skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's hope not, or hope that at least some regulations can be put in place to fix that if it does happen.

Let's be clear what you're suggesting here: universities that are doing well on their current tuition, and would still be making the same money in the case of government subsidies, would spike their tuition costs by $10,000+ / year just for extra profit "because they can", despite not needing to, and screwing over everyone in the process.

I'm not saying it won't happen, I'm just saying that paints a dark picture of humanity and its almost certainly doomed future if it does and isn't corralled.

(BTW, I wonder how the European countries that offer socialized university have countered that effect?)
It's only a ban of new cars. There will still be ~20 years of 2nd hand gasoline cars available for rural areas.
> thing not something fundamental to the language.

It is fundamental to the language. The evaluation order is from,where,group by, having, select, order by, limit.

Everything in perfect order is, select except.
Gathering all the styrofoam is a problem. However, cardboard doesn't fit all the roles that styrofoam fills (in particular insulation).

There's certainly a need to use the most recyclable solution (rather than cheapest) of the practical options. It is also important to remember that not all recyclable solutions are practical.

For packing fill and protection, switching from styrofoam to cardboard increases its carbon footprint because of the increased weight of the cardboard needed for packaging.

https://theecobahn.com/packaging/plastic-vs-cardboard-packag...

Having better recycling with plastic products can mean reduced shipping footprint, reduced water usage (recycling paper products is water intensive) and a reduced demand for wood pulp meaning that planted trees can capture more carbon before they're needed as a resource.

Our current use of plastics (lack of recycling options leading to disposal in landfill) is not something that is sustainable but going with solutions like corrugated cardboard can hide other costs.
If it starts at zero we should call it an "offset"

That would fix so many of these discussions.
A 1TB SSD is like $50. I put one in a small USB-C M.2 case and use it as a flash drive.

I’m pretty sure hardware costs will always be a rounding error compared to the $50k that “home stakers” need if they want to run their own validator.
I don't think it is likely - but I wouldn't rule out that Spotify is behind this.

Spotify has collected user "skip data". That is a massive dataset. They have research to try to train AI to generate audio that humans are less likely to skip.

These results seem a bit more midi based, and I would assume that the models they generate would work on raw audio, so doesn't seem like a perfect fit.

Though, in general, it must be tempting for Spotify researchers to test their creations on their customers.

(Note: I do not believe it is ethical to collect skip data, or any data from customers and use it to train AI without a very steep OPT-IN process. Burying some legal disclaimers in wall of signup jargon is a terrible practice.)
>also most gov't regulations should be illegal and we should have a severe reigning in of government in these cases

When will people learn that the existence of bad regulation does not mean all regulation is bad? The answer to bad regulation is good regulation and not no regulation. Just look at the crypto industry. A lot of momentum for crypto came out of frustration with the bad regulation which helped cause the 2008 financial crisis. Fast forward a decade plus and we now we have come to accept that scams and incompetence that are much more malicious and severe are a regular part of that industry because no one wanted any regulation. Is that a win for the general public?
This article is about a huge in-kind political donation under the guise of "combatting misinformation" which will be "anything that goes against the political narrative".
The IRA kinda ruined the AFRPC because it's now only 30% if you're in an eligible jurisdiction (ie, low-income area). Otherwise, you get 6%.
The mechanism of damage is different. The faulty disks aren't vibrating the drive to death, the drive is head-banging[0]. Iomega cost-reduced the drives to a fault; removing a tiny piece of foam that is there specifically so that head-banging doesn't damage the drive head.

Head-banging is an intentional feature on disk drives[1] to correct for read errors and get back to a known good state; so a corrupted disk would cause it to head-bang every time you tried to read from it. And since there was no cushioning on the drive rails each head-bang would misalign the drive... making it corrupt more disks!

I'm not sure what the record player equivalent to this would even be. A very heavy stylus could damage the disc and carve into it, but there's no way you could have a disc permanently change the tracking weight of that stylus.

[0] When a disk drive intentionally crashes its head against a mechanical limit to ensure position of that head in lieu of having an actual sensor

[1] The most egregious case being the Apple ]['s 5 1/2" drives, which intentionally do this on every power-up.
I requested that feature for Windows RDP client over 2 years ago to no avail. Sort of surprising they made it work like this on Mac, but not on Windows.
except if you remove zoning regulations, you no longer get to pick what stores get built or businesses move in...thats is the whole point. Maybe you would love a small boutique coffee-shop, but what if a strip joint that is open to 4AM moves in instead? Still OK with that? not if you are raising a family and care about the value of your home and safety of your neighborhood.
tbh if we want some competition to google we should support bing
I kinda always thought Zip was a kludge technology, and I thought I was way cooler because I used magneto-optical instead. (I kinda still do, because those discs are still working, 937 years later.)
To be successful a language still has to be approachable to most dev. I just hope you are not conflating PLT with Functional. Look what functionalist did to Scala... It had an interesting balance and they destroyed it.
I must say in this case Google does it right: https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/reference/standard-sql...

In Google standard SQL, to access an array it is simply not allowed to put a number inside square brackets. You must specify which way you mean. So `SELECT some_numbers[OFFSET(1)], some_numbers[ORDINAL(1)]` is allowed but not `SELECT some_numbers[1]`.
Credit card debt can be for anything. Student loans are only for education. No one's trying to subsidize your new car, only something that's important to society.
Apple has hundreds of millions of wealthy customers. Debian does not.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32513240
I could care less about the terminology people use, but I feel like all your examples would point to the intuitive meaning that "open source" implies.

An open door implies you can see what's behind the door, as opposed to a closed door. An open book implies you can see what's inside a book, as opposed to a closed book. Likewise, open source implies that you can see inside the source code, as opposed to closed source.

So I think the claim that it has no obvious literal meaning is a bit hyperbolic, but I get where your thinking, since most developers automatically associate "open source" with "free code".
Probably public/administrative law. I actually enjoyed a lot of the more notoriously boring subjects like company law but administrative law was intolerably dry.

I never studied it in an academic setting, but to this day when I have to read a data protection clause my eyes glaze over after a couple of lines.
The Patterson Building at Acadia University in Wolfville, NS, has a basement and four floors. The rooms on the first floor are numbered 1XX, second floor 2XX, etc. up to the top floor 4XX.

The elevator, however, goes from floor '1' (the basement), to floor '5' (the top or fourth floor).

This really confuses visitors.

The Elevator Mafia want $10,000 to fix it.
>>Factories require a lot of space. They don't like to build them on expensive residential plots.

Not all factories require a lot of space, and not all residential plots are expensive.
Halleluiah?
Got me interested to find the Apollo landing site.

Someone circled it here https://i.imgur.com/DDy794h.png and then I zoomed around to find it in Google Moon:

https://www.google.com/maps/space/moon/@0.6714676,23.4736245...

Amazing
In engineering speak, what he means is increased grid efficiency, which can happen simultaneously with increased demand and increased cost.

But all that does is shift the inefficiencies off of the grid. It's redefining the system boundary in a politically/ marketing friendly way, but doesn't eliminate the problem of storage/buffer capacity.

Anyone who thinks the grid can approach steady-state operations near capacity hasn't seriously looked at demand patterns, and that's before complicating things by trying to accommodate the transportation needs of replacing gas/diesel.

It's the equivalent of claiming traffic problems can be solved by staggering when people work instead of doing road improvements.
The bicycle is certainly responsible for the invention of the airplane.

(The 1903 Wright Flyer was built out of bicycle parts.)
Yes, all are far less fragile than such worldwide grid: takes logistics, anything can go wrong but there are few hotspots and in any case we have buffers here and there, a total disruption it's hard, actual "crisis" clearly show it. We have big airports. If one goes totally out of service planes can choose some else and passengers with issue can continue their journey etc.

On contrary a global-scale electricity grid means a global scale blackouts with global scale cascading effects. Something we have already seen at far smaller scales and already devastating effects.

Anything can fail, but if the fail impact few it's far less big than something who impact all. Also if you have buffers you can have a bit of time, even short, to act, to reduce the impact. If you have nothing because you are actually powered by some farms in Uzbekistan thousand of miles away than you are completely TFU.

Just as a sidenote: I've invested in a new (witch means well insulated) home, with p.v., a little lithium storage to survive a single night etc just to ensure I still have energy in case of disruption. So far it already worked few times, and curiously such times are more and more frequent, partially due to explicit political choices partially due to natural events, partially because we push renewables up and still have nothing to compensate energy (frequency) fluctuation they provoke in the national grid. Now instead of try solving this issue witch is VERY BIG especially if you live a bit at north (winter) or at south (aircon needs) some propose some megaprojects fully know that ALL recent megaprojects fails all over the world, and in general ANY big-enough project fail at a rate proportional of it's size and complexity. What's the outcome? Personally I'm protected, at a high price, others simply get worse and worse services and no backups. Also without any proof that we can reach a stable future and that the actual tech is less pollutant at global scale than even classic fossil (actually p.v. and battery shift pollution in exotic place, but do not reduce it at global scale)...

Oh, just to be clear I'm from the EU, nephew of a WWII Partisan's family, so definitively not something like "proud boys" people.
It's a blockchain, not a blockbag.
> CRDTs

Wrong level of abstraction. This is clearly a lower level course than that and discusses more fundamental ideas.

A quickie look through chapter 6 reminds me of CRDTs, at least the vector clock concept. Other bits from other parts of this course probably need to be combined into what would be called a CRDT.
Is there a direct, inverse relationship between per-capita economic productivity, and fertility rate?

It seems intuitive to me: a major way per-capita economic productivity goes up is by working more hours, both at school, and in the workplace. Since you're competing with other max-hours workers for stuff like housing, the price rises to match. Soon, you're in a situation where there's no space in the average budget/apartment for kids.

Widespread misallocation of human resources (i.e. unemployment, part-employment, etc) would presumably drive in the opposite direction.
the most amazing part about EPB is they have absolutely phenomenal customer service. it really is surprising.
JMAP is not JavaScript embedded in email. Are you thinking of something else?
Climate change: six billion people may suffer from water scarcity
That's probably a severity thing. Turning collisions will almost always destroy the bike, injure the rider, and result in a police report. Sideswipe accidents will cause a minor bike crash, maybe a bit of damage and some cuts and scrapes, and the cyclist goes about his day, pissed off, but with no official report.
What I'd call an actuarial approach. It's tricky, though, because it can be interpreted as discrimination.

For example, here in the UK young women used to get cheaper car insurance than young men, but this was outlawed – https://www.choose.co.uk/news/women-car-insurance-costs-to-s... (and in an amazing display of transparency, the head of a major insurer said: "As an insurer, I'm pleased. We will raise rates for young women: we won't bring them down much for young men. That means more profit").
And we did all this during (official) peace time?
Just install a custom rom from some random XDA post, it will be just as secure as running an ancient OS
The same here. I use it with the wife, and we even use it for her mother’s shop. Worked great, except for the need of having an smtp server for available to sent email from services ( calendar notification, error, printer message, nas update…)

Still, love Hey. Expensive, but so good.
No one who knew how movie licensing work with the various release windows thought that was possible.

It worked with DVDs because of the first sale doctrine.
Can I use this to with an AMD APU, like the graphics on a Ryzen ?
I want to use Fly, not Heroku. But Fly just doesn't seem to live up to my expectations right now :(

I understand that you believe your competitive advantages stem from the edge server deployments. Sure that may be true for certain serverless and HTML-over-the-wire workloads like Phoenix, but if you actually talk to your customers, a significant number of us want a Heroku replacement, not just fancy docker-at-edge.
14%, even just 4%, is a lot, can be enough to decide an election. Often the parties are close to 50% each.

In addition to that, the manipulators / nation states don't attack only via Twitter, and, everything combined ...
It's already regularly used for soda, which is a good deal more acidic than yogurt. The cans are all coated in plastic.
I fear I agree with you.

Grossly, south korean couples each makes 1 child. So its population is going 1/2. To correct that and return to previous level, every couple formed among those children would have to bear 4 children.

I think they won't and it looks grim.
>the Government would use it to pay off political supporters

Heh.
True except every regulation is good for someone.
By the one metric that matters: how much do homes cost?
Sure thing! Want to dm me on Twitter? https://twitter.com/BartProost DMs are open
So weird hearing about how amazing this speed is for a convention center when I have 25Gbps at home and mainly just use it to download movies and anime from Usenet.
You're very kind calling it "hesitancy", too! I know that's the soft euphemism that the media has coalesced around, but "hesitancy" implies that one is on the fence, unsure, open to debate and open to being convinced. That's not what America is exporting.

America's Anti-Vax movement is religiously sure of itself. They aren't on the fence. They're not weighing the pros and cons. They're convinced that they know the secret capital-T Truth, and that spreading their gospel saves lives. COVID brought it mainstream, but if you look back at the "Anti-vax Moms groups" long before COVID, there was still no hesitancy. Their minds were also made up.
Is chart of accounts usually a flat structure, or can it look more like a tree? I'm thinking of grouping similiar accounts together to see what's the balance on single ones vs the group.
Thunderbird once had a chat extension that worked great. It supported the big protocols - including Yahoo, AOL, XXMP, MS Messenger, and IRC I believe and a whole slew of lesser known protocols. I had to stop using it when the world embraced Skype and everyone moved there, probably around 2006 or so I think.

Today, most chat protocols have the same flaw as Skype: hostility towards third party clients.
Firefox is generally much slower in WebGL rendering, than Chromium.
> What it is analogous to is getting "stranded after driving around barricades to enter a flooded stretch of roadway"

Kind of? But in this case somehow the driver is driving a bus, or their car is pulling other cars in due to gravity, or something? A motorist who ends up on a flooded motorway endangers themselves and some first responders - which yes, is dumb, but after that initial ripple it doesn't continue to propagate the problem to other people. You can't spread car stranding.
There is a lot of semiconductor investment going on right now. My employer is pledging $300B of investment in the next decade, with $40B here in the US. I would expect other companies are doing the same, especially as the EU and the US look to bolster semiconductor manufacturing through subsidization.
What's in that version?
As a kid, I saw these things often on multiple-choice test sheets. The tens digit at the end of each row not matching that at the beginning always seemed awkward, and I wondered why they didn't just start at zero. This was long before I did any programming.

The first year CE being "1" resulting in the new millennium starting at 2001 instead of 2000 also seemed idiotic, and the 1900s being referred to as "the 20th century" was something I always had to consciously compensate for. Numbering items starting at zero would have given us more elegant/less confusing ways to communicate those things.

Zero-based indexing makes things inherently simpler because it matches the way we write numbers (and becomes much more noticeable once you have more than one digit). It's not just an optimization for computers.
If your arrays start at 0, you have offsets.

If your arrays start at 1, you have indexes.

"0-indexed" shouldn't be a thing. I like the screenshot quote that refers to this as either "1-origin" or "0-origin".
It's the repair manual for the entire machine, not just the battery.
Is anyone teaching "Practice of boring Distributed Systems 101 for dummies on a budget with a tight schedule" ?

As in, "we have a PHP monolith used by all of 12 people in the accounting department, and for some reason we've been tasked with making it run on multiple machines ("for redundancy" or something) by next month.

The original developpers left to start a Bitcoin scam.

Some exec read about the "cloud", but we'll probably get just enough budget to buy a coffee to an AWS salesman.

Don't even dream of hiring a "DevOps" to deploy a kubernetes cluster to orchestrate anything. Don't dream of hiring anyone, actually. Or, paying anything, for that matter.

You had one machine ; here is a second machine. That's a 100% increase in your budget, now go get us some value with that !

And don't come back in three months to ask for another budget to 'upgrade'."

Where would someone start ?

(EDIT: To clarify, this is a tongue in cheek hyperbole scenario, not a cry for immediate help. Thanks to all who offered help ;)

Yet, I'm curious about any resource on how to attack such problems, because I can only find material on how to handle large scale multi million users high availability stuff.)
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> Surrogacy will be the next big thing. Women in poorer countries will birth the children for wealthier nations.

So you think women in poorer countries are willing to "pre-sell" their children? That's insanely absurd, and an absolute human rights violation if forced. No. This will not happen.
It's not particularly safe for cyclists to stop on reds, and not particularly unsafe for them to cross during a red light with no cross traffic. This is part of the reason that "Idaho Stop" laws are gaining traction.
> somebody's going need to turn you on your side every few hours when you're in that old folks home - what happens if there aren't enough people to do those jobs?

Obviously we will have robots doing that job! Elder care is already a major area of robotics effort in Japan.

And if the robots don't get there? Well, it's not terrible. A smaller population doesn't need as many buildings erected, or crops grown etc. Some people can move in from other countries. I'm confident it will all work out.
In something like Java this could have been solved with method overloading, e.g:

ActionWithPayloadAndError createAction(String, Payload, Error)

If I understand correctly, overloading doesn’t exist in TS.
>>Student loans are only for education.

Nice try, but not true - you get the loan, you can do what you want with it as long as you stay in school...rent, spring break vacations, food, entertainment etc. none of that has anything to do specifically with education.
I always figure it was more because it was intended to challenge C as the "on the bare metal" language, eith the intent unpredictable code "flakes off" if you stick to the safe subset.

The plethora of chemistry puns then just sort of came along naturally. No clue on the crab though, unless it was a tongue in cheek reference to the phenomena by which things are said to inevitably evolutionarily converge toward crab, and that being a loose metaphor for the tendency of rust devs to implement X, but in Rust.
The claim is based on a budget model https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2022/8/23/forgi... but the numbers are based on 10 years. I tried reading up on the executive order but I think it's only 1 time (this year/now?), not over 10 years. Also, if it was over 10 years then the cost per taxpayer would be $200/year (most people think of tax as annual payment).

So basically, this is written to convince people who don't want to look closely at the assumptions.
You have no authority over someone else's body. It sucks, but it's reality.

Education is hard. Deradicalization is even harder. But it's something we need to learn how to do again as a society.

Some of the vaccine conspiracy theories are truly insane, but medical patriarchy is not the answer.
In the US (at least for now) the angle grinder crews are mostly limited to nights when they can steal a lot of bikes a once and chuck them into a truck/van (ex: bike racks near student housing in college towns).

But the exception is always high-value bikes. That's why I called out bikes that aren't "obviously worth a grand+". If you leave out a nice eBike or a superlight road bike, the thieves have solid financial motivation to risk breaking out the cordless grinder and making a ruckus to steal it. Hell, sometimes thieves would straight up wait for people to come back to their bikes after brunch or whatever and mug them for it after they unlocked it in Albuquerque. No tools needed other than a knife.
Not everyone who uses Debian also was the same person who installed it.

There are a few people (like me) who are crazy enough to give Linux desktop systems to real end users. Although I suppose I could just set their search engines for them, but that's just a pain.