skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rather, it is incredibly easy to overspec. Everything is important and then you get SLS like costs. Compare to Falcon 9 which took a similar path to Starship and today works beautifully for human launches.

Take the SLS crawler looking to cost $1 - $1.5B. What a waste of resources.

https://spacenews.com/nasa-audit-reveals-massive-overruns-in...
I’m not trying to diss USA, but are you going to protect this amendment?
> why should consumers care of some pirated books appear on Amazon?

Because pirated books are almost always of markedly lower quality, whereas pirated software is (almost always) functionally equivalent to (or better than) the non-pirated software.
Good to see human beings are still challenging themselves in chess after AlphaGo
I agree that there is concern of malfeasance in that scenario, but I was under the impression the context of the discussion was solely around the purchase and sale of contracts for the commodities (i.e. betting on the future price of a commodity), not manipulation of the actual supply and demand.
When it comes to staff, NBA is the only major sport which didn’t need a Rooney rule.
.io is problematic: https://ict.io/en/the-dark-side-of-the-io-extension/
What you describe sounds like pitch memory, which doesn't have the same qualities (and problems) as actual absolute ("perfect") pitch. I also remember pitch. I can grab my guitar after a week away from it, touch a string and know if it's out of tune. I can tune it without a tuner.

But what I'm actually doing is remembering the pitch with the help of the timbre of the guitar string (or harp string, for my wife's harp - I hear if a string is "off" even if it's the first single note I hear in the morning). I believe I would quickly be bewildered if I heard pure sine tones. And that's it. There's nothing more which is even close to what people with absolute pitch can do. I haven't run into that many of them, but it's like they see all the music in color, it's a different world (and they are often constantly bothered by out-of-tune sounds from life). Hit some random notes in parallel and they can tell you the notes instantly. And so on and so forth.

The other thing is what happens if they lose the perfect pitch.. which does happen, with age, for many, or at least it de-tunes a bit (drops a semitone, for example). Then, when it's gone, they don't even have relative pitch to rely on. Rick Beato interviewed a couple of people this happened to. I don't want to be there. My little ability to tune without a tuner is enough for me, and what it is is trained pitch memory - not absolute pitch. And it's relatively common, unlike absolute pitch.
Run for office. Seriously. Also I'll point out no lawmaker is going to be very well versed in every subject on which legislation is necessary.
(2022) https://archive.vn/scSgc
I'm pretty sure they're not uniquely Americanisms, and thatwe got those from the old country, where there was the landed gentry and literal lords and kings and queens in the upper class, with peasants, serfs, in the lower classes. It wasn't until the French grew fed up with the system that it underwent a revolutionary change.

There's still a House of Lords (upper class) and a House of Commons (lower class) in the UK.
Easy fix. Do cgi of the control room.
Haha, a few years ago I created a Chrome extension called "Writer's Block" that would delete everything in the textarea if the user pressed backspace/delete. I used it a lot myself for a while and it got me into the habit of writing without premature editing. I never got around to actually releasing it.
Example of why you should not use FaceID to unlock your phone
I remember when Canonical did a lot of work to fix 'papercuts' in the linux desktop, and they used that term because there was a lot of 'small' bugs that really added up to make the whole thing a pain to use. Especially at the time people were advocating desktop linux as better/more stable than windows but the reality was that for many common tasks you would run into brokeness (audio glitches, wifi problems, etc), but many open source devs saw these bugs as 'minor' although they had an outsize impact on the user experience.
More people than the population of the US likely eat rotis prepared that way. Like this: https://youtu.be/lsI08y6jwaQ

All of north India eats rotis made this way as their staple.
That’s a false equivalence.

You’ve either misunderstood or deliberately linked an article that doesn’t support your claim about using natural gas cooking.

“Around 2.4 billion people worldwide (around a third of the global population) cook using open fires or inefficient stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal, which generates harmful household air pollution.”

Open fire/stove cooking is the primary cause of COPD in the developing world, in the developed world its smoking. The WHO is not worried about US homes with gas stoves. This article is not about natural gas stoves. The article is about open fire/stove cooking.

I hope others aren’t misled by you. What a shame.
Do you have a source for gas stoves giving people allergies?
If you want to learn orbital mechanics, just play KSP.
This is daft. Treating wealth as a measure of poverty wouldn’t work. Think about why. It pretends families don’t exist. Total non-starter.
When I was in high school I did Moot Court. I remember our coach telling is to stop using the word "clearly" in our arguments. His point was that if it really was so clear you wouldn't be in court arguing about it.
> why should consumers care of some pirated books appear on Amazon?

Speaking as an author: because I write for a living, and if I can't earn a living at this I'll have to find some other job, which will cause me to stop writing. Piracy is directly rivalrous for the author's revenue-earning product. (Libraries are less so insofar as Public Lending Right and royalties on library editions cause some money to go to the authors.)

Remember, authors are not film studios or rock groups. We don't have merchandising opportunities, we don't perform live for a ticket fee, and we're mostly very small-scale sole trader businesses. Our revenue comes 100% from sales of our books, unlike bands (who make peanuts from streaming but are paid to tour) or film studios (lots of spin-off merchandise).

(Median income for full time novelists working in the UK, per the ALCS in 2022, was around £7000 a year. A tiny handful make millions, a large number are hobbyists doing it in their spare time for pin money, a small number of us earn a middle class income -- not management level, not even programmer or web developer level. It doesn't take much to tip us from "just getting by" to "giving up, have to go stack shelves in a supermarket" territory.)
Did you know that professional wine sommeliers confuse white wine and red wine if tricked by visual cues?

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/08/the_most_infam...
I'd rather have the best current player in there. I thought this WCC was rather pointless.
Lithium is not the only cause of aquifer depletion in Chile, avocado farms have also been responsible for depleting the wells of residents [1].

These outcomes, as the article alludes to, are due to the privatization of resource rights, which is a consequence of Pinochet government going all in on the policies Milton Friedman promoted [2].

Citizens of Chile are more victims of neoliberalism than they are of any particular industry.

[1] https://www.lifegate.com/avocado-chile-water

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_Chile
The issue is if the intent to act just now is just a way to institute selective justice to further injustice.

For example, the same people who tend to support helping all poor people for certain things (like college admissions) tend to oppose it for other things (like welfare or basic income). The defining line across all of these things tends to be race and which group benefits the most.

So when I hear let’s help everyone when it helps their in-group, but they don’t have that same energy elsewhere (or the same energy a decade ago when maybe it wouldn’t have helped their in-group) — I get cynical.
> 1% or 28% of global CO2 emissions, if this statistic is even true, is huge.

1% of 28%. If we trust that number, that means that the best we can hope for from this change is 0.0028 (0.3%, rounding up) of global emissions. That number is a ceiling: it assumes that not only do new buildings not have gas stoves, but that all old gas stoves in the United States are removed as well.

This negligible (IMO) improvement comes at the cost of 1) being vulnerable during power outages, 2) having a far worse cooking experience on a daily basis, according to many, and 3) generating significant political backlash that will hinder changes that will actually make a difference.

One of my favorite climate change books is How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, by Bill Gates, in which he outlines where the biggest opportunities lie. His approach seems far more practical and likely to make a dent in the problem.
Deluxe decked out Mercedes sprinter van. All of the headroom!
Decoded: Image Optimization on the Web
Interesting. The same search term returns "UUG is an acronym for: Uniface Users Group. Universal Underwriters Group." in the top box for me. Also in incognito.
> We used to have a river before that now doesn’t exist. There isn’t a drop of water,” says Rivera. “And not only here in Copiapó but in all of Chile, there are rivers and lakes that have disappeared

It’s more likely that climate change was responsible for this problem.
At first I agreed with you in that my spouse had a negative response to me referring to a particular person, method, place or thing as “famous” when she was not aware of the person. I’ve learned to omit it or say “well known in some circles” or the like.

On the other hand, maybe these phrases like “simply” or “obviously”are less-than-consciously used on the part of the speaker/writer to acknowledge that this reference may already be known to the listener/reader. In that it reminds me of various England-Englishisms that mean the opposite of their plain definitions.
Why should housing be a right, and not food? Food is even more crucial for survival.
Sounds like those people aren't interested in the biomedical field. Maybe representation is indicative of desire instead of oppression.
Stoves are often 400v here in Europe at least.
Proxies added new features that couldn’t be emulated. Class syntax added nothing of intrinsic value, but also succeeded in creating an entire generation of “Senior” JS developers who don’t understand prototypal inheritance in general and the weird JS implementation in particular.
Yep. I’ve used Glassdoor reviews in making my decision about employers. I ignored bad reviews once and regretted it.
If they don't even have code reviews, why do they care about a few warnings in CI?
1) Maybe you missed the point, I agree there is pressure in both cases but the consequence is different

2) I didn't read it carefully but I ctrl-Fed to find these details
Lots of places like this don’t have natural gas. It’s often propane tanks, which have their own issues.

Natural gas plumbing is not some magical, amazing thing that magically delivers a much-maligned but otherwise perfect product. It’s an explosive gas that’s piped through underground pipes with fancy pressure regulators and hopefully ends up somewhere useful. Those pipes are expensive, the regulators are complex and can leak or fail, sometimes spectacularly, and the final product is not that useful when delivered to houses. (And it’s not practical to make your own combustible gas at home, whereas making your own electricity can be done in several ways.)

If I were developing a new community from scratch, I would not install gas plumbing. The utilities would be fiber, electricity, water, sewage, and possibly district heating of some sort. This has nothing to do with regulations, just practicality.
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Or the tld of your country if possible (e.g., .de for Germany, .fr for France, etc.)
its not only days off but also the length of those days on. Euro culture (appreciate, massive generalisation, there's loads of variance but...) is pretty good at finishing when you finish, starting when you start. None of this email replies at 9pm at night etc. US working culture routinely intrudes into unpaid personal time. It's an impressive feat of propaganda to keep the public largely unaware of this outrageous exploitation
About 0% of landlords risk their own money - it's from the bank.
> Refusing to return security deposits is absolutely a low income landlord strategy.

Oh I've had this happen to me from a "high income landlord" in San Francisco. Penny pincher lady living in a wealthy neighborhood, repairing herself the leaky roof of the SF building she owns with duct tape. Tried to keep my deposit until, like the comment you're replying to, I threatened to bring her to small claims court. I had the deposit in my mailbox the next day.
Doesn't seem equitable to me.
Software "papercuts" work like an abrasive to users. They more they are, they more dread it becomes to use the software, especially if they have to because of work.

When a competitor comes along, you know where the users are going.

But "papercuts" is a weird name. They are bugs. Bad bugs but not bad enough that the author wants to fix them.
Algebraic Types in Rust Explained
Lobbyists lobby for causes, for money, that is their point.

If you run a small solar company, it is in your best interest to support SEIA, the member association (lobbyist) for the solar industry.

You might think the system is dumb, and it is, but if you don’t understand why it exists, you can’t design a replacement.

Lawmakers and their teams legislate on topics that they are far from experts in, so they regularly need to consult with experts. Those experts, no matter how you select them, will harbor biases.

How do you get the relevant expertise to the lawmakers? I’ve talked to a chief of staff for a senator and at that level it is a lot of responding to what is next on the agenda, and less deciding.
Name or hyphenated-name dot org or dot space if usage terms match?
Exactly. They're supporting their interests. But whatever, if that's what it takes, fine.
Why is the Internet losing its innocence – going from collaboration to hate?
I do all my opensource work just for myself. Then it becomes a nice surprise when someone else uses it too.
It's not about car ownership, it's about car dependence and how you view the car. In Scandinavia most people have cars, but nobody would find it the least bit strange for a middle class or rich person to take the bus to work, and people don't think it's normal to drive 500 m to a shop.

I don't know if you are French or just live there, but you have probably noticed that most people have very small cars compared to the US. Most people don't feel the need to signal status through having a large car, it's much more pragmatic.
People learn to tolerate minor bugs in software because most software is buggy. If I became upset at every minor (or even major) bug I encountered in day-to-day life, there would be no time to do anything else. On rare occasions I get blocked enough to track down and report/fix the bug[0], but mostly I just try to find a workaround and carry on toward whatever my original goal was.

Even if every bug were to be fixed, one would be frustrated by behaviors that are clearly intentional but stupid, usually because someone tried to over-simplify something[1], hack in a "helpful" shortcut[2], or has aesthetic preferences against supporting complex use cases[3].

Finally, beyond those two great lakes of bugs and bad ideas, we come to the endless ocean of missing minor functionality. The comic reader that lets page order be swapped for manga but doesn't change which arrow "next page" is bound to; the web browser that doesn't allow translating a page unless its language heuristics get tickled in the right way; the mobile keyboard that couples auto-punctuation with spelling correction.

It's like the joke about wine snobs -- if you don't know much about wine then most wines taste fine, but if you take a wine appreciation course then you'll never be able to enjoy it again.

[0] three weeks ago: https://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=706551

[1] A lot of GNOME's applications fall into this category, for example its "Document Scanner" vs xsane, or "Music Player" vs Rhythmbox/Banshee.

[2] two weeks ago: https://mstdn.io/@jmillikin/110211856191257399

[3] I am annoyed daily by crates.io lacking per-user namespaces, and the primary objection to adding them seems to be driven by a preference for single-token package names.
Go Plugin System over WebAssembly
> According to your other answers, you have already concluded that opposing RIIR is due to a hatred for Rust.

I refuse to discuss castles in the sky so let's get one thing straight: there is no such thing as "RIIR". It does not exist and never did. That's just a coined term by the detractors so they can have a boogeyman to shake their head at and pretend they are smarter and know best -- which is pretty rich when it comes from C/C++ devs, I have to say; not a month goes by without us getting news that the "just don't write bugs, duh!" crowd has produced yet another privilege escalation bug that, surprise surprise, comes from lack of memory safety (lol). And people still argue Rust doesn't help even in this thread, when memory safety is Rust's one of the top value-adds.

Now it's my turn to shake my head. Right back at you.

Tradeoffs exist, you are aware of that I am sure. Some people evaluate Rust and find it a good fit, others don't. Both are 100% fine. You seem to have a problem with the former though.

I never said Ada is not good btw, don't straw-man me, that's not arguing in good faith (though I took the obvious bait because that much was pretty clear already). I said that Ada was not good for the projects I evaluated, nothing else. For whoever it works well then by all means, keep using it! We don't exist to evangelize technology, we exist to get stuff done. If tech X or Y makes that easier, cheaper, more reliable etc. then we should swallow (ideally, destroy) our bias and use the right tool for the job. Can you do that? I know I can, I have my doubts about you however.

You seem to be under the illusion that there are hordes of imaginary zealots out there going around telling people EVERYTHING should be in Rust. Go touch some grass because that's not true.

(And let me blow your mind: every community has its bad apples. If you chose to judge Rust's viability based on a few loonies then that says bad things about your judgement.)

Since your shtick seems to be "I'll make it look you're the prejudiced guy" then you might as well not bother replying, I just wanted to make the above clear for future readers, not for you. You seem to have made up your mind already, long ago.
British public support for monarchy at historic low, poll reveals
Money talks. The head of the FAA are chosen by the President and confirmed by the Senate. Usually the heads are people who use to work for the Airline Industry or Manufactures of Airlines. So, major conflict of interest here.
Tania's commentary verges on annoying.
you are describing the point of view of the market manager, whose wish is to make profit and keep the (relative) peace. Brand protection is a different concern, a concern of many participants, not the manager.

Brand integrity is a way for consumers to find quality or other attributes reliably. Brand building is a real way to build wealth for those seeking to do business in the market. These positions are fragile and rely on some amount of enforcement by the market managers.

This point of view is similar to many professions who deal with large volumes of the population, and when some of them become ill, suffer, have losses or disappointment, the response is "the market is healthy. To make an omelette you have to break a few eggs. What business is it of mine if people buy fake products?"
I mentioned above that I would love to see true fume hoods required for new buildings, as a regulation.

I'm not libertarian or even conservative and am surprised at an ad-hominem attack like this.
Stealing deposits is such a scumbag crime. Typically stealing $3000 from someone is considered a serious felony but for landlords it is common practice.
For anyone reading this, I would highly recommend your ex-landlord them to small claims court for this kind of crime. The forms are not that hard, the Judges are sympathetic (the landlord is blatantly committing a crime), and it is very satisfying to know that the law can protect you from the criminal elements of society.
I would also add that in California, deposits must be put in an interest bearing savings account and paid back with the interest. Make sure they pay you the proper amount. Ignorance of the law is not a legal defense and it helps establish criminal intent.
The opposite is true in practice. Hernias happen when your core is weak and you exert yourself beyond capacity. Strengthening your core wall and adding stabilizer muscles all help to prevent hernias.
You might be thinking of Zephyr, which was part of Project Athena. My school was using Athena, and I occasionally received zephyrgrams from people at MIT.

http://web.mit.edu/sipb/doc/working/izephyr/html/izephyr.htm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_(protocol)
Doesn’t income have the same issue?
Impressive, very based take. Now good luck convincing your 80 year old curmudgeon Dad to lift a weight.
Changing the Constitution requires an overwhelming support [1]. The Constitution as it stands has too much support for a change to occur.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/our-governm....
Here's the decisive tiebreaker to anyone who didn't watch it:

https://youtu.be/cSxNZix1Xwc?t=12404 (3:26:44 – 4:38:10)

https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-world-chess-championship-... (just the moves)
Don’t forget to write off reactive libraries and a bunch of other stuff too.

The proxy problem is bigger than the “people don’t respect my authority” problem that led to private fields in the first place.
I used to check out the O'Reilly X11 series of books from my college library in the mid 1990's. This is the one volume that I actually bought and still have on my bookshelf.
(Quote from the 2011 computer game Portal 2, said by the fictional character “Cave Johnson”, voiced by J. K. Simmons)
Thankfully the laws says innocent until proven guilty.

Apparently the law is “absurd”
It's all about the elasticity of demand. That's why software that one must use - perfectly inelastic demand - is usually the shittiest, such as government software and corporate crapware. Inelastic demand means that the supplier has no incentive to decrease cost for the consumer (annoyance is an indirect cost). Elastic demand means the supplier benefits from a decrease in cost, because it results in more units sold.
Interactive Storybooks with Images
> How should I, as a consumer, have voted against this with my wallet, before it happened?

That's what long term reputation is for.
I don’t like cooking on the electric stove top because it provides uneven heating. It’s easier to clean though.
8 years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10345734
You never heard of Keith Richards? maybe because he is still alive?