skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> More than one-third of U.S. land is used for pasture ... There’s a single, major occupant on all this land: cows.

Not here. I live on cow range land, but the cattle are outnumbered by elk. The elk hunting industry here is larger than the cattle industry. Every third local seems to be a hunting guide, and many of those are cow growers too.

This seems to me to be a very positive thing that should be encouraged. Instead of buying all their meat at the local supermarket meat counter thousands of city dwellers dream of the hunt. They buy expensive equipment and tags then come out here and work their asses off for a chance.

Why would anyone spend that much and work that hard for an uncertain outcome unless it was fulfilling in some way? It sure doesn't save money on meat. Hunting forces you to commune with nature, dressing and hauling out your kill rubs your nose in it. It forces you to own responsibility for killing your dinner. Paying the blood price carries meaning that paying $/lb for a BOGO does not.

If we can arrange for more people to harvest their own meat rather than accepting an industrial commodity, more people would have a greater love and understanding of nature, more respect for themselves, and more meaning in their lives. In many places it's a superior use of the range.
Oops, that should say "might not be the case...", ie,, that BQP != P
Reservations are a political boundary, this is a map of land use. You'd have a fair argument that the state boundaries shown on that map should reflect the reservations too, but not that the color key should include the nature of the local government.
Unicode is supported with UTF-8, only different character types aren't supported because generics are messy in C. I thought of accepting void* to support wchar_t and others, but some performance penalties came with it so I decided against it.
Can attest as a non-pro photographer (but as someone who cares a lot about photography), that the SD card built in is not that important. I tend to use a dock/reader anyway because most of my cameras use CF or mini SD. True, full sized SD cards are actually not used in any equipment I have now.
One of the things that I love with Jetbrains IDE is that I can sync my shortcuts across my computers.

Using touchbar shortcuts breaks that consistency for me.
IDK why the parent mentioned VPC. It's not necessary.
There is work going on in that space, but I'm guess it will come to my local roads no sooner than a decade after it would have been useful: https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/vehicle-to-infrastr...
Quantum Supremacy Is Both Closer and Farther Than It Appears
They aren't that fast. The 970 evo nvme drives have comparable speeds.
Fun trivia: at the highest vehicle accessible road in WA state (Slate Peak radar site), I have seen people get all the way to the top in a 1995 Toyota Corolla. The road to get there is not so terrible. There are many truly gnarly logging roads and things that will require a serious lifted 4x4 in first gear with AT tires. But all those are at lower elevation.

https://www.google.com/search?q=slate+peak+wa&oq=slate+peak+...
> they have little to lose.

Then let's make them lose. The more widespread bullshit blockers become, the more money they will lose.
The whole point of a taxpayer funded police force is so that police operations are not biased because of where the money comes from. Having the police profit from police operations completely subverts that.
Unfortunately[1] it's not lazy. The DFAs are static. And you can get blow ups. I've used Ragel for many different projects. The only time that became an issue was for a project that involved transforming ~10,000 PCREs to Ragelable syntax and into a giant union. A handful[2], when placed into a union, would trigger (directly or indirectly) DFAs that were either too large or simply took too long to compile.[3] We developed heuristics to split them up, so we had one giant union and a few dozen smaller ones. Later the Ragel author implemented a cost function that allowed us to do that more consistently and efficiently.

Normally if you encounter undesirable blow ups you can use Ragel constructs to split your machines and dynamically jump between them.

I've also worked with RE2 and consulted on a project using re2c. Those projects run into trouble with DFA complexity much, much, much earlier than Ragel. For example, re2c took days to compile a union that Ragel compiled in seconds, and while the generated code was large it wasn't even noticeable in terms of performance. (And by not noticeable I mean that the run time wasn't noticeably different from other Ragel-using projects. In terms of performance there's simply no comparison between Ragel and re2c, or Ragel and RE2 for that matter.)

[1] On the plus side, if you compile the machine into a dynamically linked library the generated code and data will be shared across processes and with the file system buffer cache. Even multi-gigabyte machines don't necessarily result in as much memory pressure as you'd think because most of the states won't be visited and so won't need to be resident. Sometimes you make a little change to a machine and it doubles or triples in size; I had to learn to leave it be and move on because ultimately it was usually inconsequential and my time was better spent elsewhere rather than obsessing over what intuitively seemed inefficient and costly.

[2] EDIT: This originally said 5%, but now I remember that 5% was the number of PCREs that contained problematic constructs that, in order to emulate, required special treatment. (In other words, 95% readily transformed to equivalent DFAs) The ones that truly blew up the DFA into something unusable were quite rare. And none were so large that they couldn't be compiled to their own, single machine.

[3] Part of that was our use of `when` conditionals, which we used heavily to translate zero-width assertions (e.g. "\B"). Because of how they work they can easily inflate the machine size when part of a union.
Who do you think will be the next project to kill Ethereum?
Framer X: What we know so far (30 +Links)
Google "north Cascades highway"
Wouldn’t the updated title suggest that?
Why do people use Facebook or Twitter or Instagram? Convenience mostly, and some nice features that emerge from centralisation. People, including academics, are about as willing to give up their copyright in order to be published as your average Joe is willing to give up their privacy by using Facebook.

What journals and publishers provide are: esteem, convenience, trust, correctness, and, and this might sound outrageous in the age of the bazaar, but exclusivity. There is an awful lot of crap out there. In my opinion, the best feature publishers (open access or otherwise) provide is being a filter for all the noise of the internet. Some journals are better at this than others and reputation is hard earnt and easily lost.

Also, I can't speak for all OA journals, but the Impact Factor is considered an awful metric and avoided. There is the rise of so-called 'alt-metrics', but I've yet to see anything less-awful come out of that yet.
In the greater scheme of things, as long as you can get it self-published and archived somewhere meaningful (which is not particular difficult as far as I know), maybe 300 years from now when you're dead and buried maybe your audience will find you.

A number of famous composers were not 'successful' in their time, same with painters, same with some writers (A Confederacy of Dunces comes to mind), later after their death they gained acclaim.

I think the mere act of creation and distribution of art is the goal in itself, and with technology you can keep it around for a long time.

To say something isn't popular doesn't mean it's not good. In 200 years conservatories of music are not going to be talking about Taylor Swift despite her engineered success, who knows who they'll be talking about!
As it turns out, I actually have the Boyer-Moore string searching algorithm as one of the planned features in the Project section on GitHub.
Even in the non-city-folk sense assuming that there are roads immediately adjacent to where the inscribed circle abuts wilderness boundaries seems unlikely. I'm sure the center points' actual distances from roads are often somewhat larger than the circles' radiuses.
Or you regret the adventure later when the entire off trail section was through poison oak.
If they're grazing, are they using feed? Seems like the feed is for "finishing" in feedlots.

I wonder what the economics would be of doing without the feed and feedlots? There would be somewhat less cattle I presume.
If urban (built-up) areas have quadrupled since the 50's, I don't think that pace can continue unabated. Population has roughly doubled since then. It would seem the trend would require denser cities and suburbs, which should not be too difficult given that most metro areas are relatively low density.
No, but following that link manged to help me find the correct one, so thanks anyway: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/02/cmap-2-...
interesting article but i couldn't get the entire map to fit on my (13 inch) screen no matter how I adjusted the browser. Very annoying.
Playing with Lightning Network
Back in “the day” 20 to 30 million bison roamed the US. Today there are more than 94 million cattle in the US, and that’s actually down from a peak of 130+ million in the mid seventies. A lot has changed! Those bison were also wild, lived much much longer lives than farmed cattle which spend part of their lives in feed lots. The bison were also part of the broader ecosystem, hunted by wolves, and in general a net negative emitter.

The modern cow is not, especially when time on feed lots and eventual transportation pre-post slaughter are factored in. Modern cattle are after all, part of an industry which pollutes in addition to the cows themselves, while bison just lived and died on the plains.
Because it's disrespectful of user privacy, performance inefficient and computationally wasteful?

Most companies are not achieving the platonic maximalization of profit or shareholder value. They leave money on the table for a variety of reasons. It's not beyond the pale that this would be one of them. If you don't agree, then frankly it's probably an axiomatic disagreement and I don't think we can reason one another to a synthesis.
Sure, that's why huge aquifers are shrinking and causing subsidence.

Today about 27% of the irrigated land in the entire United States lies over the aquifer, which yields about 30% of the ground water used for irrigation in the United States.[5] The aquifer is at risk for over-extraction and pollution. Since 1950, agricultural irrigation has reduced the saturated volume of the aquifer by an estimated 9%. Once depleted, the aquifer will take over 6,000 years to replenish naturally through rainfall.[6]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer
And though it’s peculiar that the readme doesn’t mention it, the code is (trying to be) safe, at least when assertions aren’t disabled.
I presented the problem clearly.
It seems to me that you are already a good writer.
This is a good question. We did, and they are very different databases.

CRDB:
Pros: natively distributed so HA and scalability are built-in, simple deployment and configuration, can run on Kubernetes for automated HA operations. Scaling tables is automatic and single-key and small-range OLTP performance is very good. Supports JSON and most data types for compatibility with most things that use Postgres.

Cons: Still maturing and has bugs like `select unnest(some_array_col)` not working. Obviously cant run any Postgres extensions so SQL w/JSON is all you get. Performance on large scans is slow, they're working on this but the distributed consensus required for queries means they will never match the latency of a single-node Postgres. Advanced queries are either very slow or unsupported or every slow.

CITUS:
Pros: pure Postgres including extensions so you have access to advanced functionality. If you use shard key for queries, lack of distributed consensus gives low-latency performance just like single-node, but distributed transactions are still possible. Citus scales queries across all CPUs (on nodes holding the accessed data) so greatly improves query performance.

Cons: only distributes data in "distributed" tables (sharded) or "reference" tables (full replicas on all nodes). All other data just sits on single master node. HA uses Postgres streaming replication, requiring an inefficient 2x increase in costs, and is not seamless with failovers. Generally requires much more maintenance because it is still Postgres. Sharding does not accept multiple columns. No columnstores so large scans can still be slow, but they have ZFS in beta.

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Summary:

CRDB for simpler OLTP with very low ops overhead and great availability, scaling, and durability.

Citus for advanced OLTP or OLAP, low-latency sharded access, and full access to all Postgres features.
Oh man Motherload. I have really good memories of spending my school breaks on motherload. All those drills, so much fun.
Most of the STL is header only, which is what the library is compared to in the benchmarks. Both would be just as likely to get inlined.
It's a shame these machines don't come with Coreboot themselves (likely 51NB don't know about the project?)

I've got an "older" Broadwell based X62 and it's simply a fantastic piece of equipment
Growing timber like Weyerhaeuser does should probably be counted as cropland. They grow mono-culture trees the same way most farmers grow corn, but instead of harvesting every year it's every couple decades.

The very last line is what bothers me the most:

"since 2008 the amount of land owned by the 100 largest private landowners has grown from 28 million acres to 40 million, an area larger than the state of Florida."

That much land-wealth locked up by a handful of individuals seems like yet another knock against economic mobility. At one time people feared that sort of wealth concentration could mean a return of the aristocracy and was slowed somewhat through estate taxes.
There are no jobs out there because it’s not a good place to urbanize. Settlement usually requires some combination of natural resources, navigable waterways, fresh water, protection from weather, protection from attack, or other inherent traits. The cattle grazing land in the middle of the country doesn’t have any of these.
But modern pickup trucks are also very popular for personal use. You can get them with really nice interiors these days (compared to when I was growing up in the 70s and 80s). They're damned luxurious in comparison to the old days.
I think what this person is trying to say is, please do not send me your book. And I kind of get it. I've had to read slush, I've rejected many thousands of manuscripts. You get to your desk in the morning, and every day there's another stack of envelopes (in those days it was all paper). You spend an hour sending it all back where it came from. Virtually all of it completely hopeless. Once in a great while there's something with some potential. The thing about slush is not that most of it is particularly bad, it's particularly nothing at all.

A lot of people do have a book in them. Unfortunately, it's not much different from the other 20 or so that arrived the same day.
Why do you think its natural state wasn't grazing before?

It's not like we invented grazing animals in a lab. The Great Plains were teeming with millions of buffalo before, and we have cattle on them now.

Sure that's different but it's reasonable to note that a lot of this land looks and basically is pretty much the same as it was before modern ranching.
From living in Eastern WA it seemed liked most of the Western WA people never crossed the mountains or knew that there even was another side. Don't tell anyone as we don't want too many to learn about it.
That's a mysterious response. Can you elaborate on how I'm paying?
Interesting, thanks for the info! :-)
If Ted Turner is who they’re talking about it’s mainly useless land and he doesn’t even own the mineral rights.
Google doesn't usually do public unrestricted releases out the gate, particularly not for disruptive technologies.

Expect a few years of invite only closed beta.
Kroger has most likely done the math with their Kroger rewards program (which has historical payment data), and has determined most people won't care and will switch to debit or a non-Visa CC network instead.
From one social bubble to another.
CF has always been used in high end bodies, but most of them still have a secondary SD card slot. And these days SD is fast enough to be used as the primary card and there are flagships like the Sony A9 that only take dual SD cards.
I mentioned Sun and Jonathan Schwartz as an example in the essay. The entire debt-based economy is fundamentally flawed.
I love this about HN. People showcasing their little OS projects. One can learn so much.
Thanks! Did you consider any other options?
>I belive most people could write a book that a significant number of people they didn't already know would pay to read (this may fall well below the numbers that would make a publisher interested)

What's mostly missing from this discussion is marketing. Sorry, but even pretty good books will languish on Amazon (which is mostly what matters) if you just put a book out there, fiction or non-fiction, with the attitude that "If you build it, they will come." (Like most everything else.)

Unless you're a known quantity for other reasons, even getting accepted by a publisher is a tough slog and there is a long list of stories of publishers (like studios) passing on blockbusters. Not that getting in with a major publisher is any guarantee of success but cultivating a fan base as a total independent self-publishing is that much harder.

(In addition, as someone who does a lot of writing and editing, you're also probably optimistic about the abilities of said random person.)
Don't sell yourself short. Lots of important stuff happens when inquiring minds age and have the benefit of cross-disciplinary experience and perspective, plus new social, temporal and fiscal resources.
I try to see life as a big experiment.

The fact that I didn't get something right the first time doesn't mean that I will never be right. With each attempt, you learn something new. Thomas Edison made 1000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the lightbulb, but learned, adapted, and tried again. If you learned something, you didn't fail :)

Go for it.
Safely and usefully spectating on AIs optimizing over toy worlds
Don’t companies need to be publicly traded to have nonzero market cap by definition?
How are AI and automation going to affect pensions? If many jobs become automated who contributes to the pension funds and Social Security to support the previous generations? All the discussion I see here seems to assume the future is like today. Those lists of which jobs are most likely to be automated soonest may also be lists of which pensions will not be funded in the future.
Which DE supports HiDPI?
To bad there is nothing in Wisconsin, one of the more beautiful states.
I just bought a satellite messenger for the case something goes very wrong. Hope I'll never use it.
Maybe the King Ranch in Texas?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Ranch
Thank you! You can reach out tim at fearlessvr.com
Acoustic isolation/damping is unlikely to work on its own, the human auditory system is complex. Masking noise needs to be added to the acoustic environment to make conversations relatively quieter. In the design of open plan offices, the traditional source of masking noise is the HVAC system.

Alternatives to music might include ambient nature recordings and white noise.
Do you actually do any work with autonomous systems?
>> Macbook Pro sales down to 2010 levels. Worrying for the HN crowd, no?

If you've got a Core i series CPU, your laptop will age fairly well and potentially delay your upgrade. Maybe that's the cause of the decline?
>One of the most shocking facts about the lower 48 is that it's impossible to get more than 115 miles from a McDonalds.

I wouldn’t think that is true in Nevada. But from the link wow.
The United States has a population density of 86 people per square mile. In Britain it's 704, in the Netherlands it's 1075 and in Singapore it's 20,192. You've got plenty of room.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...
http://fortune.com/2012/09/27/meet-the-largest-landowner-in-...
What scenario are you looking for?

TiDB is another competitor but mysql dialect and still early, missing lots of features.

For pure data-warehousing, we used MemSQL which is incredibly fast but can be expensive.

SQL Server is a great all around database if you want in-memory tables, columnstores, native graph queries, full-text search, and very high performance and can live with a single-node design (with optional HA cluster).
Especially for a lot of day-to-day writing about technical topics, ornate writing with long sentences, complicated punctuation, and SAT words is mostly discouraged. I'll slip a non-basic word in here and there but I generally keep my writing relatively short and sweet--and my editors tend to steer it in that direction as well to its benefit.
Except all the cases where it isn't limited by the modem. For example, web pages, heavy web apps on wifi, you know, native apps, games.
There's no way to possibly guarantee 100% safety so proposing it as the standard is as good as killing off the program.

What's that classic example, robocar has to make a choice between (potentially) killing a bus full of school kids or a bunch of adults standing around on the sidewalk.
> I don't know what you're asking.

I can understand your reasoning with all of those computers.

My question is specifically referring to something like uTorrent, that was so great for so long then jumped the shark. It actually became much less secure, and there are many examples of this happening all over the web.
Hey man don't worry about that, that's just the way of life. People notice things when they do, that part's not up to us. I've seen articles here posted years after they were written.

Very nice and thoroughly documented code! Well done! What gave you the initial idea to write this maybe-fastest-ever string library? Did you just have an idea one day of how it could be done and you just went for it? Or did you have a performance issue and come up with this to speed something up at work, or what?
Yes, the fact that Postgres is not natively distributed means that HA/replication will be very inefficient to implement.

Citus is best used when transactions don't cross shard boundaries, in which case they execute on a single node and give you the low-latency to match.
Well functioning SDCs should be able to fit 2-5 times as much throughput onto the same roads as human driven ones.

The solution to congestion is entirely independent of who's driving though: Road Pricing!
“You can fail to be against something without being for it.”
Not sure what that means, but testing autonomous vehicles will result in deaths. So, you either decide zero deaths are acceptable and don’t test, or allow some deaths and test. There is no third option in this case
SWA 1380 I acknowledge of omitting but Asiana 214 is not an US airline.

I said there were only three deadly accidents involving a turboprop -- although I admit not remembering the exact counts for each or are you saying there were more than three?