skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Massachusetts we have a private grocery store chain called "Market Basket". Its cheaper than the rest and spreading. (After the 2 realtive that owned it had a spat, CEO Arthur T. was removed, causing workers to strike.. When your non-union workforce walks off the job for you, you are doing something right as an owner.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_Basket_protests

Though Trader Joes (Aldi North ) is here, Aldi just started opening up here. Those style markets are affordable, but don't have the selection of the Market Baskets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldi

I wonder if the fact that these are privately held is an advantage.
Super Small TVs
The quarks that are bound in a way we call a proton are held together by the strong force at a certain distance from each other - that distance is what we consider the volume of the proton, with the quarks being "inside that volume". This system of 3 quarks has some amount of potential energy, and/or some amount of kinetic energy from the relative movement of the 3 quarks. The mass of this system is then given essentially by E=mc^2, with E being this kinetic energy.

There is a very good video of a lecture by Leonard Susskind that explains why energy and mass are interchangeable in this way if you want a more in-depth explanation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqNg819PiZY
The fact is that we exist today in exactly the state that is being promoted as beyond solution. Our present renewable generation and present ready storage are exceeded, and we rely on a 3rd-line backup, fossil fuels. Each increment of renewable generation and storage added reduces the amount of fossil fuels that must be used.

Factories for any form of storage are not different in any material way from a thousand other factories we know work. We have been making factories for going on three centuries, and know we can. Making and operating factories is expensive capex, but exploring, extracting, transporting, and refining fossil fuels is an even more expensive opex. If we could afford fossil opex, renewable capex of similar order is strictly better.
Yep. 100%.

Doesn't matter how good the graphics or pricing is, if there's a delay between inputs you've certainly ruled out almost every multiplayer game and most single player games.
Where do the people who work in social support send their kids?
You’re completely ignoring points which don’t agree with you.

The Galaxy Tab A7 Lite uses the exact chip in the comparison and is an extremely well-selling tablet in America, and likely worldwide. The new iPad is definitely 5x faster in some benchmarks I checked compared to one of the Amazon fire tablets I saw on sale, which is also extremely popular. That’s two of the most popular tablets I’m aware of, and other tablets in these price ranges don’t appear any more powerful.

This indicates that their comparison is not misleading, full stop. We don’t really need more data to prove their comparison seems adequate. Apple didn’t set up a strawman.

You’re not providing any evidence to your claim that it is misleading. Just because you don’t like a comparison doesn’t make it misleading.

The press release also states Cupertino, California, but I don’t see where it says it is worldwide as you claim. It is reasonable to assume that a press release by a U.S. company being released from a U.S. office is intended for a U.S. audience. I don’t see any mention of euros or other non-U.S. currencies in the press release, but they do mention dollars and they specifically refer to the U.S. several times. If it is targeting the U.S., then the comparison should be against the U.S., and it appears to be perfectly relevant against some of the best selling Android tablets here. There is no need to stretch for some brand only sold in China, as you did in your analogy. (I don’t have the market research they have in order to determine which one is the best selling, but the A7 Lite seems like a solid bet as the one Apple concluded.)

What evidence do you have that the best-selling Android tablet in America is significantly faster than the Samsung Galaxy Tab A7 Lite? That’s the only question that is relevant to this discussion. Apple’s claims appear to be spot-on for the U.S. market based on my own quick research. Baseless claims of a company intentionally being misleading are pointless to debate, so I’m done here. I’m happy to criticize Apple for all sorts of things, including their tendency to hamstring PWAs to promote their App Store monopoly, but this tablet performance comparison appears perfectly fine.
Ah! I read the parent's comment in a different way, but i see what he was trying to say now. He wasn't saying the vaccine didn't do anything, but that not having it developed before covid19 started wasn't the biggest blocker.
If there is a shortage of raw materials, companies will work to get them to fulfill the demand.
Not a value judgement on either opinion, but, ironically, there is a buddhist perspective here which would rhyme with: that's exactly what you are doing in your normal life without children every second while chasing your ambition. And OP's solution of letting go of yourself is the antidote to that cycle.
Microsoft's "Touch Develop" research project from a decade ago was actually amazingly productive and usable. It made each separate part of a line of code into a selectable element, and used predictive analysis to guess what your next entry would be with surprising accuracy. So, for example, if you've already created a variable within a specific scope like a function, when you've come to a point in a line where a variable would be useful like "a += [variable could go here]", you could just tap-select it from a list. Since the named elements were kept track of, you could select and rename a variable or function and it would automatically be changed everywhere. You could grab whole functions like this and move them around as needed.

It had some clunky bits and had to use its own language, but I've been surprised some of the ideas of the system hasn't made its way into normal IDEs. The key advantage is that you never had to worry about syntax. You couldn't forget a semicolon, because you were never typing out a line, just picking and choosing from options, while still piecing together a line of code as you would if you were typing it out manually. It was a higher level than normal coding, but well below something like Blockly. I think for beginners - who really struggle with syntax - it was brilliant, and even for more advanced developers it would be sort of handy not having to do find/replace or copy/paste and missing that last bracket or whatever.

Conceptually, imagine that instead of writing out a line of code as a text sentence, you were assembling the program's syntax tree by choosing from a pile of premade items you've created, and then being able to grab whole branches at a time and manipulate them. It was an interesting experiment.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/touchdevelo...
Of course, I'm sorry I forgot you are the source of all truth and all who disagree with you don't know anything about actual science. I thank you for my chastisement. I will commence with the self flagellation immediately.
Am I missing something here? it’s not like the pentagon to be frugal with defence/attack spending
Why not just limit one request per week per IP by those suspect netblocks
The difference is that serving Access Denied Leads to the users of these malicious browsers just getting more ads over time, as the filter lists can’t be updated anymore. Serving a special list containing popular sites would result in the users almost instantly not being able anymore to access these popular sites, resulting in requests to the developers to fix their shitty browser or switching altogether.
As a software engineer who focus on developing payments and billing systems, I assure you that gateway integration is by far the easiest part.
This is definitely a point the author could have touched on more.

How will environments without this purported widespread adoption of surveillance technologies react to an increase of these 'luxury surveillance' items? Will they also gradually accept more (government-imposed) surveillance into their lives? Maybe even demand it? Or is acceptance of surveillance culturally biased?
If I see the sun, why would I need a watch to tell me where south is?
Scaling serving of a static text file would make a fantastic job interview question, especially as you explore what happens as the text file gets bigger and the number of downloads gets higher. The "correct answer" isn't necessarily obvious in any of these cases.
Haha, ya except for Wisconsin probably https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/wisconsin/2021/05/...
> sellers always want to sell for as much as they can, and buyers always want to pay as little as they can

Not actually true. Lots of people discount or donate $ or labor or commodities by choice, as cash flow is only one of many things different people want to maximize. You've made the mistake of assuming one kind of economic behavior is the default for everyone. It isn't. There are 4 predominant patterns of economic behavior that emerge in simple economic games:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451
And then discovering that if you used latex for a presentation you could animate in tikz...
I had burnout for a while and I couldn't realize it. I had feelings of unease and some mounting evidence of "something wrong" going on in my life. I felt tired, angry, and more. All sorts of negative emotions... The impact on my work was big.

I think a bunch of people here advise to "care less", but in my case I realized it was hard for me to care more because I was in pain... (emotional, physically tired, etc).

Things started to change when I paid closer attention to my environment.

.Make sure you pick your friendships carefully. A crisis is a good chance to see who's reliable in your life. When receiving good advice, it is easy to ignore it or dismiss it. Really pay attention to trustworthy advise.

.Maybe controversial but... I stopped “giving for free”. You may not be standing on a place where you can be so generous. It can be draining to be selfless. So, still help people, be kind and generous, but do it for people that deserve it. Giving while being con, manipulated, or gaslighted depletes your energy and resources.

.Don't be controlled by your emotions, but also don't ignore your gut feelings ... factor them in while making decisions. Avoid extremes.

.Remove people from your life that may be harming you. Gaslighting has become a buzzword but for a reason... Beware of this and other kinds of psychopathic behaviors [1].

.Cut off whatever is not helping your main objective. Avoid having too many goals, projects and hobbies at once.

.Get rid of “ambiguous friendships": If you ever asked yourself, is this person really my friend? ... I'd say, it is likely they aren’t.

.Some side activities may not be bad per-se, but avoid exposing yourself to an energy draining environment. Say, belonging to some sort of team, like sports or dance, where nobody ever is on the same page. Even “good” activities like fitness related ones, could be consuming too much time? Perhaps refocus is needed.

In short, my environment was draining me of my ability to feel engaged at work. Some things in my life were not even bad per-se, but it was a problem of lack of focus: I identified my main source of stress (my lack of engagement with work), but found that removing all the energy drainers and distractors made it a lot easier to engage with work.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
More likely than other large companies to not have dark patterns, is probably the more correct sentence. It's especially correct with some of their similarly "non-core" products.

I remember moving off of Google Fi a couple years ago and it being incredibly easy to cancel and move my number. I didn't even have to call anyone. A few clicks and it was done. If you've ever tried to do anything with another phone service, you'll know that's unheard of.
Yes, I don’t want to see that happen on planes!
Monopoly power is the biggest driver of inflation right now. The price spike after the Covid restrictions ended was expected, but it wasn't expected to persist. But businesses used inflation as an excuse to jack up prices more than costs would justify, to increase profit, blaming inflation for this. Ordinarily some competitor would respond by selling the same products for less and taking market share away, but since there are only a few big competitors they can all rachet up the prices together.
> This article itself is also likely an extension of the author's self-promotion tactics.

• This is Mujavid Bukhari's only article on a Substack account established yesterday.

• Mujavid Bukhari's Twitter account has tweeted only 23 times since 2020, and just twice this year — starting yesterday, with both tweets being about Qasim Munye.

So yes, this is a purely promotional article placed in an attempt to attract coverage from influencers/media with a meaningful amount of followers.
I think most of the downvotes aren't because of your claims about the purges, but because of your wink-nudge implication that Soviet engineers and mathematicians could not achieve anything of note without espionage.
I remember when that happened. "Sir" or "kind sir" had become a cliche, and the mods added a replacement filter to discourage people from using it. Understand that SA at the time lived by the edgelord ethos, "if I don't mean it literally, it's not offensive," so this kind of thing wasn't seen as homophobic, even though it totally was.
Modified BE6502 Computer PCB [video]
My PhD Genealogy
Actually, you're right. How would this work? Is Cloudflare really willing to foot the bill of 20 TB of bandwidth per day for a small text file that costs $0 to store?
U.S. military waiting for industry to demonstrate space transportation concepts
It's true, not all of the services died due to technical issues.
I almost never wear mine unless I go out. If I'm not typing, I'm usually building something or doing something else and I guess I just never got used to it, lol.
Without taxes, there would be no capitalism, no roads, no electrical grid, nothing remotely resembling civilization. You are welcome to go find a desert island to live on if the idea of having any kind of responsibility to your fellow human beings is so repugnant.

At any rate, the amount of profit a capitalist business owner skims off their employees labor is much greater than the amount those workers pay in taxes. The idea that the business owner should be allowed to benefit from the labor and effort of an educated, healthy workforce and a functioning infrastructure and financial system while giving nothing in return is not even worth discussing.

It sounds to me like you're just upset that you don't get to be a freeloader. You owe society for what it gives you.
> It’s a bit like a private equity firm blood-letting someone after buying the person a life insurance policy the private equity firm then gets to collect.

So, like long-term care insurance. Biggest scam I've ever personally encountered.
A lot of parents of children with Down's relate how wonderful they are.

I am a parent of kids with a genetic disease (cystic fibrosis). It is very difficult, and we had to make many changes in our life to accommodate the special requirements. But it has also led us into brand new directions we never would have even conceived of. And, of course, our kids are a constant joy, regardless of the troubles.
An old Boy Scout trick.
Black Death shaped the evolution of the immune system and autoimmune disorders
This should be top voted comment.
Who's ever made that argument?
It's probably worse for your health (depending on what sort of fireplace you use), and sure, fallen wood can act as a home for various species, but I'd think only a fossil fuel company's PR department could come up with an argument that burning fallen wood is worse for the environment.
Oh no, It's The Claw!!!
"Here in the U.S., the war has also exposed the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of an ideologically diverse set of foreign-policy commentators: the “anti-imperialists” who routinely justify blatant acts of imperial conquest, and the “realists” who make arguments unmoored from reality."

This is actually a nice list of people missing the official narrative:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/anti-war-c...
Thanks, I knew there was a better way than the search bar below, but was in a bit of a hurry. Regarding the links, it must have been in 2015 I read about it.
If I were the Pentagon, I certainly wouldn't want to pay Drama Queen Elan a penny more than I absolutely had to. :(
I am using the investors’ assets to amplify the value of my work, and they are bearing all the risk for me. It would be unethical not to compensate them.
Most of the forms of travel that are energy and space efficient are typically not time efficient due to inherent tradeoffs. Nothing saves time, space, and energy simultaneously like not commuting in the first place. To butcher an old phrase, "Think globally, live locally".

Universal-ish WFH dramatically undercuts the need for both energy and infrastructure (which also takes energy) and will allow us to scale back both dramatically (e.g., multi-lane roads), while saving lives and giving employees more life flexibility.

Advocates for public transportation (for environmental reasons, particularly) risk fighting the last war. They should shift focus to WFH instead. I really don't understand why Greens and Labor don't push for WFH mandates (for environmental and quality of life reasons, respectively). Probably too tied to the commercial real estate industry.
Calling something a crisis is arbitrary. So it both is and isn’t a crisis based on completely arbitrary metrics.
I understand Nebulae like the Eagle Nebula are fairly dynamic regions of space, so I find it interesting that we have photographs of the same region over a 27 years time span and at a glance, the structure of the Pillars of Creation appears virtually identical.

I understand that 27 years is minuscule on the cosmic timescale, but what order of timescale would be necessary for the evolution of Pillars of Creation to be are apparent to a casual observer? hundreds of years? thousands?
Unfortunately, this has the common bias[1] with IA coloring of making old stuff look dull, reinforcing the Hollywood cliché[2]. The past was actually often very colorful.

[1]: https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/gwenckatz/status/138165207169...

[2]: see this video by a movie props maker about why Hollywood movies make old things look the way they do in movie https://youtu.be/mF1VFlCnLQ4?t=434
Here in the USA we have no fault divorces.

There’s no requirement to give a reason or even have a reason to end a marriage.
I suppose I'm "bearish" on selling development as it presently exists for the exact same reason?

Right now, what's being sold is "more people can go into the career of programming" as opposed to "no really, it's possible to bring so-called 'programming' to everyone.'"

Put differently, it wasn't that Hypercard didn't catch on, it's that things like Hypercard get "killed."
Research: The Unintended Consequences of Pay Transparency
I am so tired of misinformation like this. I know they use the "may" get-out-of-jail-free card in the title, but no, nighttime EV charging will not overburden the grid by 2035, as the article purports, because "the grid" (?) will look dramatically different in 13 years. Plus, networked software solutions are already baked into EVs for time of day charging; as such, its a solved problem unworthy of a headline. The additional load will require new investment, but thats core to the business of providing power. If they can't adapt over a decade with software solutions helping them along, EVs aren't the problem...

The actual report from NREL (1) linked to the article is far more informative and interesting and eludes that clickbait headline, but still makes ham-fisted assumptions that make the whole report a little goofy. To list a few:

- "Absent systemic changes in customer behavior" (you mean no changes except mass customer purchasing of EVs? what's the point of assuming nothing changes)

- Slide 18 shows, for high EV adoption with no charging logic, effectively, "everyone definitely plugs in their EVs at 9pm because thats when TOU kicks in", while also showing "Almost nobody charges at work during the day". Most people will plug in whenever they get home. With WFH, that is basically any random time of the day. Also, they acknowledge people respond to TOU, but dont acknowledge that TOU can change?

- "At-work charging makes up a small portion of total EV charging, so the system benefits are likely to be small" (are they really assuming no changes here over a decade? I would love to charge at work but my office building has no services. These will become commonplace over time. Is this really their

EDIT: this is fun! here's the actual model from the NREL report! This launches a virtual machine, which might take a minute to boot up. Once the model has opened, click on ‘Cell > Run All’ to initialize the script’

https://hub.gke2.mybinder.org/user/skoeb-co-ev-model-rkichrt...

(1) https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/73303.pdf
How dangerous is a penny dropped from a skyscraper?
This is so funny, totally made my day
Chromebooks and raspberry pis don’t detach from their keyboard and display to become mobile smartphones
IP cameras need their WRT54G moment. It would be amazing to have an openwrt like project for them. The software is a complete mess full of bugs and security issues.
You are still talking past me and past the topic. Please stop bringing child abuse into a discussion about slight correction of grades. Comparing these two you are trivializing the former, doing a major disservice to actual victims of abuse and bullying, being at best disingenuous and I have to try very hard to not think about what could motivate you in this crusade.

PS. I am yet to hear an argument as to how you correct an unconscious bias without introducing a conscious bias. You have presented none. Come back when you are done moving the goalposts and willing to stay on topic
I think DKIM was a good idea at the time of its inception. It caught a lot of the low hanging fruit, which was spammers who spoofed domains.

But yeah, now anyone can buy a domain for dirt cheap, setup DKIM, and start spamming away.

At least with DKIM, you have a basis for blocking a domain outright. That is, until they buy up another domain and repeat their spamming activities again.

Email has really fallen apart in the past decade. When it's not spam, it's retailers and other companies sending me unsolicited, unwanted marketing emails, entirely without my consent. They are the bulk of the garbage in my inbox today.

It's amazing to think that companies still think this is a valid way to advertise products and services. At best, people get annoyed and dump you in the Junk folder. At worst, they view it as a form of begging by a desperate company looking for money, and those people definitely won't be interested in buying anything from you ever again. If there was a way to measure it, I would be that companies are losing more money from annoying spam marketing campaigns than from the .00001% that do convert.

Mailchimp, Constant Contact and their ilk are truly a scourge upon our inboxes. You know they're truly terrible companies because if they ever provided a global opt-out of all their email lists from all their clients, they'd go out of business.

One of these days I will just create another self-hosted email service of my own with a fresh domain and only whitelist it with recipients that I actually care to hear from.