skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they can't go to war with us without loosing their economy

Have those people ever looked at how much wars cost? We are talking about creating cities from scratch to support the war effort amounts of cash. Hundreds of thousands of able bodied workers, stuck walking the countryside instead of working impact. We are talking about entire industries repurposed to produce war time supplies. Countries have been willing to fuck over their economies a lot harder to support their war machines than anything the EU could ever hope to do to the Russian economy.
Your logic doesn’t make sense to me. Pre-digital, a book could just be shared with a friend one at a time (unless you wanted to xerox the whole thing which I’ve seen but it’s always low quality).

Pirate Bay does that at scale—millions of “friends”, and all at the same quality. It’s unsustainable to authors. Don’t tell the authors to find “a new framework”.

What do you expect them to do? Force users to sign up for a weekly subscription and email out individually DRMed copies of the chapters each week?

Unless you can actually propose a good idea with the mechanics of why it works for both parties in economic terms, don’t go around shaming the authors.
Boeing to pay SEC $200M to settle charges it misled investors over 737 Max
>"Libraries are [a] part of a balancing act between spreading knowledge and keeping incentives for writing books high enough that people actually do it."

Not convinced.
Writing a book is more than writing down information, it’s collecting, organizing, and refining presentation to be maximally understandable.

That will just not happen outside of the rare scholarly altruist.
Some girl was killed because she lacked enough haircover. Just reading this makes it seem so utterly insane. A living, breathing, person was killed for a piece of cloth. Shame on anyone who defends it in any way, and shame on a culture that thinks it is okay.
In my experience, we had an Oracle instance. It was really expensive. So I started to search for alternatives.
The most similar free alternative was Postgres.
MySQL got "disqualified" because was not real ACID. I'm talking 2010 or so... I'm not sure the current status. But take a look at it. ACID properties were very important, and for the kind of work we were doing, absolutely critical.
Merriam-Webster gives a definition
"vague speculation : a belief without sound basis"
Great writeup. I've noticed the same thing by recording simultaneously with the watch workout app and strava on my iphone. The watch always says pace is slower.
That’s not the whole story. EDF is a very competent company which have everything needed to provide cheap electricity to the whole country while making money.

The point is (and I think it’s a scandal) that EDF is forced, by law, to resell its nuclear electricity to its competitors at an under the market price.

EDF is also required to offer an electricity plan with a law fixed price. Which is a good thing because historically, it allowed end users not to suffer from market price fluctuations.

Now what is happening is that all those fake competitors that did resell EDF electricity cheaper than EDF offerings, took their margin for more than a decade and are now asking their customer to unsubscribe and to go back to the EDF fixed-by-law offer.
Must be.
A bit of Googling suggests that Switzerland doesn't have a beef industry. Steak costs more in Switzerland than pretty much anywhere else in the world, as it has to be imported (no local industry), and the tariffs on it are also very high.

Of course, they have cows, for milk, for the cheese industry that they do have. But raising dairy cattle has only a fraction of the impact that beef cattle do (as you're not constantly slaughtering them and feeding up new ones.)
> the Caledonian Sleeper has to be one of the railway highlights of the UK

ahh, I've really wanted to like it, but I've found it exceptionally uncomfortable each time I've used it, and also very expensive. I much prefer the sleeper trains in Thailand

> Train travel in the UK can be highly scenic

The UK really is very pretty. It's easy to forget when in countries with blockbuster scenery, but British countryside really is a joy to look at.

EDIT: one day I'd like this to be an overnight Zeppelin route, but it's never going to happen
I would have preferred that. I bought mine from a scalper with a third of the warranty gone before it was out of the box. Would have preferred to get it from Sony.
i was born and raised in Kazakhstan, but left after high school. i've been following the situation in Kazakhstan and recent events give me a glimpse of hope.

Kazakhstan, just like any other post-soviet country, suffers from a host of problems inherited from the USSR, such as.

- corruption

- inefficient political system

- erased identity

- soviet mentality

in addition, our geopolitics is quite challenging. not only do we border 2 major powers that often in disputes over territories (Russia and China), but we're also a landlocked country heavily relying on the very same neighbours for exports. i'm not even talking about our water insecurity.

but we also got lucky in some ways.

- Kazakhstan is blessed with natural resources (such as oil), which helped us a lot throughout the early 2000s

- fertility rate is above replacement (2.6-2.9)

- we have direct access to some of the biggest markets (Russia, China)

- our borders were not chopped up to plant disputes with neighbours

in theory, if we play our cards right, we could come out on top. our population is around 19 million, so agriculture, mining and services alone should be enough to provide jobs. Kazakhstan is already moving in the right direction to facilitate business development (ranks 25 for easy doing business [1])

i've been following the youth of Kazakhstan and have to admit that they are way more patriotic and optimistic than my generation. they're fluent in Kazakh, open minded and more politically savvy. our culture is also flourishing (Kazakh songs consistently accumulate more views on youtube than the population of the country) and our national identity is strengthening.

i see there is some criticism over Tokayev's proposals and it's easy to be skeptical after 30 years of a repressive regime. however, i still dare to hope. prosperity is doable and we simply need a better government with a fair justice system and distributed power. if the government manages to stay away from people's business and just provide a solid platform for stable life, i think we can go far. this aligns with the "Just and Fair Kazakhstan" plan proposed by the president and i'm happy to see it.

1. https://archive.doingbusiness.org/en/rankings
Definitely still better than code I've seen in production.
I would probably reply to your statements (that you believe are true), but first you have to learn how to be nice :) Plus, not only your communication is broken, but also your ability to make your way to final and correct conclusions. But don't worry, it's a common thing today, you're definitely not unique here
That seems like an overly pessimistic valance to bring to the hypothetical conversation about the factual possibilities which obviously include fictitious disorder, somatization, or, yes perhaps but not necessarily, malingering.
That's much better than most states. With the typical big corp employment agreement in NY the only safe way to start your own project is to quit.
It was a thought experiment. I agree, instead of disallowing purchases altogether, lowering the threshold might be good enough. There is already anti-conpetitive checks when huge mergers are attempted. I think I'm really trying to suggest that the bar should be a lot lower to trigger those checks, or outright disallow them. IOW mergers/acquistions don't have to be "huge" to be anti-competitive
Stores here in Finland are currently shipping pre-orders from January. There is a shortage and it’s real.
Rioters are not always on the good side. One recent example is what happened in South Africa a couple months ago:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57996373
You seem to be mistaking me for an anti-abortion person. I don't think you are engaging in this conversation at the right (non-object) level, and are engaging in a completely unrelated argument entirely, so I'm respectfully going to cut this off here.
But if it were maladaptive then it would have been selected against in people no?
Then they'll have to resize it every time they visit a website where a wide window is actually beneficial.
privateemail.com is fine (it's run by namecheap).
Super ultralight backpacking: What it takes to carry a 3.5 pound pack (2015)
If we use words to refer to things they don't mean, words will lose their meaning.
Would like to second this. My recommendation would be just pick a decent domain, register it for 10 years, and set up Fastmail.
Because no one proposes solar in the north European winter. It's all about the geographically decoupled off shore wind.

For the cost see for example:

https://www.lazard.com/perspective/levelized-cost-of-energy-...
I don't know much about Kazakh politics, but having grown up in an autocratic country, I'd say having a sitting president agree to impose a one term limit is a Pretty Huge Deal.
Starlink now over 1M user terminals manufactured
Because reading paragraphs of text with extremely long lines is really annoying. If the lines get too long it makes it hard to subconsciously find the next line when you scan back.

What's your solution? The only other option I can think of is multi-column newspaper style, but that's pretty fundamentally incompatible with the scrolling model of the web.

That's probably why you only see multi-column formats in page-based media like physical newspapers and PDF papers.
Don’t get me wrong. Back when I was C bit twiddling from 1999-2008, we had nothing but a compiler and no libraries besides the ones we wrote since our code had to compile across x86 PCs and a couple of mainframes. I had to implement most of the data structures myself.

I’ve had one coding interview in 25 years between 8 jobs. That one was in 2012. They had a Visual Studio IDE with skeleton code abs failing unit test and I had to make the unit tests pass as a pair programming exercise. I thought that was a very practical type of coding interview that I copied when I had to filter a bunch of contractors when I was a dev lead.

But now, if I leave my job at BigTech as a “cloud architect specializing in application modernization” - basically enterprise app dev/DevOps [sic], training, etc., before I retire, it will be at some startup looking for a more strategic role, even though I would be hands on.

It’s automatically a red flag about the job that I prefer if I’m not being asked about strategy and given a coding interview.
No, what they're saying is that exercise as you've described, will lead to injury and goes against ALL the traning advice of seasoned long-distance runners.

But hey, go ahead.
Plenty of people have produced great works of art while working day jobs. It’s hardly a new concept.
Related: DC Rainmaker just released his walk through of the new ultra https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/09/apple-watch-ultra-in-dep...

Dc is the gold standard in fitness guides. My interpretation is that if you (like me) want a sports watch, buy a sports watch and not a smart watch with sports features. At least too many deal breakers for me. But they're getting better.
I understand that books needs to be financed but why should we deprive the poorest from accessing culture knowing that marginal cost of ebooks is zero.

We should incentivize reading books not making it harder or more expensive.

- E-books should be free and of easy access.

- Writers and editors should be paid according to the popularity of their work.

The proposals are not incompatible.
What you write ist plain untrue. The cabinet member who is a former Greenpeace executive is part of the foreign ministry, the job is to talk to other countries about actions against the climate change. In no way is she responsible for the German energy politics.

And please refrain from calling a whole country as insane, especially based on wrong information.
The top comment implies that the protestors who demanded lower gas (propane, not gasoline) prices and later political reforms were the ones responsible for violence, or involved in it. There's plenty of evidence that this isn't the case.

People who started the violence were clearly trained for this and very organized, they were shooting police on the streets, looting firearm stores, giving away firearms to random people to encourage chaos. Also the government ordered police and SWAT teams to leave the cities for 1-2 days which hints at some officials being involved in this.

Russian army wasn't involved in fighting on the streets and certainly wasn't "killing" anyone. Russians were invited mainly for a political and morale effect.

I don't know what the top commenter was reading to get these conclusions, but they are clearly not representing any of the mainstream hypotheses explaining the events. I'm saying this as someone who has his family there when it happened and followed every single piece of news from there full time. And after everything was over I went there and talk to some people who witnessed the events.
> The subjective theory of value is common sense.

This is also the crux of why I cannot understand how people follow LTV. It just doesn't make sense upon even the slightest introspection.
I think your main pain point stems from the difference in ecosystems. This is not even a good/bad thing, just a "things are done a bit different" thing.

If you take a look at the functionality that you are after, perhaps moving out outside of the scope of the editor may help you far more than trying to re-compose the editor to be more like something that it isn't.

I personally don't have much of an issue switching between them, I mostly prefer Sublime Text over everything but it doesn't have the features I need for everything so I just use whatever tools the project needs the most. For iOS and macOS the whole workflow split in two parts: a common CI part where all the external tools run, and the in-editor part where you mostly just write the features you want. This applies to AppCode too, but we also do that for C# code where it really doesn't matter if you do it in Rider or Visual Studio on Mac, Visual Studio on Windows or Visual Studio Code anywhere. In the end, the pre-commit and CI tasks will do the common workflow anyway.

While I understand that people enjoy digging deep into the features of a single specific IDE to do everything, in reality this is probably not the 'best of all worlds', unless you are working solo.
K-means clustering visualization using D3.js
The second sentence is why antitrust law exists. The tools and mechanisms are still right there in front of us. We just haven't used them properly very much since the 80's.

The first sentence, I agree with the general sentiment, but it's just not realistic. It would have to apply to everything; from small business owners all the way up to corporations. Buying and selling companies is why free-market capitalism has continued to deliver results. Nothing needs to be changed about that.

The problem we have is a government antitrust regulation problem. We would not be here if antitrust law were implemented diligently these past few decades. Adobe would be incentivized to compete fair and square.
That's super weird. Sounds like whoever is the Finnish PS5 distributor needs a solid kick in the bum, as there isn't a shortage in other countries.
I believe over 95% of the airframe has been recovered at this point, with no evidence of an external explosion or collision. I suppose the evidence could be solely present on the 5% that wasn’t recovered, but that requires a significant speculative leap.
Forcing people to pay what electricity actually costs (ideally, in real-time) is a good way to make your demand-side much more responsive.

That's only a valid strategy if your customers can be more responsive, but in a freak cold snap where most customers are running heaters at 100% to keep their homes habitable, there's little they can go to reduce demand.

Many people have purchased generators after that crisis, but telling (and maybe subsidizing) millions of people to buy a generator and stockpile fuel because the grid can't handle cold weather is not good energy policy.

It'd be better if regulators required demand-response automation that would let them intelligently scale back demand of high-energy appliances before the grid reaches critical levels without heavy-handed rolling blackouts.
Highly factual and well-written. Thanks for sharing the link.
I've moved all our Lambdas to ARM, with no issues AFAIK. Cheaper + faster = why not?
It's a common issue with how the Apple Watch forces you to start the activity before it attempts acquiring gps lock. For many that may work fine, but also for many that gives erratic behavior in the start where they live. All other brands behave the opposite.

Based on this article they've fixed it for Ultra, at least https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2022/09/apple-watch-ultra-in-dep...

> Assuming you’re ready to go, then you’ve got two choices with Apple Watch Ultra. You could go the ‘normal’ route for all Apple Watches up till now, and wait for the 3-second countdown. Once that countdown completes, it’s at that point that the watch goes off and gets GPS signal and HR acquisition – not before. However, the Ultra edition includes a new ‘Precision Start’ feature, that lets you first open the workout up, then see the signal status before you begin
Most of Europe lost their taste for war a few generations ago, and have since tried to create a world where constant invasions of their neighbors is no longer the status quo.

They are weary of Russia because Russia never got with the program. Russia does not believe that a peaceful future is possible, assumes the old status quo will continue, and act accordingly by continuing to invade their neighbors.

And just to preempt the inevitable whataboutism; America never got with the program either. Not really. But America isn't the one threatening Western Europe with war, and Eastern European countries like Poland and Ukraine choosing to align themselves with America/NATO to protect themselves against Russia speaks volumes about the relative threat of America vs Russia to peace in Europe.
I believe they want to signal to the rest of the world that they are still a stable alternative for western nuclear fuel buyers. Uranium is the spice, and the spice must flow. Of course they also export coal, gas and oil too.
If you are unwilling to let your stock price fall, but your company is unable to increase revenue due to supply chain constraints, then what else is left?

Maybe I’m missing something, but it seems to me that the stock market hasn’t been catastrophic, only because of rising prices. The people who will suffer most are those who can’t get on that raft. So it might ultimately be raising the bar on the middle class.
just because we are kind of worried about the winter even with IT wages doesn't make us russian bots?
OK, we're talking about different time frames.

The tweet is about two specific reactors that have long been scheduled to be shut down and where, in light of the current crisis, there was discussion about delaying that. Note that the decision was absolutely not just done by the Green party, and in good part based on statements from the power company that they cannot keep running them.

My comment was about the long-term decision to phase out nuclear power in Germany, originally made 20 years ago.
A crewed flyby is barely more ridiculous than a crewed landing.
Not reduce by 50%, reduce to 50% from the current 50%. With the increasing electric consumption, it's barely a reduction in real terms at all.
Counter question, why would you treat a general statement as a literal one?

"not a thing people are doing" is a perfectly true statement even if a non-zero number of people do it, as long as the number is inconsequential.
I have an innate desire to write a book. But I haven’t because the effort would be significant and I have other things to do, including work. I am glad that the many professional authors whose work I’ve enjoyed had financial reward providing them both the motive and means to write for me.

You could argue I have an innate desire to care for people inasmuch as I was a volunteer ambulance officer for a while. But I’m pretty glad we pay doctors and nurses and paramedics to dedicate their working lives to doing an excellent job of that stuff rather than just assume that pro bono efforts will see us through. I think it’s enormously naive to assume we’d lose nothing if we took away art as a profession - especially since it’s so obvious it would be a dumb idea to do away with many other professions.

Also I find it hard enough finding books and music I genuinely love even WITH the profit motive at work and giving people the ability to dedicate their lives to it!
The ship was at sea, so presumably the full ship's complement? That's a bit over 300 people for an Aegis destroyer.

Her point was that the accident wouldn't be knowledge that could be kept confined to the bridge/CIC and soon everyone on board would know about it.
Building the Level Design of a procedurally generated Metroidvania (2017)
It's weird how totalitarian, demonstrably evil communists tend to do the same thing as Silicon Valley companies.
Reminds me of another quote: "Tradition is the living faith of the dead; traditionalism is the dead faith of the living." -- Jaroslav Pelikan (per the web)
Dude's laughing because he sold it on for $50.
7 times.

But I'm with you. Sell it and fuck it. If the guy made a million and you're happy with $1, all the better we are for it.
I laughed at the religious leader/no universal religion bit.

Something these threads don't consider is if the aliens land somewhere else they could end up encountering a different calendar depending on who they talk to. In Japan the era changes with the reigning emperor, so while they follow Gregorian for International Business and Holidays, locally when the Emperor came to power is still often referenced for the purposes of counting years.

Here's a primer: https://homepages.cwi.nl/~aeb/go/misc/jdate.html
There was an ig nobel prize awarded for using stamps as an overnight test for erectile dysfunction.

A stamp technique was developed to detect complete nocturnal erections for the evaluation of impotence. The test correctly detected complete nocturnal erections in 22 potent men and absence of complete nocturnal erections in 11 impotent men (P value under 0.001). This is a simple, useful screening test for organic impotence.
https://www.goldjournal.net/article/0090-4295(80)90414-8/
Exactly. The form of the novel is tied to text and text is fundamentally east to distribute because it is information. The problem is structurally tough.
Often those traditions may have important, forgotten reasons, but just as often traditions were created to say "we are our people, we're not those other folk."

See: dietary laws, circumcision, restrictions on what materials your clothes may be made out of, rules for what hair you're allowed to cut, and when you should or shouldn't cover your head, etc. etc.

(And before people jump in with "maybe there was a specific reason for the dietary laws, e.g. pork was unhealthy," that doesn't explain why you'd have peoples living side-by-side with opposing dietary laws.)
Notes from Tail Latency Aware Caching Paper by Robinhood
From the docket, the claim is that it was from land not from a naval warship:

> Although the SPY-ID(V) would later become a key component aboard the next wave of Navy destroyer ships, in 1996 the only option with the hardware and computing power sufficient to operate the SPY-ID(V) was a New Jersey land-based testing site called the Combat Systems Engineering and Development Site (“CSEDS”).