skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But seriously: the things you're describing are civic issues, not issues with public transportation

They both are and they aren't. It is a civic issue that is inherently worse for public transportation, especially those that have nearly no supervision like subways. I totally agree that the issue is a civic one that should be solved, but if we're not going to solve it, then it's a problem that will prevent public transportation from reaching its potential. Would you rather encounter a crazy person out in the open or be trapped in a steel box with them? That's essentially the decision people are making when they board public transit in a major American metro. If a person is smelly out in the open, at least there's a breeze that can blow the odor away, but on a bus or train you are trapped in the recirculating smell cloud. Out in the open, one might have to pass by such things, but being on public transit can mean experiencing them for hours.

> But that doesn't actually make them less frequent; it just converts the drunk guy shouting on the subway bench into the drunk guy who's about to T-bone you.

That's a bit of a false equivalence. While there's indeed some mathematical soundness to what you're saying, I'd argue the vast majority of trouble makers (for lack of a better term) on public transit aren't there out of commuting necessity. They hang out on public transit because it's out of the elements and they are unlikely to be harassed themselves. It's somewhere for them to go. If all public transit closed, they'd just be out on the curb or in front of a gas station.

There is an incentive for city officials to ignore the problem as much as they can get away with. They know that the vast majority of their constituents aren't taking public transit, so what better place to allow the unwanted to be off the streets?

That's why it is a public transit issue. It's a much greater challenge to solve civic problems at a higher level, but cities could actually hire security to be on their trains and actually enforce tickets. No matter what, it's an inferior daily experience to being in one's own car. You can never get rid of smells and the low-level bad behavior. Not without society changing itself.
Doesn't it "just" say that on top of providing the sources of the binaries you distribute, you must provide/document a way to update them?
I presume you are aware of how she actually died right? She’s a good friend of a good friend of mine so while I won’t claim to have known her personally I do think about how her on a semi regular basis and how unnecessary and pointless her death was.

But she wasn’t just straight up murdered like you claimed. She wasn’t even targeted, it was just a wrong place, wrong time situation.

I don’t say it to excuse what happened but the way you seem to be telling that story is just not what happened.
I toyed with a similar setup recently and I had the problem that I, too, would have rules depend on a "docker build"-step (like `docker-image` in your example). Usually `make` would stop building the dependency for non-PHONY targets if it finds the correct file but in this case it obviously cannot find anything.

I tried `touch`ing hidden files for each step and then add those as a dependency but that is not very elegant. Do you have this problem at all?
I don't think that works, unfortunately. San Diego has a large desal plant [1], that cost one billion dollars and produces 100 million gallons of fresh water per day. In 30 years, that's about 1 trillion gallons, which comes to about 0.1 cents per gallon of CAPEX amortization costs.

That may sound like not much, but farmers buy water in huge quantities. So huge that they are measured in acre-feet. One acre foot is 325k gallons, and sells nowadays for up to $2000 [2], but which historically used to sell for less than $200 [3]. That is 0.006 or 0.0006 cents per gallon.

So just the capex cost of a desal plant is at least 15 times higher than what farmers pay in the middle of a record drought. The aqueducts will cost money to build too, and judging by the high speed rail saga in California, they'll cost quite a lot, probably in the many billions.

So, even if one came with nuclear electricity that's "too cheap to meter", you won't be able to substitute water from rivers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%22Bud%22_Lewis_Carlsba...

[2] https://gvwire.com/2022/04/26/drought-ravaged-farmers-pay-up...

[3] https://aquaoso.com/blog/california-agricultural-water-price...
why must be people be "rehabilitated"? killing, including killing for play, is perfectly normal among all carnivorous mammals, and we are carnivorous mammals, like it or not.
it's not murderers or rapists who are in the wrong, but "civilization" which forces people to behave unnaturally
This case will disappear as Huawei pumps millions into the Democratic lobbying machine. [1] [2]

It's already paying dividends with the administration rolling back sanctions on the company. [3]

By the way, their Q1 '22 lobbying budget is up over 400% YoY ;)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/huawei-paid-w...

[2] https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/561979-huawei-hires-...

[3] https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclus...
Two more than weren't posted so far:

Ivan Miranda - 3D printing, machining, "making", all of interesting, fun projects.
https://youtube.com/c/IvanMirandaCom

The Action Lab - fascinating and unusual science experiments demonstrated, many shorts
https://youtube.com/c/TheActionLab
> And please stop this fake reality [...]. NOBODY, not a single freaking person who wants to learn a new language will start off by searching the internet for an IDE and debugger where they can apply for a free license and then wait a few days so they can try it out. That is just ridiculous to even suggest.

I actually did. JetBrains products were really nice to try out whilst studying in university and eventually lead to me purchasing the ultimate tools package for any personal or professional projects that I might want to do.

It's really amazing to have the same set of tools for almost all of the languages that you might want to work with, that work consistently across all of the OSes that you might use. Normally I avoid paid software because of the vendor lock in, but a lot of the time it feels like JetBrains are just the company that you should reach for to avoid headaches, for better or worse.

For comparison, in the Java ecosystem, you also have Eclipse which has performance problems and an odd/unstable plugin ecosystem (though some swear by it) and NetBeans which has been handed over to Apache but doesn't really get much love or attention towards its development at all. Of course, some might use Visual Studio Code or another text editor with plugins but not being able to do refactoring across a project with 4000+ source files makes that approach dead on arrival for me, for all but the smallest projects.

The situation is pretty similar in regards to C#: you have Visual Studio which limits the platforms, JetBrains Rider which is a paid project, Visual Studio Code plugins which are insufficient and also something like MonoDevelop, which has pretty much been abandoned.
Probably everywhere. It does mean that every single one of their items carries an RFID tag which is a privacy issue and an environment issue.
I would think so, and it gets harder for them due to globalisation and countries working together economically (well apart from Russia maybe) - because back in 1949, China, Korea and Japan were basically impenetrable black boxes for most people, where you'd take the CIA's word for it because who knew what was possible or likely in those cultures?
Getting Started with Ephemeral Containers
A true hidden gem: www.youtube.com/c/BranchEducation

They explain complex systems with quality 3d animation.
This is a serious albatross round the neck of nuclear technologies; if they're dual-use, they'll get lots of funding, making them look expensive, while the true purpose and feature set is obscured, making them look nonsensical.
This was the most glaring flaw of the post. They almost got there when they started talking about the “transaction costs” but failed to acknowledge idle times.

To drive this home to software development, if I’m blocked on a requirements clarification, awaiting permissions to a data source, or blocked by a bug in an external system it certainly doesn’t make sense for me to just do nothing. I should pick up another task and work on that.

It’s going to be near impossible to substantially limit WIP below the level that ensures near fully committed personnel. That means that as external blockers go up, so will WIP. It’s important to try to fix those things causing blockers (better up front requirements, automated permission processes, etc…) but different teams and organizations will have different fundamental limits on being idled on projects. For some software product feature teams this can be kept very low- a strong requirements process is established, the data needed is consistent and owned by the team, and reliance on 3rd party systems is low. Teams dealing in enterprise IT systems (like mine) often can’t, as much as we seek to improve things, there is a degree of irreducible complexity.
The curtailment happens almost every summer now.

But my understanding is that this is about environmental regulations that prevent power plants from heating the river water by too much.

The plant itself would be able to run totally fine with the current water temperature, but it would raise the temperature beyond what environmental regulations allow.

Instead, Europe is now burning Coal and Lignite. Which of course is much worse for the water temperature in the long run…
Namuwiki seems to discredit the claim that it was a right wing conspiracy theory (based on my limited korean abilities). It's a trope to constantly blame right wing groups in Korea for everything that the left doesn't like. I've seen it during my stay here and just realized man, this left-right rivalry seems like a major trend all over the world
We should never forget who pays the bills here. Laser fusion, in the context of the NIF, means weapons research. It might seem unrelated, but using radiation/lasers to collapse metals onto hydrogen to initiate fusion is the literal core of modern nuclear weapons research. This is not about electrical energy production.
Thanks for the reply and the pointers, very helpful!
Interesting, thanks. Will give it a try!
How are collections in C# worse than in Go? In C# you have LINQ, in Go you're writing for loops around array slices.
Do these lights also stimulate vitamine D production?
I doubt that'd work. My client is set up as multiple merchants (different companies from a legal pov) but with the same payment provider, going over the same pipes, etc. Even so, the way the payment servers were set up, they could only mix up the merchant config if the "wrong" one also happened to be on the same server.

They have dedicated servers, so I'd expect McDonald's and other big chains to have them, too, which means that you couldn't send payments no anyone outside the mother company.
You’d be surprised but Deutsche Bahn fit the description as well.
There's no one forth. A huge number of forth users end up writing their own forth, with different semantics, because it can be easier that way.

Though you're right, forths are unusually commercial. Forth is old, and in some ways it stayed old. A lot of people that use it now have used it since the 80s, so they're quite used to paying for compilers.

There's also the fact that forths are used in very niche places, and the companies that use them are happy to pay up.

You'll find a very open community with really nice people though.
> the English intrusion into Ireland is full of heinous murders

so were the Scottish plantations, but thats counter to the narrative.

> from the massacres of Drogheda

The civil war was utterly destructive, the scale of murder rape and pillage was astronomical. The wars of the three kingdoms were ripped apart. it wasn't until well into charles II that things settled.

look, we have a choice. We can either rake over tensions, or try and forge peace. Yes the troubles were _heinous_. the UK did nasty shit, but its not like the provos were golden angels either.

I am sorry for what the UK did. But I have no control over history, only now. We can either work together to stop another generation loose their male relatives, or slide into another civil war. Yes, we must acknowledge what happened, but we cannot let it define our collective fates.
Street lighting at night was introduced because it greatly reduced crime in urban areas. I wonder if this initiative will come at the cost of increased crime in some areas.
> the heat wave is such that river water cannot safely cool down its nuclear power plants

Yes - a risk for all thermal power plants, since they need a cooling loop to re-condense the steam before putting it through another cycle in the turbines.

(In general it would be physically possible to still run the plant, but regulatorily impossible because the outlet water would be too hot and people don't take kindly to boiling a river and destroying its ecosystem)

The French reactor fleet also has some kind of problem with cracks affecting the longevity. https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/concerns-that-cracks...
> And absolutely not something that somebody will jump right into after one to two weeks, which the parent claimed.

Yeah, of course not. I didn't catch that part.

I don't use a tracking app, but I pretty much always take the same route to some mountains. Getting there takes around 45-50min. Then there's an ~800m climb with up to 20% incline. How long that takes me really depends on my form that day, and I don't really care about the competitive aspect. On some days I'll cycle a bit deeper into the mountains to get to the next peak, but that's really stretching it and I'd usually need to bring some extra calories (I do this on an empty stomach usually).
Considering that there have been 0 accidental nuclear detonations, no it doesn't.
The surprising behavior of “important CSS custom properties” (2021)
Honest question from novice: How good/relevant is this book today? I was looking to systematically pick up databases - and I was narrowing down to ALICE book, Stonebraker's book and some other modern documentations (to learn hands on from the go). Any advice is very appreciated.
don't worry, the grid in EU isn't issue-free by any standard and solar and electric cars will do it no good at all.
It can be an environmental issue, sure, but how would it be a privacy one? Items already have a unique number of some sort, I don't see how storing it on an RFID tag changes things.
The reason kids go to school early is not to be educated, it's so their parents can go to work early. Bossman is the one who's standing in the way, not the school administrations.
Please Note Well - This was Published on : 25 June, 2022

>The virus, which has infected more than 3,500 people in 48 countries since its detection outside Africa<

The infected people and countries figures are well out of date! (Approx 5x the number of infected people)

See: Monkeypox Virus (MPXV) – 2022-Outbreak – (Spread of Disease as of 22 July, 2022) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak
France has almost no coal left. https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/france-rethinks-coal-power...

Germany is the one that's closing reactors, over post-Chernobyl/Fukushima fears, and burning coal instead. It also has a surprisingly powerful coal lobby.
And it’s genius.
Google aims to teach Gen Z how to ‘internet better’
This is almost 15 years ago, and I didn't have a reliable internet connection, so sadly no. There was two of us in a small computer group in Germany trying to figure things out, mostly.
It’s a good video if you are coming from far.

Changing your habit is another good idea. Standing desk/platform, 10 minute break every hour and walking around, juggling, just moving a bit.

The problem for me was that intermediate stage where the earlier practices stop providing benefit. Which is good by itself, it means the practice worked! But you also are not at a normal healthy level yet.

Working on your posterior chain becomes more important in my experience, like lunges, walking upright and heel-to-toe, and something like foundation training (look it up- really innovative)
I liked the ideas I read about 'kanban'. If there's a feeling that work flows well, then there's less concern about when things will be done by. If you can maximize flow, or minimize work in progress.. a kanban board should try to be a visual aid to support that. -- "commited / completed" sounds along the same lines to me.

In that sense, I think "it's desirable, but not in progress" isn't necessarily bad in itself. I think it would be better phrased as "this isn't a priority for us right now".
> I don't like Visual Studio as IDE, but VS Code is an acceptable alternative tool, although I personally prefer the non-free JetBrains Rider.

I've used Visual Studio for 20 years now, and while the tooling has come a long way, I'm starting to feel like MS and the community are abandoning it for VS Code. I don't mind VS code, but unfortunately the stack I'm working in (Dynamics 365) requires plugins for Visual Studio that tend to lag behind the release cycle of Visual Studio versions by a few years. I use Rider for .net core projects on my mac and it's fantastic.

In fact my biggest criticism of my day to day job is Microsoft's support for this incredibly enterprisey framework I have to work in.
Germany is burning more coal and gas to cover for French power shortages. The grids are interconnected. There is a European power market.
kind of an "open door"/empty title now, is't it? It's like; When you work a lot but never finish something, you probably just did a whole lot of nothing.
I think we’re all saying the same thing.
I don’t. The job was with a fintech.
Thanks for that note. I have an audio classification hobby project (for now). Could you point me to things I should learn to get better at audio classification and generation?

Your comment about time domain making audio difficult - before doing some research I thought it would make it impossible. But looks like people have had some success with using spectrograms of short audio samples. What techniques should I try to learn to deal with the time component of audio?

One idea is to chop up the audio into short samples and treat the resulting images as a video. Then look at DL algorithms that deal with video. Am I on the right track?
> What management ought to do is to split feature work into tasks of smallest granularity as possible, then schedule only those of highest priority.

I would say this is pretty standard, and personally I really hate it. I think it works well if you want to prioritize hitting a date above all else, especially with a junior team or in a "low trust" environment (cheap off-shore team). But for other metrics, I don't think it's great.

In my experience it results in a lower product quality, people do the bare minimum to finish a ticket and throw it over the wall. Since tasks are so split up, things don't end up connecting coherently. The problem you're trying to solve for the user gets completely lost and you end up with a bunch of features that don't necessarily make sense.

In my opinion, it also really sucks for job satisfaction. It makes me feel micromanaged and have 0 autonomy. But I have met people that love it, their reasoning being "I can just zone out and write code without having to think about other things". So that's more of a personal thing.

> If Development doesn't deliver business value because Product can't stick to a coherent feature strategy, that's Product's fault, not Development's.

While you might technically be right, that's not a great attitude to have.
Take the Rejection Therapy Challenge
it's in the tradition of "posting the wrong answer to get the good one". within this genre the comment section ends up even more terrifying than the post itself!
Typedefs in 15 Minutes [video]
Diode Gone Wild is another channel in the same vein (minus the carbonated beverages): https://www.youtube.com/c/DiodeGoneWild

I very much like the approach taken by Big Clive and Diode Gone Wild: taking apart everyday items, explaining what they do, sometimes also showing how they would make something similar themselves from scratch. I assume there are lots of other channels out there that do the same but for other things than just electronics.
Matt Ferrell's Undecided is great. Yeah he just explains interesting press releases, he isn't shy about that either. Why would he want/need to be critical about them? Unless he's reading press releases of companies that don't actually exist I don't see how this could be a bad thing.

Disliking Veritasium because of some ads is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. If he manages to sneak in an ad without me noticing, all the better, he's getting paid and I wasn't annoyed. I watched all of his video and I don't remember any annoying ads. He also produces some of the greatest and most beautifully produced explanations of interesting maths and physics concepts on YouTube, all for free.
> I can open them in a modern word processor, and they look similar – but it’s not the same. Some of the fonts and graphics are missing, and I don’t know where I’d find replacements.

Why not convert your documents to PDF? That‘ll preserve the layout.
Are they? Or are they just louder and more assertive in general?

It's not like gregarious people have a skill, it's just a preference. There's nothing stopping introverts from communicating effectively when placed in positions of authority, they are just passed up for those positions on the assumption that they are worse at it (or because the extrovert interacts with management more).
The nostalgia is overwhelming. Learned BASIC, Z80 and 6502 assembler from these little cartoon robots.
> To prevent widespread sectarian murdering and ethnic cleansing of both Catholic and Protestant communities, and because there Irish state is incapable of doing this.

If that were the reason then they wouldn't have been deployed in places like Armagh where there was no community division.

The army were sent in for the same reason that the border was drawn where it was: to serve British financial interests.

> No one in England wants anything to do with it anymore, is a mill stone round our neck.

The IRA succeeded in making it more expensive than it was worth (although the collapse of the shipbuilding industry was probably the biggest single factor).
-Rational Reminder (Personal Finance backed by research) https://www.youtube.com/c/RATIONALREMINDER
I was born in the early 2000s and I've used CDs a lot.
Presuming the attack wasn’t initially detected, which is entirely plausible imo, it would be noticed by the merchant when the funds didn’t settle into their account. So if you do it on Friday, the merchant should notice by Tuesday at the latest. If they don’t pay close attention to their accounts, it might take a little longer.
haha yes yes. I just assumed the MacDonald was a typo and the GP meant "McDonell Douglas".
> Small personal bugbear about images used to illustrate these articles: in the clearest of skies the naked eye can barely see the milky way unless it's a new moon and you're hundreds of miles from any town.

Hundreds of miles from the closest megacity maybe. You could go a couple miles out of a small rural town and see a brilliant milky way.

They don't look anything like those photos with their strange bright blue and yellow skies though of course, or any terrestrial features lit up like daylight like this! It's all pretty black.
No, that is not the right conclusion.