skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh. Amtrak has routes to most regions and Greyhound doesn't have routes to most ultimate destinations. Typical bus or train trips are you get a ride to the station from a friend or Uber and then the people you're visiting pick you up at the station on the other end. If the station on the other end is five minutes drive or fifteen minutes doesn't really matter, because it's too far to walk either way.

The problem here isn't intercity transit, it's intra-city transit. But that isn't the one Greyhound solves.

Low ridership is also the reason many cities with tracks don't have passenger routes.
It says it checks whether the time going up is shorter than the time going down to keep people from throwing it off a building. So I have a feeling it wouldn't work... Especially since part of their intention is for people to break expensive phones they bought only to show off while trying to show off even more.
> to be the next PayPal, the Western counterpart to WeChat that folks can use to accomplish pretty much anything

PayPal is not anything like an all-in-one app like WeChat, and basically every platform from Apple Messages to Facebook Messenger to Snapchat has allowed users to send money, for years. And a few of those apps have attempted to be all in one apps, with years of a head start in that space.
"uhh, the password is freedom123"
Okay, there are a bunch of reasons against text-based formats. But what are the reasons to use this? This looks like another homebrew mostly-binary format, that makes one's eyes bleed when it has to be debugged.
How comfortable is your 94 year-old relative on a busy interstate, or worse, a 6 lane stroad? Just because somebody still has a driver's license doesn't mean they haven't lost mobility. Now, others have pointed out that if they don't have experience taking good transit, older folks wouldn't even think of using transit as opposed to staying home, which I have to admit has a ring of truth to it.
You are what you eat, hear, touch, smell, see. ...all your life will ever be.
> this economic efficiency “mostly vanishes” under scenarios with 100 percent renewable grids, says Conejo, because the cost of producing electricity is similar throughout the day.

I don't understand this statement. Shouldn't the cost of consuming electricity vary as the supply of renewables changes throughout the day?
It's not a problem with centrifuges. We don't understand fluid physics. :(

We understand fluid physics locally and we can write a differential equation, and solve it numerically. We can solve it for some easy cases, like incompresible liquid without turbulence in a pipe, but the general problem is very hard. So hard that there is a million dollar prize for the person that can solve it. If you want to do down that rabbit hole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equation...
There are a couple of AI vectors services out there but the pricing is just silly.

https://vectorart.ai/

https://www.kittl.com/feature/ai-text-to-vector
Sure, figured "resow the seeds" would say that, but over yer head. Sorry.
HATEOAS = Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (in case this saves a search).

The JavaScript tools for building web applications are nice when used correctly. I can't imagine the product I work on would be easier to build with HTMX, but perhaps I'm ignorant. I wonder though, are there more enjoyable, non-web UI engines out there? Given that web app UI was glued together on top of a document sharing platform, it makes me think native UI dev should be more coherent.
Homebrew HitClips
It depends on the kind of transit advocate you are. To me it appears that with the amount of investment the government has already and continues to put into the automotive sector (building infrastructure, keeping laws that keep them pretty protected, etc), inter-city transit is handled pretty well by the private sector.

You have all sorts of private inter-city bus services (megabus, boltbus, etc. and of course the Chinatown buses that have connected Chinatowns across the country for decades) that work pretty well to keep costs down and are pretty efficient.

The government can step in to require certain minimum labor protections and safety and maintenance standards, but I don't think there's much need for govts to actually run inter-city buses.

In larger cities with a lot of buses governments should create an open bus depot where all the different private operators can rent gates (much like an airport), so there's a centralized location where services such as food, drinks, taxi services, public transport, etc., but this could very easily be a profitable venture that would not require govt. support (other than requiring inter-city buses to use the depot).

I'd rather have govt support other inter-city services where it currently does not put much investment in, such as rail.
And the cost of servicing said customers is paid by the same customers. If you're ready to pay double and triple, vote with your wallet - in many industries there are more expensive options available with better customer service.
"The British Library website has been offline due to cyberattack for 10 days" feels more natural to me.
I can’t imagine that’s how industries could actually run. I think they can benefit from cheaper costs to absorb excess electricity or reduce capacity slightly when it gets too expensive, but shutting down an aluminum smelting plant seems like a non-starter as they need to run constantly 24/7 and require long startup/shutdown times. Same goes for desal - you’re not going to economically produce sufficient amounts of water just trying to time the energy grid.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskEngineers/comments/3g78nj/are_al...
Solar rooftops gain traction as electric vehicles owners look to skip paying for
Why would Apple take their devices off the market or disable the feature instead of parting with a minuscule fraction of the pile of gold they're sitting on for a patent license?

I mean obviously for now it makes more sense for them to wait and hope they win on appeal or get the import ban veto'd, but if it actually comes down to not being able to sell the device, surely the lost revenue would exceed the licensing cost?
The Booming Business of Cutting Babies' Tongues
How do you forbid running two instances of the same service on one node without anti affinity?
You mean... like tech companies?
How long are we going to rely on this as a catch all excuse?

The USA, the most unique country on earth. Solutions that work all over the world can't possibly work here because we're big, or diverse, or X, or Y or Z?

Whether it's healthcare in general, mental health, mass transit, polarization of politics (I think about growing up in Australia where you could be on differing sides of the spectrum and have discussion or debate and still go for a drink together. Moving to the US, I see regularly "I'd rather be dead than be caught having a liberal as a friend" or similar), internet access, or any other thing, the whole "The US is just too different from the rest of the world for any solution to work here that we don't invent ourselves (and won't because we hate upsetting the status quo)."
Perhaps but surely it's a small change for them to "whitelist" accounts for exemption from community notes.
"JavaScript" is a trademark of Oracle Corporation in the United States.
> His luck ran out with Twitter…He's not some mastermind. He's not some uber-businessman

He may not be now. But he was. SpaceX and Tesla are each Herculean achievements. We hail great men for much less.
> Revenue actually is value (a subset of it) delivered to the business's customers. Enterprise value is a different thing. It's an important thing, but it's totally possible to have a business that delivers immense value to its customers and has very low enterprise value. We generally call these "not great businesses," but that doesn't make them not businesses.
As an American, in my experience Americans just don’t care. We’re so “ruggedly individualistic” that there’s very little sense of a common good.

In Europe I’ve noticed things are oftentimes cleaner. Even the parts of Canada I’ve been in have been nice. When every American city is covered in trash it’s hard to not to make some sort of generalization.

Of course I’ve been to other places too that have had just as much trash laying around as here.

As dumb as it is, we need more easily accessible trash cans everywhere. You can’t make negligent and lazy people care. But you can make it easier for them to do the right thing. I don’t have a source but I heard Disney World has trash cans placed every X feet after a similar litter study.
I'm guessing Cheap does not count for the blog post with no included image weighting over 1MB....... 315KB for HTML and looks like your "favicon.ico" is literally a copy of the webpage...
In the movie "The Right Stuff", Gus Grissom is not portrayed in a very positive light, particularly regarding the incident with the hatch blowing after splashdown on his Mercury capsule. Grissom asserted that the hatch "just blew". The investigating panel countered that there had been done all sorts of tests on the bolts and they never "just blew", putting suspicion that Grissom somehow managed to trigger the hatch.

Later investigation found that, indeed, there was a problem with the way the explosive bolts worked, that they could "just blow", and for that reason, they were not on Apollo 1.

If Grissom had not encountered that problem with his Mercury flight, then Apollo 1 would likely have had a different hatch design and they may well have survived that fire.

Later Apollo capsules had a different hatch design.

They talk about this in the "Apollo 1" episode of the mini-series "From the Earth to the Moon".
> and at that level, no health impacts have been demonstrated.

Right, but since it bio-accumulates even if your exposure is low over the decades you may accumulate enough of it for it to affect your health. If your body can't get rid of it then it's not the dosage that counts anymore, it's the total exposure over your lifetime that matters.
BBS, Gopher, Usenet, and friends are all still there - no need to invent a new protocol.
Tesla has not delivered a vehicle that can drive itself. All of them require human drivers at all times.
Usenet was the solution: ads were not accepted there precisely not to turn it into the crap that web has become much later, but some big names decided to destroy it, and as of 2023 they mostly succeeded.
The protocol is free, although it would likely need a significant overhaul to make it more robust, secure and censorship proof, possibly by introducing delivery through distributed encrypted p2p.
Rest API that uses SQL – Need some answers
Do you create RESTful API that uses SQL queries? What are some of the challenges that you face creating RESTful API from ground up?
What are certain tools and technologies that you use ?
How long in general it takes to create and deploy a simple REST API from ground up ?
Unfortunately that works by creating a FS on a loop image file, you can't use the FS in the actual USB stick.

It's still great, but if you run into space issues you'll have to extend the loop file.
Anecdotally, US labor union relations have been strained for some time compared to international settings. Plausibly, this is in part due to the size of American labor unions compared to their international equivalents.

The Resident Advisors in my dorm were required to be members of and pay union due to the United AutoWorkers of America. The list of industries which the United Steel Workers represents is likewise ... large. When you have a union which is decoupled from the business sector it represents, then you run the severe risk that the union does not act in it's members (for that industry) interests.

The RAs in my dorm had to pay $200/mo in union dues, if you opted out of the union - you had to pay $400/mo.
We preview Kubernetes changes at Chime
Quality in the sense I meant it (cogency and intellectual depth/rigor) should certainly be correlated with importance and influence!
I never thought about it like that, but it definitely makes sense now. I open my FB account only once every two weeks or so now, and there is so much uninteresting clickbaity stuff from random accounts that it never takes me more than 30 seconds.
Are these ETFs, target date retirement funds, etc. protected against class action lawsuits from shareholders who end up holding the bag due to the inclusion of fraudulent stocks like this? Obviously waivers are signed about how performance is never guaranteed, but that's a bit different from a need to timely exit positions in fraudulent companies.
Only a diehard GM fanboy could deny that.

Note that Toyota did not take over GM. That might have actually worked, albeit being politically unacceptable.
If you call mmap/VirtualAlloc/open/fopen in your constructor and later it throws, you will have a resource leak, because the destructor won’t clean it up.
Very few of Disney's were "smaller and less astute."

Disney bought the rights to Peter Pan from Paramount Pictures in 1938. At the time, Disney was a small fraction of the size of Paramount Pictures.

The original author of Bambi sold the motion picture rights to his film in 1936 for $1000 USD to a film producer...Disney was not the purchaser. Disney bought those rights from the producer for an undisclosed amount.

Disney bought the rights to Dumbo for $1000 plus royalties on the book sales. (At the time Dumbo was a very simple, very short story intended as promotional content for a new type of book called a "roll-a-book". It sold very few copies, and would have been a historical footnote if not for the unexpected success of the film.)

Disney bought the rights to Winnie the Pooh and paid royalties to the Milne family for decades, before shelling out $350 million to buy the entire rights in 2001. (Disney originally paid $1000 for the merchandising rights to the merchandising rights holder, it's not clear how much they paid for the film rights but given that the Pooh books were a huge commercial success, estimates are somewhere between $100k and $1million in 195x dollars.)
Is this how blockchain makes its comeback? Weren't they saying it can be used to certify original images somehow
The "Dont" CLI Tool
Let's be honest: DDoS protection is inexpensive.
Toyota started in California at a union plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUMMI saw it on asianometry.
I agree.

Nonetheless, some industry are willing to give it a test to see how feasible it is.

https://www.lightmetalage.com/news/industry-news/smelting/tr...

> “We have reinvented the electrolysis process for the production of aluminium. For the first time, we will be able to vary the energy supply during operation significantly. This will allow us to react to changes in the electricity supply, which will benefit the power supply to households in Essen,” says Philipp Schlüter, CEO of TRIMET. “As an aluminium producer, we are naturally an energy-intensive company. As such, however, we are also a valuable partner for the energy revolution.”

> The €36 million trial installation converted a total of 120 furnaces in hall one of its Essen plant, which will be able to consume either 25% more or 25% less energy for up to 48 hours. The energy requirement can also be reduced to zero for up to an hour, if necessary. This means up to 2,000 megawatt hours of electricity can be stored for use in the energy revolution.

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It requires new smelters, new software, new engineers. Its all very expensive. But it might be worthwhile. Just don't go like... crazy... with the idea right? There's downsides, but the upsides are immense. Keep an eye on the costs and practicality, and give it a test. It might be worthwhile.

That's my outlook anyway. Maybe Aluminum specifically is run too close to 100% utilization to be useful (we do have a very predictable amount of Aluminum...), but maybe other industries have a more start/stop and feast/famine kind of setup that would benefit from off-hours automation for energy price optimizations and/or even grid-tie stabilization.

But there are _real_ Aluminum plants giving this idea a test. So this isn't "vaporware" or even "theoretical". This is a real test occurring today.

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We have to ask ourselves: is a 2GW-hr battery the best thing to build? What if Aluminum-smelters could instead vary their load by +/- 25% with this new software/manufacturing mechanism? What costs more, the 2GW-hr battery or this software + manufacturing change to Aluminum plants?

In both cases, we get 2GW-hrs of "energy storage". EDIT: IE, varying your load each day is a form of energy storage that should be considered by members of society. It may very well be cheaper to achieve 2GW-hrs of virtual energy storage by upgrading industry, rather than trying to build impossibly huge amounts of Li-ion batteries.
That wasn't wrong in 2000, just bad timing.
What a breath of fresh air is browsing simple websites, where content in mainly text and images are sparingly used. All "modern" websites are so tiring. Now if website pops up anything on screen on first visit, be it newsletter signup, login request or just huge image covering whole viewport, I just switch to reader view.
attack the incentives...

have dedicated govt agencies going after the crypto money trail, and disrupt the theives. this happened in the pipeline hack.

otherwise, the thieves will continue thieving with nothing to stop them.

thats why we have the police and other such agencies in the real world.

when thieves go after the commons (libraries/hospitals) - we the public taxpayers have every incentive to demand action of our govt as there is nobody else who can help here.

why are the british taxpayers not demanding action ?
You are not wrong.

But I get a good bit of satisfaction of having gleaned a pretty functional understanding of setting up PXE/netboot (Ubuntu installs; with a Ubuntu PXE server via DNSMasq + nfs + tftp).

I even did some grub menu user input (and ascii art while I was at it) prompts/trickery to allow choosing the machine name shortly after boot, before the long slow Ubuntu install.

The list of things I've failed at (memtest) or not tried (Windows) is surely long, though.

Ventoy is fantastic for any lower-volume imaging needs I have, of course.
I mean, circa 2000 where was the BS?
But with user generated content like this thread other people can criticize each other and discuss things. If someone is spectacularly wrong then chances are that will be pointed out.

ChatGPT is essentially an echo chamber between you and ChatGPT.
Asking OP how many times their house got destroyed for your personal curiosity is, I would think, rather tactless.
Having little experience with k3s, how big of a workload (“nodes” aka virtual kubelets, pods, crds, etc) can you have before saturating the non-HA control plane becomes a concern?
In addition, Apple and AMD both sell hardware, and are not competing in the same spaces.
>Same as with microplastics, where you're bombarded with headlines about them being found in random places and being vaguely bad for you.

Compounds in plastics mimic hormones putting everyone (and the whole biosphere) on low grade hormone replacement. There's not a question about "if", but "how much". They are biologically active, they are present inside you.
> A lot of care is being put into gccrs not becoming a "superset" of Rust, as Cohen put it. The project wants to make sure that it does not create a special "GNU Rust" language, but is trying instead to replicate the output of rustc — bugs, quirks, and all.

In my experience, the part in italics is a significant mistake.

Rust does not have a specification; there is a reference but it is explicitly not normative. A language udocumented except for a single reference implementation (as is tpday's fashion) have a long term weakness. What is the motivation for slavishly trying to maintain compatibility with the bugs and accidental quirks of another implementation? To guarantee that existing code will work in both implementations, which sounds sensible. And it is a sensible goal, but it does so at enormous cost by enforcing it in the wrong place.

The problem is that sometimes decisions are wrong, and sometimes bugs are written. But when you promise that all implementations will be bug compatible as part of compatibility you are also signing up to fossilize these bugs whether you want to or not.

A good example of someone who embraced this (to their credit!) is Microsoft: they spend a lot of person-power making sure that old programs continue to run while trying to fix security and reliability bugs. Rust need not and should not sign up for this burden so early in its lifespan. They should learn from history.

If they want the language to evolve they should embrace QA and QC. Famously "you cannot test quality into a product". You need QA: architecture, design, design and code reviews, etc to ensure that things will work properly and when not, that "failure heads in the appropriate direction". Then later in the development cycle QC (test cases) tries to see if you missed. This doesn't just apply to product development -- it applies to language development especially.

The strong standards (e.g. ComonLisp, C++, FORTRAN) embraced this belief. The weak, de facto ones (Most notably Python, but plenty of others) can still become popular, but change is difficult. Look at how long the Python 2->3 transition took, and how few python implementations there are.
I would say that the interesting part of this article is that you can treat mosquito bites with hyperthermia. Anyone who's had any contact with technology already knows that you can power electronic devices via USB.
This was a dirty dirty move by Adobe, not regulators. Insiders will know what I’m talking about
Used that way Carolina refers to UNC chapel hill, not north carolina the state. It's an extremely common local usage when talking about the university sports teams. It's less pervasive but still very common for referring to the university itself.
Desal plants do help by giving renewables something economically valuable to do in the spring when energy output is being wasted.
It is when it's as big as Rockefeller oil. It's like finding out TSMC makes chips that degrade suddenly.
> If you are seeking to photograph for commercial purposes you may be required to gain permission from anyone who was involved in the film or photograph. Commercial purposes usually means that you are photographing for financial gain or to promote goods or services.

When your income from Tiktok is tied to stream views etc., and you provide little journalistic content, you might have a hard time demonstrating that your stream wasn't "for commercial purposes".

The ASMP (American Society for Media Photographers) who work to protect the rights of photography among other things recommends that property and other releases be obtained if used for commercial purposes and states that in some situations, a release may be "required".
In my opinion the key thing is find an employer/interviewer that emphasis more on high level things than specific stack, you're mid-senior, I think it would be natural for you to discuss architecture, design, manage tech debts, communication, people business, these kinds of things during interview. Depending on the market but I think (or I hope) it wound't be hard to find these sensible interviewers in the market.

Second is practice, if you were to switch your stack, then a bit practice IMHO is still needed, build something, and keep an eye on how the common things handled in this different stack, say in web dev, global exception handling, routing, authn and authz, etc. Once you've mastered these you should feel confident talk about these during interview.
Our advances in the last 50 years have largely been in engineering, not science. You could probably take a random physics professor from 1970 and they'd not sweat too much trying to teach physics at the graduate level today.