skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hypothetically... lets see, Assen has a population of 68,000 and that roughly matches Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

So, hypothetically, lets wave a magic wand and redesign Eau Claire to follow the same design plan as Assen.

Would you still have 2/3 of the kids biking to school?

Temperature for 2021: https://www.aos.wisc.edu/~sco/clim-history/stations/eau/eau-...

Cumulative snowfall for 2021: https://www.aos.wisc.edu/~sco/clim-history/stations/eau/eau-...

Going to weather spark to have a consistent source: https://weatherspark.com/y/11595/Average-Weather-in-Eau-Clai...

> The cold season lasts for 3.2 months, from November 28 to March 3, with an average daily high temperature below 36°F. The coldest month of the year in Eau Claire is January, with an average low of 9°F and high of 24°F.

> The snowy period of the year lasts for 5.4 months, from November 2 to April 15, with a sliding 31-day snowfall of at least 1.0 inches. The month with the most snow in Eau Claire is December, with an average snowfall of 4.5 inches.

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https://weatherspark.com/y/54846/Average-Weather-in-Assen-Ne...

> The cold season lasts for 3.7 months, from November 19 to March 10, with an average daily high temperature below 46°F. The coldest month of the year in Assen is January, with an average low of 32°F and high of 40°F.

> The snowy period of the year lasts for 1.7 months, from December 14 to February 5, with a sliding 31-day snowfall of at least 1.0 inches. The month with the most snow in Assen is January, with an average snowfall of 1.3 inches.

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The biking design and participation is a wonderful design to aspire to... it isn't always practical in all climates.

Assen barely gets to freezing temperatures and has a dusting of snow.

If one says "oh, that's too far north"... then lets go to St. Louis. https://weatherspark.com/y/12083/Average-Weather-in-St.-Loui...

> The cold season lasts for 3.0 months, from November 28 to February 28, with an average daily high temperature below 50°F. The coldest month of the year in St. Louis is January, with an average low of 25°F and high of 41°F.

> The snowy period of the year lasts for 3.7 months, from November 26 to March 17, with a sliding 31-day snowfall of at least 1.0 inches. The month with the most snow in St. Louis is January, with an average snowfall of 3.2 inches.

(with the cold season part, note the cold range dips quite a bit lower in St. Louis than Assen)

We could continue this with Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Fargo, Missoula, Spokane, Salt Lake City... even if we could wave a magic wand and redesign the city to be perfectly bikeable it wouldn't have the participation like it does in Western Europe.

I'm not saying to ignore the effort to make those infrastructure changes (they'd be good), but rather try to avoid the implicit "the US is bad because so few cities are designed to allow 2/3 of the students to bike to school" because it is impossible to get there.
You can buy likes and clicks if thats what you are after
An obvious answer is it's expensive to build and hard to staff and maintain labs in extreme environments.
First, I'm genuinely just asking if I understand the comment well enough. Did you read it the same way I did?

Second, would you classify Derek Lowe as a scientist, or a "scientist"? (If you think there's no difference, then you're reading the parent comment differently from me, which is useful information.)
I live in Seattle and my kid bikes to school almost every day. It's really easy if you say yourself up with an e-bike.
So you're telling me that if I enter ftp://blah to something expecting a secured connection that it'll work just fine no problems? Then I have to ask what the point of the 'S' really is.

>Also, FTP is still used a lot, unfortunately.

Um, like, yup. Please see my original comment on my feeling on this.
I pretty regularly biked ~10km to school starting around age 12 in middle America. It was dangerous including a 4 lane highway with no bike lanes. Given how fat the town is I grew up in I imagine it was safer in the long run than being inactive.

I kind of wonder whether the fatalities would be worth the tradeoff if America encouraged biking to improve health at the cost of road carnage, but my inclination is to say yes even in the case of children.
My experience in this area boils down to this:

First of all, I think that the title "product manager" is not a very good one, and is actively harmful. While it is technically correct, the word "manager" in most people evokes the idea of managing people, and there is a very short step from there to seeing PMs as ones who "manage" everyone involved with the product development. "Product owner" is not much better either.

But we don't have a much better term, so PMs it is.

For all practical purposes, the amount of features a software product can have implemented is virtually unlimited. In reality, features can only be added over time, and the role of product managers is to guide the prioritization by making product decisions. Long time ago, in a talk at a startup event, I compared PMs with the people being quartered in medieval times [0]: the product development process is pulled in different directions by various "horses" - groups more or less directly involved in the development and use of that product, and the PM's role is to balance those horses and prevent any one of them of dragging the whole thing in its direction. (I have identified those horses as, respectively: sales, marketing, end users and engineering. This is a common arrangement, but others are possible in some environments.)

Ultimately, the PM should have enough understanding of particular interests of each of those groups to be able to make informed decisions. Sometimes, the priority will be to make the product easier to sell (e.g. add this feature this potential customer is asking for); at other times, the priority will be to resolve some technical debt to make deployment faster; and so on. Obviously, that understanding does not come from vacuum; it requires talking to the representatives of the all of the "horses" and gathering all the necessary information.

In practice, it is common - as some other comments have mentioned - for the PMs to succumb to the pressure of the "business" side of the equation (sales and marketing). As a technical lead, I have always made a point of working together with the PMs and help them keep that balance.

[0] https://media.hswstatic.com/eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250ZW50Lmhzd3N0...
Wish u.s would have some guts and start clamping down on this behaviour too. There’s no reason for Facebook to own Instagram, WhatsApp and oculus. Absolutely none. It’s a farce that one company holds so much data
It's mostly run by code-golfers which is much worse.
You don't even need to slow down, in some cases. I was watching a video[0] about how shinkansen trains are serviced each day, and noticed at one point[2] when the workers are ready to clean the top of the train they do a "point and call"[1] routine at a gate. Now, I am not exactly sure what the purpose is for that, because there isn't much context in the video, but I am logically assuming that they are checking that the train's overhead wires are depowered, and the gate probably only allows itself to be opened when that is the case. Even if that's not the exact reason here, I could imagine a test facility where you had occupancy sensors inside and a lockout gate that operated in this fashion, and wouldn't allow a human to be inside the room while pressure was increased in the test valve. I honestly don't get the cowboy attitude in here, we can progress to space quickly AND safely.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieRwRS0VUUM

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling

[2]: https://youtu.be/ieRwRS0VUUM?t=578
Yes, I think Americans especially discount the "Level 1" charge in home charging as "inadequate" when it is still sometimes an incredible game changer. Having more miles available in the morning when you wake up then when you parked the car is a difference maker even if it is only 10-12 extra miles overnight on the worst, least efficient EVs on the current market. (Most cars get much better than that. I can easily get nearly 40 miles overnight on a work night on just a 110 Level 1 charge. That covered my daily commute handily.)
Pitty, I thought it was software that can be self hosted.
I have a few potential applications.

Is anyone aware of any open source high performance chat/community solutions that can be self-hosted?
They'd probably agree with you. Having to pay to maintain a car (probably an awful one that has lots of problems) just to get anything done is distinctly bad part of being poor in America.
This is not supported for fine-grained PATs. Using apps for this, which have rotation as a requirement, is preferred.
I don't even see how this experiment could have possibly demonstrated a "gain" of function (in terms of danger) - the original Wuhan coronavirus had a 100% fatality rate in these mice models. So if they had done this experiment and gotten a 100% fatality rate again...what's the conclusion?
They are solid. They blocked Amazon investment into deliveroo for a while after some investigation. CMA are on job
Can this actually replace a MacBook for a backend engineer workflow?
Im not insinuating it, I’m saying it. It’s clear as day to anyone who’s been paying attention, one reason being the connection you yourself pointed out. How else can you explain antisemitic comments leading to higher popularity amongst the right, other than the right generally agreeing with or at least being sympathetic to antisemitic views?
> Doesn’t it seem reasonable to you to design and engineer cherry pickers such that the bucket can’t be moved unless a safety harness is attached?

No - that seems unreasonable too, as there's no reasonable way for the cherry picker to know if the harness is being worn by anyone, so it's just safety theater.
Because the United States should not be involved in invoking terror on the Yemenese population.
Shameless plug of my TOTP in '4' lines of PL/pgSQL: https://gist.github.com/bwbroersma/676d0de32263ed554584ab132...
I don't know what the figures are for agricultural accidents in the US but in the UK they're roughly 20 times the fatality rate of *every other industry in the country combined*, with a pretty steady 40 deaths per year since 1980.

If the US accident rate is similar (let's be generous - I suspect it's worse) then a rough back-of-an-envelope calculation puts that at 8000 deaths per year, and *you don't even hear about that*.
In defense, you can't bootstrap anything out of your bedroom on a minimal budget. Your sole client is the US (or some other) military and they have a procurement process and expect a level of maturity that just disqualifies startups with no funding. And, if you want to get funding from VCs, they're not neccessarily going to be interested, because military tech just won't have the kind of hockey stick growth they're hoping to ride on.

TLDR: in startupland, everyone wants to get rich quick from their bedroom. It's mostly not feasible when selling things to the millitary.
> the english don't even want to understand

I've never found this to be the case, people are generally curious and courteous.
This is a good comment, but rather than tens of millions of new citizens, they would get tens of millions of new insurgents. Nearly the whole population of Ukraine is involved in the war effort in some way, and it would be impossible to break this completely. The only thing that could be given to Russia with the conquest of Ukraine is the option to turn into Afghanistan instead of North Korea.
Nice summation:)
Google Docs updates would always ship with weird bugs

Is that really an Apple problem? Sounds like Google is just lazy with QA on Apple devices.

Did you try Numbers or Excel and have similar problems?
> I know that selling bike safety ideas to the Dutch is like selling ice to the Innuit

Lol! That's the best saying I've heard in a looong time :D

It's interesting that you love the Netherlands as a Swede. From my point of view, it's always the nordics (iceland, norway, sweden, finland) that have the insane happiness, social mobility, etc. ratings, and I love (at least the mental picture of) warm homes in a cold, snowy, foresty climate/environment. If y'all spoke English (or Dutch, I guess) over there as a primary language, I'm actually quite sure I'd have moved there, at least for a couple years. (Currently living in and learning German(y) and I find it very hard, so for me the language is kind of prohibitive unless I'd be sure I wanted to move away from my current life and fully commit to fitting in somewhere new.) Living for two months in Finland didn't destroy that mental picture at all, and though I was impressed with the English being absolutely impeccable from anyone under 60 years old, the colloquially used language is clearly a local language. A local hacker space was very welcoming, but many things are in Swedish/Finnish because that's simply what everyone there speaks.

I'd be interested in this 'long story' if you are willing to share it!
I'm really confused as to why the CMA had a say in this matter at all. Meta and Giphy are/were both US companies. OK, they do business in the UK, but they do business in a lot of other places too.

If the competition regulator for the Federated States of Micronesia had an issue with this acquisition and wanted to block it, would Meta abide by their ruling? If not, how big does a country have to be before their competition regulator is allowed to interfere in mergers between foreign-owned companies?

Also, if the US has a problem with a merger between two UK companies, do we in the UK have to abide by their ruling? What about if it is France rather than the US? What if it's Russia?
Any concrete examples?

As far as image processing apps, I've been using procreate and affinity designer. Both use the file system and not the photos app.

As far as audio processing, apple's own garage band app works natively with audio files and lets you slice and dice them.
Blink is a fork of the WebCore component of WebKit, and aside from sandboxing, has remained relatively similar to WebCore. As such, Brave necessarily is based on WebKit via transitve relation. V8 is a JavaScipt engine, not a browser rendering engine.

Practically, there are only two rendering engines left, 1) WebKit (itself derived from KHTML) and its derivatives such as Blink, and 2) Gecko and its derivatives such as Goanna, (though I guess somewhere someone must be using Flow, which apparently is not based on either, but it is proprietary, thus it will have no derivatives or be used by any other browser other than Flow).
While I don't have numbers ready to cite, the steel industry is a superb analogue. It, too, is a hazardous production environment. It, too, has production rate as an OKR. I believe deaths in that industry used to measure in the thousands [1].

There's a history, at least in the US, of production rate correlating to fatality rate in certain hazardous industries. That said, one of the most famous steel CEOs (Paul O’Neill at Alcoa) put safety at the forefront and transformed the company and their production [2].

1: citation needed

2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/roddwagner/2019/01/22/have-we-l...
Russell Napier on new macroeconomic model
> How are you supposed to know ahead of time that a place is unsafe? Cabada should have been perfectly safe where they were, but at least one safety system failed.

Any potentially unsafe location should be behind a LOTO / safety interlock, and you should not be able to access it without locking it.
The American people are quite correct to be skeptical of a media industry corrupted by the ad revenue model, riven by partisanship and unified only by contempt for the people it proclaims to serve. Grounds for optimism that we are beginning to see through it
The stats are telling though, you put your family at 250% risk of death by choosing the bike over the car. That is a major problem that needs to be addressed with infrastructure.

Unless your city has separated bike lanes, it's hard to say that this is a safe choice compared to a car.

In the UK the stats are even worse, with something like 16x risk of death and 78x risk of injury. https://kennettpeterson.com/2016/08/26/riding-your-bike-is-7...
Would you mind sharing a simple example that demonstrates this? Sounds great!
Given the prevalence of bikes in the Netherlands this doesn’t seem surprising. Usually Elementary schools in US cities are close enough to walk to in many cases. This however doesn’t stop most families from driving their kids to school.
https://archive.ph/bppoo
I have now moved all my public github projects onto sourcehut, and replaced them on github with public notices explaining why (i.e. this whole copilot saga).

Yes I know that presumably that doesn't make them safer from a copilot visibility point of view ... but I had to do something.
I think the answer is that the raw data has too much dynamic range. The stars are so much brighter than anything else that a naive linear scaling from the native depth to 8 bit results in all the shadows getting washed out and only the highlights showing. Instead, the "stretched" seems to be compressing the highlights to allow the shadow data to become brighter.
But probably not .2% of HN
I suspect that you are conflating first with given and last with family. Not everyone in the world does it that way. Icelanders use patronymics not family name anyway, the Spanish use something rather more complicated, Chinese names are family first, etc.
How's GPU support in Qubes these days? (Nvidia, CUDA)
Apple TV Remote has USB-C
Apparently they are feeling EU's pressure already
> Two screens are better than one

Seems annoying actually.
A new macroeconomic era is emerging. What will it look like?
The most likely research-origin scenario is either a naturally-evolved novel virus collected and accidentally released by the WIV, or a chimera of multiple such viruses. No genomic evidence could distinguish that from natural spillover. For example, here's David Relman back in 2020:

> This argument [that SARS-CoV-2 must be natural since it doesn't use a known backbone] fails to acknowledge the possibility that two or more as yet undisclosed ancestors (i.e., more proximal ancestors than RaTG13 and RmYN02) had already been discovered and were being studied in a laboratory—for example, one with the SARS-CoV-2 backbone and spike protein receptor-binding domain, and the other with the SARS-CoV-2 polybasic furin cleavage site. It would have been a logical next step to wonder about the properties of a recombinant virus and then create it in the laboratory.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2021133117

The WIV had the world's largest effort to collect novel sarbecoviruses from nature, often from remote caves that no other humans would routinely visit; so I don't see any reason to discount that possibility.
> It's not gain-of-function research unless they successfully make a more dangerous virus?

Yes, that's more or less the definition of the term.

> Playing with the definitions of words is a class political tactic!

I definitely get the feeling that there are people that like to twist words to suit their goals.

> This is gain-of-function research.

From where are you sourcing your definition of the term?

This doesn't appear to be gain of function research (from the strict definition of the term) but in this day and age when the virus is ground-zero for politics, it's probably not politically wise to do research on it along these lines. To this end, where what's politically favorable influences the science we do, I do agree that politics is inevitably corrupting good research.
I get that they want to extinguish competitors on their devices. But where are the embrace and extend bits? They made Android from scratch and shaped it to their advertising needs.
Because lots of languages have first-class functions, and prototypical inheritance isn't actually that good an idea and most people just use it to implement bad class systems.
It's amazing how daft these guys are, socializing at work is a fundamental way of building better relationships and being able to deep dive into more complex and controversial issues. Humans operate off of trust and treating everyone as an anonymous worker bee is only a recipe for getting basic work done that streams down from management.
Do you index arrays? What index type is that? Any tips?

I’ve used array column in PG before, haven’t indexed arrays though.
Things move several orders of magnitude slower in the analog world.

The digital world moves fast.
https://archive.ph/oTI1R
I’m probably going to get the 12.9” model. I’m a lecturer and it’ll be very useful for my teaching. Not so much for research where I’m working with stuff like Matlab and OpenFOAM and specialist Windows software for laboratory instruments.

Currently I use my Mac and occasionally sidecar with an old 10.5” iPad Pro so I can annotate my mirrored slides while I go. It works but is awkward. When using a projector over HDMI it’s energy intensive so I need to bring along my Mac’s power brick. Often the display scaling from connecting to the room projector will offset my pencil position, the order you connect stuff seems to matter.

I teach a combination of slides and Jupyter notebooks so I need to verify that everything works as expected.

I could try to use a lightning to HDMI adapter and leave the Mac in my office, but I’m also interested in the LiDAR scanner for some research activities.

I also find the iPad great for bringing along to meetings and labs where you want to sketch stuff out, you can email the result to a student after.

I find it a useful tool for class prep also.

So it’s not a replacement for my laptop, but it’ll help me with a significant part of my day to day activities.
If the US was really serious about microchips being critical infrastructure we'd want over production. We have more roads than makes sense, we should have more chips on-hand than our critical power and data infrastructure needs to be rebuilt in the event of a catastrophe.
> China has said that they believe that, in the event of hostilities over Taiwan, they will be obligated to strike US forces everywhere in the region

Do you have a source for this? I haven't heard this stated before, but I'm not an expert here.

Even taking this as true, I think it's a big leap to go from striking US military bases in Japan, to striking civilian infrastructure in those countries.

It seems quite clear to me that the opening salvo you are hypothesizing (attacking multiple military bases and civilian targets) would be an act of war against the USA and Japan. This would certainly provoke all-out war with the US, and they have a first-use policy that could entail a nuclear response.

Frankly the whole scenario above seems extremely unlikely to me, and I think Ukraine is the better example to model here. Essentially, China occupies Taiwan, and dares the US to strike in retaliation, knowing that their retaliation would be the thing that triggers armageddon, and betting that the US is not actually willing to escalate militarily over Taiwan. I predict that China would take an effort to avoid attacking any US military personnel stationed in Taiwan (I gather this is just an unofficial presence), because the rational play is to give the US as little excuse as possible to escalate in response.

In other words, China MUST offer the US a path to de-escalation/capitulation in order to take Taiwan without a war with the USA. It's much easier to take Taiwan without a full war with the USA (obviously, IMO).
Cyber Persistence: A New Paradigm for Cyberspace Strategy and Policy [video]
https://archive.ph/kVQig
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> more than questionable business decisions.

What are some of those?

One thing that comes to mind is coming out with a bunch of other products before backers had the first shipment of the laptop they made. Curious if there are others too.
Does this impact the ability to select GIFs to embed in Facebook posts and comments, or are they sourced from elsewhere?