skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Illinois has St Louis Cardinals MLB plates, presumably for downstate residents that relate to STL more than Chicago… I guess in addition to being a question of state pride it’s probably also a matter of public safety that they don’t have Green Bay Packers NFL plates for Lake and McHenry residents, though!
While I do agree that for most of companies those large SaaS solutions are overkill I do not think that DuckDB or similar is sufficient. Nowadays more of the companies really need to process large datasets.

I meet regularly companies that used PostgreSQL or something similar up to some point but then they have grown and it is not sufficient anymore. They need something scalable. It does not have to be large SaaS: in many cases small Clickhouse cluster is sufficient. Nevertheless not everything can be done using single server. Also even if customer knows exactly well what are their needs right now does needs will grow and change over time so it is reasonable to build something that is not only good enough for now. Of course building something absolutely "future proof" leads to extremes and high bills.
One thing is missing from this discussion: Visa processing times have shot up since before covid, and new organizers were still (naively) following timelines from a few years ago. They’ll adjust lead times to compensate, but the root cause is the needless increase in visa processing lag.

That’s something the governments need to fix, and it has much worse impacts than conference attendance woes.
Found the paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S08891...
Just built a new Gaming Linux PC which is intended to replace my aging Dell XPS 13 as my daily driver. Decided to go all-in on flatpaks, as I've been trying to stay away from rpm-fusion.

The Steam Flatpak has been an adventure, to say the least. I added a second SSD just for games that gets automatically mounted on boot, and I gather that having the games installed somewhere outside of steam's /home/ directory was not jiving with flatpak's security model. It took some non-trivial editing (thanks, flatseal) to finally let the Steam flatpak be able to write outside of its own directory and install the games.

I still get occasional weirdness, especially on older games. I wasn't hearing any sound effects on Team Fortress 2, which I eventually discovered was tied to an selinux alert. At last check in, I still can't launch CS:Go, because of some backend problem while trying to play the opening movie...
fwiw, I'm at a decently sized hosting company and that assertion is accurate for us.

Maybe your personal experience differs because you were not operating at scale? Larger scale means better negotiating over power / colo costs.
They don't get paid if you leave before 3-6 months, so only really shitty "butts in seats" recruiters (that usually offshore lead gen and qualification) will do this. Good recruiters will work with you to find something that fits you.
The article hit home for me, since I injured my left knee in June. I was rehabbing pretty good, to the point where I could do exercise bike and leg work, including light squats. I was set to try a fast walk or slow run in a week, and I could still do yard work. Then last week I reinjured the knee mowing the lawn (if the mower sticks on turf, don't try to force it), and tweaked it again over the weekend (just reaching down to pull a damn weed!). It feels like the meniscus tear I had years ago in the other knee, or it might be an MCL sprain. No instability, just discomfort walking. I've concluded that yard work is more dangerous than strength training or running, particularly if you're stupid.

I saw a lot of comments about squats. I gave up power lifting after college, and just do higher reps/lower resistance stuff, and a lot of variety. But when I had a meniscus tear in my other knee, the orthopedist told me I didn't need to go all the way down to parallel to get the strength benefits for the quads - just 45 degrees was enough. Since I'm in my late 60s, I probably should be a little careful anyway. Suggestions are welcome.

The point of the original article about disability hitting everyone was the big takeaway. Suddenly I have to think about hiring someone to mow the lawn and do yard work for a while. I can still get to the grocery store, but what if the injury had been worse and I couldn't? For me this will probably resolve itself in a while, but for some people disabilities are permanent. Injuries are humbling, and an opportunity for us to gain empathy for others.

Sometimes when you can't do some things it helps you appreciate the things you can do. So the time I would have spent running or working in the yard gets spent reading or doing math, or doing different kinds of strength work. Doors close, doors open - do what you can.
Look into some LoRa modules with Bluetooth and Meshtastic
John Wick being the more recent example.
Basically correct. If you have less than tens-of-terabytes the big exciting stuff just isn't needed and isn't particularly helpful.

Focus on understanding your data and building a useful model.

Use Postgres if you can. Supplement with DuckDB and/or ClickHouse as needed. Or, use your cloud's columnar DB (Redshift, BQ, Azure whatever) because you can start and stop using it as you please without talking to sales or signing a contract.

If your data team doesn't have the requisite skills... well... consider that tech selection might not be your problem.
https://archive.is/WJ6Og
Exactly. People are only trying to keep up with inflation created by easing monetary policy and supply-demand imbalances during COVID and post-COVID.
The subset of this data set which is just out-of-state alumni plates is interesting. Running through some midwestern flagships:

- It looks like the states that have U of Michigan plates are New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Texas, DC, North Carolina, and Delaware.
- Nobody has plates for the universities of Illinois and Minnesota.
- the only states with Indiana University plates are New York and Tennessee.
- you can get Ohio State plates in Georgia, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, South Carolina, Delaware.

My understanding is that states will only make a custom plate if there are a certain number of buyers, so this is probably some weird function of where alumni tend to live, where alumni clubs are more active, and what those limits are in various states. But it's very strange that you basically can't get plates for those Midwestern flagship universities in the Midwest.

Searching for Georgia (because it's where I live):
- Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas have University of Georgia plates.
- Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Maryland, and South Carolina have Georgia Tech plates.

Virginia and Maryland showing up for Georgia Tech is interesting - perhaps engineers are likely to work for the federal government or companies that are near DC because they want proximity to the government?
A Bifen spray every month or so will work pretty well. I don't love it conceptually, because it's not super mosquito-specific, but it works.
Flatpak is good overall but it has one things I dislike:

- Not being oriented to also CLI apps.

Apart from that, I like it for its convenience and I think it will be the future (or a similar approach). The reason for my thinking that is that, putting myself in the shoes of a distro maintainer, I can see the appeal and benefit of "isolating" the system packages and libraries from the packages installed by the user. I find it similar to the great relief that Docker brought back in the day when reduced the system administration overhead as it reduces the amount of moving parts on the functioning of an app.
Screenshots: https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmUL69cYwCs2sWV7eHqtt14BEcn...
Seems like "a desire to be publicly accessible at all times" is the outlier as far as history goes, surely. Social media use isn't exactly a known positive indicator :b.
opposite? I never said they were new... and in fact I literally said they were used rideshare cars. Did you read what I put at all?

This post is explicitly about recycling used stuff...

I dispute that its only hundreds though. I've seen multiple vast fields of them in several distinct locations with several distinct makes of car. My understanding is that there are quite a few failing rideshare buisnesses. My very rough guess would be at least 2000 that i've seen, and I haven't looked into it that deeply.

There are also fields of electric bikes from similar failed buisnesses...
Yes. Sea level 20kya was 400 feet lower. A million square miles in the region started being inundated then. A common experience of everyone dependent on the sea, 12kya, was seeing their grandparents' villages disappear under water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambium_Networks#Typical_setup

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=motorola+canopy&sort=byDate&ty...

> From what I'm gathering, Canopy can be deployed over unlicensed frequencies (2.4 and 5 Ghz), allows for hundreds of subscribers connecting to a single Access Point, can provide up bandwidth in the 5-10 Mbps range, etc.
Let’s Stop Pretending College Degrees Don’t Matter
> the problem is that dynamic-dispatch transit is even more expensive on a per-passenger or per-ride basis

Even if you remove the human driver and the need for a 3-ton piece of metal powered by an ICE?

> both speed and latency are actually worse than status quo public transit

All the ride-hailing apps seem to appear to disprove this. They're more expensive than public transit for this very reason.

> Likewise, autonomous cars can also solve the cost problem for buses, and better!

Hear hear!
Reminds me of Moktar. It wasn't amazing compared to other platformers, but still a pretty solid game. I really liked the graphics, music and sound.

https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/OpenMoktar_Vita
> Firefox

should be able to just use the mozilla's official build which comes with an auto-updater (and it implements the sandbox itself, so no need for another one on top).

> Zotero

> Joplin

both electron shells. also come with their sandbox already. most rolling release distributions would just package these with a system-provided electron build.
There are lots of tutorials on how to do this with an Arduino and a Lora shield. It just appears as a serial device to the PC. Some friends and I use this type of setup in our car for telemetry in a low budget endurance racing series. It has been pretty bulletproof.
We've really become accustomed to the centralized internet. If you aren't on it most of the apps people are used to using don't work.

Using a LAN effectively probably takes more effort than radios.
Is Tropical Storm Hilary Bringing Rain to Lake Mead? A Deep Dive
Less that two percent of the population is involved in growing food today. Not sure how we’ll have starvation as a major issue due to “under population”.
That at least makes sense geographically!
This is actually one of the things processing instructions are useful for - but you would need to define the data within the PI, since they don't have attributes.
I'm talking about bunnies, not adult rabbits, and this is Northeast U.S.
Don't fire your illustrator
This is because of Wordpress. Wordpress work pays less than application development typically. Writing an application with Symfony or Laravel pays market rate for an equivalent dev in your ecosystem of choice (Rails, Django, whatever).
I wouldn't be surprised if the Mini Cooper is now a light truck. Everything is larger because manufacturers are gaming the footprint regulations to get by with worse emissions and DOT isn't serious about revamping CAFE to stop that behavior.
If doing even simple things requires looking up documentation, why does it matter whether the shell script is long or short?

Spending extra time doing simple things — because you need to Google e.g. "how to pass multiple space-separated arguments from a string to a command" — is also a waste of time.
VLC did a relicense a few years ago and it required them to contact 300+ contributors (!) and even stalk a few of them IRL in order to get in touch with them. Nobody wants to go through this pain…

Part 1: https://jbkempf.com/blog/how-to-properly-relicense-a-large-o...

Part 2: https://jbkempf.com/blog/how-to-properly-relicense-a-large-o...

Part 3: https://jbkempf.com/blog/how-to-properly-relicense-a-large-o...
I also stopped being able to read articles on archive.is about a week ago because of this captcha loop. It seems to be related to my device and browser - my Firefox gets hit with the captcha loop, but Chrome on the same machine loads the article fine, and DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser also loads the page on my phone.
Suppose I did prove that I am such a forest ranger. Would my story about putting on a gorilla suit make you more or less confident about my claim to have seen bigfoot?
Here's a thing that happened in the wild. Neo4j database encodes ids of stored entities as 128-bit integers and it has a JSON interface. When queried from Python, the Python client interprets digit sequences longer than what could possibly fit into 2^32 as floats (even though the native kind of integer in Python is of arbitrary size).

So, for a while there weren't too many objects, ids appeared to be all different... until they weren't. It's easy to see how this led to data corruption, I suppose?

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Here's a hypothetical example: few people are aware that JSON allows key duplication in "hash-tables", also, even if they consider such a possibility they might not know that JSON doesn't prescribe which key should win, should there be many of them. They might assume that the definition requires that the first chronologically wins, or last, or... maybe some other rule, but they hope that it's going to be consistent across implementations.

Obviously, to screw with developers, JSON doesn't define this. So, it's possible that two different parsers will parse the same JSON with the same fields differently. Where this could theoretically explode? -- Well, some sort of authentication which sends password with other data that can be added by user, and the user intentionally or accidentally adds a "password" field, which may or may not later be overriden and may or may not later be interpreted on the other end as an actual password.

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There are many other things, like, for example, JSON has too many of the "false" values. When different languages generate JSON they may interpret things like "missing key" and "key with the value null" as the same thing or as a different thing. Similarly, for some "false" and "null" are the same thing, while for others it's not.
New study measures grammatical complexity of languages
So true.

If you can watch a blind person use a iphone to call an uber, it'll etch in your mind how hard we make it.
Why did it redirect to Twitter after sign up? Why didn't I receive a confirmation email for signing up?
The mention of the nuclear reactor makes me wonder of the suitability of the modular reactors, such as the GE-Hitachi units.
I think that 'normal' triathlon, including Iron Man (maybe especially Iron Man) is an endurance sport, not a technical skill sport. Rough sea swim, plus downhill MTB, plus trail run would be a different kind of tri. For 'normal' endurance amateur athletes that swim in lakes, ride and run on roads, something as technically difficult as swimming in rough surf should be called off. It is not something that most participants have trained for (or want, even).
Do Something Foolish to Completion
That sounds awesome, actually. I'd love to attract bumblebees. I like to watch them, and love the sound they make, plus all the benefits of native pollinators...

Bumblebees are usually not aggressive, though they can sting multiple times (like wasps and unlike honeybees).
For other packages, this is where we start to see "We rewrote ______ in Go/Rust/blah" type articles. Nobody working on the product groks the entire code base, and rather than reading the "archaic" language, it is decided that it would be better to eliminate the tech debt and rewrite the entire thing in a language dejour so that "more" people will be familiar. This is usually followed by a series of releases fixing the bugs that were re-introduced because of all of the aha gotchas originally solved in that not understood archaic code base
in five years, fifteen flagged submissions.. no obvious errors
For me, the problem begins when your whole profession depends on it, then you get locked in. I just can't get gigs for my side project sending emails or asking people to join my "blog".

But I completely agree, I'd prefer delete all my accounts.
>Doesn't it bother you even a little bit that all of the so called "investigators" are in the same boat?

I don't follow this sentence at all. Can you be a bit clearer about what you mean here?
Death by 1000 $65/year apps and services.

Sorry but because everything is a subscription it’s harder and harder to justify adding another on the stack.
It may not be able to if the window manager doesn't tell the window it's hidden . Modern WMs that support composting and window thumbnails tend to not do that anymore. It does usually also have a nice side effect of also hiding if the user is idle or not to web pages/apps
Kindly, but immediately, disqualify if they do this.
> The numbers are significant in that wages increasingly have been recognized as a driving force in inflation.

The wealthy are buying up all the tangible assets and price gouging everyone with high rent and subscriptions for everything imaginable, but it’s the workers asking for enough money to keep up that’s driving inflation. Ok.

The western world has gone from single income homeowners in the 80s to dual income homeowners today. That’s 80 hours of work per household per week instead of 40. IMO we’re trending towards multigenerational home ownership where it may require 4-6 income earners to own a house.

We’ll all be living paycheck-to-paycheck with 3 families to a house and the economists will still be blaming inflation on the working class having too much money. Maybe it’s time to start asking if a lack of competition is allowing the ownership class to manipulate supply so they can set unfair prices.
Surprisingly the "fighter" may be much more powerful than expected, since space is wast and weapons delivered up close and personal have a good chance to land, as opposed to being dodged or intercepted like missiles.

Though I'd expect one of those to be more like a tank, with 4 people inside. Bigger though.

It's the same reason carriers tend to be more effective than battleships, even ones loaded with cruise missiles.

Even light takes a bunch of time to reach places at astronomical distances.
It would look nothing like dogfighting, much closer to modern airborne missile exchanges.

Any non-moving object would be extremely vulnerable, if even to a thrown rock at orbital speeds.
Thanks! I hope at some point you find it useful enough to justify the price.
I always get a little annoyed at "X is not the future" post because we don't live in the future, we live now.

Much as we like to personalize them, computers are tools that we use to get things done, and Flatpak is among the better things we have right now for dealing with the awfulness of Linux packages. If a better thing comes in the future I'll use that.
I spent a couple of hours reading through reviews there on your suggestion - thank you!

But I feel like I would only read those reviews after finishing the book myself as part of a post-read “imaginary book club session” because, as you say, it seems the reviews really do stand in for reading the books!
It depends. HDMI did a USB, and depending on the exact source and sink devices the capabilities may range between what you think of as HDMI 2.1 and “literally the same as 2.0”.

The 2.1 standard supersedes the 2.0 standard, hdmi is not issuing any more 2.0 certs, so any device with that capability level is now 2.1 automatically even with no hardware changes. And every feature is optional, from VRR and 10b to hdr brightness and color profiles.

Notably M1 macs are only 4K60 HDMI 2.1, but there are many others, not just an apple thing at all. Always check the specific features you care about on your devices!
If you do magically hit the "unicorn vector" and 100x your customer-base then you can start worrying about "will it scale", and thankfully you will have new revenue that can be deployed in the form of new hardware and new hires.
It’s-a-no-longer me: Charles Martinet steps down as Mario’s voice
(Japanese Knotweed is very distinct from bamboo. It looks quite different too.

Pulling up knotweed actually encourages it's spread! So don't do that. Google for lots of articles on how to determine if you have to treat it (if left alone and not pruned it doesn't actually grow fast nor spread; so just leave be!) or how to attempt eradicate it e.g. it is near a building or drainage.

Good luck!)
It's absolutely how recounts work.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/arizona-republica...

> Election workers spent three days counting 850 ballots in Mohave County. They made errors in 46 races.

> Each ballot took three minutes to count, Tempert said. At that pace, it would take a group of seven staffers at least 657 eight-hour days to count 105,000 ballots, the number of ballots cast in 2020. Mohave County would need to hire at least 245 people to tally results and have counting take place seven days a week, including holidays, for nearly three weeks. That estimate doesn’t include the time needed for reconciling mistakes, or counting write-in ballots, Tempert’s report added.

This from a county that went 75% for Trump in 2020 and really wanted this to work, incidentally.
No sorry, it was published less than a week ago and I haven't read it yet. I think the Overview on that page is a good summary though.
> protesters

Groups like the armed crew at Coutts I would properly classify as domestic terrorists.
The median is 1.8 cars per household in the US, so I'd say, from intuition and experience, that in these states the targeted vehicle will be +95% of the time driven by the DUI offender.

But it doesn't matter, because "whiskey plates" are just plain wrong – they are a tongue-in-cheek, populist lawmaker's kool-aid. As a deterrent whiskey plates work best for conscious, god-fearing folk who rarely go over the limit. Besides these types of public shaming schemes can also have just the opposite effect, ie a university bro that looks cool with that whiskey plate or by creating enduring self or public confirmation that you are now that person the plate says you are. Adequate punishment would be to combine fines that are proportional to one's income, use tech like ignition interlock devices and invest on the individual's rehabilitation as a responsible driver, including participating in social services and education programs, among other ordinary measures.

Furthermore, permanently revoking a drivers license is a serious punishment in a country where transportation/commute is primarily done by car. Also not all DUI's are the same and there's a principle of proportionality that always applies when sentencing offenders. So strike-3-and-you're-done would be very harsh for the great majority of DUI/DWI cases in the US.
But your computer was usable for nearly the entire time, right? I don't care how long updates take if I can still keep doing things with it in the meantime. MacOS updates are the only thing that makes me sit and watch a progress bar for 20+ minutes.

I've never experienced anything similar with any of my Windows computers, nor Linux ones, nor ChromeOS ones. MacOS stands alone as having by far the shittiest and slowest update system imaginable. Even Android during its "recompile every installed app after an OTA" phase didn't take as long as MacOS does, and that's with massively slower CPU & storage!
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign starts today too, another 60,000 or so users.
Well, Maryland is clearly just out of control with the plates: https://www.beautifulpublicdata.com/content/images/size/w160...

By the way, the majority of out-of-staters at UW are from neighboring Minnesota (with tuition reciprocity) and Illinois (the FIBs).