skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Odd to present temperature in Celsius for a US state, but otherwise very cool!

I wish it were easier to see the moments when demand and capacity were at their closest, as those are the "interesting" moments.
Truly Tumblr was created for disgusting smut.
One Year in Austin: Bad, Weird, Good
The Texas grid isn't run by stupid hippies who overbuilt solar plants forgetting they don't work in winter. It's run by "libertarians" who think that winterization standards are useless, and that's why nuclear plants, coal plants, and natural gas plants all failed when there was a freeze. This wasn't due to "reduced revenue" it's because the capacity planning didn't require winterization.
Is it weird? I think there's two big things that explain why it's not weird:

1) How expensive and disruptive to build would "good transit" actually be?

2) How much do people appreciate more direct point-to-point transportation?

This incident occured in a town of 51,000 people with a density of 1,700/sq mile, that looks like a suburb of Salt Lake City which itself has 200,000 people with a density of 1,800/sq mile.

What's the cost and timetable for turning that into a transit-friendly city even if everyone wanted to have smaller homes in a presumably-more-dense footprint?

On the other hand, self-driving cars would sit on top of existing infrastructure to enable even more personal privacy and land use. So even if people were 50/50 which way to go, the latter would likely be far cheaper.

If you go back 100 years and prevent cars from ever be mass-produced, yeah, American cities would've grown and suburbanized in a more British, rail-oriented way. But reversing that would be far, far harder.
Line height is set to the browser/ereader default - it's not something we change as it depends on the font. Font size is also the ereader default, though if viewing in a web browser we increase it slightly.
Elon Musk reportedly had an affair with Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s wife
These books should be usable on any Kindle or Kobo device. Just be sure download the appropriate format for the device - the download page on this site will tell you which one you need for your device.

Personally, I use a Kobo Libra 2. Not the cheapest ereader at $179 USD, but I went with it due to USB-C, IPX8, and support for the third-party KOReader viewer.
Thanks for the anecdotes!
I'd like to read the source for that statistic.
You can't purchase a home in Banff National Park (which includes the towns of Banff and Lake Louise) without having an active or planned business set to open in the town, having some other blood relation to someone living in the town, or having lived in the park since 1981.

This is a special situation. They are specifically trying to limit the supply of housing in Banff to limit the environmental impact.
They are ignoring the need to move when crashing.

They should look into recumbent bikes.
I hate how slow the console’s search is. Seems like every character is a request sent to a server. Don’t know why it’s not done client-side only.

Or maybe it’s just my Mac, but I doubt it.
Do the Tutsis "deserve revenge" against Hutus for the Rwandan Genocide, including women and children and Hutus who had nothing to do with the killing? According to your logic, yes. Fortunately for all involved, a counter-genocide in Rwanda was avoided. 30 years later Rwanda has comparitively low levels of corruption, high tourism, good international relations, and a rapidly developing economy. Compare that to Haiti in 1834, or Haiti today.
No, my argument is that GNU failed by being generally broken and unusable for the vast majority of people such that they won't use it.
I would argue that, where the book is illustrated by the author, you should keep those illustrations.

(I'm against the no-illustrations policy in general, but illustration by the author seems like an especially clear case.)
In ‘00s we had this category called “3x3 supersolve”. In essence it was speed solve with unlimited inspection time. It was kinda stressful because you had one shot after almost hour of tinkering.

I remember on some mailing list we wrote program that calculated time for any algorithm using some heuristics how long would it take average speedcuber to perform specific sequences of moves. Then we would publish one scramble and everyone tried to find solution that should take shortest time. We just excluded physical aspect of speedcubing.

I also remember “3x3 fewest moves” but you can’t move the cube. We just did inspection and wrote solution on paper. In regular “fewest moves” you get scramble and can play with multiple cubes.
Good read. After reading this article I picked up Moitessier's memoir of the race. Since simplification and minimalism were key to his philosophy, it stood out that he almost ended his race for lack of a radio (he crashed into another ship trying to get close enough to communicate). At a dozen points or more he expresses distress at not being able to send communications, relying on the goodwill of other ships encountered at sea.
The best way I’ve found is to use atomic commits [0], or put simply have each commit do a single logical thing.

For example don’t mix formatting changes and logic changes in a single commit, or don’t fix two separate things and lump them together in the same commit.

It takes a bit of practice to figure out what constitutes a logical thing - you don’t want them too small otherwise it results in lot of noise, and you don’t want them too large otherwise it defeats the main purpose of using them.

A good rule of thumb is to avoid words like ‘and’ in your commit subject line e.g. if your commit message subject contains wording like ‘Do this thing and that thing’, you’d probably be better off having two commits ‘Do this thing’ + ‘Do that thing’.

This doesn’t fix the problem entirely, but I’ve found that using atomic commits greatly reduces merge conflicts when rebasing, and when there are conflicts they are usually easier to manage and don’t result in as many follow on merge conflicts.

0: https://www.aleksandrhovhannisyan.com/blog/atomic-git-commit...
Wow, lobste.rs has a mod log... :)

https://lobste.rs/moderations
The west completely ignored graphite + iron phosphate as electrode combination for cars while China researched it for decades. Packing innovation from China made that combination feasible to use in electric cars. Those packaging innovations are way more impressive then what Tesla is doing. </Context>
For doing what they did to a fucking 2 year old? Yes. A crime against an adult might be more excusable, but this is evil beyond redemption.
My libido and performance has improved 10x since getting into cycling. It's one of the major benefits of being fit. Depending where you live you can ride trails and avoid busy streets.
Do they keep judge sentencing statistics?
As with all promising research papers, believe it when you see it in commerical-scale use.

In the past most catalyst improvements have run into problems with maintenance.
This seems like an example of taking the giant ocean of people that is Twitter and Tiktok and pretending even 100 crazy people in a population of literally billions represents a "trend" or societal phenomenon.
Even if the kiosk loads the payment terminal firmware, that firmware will be signed.

It’s 2022, pretty much all developed nations use chip cards so you wouldn’t have anything to gain from this exercise anyway.
Last time I was laid off, I got $90K to keep my mouth shut. And you know what I did? I shut the hell up, and I'm not even all that thrilled to post about it anonymously here. It was all fairly amiable as well.
Is there a similar program for Windows?
>> It doesn't seem like all that many people are all that crazy about self-driving cars?

I think that many people(including me) do not belive in self driving cars. I "know" there will be no level 5 self driving car anytime soon so why would I be excited? All the current and "near future" self driving cars seem to have a steering wheel so they are "fake self driving cars" and I'm not interested in that. Why would I use a self driving car if I still have to keep my hands on the steering wheel? I would be more worried that the car could get into an accident by itself and I would be blamed.

Then the more you learn about the tech the more I get worried. The car is supposed to drive itself based on solved captcha or an army of people trying to label everything?? I don't want to be anywhere near a "fake self driving car".

Self driving cars are like those miracle cures for aging or cancer that seem to work only on rats or in lab specific conditions. One day they will work on humans but you never know the day.

So if a miracle happens and "real" self driving cars are developed I think all the people will go crazy after them just like for a miracle drug to reverse aging.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/06/02/health/reverse-aging-life...
> The author hasn't neglected to consider light cones

She describes them, but does not consider their implications for the structure of spacetime.

> you could always (hypothetically) boost to another frame in which the disconnected past becomes the disconnected future (and vice versa).

No, you can't. That's the whole point of looking at light cones instead of spacelike "now" slice. Light cones are invariant; they're the same in all frames. Spacelike "now" slices are not. Also, you can't do a Lorentz boost that turns "future" into "past" or vice versa.
I didn't read this article as glamorizing. At worst it's neutral to the health effects of ultraendurance athletics, and describes their consequences as "creepy" and "bizarre."
Government assistance should be tied to outcomes ... nothing else.

Gigantic cash bonus when the first 2,000,000 chips are delivered in commercial products, nothing before that.

Trouble is government subsidies pay for the wrong things.
I don't see how that's possible. The Airtag pings the Find My network periodically anyways, sending battery life along with that data cannot possibly be that detrimental to battery life.
Because we are on a US/english forum I think its important to point out that this was a global study of "left/right"

"We also recommend more robust examinations of the asymmetry thesis in regions that have been understudied, such as South America, Africa, and Asia. Even though we included countries from each of these continents, very little is known about the basic nature and scope of conspiracy theorizing outside of North America and Europe."
You can stop the third-party vendor from saying "I am Standard Ebooks", but you can't stop them from referring to the book as coming from Standard Ebooks, because that's true.
As I said in the original remark (which see), "Second might be antivirals against herpes."
Could the environment be a normal good for you and an inferior good for me?
People routinely pay for various goods/services when they can't get them for free. I'm sure today you may have paid for groceries/transport/etc or used utilities for which you'll pay the bill at the end of the month. Why is "paying for things" fine in real life but such a weird concept when it's on the internet?

In my previous comment I did say that a lot of content isn't worth paying for and will stop being produced for monetary gain (because the only way it currently survives is due to the non-refundability of ad impressions - people can't take back their "payment" even if they've been duped by clickbait/garbage content), but that doesn't mean all content/services will disappear - some has genuine value that will still be profitable to produce, some will keep being produced because the objective wasn't monetary gain to begin with.
> what exists (in the unrestricted sense of 'exist' the OP is after) becomes event-relative

Well, of course; that's how we already use the term "exist" in ordinary language. We say that our past of today "exists", but tomorrow does not, at least not yet. But tomorrow, we'll say that what we now call tomorrow does "exist". So our ordinary language concept of "exists" already takes into account that what "exists" changes over time.
Not too suprised. Have had about 4 different drobos over the years but they haven't done anything interesting since the beginning. It's still a box that takes multiple drives and creates a large pool. Yes, it was somewhat protected, and yes, using ssd for perf was a nice feature, but that was it. For around the same price or maybe a little more, you could get a decent synology with a lot more features.
One problem is that both sides of this "schism" tends to easily fall into a Cosy Catastrophe mindset [0]. Not always, but it happens quite a bit. They touch on this in the article, but it's too common in my opinion. It's tempting to start daydreaming about an escapist fantasy where you've prepped exactly right and society collapses exactly how you want it or thought it would happen. Maybe it's a world where you can violently defend your homestead against bandits. Maybe it's a world where all your hungry neighbors band together in harmony to protect one another. The truth is a long-term scenario that would require prepping would be chaotic beyond anything you can imagine and yet parts of society would continue on exactly as before.

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CosyCatastrophe
I think all of those things you listed are kinds of nudges. They are changes in the "choice architecture" that steer the user to an action.

In the context of government, a nudge means influencing people to choose something desirable, while still leaving open the option for people to choose what they want (hence preserving liberty). In contrast, a non-nudge solution would be a law or regulation that forces people into the desirable option or perhaps a tax on a certain choice.

In your UI, an example of a non-nudge solution would be removing the other options, effectively forcing their decision. Another example of a non-nudge would be charging different fees depending on their decision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory#Definition_of_a_n...

"A nudge, as we will use the term, is any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people's behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives. To count as a mere nudge, the intervention must be easy and cheap to avoid. Nudges are not mandates. Putting fruit at eye level counts as a nudge. Banning junk food does not."
I suppose that's a nice way of saying "We never trained it not to break someone's finger".
One might hypothesize that the most active users of Twitter might not be the most representative of the greater population, even...

However, any idea along the lines of "people need help, not acceptance" needs to be very carefully discussed, because in the world I grew up in, you didn't get help or acceptance: you got punishment, you got shame, you even sometimes got violence as "treatment."

A lot of people out there who will latch onto anything telling them they don't need to be accepting of difference.
> Differently from sport, there’s no such thing as low drug usage being healthy.

I would argue this, as ex. medical cannabis licences are becoming more common, not to mention all the drugs that are prescribed and used healthily/responsibly (not to say all prescribed drugs are properly used).
> In General Relativity events in your past light cone can be events in your future light cone.

Only in spacetimes with closed timelike curves, such as the Godel Universe. Those spacetimes are considered by physicists to not be physically realistic.

All physically realistic spacetimes, including all of the ones we use to actually model things in the actual universe, are globally hyperbolic, and in a globally hyperbolic spacetime the same event cannot be in both the past and the future light cone of some other event.
The advantage of using stacks, though, is that you can keep focus on what you're working on, or even still work on 2-3 things simultaneously but work on multiple dependent pieces of each at once. Maybe I'm biased because I've used this workflow my whole career, but I think everyone can benefit from trying out a stacked PR workflow.

Not to mentioned getting reviews for smaller, atomic changes is just SO much easier. Even on a team where everyone is using a stacked workflow, if anyone submits a larger PR (especially more than a few hundred lines), you can see how the smaller PRs submitted in the same time, often in the same stack, get reviewed much faster.
>Spending 8 days in near-constant intense aerobic activity on 1 hour of sleep is likely to cause lifelong health repercussions

the most dangerous part here is probably the chance of having an accident on that little sleep, but there's no need to be hyperbolic, there's very rarely lasting health repercussions to short term stress like this (physical at least) in healthy adults, soldiers go through similar conditions in training and during war. Sometimes for much longer. You'd be surprised how much your body can actually take. (and recover from)
This is a problem Project Gutenberg has had for years, on Amazon and other platforms. It's a game of whack a mole and ultimately not really worth pursuing. As soon as you shut one guy down, another one appears with the same great idea.

In any case almost nobody is buying these anyway, as there are so many other free ebook editions of just about all of these books already.
Thanks, changed it to match the original title
Lemmings: The Bizarre Story of the Term’s Definition
I'm not related to this in any way – so I can't speak for them. That said, the dependency is still mentioned in the Readme.

Provided that there are dependencies like Dojo and that that this was written in a time, when everything claiming seriousness was expected to look Java-ish, I'd guess, it may need a complete rewrite to fit the modern ecosystem. (Disclaimer: I didn't have a closer look at the code.)
In terms of switching e-readers I currently do have a kindle voyage, which I love, but I am increasingly worried about what happens when it reaches end of life... Does anyone have recommendations for a similar e-reader that has the things I love about it: e-ink display, and buttons for page turning instead of a touchscreen, and have said buttons on both sides of the device? The Kindle Oasis and a few others I've seen only have buttons on one side and having to rotate the device 180 degrees and wait for the display to flip every time I want to change hands sounds like a nightmare. It might just be because I'm left handed and therefore am more comfortable using both hands for things than most people, but the lopsided designs Amazon and some other manufacturers are using just look so hobbled to me.
I'm getting Ketamine as treatment for depression in Australia, it works.
I think that’s a more reasonable stance if people has say 10 minutes for inspection. 12 seconds is applying real time pressure and then the format just ignores that pressure, which is silly.

The format isn’t a pure test of manipulation skills or solving skills but a hybrid of both with much heavier weight on manipulation skills.
> before covid made disease doom a political issue

Seeing how the hyper-policization of covid "facts" made common-sense discussion almost impossible has been interesting to me. It's not the first time I've noticed it, but it's probably the clearest example in my experience of how once something becomes politicized and lines are drawn (and/or litmus tests identified), rational public discourse becomes extremely difficult/impossible.
The Differences between Bforartists 3 and Blender 3
Firefox Sync Working on Mozilla Thunderbird
Ryan Sipes, the Product Manager for Mozilla Thunderbird says Firefox Sync is working in Thunderbird for syncing email, calendar and address books.
I don’t think it’s weird and I unfortunately think public transit is in the beginning of a slow death spiral post-pandemic in the US.

Reason 1: people in the US aren’t judging transit vs car ownership on the axes you mentioned. They largely don’t care about climate change and efficient land use (at least not enough to change their own habits.) They care about comfort, control over their own surroundings and mobility, and yes, signaling status.

Reason 2: The way of life that previously made transit make sense… daily point-to-point travel at peak hours when driving would have been prohibitively expensive… is quickly going by the wayside. Even if I go into my office 1-2 days a week, it’s now more cost effective for me to drive, and climbing aboard a bus or train feels like a relic of the past that I’m no longer accustomed to because I don’t have to.
Why didn't he sell and then rent something less comfortable (i.e. cheaper) for a while before going back into the market chain-free?
The Buddhist response would have been to quietly accept the correction. Maybe learn something. Quarreling without even looking it up is decidedly, how do Buddhists say? "attached".
>It's the primary influence over all hypertext things, including HTML

Is it? Was Tim Berners-Lee influences by Project Xanadu? Was he aware at all?
That story doesn't exactly end "and then everyone was mentally healthy in Japan happily ever after," though, does it?
I recommend Sin City Outdoors on YouTube[1]. Father and son outdoorsmen have been doing some excellent first hand documentation of the water level decline. They do a dedicated update every two weeks.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Azy88IiVqU
What they don't teach you about sockets
But you can still construct stacked PRs out of the 2500-line change even you write it all at once -- just go back and split the changes into a series of PRs that makes sense. Much easier for your reviewers to get through, so it'll be able to ship faster.
The silence is confidence from the Tesla crowd that these are necessary sacrifices to perfect FSD and achieve the dream.

That was a literal quote from one owner, to me, in a previous thread here on HN.
I've been happily using Time Sink (https://manytricks.com/timesink/) to do this for about a year now. It does not automatically merge into a timelapse, but this is accomplished easily with ffmpeg.
I was involved with the card reader upgrades at McDonald’s in the US. Essentially the card readers were stripped out of the main network and all buildings were rewired With a physically segregated network for cashless transactions.

Registers placed orders to the main routing Server in the back which passed the information to each individual station for fulfillment. The only time the card reader is involved is when the register makes a request to the cashless processing appliance in the back office then it reaches out to the card reader on the segregated network.
Less the journalists and more the newsrooms. Politico news is cheap and gets eyeballs. Far easier than paying for investigative journalism, let alone having an embedded reporter hundreds of miles away, the newsrooms have been demanding profits and so "man bites dog" leads the news coverage.
Finally producing 4 yr old tech ... not exactly leaving anyone in the dust.

6-12 months ago, the Chinese were estimated to be about 7-10 years behind in semiconductors.

In that short time they've caught up roughly about 5 years. Thinking they can't catch up completely, if not actually pulling out in front is pure hubris.

That's what killed most of the US's industries that are now not able at all to compete with the Chinese ones.
There was a point in history, where it was cheaper to fly to the US, buy photoshop and fly back to Australia.
Looks like they're taking reasonable precautions - following car etc. Not sure a tired cyclist is much of a danger to anyone on an open interstate. Seems rather flimsy justification really.