skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My city runs fiber infra as a public utility, with about a half dozen options of ISPs to choose from which provide internet connectivity on top of that infra. I pay $26/month total for 1000 Mbps down, 1000 Mbps up. It's a huge benefit to everyone living here. The city is going neighborhood by neighborhood, connecting everyone that wants it.

To me, the best part isn't even the price. It's the satisfaction of not having to deal with Comcast/Cox/Verizon/charter/etc.
Which became the title of a play and a film by Woody Allen:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_It_Again,_Sam_(film)
> buying a bunch of SIM card from other companies

Sounds like some employees already had those for such an event, which is impressive. From the article:

> some employees started swapping out their SIM cards for Bell or Telus SIM cards that they had received back in 2015 as part of an emergency contingency plan established between the wireless carriers.
Absolutely nothing prevents Meta and the other big boys from sponsoring a time standard they like for their internal systems, or just using one of the existing ones which doesn't have them. Recode your APIs to emit that standard, if you have to still use GPS time then build a box which syncs to GPS and deletes leap seconds (of course why? You can buy rack mounted atomic clocks these days which will stay perfectly accurate for hundreds of years).

This is, in every way, not a problem they have to cooperate with anyone else about.

EDIT: also, Unix Epoch Time, has never had leap seconds. The standard is defined as UTC exactly at the start of the Unix Epoch and ticks at 1 second since then. So from that perspective, and the perspective of every sensible internal clock system in programming, you already don't have a problem.
Because there are technical superiorities and gives new opportunities. People like and want to install the app, from designers to programmers. People only ask when? As an experienced developer and programming languages evangelist, I have never seen anything like this. This is fun.
Most people who say that couple it with all sorts of biases about the right time to buy a home.
I feel you here.
We badly need strong cultural norms against ostracizing people for what they say, short of speech that breaks the law.

People should meet bad arguments with counter-arguments, or if they wish, disassociate from those that make bad arguments, but organizing someone's personal or professional destruction for speech they disagree with has been, throughout history, nothing other than a naked exercise of power and a wellspring of bloody social conflict.
So this is $3500 EV vehicle that has 40 miles range and 25 mph max speed. Few tweaks here and there and these will be perfect to sell in US or anywhere else. Tesla needs to up their game on getting $5k/$10k EVs delivered or their dream of fossil fuel vehicles would be fulfilled by someone else.
>And that's all.

you forgot all the Scholz lies (some EU wide moratorium on not delivering heavy weapons while Poland was sending tanks), all the help Scholz promised to Ukraine and never delivered (out of ammo, dealers dont have inventory, manufacturer refused, its difficult, we need to refurbish ourselves, it will only take 6 months), plus his direct vocal support for removing sanctions against Russia and bending backwards for Canada to break embargo.

Yes, a bit less varied bread selection might be the peak of German consequences, but more people are dying in Ukraine because of German politicians and 30 years of decisions leading up to this moment. This war is financed by Germans.

Btw remember Wirecard? Jan Marsalek lives in Moscow now, under special care of FSB.
Importing EVs to the US at any decent scale would be a big can of worm. At least until there’s serious US produced competition in that specific segment. Japan cars getting publicly bashed was 40 years ago; times have changed, but touching the auto industry is still a pretty emotional topic for a lot of people (coughTesla fanscough)
Algorithms that involve 'i did this thing at this time, everyone else should wait for that time to have passed before continuing to ensure correct ordering' (ie. Many database systems) will dramatically slow down.

Systems that use atomic clocks might have been able to do 10,000 transactions per second will suddenly only be able to do 2 transactions per second if they contain a node that doesn't use the same smearing.
> the increasing over-clickbaity titles and thumbs made me stop watching him.

He actually talks about that here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

Apparently an early video of his about a spinning basketball originally had a non-clickbait title; someone else posted it with a clickbait title and got at least an order of magnitude more views. So now, he makes clickbaity titles.
Similar thing happened to me, but my card on file had expired . Zipcar sent me an email threatening to send me to collections. I sent them a polite message on April 11th and they finally got back to me on May 30th that the charges would be removed.
> But how far does that scale? Can we truly care about everybody in a village of 100? What about a territory with 1000 people? What about a small country of 100,000? What about a nation with 1,000,000 people or 1,000,000,000 people?

We now have the benefit of awareness. We can know what is happening to far away people. If anything, the current obvious changes in climate/weather and the associated impacts are evidence that we should have some motivation to care about things that impact those beyond just our own group (even though selfishly speaking it is because we know it ultimately will benefit our local group too).

When there is a major disaster, you will see people with very differing opinions drop their "simple" conflicts and work together. There is some recognizable human drive to help those visibly in need. Or maybe it's just an instintive behavior to ensure human survival.

Really, most of our political and ideological squabbles are manufactured by "leaders", and adopted by followers because we all have too much time on our hands. If we were collectively operating in survival mode, I think we might be a more cohesive society. Not that I'm asking for that; I like comfort.
Easy enough to fly first class. You get the leg room, and perks, and pay the money.
Point one made me hesitant but when I got to point five until I realized this was just propaganda.

Property might not be 100% of what causes wealth cause you know, gotta mix capital with labor, but are you really arguing that America didn’t benefit off the stolen wealth of other nations? Is all the land that was taken from them valued at 0?
It will not be, because the content of 'artificial' kerosene can be controlled exactly. E.g., there is no way even trace amounts of sulfur could enter manufactured kerosene.
Mm, middle button, why didn't I think of it.

My wrap puzzles show an infinite tiled grid, so there shouldn't be questions about which edge wraps where. There are no edges, tiles just start repeating after a while. Maybe I didn't understand your question about wrapping?
It's nice to see these outside of GBoard! Some really creative designs.
I don't think it is, and I hope the people producing these "business cards" have a good lawyer.
They have them, because, as you said, it's so cheap. But I think dannyobrien is correct; they probably don't need them, because modern OSes have print queues and the computer is no longer useless while printing.
Owning a $2M home in the most expensive area of the US is upper class.
The problem with converting cities to walkable paradises is that a portion of the highest profit margin customers for any large business (rich people) will always drive cars. Creating a walking only city limits the option for these people to separate themselves from the masses.
What magic teaches us about misinformation
> Make simplicity an explicit goal of the project and set up process to remind of it at various important points in the process.

Which altitude of simplicity is most valuable?
That's what I have: fiber infra as a public utility, with a choice of ISPs on top of that.

Funny fact, the ISP I chose is $10/month for 1G down/up. Want to add a phone line (which runs digitally over fiber)? That'll be an extra $26/month. It's as if they know the only people who want a phone line are willing to pay a lot for it.
Fun! After finishing and clicking on one of the bigger sizes, I couldn't go back to Hackernews because of how it handled redirecting (I think).
> a good part of the world living with about 9am sunrise (or a 3:30pm sunset) for hundreds of years

So no real change to the status quo?
> They get sold, just not in the US, or specifically, Texas, as the original poster was asking.

I don't think that's correct. Or at least it seems to require evidence. On the whole the US solar market has been extremely robust, with dropping prices and rapid buildout. It's possible that we're somehow lagging the rest of the world somehow, but that seems unlikely.
I believe the public housing we've implemented in the past has been a dehumanizing debacle, that housing was dramatically improved by the Section 8 program that largely privatized it (I live on a block with several Section 8 houses), don't have any problem with Zillow's iBuying program (they were trying to build a kind of market-maker for residential real estate, which is a real problem that impacts real homeowners and badly needs solving), believe rent control is counterproductive, and believe one of the biggest problems in all of housing is restrictive SFZ zoning rules.

Where's my check? Should I contact Accel? If I'm owed money pro-rata vs. Vox's readership, I should be able to buy a new car with the money.
Once you limit to EV the choices are pretty limited though. Toro and Deere have decent options and all the others at most have a retrofitted electric motor to a transmission designed for gas/diesel. Hopefully the ramp up of LFP battery production revamps this market quite a bit.
But the downward spiral is impressive: I feel popular movies in the past felt less like copies of each others than now. It's not just not taking risk: like coca cola they found the perfect formula and arent going to change it. And if they try, they d have insane addicts asking them to bring back the original formula.

Imagine big studios saying now they'll stop marvel movies, there d be a riot. I remember when the Inception + Shutter Island miracle happened and was reading Hollywood execs were flabbergasted and trying to formalize it so they could churn copies every few months.

There s nothing to do: they are private entreprises and they fit an addictive hole. Would be like trying to forbid beer because it s not as intellectual as cognac. I just feel like for some reason smaller markets do films differently because they just cant compete: Im French and live in Hong Kong, in both, local big budget blockbusters flop spectacularly because they feel too much like Ersatz (the CGI is years behind, the love story is under developed, the explosions are not well timed, the enemy is not as manichean, whatever), while smarter movies make us all proud "heh americans couldnt shit one like that, we're so special" :D
Thanks! This is fun. I've worked my way up to 20x20 so far.
Fair indeed, but I suspect the result would likely be the same. It's a bit like making a mess and cleaning it up - good on 'you', but don't expect praise

The article jumps right into that:

> This is something to be celebrated, of course. However, on the flip side, the driver was 100X slower than it should have been because of a memory allocation oversight.

Maybe this is where the phrase "It's a wash" comes from

Anyway, I'm hopeful things mature quickly - having worked with Intel people, I'm cautiously hopeful
What if the object you are observing are redshifted? Does compensating for the redshift give you a more or less "authentic" image?

What if you were to be a species distinct from whatever you are now? With different eyes, perception and cognition?

What if you're looking out the window of a spaceship at relativistic speed? Is is it fake?
I prefer some of the others:

Spirited Away, Ponyo, Howl’s Moving Castle, and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

I don’t know that I view movies as “best”, since those are all quite different stories.
Just mute "techbro" on Twitter if the term bothers you.

Sometimes I get annoyed that I get painted with the same brush as my most toxic coworkers, but I have the resources to cope. It's rarely an issue in my daily life.
My Neighbours the Yamadas and Pom Poko are also worth a watch.
I get that. I even have to study a map before every trip I go on to make sure I’m staying on more bike-friendly streets. Thankfully, in my neighborhood they’re adding more road blocks for cars (that still allow bikes through).
What website can I visit to get reliable information on where this rocket will crash?
> I remember VCs telling me to be a platform, not a product.

VCs incentives may not be aligned with your incentives. They are looking for Unicorns (Decacorns? Centocorns?) and are prepared to have _you_ take on a high risk of failing to improve their 1:100 successful investment upside calculations. You building a comfortable 8 figure revenue and 7 figure profit company over 5 or 10 years is basically a failure in their eyes.

For every Facebook or AWS, there are a 100,000 profitable "product companies" and probably a million successful-enough "lifestyle businesses".

If you want to take on the risk and shoot for the stars, sure - follow that VC advice. If you'd personally be happy with an 8 figure exit or a high six figure salary for as long as you want it, you can reduce your risk of failure substantially by _not_ following that advise to the letter.
Er, no.
Meta don't want leap seconds because leap seconds make distributed system cluster synchronization tricky, because that's the only case where an extra second here or there actually matters.

Across all the devices in my house that have a clock in them, the time drift is a little over an hour and it doesn't make the slightest bit of difference to me: internet connected computers being the most accurate.

Between individual computers, thanks to filesystem semantics, drifts of up to 2 seconds are expected and generally considered "identical" - it certainly doesn't matter for file sync applications.

So either we want to build a time standard that can be transformed in a sensible way to all the others which are useful - in which case something which works for interstellar timekeeping would be a sensible step, given that relativistic issues crop up even in Earth orbit, or we're building a time system "for humans" in which case everything we have now is fine, and will by definition be messy because time and timezones change all the time.
The effect of reducing CA agriculture is probably pretty marginal. Some of the most water-heavy crops like alfalfa or rice are just better grown elsewhere.

We can just stop growing rice in CA entirely and expand a tiny bit more in the south where most rice is grown already.

We can just stop growing (and exporting) alfalfa in California and grow more in other alfalfa producing states with more water available.

There are fruit crops which are important to grow in California, but most of the crops that consume major amounts of water don't need to be grown here at all. It's just not that big of a deal to relocate the vast majority of water consuming crops.
I believe the jet fuel usage industry (airlines).
Once again you choose to attack me instead of confronting the issue I’m raising. I’m not being a decider of anything, I’m asking for an answer to a very simple question.

The question is: how can spread of this virus be completely prevented, so that nobody gets infected? This is clearly what the root commenter and the XKCD cartoon they shared are asserting should be happening.

Methods that just slow the inevitable are clearly sidestepping the point. And methods that make society into a dystopian nightmare may be technically argument-winning but not practical and thus make lame contributions to the discussion.

Testing, ventilation, supported isolation are fine; we’ve had and still have some of those measures in Australia, and I agree it’s helpful to slow spread and protect those most vulnerable for a while. I’ve been fine with that happening here. But that’s not the primary topic of this discussion.

Please stop with the ad-homs and side-stepping and address the point.
Stars micro-nova too, 'burp' so to speak which sends heavier elements out. It's also a pathway to create heavy elements.
It's not uncommon to buy used car like newer than 10yo in Japan now. I can see many such cars at the road side used car shop. Because Japanese people especially in rural area (who need car) getting poor relatively, newer cars getting expensive thanks to safety and comfortable equipment, and reliability is improved, used cars getting more reasonable. After 13yo, vehicle tax increases so it's not popular but still sold, especially kei-cars are sold well because it's cheap for tax.

Still, according to this popular used car site, vehicle made in 2002-2011 is listed 109k, 2012-2021 is 319k so newer cars are more sold well. https://www.carsensor.net/usedcar/index.html
No, but he didn't put enough effort into making sure his question was clear, and it felt a bit deceptive ("click-batey"). He asked when the bulb would light up at all, but it seems most people thought he was asking when it would light up fully. He didn't make that clear initially, and then didn't admit later that he had communicated poorly.

That being said, I really like his videos and don't mind most of the issues people bring up with him here.
You can change control mode in the settings. The default is rotate/lock, but there's a rotate/rotate as well. And... another tricky one for orienting a tile in one click.
>> The ad hominem is in referring to the person making the argument rather than speaking to the argument.

> You've almost got it. The key thing you're missing is: "in a context where you are implied to be speaking to the argument". It's fallacious because it attempts to treat something that is not an argument as being one, not because the category "statements that aren't arguments" is automatically fallacious in all contexts.

You are mistaken, adding requirements to the definition of ad hominem that do not exist.

ad ho·mi·nem
/ˌad ˈhämənəm/
adjective
(of an argument or reaction) directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.

That is all an ad hominem is. It does not require purpose or intent, which is always presumed to be intended to undermine an argument. The ad hominem is simply and merely any reference whatsoever to the person rather than their argument.

You are simply mistaken, and that is all.

> If I said, "your argument is wrong because it's raining", that would be fallacious (unless your argument actually relied on the weather in some way).

No, not necessarily, and you do not give enough context to determine the validity of "your argument is wrong because it is raining."

> On the other hand, if I interjected, "it's raining!", that would just be an off-topic comment, not a fallacy. Same idea.

You are employing a series of straw man fallacies.

>> No it isn't, because Socrates is not the man, here. The man, in this context, is whomever is making the argument.

> That certainly can be Socrates.

Socrates died in 399BC., so it certainly can not be Socrates arguing. It is you arguing, and you have made a category error. Just because you are both a man does not imply you are the same man. This is a well known fallacious argument, and long identified as a category error.

>> First of all, no I did not, but more importantly, this could not be equivalence because purpose and purpose are the same words with the same meaning.

> Again, you're unnecessarily preoccupied with the definition of the word "purpose". I've already given you an example (that you failed to address) where it clearly means something different from "the intent of a person" -- the plant leaves -- but if you insist that it can't be used that way, fine; the author used a word incorrectly; whatever. Just substitute the word "function" and move on to addressing the substance of the matter instead of the definition of a word.

You are unnecessarily and incorrectly and invalidly applying criteria that are not appropriate here. Thus, your objections are trivial. There is no ambiguity in my use of the word "purpose" or "intent."
You can learn the Cyrillic alphabet in a day. It's other aspects of the language that are difficult.
Why your house is so expensive: Material-cost, anti-building rules, NIMBYs
Textract really does do a good job of balancing cost, ease of use, and quality, at least for my hobbyist needs.

I was inspired by another recent comment you posted on HN, and after some testing of the Textract console [0] I wrote a simple "local only" command-line version [1] (Python, boto3) that does similar things to your tool.

I used my tool to OCR a few hundred comic strip images I've been meaning to OCR for a while now - the service did beautifully where other tools I've tried in the past struggled with the handwritten text on the comics. Textract is fast enough that running serially was fine for a one-off without involving the more parallelized S3 workflow.

[0] https://us-east-1.console.aws.amazon.com/textract/home?regio...
[1] https://github.com/mbafford/textract-cli
K Advanced Text Editor.
Highly potent weed creating marijuana addicts worldwide, study says
Princess Mononoke is one of my favorite movies of all time but Netflix is more or less straight up garbage. Even their flagship offerings like Stranger Things are creatively bankrupt references for bored millennial parents.
Without a value judgement here is my analysis. It bears an unexpected similarity with PHP/FI 1.0, where a limited set of extended statements are mixed to the base language (which is HTML in PHP/FI and C in Vely). I had a gut reaction that memory management would be problematic, and Vely "solved" it by implicitly owning all memory allocated by Vely statements and deallocating them at the end of the current request. If my understanding is correct, vv doesn't seem to fully understand the C-plus-Vely language and just detects Vely keywords from C tokens [1], and I don't think it's a good idea.

[1] https://vely.dev/language_statements.html "Note that, Vely statements, after translated into C code by vv, are generally made of multiple C statements, hence Vely statements can never be treated as single-line statements." (suggesting that there is no full parser for C-plus-Vely)
There will come a time when there is no more oil in the ground that is economic to extract. Land transport can use batteries with current tech fairly effectively in many scenarios but aviation, as we currently understand it, needs energy densities that are not possible with batteries (and are unlikely with current mainstream battery tech). This claims to provide a way to get kerosene from the air using (thermal) solar power, which may become economical sooner rather than later if their claimed efficiency improvements come to pass and the price of gasoline continues to rise (which is very likely due to economic infeasibility of building any more refineries due to long payback periods)
Looks like Google, Microsoft and Amazon have joined in, so yeah.
> Especially the strong implication that Hubble is made out of lower tolerance parts, since they are rejects, is a claim that need significantly more evidence than what you provided here.

Well, it did ship with a faulty mirror after all :)

Just joking, I know this was a manufacturing error specific to Hubble which kinda proves it wasn't a reused part. I think the mirror would have a slightly different focal length anyway? But maybe 400k is far enough to be "infinity" even at that scale.