skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simply good gear. A lot of my wardrobe has gone in this direction over the past decade because it's fairly easy to find highly functional garments with good materials and good construction that are actually cut for athletic people. I wear tactical clothing because that's what makes my wife make the most comments about my butt. A lot of modern commercial clothing has become disposable, sized either too slender or too baggy, made of poor fabric and with poor stitching. The U.S. military has been at war roughly the last 20 years, with millions of veterans over that period working in extremely hot and dry or rugged and mountainous environments - environments very similar to the American West where a huge chunk of the civilian population finds its recreation. That first market iterated new kinds of clothing over the last two decades, and the latter adopted it because it was so good. Honestly I'm going to buy a Triple Aught Design hoodie over an Arcteryx one, because I know that the original customer base of TAD wore theirs for long periods in rough conditions, and despite looking similar on paper the former is probably going to be more durable in the long run.

Personally, a couple of the pictures in the article look like my after-work recreations (the side by side shots from 5.11 Tactical 60% down the page). I live in Utah, and after I log off for the day I drive off-road to my friend's land and we practice shooting and using our concealed carry pistols so that we can actually be effective in protecting ourselves and our families and not endanger anyone in the process. We don't wear "tactical" pants to "LARP", we wear it because it's comfortable, doesn't rip when we fall on a sharp rock, is lightly water resistant, wipes clean easily, and doesn't pick up dirt permanently when I brush against my dirty Jeep. I have a Mystery Ranch pack and have never seen an ad with soldiers in it; I bought it because it's built so well and can comfortably carry heavy gear, and not tear when I do something stupid like fill it with river gravel and go rucking for fitness.
Do you believe Google will cancel Cloud? It’s also new. If you do there’s money to be made shorting Google.
I’ve learned that selecting a partner on personality also has strong drawbacks

the drawback was that it didn't feel as fulfilling or something like that because she wasn't as physically attractive?

as someone who prefers to look at personality only, i feel that physical attraction gets in the way. at least that was my experience. when i was younger i actually didn't recognize a few times when a girl was attracted to me because i had my eyes on someone else who wasn't. i regret rejecting them to this day. my life could have taken a completely different direction if i hadn't. (not that it would have been better, just different, since we are talking about life-changing experiences. although i'll never know if it really would have been life-changing)
> I suspect if the concept of the registry was created today it would look more like a database (e.g. Sqlite), although organizing it like a virtual FileSystem does have a certain appeal, and unfortunately I don't know of a database engine that supports such a layout.

(Open)LDAP uses a hierarchical structure and saves its data in a database:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Memory-Mapped_Databa...

* https://www.openldap.org/software/man.cgi?query=slapd-mdb
KKH = Kaufmännische Krankenkasse Hauptverwaltung
Exfiltrating data via browser bookmark sync
Classic SV "never mention tradeoffs" behavior.

It amazes me that this persists, it is such a bad sales tactic. If the person you're dealing with isn't a sucker, now you've destroyed trust. (You've destroyed it later with the sucker, when they realize what happened. Hope one sale was enough for you.)
When i see young people around me share this with enthusiasm despite the environment that’s been created mostly because of social media, I can’t help but think if this was meant to be a warning.
1) Non (PC) gamers had little reason to adopt it, if they were gamers at all they probably had consoles with most Stadia games available.

2) PC gamers are on average very particular about frame rate, quality, and lag and these things weren't great with Stadia.

3) The convenience of not being tied to a specific device was nice but for both #1 & #2 above the convenience came nowhere close to overcoming the biggest flaw: lack of library portability. I certainly wasn't willing to repurchase games on Stadia. We see this in reverse with Stadia users about to loose everything they purchased.

If Google really wanted to do something in this space they'd repurpose the cloud GPU resources dedicated to it towards compute instances w/ Windows and/or a partnership with SteamOS that would allow users to install whatever they wanted: Epic, GOG, Steam, etc. Leave it up to the user. And leverage their streaming technology for the same convenience Stadia had provided, complete with love streaming to YouTube Twitch etc. Niche services like this exist but they're expensive. Google's scale would help solve that.

Of course even that game may be lost with the arrival of the Steam Deck. I can play nearly every game I've tried in it, including many unsupported, and the experience is great. In a hotel I can connect it to a TV, or I can stream it to a larger screened but low end laptop right next to me, and many games play perfectly well even on the small screen. The advent of relatively inexpensive portable hardware like this may in another year or two render the cloud streaming game concept completely moot.
Because then no one has an exact quote they can point at where he says your games will be gone. It's obvious to most readers, but you can't simply say "he said X" and link to it/screenshot it, only say that he was evasive.
> the cost to build a HSR route to go between population centers is super high

The cost is high, but more painfully, the cost per-mile is higher than for the same distance of railroad in Europe or East Asia. That's not a result of pure geography.

Also, while the cost is high, it's not actually that large in comparison to the overall DoT budget, which is projected at $142B for FY2023. You could build a lot of train for that. Political will is a much more important factor. We just dropped $40B on the Current War without blinking.

Even so, this misses another key step: intercity rail in Europe usually connects seamlessly to metro rail, which is what makes it so easy and nice to use. But the cities themselves in the United States do not usually have rail systems to connect to. That's why the best near-term rail corridor IMHO is NY-Buffalo (subway) - Youngstown (possible Pittsburgh metro extension) - Cleveland (subway) - Toledo (possible Detroit metro extension) - Chicago, connecting to six subway systems.
Are you really able to verify at this level of mathematics?
PR guys aren't paid to tell the truth, they're paid to say whatever is convenient for the company. Lying straight to your face is one of their core skills.
"The Heartland Institute is an American conservative and libertarian public policy think tank known for its rejection of both the scientific consensus on climate change and the negative health impacts of smoking."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartland_Institute
i dont know what kind of disfunctions niydists have but as a normal and healthy man, i can't NOT feel anything even in the presence of a naked flabby sea-lion of a woman.
"Intuition" and "judgement" isn't really the best way to think about this.

The entire problem here is that when people say "data-driven", what they actually mean is "model blind". If you make decisions based on a model, nobody will say it's data-driven, it doesn't matter how empirical the model is. Yet, if you rephrase the question as "Do model blind companies win?" the answer is obvious.

Running incoherent experiments testing for each little event you may think of is certainly better than walking at random. But as everybody knows for centuries, you use data to improve your model, and use your model to improve your craft. Jumping over the model part is an incredibly lousy use of data.
Canada's healthcare system was in a crisis state before Covid, but Covid and the ensuing burnout and churn of healthcare staff (and firings), have caused the system to sporadically fail. By that I mean, sporadic hospital closures, inability to get an ambulance for days, year long waits for specialists and even family doctors in some places (montreal). It's crazy. And it's only going to get worse as hospitals have to take more of the burden from people going to ER's because no family doctors are available, etc.
> We've overturned Roe v Wade and they made specific mention of other decisions that affect gay marriage.

This is not a new debate but even as someone who is pro-choice, Roe was bad law.

I don't buy into the Alito theory of substantive due process not being real - and neither do any of the other justices. That being said, yes, congress is supposed to make laws, not the bench. Congress should still enshrine gay marriage.
> We've sent out a newsletter to our customers to let them know about the changes and here's what one of our users replied

Thank you, I can't help but laugh at the idea that they received what looked like a out-of-season april fool's :D

Most important question are you keeping the brand ? As the French person, I can assure you that everyone will read "magic ass" before anything else.
> we mostly play little party games as nither of us our big gamers

unfortunately there's not enough of you guys, Stadia was targeting the latter crowd but as you can see, they've failed.
That makes sense considering that QLC (2^4 charge levels) only stores 33% more data per cell than TLC (2^3 charge levels). Therefore at best it can only be 33% cheaper/bigger.
Saw them live as my first post(ish)-pandemic show. Fantastic live. They opened with "Call me maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen then did a hard transition into 953.
see coq

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coq
Largest size is only 2 TB, and they aren’t cheaper than e.g. Samsung QVO, as far as I can see.
> Capacity is not the major problem. It is the $/TB price points

Only if you don't care about access time or transfer speed.

If sitting there waiting 15 minutes costs you real money then having a bunch of fast but smaller SSDs quickly starts to makes sense.

Napkin math:

If 15 min/day costs you $15 then in a month $15*5d*4w=$300, or north of $3000 a year.

And usually if something costs money per time it's more than a $15.
Straw man argument. I'm talking about mixing in dairy and eggs, not exclusively eating steak, the most extreme example of carbon intensive food production.

There is quite a happy medium out there between veganism and a Jordan Peterson-style carnivore diet.
Sure, but the problem is on the Czech part. Once you're in Germany, it's pretty fast.
You can do something very similar with nano.

If you have `set backupdir` enabled, any and all savepoints on a file are backed up with timestamps and a revision number.
Analogue: OpenFPGA
Intercity trains often go much faster than 60mph. More like an average of 90mph with a speed limit 125mph on the main lines in UK. Thats not even the HS1 (and eventually HS2), that's on our old AF Victorian rail roads.

The argument for trains is often more about taking out the need to drive everywhere than the need to fly from coast to coast though, as a train is never going to beat that.
It'd be interesting to look at cheap counter-loiter tech and e.g. light exostructures and materials that are more difficult to penetrate at layers and readily repairable after drone attacks. I would guess that there is some interesting low-hanging fruit in that area.

It also seems like a possible co-creative opportunity with the concept of covering ground properties with solar panels. Defend against airborne threats but also make the protective layer pay for itself if possible.

Given additional sensor and environmental control development (vs breathing in munitions byproducts, etc), I wonder if over time the rationale for going outside, especially in a war zone, will simply fade away.
> Widespread internet access changed this situation, as citizens were confronted with vastly increasing sources of information, fewer shared experiences and the awareness that others might share fewer fundamental beliefs with them.

(Emphasis mine)

Why do we have to share so many fundamental beliefs, then? Whatever happened to "we can work together for $Goal without having to agree on everything else"? what happened to the recognition of individual worth, that people are more than the caricatures we refer to as "they're Christian" or "they're LGBT"?

The cure for this threat to democracy (boy those are abounding recently) isn't sanitizing the information sources and ensuring that the choir is all in perfect harmony: its in recognizing that we can and do share similar interests even when the rest of our opinions vary.
Me not having evidence doesn’t mean it’s not true. Indeed my statement is equally dubious as the Twitter one. However you’ll see that I’m correct by just coming back to this thread in October.

Proving a negative is generally difficult to begin with.
Repurposing the cadaver of a spider to create a pneumatically actuated gripper
Yep, the client app is up but the API is returning 429 and 500
It's just the latest in a long line of adverbs for truthfulness that morph into something else. "very" (from latin for true), "really" (from real), "honestly", "truly" and so on. "Actually" seems to still hold on to some meaning but is now on the verge of becoming socially unacceptable. I guess this says something about human nature.
That sounds pretty funny!
Gosh, I had basically the same story. Heard Dead Pony for the first time on some random Spotify playlist about a year ago, and they're awesome. I'm hopeful they do some shows in the US soon.
> Computers don’t arise randomly (without annoying semantic arguments).

If you believe the human brain's processes are computable, and you believe evolution is a random process, then you believe that computers arise randomly.

Is that what you mean by "annoying semantic arguments"?
That does assume you live conveniently to the train station in Boston or the suburban station to the south. I do generally take the train to NYC but mostly because I hate driving into NYC so much. I have to drive an hour in the wrong direction to get to Route 128 so the time tradeoff actually isn't great.
The only reference to race I could find in that article is this, describing people who "roll coal" i.e. intentionally polluting as a way to own the libs:

> “Burning fossil fuels can come to function as a knowingly violent experience,” Daggett writes, “a reassertion of white masculine power on an unruly planet that is perceived to be increasingly in need of violent, authoritarian order.”

Now I don't know that statistics of coal rollers, but to me nothing in that article says pickup trucks are solely the domain of white people or that the problems with pickups only extend to white people.

I think your characterization is completely off, nothing in that article says that black people don't buy pickups, and it certainly doesn't say that they cause any less damage than a white person buying one.
I've been saying this is exactly and the only sort of thing blockchain might be able to solve. Absolutely prove you bought a thing. Only question is how to get another service to care to respect that.

Maybe prove Y% of your X purchase went to the rights holder. So you can only be charged for Z-Y to get that same thing from another service.
Not being explicit gives wiggle room for people to let their hopes override their logic when interpreting how it will work.

Some number of people will read that and say "it's safe, I knew they would assuage my concerns" that wouldn't otherwise if they just said "well, you might lose you games in that case.". Those are the people being targeted.

And by those people I include you and me, but for different things. It's impossible to be completely objective and rational all the time, and I'm sure you can come up with just as many instances as I where hope overrode reason for a while. Statements like these are specifically to keep us around when we fall into that category.
"Unfortunately, few self identified tactical gear brands appear to agree on what the adjective implies, or more importantly, whether ordinary civilians should be considered as customers."

Why is this unfortunate?

This seems like a long article that doesn't say much at all, with an author who is confusing their points. At one point they're saying that tactical gear shouldn't be sold to civilians, then they're saying how tactical lacks a definition and is applied to normal stuff, then they mention how mil-spec is regarded as junk by those in the know. So why is it dangerous for civilizations to buy normal stuff that's really not much different from normal stuff?

They make the claim that tactical clothing is somehow "fanning the flames" of violence. Again, how? I don't see any causation in here. I don't even see any correlation. It's just Google search and population level trends. And did they miss the part where violence and crime decreased until the last couple years (looking back to 2002)?
> anywhere much North of London

You don't need to go that much North - I used to live in Oxfordshire, trying to get to Cambridge for work was a joke (I don't drive). It would take 3.5h+ for a 140km journey from Oxford to Cambridge because train journeys were only through London (+ a railway station change), and there was only one coach that stopped in every town along the way (and which has been axed into two separate legs since the pandemic, making it 4h+ now).

In the end I moved to London, so that's manageable now...
I buy all my Stadia games on sale, I just don't value the newest games that much. The issue is the Stadia selection not the price, there are good deals to be had.
They just… don’t, elsewhere. That’s not a normal state of affairs. Something is horribly wrong with how you’re doing something - either with the stations, or with society - if that’s the case.
The USA has a world-class _Freight_ rail network, and almost all existing track in the country is owned by the freight operators, who manage the track to optimize it for freight operations. In many cases, they are openly hostile to passenger service on their tracks.

On top of this, most cities in the USA were built (or destroyed and rebuilt) for private cars being the primary mode of transportation. In Europe, one of the benefits of taking the train over an airplane is that the train stations will often be in a walkable city center with a good connection to public transit. In the USA, outside of a handful of older cities (New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston . . .), the train station drops you off in the middle of nowhere, usually with far less connections and services than the airport has. When compared to air travel, intercity rail travel is often slower, less convenient, less frequent, and more expensive.

Even with the Acela/northwest corridor, flights are often cheaper than rail, so it is the convenience of the downtown stations and connections to public transit that drive people to take the train over airplanes. It's no coincidence that the major cities on the route (DC, Philiadelphia, NYC, Boston) are also cities with some of the best metro networks in the country.
> which one will I buy if the SSD is 5x more expensive

SSD, because silence and random-access performance.
(Stolen from the last time progress was posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26250907)

"You would hope that by the 24th century, humanity would have come up with a cure for baldness"

"You would hope that by the 24th century, humanity would no longer care"
Right. You don't want a line down the entire West Coast, even though it's tempting to draw. But a line from Vancouver to Portland makes sense, as does a "greater California" system - roughly lines from Los Angeles to SF, Sacramento, Vegas, San Diego. The latter is basically the California HSR system that's under construction, plus the proposed privately built line from LA to Vegas. (Levy also proposes LA to Phoenix; Phoenix is further than Vegas but also bigger, so maybe it makes sense.)

Even in the east there are some gaps. It's obvious that a midwestern network centered on Chicago and a southeastern network centered on Atlanta make sense, but it's a bit more of a stretch to connect those to the northeast.
> Computers don’t arise randomly

You are right. They don't.
Thanks for this, this is great resource.
You've cut most of the quote, it's:

the pandemic-fuelled (sic) a boom in digitisation, with teleworking, telehealth, online shopping and digital currencies becoming mainstream

That is their summary of the fifth "megatrend", "Diving into digital".

When you cut out most of the quote, unsurprisingly, you can claim anyone's wrong.

Logically, they make four claims in that statement:

The pandemic made teleworking mainstream
The pandemic made telehealth mainstream
The pandemic made online shopping mainstream
The pandemic made digital currencies mainstream

The last two of them are definitely wrong and that's what we're talking about. I cannot judge the first two having not looked into teleworking and telehealth.
This is an unrealistic, but common opinion due to how emotional the topic is. It's important to try to avoid adding hostility to the conversation because it "feels" justified. Nobody can control what they find attractive and unattractive, and attraction is an absolutely unavoidable component of most marital relationships. Some people focus on it unreasonably, and we consider them shallow, but it is impossible to _expect_ any arbitrary person to be utterly unaffected by it.
I found this aside on one of the graphics rather surprising:

> Sometime in the next 2000 years, the Sun is expected to leave a local cloud of gas and dust. After that, it may enter the G cloud. If it is denser, it would squash the protective magnetic bubble of the heliosphere, potentially exposing the Solar System to a barrage of cosmic rays.

Mostly surprised that I hadn't heard more about this. 2000 years is practically tomorrow in cosmological time!

A little more here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Interstellar_Cloud
I've been asked this before, so I have a spreadsheet ready https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uPTCKmSBy69A7lHHZmok...
Game Pass is a massive success, and PlayStation Now was just revamped to be more like it. How Stadia managed to be so close, yet so completely miss the biggest trend in gaming is frankly quite astonishing.

I remember Google was talking up how you'd be able to watch a game stream on YouTube, then with a single click "fork" the game into your own instance and continue playing. Or even just basic things like watching a game trailer and being able to jump into a playable demo. But they didn't realize any of that, instead they went with the most conservative possible approach of selling games for $60, which is a non-starter in a world of constant sales and where Game Pass already exists. It's like if YouTube was a platform where every video was $1 to watch, how successful would that have been?

I also think if Google shuts down Stadia instead of pivoting into a Game Pass like service, the reputational damage to GCP alone will be more than whatever the cost of Stadia is.
You're not alone; Audi proudly sells the E-tron, which in French means "turd", plain and simple.
I work in homeland security consulting, and I find this division of folks by pant type a useful heuristic. Our work brings together a lot of emergency management adjacent folks, and being able to quickly group them visually into how likely they are to have a law enforcement perspective on an issue is really helpful when messaging and engaging on controversial topics.