfect vaccine.
I'm from Brazil and we have a right-wing politician, and the same argument is running around for the same reasons. Maybe it's not a world wide effect but it sure involves too many variables to attribute it all to one actor. But if it goes up you can bet the opposition will say its his fault, and if it goes down you can bet the opposition will say it is not his fault. Depends on how self-aware the person you're talking to is, and that skill is useless on the internet as it makes you unsure about your convictions.
Also, influences of Milk Formula companies in research on benefits to babies and mothers can't be neglected.

Just see the 1970s Nestle scandal. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/The_Nestl%C3%A...
Note: I mined bitcoin when the price was ~$300 knowing full well it was a ponzi.

If you DCAd on tulips and sold at the top you'd be set for generations.

You are talking with too much feelings. I understand. But it's ponzi all the way down.

> I put far more into my 401k/stocks than I do crypto.

Every single $1 you put is every single $1 into a ponzi. I'm sorry. I wish I too had generational wealth and did fancy art fulltime.

If you want something more real life and high risk/return, check out TQQQ & HFEA. I do those.
I feel many posters here could avoid a lot of cognitive dissonance by accepting this: "Alcohol is bad for my body, but I enjoy its effects. This is my trade off to make and it is worth it to me."

Instead I see a lot of rationalizations about how drinking alcohol is inherently the right choice.
> Does breastfeeding negatively impact father-child bond

Exclusive breastfeeding (not exclusively feeding breastmilk, but exclusively breastfeeding) would to a certain extent, yes.
I wonder what the motivation for this is? It’s not like anyone is listening to these chopped and shifted tracks right? Maybe bots are streaming these?
There needs to be much more upload speed and much higher data caps. The current structure is stunting the economy for the profits of some not awesome people.
Nothing wrong with wanting to be a good parent... But yes, everyone will have (conflicting) advice for you but you are the parents. Nature will do its thing anyways.
Municipalities in the US can be very picky about what shows up installed on a street corner. Sometimes it’s because of local ordinance, or someone doesn’t like it, or the person in charge doesn’t like that they weren’t asked first.

Yes, it’s a normal thing in the US to expect the authorities to show up sooner or later and ruin your fun. And yes, it really does happen.
> are there ever times when alcohol is actually good for your body?

The fact that we evolved tolerance to it probably means that there's at least a cost/benefit analysis there (see the sibling comment as well)

Off my head I'm not even sure how does alcohol tolerance compare with lactose tolerance (something with proven nutritional benefits), but I think it's a higher number
Getting sufficient antialiasing quality for 2D graphics is difficult on GPUs. https://github.com/memononen/nanovg accomplishes this with GL2/GLES2 level hardware for most of the stuff one would want to render as part of a GUI. My project https://github.com/styluslabs/nanovgXC supports rendering arbitrary paths with exact coverage antialiasing, but requires GLES3.1 or GL4 level hardware for reasonable performance.
Sans ICS HyperEncabulator (Sequel to Rockwell Retro Encabulator)
Anonymous Sign-In
We prove you're real without revealing your identity. Businesses get trust, users get privacy.
Breastfed children tend to have less stomachaches. When your baby cries because he cannot digest the formula, you arguably lose a big part of the benefits.

Also breastfeeding is much more convenient when traveling.

I think using formula was heavily promoted as a way to establish equality, and many people turned a blind eye on the drawbacks for the sake of progress.

It’s a good thing that we are now prioritizing babies’ health.
Hmm. I do see your point, but if anything I feel 'alcoholism' as a concept could use some 'downplaying'. Too many people think of an 'alcoholic' as, more or less, someone who has a red nose, looks homeless, and buys big cans of cheap beer or liquor.

Meanwhile, many people who are most certainly alcohol abusers tell themselves it's not a problem yet because they are 'not like that'.

I've talked to people who drank around the 'healthy limit' and still struggled because their intention was to not drink at all.

I quite like how generally speaking, our (or the more 'professional') views of addiction emphasize the subjectivity of it (while respecting the medical aspects).

A big issue with alcoholism is that nobody wakes up a 'serious' alcoholic. It's little steps, often with some big leaps along the way. Quite often, you don't realize you're addicted until well after you are. Making people aware that alcoholism is, usually, a sliding scale rather than some clear 'point' could lead to much more and better intervention before it gets too bad.
Yes, there's no middle ground between locking everyone up and letting people keep billions in ill-gotten gains /s.
One thing that struck me as I read through was that the computational cost for TLS 1.3 is so expensive that it becomes infeasible to run on the slower machines, resulting in timeouts and failed connections while setting them up.

Yet those old machines had full GUI OSes and performant apps and snappy interactivity in their day. Is the sheer amount of computation required to facilitate TLS 1.3 really more than what was needed to run entire interactive GUI operating systems of that era?

Kind of mind boggling if so.
Not sure what your profession is, SE?
Anyway, just creating the thousands of assets that go into a production takes a long time. Characters should be modeled, textured, rigged and animated; same as in a Pixar animation. It usually turns out to some ratio of artists per engineer.
Games run on a single machine and in realtime, so you might need simplified versions of those before mentioned assets. Resources are limited, so there are engineers working on only rendering for example, ie. the end of the pipeline before an asset hits the screen. It is complicated and you have to catch up with whatever Nvidia puts out there for you to work with etc.

But we have not talked about how things should even work in a specific game yet. It could maybe be seen as glue, and you need a lot of it. All the thousands of rules that needs to be programmed and fit together. A physics engine only deals with physics. Even an AI engine is discrete. It needs to fit with the game in mind.

And what is the game in mind, is it fun? That whole process of creativity to figure that out also takes a lot of work and time. The game designer's job. Then the tweaking of values, how much damage should the attack of enemy B take?

It is an enormous art and engineering puzzle that is solved together from usually a pretty blank canvas.
Comcast: Simulating shitty network connections so you can build better systems
I think even Apple would have trouble selling at that price.
I think you can't. You're right about 3 and 6, which are the same basic issue of needing to trust the vendor, their hardware suppliers, their employees, and the delivery chain to you. (You can be more secure, but you can't be totally secure)

Or, for example, what if all your communications and actions are being monitored continuously by state-level actors with cameras and hidden bugs, recording every keystroke? Or what if we are living in a simulation, and the malicious operators can extract data from your brain, or just alter reality at will?

But I think you can provide a "practical" level of trustless. That means that, if your adversary was powerful enough to steal your Bitcoins, then they'd be so powerful that they could destroy you in many other ways. So it's a moot point.

A practical solution to your question could be to take all the precautions you've said above, and then simply gradually increase the amounts you are transacting, using a variety of methods, and see if anything gets stolen.

Call it a bribe or a bug bounty or a tax. It's quite effective, because organizations are comprised of individuals, who are subject to human temptations. At least two federal agents independently stole funds from the Silk Road marketplace while investigating it, and they were imprisoned later
To add something further to this excellent comment:

Join a start up with a legacy code base, e.g. dodgy old PHP that they’re pulling out into modern domain services.

Within a year you’ll be able to analyse performance and scalability issues and refactor them in your sleep.
I've got 25/25Gbps here in Switzerland. I pay ~$65/month.
I know this isn't really what you asked, but I've administered hundreds of software engineer interviews, and there are two very common mistakes I see when it comes to system design:

1. Not clarifying the problem. The very first thing out of your mouth should be a series of questions that helps you define the requirements more clearly. Identify use cases. Try to understand the scale; questions that start with "how many" are good ones.

2. Not being concrete. For example, I had a design problem I'd give people that usually wound up with them sending lots and lots of messages in real-time from one system to another. But when pressed, very few people were able to describe the contents of those messages in any detail.

Just thought I'd pass that along in case it's helpful to you. And I'll second what a lot of other folks here are saying: the best way to learn this is to get experience.
<sigh> HackerNews we just can't give you anything nice.
This was super noticeable for a few years whenever I went back home to visit my parents. I would struggle to load basically anything on my laptop most evenings due to the 5 mpbs or so being split between 3+ devices (although the weak signal in most rooms due to the poor placement of the router that they were not interested in moving somewhere more central didn't help either). Eventually when the pandemic hit and my father started working from home, they quickly discovered that he would not be able to get his work done if my mother was streaming something at the same time, so they ended up upgrading to a more expensive plan, and the next time I visited, I was pleased to find that my issues had vanished.
I'm curious: did you roll the opening theme and closing credits fully for each episode?
Do you have behavioral studies to back this up ?
My breastfed girl is daddy’s daughter.
The US is not a declining global power.
From my experience/workflow, it's because I typically am needing to switch between reviewing the contents of a file and changing my search up a bit based on what I'm seeing. To be clear, for extremely bulky logs or projects, grep + sed + awk are my go-to since even the best text programs have issues with multi-GiB sized files and I want to heavily manipulate the output, but sometimes that's overkill (and when training employees, the same result can be achieved without the burden of having to learn these programs; eventually they will learn, but it's burdensome and additional stress when they have far more important things to be learning when they start)

When I do searches like that, the tool needs to be there and powerful when I want it, but also immediately out of the way. Notepad++ handles this really well IMO by letting you adjust the transparency of the search and having a lot of power to it, the only blemish being how np++ wants to try to lock the search to the main window (which I'm sure can be disabled, I just never took the time to figure out how). But there is so much you can do with the search that it needs space to show its options and power, and that takes up space from the document which means now I have less on the screen to review. This is annoying even on an "okay" sized monitor, and exacerbated on a laptop monitor.
I disagree. I would drop this team immediately.

Hiring is hard. That's why interview processes take weeks and recruiters get paid tens of thousands of dollars for successful placements. The OP got stuck with a bunch of mediocre, and worse yet, arrogant, engineers.
This might be an easy question, but it's always bothered me...

If gravity is caused by curvature of space-time (like I'm a train on a curved rail), doesn't that mean that space-time itself exerts forces?

But if that's the case, why doesn't space exert a retarding force against all moving objects, like a form of friction or wind resistance?

In a total vacuum, an object would move through space-time with zero resistance forever... As if space-time is incapable of exerting any force of its own.

Why does spacetime only exert force when curved?
> They said they were still working on it, was that not true?

Almost certainly yes. Microsoft almost never fully abandons projects, but they keep them in limbo for years and have no qualms about claiming they are still working on them. I bet they never officially stopped working on WinForms either.
I logged in to comment to say I absolutely despised the dub.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBdxUNk1wR4

Do not watch the dub.
To Ruby from Python
I prefer the dub, too. That's unusual for me.

I find the original audio enjoyable as an alternative way to explore the episodes, but I got a great deal of enjoyment from the casting and the acting.
The procedure described in the article would not be legal in modern English courts. A court (probably) cannot hand out summons to people on the street. At least in England, the talesmen would have to voluntarily accept to serve on the jury, it is by invitation rather than compulsion. While courts historically did have the power to compel bystanders to serve against their will, that power has almost certainly lapsed.
> ...let us use his non networked computer...
> ...put us in charge of downloading the NOAA data...

I hope that my non networked machines are incapable of downloading data!
To flip the spin of a particle from eg. +1/2 to -1/2 it must exchange some angular momentum with its environment, usually in the form of a spin 1 photon. Each unit of spin corresponds to a fundamental amount of angular momentum, and if you add up all of the angular momentum in a closed system the total does not change.

Spin falls out of qm equations as the quantized number associated with the angular momentum quantity that falls out of classical equations.

Much like you get energy-momentum from translating in time and space, and this falls out in a constrained quantum system where energy-momentum is quantized as an integer we call wave number.
At 1Gbps the internet becomes close to indistinguishable from a local network, opening up interesting possibilities like a "NAS" that's actually just the cloud. That extra bandwidth, combined with the low latency of fibre, can make it possible to easily interact with a remote PC as if it's sitting in front of you, so you could do away with a home PC or workstation and use a thin client to access a beefy machine on-demand in some datacenter.
It sounds like your AC might be of the wrong tonnage for your home. The Nest assumes your AC unit is sized correctly, although this is something the Nest should detect and plan accordingly.
They already sell systems with that preinstalled. It's called an XBox.
Since you mentioned Latin America...

Brazil has had same business day electronic transfers (TED) since 2002 and next day electronic transfers (DOC) since 2001 or earlier. However people often didn't want to use them for small amounts because of the flat fee.

Brazilian also rarely use checks to pay rent, utilities and other similar stuff. Since 1993, we have a thing called boleto bancário which is like an invoice that has its own number and bar code ao that people can pay them at any bank (with some rare exceptions).

Brazil's Central Bank (BCB) recently-ish introduced Pix, a digital and near instantaneous electronic transfer scheme that is free for natural persons and that is supported by every bank and bank-like financial organizations due to a BCB imposition.

So overall I would say that banking in Brazil is way more standardized and practical than in the US.
Many of the asian countries where co-sleeping is the norm have lower incidence of SIDS. The SIDS seem to be a bigger risk when the parents consume alcohol/other intoxicants.
How fast is the launch speed?

Sometimes I just open Sublime instead of TextEdit because Apple's own less-featured text editor takes much more time to launch than a third party editor with more features like Sublime Text. Not to mention that I need to hit Cmd+N to open a new window to start writing.