skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not necessarily easy to draw an objective line between gratuitous and not. Particularly in the case of slasher horror movies; the nudity felt gratuitous, a cheap way to sell tickets that would make up for other production flaws. But such gratuitous nudity became a defining characteristic of that genre, and so in that sense it wasn't actually gratuitous. Modern horror movies seem to be more sexless now, and IMHO feel incomplete because of it. When it becomes apparent that a movie thinks no amount of explicit gore is too much but a nipple would go too far, it breaks my immersion by making me aware that the film was, in some sense, calculated to be inoffensive.
Maybe something like Dell VXBlock didn't exist when they pitched their idea?

Any hardware contracts are very long term and you'll have a hard time getting me to switch to a different vendor, especially when they also want to come in with an unknown operating system which I have to run.
But that person didn’t say inflation numbers aren’t real. That is a strawman you’re attacking.
If you make $100k and your grocery bill is $10k a year, a 5% increase in groceries (to $10.5k) only needs an 0.5% increase in salary to offset.
it is a way to help individuals while harming society as a whole.
No idea who NDT is, but I'm kind of afraid that doing something like a Mars mission too early will turn out having the opposite effect. With the tech available for a soon-ish to launch Mars mission, chances are pretty high that something would go wrong catastrophically, there's just so much complexity that cannot break down for such a long time under extreme conditions, we're not ready for that. Watching the people we send there die slowly and horrifically isn't going to be a rational "we knew the risks" thing for the general public, people will be horrified and it'll put a big damper on future endeavors of this kind. I'd expect manned spaceflight to be pretty much dead for decades after that.
For me it was Digg (pre redesign) then Reddit and hn
I saw the Berlin Wall in its heyday, and I went through Checkpoint Charlie and toured East Berlin. East Berlin was such a utopia the Communists would shoot anyone who tried to leave.

That says all one needs to know about Communism.
Amazingly it didn't even apply to cyclists on the road either (ie. a motorist could overtake and immediately turn left in their path). The new rules explicitly establish a hierarchy of road users with motorists at the bottom: lowest priority, highest responsibility.

It takes a long time for cultural change to happen, though. We have multiple generations of entitled motorists on the road at this point. And a carbrained prime minister.
Did you switch jobs? A voluntary job switch is an average ~20% bump in salary. Job switchers and union members are getting the vast majority of the gains. A low unemployment rate makes switching easy, and low end workers were switching at a much higher rate then normal.

But job switchers (rightly) give themselves the credit for their salary boost. OTOH the government gets the blame for inflation and job loss. It's a crap job, you get blamed for the bad stuff, but don't get credit for the good stuff.
I saw it a bunch with family members. They're not using touch as a primary interface, but more as an alternative to click a button in the middle of the screen or select stuff on the laptop screen wen their mouse is on their external display. I'd suspect there's many "occasional touch" users, in particular on laptops where the trackpad is not great.

But yes, people going full hog on touch usually have Surface pro or Yoga like devices in the first place and won't be an average user. And people used to point fingers at their screens tend to hate it now that it actually reacts.
100% this. The amount of times I get given a mobile wireframe then subsequently brushed aside when I enquire about desktop is unreal.

Our work flow often ends up: get design > ask for desktop > told to ‘use best judgement’ > uses best judgement > get a load of amends as best judgement wasn’t what the client has in mind > repeat.

Don’t even get me started on the mythical black hole that is the tablet screen. It’s like designers have forgotten that they exist and people use them at times.
wouldn't it make more sense to start this on the day they age out of the system?
When every single objective fact contradicts people's feelings, it isn't the universe that's wrong.

Remember: the nation's largest propaganda machine is dedicated to making people believe the economy is in shambles, because a booming economy fueled by government spending in green energy and protecting families falsifies their ideology.
Or you move out so a richer person can move in.
Paywalled... but thanks doc! who could have guessed that a drug with anxiety as a commonly known side effect is not good for treating anxiety.
I would pretty much remove any sex that doesn’t drive the story in some way and keep it short. You are correct that sex doesn’t hit like it used to hit. I would argue the same for violence and special effects. We’ve seen it all and we’ve seen a lot of it. What we haven’t seen a lot of in some time is good story telling that doesn’t rely on gimmicks.
This is the short version of The Economist's piece on sodium batteries. For headline stories there is often a short and a long version. The long version is linked in the article or you can find it here:

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/10/25/...

https://archive.ph/Tw4Gj
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No it isn't lol. C++ compiles all the time with bugs.
Those formulas are not reversible. You can compute load bearing capacity of a design, and you can compute cost of a design, but you cannot start with load bearing capacity and cost, run those through a formula, and get a bridge. Or even a sketch of a bridge.

Design comes first, always, whether it is for real-world items or for software. The design is then validated using formal methods, and iterated until it meets the required goal.

If you still want to maintain your position that you can compute a bridge, feel free to point out a source that describes the formula for bridges. Or any object that takes significant engineering, really.
That is a different problem than the one I thought you were seeing.

We do spend a lot of time trying to silence errors that are irrelevant. We also get a lot of complaints when fixing a single error produces a wave of new errors that were hidden due to failures in earlier stages. It's a balancing act.

Also, specific errors are verbose in order to give people a fighting chance to fix their issue. An error that is too verbose is annoying. An error that is too terse will leave users in the cold as to what the problem was. It's yet another balancing act.

I filed https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/117233 for you. Could I ask you why you didn't consider doing so when you first encountered this problem?

Edit: good news, from the next stable onwards the issue you saw no longer reproduces. You only get the parse errors with your case. https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=beta&mode=debug&edition=...
Not sure if you missed it but it's a reference to CmdrTaco's initial take on the original iPod https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
You're not the only one... glad I misread that.
That is impossible to say in isolation of just that one factor. My only claim is that Japan shouldn't be considered to be doing well.
> because you personally couldn't handle a tiny bit of welfare.

If there was a segment of the population who "couldn't handle" welfare, where do you think we would find them?
Oh don't worry, I understand that just fine.

It's the speaker's or writer's task to iterate for a half second to find whatever non double negative sentence fits what they want to say.

English isn't code. You can't say double negatives in conversation or writing, and you have to find the closest thing without using a double negative.
You realize it was his mathematical great-great grandfather, right?

That means, his PhD advisor's advisor's advisor's advisor. There are a few thousand mathematicians who can claim that: https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=7298
Scientists Warn Society Could 'Collapse' This Century in Dire Climate Report
There's ongoing military conflicts happening inside Israel?
Find out what, though? That it's a dry, frozen wasteland? For tens of billions of dollars? No thanks.
Title doesn't seem great. The article is more saying that they don't want to see romantic relationships. And, I have to say, I agree. Romance in Hollywood is often super lazy and boring to watch.

One particular example, I think of the many faults of the hobbit series, one of the worst was the shoehorned in love triangle. It's bad writing.
And yet these countries still focus on taxing income only, meanwhile a massive mountain of growing untouchable wealth is sitting there, owned by the older generation who supposedly need to be supported with the income generated by the young.

Tax and wealth distribution needs a fundamental rethink going into the next few decades - I really don't have high hopes that the current approaches will work. As you say, they are predicated on high growth scenarios which western nations are no longer experiencing at a macro level.
Yeah... I wonder would they actually make Bing the default though?
TL;DR - author claims the hardest part of running a cloud PaaS is networking, thus the cloud providers charge you a ton for egress to outsource the optimization problem to you.

It's not clear to me this claim is true - they're in the business of solving exactly this optimization problem - and they have, they're just capturing maximum profit.

If it was really the hardest / most costly - then other providers wouldn't be able to offer it so much cheaper. It's clearly a solved problem.

This is just the knob the pricing departments found to be the one to dial to juice profits to the max.

The article seems like a puff piece to promote other providers.

But it could be useful to people shopping for cheap egress.
I just checked mine, still works, still has the same crappy password.

The profile options also still provides for an AIM name, complete with "but don't make this AIM link public" option! :D
> Instead of working I would have been lazy.

Isn't that what folks who don't have to work for a living do? Why is it frowned upon for poor people to do the same?

Although IMO $1000/month probably means you only have to work 1-2 part time jobs to get by, nowhere near lazy territory, especially in LA.
Shit like this makes me want to learn more about using accessibility features of my browsers. I'm far from going blind, but I don't want to scroll through the angry fruit salad of alegria art, huge stock images that take a huge amount of screen real estate and the important bits being tucked away probably somewhere in the bottom.

"Minimalist design" and it still takes multiple megabytes of bandwidth to show a pretty nothing.

I'm using Reader Mode or an equivalent whenever I can. If a site cannot be dealt with using RM, I mostly go elsewhere.

Now get off my lawn, kids.
It would suck a lot more if we wasted money on a mars colony, that will take hundreds of years to become self sufficient, if it is possible at all (I am still waiting for a solution to human bodies deteriorating in low gravity that is actually workable at scale), instead of using these resources to further develop things that have already had successful experimental runs.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-63221577

Added bonus: Investing resources into this saves Earth and everyone on it.
Right, but it’s well known that mortality predictions for novel diseases are inflated, often by virtue of missing people who don’t have symptoms they care about enough to let anyone know.

I forget who the statistician was that accurately predicted the mortality rate of the initial variants by just scaling the predictions down.

Mortality of subsequent variants trends down on average because of selection pressures.
From an SSR perspective this seems rather hard. How do you correctly identify the user's device at serve time?
Thank you for your answer but none of these is very US. There are only a small parts of US which are deeply invested into AI, not all Americans striving for excellence and US is not excellent in all. Even your description I can argue also happening in China.
> of course I did, that is what primary residence means: the place in which you primarily reside

There is no legal framework in the USA to determine a primary residence.

> whatever laws and regulations China has around that, they aren't the ones in effect here

China has a much stronger system in place for determining and enforcing residency than the USA, if they can't do it, then how will we?
The parent merely stated that they don't think they could have handled $1k/m. That's fine. They aren't in the group that will receive.

As for the second question, is the implication that former foster kids are "unreliable" and we should instead be investing somewhere else?

Why don't you address the "25% of former foster kids find themselves homeless" stat? Are these kids just getting too much assistance to be driven to... work fast food?

I really don't understand these perspectives.
Pottery becomes water treatment device for Navajo nation
> "This is like being shocked that people report wanting less shoehorned-in product placement on TV"

Or less "shoehorned-in" political propaganda B.S. for that matter. There's entirely too much crap in TV and movies these days that has less than nothing to do with the story that's being told, and is only there to appease one or another political-minded group.
As far as the change over time goes, I don't think anyone is disagreeing with you that social mobility used to be higher. I think part of the reasoning for that was an incredibly strong domestic economy compared to the rest of the world, as well as a lower baseline (strides in standard of living and pay get harder and harder to increase the further you increase them).

As far as the comparisons globally, they're ranking countries based on "education, access to technology, healthcare, social protection and employment opportunities" which has the implicit assumption baked in that those 5 metrics are proxies for social mobility. They might be, but why not actually measure the thing you care about? Social mobility to me means changing social classes based on income. Something like moving from a 25k/yr household to a 75k/yr household, or moving from a 75k/yr household to a 200k/yr household, maybe another jump up to 500k or a million/yr.

It seems to me that there is a much more equal distribution of incomes and outcomes in the countries you linked. That makes me think it would be much harder to go from being middle class to upper class in those countries than in the US, simply because almost everybody is part of the middle class. Thus, I think if you measured what most immigrants (and what I) actually care about when we hear about "social mobility," then the countries you mentioned would have great social mobility into the middle class, and basically no other social mobility.
I think the way that trees adapt to their environment is in response to gradients and much like the way our muscles and bones adapt to their environment. That is, a plant moving in the direction of light is similar to the way your muscles get larger because you use them. That's a process that you may be conscious of and you might even deliberately cultivate but unlike your actual behaviors it doesn't require that you perceive things.
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You suggest that a site owner should design the page how you want it, not how they want it. But neither is the case. Their task is to design it in a way that is acceptable for many different people. For most users, maximising the browser window does not mean they want text paragraphs to become very wide, it just means they want to block out distractions. And most readers benefit from plenty of whitespace and a conventional line width of 50-70 characters. It’s not that the designer is appalled by your preferences, it’s just that you aren’t the only person who matters.

You say the browser “should” be your agent - but it is. You can use ‘reader’ mode or any number of browser extensions to tailor things for your own tastes, or even copy and paste the article text somewhere else to read it however you want. What you cannot reasonably expect is for every site to be ideal for your personal tastes out of the box.
We can’t have a good debate on this site because calling someone trite is now too mean, but saying the government is evil is a political statement.
They should just call their devices 'game consoles' instead of computers, then nobody would bat an eye!
> Whether those other goals can be thought of in terms of monetary value seems orthogonal.

The original comment which set the context and of which we are talking to was specifically about the monetary accounting. It cannot possibly be orthogonal.

Perhaps what you are trying to say, as has been hinted at before, is that said comment, while perhaps technically true in a vacuum, doesn't really mean anything in practice? To which I would agree.
I’ve done the whole I-10. It is crazy.
Isn't ASML booked months/years in advance just as much as TSCM?

Can they really order that much within months?
Cool, I'll check it out, thanks
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When I was young I couldn't afford rent, so I had roommates. It was normal back then for several individuals to rent a house and share it.
> Most of the pioneers of space TODAY got into space b/c of what they witnessed with apollo and to some extent, the shuttle.

1) that "TODAY" is a pretty important qualification, and 2) it's a stretch to call those people pioneers. I live in the American West TODAY, but I certainly shouldn't be labeled a "pioneer" like the people who moved to this area 150+ years ago.
No they have a point and you're covering your eyes and ears to the problems you make. I received $20k when I was 16 for reasons related to my mothers death. I did not spend that money wisely at all (literally drugs). It's one thing when we're talking about fully developed adults (the 25yo kind, not the 18 ones) getting a UBI and another when we're talking about kids in bad environments with poor mentors.

I wish someone would have taken that money from me and put it in college fund or IRA at the very least. Likewise this is a wellfare program for kids and we should ensure it's spent on their wellfare.
It’s why you gotta burn ivory. When something is a luxury item for the wealthy rules don’t really matter you have to destroy the market.
Because there is no complaint :-)

There is just a hope that a more open situation on iPhones will lead to cheaper yet decent quality repairs for older iPhones, so that it is more encouraging to repair rather than replace.
Yes, most microwaves with dials do in fact work like this.

Compare the the distance between 0 and 1 with the distance between 5 and 6 on this microwave:

https://www.amazon.com/Panasonic-NE-1025F-Silver-Commercial-...
Nicely spotted. I only managed to find more recent papers searching for "conductive carbon-based material".

PulpaTronics will be so cool if it works.

Even better would be to come up with some kind of combo RFID and barcode. And laser print that tag on the outside.

Straddling (or bridging) the RFID and barcode domains is a huge opportunity.
If you read beyond the headline you see: consumer spending accounted for 2.7 percentage points (55.1%) of that growth, the personal savings rate plunged from 5.2% to 3.8%, credit card debt is at the highest amount ever in history and auto loans are experiencing the highest delinquency rate in 30 years.
Oh god, third comment on that post:

"Ok , will it connect to a computer running and x86 family processor ?"
> The problem you described has been solved by the large vendors with Hyper-converged offerings for many years

All Oxide has to do to win that market is ship software and firmware that doesn't suck, because there are incumbents but the incumbents are clearly incapable of doing so.
GitHub expands secret scanning to all of NPM registry
Yeah seems like a nightmare since so much of the auto-magic that nix does to fix binaries (shebang rewriting and ELF .so patching) does so by injecting absolute paths (to /nix/store). So all of those would need to be reshimmed for your entire system

EDIT: theres also work being done to move to content-addressed nix store, in which case changing these things would invalidate the content hash
This seems pretty reductionist and zero-sum thinking. Taking your line of reasoning to its end, one would expect there to be a single web framework, and that is evidentially not the case. Additionally you are mixing current state with future state, and most of my comment was focused at the current state of server-side Swift.

Defining "sufficient" here is important, and I think that server side Swift's progress meets a bar here that prevents it from being a failure. That might not last though.
One homeowner moving from a house to another similar house has no effect on overall home affordability. So I'm not sure why this is relevant.

> Whoever said that "inflation is always a monetary phenomenon" was a religious nut, IMHO.

Yes, I'm sure you have many more qualifications than a Nobel Prize winner.
Note that I also listed

> are lucky / have talents / have connections / have resources

The more of these you have, the higher your odds of success. Just hard work on its own, like you see, is not necessarily enough
What other parts? Are you suggesting they shouldn’t use SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, Lambda, etc?

Startups should use whatever technology that gets them to market fastest and the last thing they should be worried about is “lock-in”.

If they find product market fit and get customers, in normal times the money will come. Why worry about the “undifferentiated heavy lifting”?

Sure for Dropbox or BackBlaze, managing storage is their competitive advantage for instance.

But creating a AbstractFactoryRepositoryKeyValueFacade to avoid a DynanoDB dependency makes absolutely no sense.
No worries, thanks for the response. Yes, similar to those types of tours. I'll see if I can link to one of the older products previously mentioned.
you did way better than you know who:

"While trying to be First Post on a Beowulf cluster article, my site got Slashdotted just as I poured hot grits down my pants. 'You must be new here,' commented CowboyNeal, who, in Soviet Russia, welcomes our new overlords. Now I'm just waiting for step '???' before I hit Profit! Surely that's worth +5, Funny?"
This reminds me of "we only harvest X ebony trees" nonsense when what they mean is "we only _buy_ X amount of ebony, and we pay more for pure black, so people cut down many trees to find the relatively rare pure black ones"
It'll be interesting to see whether there might be any kind of late-mover advantage for those who sat out lithium and begin pursuing sodium-based batteries now.