skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PRC has had a blue enough water navy to reach SCS since the 60s - it's their backyard not the gulf of Aden. See Paracel island skirmish in 74 and Johnson Reef in 88 against Vietnam. Obviously not enough to deter the USN but the US was neutral on the SCS dispute until recently for obvious geopolitical reasons. Latest round of SCS drama and reclamation around the 2010s also started by Vietnam who spurred every other claimant to improve features, including PRC who btw was second last to reclaim and militarize out of 6 claimants. Brunei is good boi. TLDR is PRC impulse will obviously use the navy (really coastguard/scs militia) to assert sovereignty rights (as do other claimants) but has not actually interrupted commercial shipping despite having decades to counter the narrative. Even when PRC had good reason to i.e. ROC/TW attempted to blockade PRC via port closure policy until the 90s. Entire narrative PRC will disrupt SCS SLOCs is fabricated by the US to rationalize increased naval/coast guard presence in SCS considering shipping could be routed around SCS - study in the 00s pegged rerouting premium at 10% to circumvent SCS, basically trivial.

Yes, PRC disrupting commercial shipping is a valid strategic concern but the hypotheticals of it don't actually make much sense given where force balance is heading. PRC trend towards mainland based long range fires = PRC doesn't need navy to blockade TW (and increasingly US assets in 1st island chain including SCS). Real work is credibly deterring the US from intervening at all by expanding strikes to disrupting 2/3IC and even AU/CONUS. I think people, especially those brought up in the US military talking points, fixate too hard over the naval component in IndoPac for both sides but signs are pointing to increasing irrelevance of naval projection - large reason for B21 and NGAD and trying to get JP/PH/AU to expand basing is to plug loss of fires from diminishing role of naval power which US says is important to rectify while inaction to reform US ship building and acquisitions suggest it's not. They see which way the next potential war is heading.

Ultimately what makes more sense is the threat narrative of PRC disrupting SCS shipping is useful to rationalize US forward deployment just like AUKUS subs are about getting US bombers in west AU. Which circles back to AUKUS subs, the consensus criticism is deterrence value for a few nuke boats is minimal especially in 30 years it will take to get subs online and especially in SCS which is borderline PRC lake at this point given state trend of PRC ASW and subsea monitoring expansion. That's without mentioning PRC's own nuke sub procurement that will reach if not exceed parity of US+AUKUS with post reveal that initial batch of AUKUS subs will be redirecting hulls from USN. Criticism of AUKUS subs deterrence value is explicitly about how little deterrence it offers relative to cost and how it will bind AU defense to US interests and erode long term AU sovereignty. The latter being the primary strategic logic of AUKUS.
That's not the definition of a function, what you're describing would be called a bijective function. A simple function that is not bijective and maps to two distinct values would be sqrt(x)
Yeah, four or five clicks and my BS meter is off the charts. Not even so much as a hint as to a keyword to Google for more research. :/

But also, I'm rather intrigued and am doing some more looking now...

EDIT: I can't even tell what the difference between Sentia Red and Black are. I can't tell if one of them actually contains Alcarelle (Which is hard to research since that's GABA Labs' former name). Folks, this is not how you do it.
1. Outside of trademarks, "IP" typically isn't "perpetual". Copyrights last a long time, but they're not perpetual either.

2. If you sell a widget, that item gets irreversibly transferred to the buyer. If you sell your time (ie. what you're doing as an employee) the same thing happens with your time. If you "sell" a movie, that doesn't happen. Well, technically that happens all the time between companies, but doesn't apply to the typical consumer transaction. "perpetual IP based income" is a way to make products that are infinitely copyable have a viable business model. Otherwise if you want to watch a movie, you'll have to pay for the whole thing.
I think cyberpunk was pretty spot on?
About 3/4 of all domestic airline profits are accounted for by business travel. You are bad at this.
More context [1]. This was measured in very shallow water with poor circulation and heavy dark algae (which heats water) and is also similar or less than readings in 2017 and 2009.

[1] https://www.news4jax.com/weather/2023/07/26/are-water-temps-...
The rich: that is why (one of the whys) their votes matter.
The answer actually quite simple.

Stop using things made mega corporations. It’s probably include many of the companies you’re currently working for.

Note I said that it was simple, not easy.
>I truly hate Walmart for having destroyed so many US towns--will never give them my money.

This makes no sense when the reason it “destroyed small towns” was by attracting the same shopping you do at Costco.
It's used much the same in NYC and some other than areas. A quick tap to say "hey I'm here and I'm doing something" like changing lanes or pulling out of traffic

Aside: I really wish cars had two different horns. A nice little boop horn, to say "hey I'm here" or "lights green buddy" and then the big honking thing that says "you nearly hit me by rolling through that stop sign, pay better attention"
Truncated-pyramid floating wind turbines shouldn't have as much of a problem with this, as the loads are closer to traditional transverse and axial.

(Picture two flat-topped letter 'A's, one behind the other, with a crossbar going from the top of the front one to the top of the back one. The blades spin around this crossbar, an axle. The generator can be at one end of this axle, or in the blade hub. The whole structure is floating, moored at one corner, and can rotate to keep the blades facing into the wind as required.)
What is there to disagree about Coke being bad for people. You may like the taste or not that is debatable.
Ironically, Hacker News purged the emoji from the title of this post.
thenk you What are the 3 basic processors
Would you prefer that we only get biopics about people who have storybook personal growth or would you prefer that more of the biopics we get are fictionalized? 'Cause that's the choice we have, if we act on your complaint.

People tell stories. They are not themselves stories. Most people, even really important, impactful people, were just doing something interesting, or putting one foot in front of another, or pursuing short-term goals.
It would be funny if rms didn't actually spend much time at a computer anymore, while maintaining a Free Software purist image. (I have no idea if that's reality, it's just an amusing thought)
thenk you
Text based is fine. I started with Slackware in 96, and I’m totally comfy with that - but when I installed OpenBSD I recall needing to supply some pretty detailed stuff about starting cylinders? It was lower level than I remember having to get even with Linux in very early days.

Maybe it’s less hairy now.
Or where to even start? What are you going to do? Write a letter? Protest? What does that even get you. Seems big $ is all that works.
I don't think you did. You're setting up a hyperbole to create a context in which the city is somehow more concerned about Elon than anything else. Prostitutes, drug dealing, hookers, man oh man you hit them all, didn't you?

It's still the government's duty to ensure a private company doesn't put up a large metal structure that will fall and crush people walking below. Are you trying to suggest that's an OK risk and instead the city should be picking up loose papers?
> You can in fact build a new single family home in Manhattan, if you can afford the land to do so.

Really? Where? Note that I don't mean a townhome or a row house, I mean literally a detached single family home.

> What it sounds like you advocate for is that everywhere currently dense can stay dense, and everywhere not currently dense must stay not dense.

Obviously this won't be the case long term; areas will evolve. Some will become more dense, some will become less dense.

What I am saying is that people have a wide variety of preferences, and that is just a fact of life. Talking as if one particular way of living is "better" does not recognize that.

> That doesn't make sense unless you want the dense area to continue to skyrocket in price as more people want to live there and we have no new housing to accommodate them.

Why would there be no new housing in urban areas? New construction is going on in cities all the time.
Morality is not debatable. Only immoral people say that morality is debatable.
Not really. Coke has a lot of caffeine which makes it a lot more addictive.
Ex-tabber here, 5.5 years clean, with some remaining ... issues.

It is bloody hard to give up, really hard but not impossible. If you want to give up then I do recommend that you prepare yourself mentally. I ended up coming up with a couple of "downside mantras" that I would repeat to myself, whenever thoughts of smoking happened.

I initially thought I would use a vape but realized very quickly that would not work for me. If nicotine is the (only) addictive substance then patches, gum, vapes etc would just work. The habit thing is relatively easy to crack but there must be other addictive components to smoking, including sensation (you need to be a smoker to understand that one). Also I didn't want to substitute one thing for another, so abstention was the way to go for me. Some may find help with gum and patches - gum is probably the best substitute, being "active" (and might even improve mouth hygiene).

I stopped mid afternoon on a Friday and had a lie in on Saturday. That got me to around 18 hours. I made it to 24 hours. Then I managed two days, then four, then a week (a landmark one day less than the next double - every little helps). Then two weeks. Visited the kids and bummed a drag on a fag and hated it.

At around a week my sense of taste and smell re-arrived with a major jolt! I can remember smelling people entering the room and other mad things. It calmed down to normal about week three and I now have a sense of smell that accords with other non smokers.

In the end, if you want to give up, then get cracking sooner rather than later and develop strategies but do not try to rely on things like vapes and gum to do it for you. You have to quite literally give yourself a massive mental kicking too.

For me I focused on two aspects I hated about smoking and I would mentally repeat this to myself whenever I thought of it:

"I don't want to smell and I don't want to die"

Even with my denuded sense of smell I could tell I reeked and the second one is pretty obvious. When I did that the craving or thought would be quashed for a while. I did have dreams where I smoked and sometimes woke up convinced I had been smoking. You do have to wrestle with yourself somewhat and decide to win!

I continued: ... then a month. Now I have saved £10.50 x 30 = £309 (I thought I smoked 20 a day but I smoked more - self delusion, probably more like 25-30). Cool.

... two months, four months (quarter of a year). Six months. Now I have realistically saved around £2000, have a functional sense of taste and smell and I no longer cough all the time.

... one year. Fuck me, how the hell did I manage that?

... pandemic etc

... 29 July 2023 - rarely think about smoking until an article on HD hoves into view.
Quality candidates are rare and quality recruiters are rarer.
Pedestrians are not served at drive-through windows at least in part because they are more dangerous to the workers. A driver at a drive-through window can't open their door, the window is very close to the drive-through kiosk but the kiosk is usually much higher (in a sedan) making it hard to climb out through the car window...they've also got a license plate.

During the pandemic most fast food places locked their lobbies and only did drive-through, which meant truckers couldn't get food because workers wouldn't serve them due to policies the companies refused to adjust.

I remember some police departments were volunteering to go through the drive-throughs for truckers.
Agreed. Of course it is not easy. It is a job. But it is worth it.
FWIW, the post is about ChatGPT-style chatbots, not customer support chatbots (which I don't personally love, either).
I don't think that's the kind of heat GP meant
> Absolutely not, this is not remotely "clear", and it's a very strange thing to assert.

I guess it depends how you define intelligence but I guess I would say intelligence is the ability to find the best action to take to achieve a certain goal, and AI can do that reasonably well

> What does "as you seem to know already" mean in this context?

It means that based on the comment I was replying to the person seems to already understand what I just said
Yeah me too. I was even robbed by "them". I "suffered" due to the "image" they created. And then i realised that's all bullshite and there's more to this story.

I spoke with Romany PHd students, bachelor students, authors, entrepreneurs, people that like you and eye slave away for a day off or for good daily rate.

They almost all do their best to hide their identity and ethnicity. In countries such as Austria, Germany, Sweden, Finland, even the slightest suspicion that you are Gypsy can result in verbal and physical, abuse. Policies of entire countries are made around it.

Some people may say that you went to prison because you didn't want better. Both you and I know there is nuance to it.

If you, your mother, your father, your family, your friends have all been raised in povery, marginalisation, and lived in constant fear of reprisal you would have done what the Roma do. You would have isolated yourself where you found confort. I know I would have.

The Roma didn't have the opportunity I did, they were almost always pushed aside. I know because I spoke to a bunch of Roma students that where afraid to reveal they were Roma to the point they shivered. We had to speak about it in private almost as if they were being hunted.

I also know because I knew a Swiss professors who shared racist jokes about them without shame. German, French, Romania, Dutch, and so on.

I don't deny there is a criminal element in their society and culture. Equally I don't deny there's good, and we need to dig for that good as we do in our "own".
Why does my car stereo cut out for 10s when I drive through this village?
That’s how the Internet was before corporate inundated shit and “real name” social media.
I don't feel like you have given enough information for anyone to answer without making many assumptions.

My take (and hence assumptions) is you want to build a product where other engineers utilize your stripe account while charging fourth parties. I believe standard stripe accounts only allow for end use, not intermediary use. e.g. you can not "repackage" stripe to a third party and allow them to charge on your stripe account. If I understand things properly too, this actually wouldn't even be a Stripe only restriction, this is a restriction by many (most) card networks.

Definitely not a lawyer and not an expert on all things credit card. I did work on a project that tried to do something like this. Our client was wanting to allow their resellers to charge for unrelated products through the companies merchant account. This is essentially repacking and they got smacked by the bank and told this is not allowed by card networks. Now, whether it was just that bank and they lied about the reasoning or not I cannot say. But I know the networks are super touchy about knowing who is charging, for what and the risk profiles etc
That would be a interesting topic!

If you write it, people will read it!

I am one of those many people who will read it.

"Sharing is caring"
By some narrow definitions of winning.

At least scouting taught me to leave a place better than I found it. (Not that I always succeed, but it's worth trying to keep doing better.)
Prison for the execs, fines for the shareholders.
I feel like the more modes of transportation you mix together the worse the cognitive load on people. And it get rapidly worse the higher the density.

Inside of a mall where there are only pedestrians is very safe. Freeways are fairly safe. Protected bike lanes are safe. Light rail is safe.

Mix all of those on a strode, rail, buses, trucks, cars, bicycles, pedestrians, not safe.
Do you have any tips for us plebs?
Also used to enjoy Phenibut quite a bit. Felt a bit like Alcohol without the "stupid". Although the onset time wasn't the best to handle and there was huge difference whether I took it on empty stomach in the morning or at some point later in the day. Haven't done it for a while though. Sleep was also amazing. Easy to fall asleep and so sweet. Definitely shouldn't use very frequently like you said. Best to leave at least 2 weeks inbetween. I had periods of using it every day.
There are designs for floating turbines (but they still need to be anchors to the sea floor). Though I wonder if, on scale, they could be made into a flotilla that would only need a smaller amount of anchors for the whole thing, and also be towed around if needed.
offtopic: economists use these models in places where even these oversimplified ones work pretty well

and usually the issues with results are not because information asymmetry
Show me an AI that can snake a plugged toilet or replace a blown head gasket.
Since people worship money, they deify Buffet. Does that make sense to you?
At some point I just closed my eyes and pretended I was listening to a radio drama, which is what it could've / should've been.
Even if there is null, the merge function should have done some sort of null / istruthy check. That’s unbelievable.
> You say directly after making up your own definition of intelligence.

I guess but I think the one I’m using is more common and useful. The Google dictionary says “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills” which is closer to mine (having knowledge and the ability to apply it) than yours (some abstract idea of consciousness that can’t be measured)

> Theres a reason AI researchers call it "Training" and not "Teaching"

They also call it machine learning
Here's another one on Adafruit (more time intensive but includes a VOC sensor) https://learn.adafruit.com/air-quality-sensor-silo-house
At least in sailing, you can go a lot faster than the wind; I assume the same is true for these blades.
I tried this awhile back, but the empty template project its compiler can generate to get started compiled to 2 MiB of JavaScript.
I remember seeing this video a while ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8
Is this actually indicative of the kind of structured debate that happens in colleges?
It is engineered to appeal to those enlightened enough to move past the petty question of “What am I putting into my body?” to the really important questions like “Was it made in A Lab of some sort?”
Look I agree with everything you said, but freedom means being free to make "bad" decisions.
Other than that, what’s ur story?
Wow, amazing, the policies of LA and CA aren't effective, even in 2019?
Maybe the article should be titled police in LA and Riverside have stopped putting themselves in high risk situations, and focus on traffic violations. Maybe it has something to do with DAs not prosecuting crimes or reclassifing crimes.
The buttons on Zenith’s original ‘clicker’ remote were a mechanical marvel
I was confused, because i know one other ruby program called foreman.
Coca Cola is one of the main plastic polluters of our oceans.

Thanks to them our oceans look like this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1449d...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/07/coca-col...

Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestlé named top plastic polluters for third year in a row

Companies accused of “zero progress” on reducing plastic waste, with Coca-Cola ranked No 1 for most littered products

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/aug/11/coca-cola-m...

Coca-Cola most common littered brand on UK beaches, says study
Not sure I buy that. [0] has some data to suggest that light decreases crime, and there's also common sense. If you can see a potentially sketchy situation a block down, it gives you the chance to take a little detour and perhaps avoid it entirely. The light also allows more witnesses, more people to step in if needed, more people to call cops if needed, and more chance for cameras to be effective.

[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2019/5/9/how-something-a...
This is interesting. I take a high absorption magnesium pill daily. I'm not sure what the full reasons are but it seems to improve my sleep apnea and mood (though the mood may be from sleeping better).

But alcohol always seems to counteract that effect.
I doubt cops like pulling people they can't see over. They could be shot dead and never see the gun.
I think that falls under "sir, this is a Wendy's."

Businesses aren't required to serve every possible market. They can specialize! It's leaving money on the table, but someone else can do that.
It’s not hard not to merge on null.

I agree rest of it can be hard, and would be nervous. But this should have been obvious
Ostensibly, although many (most?) of Musk's actions since the takeover have been rather detrimental to this goal.
Given the nature of the tobacco business (to get people addicted on a pleasure-inducing drug), it's not surprising to see them ignore health risks !
1a. Plenty of people, especially on this website, are not just scraping by.

1b. Some are of course. Many are legitimately scraping by, but many others are scraping by because they're in a lifestyle prison of their own making, and could easily have complete financial security by consuming less. For them it's an excuse, not an explanation.

2. A lifestyle that has you "making it to the end of the day" is an unhealthy lifestyle, and, yes, you've got to do work on yourself --- take charge of your free time, leave the bad job, leave the bad relationship, strike out alone, etc --- before you can work on making the world better. So there are some dependencies before you're gonna do anything important, but that doesn't mean you can't be on the path.
Great, now I have to figure out whether to go by the standards of mycologos or Mortimer J. Adler.
Using managed technologies such as PostgreSQL will be simpler and often cheaper than SQLite, if you'll have to manage it yourself, incl. scaling, backups, updates.
Honestly, who cares? It's not like people had no idea smoking caused cancer to begin with. They certainly don't care, so why should we?
Vaping is in no way quantitively safer than smoking tobacco. The amount of heavy metals you get in a cigarettes is just incredible. Plus you get more nicotine, which makes you more addicted.
Of course—congregations are much bigger than classrooms. But the figures above are cited in terms of complaints (corresponding to number of victims) not number of perpetrators. Thus the better comparison is how many people attend school versus the number who attend Catholic Church. Catholics are 1/4 of the population, and over the relevant timeframe (back to 1950), probably half or more attended church regularly.
They would make more progress if we only gave them the money they can account for.
The sign has lights and is currently blinding the people of SF.

https://twitter.com/realchrisjbeale/status/16853997491665510...
Sounds like he forgot to "space" the "X".

In any case I imagine that trying to create a commerce "everything" app like WeChat in the US will cause trouble with Apple and Google, even Epic Games w/ all their Fortnite users couldn't dodge the 30% fee.
That is not specific to wind technology. The risk is much worse with legacy coal, gas and nuclear power stations.