skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that if someone says something is arcane, “it’s not, it’s just [something that you’ve potentially never heard of and almost definitely don’t understand even if you have heard of it]” doesn’t help your case. They could look it up, but the fact that they would have to do so proves the commenter’s point - relatively few programmers understand Lisp syntax, i.e. it is arcane.

If you’re trying to raise awareness of something, don’t act like the reader is stupid if they don’t already understand. Insisting that something is obvious, especially when it is not, means any reader who does not understand it will likely perceive the comment as snobby. As does including snide remarks such as “in case you’ve been living under a rock”.

> Flaunting your ignorant anti-intellectualism isn’t a good look.

Why do you assume that I personally don’t know what s-expressions are just because I agree that they’re arcane? Labelling someone as an ignorant anti-intellectual just because they disagree with something you said isn’t a good look either.
Sure, so why are the right wing so against having supermarkets that close?
Red Hat also does the verification against standards which allow them to be used: https://access.redhat.com/articles/compliance_activities_and... Not every distribution does/can.
I know how I would set things up. But in the vast majority of cases there are objectively good and bad policies and the fact that people voted doesn't change whether something is a good idea or not. Nobody's voting in China as far as I know and they've seeing unbelievable rates of improvement in their living standards for the last few decades, it isn't that hard.

The issue is that the political class (really any group of people) is inevitably stuffed with corrupt sociopaths, tends towards groupthink, is easily dissociated from reality and insists on using social proof rather than a scientific approach. The system as it stands is just a big complicated stick to wallop them with a Trump every so often if they really muck things up to the point where their incompetence triggers too many problems for enough people. The exact trigger % of people needed to engage the stick should be set sensibly but in practice the US is making do with around 20% of the population according to Wikipedia [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_United_States...
Which Europe are you talking about? Europe is a collection of independent counties and what you just mention is all wrong.

Most of the European railway companies have been privatized and there are companies that run the rail network and companies that run the train. Subsidies are not a thing in many of the European countries
Would you please you give us some examples? I've long considered myself an urbanist and genuinely have no idea what you're talking about.
I'm not sure what this has to do with American train travel, since it's all within one country (and, generally, one company). It reads as a rationale for why it couldn't work here, except that none of your issues apply to us.
Darwin himself noted in the Origin of Species that there is not really any such thing as a "species." It is a poor abstraction we use to describe a group of closely related organisms, but the classifications are necessarily arbitrary and the lines are fuzzy. To visualize this more clearly, imagine that we resurrected every organism that ever lived. It would be easy to say that, say, your cat is felis catus, and so was his father, but scanning back through say, 2^32 ancestors, it would be impossible to point to any ancestor n, compare it with ancestor n + 1, and say this is one species, and that another. Of course, hybridization events make the picture even more complicated. This problem was of course already known at the time, and nothing has changed since, because of the nature of the underlying biological reality.

Thus, there is no distinction at all between "microevolution" and "macroevolution".
Brilliantly.

This sentence no verb. Self referentially.
There are a lot of transit focused “creators” already documenting their trips - the one I tend to follow on YouTube is Miles in Transit but he often intersects with other creators as well
What are you talking about? Of course chromosome number changes have been seen: see every Down's syndrome person ever. Had that been an advantageous change, Down's people would be successfully increasing their percentage of the population
Reminds me of this IR spectrometer that started as a $400 Kickstarter project:

https://www.consumerphysics.com/

and became a successful product (for industry, not so much for consumers though it was initially sold to consumers for drug identification and testing food freshness.)
More than simply a marker, it's a causal risk factor for ASCVD.
You can also tenderize tough cuts of steak in a marinade as well.
This entire comment is amazing, but I particularly like how evolution is unproven but the Christian bible and existence of Christianity’s version of God are proven.

I wonder if we went out into the world which we would find more evidence in favor of?

The mind is a frustrating thing.
I have a bit less notes, about 2700, and the only complaint I have is that the mobile app is a bit sluggish when you open it and it starts to sync, other than that I'm quite content with it. I use it on 6 devices that are a mix of Android/Linux/Windows and my sync is nice and snappy (I use a self hosted Joplin Server as the sync backend). It used to take forever when I used the folder based syncing (with Syncthing for inter device syncing), but with Joplin Server it's MUCH faster.

Do you have OCR enabled for your images within Joplin settings? I tried that a while back on a work instance and it REALLY slowed things down. I've been hesitant about enabling it on my home instance.
The Active Badge Location System (1992)
How do you know if they never had the option to use a train?
Regenerative farmers posting on hacker news gives me hope for humanity. Thanks.

Apparently anyone in US/Canada can just ask for a farm and practically get one at this point. Either via USDA / private loans or indie farmers giving you great lease-to-own terms because you don't look like a corporate billionaire. Urban rent is so darn expensive now that some of y'all can probably get rich just by farm squatting and having a good time.

(Seriously thinking about solo farming in real life now. Not that it would really be solo because of all the animals.)
If your state has "lemon laws", maybe you can get some help. https://www.atg.wa.gov/general-lemon-law TLDR: recourse when mfg sells a defective, unsafe, or both, vehicle.

Not that this helps you...

IMHO, current CyberTruck is in the alpha testing phase. It has multiple disruptive innovations. Tesla wisely chose the relatively low volume CyberTruck to mitigate risk.

I'm concerned (but not surprised) Tesla is aggressively ramping up production.

Esthetics aside, CyberTruck has so many exciting, long overdue technology innovations. Better gigacasting, modular etherloop (replacing CAN bus), switch to 48v, drive by wire, no rear view mirror, etc.

(I think the stainless steel exterior will prove to be a mistake. Mostly for safety reasons.)
How do you feel about starting with the opening paragraph on Wikipedia?

Cholesterol is the principal sterol of all higher animals, distributed in body tissues, especially the brain and spinal cord, and in animal fats and oils. — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholesterol
Yes I am. What are you doing with the Ghost API?
A lot of new and popular features in VSCode are only available in the official MS version of VSCode. Using any of the forks of VSCode thus becomes a lesser experience.

Microsoft Embraced by making VSCode free and open source. Then they Extended by using their resources to make VSCode the go to open source IDE/Editor for most use cases and languages, killing much of the development momentum for none VSCode based alternatives. Now they're Extinguishing the competition by making it harder and harder to use the ostensibly open source VSCode codebase to build competing tools.
> Some alternative theories I've come across:
> - There's a theory that cholesterol is good for you. It's necessary for brain functioning. Low levels of "bad" cholesterol have been linked to depression.

These aren’t alternative theories, they’re just reductive takes that try to ignore the big picture.

Reductive takes are really seductive for people who want to reduce everything into “good” or “bad” categories, but the body doesn’t work like that.

The part that confuses people is that the message has been simplified to “cholesterol bad” for so long that people are confused to discover that cholesterol is actually used by the body. Upon discovering these facts, reductive logic switches from “cholesterol bad” to “cholesterol good”, which is just as reductive.

The truth is that cholesterol is useful within the body, but that doesn’t mean that more of it is better. Despite all of the proponents of alternative theories trying to spin a different story, the bottom line is that cumulative lifetime LDL exposure is still correlated with heart disease.

That is the only thing you need to know about the debate if you want to reduce it to something simple. More LDL over time means more heart disease. A lot of people will try to “well actually…” various things around this, but it’s true.

Even the comments below are trying to tell you your own observation is impossible (that diet can’t affect cholesterol levels) when that’s clearly not true.

Cholesterol has become a hotbed of alternative medicine that doesn’t follow the science but sells well on social media. Don’t put too much confidence behind “alternative theories” when we have decades of evidence that excessively high cholesterol levels over a lifetime are correlated with heart disease.
I like to joke that it's an array indexing issue. Some people loop through their array task list starting at 1 instead of 0, and so if they only have one task it never gets started. :P
What they mean is that since another argument is shot down, they have to move the goalposts and change the definition of what they actually wanted.

You show one species becoming another, they’ll complain about how it was done. Or how long it took, etc.

For instance, ring species are pretty good evidence of speciation. But that’s not good enough because all those animals exist right now.
But not DC itself. Even if it goes down to 1 Hz, the circuit in question will saturate in a few seconds, or be in saturation when initially turned on and never get to zero as there is no DC feedback.
> Changing into new species is just a longer time frame of more an more adaptations

Strictly speaking, this is a theory, however reasonable.

We know from history that life can be surprising, hence, from a truth point of view, it's better to be careful, avoid rushing to conclusions, especially if this implies closing all other doors.
Yes, that’s exactly the connection that American Nations makes and the OP ignores
That seems a bit made up tbh. I’ve worked with a fair number of Chinese overachievers (both in domestic China and abroad) and family background/affluence weren’t even remotely as much of a factor compared to the US or India (except for the IITs). Also, I noticed there were many many cases of brilliant young people rising through the ranks of the academic system in China compared to India for example where teachers often simply would not show up in public schools.

Personal background: I worked and studied in the US, I worked in China and I studied in India
> I mean most cars you get a good five years out them anyway right?

Uhh no? You should absolutely expect a good vehicle, hell most vehicles, to exceed 10 years without serious failures. Many vehicles come with 7 year warranties on manufacturing defects… It sounds like you need to take better care of your vehicles or buy better vehicles. I did notice that you said she drives 200 miles a day and that will certainly contribute but if you take care of it, most cars would probably do that for 10 years assuming it’s mostly cruising. Either way that statement of 5 years is nuts. I bought a 5 year old car with 80,000km on it and it was in damn near new condition!

I’ve owned 6 vehicles, including one motorcycle, none of them from brand new mind you, and all of them were still reliable after their 10th year lol. Currently I have a 5 year old car which you can’t tell apart from the brand new 2024 models because it has no wear and the model hasn’t had a face lift, and I have a 35 year old ute (truck)… 5 years is nothing. I think the average age of cars on the road would be older than 5 years
For static content? Vercel, Cloudflare etc are extremely cheap for that, even free even for large traffic loads, but yes a server allows other things than static content.
Yup, ingesting cholesterol doesn't lead to higher blood serum cholesterol. Although in this case the article was about ingesting saturated fat leading to higher blood serum cholesterol (in my personal experience this is true, and switching to a low saturated fat diet dropped my LDL cholesterol and triglycerides).

In general it matters what you replace the saturated fat with, though: you should replace it with unsaturated fat. Replacing it with carbs/simple sugars can apparently elevate LDL cholesterol and triglycerides: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2943062/

Olive oil is good, candy is bad. (News at 11.)
I bought an old school building from The Broude Brothers sheet music archive.

https://imslp.org/wiki/Broude_Brothers

In addition to all the publishing activities they also acted as verification service. Apparently it was common for Conductors to modify compositions which over time drifted from the original.

My understanding was that the family collection of sheet music stretched back in time so they could verify the modifications.

The building had about 12,0000 square feet stacked floor to ceiling sheet music.

Much of the sheet music ended up at the library of congress. I can believe things could be both archived and lost.
Wait - If I throw a bowling ball really fast in a vacuum, does its temperature increase?
> tonneau cover leaking, wheel bearings failing, the suspension being stuck down and causing tire rub, the aerodynamic wheel covers that were causing tire failures because they were puncturing the sidewalls

I think unless you're the kind of person who specifically spends time online looking for reasons not to buy a Cybertruck, you probably wouldn't know _any_ of that.
Elon Musk made it too easy to dunk on him with the CyberTruck, similar to the last Tesla event, it was kinda hilarious how bad that was, even if you agree with his political ideas, I don't know how you would have a different opinion about it.
Nice. Looks like a way to have achievable live text transcripts via tiny devices without using APIs.
> it really isn't hard to imagine a scenario running from this placard and the idea behind it to one where traveling away from one's 'neighborhood' (as defined in the photo) is punishable

Please take a deep breath and step away from the Rupert Murdoch. This campaign is merely trying to get people invested in the areas in which they live, which is a noble goal. It's sad that some of the language it uses has been warped into trigger words by the media. Fear is a lucrative business.
Yeah man, totally. Creationists have been pushing this boulder up the hill as long as I can remember. Any day now there will be some aspect of evolution that will stump biologists indefinitely and will never be answered.

Meanwhile the proposed alternative seems to be: some dude just created it all and he's supernatural so we can't even conceive of a way to falsify his existence. Talk about fairy tales!
You're misusing what's otherwise a useful comparison
Sibling and parent/child traversal is still a disaster and querySelector, querySelectorAll doesn't solve it.
Runpod with its python APIs.
> Browser plugs fingerprint privacy randomizer
As someone who teaches PhD students who are quite far beyond "average professional", I concur completely with PG on this one. Writing forces you to make very clear and concrete ideas that feel like they make sense but are still fuzzy. It's certainly not the only way, but it's the most common and easy way.
My daughter recently moved to Vancouver. I was in Seattle for a work trip so decided to take Amtrak to visit her for the weekend. This was my first real train travel. Overall, it was pretty good and probably is what I will do in the future in the same situation.

The train moved at a frustratingly slow speed (< 10 mph) for probably 30% of the trip, but aside from that I liked the more relaxed atmosphere of the travel and it was overall more comfortable.

The train itself was a bit bumpier than I expected and the wifi was not very good. Those things and the slow speed would mean I could not imagine taking a much longer trip than this one. With the extra time and hassle of dealing with an airport, this one balanced out as probably only being slightly slower travel but it was less expensive and more relaxed. If it were Seattle to San Francisco, as an example, the slowness would be too much for me. The comfort and amenities like wifi and food would have to be a lot better than they are.
its not a "law" of course. should not be called a law
Scientific Truth: An Endangered Species
Are we supposed to be able to access that graph? I'm getting a "Sign up for Statistia" prompt.
1 million MAU is nowhere near "miniscule".
And who cares? Functionally there is Apple ARM with its extensions and Qualcomm ARM with its extensions.

If anything, the x86 world was more open and more compatible. We have enterprise distros running on both Intel and AMD, supported by their hardware makers. Who in their right mind runs 3rd party Linux distributions on smartphones in production environments (i.e. the CEO's smartphone)?
You've obviously never watched a Hallmark Christmas movie. Train travel is pretty much the norm in that world :)
What is the difference besides timescales?
side note: when i lived in singapore i actually felt what it means not to be able to travel outside of city borders. i mean, yeah, you could travel, but you had to check a border crossing point, change currency, etc...
it felt like a trap. china during covid was similar. just replace passport controls with vaccination checks every time you travel from one city to another.

i believe many of the city states and islands would feel the same. even new zealand felt like that when your goal was to be among people. it is perfect to get away from people though.
I have been in the past; currently I consult part time, so that's both (a) fully burdened, and (b) not the rate I'd choose if I still wanted 1'800 hours/year.

Chop it down by a factor of 2-4, and the question still remains: is $250 significant compared to the amount of work you're going to have to do to be competitive in the PDF-document processing space?

(for quick hacks, reverse engineering is good enough. you only need the standard once you're processing enough client documents that you need to know all about the long tail of possible but unlikely constructs your code may encounter, after all)
Zero is also a missing painting in the Louvre. The spot on the wall where the Mona Lisa hung. People would state at the spot as if it was there.

I wonder where zero is when I point a web cam at a screen and see the tunnel effect. Am I, the observer the zero camera?
Made up how?

It’s still more merit based and class mobile than caste anything.

But the tests are the tests and require massive prep, eh?

And the tests require massive amounts of memorization and time to prep for, compared to western tests - even now.

Historically it was orders of magnitude worse though.
I don't know about born "great" but born with a different perspective seems reasonable. The perspective maybe nurtured by the environment. I think the environment could be a repetitive task or plenty of leisure time.

I believe luck with timing is the biggest determination.
Not just Merica. People prioritize flashing their status via a large, expensive impractical cars than the greater good everywhere. Large American SUVs are flying off the shelves in Europe.
I think they mean historic (as in pre-1911 China).

And they aren't wrong, as even major China scholars like Yasheng Huang and Yuhua Wang point out that the Imperial Civil Service in China was stacked against merit due to structural issues that biased in favor of incumbents.

That said, similar issues continue to persist in China to this day due to the Zhongkao.

Specifically, if you didn't attend a academic high school (which only accepts around 45-55% of Zhongkao takers) you wouldn't be prepared for the Gaokao unless it was out of pocket at a cram school (which are now technically banned, but were anyhow exorbitantly expensive in a country where the median household income is $4,000). And if you couldn't pass the Gaokao, you couldn't attend university.

Furthermore, Academic High Schools tend to be few and far between, yet take the lion's share of resources unlike Vocational High Schools which most Chinese attend - but not the ones you meet in an air conditioned office unless you order from Meituan. In the vocational schools you see similar issues of teacher absence and lack of pedagogy.

The failure of the VET system in China has been a major sticking point in Chinese policymaking recently and a lot of domestic research is being done to understand why it failed [0][1][2]

[0] - https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/ET-09-20...

[1] - https://www.ewadirect.com/proceedings/lnep/article/view/9075

[2] - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125949173.pdf
We did, and then when airplanes came around, it turned out that people/other interests found air travel better than train travel for most intercity travel.

Even on the East Coast, there used to be way more rail lines that took passengers -- if this were a hundred years ago, I could have walked a mile or two to a spur which would take me to one of the mid-sized cities connected to The Big City by commuter rail; now they're mostly rail trails.
According to ThinkBroadband's tracking [1], the headline figures are 85.20% of premises are gigabit capable (FTTP/FTTH/Cable [DOCSIS]) with 71.86% being full fibre.

[1]: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/10343-85-gigabit-coverag...
Purple is not on the chart. Suspicious.
There's a variety of issues with your stance.

1) It's certainly not unheard of for theories have observational or experimental data appears that sends them back to the drawing board for reworking and do eventually get to a consistent state

2) Every other proposed theory to answer these questions ultimately ends up fitting the observational data we have even worse, or doesn't even attempt to explain it

3) Plenty of scientists are still poking at alternative theories and very few scientists love dark matter as an answer. They've just loved every proposed alternative less.

There's no shortage of dark matter detractors. It's just that none of them can come up with a better solution to answer questions about all the things that dark matter does answer. And no, just going "the gods did it" isn't better, because you can't use that as a theory to answer why some things are behaving the way they are, and we can with dark matter. And we do it quite often - far more often than we find weird things like these isolated quasars. But of course you don't get a front page hackernews article every time scientists apply science and things come out consistent with the existing science.

There's not some shadowy cabal of cosmologists doing everything in their power to keep the cult of dark matter alive. There's a bunch of experts who have seen the same arguments raised thousands of times with zero meaningful variation and have gotten tired of having to explain the same things over and over.
The blame for that mostly lies on religion and human ego; the idea that humans gradually evolved like everything else and are no more biologically special than rats or monkeys is too much for some people to handle, so they cling to what they want to hear rather than what they can see with their own eyes.