skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a subset of contexts where they make sense although I think for _most_ people they're infrequent enough that it's way more sensible to use a cargo van or a sedan and then just rent a truck during the minority of times when you actually need one.

Even a minivan can tow a small trailer for occasional lumber store runs or towing a jet ski or two. Or just use the roof rack and some tie-downs. Or take the seats out, many of them will fit some plywood inside without trouble. For a larger boat, you can often rent a slip at your usual lake or whatever cheaper than the difference in annual TCO between a truck and a smaller car. Not helpful if you move your boat from one body of water to another a lot, but the only folks I know who do that have small fishing boats that a van could probably tow just fine. Besides, you can pay for several construction deliveries and probably pay to have your boat moved a couple times a year for the difference in annual cost. No sense paying all that extra gas, insurance, and up-front cost for something with features you only use every other month or less, when you can just pay less money to do a daily truck rental periodically, for a delivery service, et c.

But no, people need their immaculate $50,000+ trucks in the 'burbs just to show that they could blow $50,000+ on a truck they don't need, and so they fit in with their buds who also own trucks. Quite a few are purchased for good reasons, but a lot are mostly purchased for social signaling.
UEFI can provide post-boot services, but only in the same sense that a DOS-era BIOS did: by providing memory-mapped code that UEFI applications can call into, exokernel style. The UEFI framework isn't a hypervisor; it has no capacity to have ongoing execution threads "behind" the OS kernel. Rather, the OS kernel just receives a memory+PCIe map from UEFI at startup that contains some stuff UEFI left mapped; and it's up to the OS kernel whether to keep it mapped and make use of it; or just to unmap it.

And no production OS kernel really uses any of the code that UEFI maps, or keeps any of said code mapped. It may keep the data-table pages (e.g. ACPI sections) mapped, for a while; but usually only long enough to copy said data into its own internal data structures.

(Which is a shame, actually, as an OS kernel that did take advantage of UEFI services like UEFI applications do, would be able to do things that modern kernels currently mostly can't — like storing startup logs and crash dumps in motherboard NAND space reserved for that function, to provide on-device debugging through a separate UEFI crash-log-viewer app in case of startup disk failure, rather than needing to attach a separate serial debugger.)
TikTok has a catchy name that aligns with the fast action short content. This is the nth time I have googled Quibi to find out what it was, and been surprised that it was an American company. It sure doesn't sound like it.
Sadly there isn't a functioning government in the UK that can freak out and do something about it.
"Tech Work" really doesn't mean anything. Being a sales person is terrible, but it's totally unlike being a backend engineer or working in HR or doing marketing.
Have you ever filled out an HTML form that was handled server-side? Is you, you've sent data into a REST system.
or conversing while drunk with other drunk people taking facial impression and voice as cues for when to laugh or say "no way" and stuff like that.
What are you suggesting here? That western countries should assassinate an elected world leader? Or that western countries should influence the next democratic elections?

If you don't see an issue here, then imagine if you were talking about the USA. Should other countries "get rid of" the US president if they don't like his policies?
The trouble with these comparisons is that they assume the world remains static while only prices change. But the positional status of the same kind of product or the same brand can also change in the market. For example, movie theaters used to be the only way to watch movies in 1960. Today, big screen LCDs and streaming are affordable to the median family. As a result, theaters have had to move upmarket to offer a compelling alternative to watching movies at home. It’s not just that the theaters are way nicer, which they are, but that they necessarily occupy a higher end segment of the entertainment sector because other products have filled in some of the mass market segment.

Cars are another good example of this. A 1985 Honda Accord is just not as nice of a car as a 2022 Honda Accord: https://www.netcarshow.com/honda/1985-accord_sedan. Not only in absolute terms, but in relative terms. The Accord occupies a premium segment of the market today compared to 1985.

Disney, likewise, is much bigger and better today. The hotels are much nicer. Tech conditions people to expect better products for less money every year, but that doesn’t translate into meat space. A bigger park with more attractions, nicer and cleaner hotel rooms, etc., all cost more to build and maintain even in inflation-adjusted terms.
How much would putting mirrors on the earth affect climate change? How large a mirror would you need to make a difference?
When one does that, America usually is punitive against your nation in retaliation.
AWS London had an outage last Sunday too.
Yes, I meant to say "given a purported list of all of the primes".
Another really odd reply, after looking at your comment history I can see you're very pro-china and seem to be a troll in this one area based on others exchanges people have had with you.
>A republic is a form of democracy. This strange differentiation came about as a GOP talking point in the early 2000s.

What? No, this is not a recent talking point, it's the core philosophical difference in this country since day 1. The names of the parties Republican & Democrat aren't just random words, they represent the philosophical differences in where the bulk of the power in government should rest (the republic being the system with input from the people, or the democracy being the direct will of the people).

Republicans generally believe direct democracy is dangerous and instead rely on the framework of the institutions of our Republic to act as guiderails preventing potential mob rule and other acts of capriciousness. The people get their say, within reason.

Democrats generally believe all power and decision making should come directly from the people, and the systems should be more fluid. They don't see them as guiderails they see them as unnecessary constraints on the people. The people get their say, and their will is done.

I would never argue that our politicians of each party believe in this fully, nor the voters for that matter. But this is a huge philosophical difference that predates the early 2000's by a couple hundred years. It's been a talking point since before our Constitution was drafted.
Probably not the wisest idea to have a highly reflective material as the landing surface for planes humans are flying.
And those new features are usually new/different/“better” ways of doing what you could already do in the language. You can totally use JS without using any of the ES6+ syntax.
Nope, and version 1.0 has been posted from Q3 to Q4, with high hopes to at least have it on Chrome still this year.

In any case we will only get the MVP 1.0, after 6 years in the making.
on a geological time scale, it might as well be.
FWIW, I have a Ridgeline with a 5'4" bed. My 10'6" surfboards are fine with the tailgate down (total flat length just shy of 7') and a red flag on the end.

Edit - I would have considered a Santa Cruz or Maverick, had they been available when I bought the RL. But, they're beds are smaller yet and one of the big selling points of the RL was the under-bed trunk, which is massive (about the same as the trunk on my wife's BMW).
Just one last nuance I'll add to what the parent wrote.

It wasn't actually the intent of the AGPL to keep a cloud service from setting up a competitor to your on-prem software. Rather it was to address what some felt was a loophole in the GPL's treatment of copyleft. (Namely that operating software as a service isn't considered distribution in the eyes of the GPL and therefore a cloud provider could add some secret sauce to your open source software without contributing back to the commons.)

That said, as a practical matter it seems to be pretty effective because most cloud providers won't use AGPL software (and a lot of other companies won't either).

But, because it doesn't actually prevent a cloud provider from competing with you with your own software, there have been a few (non-open source according to the open source definition) licenses created that specifically bar this sort of use.
If you haven't yet, check out Ft. McHenry. It's beautiful!
The teams I had worked with since ‘16 had not had that tension. I think it is because there is a shared common ground of getting to product fit and developing a great product together. I see the developers respecting and valuing what the product team brings to the table, and the product team respecting and valuing what the developers bring to the table. It helps that there’s a strong mission, a worthwhile product, and that attracts people who want to contribute to society in that way.
Quantum-Aided Machine Learning Shows Its Value
Right. So if you're forcing child support, most are going to hold a grudge and demand custody of some sort. I literally know so many cases like this where the "bad" parent then tortures the child, doesn't feed them or gives them substandard care, etc. etc.

The real world kind of sucks. Which is why I'm saying there's no good way to force someone to pay without them taking revenge. I'd rather if they don't want to be involved, let them not be involved.

Like, let's say you propose allowing them to cut ties but then child support is higher. Most assholes are going to choose custody with less child support, and just be absolutely fucked up to their kids. That's the real world.

And unfortunately, most courts don't care. There are horror stories upon horror stories of being unable to restrict / take away custody from abusive parents.
This is absolutely needed . It has been a wild Wild West free for all ride so far. Both automatic cars and drones MUST have built in devices that senses and avoid collisions and will slow down or land safely to a complete stop on its own when it cannot be controlled remotely or situations emerge that can be problematic for humans.
No, the k8s "kubelet", which runs on each worker node, doesn't use much RAM. Java services have notoriously spiky memory usage, so you end up provisioning much more RAM than you need in the average case to be able to support the spikes, so you underutilize RAM in the average case. The previous poster is describing an issue where they overprovisioned RAM heavily, and so, ended up using a lot of nodes due to the way memory requests and limits are managed in k8s.

You fix this by enabling swap and and allocating pods to nodes based on their common memory usage, and accept that your worker node will slow down when some Java process wants all the RAM.
Yep, I assume they just don’t know the difference between robbery and burglary.
> There's a similar story happening with our rail lines

No, there's a similar story happening with everyone's rail lines. There's a curious thing bout Britain where the British press love a hysterical "here's an example of Broken Britain!" headline, and Europe and America quite enjoy seeing the UK getting any sort of comeuppance (and normally I wouldn't begrudge them this, there have been a lot of insane goings on in the UK of late).

But the only instance I've seen of this - not announcements of restricted services or reduced speeds as a precaution or due to reduce damage in overhead lines, actual buckling - today has been in Spain:

- https://twitter.com/rail_arri/status/1549039421525458945

- https://twitter.com/rail_arri/status/1549034924010655745

edit: and just minutes after I post this, I spot an instance in England from the weekend! https://twitter.com/networkrail/status/1548760985246261249/p...
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> Don't you think that maybe everything built to be as cheap as possible to barely survive the warranty period is maybe a slightly larger effect than tin whiskers?

YouTube recently recommended me some tear down videos of washing machines, for whatever reason. The video compared 1990s to modern machines.

The insides are remarkably similar, the main failure point is the electronics, flat out.

And in my experience (n=1), what fails on modern appliances is the electronics! Not the pumps or motors, sure sometimes those go out, but most often it is the control board.

Look at every car built since 2010. Sure you have some models with known manufacturing defects on a given part, but replace that one part and mechanically most cars are reliable. But how many cars have you come across that run just fine, but the check engine light is stuck on and the mechanic is like "well I could fix it but it will cost a lot"?

We have hundreds of years of knowledge about making reliable machines in massive quantities, and then cost reducing them (ok maybe 200 years tops), as a species we haven't even bothered trying to cost reduce reliable electronics! We just accept that they will fail.
This is neat--sounds similar to https://play.generative.fm/browse

Though, that service is completely free with a pay what you can model
Why was this flagged? What the fuck?
They raised prices. We called it "inflation" and blamed COVID and Putin.
Here's my question: for people who have successfully retrenched in real life, what kind of things have you cut from your life?

When I look around, I don't find many things to subtract. Some things have cheaper and lower quality alternatives, like food. But I don't feel like that's what the article is about.
Yeah we're not really equipped for this...
The paper "Generation of High-Resolution Handwritten Digits with an Ion-Trap Quantum Computer"

https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.12.03...
How is the infrastructure in Texas generally? Roads? Bridges? Power grid?
It may be a serious question, but I don't see how it relates to the part you quoted. It still is a dumb idea, regardless of the answer to your question.
> the idea that they're "coming for gay marriage" is ridiculous.

It would be less ridiculous if a conservative Supreme Court Justice and a Republican US Senator hadn't just expressed their intention to do just that. No one would be worried about the prospect if the party wasn't explicitly telegraphing the desire to come after these rights. Pretending that these concerns are ridiculous is to pretend that what Supreme Court Justices and US Senators say has no weight. In fact, they have power and they've proven they are not afraid to use it.
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Assuming we ever come to a consensus on a master chain or two (ETH? BTC?), that shit is very valuable!

A decentralized historical record, of any kind or quality, is something of dreams...
> Unexpectedly slow progress

According to whom? TV news people?

> unexpectedly high losses

According to whom? Reddit armchair generals?

> clearly not the original goal

According to whom? The Kremlin never stated goals outside the original 4 or so.
One thing I noticed after my initial experiments with serverless is that it is very hard to do basic development and testing locally (i.e. without potentially running the risk of a big bill). I would have thought there would be mocks of all major services that would permit you to do straightforward local development and testing.
For something that isn't a desktop toy, under $5k might be a bit of a stretch but it shouldn't be too hard to find a used CNC mill for well under 10k if you're willing to wait around for a deal. Of course when you factor in shipping and tools that's probably going to add a few thousand as well. Further if you don't know what you're looking at, you run the risk of buying something with a bent frame or some damage that'll cost more to repair than it's worth. I'd recommend anyone starting out without much prior experience to suck it up and go for an entry level model from a company like Tormach, it'll further add to your cost, probably pushing you beyond 30 when all's said and done, but with financing that might still be easier on the wallet than 10-15k upfront, and you'll know it works.
Not to disagree with you but it might also nice to nuance that statement. Being a democracy isn't an either/or proposition. It's more of a continuum.

There are some internationally recognized standards what constitutes a democracy, and the USA fits some and not others. For example, the USA wouldn't meet the criteria for democracy to be considered for EU membership, in the unlikely event it would apply for that.

The main sticking point is that it practices capital punishment, together with countries such as People's Republic of China and a handful of African countries. Intralegal execution of minors being especially problematic. Several treaties on international criminal law concerning war crimes is not recognized and its citizens are unlikely to ever be subject to the Geneva convention.

The second important point is the lack of an independent legal system. High ranking judges gets hand picked by politicians, in a very literal way. (Which is something that has also has happened in for example Poland. This is widely regarded as a loop hole in the EU democratic criteria. A country could not have been considered for membership under those conditions, but there is no jurisdictional power against reneging on that policy post membership. Subsidies gets frozen, but that's about it.)
This website is specifically for flatmates that won't discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. If you think that's segregation, then yeah, that's OK.
> what would be NATO's way of defeating a single high value target that is under good air defense?

Too many branches to give a meaningful answer. What kind of air defence? How high value? What’s the urgency? Need for deniability?

Iskander does okay for all those missions. But there are better tools for each branch. There is no mission profile I can think of (which, to be clear, isn’t worth much) in which Iskander opens novel tactical space. It’s compromises across the board.
I agree. They’re a site I trust much more than a random news site, and this isn’t the first “No, incredibly stupid science thing isn’t true” piece they’ve had to write lately.

Re-reading my comment it may be unclear what I meant. So to state it plainly it was the original claim I knew was bunk.
He has said that a good language avoids exposing the programmer to choices that they can make incorrectly. He probably sees some added features in Javascript as creating such choices.
also helps remembering that even very famous people are human after all.
Russia specifically developed their "de-escalation" policy of tactical nuclear weapons use under MAD assumptions.

Basically, betting that there were scenarios where the US wouldn't risk escalation to nuclear war in response to a calibrated Russian tactical nuclear strike in a third party country, thus allowing Russian nuclear effects to nullify superior western precision weapons without consequence.

https://thebulletin.org/2022/03/russian-military-doctrine-ca...
How does Twitter?

Answer: they don't.

If it's a big enough problem, it's noticed and addressed.
Do you expect companies to complain that their competitors can't hire enough cheap labor?
In the case of apps that are available on both f-droid and on the play store, the difference is that the f-droid versions will be compiled without google play services. This can limit functionality (for example, receiving notifications while the phone is asleep), but does increase privacy somewhat.

Significantly, there is very little overlap in the apps available on f-droid and the apps available on the google play store. Most play store apps siphon data, and most f-droid apps don't.
Notion does a lot of stuff poorly, I'm not sure why their patterns are being replicated elsewhere, just because the company itself is successful?

Anyhow, what you can do, is to have the landing page under /home for example, so when a visitor lands at /, you decide if to send them to /home (not logged in) or /player (logged in). The brand logo in the top links to /home instead.
About 2/3rds of truck owners don't use the bed much at all.

https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-siz...
>The thing is, food is optional!

Have you ever gone anywhere with kids? If you can't bring food with you, it's not optional.

Do you enjoy drinking beer? Probably 90%+ of adults who go to a baseball game would like to enjoy some drinks during a 4 hour game with so much downtime.

So this argument of "but it's optional!" is pretty dumb. That's like going to a movie theatre and saying "well, popcorn and soda/drinks are optional!! look how cheap it is!". I mean, sure, but it's also a ridiculous argument for nearly everyone. Again, especially if one has kids.
> GitHub’s REST api is pretty self discoverable fwiw.

I had a look at the example response to see whether that is true. I give you that there are hyperlinks existing in resources of media type `application/vnd.github+json`, but there is no uniform interface to discover a link. Fielding would disapprove. It's an indication of bad design that a client must hardcode e.g. `labels_url` instead of having a generic reusable way to access a link that works across a multitude of JSON derived media types.
The point isn't that they aren't modeling it, the point is when there is a shortfall, they can't just tell the wind to produce more, they have to find more traditional sources, and when those run out... well... calls for conservation and rolling blackouts when those fail.

And they can and do, tell traditional plants they can't go down for maintenance, or that they have to come back online.
this. I have used some many note taking app before emacs - from simplenotes, to joplin, and many other on Mac, Windows and linux, I cannot list them all, but since I have understood how to build a workflow around emacs, I have finally something I can stick to and which work.

Having a tool that can adapt to an inevitably changing worklflow has been really a game changer for my capacity to take notes, log my days, and write in general.
I’ve found that most misunderstandings between UI/UX and front-end devs can be resolved by having the UI/UX people read a book on CSS. Once you start designing to Flexbox and Grid, instead of reinterpreting/porting designs using Flexbox/Grid, most of the problems disappear.

I can’t overstate how much easier life got once my teams started using CSS as a shared design language.

Designers get really excited when they see what Flex and Grid are capable of. It’s really empowering for them to design something that they know they can be built. Keeps developers honesttoo: No more “this is hard to do on the web, wontfix” if the designers know how to do it themselves.

If you’re a designer working in the web in 2022 and you don’t know the ins-and-outs of modern CSS layout technologies you’re at an impossible disadvantage.
Some of the code was developed a little farther in https://github.com/ricardocabral/iskdaemon. But you can still be the change you wish to see :)
Any reason that airports in super-hot places like that, don't run heat-transfer coils under their runways, to cool them down with a heat pump like a skating rink does? Runways aren't an order-of-magnitude larger in surface area than skating rinks, so it's not cost. And they wouldn't even need to turn on the heat pump for 3/4ths of the year. Do we just not know how to create heat-transfer coils that wouldn't break from the stress of planes landing "on" them?
I looked at a couple of math books several years ago that used Logo, and was quickly turned off by the fact that it didn't have first-class functions--a pretty big limitation for a lisp. I ended up translating the code to either Python or Racket.