skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>...The Song dynasty collapsed when Genghis Khan invaded China.

Not trying to derail your point, but that was Kublai Khan, not Genghis Khan.

>...After two decades of sporadic warfare, Kublai Khan's armies conquered the Song dynasty in 1279 after defeating the Southern Song in the Battle of Yamen, and reunited China under the Yuan dynasty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_dynasty
self hosted vaultwarden (formerly bitwarden_rs) is not down fwiw

must be in a different AZ
Yes! This too. My partner & I have used this for shared / family / household billing accounts / etc. for years.
The Wikipedia article for Lakhdatta is at “Syed Ahmad Sultan”.[0] Thanks for reminding me of him, I definitely saw his image hung in businesses in India whose proprietors otherwise seemed very Hindu or Sikh.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syed_Ahmad_Sultan
Two ways I interpret this.

1. Academia has fallen into a self consuming game where fierce individual competition to appear productive means that researchers don't have the space to actually think creatively and come up with incredible new insights.

2. Scientists like Higgs had the privilege of lower hanging fruit to harvest in their day, so a career of lesser intensity was sufficient for people in his cohort to produce incredible contributions. Modern scientists legitimately have to work harder to produce less profound results.

Maybe there's something to both lines of thinking.

I'm also reminded of the classic story of the pottery teacher who graded one class by final project quality and another by total weight produced over the class period, and found that the latter group ended up producing higher quality work. Higgs in this article seems to be of the persuasion that in his profession, the former style produces better results. I think many of us here would find that intuitively wrong in general.
> This is a super privileged opinion and wildly out of touch with the less fortunate classes of society.

That's clear bait. What you're advocating for is a mental tax on the "less fortunate class" as you put it.

Make price transparency legally required and see how the game changes.
And yet, deadly disasters do happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayano-Shushenskaya_power_stat...

Key: "It seems they were used to the high levels of vibration" - Diane Vaughan wrote an important book that introduced the term "normalisation of deviance" as a factor in the Challenger Launch Decision, a more famous complex accident.

Another way of putting it is that "all complex systems operate in a degraded mode all the time", paraphrasing Adrian Colyer: https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/02/10/how-complex-systems-fail
Don't the English write Bâle instead of Basel sometimes? (An officially germaophone city.) It can be that English retains the French writing. Nothing wring with that.
How hard is it to sell food out of a flower shop? Out of a candy store? A toy store? A gift shop? A coffee shop? A hardware store? There are retailers all over the country that could start selling food in no time flat. Starbucks is part of the Austrian grocery cartel too? And there's still no evidence that authorities are turning a blind eye to price fixing other than 'price go up.'

Ask an Austrian hardware store owner why he doesn't sell food when he can supposedly undercut grocery stores and still make 5% profit on every item sold. I bet you anything he'll say that's bs.
To put it directly, if your original birth cert said "female" but you now have a penis (eg to match your actual XY chromosomes: could have happened to the subject of this story), and you go in to the female toilets as the new Bill would require, and anyone notices and complains, you are almost certainly in trouble for having a penis in female toilets as an adult under all sorts of other existing laws and custom.
I'd like to know more about how they manage grouping and pick-up to make this suitable for commuting and rush hours. Say there are 100 people in a neighborhood who commute to the city center each day around the same time. Does this mean there have to be 100 individual cars in operation, just for that neighborhood? Or does the service some smartness so that one car can collect multiple people?

We had a similar service in my city, which was specifically optimized for group pickups. However it was structured in a way that would have made it completely unsuitable for commuting - I suspect intentionally, because they realised they didn't have the resources to serve rush-hours.
I was able to find the details (source in French: https://photo.capital.fr/shrinkflation-voici-la-liste-des-pr...)

In addition to the volume reduction, the price also went up from 1.45€ to 1.63€.

So the price per litre went from 0.97€/L to 1.36€/L. Much closer to the 40% figure.
Maybe the habits of discipline that come from formal schooling and work are necessary for a man like Ludgate, or maybe not. We are products of our constraints to some extent
which changes all the time with regular price fluctations/discounts/etc

I have noticed e.g. with toilet roll when they decrease the weight they bundle it with a temporary discount so that the unit price remains the same (or even decreases for a bit)

then once the discount ends you've forgotten that they decreased the weight

it's a random walk, with the shrinkflation causing it to go upwards over time

it's the same trick e.g. Google does with Google Workspace, when they want to increase the price they:

- increase regular price, but introduce a new permanent "12 month plan" with the previous price
- six months down the line the 12 month plan is discontinued

then they repeat next time they want to increase the price
Did you try restarting Eclipse?
The fun thing about biology is that if there can be something built by a true omniscient creator, then biology is the closest thing to it. All of reality and all of physics is used. It is simply what works no matter how arcane or difficult to understand the concept and mechanisms behind it is. Like all engineering projects there are still physical constrains of course but there is no limit on the technology allowed. There is simply no "cutting edge knowledge" or "unexplored science" to evolution. Literally everything can be applied within the physical constraints of a carbon-based lifeform
Replying from Glider right now (although replies are experimental), it's very good, wish most apps were like this.
Let us never forget that Elizabeth Holmes’ father was a VP at Enron.

https://www.masterresource.org/enron-legacy/chris-holmes-enr...
"I rob banks because that's where the money is."

(attributed to bank robber Willie Sutton)
I think you are reading a lot into a two panel comic that isn't really there. the punchline is simply that the nerd didn't understand their threat model in two ways: 1) someone who would consider spending a million dollars to decrypt your hard drive probably would consider physical attacks as well, and 2) no one is likely to invest that amount of resources into accessing a random nerd's hard drive in the first place.

I read the overall message as being the flip side of what you say here:

> If the cost of attacking is higher than the value of whatever it is, the security is good.

if the effort/resources spent on defense is greater than the value of the thing being defended, it is a waste. full disk encryption was not commonly used by consumers when the comic was published in 2009, and would have come with a significant performance penalty on laptop hardware of the era. the feature wasn't even included in vista home SKUs. it probably wasn't a worthwhile tradeoff for this hypothetical nerd.
Most people lack a generalised sense of empathy. They can empathise with people who are missing out on things they (the observers) also would want but don't really care if someone is missing something they (the observers) don't care for.

Applies equally well to parks, pets, porn, cars, cycleroutes, childcare...
What's the pollutant cost of flying the equivalent number of tourists there? I would have thought, naively, that boats are way more efficient than jet engines, even after hauling casinos and swimming pools along for the ride.

I wonder if "don't run your power plants when docked, buy local electricity instead" is a reasonable rule.

I too think cruise ships are tacky, but when I examine that reaction I find it really hard to justify. I think it might just be a classist thing on my part.
Even geographically the assertion is nonsense. The fraction of Oakland that lies within walking distance of retail outlets that are not in Oakland is small. Only the far north and far south enjoy this situation.
It's incredibly difficult, honestly.

You're gonna have to prioritize which projects are important to you and cut corners/make sacrifices to dedicate a very small amount of time to them.

By "cutting corners," I mean things like settling for lower test coverage than you're comfortable with, hacky CI (if you do CI), more tightly-coupled code than your happy with; i.e. all of the things that startups do to ship stuff fast.

As for leetcode, I'd recommend doing that during downtime at work (if you can) and focusing on one problem a day, especially given your years of experience.

Many of the medium/hard problems are basically puzzles; you either have that kind of mind or you don't. In my opinion, this is why side projects matter way more: you can bullshit Leetcode problems (by memorization), but you can't bullshit _things that actually fucking work_.

(#338, "Counting Bits", is a great example. The trivial solution is O(n) time, but getting to the O(log n) time solution requires you to think about the pattern in which the 1's in the bit sequence typically generate. I would've never thought of that had I not read the solution.)

Like some other posters have said, you'd be much better off (re)learning foundational data structures and algorithms and, if you can, implementing them from scratch. No, you'll never actually implement a hashtable library or quicksort, but knowing how to do those things will help when you get asked a leetcode-like question.

Good luck!
His prediction window is still open so you never know… /me shudders
> "In small, southern towns, the perception of public transportation is that it’s for the low-income,” said Gronna Jones, Wilson’s transportation manager. “There’s a stigma attached to riding the bus. Going to microtransit and nontraditional vehicles removed that stigma.”

I'm surprised how much of this problem seems to be mindset.
Most supermarkets in France operate at low single digit net margin on most products. If something goes up 20% it's very rarely on them
If this were able to determine which wildcard subdomains were active for a given domain, you could use it to figure out a lot of B2B companies’ client/customer list.
They also got the conversion wrong: 1.5 liters is 0.4 gallons, not 0.3.
Maybe Barcelona and Venice should enlist privateers to sink any cruise ships that come too close.
I'm resetting passwords of you both to cool down a bit.
PRQL is a solution in search of a problem. Lacking such, the problem had to be fabricated.
Never touch Go and your life will be better.
Love this. I would switch to retailers that did this.
The burden of proof is on something's existence, not on its non-existence. Non-existence is the default assumption, unless we're ready to by default assume mermaids, unicorns, and Bigfoot exists.
Why not? Why as a developer wouldn't I go to a VC and say "I have the source and rights to this premade product - fancy giving me some cash to take my team and run it?"
PEX is generally too flexible for these projects. I won't use anything else for fresh water plumbing though.
Lmao, the mental gymnastics some cities do to discover public priority tram+bus + bike combo is the best for transport inside the city, especially trams, since those can transport a lot of ppl and can be extended if needed
France and what became Germany didn't fight a war over Alsace Loraine until 1871, well after industrialization was on track, plus it wasn't a war of plunder, unlike what the Mongols did to the Song or the Pakhtun, Sikh, and Maratha Confederacies did to the Mughals.
Apperently you did not.
There are very few resources to provide Gen Z with the knowledge they need to establish technical competence on computers.

It is a serious issue, and it's really not their fault.
If CO2 is the concern then include the CO2 in the price via a CO2 tax (or a per person CO2 budget if you want something objectively worse but more intuitive, then people can save up their CO2 credits for a cruise if they really want a once in a lifetime thing).
Do you work with the kids or parents themselves?

I would be interested to hear more about what they’re like as humans. How it works emotionally. What these people are like, how self-aware or not they are of how they pursue such goals.

It is my impression that a big part of any society and in any historical period there have always been parents doing what they can to elevate their children into higher status. And this has always included an elaborate game of coaching, gaming and presenting children as some sort of prodigies or achievers. Hiding the flaws in shame, embellishing where possible. I’ve seen members of my own family invest obsessively into this sort of game, and I have mixed feelings about it all.
The title should have (2013). Although the article is becoming more in check with reality with passing years.
I am starting implementing the graphical environment even if there are still many existing bugs :-) I will develop a wayland server first. exaequOS currently supports frame buffer (you can try the fblife game: /usr/games/fblife)
Are people really going to OCR their receipts for years, hoping to catch an instance of "shrinkflation"?
to unilaterally and retroactively change the pricing model?

I very much doubt it
Yep! You right! Time to play AoE 2 again
What command line tool do you recommend for file encryption and signatures by the end user?
People have struggled with this for time eternal, and from Google 20% time and other "skunkworks" projects, some of the greatest discoveries and inventions were made off the books.

One of my favorite (1993):

Wiles, with his from-childhood fascination with Fermat's Last Theorem, decided to undertake the challenge of proving the conjecture, at least to the extent needed for Frey's curve.[18]: 226 He dedicated all of his research time to this problem for over six years in near-total secrecy, covering up his efforts by releasing prior work in small segments as separate papers and confiding only in his wife.[18]: 229–230

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wiles
Thanks for providing the only reply containing factual information.
I self host vault-warden on my home network, but it is not publicly accessible. Like all my services I self host, I keep them internal only, then use wireguard to have an always on vpn back to my home network.

This way, I only have to focus on making sure my vpn is secured.
and then embark, the right-click of emacs!
> NoSQL databases aren’t unilaterally worse than relational ones. They just solve different problems.

I can't prove this, but I assert that a relational database that has solid JSON+text support (e.g. Postgres) is on much better footing than a NoSQL DB that attempts to implement a true relational model.

One is a adding a special new datatype, the other is trying to add an entire paradigm.

Just use Postgres. If you do need to migrate to Mongo for some reason, dumping your tables into JSON isn't the end of the world.
Should add that this was from 2013. Not that I expect his views have changed about the system, but it also says he's never made a mobile phone call, browsed the web, or sent an email. That was unusual in 2013, but I wonder if it's still true 10 years later?

He also talks about "the lunatic right of the Conservative party" trying to withdraw from Europe with reference to a referendum on Scottish independence. Would be curious his views today...
You might have to try a couple therapists before you find the right one -- I'm on number three personally (with many years and much denial in between) -- but when you find one who you work well with it can be very helpful. Your desire for weekly analysis of your feelings and help debugging motivational issues is generally up their alley; I check-in with my therapist once a week via video call and our sessions often explore what's going on when I have low motivation. You might consider giving it another go, but up to you. Keeping a daily journal -- if you don't already -- may also be useful.

Regardless, I wish you the best of luck with your challenges and hope you find a solution that works for you.
From an article on cnn:

> Carrefour CEO Alexandre Bompard, who also heads French retail industry lobby group FDC, has repeatedly said consumer goods companies are not cooperating in efforts to cut the price of thousands of staples despite a fall in the cost of raw materials.

> The shrinkflation warnings are in all French Carrefour stores, and will last until the targeted suppliers agree to price cuts, Bompais said.

100% just a negotiation tactic
I noticed this at my favorite thai place also. Delivery orders are way smaller than when I picked it up on the way home. I have no idea how they knew the difference between pick up and delivery, but appears to be.
These apps are just scamming young people and the restaurants.

Get a wife, love and treat her well, and she'll likely cook for you.
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While I love Go, have we gotten this lazy that we need a package for this? Go does this in 3 lines minimum, like you describe in your blogpost. However, in your package you expose the ability to kill your server [0] without any security. That’s a huge vulnerability. I know you’ll say “It’s just a static server, meant for serving static stuff” but it will be indexed by pkg.go.dev, people will use this outside your intent. It is the way. At the very least, use a secret token.

[0] https://github.com/eliben/static-server/blob/3ce83524ed54298...
If we're going to consider "propensity to believe in things without evidence" to be problematic, I have bad news for you: Religions involving supernatural beliefs have existed for millennia, placing most people on Earth in that bucket.
WSJ fails to establish why I should care.

This isn't news. This is Gee Whiz content that WSJ is trying to pass off as a serious issue. Such ominous phrasing.

I get it. Tiktok bad.

But this ain't why.
Interesting to me how quickly casinos ponied up ransom money compared to refusal by hospitals etc.
But from what I understand, the new law was actually clarifying the issue, because it is assigning people to the two different types of bathrooms based on a clearly objective criteria (the assigned sex in the birth certificate), rather than one's genitalia which can be much more ambiguous and problematic to check/assert.

So I would think that the new law is actually making things much more clear for the situation you just mentioned, rather than more ambiguous and problematic (due to the existing laws and customs you are speaking of, which can be more subjective and therefore lead to the problems you mention).

If there were any issues (e.g. if someone called the police), the person in that situation could just show a picture of the birth certificate on their phone, which would clarify any possible confusion and would avoid getting into trouble, wouldn't it?

In my view, leaving things the way they are, or making things more subjective only serves to add to the confusion and/or add problems, rather than making things more clear (especially when we're talking about the law).

That said, if you are going to have separate bathrooms (and therefore categorize people), I don't think the birth certificate is the right way to do it, if it can't be changed post-birth.
It took awhile, but I finally found all of the books in the 'Game Development Essentials' series by Jeannie Novak

• Game Development Essentials: An Introduction (3rd Edition)
• Game Interface Design (2nd Edition
• Mobile Game Development
• Game Industry Career Guide
• Game QA & Testing
• Game Audio Development
• Game Level Design
• Online Game Development
• Gameplay Mechanics
• Game Simulation Development
• Game Artificial Intelligence
• Game Project Management
• Game Story & Character Development
There was a show with Betty White where she was feeding a whole watermelon to a hippo she'd been friends with for over 20 years.

It loved her and came right up to her.

Possibly the Pet Set but I couldn't find the video all I could find was her feeding an alligator in Lake Placid (which I don't remember ever having watched).

Maybe I'm remembering everything wrong, but if not maybe someone else has that video or show in their back pocket and can help out.
I would have appreciated if the article would have included information about where the profits from these changes are going.

Without that information, the other plausible narrative is more like, "Governments try to cover up the negative consequences to consumers of their massive inflation of the monetary supply by forcing companies to continue providing products at the same price (especially products like food staples that are included in consumer price indices)."

In all likelihood, it's probably both the government officials and the execs/owners who are profiting off the situation at the expense of everybody who still needs to eat food.
me after thirty years in school
All About Air Logic Valves
>12 miles is not sufficient in almost any major city. I'm struggling to think of a use case for a vehicle with such short range.

Two things:

1. This is intended as a first-last mile intermodal device, not a primary commuter. It is plenty for any city where you want to go from your house to a train station that is perhaps a 30 minute walk (1.5-2 miles) away. Easy way to save on rent without sacrificing time, since rent goes up as you get closer to a train station in most cities. Or, you might be driving from a roomy suburb to a park and ride that is a similar distance from your work downtown. Or, you might be able to take two 5 minute train journeys to work, but there's an annoying 30 minute walk transfer in the middle. Myself, I struggle to think of an intermodal use-case that does not make sense for this in say, any Japanese urban city I've been to.

2. This is a Honda product, in the spirit of the MotoCompo, which was sold as an accessory to a car. [1] Think of it also that way - You've effectively expanded your last-mile parking radius from your destination by six miles. That's plenty in even cities without good public transit - going back to the saving money idea, $995 doesn't pay for much commuter parking in an urban core downtown type of environment.

[1]: https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1981-honda-city-turbo-ii-w...
On the other hand it didn't require any sort of scientific proof or popular uprising for ugly modern architecture to displace other styles.
That's a lot of words to say

>Does it improve the User Experience?

>Are you willing to martyr yourself for the sake of improving everyone else's lot?

are your bullshit filters.

Not trying to downplay you for it, just, figured I'd help tighten it up to be more concise. I also apply that set of heuristics, and boy, do those two little points there razor the population of software devs into 4 bloody piles.
I feel like he's kind of invoking Goodhart's law that when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Academia can only produce what's possible to produce under the constraints of meeting certain metrics. If you can't structure the work in such a way as to make the right metrics look good while doing it, you can't do the work at all, because you will be fired, and it doesn't matter how important the work is or why you need to do something that doesn't produce the desired metric to get it done.
As an immigrant to the US it strikes me as a very (definitionally?) American mindset. Lone wolf is always best, depending on someone else is a weakness.

Trouble is, it becomes self-fulfilling. Once people with that mindset are in charge they underfund transportation so it becomes the crappy unreliable nightmare people are afraid of.