skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that they have used this problem as a power grab and the power grab has destroyed the foundation of a democracy. That's not worth it.

It's not worth it because it's not necessary. You are turning the country into the same sort of place that Navalny lived in.

It not necessary to allow prosecutors to pervert the course of justice and lie under oath whenever they want, because then a court is meaningly.
It's not necessary because a functioning democracy should be able to weather being found wrong and should be accountable. They have become completely unaccountable.

And it's unnecessary because what value is there to harrass someone and their neighbor's after they have already been convicted and punished?
This is not the only snarky comment about the 3->4 transition, but I feel they are overly harsh. A big problem with that transition was distros jumping to ship pre-release software to users long before the release was ready, which really soured the perception of the new version. There were bugs, but the perception lasted longer than the reality, IMO.

That being said, I'm still sad about the Amarok 1.4->2 transition and subsequent death.
Tea drinker here, but doesn't a lot of soda globally come in aluminum cans, which are actually recyclable?
> an unprecedented level of top-down control over society

wouldn't the people that the article is accusing of being against UBI, want this outcome?

sounds like if they want more control, they should be for UBI
Does "recyling" include paying Chinese "recyclers" to take it? Because if so then I don't think it's actually being recycled.

What, pray tell, are they doing with this low-grade recycled plastic? Putting park benches out into the environment that will degrade faster, distributing microplastics everywhere?

Or are they investing a ton of time and energy to recycle the plastic into higher use (than park benches), which likely has significant input energy costs, which in turn is probably harming the environment?

You can't get anything for free, and recycling plastics least of all. The most environmentally friendly solution I'm aware of today is to simply relocate it all into one contained location and incinerating it as cleanly as possible or burying it in a landfill with protective sheeting. We're not even close to running out of landfill acreage on this planet.
Vocabulary difference is a huge issue though. Korean and Japanese grammar is very different from Chinese, but the shared vocabulary (of Chinese origin) makes it easier to learn one of them if you already speak another one. Also incentives and resources in a target language are very important.

Assuming you don't know a Slavic language (I don't), take a look Interslavic. I recognize zero words in the example texts. That might make sense to someone who knows one, but it's going to be an uphill battle for me. Honestly I'd rather invest time in something like Russian or Polish because it gives me access to a lot more native speakers, media and literature.
PureScript made some ergonomically painful decisions (I value the logic behind their implementation of tuples but not having to use them in such a way), but I think the biggest point against it is how Haskell is moving into that space via JS and WASM compiler targets and bringing along its broader user base and library support
> many businesses simply wouldn’t exist online with opt-in.

If a business can't exist without abusing people, perhaps it shouldn't exist.
Things I Hate About Living in the US [video]
> Can you think of a single line of reasoning that explains both facts?

It's definitely not immediately obvious that this number should be an invariant for any shape topologically equivalent to a sphere.

However, it is easy to see why it should hold for a dihedron.

For a general convex shape (to start with) I think I would try to show people how the planar face orientations change at the corners, and point out that these must sweep out the whole sphere in the 3-dimensional space of planar orientations. This is similar to the way in which the linear orientations of the sides of a polygon must sweep out a whole circle (exterior angles sum to 2π). Non-convex corners can "subtract" some of the areas we already swept out, which can be a little tricky to reason about, but could probably be made clearish with a nice interactive computer diagram.

We just need to look at the corners because on the face there is no orientation change, and at the edges the orientation change is 1 dimensional and therefore has no "area" relative to the 2-dimensional quantity we are measuring. This might be easier if you look at the linear orientations normal to the faces.

It might be easier still to just start with tetrahedra.

* * *

I have a much harder problem for everyone: come up with some way of calculating the sum of angle deficit at the corners of a polyhedron constructed of great-spherical faces on a 3-sphere and relating it to the size of the polyhedron. Does this generalize the pattern for spherical polygons on the 2-sphere? (This is a genuine question: I'm not sure quite what is known about this.)
> And oh my god! It’s fascinating! The language [Esperanto] is so well designed! Everything made sense and with each new thing I learned, I thought “That’s brilliant!”

Not sure if serious? Obligatory link to JBR's "Bad Language" Ranto: http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/
(not affiliated, just a happy user)

It's paid, but if you want to deeply learn CSS interactively, I can't recommend this course enough:

https://css-for-js.dev/

Not just the best CSS resource I've encountered, but one of the best examples of interactive pedagogy period I've encountered.

The author also has lots of free resources if you want to get a flavor of the style:

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/tutorials/css/
One of many reasons that FDR was the worst president in US history.
i think you could have communicated this more effectively without the ad hominems.
They’re commonly described as martyrs in and outside Palestine. If you read witness accounts from Gaza you will come across the word often. It’s an accurate term.
10 years long harrassing, stealing from, tampering with the cars from the neighbor of someone convicted of growing weed can hardly be described as mis-handling things. That's very very severe.
Yeah, I just read this further down in this topic. Really bummed about it, Elm always seemed so promising, and I thought a healthy fork was what was needed.

I just don’t understand the reasoning for this choice.
I believe both photos must show the cap while screwed onto the bottle. In the photo of the new cap, the orange stuff is the bottle.

The picture shows the screw threads of the bottle opening meeting the threads of the cap. And you can see some asymmetry where the part on the left side of the bottle opening is vertically lower than the part on the right side, which is consistent with the thread being a spiral shape.
Toyota wants hydrogen to succeed so bad it's paying people to buy the Mirai
If they have so much pricing power, why are their returns less than SP500? Who would want to lose money compared to a risk-less investment where you don’t have to do any work?
Yes, a moment's thought should reveal that this is the case.

Buying and selling a house costs about 10% (or more) (realtors, expenses, etc). So if you buy a house today for $200k, and sell it tomorrow for $200k you will lose about $20k. (Yes, there are flipping tricks and stuff you can do to reduce that, but there are costs for normal transactions.)

So the rule of thumb is "about seven years" - if you buy today, and sell in seven years, appreciation and such will "break even". Certainly if appreciation was insanely high, that will be a shorter period, if it is bad or a crash happens, it may be longer or even underwater.

But whatever the time period is, if you will not live in the house for that number of years, you're better off renting, unless rental prices are so high as to invert it.

Another example of this is where businesses often prefer to lease (even so far as to triple-net) for tax purposes and to free up capital.
Hello fellow Restonite!

Reston is a gem. It's not perfect by any means, but it was intentionally designed to be something other than unmitigated suburban sprawl. And it helps a lot. There's still a big reliance on cars to get around, but the wide availability of trails is fantastic.
You're being downvoted but I've observed this behaviour. I had a colleague who had multiple dash cams because truck drivers kept trying to drive him over when passing. They thought it was hilarious, they don't seem to care about whether or not the person will be killed.

I was shocked coming to Germany and seeing cyclists not constantly being attacked by the general public. In the UK it's seen as totally illegitimate.
Dolphin is legitimately my favorite KDE program. My experience is that it's a phenomenal productivity tool. Being able to quickly open or close a terminal. How customizable the ordering and appearance and columns are. Easy to manipulate tabs.

I think I can count on one hand having a root file manager would be beneficial. Are you logging into a desktop as root?
I could make that happen, yeah
They track fairly closely with Clancy in tone and plot progression, IMHO.

To me, Clancy was always {interesting event} -> {discovery of unexpectedly serious implications of event} -> {race to uncover extent of implications, before it's too late}.

And I get why he converged on that! That's a banger plot, guaranteed to sell copies!

His earlier stuff bucks this trope (e.g. Red October and Red Storm Rising), but he was something of a different author in his more technically curious years.
Mandatory sexual education violates my freedom of religion, as my believes around sex are a deeply held religious conviction.

Edit: The rest I would just try to leave. I think they're the wrong direction for any country and I wouldn't want to be part of a country that voted that way, but you can't fight with that kind of majority.
It almost seems too good to be true
Wish it went on sale more often
By orthogonal do you mean you can deal with one of the things and ignore the other? Well.. you can't if you value democracy. Clearly they didn't.
> Build houses

That would be great. So, ah, when are we getting started and when will they be done?

We've seen time and time again big infrastructure projects are hamstrung by red tape and NIMBYs, it's never going to happen.

Also, just the materials for a house in many parts of Canada are $500k now, so it's not like you can just magically build an affordable house.
Would UBI lead to more control for them, or for government? I have to imagine the latter.
If mold is growing on the cap, it's probably growing on the inside too. Throw it out.
Well no, not quite - you've had "training" in that you must have seen cars driving around and been driven in one, so you understood that it's a machine that moves, that is controlled with the steering wheel, and that you can make it move by turning the key in the ignition and moving that weird stick in the middle.

All of that is training and you'd need to teach an AI all of those steps too. Just because you didn't have proper driving lessons doesn't mean you didn't come to this with a set of assumptions learned by observation.
You clearly have no idea about what you are talking about.
I've been buying bulk everything I can for a long time and I don't see any downside to it.

It's smarter in every single point:
- I buy what I need instead of what was decided by the packager.
- I don't buy a package to throw it away and buy a new one next time. What a waste of money on top of the environmental impact.
- It's way more efficient for shopping. When things are organised in bulk it's visually much easier to spot in comparison with packaged stuff with random designs in aisles.
- Never experience "queues at stations" so this is a non problem in my 2 decades experiences of shopping in bulk in various cities/countries
Well, it's good to get information from business. The problem is, when you allow this type of lobbyism the information will be delivered by the entities that can afford it. And businesses don't have votes, voters do. Allowing business to too strongly influence politics risks making laws that voters don't approve of, but business do.

It's lazy politics. In the US where money is a driver for individuals (because campaigns paid with personal "campaign funds" are a big thing) it's even worse. There you could have people who owe business favors on day 1, because that's how they got their seat to begin with and if they want to keep they better fulfil their promises.
I feel that, and I mean this politely, you are over-estimating the worth of your ideas.

Ideas is worthless without execution — and most only generate value in an environment where the is the right people, funding, influence to execute it successfully. If these are ideas you could execute on your own, or with your own team through your own funding, then it might be worth considering why you aren't.
It's just a personal thing. I try to stick to using tools that provide me the best defaults + being open source. I don't want to spend time customizing my desktop or getting overwhelmed by the amount of different choices I have available. Don't get me wrong, KDE is a beautiful and great project, it's just that, a very personal thing.
Everything is cheaper than nuclear, at this point.
Unfortunately that means the chunks are only contiguous in virtual memory. So it won't work with the DMA use case mentioned in the article, which requires contiguous physical addresses.

But it's still a nice trick, I like it when people get creative with HW features.
Have you reached out to Hetzner? Feels like they should waive those bills in exchange for the free dev work you do for them.
There's a link in the paper to a turorial:

https://blake.bcm.edu/emanwiki/EMAN2/unreal_render

which uses ChimeraX:

https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimerax/
> Too many non-discoverable gestures.

taking inspiration from MacOS i see
My understanding is that the market, which rewards and punishes your predictions is what makes one a better predictor.
I guess you're right, it's just that there are plenty of people who don't think it's unethical to put bluetooth in a toothbrush...? Even if it means putting in a computer which would've been a nice office computer 30 years ago?
The Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps ended many of their segments in the 80s with "Watch out for that tree" rhythm from the George of the Jungle theme. Seen here[1] around 10:20 to 10:22.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlYOBu9CzNI&t=618s
Tabs are on top by for me on 6.0. Seems to be the default, unless my distro (Arch) changed the default.
Scientists get closer to solving chemical puzzle of the origin of life
Amazon's Big Secret (which divisions are profitable)
I run production services that don't even talk to a database, or that have minimal read-only access. And even for the ones with a lot of write access, having the database stolen/nuked (to be restored from backup) is quite different from handing over all of my browser cookies, or my gcloud/aws/k8s ambient authority credentials that are just sitting in a file (seriously, why is big cloud client security worse than SSH).
You can install it through the Software Manager. At least on Mint that's how it is. Click, install, and I believe it tells you to logout and back in.
Not to deny that this is an increasingly litigious society, but if the bureaucracy is so sprawling, surely it gets to a level where it's too stuffed with requests to be able to respond to every triviality, no?
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The response is context dependent. If it is a non-response to you it is because you lack the expected knowledge. I was lazy as I'm gaining nothing from this. If you think his argument is better it's your right and fault.

I can't think of any case in history where a brain or capital drain would be a positive think. Historically the US benefited greatly from European drains. Such an absurd idea requires a fantastical level of evidence supporting it.

While I agree that capital starved countries would benefit from additional capital, it is a tautology, there's a reason why those countries are capital starved in the first place. Corruption, bad to make business, etc. Capital moves quickly when there are favorable conditions. Also any billionaire can live at country A, B and C while paying taxes at D and investing in E.

Also it's very simplistic and wrong to put all the blame of home shortages on billionaires. It's more complex than that. Demand is high but why supply is low?
It's not trivial. Just installing KDE packages on a GNOME install will work and is quite easy, but will lead to some mix / subtle setting issues, it's less clean than just a brand new install.

Installing and running KDE will mess up GTK settings in GNOME for instance. You might end up with the Breeze GTK theme in the GNOME session. Which works, but this is most likely not wanted (even though GNOME looks great with the Breeze theme).

I'd not advise regular users to do this without a warning.
> Firefox Reality on the Oculus Go VR Headset

yes, through not limited to the Oculus

and it kinda folded Hubs (https://hubs.mozilla.com/) into it

and and I think there was a bit of additional research level stuff never ending up in user hands

but both are somewhat dead, idk. if Firefox Reality still works with any VR headset at all (it might still work with non standalone headset usage) and Hubs is shutting down end of March, a community version still exist (Hubs ~= somewhat like VRChat from the idea but not as VR specific and just less interesting in general)

same for most other things they are either dead or fizzled out (and some are stables, but don't bring users, like pdf.js)

One thing I forget to mention is FF does a lot of work to reduce fingerprint-ability of existing interfaces (while trying to avoid breaking websites by changing/breaking existing interfaces, like some other more privacy focused browsers do). A bunch of this is done in context for the tor-browser but also benefit normal FF. Sadly you using FF ads more information to the fingerprint then any of the protections due to better fingerprint protection (something which is true for any form of privacy protection not used en mass by every one).
I'm so upset they canceled that show. The time travel gimmick was as silly as it was in every time travel show (yet as sci-fi fans we can't help but watch anyway...) but the vision of the near future with e-bikes and stealth vehicles and drone warfare felt really contemporary, which is kinda awesome for a book written 10 years ago.
I see 90% less bots than I did a year ago. When a new bot comes up they get quashed much faster than when it was Twitter.
Fair but who do you think funds k-street?
To be honest, the best method is to find good Go libraries and do some code reading. Not every project will be using best practices, even those created by prominent Go developers, but if you read through several libraries, you'll pick things up by osmosis.

That said, https://go.dev/doc/modules/layout and https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout may help.
This article shows how a flat plane can create lift. It doesn't start with that, it starts with a familiar airfoil, deconstructs it until it reaches the flat plane making lift, and then builds back to showing why airfoil shapes are used when simpler flat planes still make lift.
Haha. Yeah. I almost got fired in my first month because I asked another developer something I thought was really innocent: they mixed some code from pytest with unittest (two competing Python unit-testing libraries) where either one or the other could do the job perfectly fine. So, I naturally asked why'd they do it. Not even being mean. They, of course, interpreted this as me being snarky... complained to the management, and I had to look for another department to house me.

Now I write "sorry" and "excuse me" when I get assigned to review someone's code and I mostly fix typos in the comments. But, even so, I don't get assigned to code reviews all that often :)
Reminds me of the drawings of David Goodsell:

https://ccsb.scripps.edu/goodsell/

which are similarly about the 'packed' nature of cells.
Also, being able to clone humans != being able to restore a human (with all their memories, experiences, personality, etc.).
This tracks roughly with my experience learning Esperanto. It's a very cool language with many interesting quirks, but there just aren't a lot of people who speak it, and nearly all of them speak English anyway. I don't regret learning it, but I would probably have been better served by learning another language.
Any introduction to HTML/CSS really should explain the fact that when these technologies were created, they were solely meant to render documents online. It was basically created to be like a Microsoft Word but for files on another person's computer. So most of the early properties (like float) were for typographic layout.
They’re common, but A) generally make up a tiny portion of floor space (at least in the U.S., apart from rare specialty stores) and B) I would hazard a guess that they are less sanitary and even less fresh on average than comparable packaged foods.
In that case, tracking by smartphone is superfluous. They already got the location data through entirely different means, and they'd know there were four people in there even if none of them had a smartphone on them.
You'd have to correct for so many things - and it's actually quite hard to get down to the reality.

Obviously almost all renters would take a "free and clear" ownership of the same house they're currently renting; that's a six figure freebee.

And many owners will not fully exhibit "buyer's remorse" just because the cost of ownership is so high.

And no home-owner loves facing down the $10-50k repairs that a house can need now and then.
I'm surprised they never considered calling it "dynamic discounting". Of course they'd need to raise prices so the CEO doesn't lose profit per burger (even with a discount).
> There is also absolute and fixed positioning as a hack to bypass layout.

They're not hacks, and they don't "bypass" layout. `absolute` and `fixed` are two of five options for positioning that dictate how an element is placed and behaves in the flow of the document, or within a specific container. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layou...
Not only that, but the phrase of "program families" is poor imo. The phrase he's looking for is "a class of programs", similar to the ideas that in diff EQ you don't derive a formula, you derive a class of formulas that you can then readily plug in values to get the specific formula you need.

But also, his point about configuration creating slightly different programs is true, but modularity suffers from the exact same problem.
>> Does this reflect safer streets, or just fewer (esp. unsupervised) child pedestrians?

Probably both. The streets are probably "safer" because there are fewer pedestrians-car interactions. We now have walking trails and such separate from roads. And driving kids around in vehicles might be bad environmentally, but if we are talking about traffic deaths then it is a legitimate tool (ie busses rather than kids walking to school).

I suspect much of it is simply that kids no longer wander around on roads. They spend less time outside and when they do it isn't near roads. But the numbers between the 1970s and 2020s are so dramatic that one must conclude that roads are generally safer places for everyone today.
> It’s an accurate term.

It's an accurate translation, but it's not an accurate term.

A martyr is one who willingly gives their life for their faith. Being killed because you were standing in the wrong place may make you a victim of a massacre, but it doesn't make you a martyr.