skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take Netherlands: look how bad weather they have, almost constant wind&rain and still ppl bike a lot. They also have trains for longer distance. Typically a dutch will have 2 bikes: bike from home to train station&leave it there, take train, take second bike from train destination to the work and reverse. It's about what you want to optimize: sprawl&car industry or the opposite
It's always hilarious to me when people driving $60k vehicles ask me how much the ebike cost and say "that's expensive". The ebike costs less than they pay in insurance a year, much less maintenance, gas, etc.

Some people have weird ideas about cars being "for regular people" while any money spent on a bicycle is a luxury.
Don't forget I did a thing https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJLZe_NoiG0hT7QCX_9vmqw
On the grounds that we live in the real world, not a world where anything written down is a true and complete description of reality. "Technically correct" is sometimes a synonym of "incorrect".
Does webrender actually help yet or does it still bring everything to a crawl when transparency gets involved?

The other unfortunate part of this is that it's based on the gtk branch, which breaks certain input chains that I personally rely on
Inverse SoftBank is normally the best position.
The entire point of debt is to bring future revenue to the present so that you don't have to wait for savings to trickle in every year.
Measles rises globally amid vaccination crash
There’s no meaningful sense in which the Federal Government could be considered to have a negative net worth.. they have a ‘stake’ in the collective value of the largest and most vibrant economy on earth. People’s conception of the Federal ‘balance sheet’ as limited to the dollars in bank accounts explains why they are continually surprised that $30+ trillion in debt is shrugged off by the market and every knowledgeable economist.
It should be. But its not and, likely, never will be.
I'm in the UK. What I stated applies to most countries. Switzerland is a niche.
> Can't hear with the wind rushing in your ears.

Some cyclists use a product called Cat-Ears. It's just some synthetic fur that attaches to the helmet straps akin to having some sick sideburns. It works great.
Oh wow, brace yourself for the flood of copy editors. Here it come's.
The problem is that work involves job acquisition, analysis, communication, travel and of course risk to self and risk to property. It's also not repeatable so its basically impossible to earn a living 20 here and there.

It's probably not worth it for anyone you might actually want to hire and doubly so for anything to which substantial chance of liability attaches. It might make more sense as a list of things your friends/neighbors/family could use help with playing up altruism angle and minimizing emphasise on liability. You know more like neighbor helping neighbor. You could also hopefully integrate positive things like sharing things that may still have value eg you upgraded your washing and dryer but the old set are still workable or things to do that others might want to share in so its not all a distributed version of your grandma's chore list.

Incidentally a have a great domain used for a fairly half-assed implementation of a not entirely different idea.
You can also disable MMS.
Given that the reasons behind Google breaking backward compatibility are obviously primarily because they want to weaken ad blocking, I think it's perfectly reasonable to talk about this.
The ford edge is the same class of car as a Tesla model y. They are, in fact, the same dimensions (off by and inch or two). I chose it specifically because it's an equivalent model.

If you want to complain, you should be pointing out the fact that I used the model y, which is (currently) best in class for EV weight. That's primarily due to Tesla's use of the battery as a structural component.

Equivalent cars from the same companies are often gaining hundreds of pounds (or more) because they are using the same platform as their ICE counterparts rather than using a more obvious skateboard design. The older ford focus being one of the worst examples of this.
> you can't prove the money lost to a casino is the same money stolen from those employers

see my sibling comment below re: player's cards
I feel the same way about Chrono Trigger, right down to (almost) all of those complex issues!
Sorry, that'll have to be a separate audit of this audit.
It was fun until I got hit by a car when biking back from work. Now I just drive to work due to the risk of injury from distracted drivers and getting doored in bike lanes.

It's really unfortunate because I'd rather bike, but the infrastructure in the US even in relatively bike friendly cities here is dangerous.
Houston isn't _consistently_ in this territory, but it is worth a reminder that if the ambient temperature is above body temp and the air is humid enough, then a breeze makes you hotter faster.
One feature of the UK is the NHS, which has given me far more freedom of work than I think I would have had in the US, given a medical condition that showed up before/during my first (pre-university) job...
Chrono Trigger’s easily #1 for me in the 16-bit era, but FF VI is damn good.
> average annual ownership cost of $12000

Lots of people buy luxury cars, driving up that figure, so it hardly matters when we are talking about marginal utility for someone, shall we say, disadvantaged. Which I’m guessing you’ve never been?

My annual cost of ownership on my car is like $2500. I can sleep in my car too, and store clothes and food securely in it. Oh and get on demand heat & A/C access.

If you don’t have much, having a car is a lot.
Obviously, the primary goal is to make big copyright owners happy.
I'm not an insider, but those sound like generally hard-to-avoid issues of large organizations, public and private, profit-oriented and service-oriented. You can't manage that many people, millions in DoD, without rules, and rules can't be defined to apply well to the very wide variety of situations in reality - just like an algorithm, they'll be inflexible. These kind of gripes are, understandably, in every large organization.

> 3. Going through an absurdly painful process to put on the books every physical piece of property we see (e.g. hand tools, step ladders, obsolete radio and telephone equipment) and then account for them on a monthly basis even if they've been useless and in storage since the 1970s.

On the upside, that provides one of the benefits of an audit: Identifying wasted assets. I know the Army is focusing on reducing the amount of useless equipment it warehouses.
I mean, aside from my current role in Amazon, my last several roles have been at Mozilla, OpenDNS/Cisco, and Fastly; each of those used a combination of cloud, colo and on-prem services, depending on use cases. All of them worked at scale.

I specifically said "if it is designed well", and that phrase does alot of heavy lifting in that sentence. It's not easy, and you don't always put your A-team on a project when the B or C team can get the job done.

The article outlines a case where a business saw a solid justification for moving to bare metal, and saved approximately 1-3 SDE (depending on market) salary in doing so.

That amount of money can be hugely meaningful in a bootstrapped business (for example, for one of the businesses my partner owns, saving that much money over COVID shut-downs meant keeping the business afloat rather than shuttering the business permanently).
A contrarian view: <https://angryflower.com/495.html>
If you want honest robots, you shouldn't train them on input generated by humans.

Garbage in, garbage out, as they say.
Lol neither dutch bike that long. Bikes are good for 5-7kms, >10 is already a stretch and ppl use bike+train combo or just straight up bus/tram
Smaller cars are more likely to throw you up and over - still dangerous, but not as dangerous as a direct inelastic hit. Smaller cars have better visibility of pedestrians and so are more likely to see and thus avoid pedestrians.

If you take a direct hit with even a tiny car at faster than 30mph you are dead. However smaller cars make it somewhat less likely you take that direct hit.
Electric palanquins.
> You act as if control has no value to their mission.

What is their mission, exactly? Why does it require one single entity as the single pipeline for all global communications?

How many times will we have to go through the same cycle of building centralized Leviathans and see them turning against us, to understand that this is the Road to Hell?
It's not awful for a person to live in debt. Debt is a useful financial tool.

Unlike a person, a government has an unlimited lifespan and debt can persist forever. This only becomes a concern when total debt exceeds some multiple of GDP. The exact limit will vary based on many factors including interest rates, economic growth rate, demographics, and tax compliance. Once that limit is breached it tends to cause a fiscal and political crisis within a few years. Either default or hyperinflation in the short term, followed by a long period of austerity.
But then it needs extra filters so it doesn't accidentally say something based.
https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/pull/60144 -> https://github.com/getsentry/sentry/blob/d4d89e2fa93ad99f13d...

If they're going to all this trouble for "ambiguity," I don't know why they wouldn't further extend their custom SPDX identifier to include the "2 year" rollover, since that's one of their pearl-clutching reasons for this bullshit: https://github.com/getsentry/loose-confederation/issues/4
Like any sales profession, the median salesperson is a moron. Many of the listing agents just try to sign as many as possible to get the shared commission. They’re easy to find because theirs is a volume game and they market heavily.

If you don’t ask for what you want or know what you want, you get those guys. If you do, you pay for the big leagues. You’re not going to find their business card at the coffee shop bulletin board or church bulletin.

When I sold my first house, I paid the full commission plus 50% of anything over ask if it closed within 45 days of signing.

This lady was a beast. She hung out at divorcee support groups and had a file of recently divorced women with cash settlements. All-cash offer, well over list, accepted the day before listing with no contingency; closed 10 days later.

Did I feel like a horrible person? Yes. Was the place sold to my needs? Yes.
> The other way to look at it is that the EU isn't in thrall to big tech companies and the world is lucky that there's somewhere that their power doesn't reach.

I'm inclined to agree when you look at things like privacy regulation/GDPR, but the recent draft legislation that weakens encryption leaves me doubting their ability to regulate.
You'd have to launch all your missiles towards middle of nowhere Siberia. Combined with the inevitable back and forth in the lead up to a nuclear war between the US and china, it would be pretty obvious where the nukes were headed. And China's ICBMs would need to overfly the same territory.

Frankly, there are two realistic possibilities with regards to nuclear war: the US is facing both Russia and China, or one of them has agreed to stay out of it. In either scenario, the presence of one shouldn't prevent deterrence of the other.
And if there's too much sun, where's the extra power dissipated?

You can just open the circuit to disconnect a solar panel from the external load. The panel will get slightly warmer in full sunlight when it's not connected to a load, but there's no harm to it. Since there is no rotating mass or hot steam with accumulated energy in a solar farm, you can shut it down completely in seconds if necessary. Solar PV can safely go from 100% output to 0% faster than any other electricity source.
US companies coming to Europe and immediately picking a fight with the local unions is basically a meme at this point. I wonder if Tesla will repeat every single mistake that Walmart made when they tried to come to Germany.
350W motor, so you'll hit that 20mph limiter on the flats, but maybe won't sustain that up hill. It's better than a 250W motor, but not by a huge margin.
Have you observed how quiet is Basel? I was always shocked when compared to another similar eu city where i live
I love the idea of some small electric vehicle like a moped for things like grocery errands, but would not feel comfortable riding them on many of the roads where I live which are full of large vehicles moving at high speeds.

I also worry about theft. I don’t know what rates of that are for mopeds, but for bikes it’s quite high, and at least with those you can always buy cheap bikes that don’t hurt as much to lose (and are less likely to be stolen anyway). Electric bikes and mopeds are not cheap and eating the cost for one would hurt.

With those concerns in mind, it feels like the best I can do is a used Leaf, even though that’s considerable overkill.
This is exactly reversed, people in cities bend over backwards to adapt laws to work for people in rural areas, fund massive infrastructure efforts for rural areas, etc.

Why do we have such good and extensive roads in rural areas with such tiny tax bases? Because cities pay for it. Telephone services, electricity, broadband... all these are hugely expensive and inefficient in rural areas and need to be funded by the productivity of cities, which we gladly do.

Meanwhile rural areas have outsize weight in legislative bodies, and often make explicit laws banning cities from running in that they want to.
Quite a misleading article. They say it has the potential to be "highly efficient" in the intro. But later say it can achieve 64% of it's Carnot efficiency. If we assume their max 21C temp differential is from 20C to 41C, the Carnot efficiency is only 6.7%. Taking 64% of that, and you're looking at 4.3% efficient. That is a pretty far cry from the 300% or more that we expect from conventional refrigerant based systems.
This is exactly why I love HTMX [1] in combination with PicoCSS[2]. HTMX is just the regular html elements with ajax extensions built into the tags (it is a js library currently but they plan on lobbying to have these as default functionalities with HTML in the future) and picoCSS also works without classes so you are "trained" to use the semantic tags for the page to be rendered beautifully

[1] https://htmx.org/

[2] https://picocss.com/
I haven't noticed any speed differences between Chrome and Firefox for quite some time now (Linux here, so maybe it's different on Windows or macOS).

And I haven't found the Google services integration to be all that deep or interesting to matter. In fact, I'd found the opposite to be true: it's gotten in the way. Having the browser log into your Google Account directly has led to some confusing behavior, especially when signing into a second account via some webapp, which sometimes changes how the browser is signed in.

Regardless, I think we all would be better off with a bit less integration of Google services in our lives.
Are there any SA tools, that would understand COBOL?
When did Eisenhower warn about failed audits, or something like them?
Depends on the productivity of the country and whether the debt can be exported (as reserve currency) or monetized (as inflation). The USA checks all these boxes for now. Highly productive and the costs can be passed on to others.

Otherwise you are correct. Zimbabwe certainly has to live within its means.
That problem goes both ways and it is wrong headed whenever a single solution is imposed on the whole.

I've seen for example NY politics around transportation, where people that live in the city predominantly use public transport, but any attempt at traffic calming or providing more space for people "at the expense of cars" is an uphill battle because people from surrounding areas predominantly drive into the city. The irony being that following a "park and ride" model would make the city more appealing, including for those that must drive.

Having a bus coming every 5 to 10 minutes in some random place in Nebraska is never gonna happen, but not having that in a city like Seattle, San Francisco or even Los Angeles is ridiculous.
OpenAI gets a C+ in high school English
In large part, people want what we are taught to want. A hundred billion humans lived and died without ever knowing about or wanting Coca Cola or a Ford F150s or a McMansion or a photo album of their children or a poster of Marilyn Monroe in primary colours or a Fabergé egg or a KFC bucket or a private jet or a luxury yacht. Such things didn't exist, and nobody suffered a moment for it. The things we want as animals are such things as warmth, shelter, calories, respect. Most everything else is a manufactured desire, and a lot of the remainder is "wanting nothing, seeing someone else have a thing, wanting that thing".

Marketing turned women on to smoking, turned Americans onto sodas, turned Americans onto cars, onto basketball, onto Nike sneakers, onto fast food burgers, onto SUVs and are now turning Americans onto pickup trucks - it's not accidental, it costs billions and takes years. Billionaires don't want luxury yachts because they develop a mysterious desire to go boating, they want luxury yachts because they are useful tax vehicles.

Talking about "what people want" without taking into account that what people want is malleable and flexible, is missing something important.
I also don't live in a city with useable mass transit either. Bus routes take far longer to get to a place than by car and there are no train or subway lines nearby. Every place I've ever lived you needed a car to get around.

That said, I would love it if I could get around this place without the need of a car. I would love it if my shopping centers were beautiful walkable areas with little shops I could get to on foot.

Traffic sucks, driving sucks and my shopping center is a bunch of big box retail and grocery stores that spread out around neverending road construction far away from where I live.

I don't think things will ever get better either but eventually this common design pattern will severely screw us all over.
Don’t you need to finish the wood somehow in order to protect it from random stains?
The knowledge that I can end a given session by closing my eyes feels very good and natural. It also gives it a bit of a "game" type of experience.

But I'd encourage you to think about the experience you're trying to create, in terms of how to handle the sensitivity of blinking for ending a session. With a single blink being the end, then it becomes very easy to accidentally end a session (either via a bug in false positives, or of course just doing the human thing of blinking).

If you want to maximize time spent staring into a human's eyes without looking away, then the session could end after say 1-2 seconds of eyes being closed, or looking off screen. Then the choice to leave is a bit more intentional, and so sessions can last longer for folks who really want to see how long they can stare at a stranger without tapping out.
That ontology is quite a mess actually.
Yeah, you don’t get it. You can’t even be outside or you will need a shower — no exertion is required.
And yet, that's how Plan 9 boxes talk to one another.

I think maybe you are misinterpreting my post as saying "mount the entire disk used by box1 on box2 simultaneously".

Although when it comes to that, I would also note that DEC's AdvFS did more or less that, 20+ years ago, and it's FOSS now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdvFS

And it's also what the DragonflyBSD team are attempting to make happen in HAMMER2.

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/hammer/
Strange, on Linux I've found Firefox to be just as fast as Chrome. Granted, I've had all the hardware accel stuff force-enabled for years now, with no issues (on Intel iGPUs), so maybe that's why I haven't noticed any slowness.
That's not an index fund, that's a company.
They don't just mitigate them, they're entirely free of them. There's a reason Skypanels are standard on every single major hollywood production nowadays.

That said, if you need a lot of light, halogen is without alternative. There's a reason the ArriMAX with its 18kW halogen lamp is still popular.
My man, the post explicitly says "Banning gas/diesel cars gets there".
It doesn't have to be true, to make for a good sales pitch.

Am I mistaken? People selling target digital ad services like this are noted for their integrity and never scam their clients at all?

To be clear: I suspect that our devices do use audio samples in their observation of our lives, where possible; but i don't think its as simple as "they're listening to us and reporting back".
Or even legalizing a neighborhood like that.

The reason we dont have walkable neighborhoods is that we outlaw them nearly everywhere. Trying to build one requires not only planning and getting the money but changing the law where you try to build it.
The linked tweet has a diagram where you can pretty quickly see that this isn't just about using wikidata as a training set. The paper linked from the tweet also gives a good summary on its first page.
Let's say I work in reinsurance. How many reinsurance companies do you think are within walking distance?

It's an odd fact of life that as countries get more developed the people in them more heavily specialise. This is one of the reasons cities have much higher wealth production per capita than towns.

If everyone is very unspecialized (e.g. "general practitioner" rather than "expert in non-hodgkins limphomas") then walking and biking could work okay, there should be a couple of jobs in range (having alternative employment options is vital for healthy employee-employer relations). But that's just not how an advanced global economy works.
Considering how cheap they sell their home smart speakers, I can't imagine it's a very profitable division.
I am in Czechia, pretty expensive, but I heat with electricity anyway (don't ask).

If you want machine with 8 real CPU cores, 128GB RAM, 8TB SSD storage... It only take 110 Watts under full load. Electricity cost compared to cloud fees is tiny.
Rounding out the end of 2023 where a 15 TB pcie gen 4 drive is $1800, it's hard for me to accept the fact that SSD storage for databases (or at least the indexes) isn't just a given.
His farewell address warned of unaccountable military bureaucracy.
All of the pirated magazines, for current magazines, are taken directly out of emagazine vendor systems and are basically directly from the publisher's distribution system.
The DoD is Congress' baby. They will move heaven and earth to make sure the defense industry gets paid.
I think people knew the crime real world use case for crypto from the beginning.
Psi+ 1.5.1653 (2023-11-03) has been released – Jabber/XMPP OMEMO E2EE
> I think the issue here is that we don't have a system where being an OSS contributor is a sustainable career path.

Why should it be? Most OSS authors get paid to work on their stuff by some company who wants it. If there's no one willing to hire you, then your software is not worth it. I don't mean this negatively. I have lots of open source projects that are not worth it. I have one that I've been hired to work on before, but am no longer working on it anymore
I understand that the next test is about passing an elementary school science test? It is good to put cincrete goals. A few time ago computers couldn't beat amateur Go players.

Not saying that computers will think or not, just saying we have new challenges before the Turing test.
I think this typo works
Should have arrived by now, I got Mailchimp working! It's a bit hectic today yes :p quite unexpected
> saved saved billions and billions of dollars in R&D

Did they though? Do we know how much Google and Amazon spend on these devices?

Apple may have won the first battle by "not fighting" but the next battle is a race to make these dumb assistants smart.

Amazon seems to be the possible long term winner, as they don't make phones and still got millions to buy their "dumb speaker" when they (consumers) already had one in their pocket!
> I think we'd be in a better place as a society if this model of work was easier to follow/more mainstream.

Why?