skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Causation or nothing is a false distinction. Pointing to the existence of some correlations that are spurious does not mean that all correlations are spurious. Every causation results in correlation.

Spurious correlations are easy to find, particularly with 10 data points and hundreds of variables to choose from (lol), but multiple hypothesis testing reveals those as spurious easily.
I'm still amazed when I play quake in a browser. This really shows the conjunction of decades of little things coming together. And it frustrates me a bit more when I see simple things lagging and being slow.
Personally

Bikes: flows like water
Cars: "flows" like Tetris

Some developing countries have a big majority of people moving around in bikes and it feels so much better (albeit chaotic).

Other countries have developed a local auto industry and ofc it became a big business which the government is happy to "promote"
> there's literally nothing that can be done about it

What about testing your soil, and if there are high levels of lead then either put in raised beds or don't grow edible things?
99% of modern VFX relies on this image
There's also Arch, or basically anything else besides Ubuntu. Podman isn't the only thing that is chronically out of date on it. Ubuntu has definitely lived long enough to become the villain.
The buried lede is that it's a three year subscription. Apparently OnStar is $500 a year?! For what amounts to a screen with a modem? Good grief.
Stop charging your phone overnight
Sounds like a misunderstanding, I’d recommend reading the paper before jumping to conclusions. Certainly we covered the various tensors mentioned here in the class I took - if you want details, you have to read past the summary.

General Relativity largely describes how geometry is nature - what may seem obvious from a mathematical perspective isn’t always so from a physical one. The results of using basis vectors for derivations aren’t riddled with artifacts of any particular coordinate system, as it would become immediately clear when expressing Christoffel symbols, for example - they wouldn’t be equal with other approaches.

One of the other students who was getting her PhD specializing in GR said that using a vector approach gave her intuition about concepts she had previously considered incomprehensible.
No, I don't think that. However, the site linked that this article is on is using communist imagery, so is no doubt communist. Criticizing an article that implies a call for communism for that call is not a lack of imagination on the part of the reader, but rather recognizing what is being implied.
I tried using Wise a while ago and ran into problems. It could have been jurisdictional.

Ultimately, blockchain-based financial systems are open in ways that centralized finance can't be.
Caste based discrimination is so subtle, that it is extremely hard to detect by Non-Indians

Why shouldnt the talk be allowed?

What harm could it do to raise awareness about this very practical issue that Dalits face day in and day out for centuries.

Google employees who had this talks cancelled are ultimate COWARDS and should be ashamed of themselves.
My main issue with low-code/no-code is that it attempts to solve the complexity problem, without understanding what "complexity" is. Code is perceived to be complex, but when you look deeply into what people mean when they say that, it's almost entirely a social perception. They see these weird characters and it looks like gibberish and they assume that the people who understand this gibberish are somehow on another level of intelligence.

Code is really just a formalized expression of what you want. It happens to be used for very complex problems, because it's very good at solving complex problems. This in and of itself does not make code inherently complex.
There is actually a way to roll back steam versions. I had to do it for Skyrim. Not sure if that works for Civ ofcourse.

You have to access the depot. Here is a little thread for Skyrim : https://steamcommunity.com/app/489830/discussions/0/32475650...
There is also a strong bias to reverting titles to the original formulation.

We have a convention to add (year) to mark the date. We should take up a convention to add [context], too; e.g.

[In Sydney] Backyard hens’ eggs contain 40 times more lead...

I tried that several times, but mods often revert that.

I wonder what @dang thinks about this.
Who cares? He can fight against things all he wants, that won't make any difference. If something makes sense his petulant behavior won't hold it back. Creating things that satisfy real demands, that push technology to a new state, that's what lasts.
Fwiw, Amazon offers an sso platform with saml for free. That's not the answer for everyone though, and may not be for you even. Just putting it out there for those looking for a cheap saml identity provider.
You have day-ahead pricing at home? Please tell me how
If you sort the wheat from the chaff, I think there's still a valid issue there. It's just being wrapped in divisive crap as is the trend.

In Ireland we had a brief period where the difference between tax on personal and commercial vehicles was significant enough that it paid off to register yourself as an LLC/sole-trader and get a pick-up. That loophole was swiftly plugged.

This genuinely sounds extremely similar - the loophole is more attractive than the incentive.
And in reality, the "safety" they give isn't really that safe. The real feature is the ability to call the cops if you are in the car by yourself and passed out. That's it. If you can hit the button yourself, you can probably find your phone. If you never need it, then you never need it. And it's overpriced and monthly subscription at its finest. If it were at cost, I would go for it, because it does increase safety. But for what they sell as safety, it's not worth it. It probably matters for <1% of people. But they shove it down everyone's throat.
Maybe at least increasing energy costs will force people and companies to ditch Electron-based "programs" (or Java/NodeJS in case of servers). Native is much more energy efficient by definition.
> If you replace the denial of caste discrimination with the denial of the Holocaust or something like that, it instantly clicks where other people start to realize, “Oh, something’s wrong if people are denying this.”

Seems a bit extreme. Even questioning whether caste discrimination in the US or Google is a large problem is enough to get you lumped into Holocaust denial territory.

> People can absolutely discriminate based on caste by essentially denying it and not wanting to learn about it.

What makes discrimination bad is the arbitrary nature. If you don't know the arbitrary classifications of groups, and you're making decisions on something tangible that presumably affects the person's skill set, then is it discrimination if it correlates with some arbitrary distinction you're not aware of?
Most of the tricks in the demo should work unmodified (or could be made to work) on most CGA implementations of the era. Some clones had slightly different font ROMs so it would look a little bit wrong on those. The final lake effect (and the ripply picture shortly before it) use very tight cycle counting so probably won't work on anything except a genuine IBM PC/XT and CGA. Some effects (like the radial fire effect and the voxel landscape) should work on just about anything. The Amstrad PC1512 will have trouble with any effect that modifies the CRTC timing registers as it doesn't have a fully programmable CRTC and always generates a 15.7kHz/59.92Hz 640x200 image. I don't have personal experience with the Tandy 1000 and don't know how compatible it is off the top of my head.
You sound quite confident for someone lacking data.
> You’ll be happy to know that pickups are actually more dangerous for their driver. Mostly because they’re more likely to spin out or roll over.

Just a consideration: Would integrating 5-point harnesses and an rollover cage into these trucks help to mitigate this problem? (I am of course aware that the latter would make to truck even heavier)
And as long as I trust it, i still get dates on Tinder.
In sf electricity is closer to 4x that rate.
> I asked her why, and she said that the role
that requires a lot of organization and time
management, and "you can tell a lot about
a person from the way their room looks."

This made me wonder: when you chat with a colleague over VC, how much does their room's state influence your impression of your colleague?
Asp.net Forms and WinForms are much much much better rapid development tools than the kinds of bubble/retool etc. The issue is that lots of very young people have very limited set knowledge about the choices available to them.
If you pointed to that actual data, you would sound less like a putin bot.
'Literally nothing' is of course hyperbole, but I'd like to point out that there are remediations short of removing and landfilling the topsoil available.

Much as crops can be planted to enrich the soil with nitrogen, arsenic hyperaccumulators can pull arsenic out of the soil: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5513893/

As I understand it, strategies for lead involve binding it into a mineral form with very low water solubility, such that plants won't accumulate it in the first place, it's not hard to find permaculture folks who will talk your ear off all day about this stuff.
It isn't literally true that it never goes away, or you would be right that the eggs couldn't have lead in them, but my understanding is the amount removed by chickens is pretty minimal as a fraction of what's there
You can get ex-military vehicles surprisingly cheap.

The 5 MPG hurts a bit after awhile, however.
I'm pretty sure the modern world has a Caste problem - Meritocracy and castes just don't go together and it's pretty obvious to me which of those two I'd prefer for myself.
My truck doesn’t drive near pedestrian areas. A smaller truck cannot trailer my work loads or toys. My modern diesel with high-tech emissions systems intact gets 20+ mpg unloaded.

Perhaps some of you remember trucks of the 80s. Not much has changed dimensionally, without safety improvements. Those did ~8-10 mpg unloaded while making 25% of the power with half the tow rating of a recent truck and none of the modern safety features for collision avoidance, blind spot monitoring, etc. The armchair distortion is real here. Please visit the numbers before making blanket anecdotes—the manufacturer websites have good uptime for their brochures. :)
Overall, I think between the article and the comments, we cover a lot of the reasons (plural) and I think it's a combination of many of them.

People want a vehicle that works for every (edge) use case they have, even if they forget that usage only comes around once every third year. The bed has to be big enough for plywood, the cab has to fit six adults comfortably, and so on. SUVs are popular for this reason. And beds are getting left behind because it really is an edge case for most to need a long truck bed, while having family ride in the crew cab is at least kind of common. Not to mention, having a crew cab and then a long bed makes for a truck so long, it's really kind of a pain to maneuver it. (Source: Briefly owned a "smaller" double cab Silverado with a 6' 6" (198 cm) bed and it was already ridiculously long.)

It's amazing truck rental hadn't become a bigger business, while everyone gravitated towards nimble, fuel efficient cars, but there has to be a reason for that not happening, and I don't think it's fuel regulations. Among other things, there's an addiction to convenience. Everyone insists that the vehicle in their driveway covers every possible use, instead of the daily uses only, because there's a 20 minute round trip in having to go pick up a rental vehicle for special cases.

All of this is interesting to me, as GMC will reveal the bigger 2023 Canyon later this morning. (You can look at the 2023 Chevrolet Colorado[0] now for a good preview. And for those unfamiliar, it's a "mid-sized" or smaller line of trucks, like the Toyota Tacoma.) The redesign is basically the Silverado/Sierra from 5 years ago and they've eliminated all but one configuration - crew cab and 5' 2" (157.5 cm) bed. No more regular cab, no "long"/standard box. In the car world, the most popular configuration has the best profit margin, so slowly any variations get eliminated by bean counters until only the very middle of the bell curve is left.

EDIT: Also wanted to add that these smaller trucks are much less popular than the larger versions. One reason is the obsession with specifications and capability and features. A lot of times the price difference between smaller and larger is small when you consider extra payload and towing (that only one in ten buyers actually needs), or that features X, Y and Z are included on the larger model but left out on the smaller. Gas mileage is also shockingly similar between the sizes. But in the end, I think too many people buying trucks look around, see that everyone else has full-size, and justify it for themselves, when almost everyone would've gotten their needs met with the smaller options.

[0] https://www.chevrolet.com/upcoming-vehicles/2023-colorado
Maybe take a break from the conspiracy theory blogs?

You have everything here so completely backwards it's going to be tricky to unwind. Meat production has been massively subsidized in America for decades, resulting in terrible outcomes in every way- massive emissions contributing to climate change, polluted rivers and lakes, antibiotic resistant bacteria development, obesity, heart disease, colon cancer. As people have become aware of all these negatives, more people are choosing to eat less meat. There have been no meaningful regulatory changes to feed crops, although the world would surely be a better place if some of the existing subsidies were removed.

The meat industry has long relied on (often illegal) immigrants to work in butchering and meat packing plants, under unsafe conditions for low pay. Covid and increased border patrolling have disrupted this labor supply, making them cut back even further on safety, resulting in a couple plants experiencing predictable problems from years of cutting-corners.

Finally, Americans drastically overestimate their need for protein, due to decades of marketing campaigns, going back to steroid-injecting bodybuilders & athletes claiming that their muscles were due to "eating protein" because they couldn't publicly admit it was due to injecting anabolic drugs.
The Speakeasy Economy of WeChat
> you’re not ingesting the soil.

You don't have kids, do you?
Gitlab in particular very much marketed their expansive free tier as an alternative to GitHub, and very much targeted Open Source projects migrating to them.

This is why I only use Open Source, because if the SaaS company decides to change their pricing structure, I can always move to a different host or host it myself. Hence, I only ever used features on Gitlab that were in their Open Source core product. And why I am looking for an alternative that offers some of the features Gitlab has locked behind their proprietary offering.
You quote sources but you don't seem to use their numbers: US billionaires have 4.18T (not 1.3), divided over 300M gives 14k per person (not 0.5k). You were off by a factor of 28.

14k per person is actually a years worth of minimum wage (7.25x40x50).

The average US household is 2.6 ppl, so that would give 36k per household (you know, kids). That is serious money to a lot of people. Another way

On top of that, if you include the people worth 100M+ into the pie, the total amount of money goes up a lot, as there are so many more of them.

Nevertheless, I agree with your conclusion, just the sheer money they have that others don't is not the problem.
No, it's a large assumption that users want to open a link in an in-app browser. Why would they? On the other hand, there are clear motives for the app to keep users in the app as much as possible. Because the in-app browser in general is a degraded experience, for example being logged out of habitual websites, the user won't navigate the web as usual, and will soon return to the app. It's nothing but a dark pattern.
One anecdote does not cancel another. My response would be: consider yourself lucky. It was an issue in my career, many times.
The info is dated now, but unfortunately NDAs don't expire.
I had three readers from Sony (until they exited the business) and one from B&N (until they exited the business), because I didn't want to deal with conversion. Of these still in the business, Amazon looks the least-like to exit soon, and now there's no need to deal with conversion.

As most of the books I read are out of copyright anyway, I'm not "encumbering" myself with Amazon in any way, except for buying hardware they made.
The issue is not so much a one-time cash grab, it's that with that concentration of wealth comes a concentration of power that distorts society.

Put another way, the primary goal is not to give more money to everybody else, it's to take it away from the few who are abusing the rest of us. It could be set on fire and that would still be a benefit! That would be deflationary and reduce the ability of those people to have an outsized effect on society.

BTW, you seem to have misread the site you linked. It says that billionaire wealth grew by $1.3T in 11 months, not that they have $1.3T. It's literally in the first box on the page: "The total wealth of U.S. billionaires grew by $1.3 trillion during the roughly first eleven months of the coronavirus pandemic -- a 44% spike in wealth. This increase in wealth is more than it would cost to send a stimulus check of $3,900 to every one of the roughly 330 million people in America." So that would be a one-time $3,900 check to everyone just for 2020.

The second box says "The total wealth of U.S. billionaires grew from $240 billion in 1990 (adjusted for inflation) to $4.18 trillion in March 2021." So you're off by quite a bit, and seem to have misread your source site consistently.
One of the big differences between pickups like the F-150 of the mid 2000's and now, is almost every truck now is a 4-door. Back then, they were 'extended cab' trucks with a very, very small bench in the back. And then for a few years (up till around 2006 or 07, they were uncommon, but had a small set of doors for the back seat (sometimes opening backwards so there was no pillar between, giving more room to climb in)
Dumb question: is replacing the soil not an option? Too expensive? But surely that's amortized quickly over the term you use the garden? Or maybe you can't fully replace it because the soil is permeable and the lead comes from somewhere else (lower in the ground, rain, etc.)?
You'd be making a good argument if people anywhere else had been doing the things he's succeeded at. You really seem to be torqued that he wasn't perfect.
This lines up with my experience, I use ~2/3€ per year per watt
If I opened a pizza shop and gave free slices away to promote it - people would not expect to get free pizza for life. I have no idea why people act so different on the internet.
Your original statement was that carbon dioxide stays for thousands of years, methane goes away after twenty.

So the fact that "going away" in this context means "is replaced by carbon dioxide, which stays for thousands of years" seems a rather important part of the total warming potential of the two greenhouse gasses.
> but this will not change the outcome.

I mean, if the history of the USA between the years of 2001 and 2021 are any indication, small countries inflicting pain on much larger and better equipped armies is absolutely enough to change an outcome.
And ironically, USA does not get the Toyota Hilux, which the rest of the world loves.
> In 2020, the Trump administration eased what the then-president described as the "failed" emissions rule, citing among other considerations safety.

So... are trucks going to get smaller again now? Is there going to be an improvement to safety, or emissions, because of this change?
Francis Bacon used to take polaroids and bend/tear/burn them as photo reference - I imagine if he was born 40 years later he might have taken a similar path in glitching out images like this. I like it!
The study isn't saying that this is a reason to avoid eggs in general, they're saying this is a reason to consider stopping eating eggs from urban backyard chickens.
Yeah you're right, maybe closer to .15 or .2; the F-150 weights between 2 and 2.5 metric tons depending on configuration, and seats only 5.

The Yukon SUV that Arnold Schwarzenegger drives weights over 2.7 metric tons (6k pounds).

The Tesla truck is announced to pass the 8,500 pounds mark, or around 3.8 metric tons (!!)
Do they? Or do they arrive due to denial of opportunity for equally or greater hard working folks?
Well, let's play that game. 0.22€/kWh. So a 1kW server costs almost €2000/year. If you write Python vs. Go, the performance increase can be 10 fold, so you'd save €1800/yr. So when you're running 55 Python servers, you could earn 1 dev by rewriting (assuming €100k/yr, all in).

Not to upset anyone: there are a lot of assumptions. It's just ballpark numbers. There's a large difference between Python v. Go for tensorflow and as a Django backend.
On star and subscription services has been available for my whole life (35 years).

But there have always been alternatives without subscription services available. What would cause a change for alternatives to stop being available?
>both drive the biggest trucks that they could find because they saw that people in large trucks tended to be fare better in accidents.

People don't generally consider that the bigger cars are more likely to be in accidents in the first place even if they come out of it better. Ireland would have much smaller cars than the US but much better traffic record.

So bigger == safer -- isn't giving a nuanced story or understanding. For sure though bigger == less fuel efficient.
The average weight of a mid-sized sedan is about 1,500kg, and the average weight of all American cars is closer to 1,900kg. A 4-seater close to 1,000kg is exceptionally light by modern standards. The Mazda MX-5 is a 2-seater which is famous for being lightweight, and it also weighs a few kg above a ton.

Also going off maximum human capacity isn't great in context, as the average car journey has <1.5 occupants. Not to mention if this was codified, car manufacturers would simply put folding seats in the trunk.
I wonder if we get new small manufacturers shops that build dumb vehicles.
Like how Apple ruined the MacBook Pro from 2016-2020 (butterfly keyboard, loss of ports, loss of magsafe) and I was holding on desperately to the 2015 model until they gathered their wits again.
This is equivalent to raising the MSRP by $1500 and including 3 years of a free OnStar subscription with every purchase. Viewed in that light, what's so bad about this?

It's bad because it's duplicitous. GM advertises an SUV for $50k when it's really $51.5k.

IMO, mandatory costs (tax, regulatory, or otherwise) should always be included in the normal retail price (or fee if we're talking subscription services).
Then like with git, couldn't you cryptographically sign ipfs urls to have a public-trust guarantee of provenance? Either GPG signed or perhaps a CA?
Caste is not a protected class in US employment law. Arguably there might be a basis for a suit if you could show that it reasonably projects onto an existing protected class, but it's not clear to me that you could.
It has been a perennial dream for six decades. The creators of Cobol and Fortran thought that was what they were producing! (Not literally no-code, but the notion that computing by non-specialists would result from putting assembler and other hardware-oriented knowledge under the covers.) After that, there were several waves of hype and disillusionment, though that seems to have dampened down in the 21st century.

Spreadsheet programs are arguably the closest we got up to now, and that was a long time ago.