skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yowza. Lots to unpack here.

> most large corporate entities have created more net good than a given forest or lake

"net good?" Perhaps, avoiding the strictly philosophical, you intend to invoke an economic argument wherein the market value of forests or lakes is defined within the bounds of the free market? Such that "large corporate entities'" high economic valuation is "better" than that of a forest? In this context, given that the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest outside of Seattle (many trees, many lakes) is valued at $1 Trillion [0], this seems like a bit of a reach. But, even then, why make the comparison, especially since...

> we rely on forests for ... maybe oxygen

Wildlife habitat, drinking water filtration, CO2 sequestration, timber production, refugia against climate change, biodiversity reservoirs

Or, if you like: solitude, silence, wild spaces, discovering one's place in an improbable universe

> from a rationalist perspective, the ideal would be to identify how much forest cover is required and then convert the rest of the land to productive use.

"Productive Use" is a dangerous phrase. There's much to say, but I'll let someone else say it.

In an essay ("The Trouble with Wilderness" [1]) by William Cronon, which I believe you all would enjoy reading, after he finishes dismantling the myth of wilderness in America, he writes: "one of my own most important environmental ethics is that people should always be conscious that they are part of the natural world, inextricably tied to the ecological systems that sustain their lives. Any way of looking at nature that encourages us to believe we are separate from nature––as wilderness tends to do––is likely to reinforce environmentally irresponsible behavior."

Further: "Learning to honor the wild––learning to remember and acknowledge the autonomy of the other––means striving for critical self-consciousness in all of our actions. It means the deep reflection and respect must accompany each act of use, and means too that we must always consider the possibility of non-use. It means looking at the part of nature we intend to turn toward our own ends and asking whether we can use it again and again and again—sustainably—without its being diminished in the process."

> As far as I'm concerned, people who don't live in cities are disadvantaged by their lack of access to corporate support.

As far as I'm concerned, people who do live in cities are disadvantaged by their constant immersion in a world where perverse incentives for corporations (shareholder expectations, government contracts, CEO salaries) define the very environs in which a city-dweller spends their days, rather than the natural world which cradled humanity for hundreds of thousands of years prior to Google and Facebook, to Bechtel and Skanska.

[0]: https://www.wilderness.org/articles/blog/what-intact-forest-...
[1]: https://www.williamcronon.net/writing/Trouble_with_Wildernes...
This is proper "hacker news" right here
Most of us have a lot of things which add nothing to the ecosystem and require resources to maintain. Why single out lawns?
I read it as:
>I turned off automatic updates after I was waking up in the morning to a ton of lost work more than once a week as a result of automatic updates.
He would go to sleep with his computer left on daily. At least a week it would have restarted on him having expected that the computer would have stayed in the same state that he left it. Not that he would go a whole week without saving his work.
How to exclude (or ignore) files from syncing like .gitignore
That's really cool :)
Piezoelectric respnators are using mechanical resonance.

You can build LC resonators. And also resonant cavity resonators. LC are electrostatic/magnetic. Cavity resonators work off standing waves.
Your hyperbole is only proving my point
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Extreme Weather Can Feel ‘Normal’ After Just a Few Years, Study Finds
> As noted in the article, wind can be highly variable in most areas. Optimizing a wind turbine for the average low speed (like here in the US Midwest) means that at super high speed winds can damage your turbine and it may need to be shut off. If you optimize for the high speeds you can get a ton of energy at those speeds but your turbine will mostly be still. Regions with a nice steady wind profile work better for power generation.

This problem is solved centuries ago. Just cover only part of the blade with cloth.
Ah yes, ye olde IEEE float to int conversion for ancient drivers that don't have good GPU integer support.
Sorry - when I said 'combo', one of the things I cannot easily replicate in modern laptops is small SSD + large HDD.

The other part is keyboard - I absolutely believe that if I used a T480 for a couple of weeks I could get used to them... as long as they were the ONLY thing I ever used. But that's not my use case. I have client laptop, and a lot of regular keyboards for my desktop and laptops. They all have the standard home row (Insert/Home/PgUp, Del/End/PgDwn). It's not that laptops have changed this pattern - it's that each manufacturer and even model changes it _differently_ (and seemingly needlessly), which makes it hard to have a consistent muscle memory for these keys:<
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>cash transactions happen both live and physically, meaning you have some means to make sure the counterparty honors their part of transaction

I'm assuming you're referring to threat and/or use of violence, but that's not a viable option if the counterparty is prepared. Are you really willing to get into a fist/knife/gun fight if you're trying to sell a Xbox and the other side doesn't want to pay up?
People don't value their time like that, at least, most of them don't. I mean, some do, but at my hourly rate the time I spend on driving and shopping is much more than its cost and I still balk at paying e5 for grocery deliveries, and I program economic models for a living! (instead I always order a few products that give me free delivery, and/or select a not so popular delivery time slot).

Point being, economic modeling and naively assigning a time value equal to or even just related to people's normal hourly wages is - well - naive, and does not yield accurate representations of real world behaviors.

Here's another example: I used to have a cleaner who I'd pay e10/hour. She'd park across the street from my house, paid parking, e6 per day. There was free parking available at 10 minutes walking distance. So for 20 minutes of walking, she'd save 6 euros, i.e. e18/h, almost double what she could make from her actual work! And yet she continued to pay for parking, even after I did this math for her. Point being: people are sensitive to costs in very non-intuitive (some might say: irrational, but I don't like the connotations of that word) ways.
> It would remove North Korea, Laos and Vietnam, and a host of other countries where the totalitarian inclinations weren’t able to reach their final goals yet.

Those are dictatorships. That's pretty much the opposite of communism. The people doesn't control anything there, much less the means of production.

> Do you think poor African countries are free markets?

What else?

> It’s funny, when the US invests in a foreign country, it’s evil imperialism; when it doesn’t, it’s economic warfare.

You have heard of the embargo, haven't you?

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

> There is a strong correlation between the economic freedom index and the OECD quality of life index. Is the OECD a conservative think tank?

It's an organization of countries committed to market economy.

> > almost all countries with a higher GDP rank higher than Cuba on that index.

> Is this also a coincidence?

Sorry, I meant to write "lower GDP" of course.

> I was taking about the numbers from Wikipedia, which are about twice as high as those from the CIA.

Yes, that's odd.

> And still the CIA number seems overly optimistic, given average salaries of $30.

Why should the CIA make Cuba look better than it is?

> That, or the inequalities among the Cuba political elite and normal people strongly distort the average. Who would have thought.

That is possible. It is a dictatorship after all. But what they need is democracy and redistribution, not markets. That would be like pouring gasoline into a fire.
I'm not that worried about protecting the rights of people to abridge the rights of others, since they're demanding a double standard. Specifically I mean people who say groups of people should suffer a loss of rights due to some perceived inherent defect as opposed to behavior.
Citation please.

I'm not describing total wars. Canada, for example, has had women in combat roles for 36 years, and not because they were fighting for the country's survival in the early 1980s.

And even if your un-cited 10% figure was true, and most women couldn't fight as infantry because of a lack of upper body strength, there are combat roles such as being pilot where physical strength is of limited importance.

But it's not true, and it seems you are disparaging female veterans and their contributions.

Even if there weren't women combat roles( and a big part of this decision is because there are such roles now, since 2015) a draft could still bring in women as doctors, administrators, analysts, logistics officers and other roles, because the military isn't just about combat, it's a vast coordinated enterprise.
Yes some payers will check the stream of incoming X12 278 Prior Authorization messages for expensive procedures and then attempt to steer members toward lower cost options. This helps to hold down costs for the healthcare system as a whole.
As used by ATMs. Horrible UX in the age of touch screens. Why is this screen not responding to my touch? Oh, buttons...

And even then they don't align to the on-screen text.
Fundamental Algorithms III
For context, James Gleick’s Chaos is a great account of this paper and related discoveries.

https://books.google.com/books?id=de4PAQAAQBAJ&pg=PT94&dq=Pe...
It sorta exists:

the Canadian/U.S. Convention on Great Lakes Fisheries.

And the Great Lakes Fishery Commission: http://www.glfc.org/index.php
This is really interesting, an unforeseen insight into ids that can be enumerated even partially. I suppose encrypting or decrypting them is too costly so any other ideas for getting the properties of Snowflake at scale without this sort of attack being possible?
Seems like a good way to get your IP blacklisted
In the case of the Internet, if you catch malware, that's your own damned fault.

I know what you're saying, and I hear you on the Windows getting blamed front, but if they can't do security patches without changing UI and restarting constantly, against user will, then it's no deal.
So this is just legal theater? That seems plausible... right up until it isn't. If the time ever comes when things are dire enough that we need the draft, this precedent will be sitting there... if it stands. (As I said elsewhere, this story/circus won't be over until the Supreme Court decides one way or the other.)
> ... I would love it if we were able to create a "council of the Great Lakes", made up of all states that share coastlines with one of the 5 lakes, including Ontario and possibly Quebec, and federal representatives from US and CA.

International Joint Commission
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Joint_Commissi...
> there will be no putting that genie back in the bottle

Great observation. You could unwittingly transport it because it's microscopic. You could post tiny quantities in/on everyday objects to any country. Replicating it to usable quantities takes days not months, and a few containers in terms of space not whole crops or basements full of lamps.

This will be game-over for nonproliferation.
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At this point, Microsoft will need to re-write Windows to get it to any level near an acceptable user-friendly OS. It'll never happen though.
You might be thinking of https://gettogether.community/ (https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether)
Money Drives US Congressional Elections (2016) [pdf]
I had a look at their pre-algebra chapter. They differentiate between "counting" number and whole numbers.

Why not use the correct terminology and call "counting" numbers "natural" numbers, it's what we've been taught in schools for tens of years, if not hundreds now.

Sure, explain that naturals are "countable" at the beginning, but this redefinition is verging on dumbing down.

edit:

reading further:

"Counting numbers are also called natural numbers."

But they seem to keep calling them "counting" numbers. Just call them their proper name and re-enforce this.

And then in this first intro... below a terrible graphic.:

"The point labeled 0 is called the origin. The points are equally spaced to the right of 0 and labeled with the counting numbers. When a number is paired with a point, it is called the coordinate of the point."

WTF?
Yahoo Messenger :'(
Exactly! Chaos engineering is all about thoughtfully planned out experiments, to observe what the user experience will be when something fails. Doing this on your own terms allows you to improve the experience so that your customers aren't affected.

You can decide what happens when an in-flight request is dropped, whether you hold onto the state somehow and retry or the client could fail gracefully with a relevant error message.
That's great, except it's not even remotely relevant to kitchen appliances.

Those have existed for decades with the same functions and each one of them does a particular task very well. Nor do you do anything on those devices that involves reading a lot of text or watching full screen video where buttons (or UI in general) could get in the way - the polar opposite of smartphones.
I think ageism is too overstated in tech industry. If graduates with zero experience can get work, then it doesn't make sense that senior software engineers should struggle in the job market.

Personally, I see the opposite with many job posts asking for minimum X years of experience. If a programmer with many years of expertise is jobless it says more about their personality and their ability to fit culturally speaking. Perhaps they're just applying for the wrong jobs, or use the wrong rhetoric etc.

Too many programmers are concerned with their skill level and less with their ability to communicate their potential. That's what it comes down to when everything is taken into consideration.
Did you three friends move to Linux? You said Windows twice and I'm curious what they actually switched to.
I think heat storage for domestic use is a red herring--the point isn't to replace all forms of gas/electric heating, but rather to reduce the usage. So, all the turbine heat is essentially consumed immediately, and the conventional methods kick in to fill the gaps.

The easiest way to accomplish this is feed your lukewarm turbine water into the water heater intake. Every joule added to the input is a joule the gas heater doesn't have to deliver.
Update in ES spec makes async functions way faster
* The doxbee async/await performance benchmark [2] improved with 48%

* The fibonacci async/await performance benchmark [3] improved with 23%

* The Hapi throughput benchmark [4] improved with 50% (when async hooks are enabled) and with 20% (when async hooks are disabled)

[2] https://github.com/bmeurer/promise-performance-tests/blob/ma...

[3] https://github.com/bmeurer/promise-performance-tests/blob/ma...

[4] https://github.com/fastify/benchmarks
Excerpts rom the SEC court filing: The SEC required this provision as a term of its
settlement with Musk in order to prevent Musk from recklessly disseminating false or
inaccurate information about Tesla in the future.
On February 19, 2019, Musk tweeted, “Tesla made 0 cars in 2011, but will make
around 500k in 2019.” Musk did not seek or receive pre-approval prior to publishing this
tweet, which was inaccurate and disseminated to over 24 million people. Musk has thus violated the Court’s Final Judgment by engaging in the very conduct that the preapproval provision of the Final Judgment was designed to prevent.

As one of the terms of his settlement, Musk
agreed to comply with procedures implemented by Tesla that would require him to seek
pre-approval of any written communications, including social media posts, that contained
or reasonably could contain information material to Tesla or its shareholders.

Consistent with the Court’s Tesla Judgment, on December 11, 2018, Tesla
adopted a “Senior Executives Communications Policy” (the “Policy”). Written Communications that contain, or reasonably could contain,
information material to Tesla or its stockholders must, prior to posting or
other publication, be submitted to Tesla’s General Counsel and Disclosure
Counsel (or in the event of the General Counsel’s unavailability, Tesla’s
Chief Financial Officer and Disclosure Counsel) for pre‐approval.
Authorized Executives are not authorized to post or publish Written
Communications that contain, or reasonably could contain, information
material to Tesla or its stockholders without obtaining pre‐approval. The Policy provides a non-exclusive list of examples of information that may be
“material to Tesla or its stockholders,” which includes “projections, forecasts, or
estimates regarding Tesla’s business.” Id. at 1-2. Finally, Tesla’s Policy requires that
[i]f an Authorized Executive (i) further edits a pre‐approved Written
Communication, or (ii) desires to release a Written Communication more
than two (2) days, after receipt of written pre‐approval, such Authorized
Executive will re‐confirm the pre‐approval in writing in accordance with
this Policy prior to release.

Could you make an attempt at arguing the reasonable argument in the other direction?
Security is extremely important to us. Clients authenticate to our control plane either with a secret string or a certificate. Clients can be revoked at any point from our webapp and as well if the client loses communication to our control plane, any ongoing attack is halted.

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Why didn’t any Wall Street CEOs go to jail after the financial crisis?
Are we on the road to civilization collapse?
Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet–and Nuclear Power Can
So, if we need to do something without looking at the screen, we should keep hardware buttons, right? And if we don't need that, if we are looking at the screen _with_ buttons already, then hardware buttons are redundant.
The Small, Small World of Facebook’s Anti-Vaxxers
> A website that only works in Chrome is preferable to a website that does not exist

I think the only scenario where that's acceptable is experimental/nightly features that haven't yet made their way to the majority of browsers.

> Using a website is a privilege

Some would dispute that. My bank, for instance, doesn't have physical branches. Is it considered a privilege to access my funds via website?
I occasionally get contributions via the PayPal button on the book's web page. I use them, among other things, to fund going to conferences. I say "conferences" but really there has only been one (very, very good) conference on Inquiry-Based Learning at Westfield State, in connection with my IBL Proofs text. To be fair, the contribute button has only been up for a year-ish.

I sell hard copies on Amazon. Well, really Orthogonal Publishing L3C sells them. This is a limited-profit company that Lon Mitchell set up to publish Free texts. Naturally we round the price up rather than down so there is some money. Since Amazon's price, $21.95, is not far from the price of media, you can guess that there is not much money. I'm reluctant to quote exact numbers but the dollar amount is not much, especially per hour.

However, my school, St Michael's College, has the wisdom to give me professional credit for the work so that counts for a lot.
I know that there's a lot of open source fans in the developer community but I've honestly always seen it as some form of the tragedy of the commons. Intellectual property is pretty much the only way a small group of developers can differentiate themselves from a big player.

Nobody can compete with Amazon's discounts or their hardware, so if you redistribute IP for free from developers to large companies, how is this equitable, and what is so great about everyone becoming a consultant or customer support as a way to make money?

I have great sympathy for products like Datomic for this reason, because protecting your IP is in my opinion the only way to actually profit from your craft, which is writing software. The 'consumer first' culture of open source reminds me of the way musicians are being squeezed by internet platforms.
That's true if one considers the convex hulls of the two objects, but not if one sticks to thinking strictly about their volume.
most scientists use the term 'brain' to refer to the physical structure of the brain. The mind carries more complex connotations.
Maths doesn't have to be complex to be beautiful.

I haven't read the Krugman article cited but the context makes me think of all the stuff around perfect competition and efficient markets, which is beautiful imo. Unfortunately it doesn't describe reality very well.
ssh -D doesn't do TCP over TCP, its performance issues are fore different reasons.
The framing here is really disingenuous. Being concerned about men who "identify" as women being allowed in women's sport is completely reasonable and not mere "resentment". There are real physical differences between men and women, such as bone density, muscle density, lung capacity, heart size, etc that are not undone by hormone therapy or reassignment surgery, and certainly not by self-identification. Navratilova is completely correct, and I'm really shocked that anyone could portray her comments as "transphobic".
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ie: google buying Nest, etc...
I agree but have a different perspective. The web is overrun with ads and user-hostile behaviors. Other browsers combat this in various ways (Reader View, Firefox's Tracking Protection, Safari's ITP) but Chrome basically does nothing.

Websites work better with these features, not worse. And so long as Chrome is dominant, these protection features will continue to be effective, because there's not much incentive to defeat them.

It's a bit like the blissful period when IE was dominant and still allowed popup windows. The div-style popups didn't take over until IE's popup blocker.
An idea for you as you serve whatever time remains to you...

Go learn how to make a good Sauterne, in the mold (as it were) of Chateau d'Yquem. People may drink it a couple of centuries from now and thank you for it.

About 20 years ago, I was treated to a glass of the 1847 d'Yquem. It was superlative. As I drank it, I thought of the people who made it before our Civil War, and how cool it was to be drinking their work 15 decades after they put it down for a long snooze.

It wouldn't be long-term planning, exactly. More like long-term contribution, bringing joy to somebody you'll never know.

In any case, best wishes for a good life in whatever time remains before dog comes to fetch.
BlackBerry sues Twitter for patent infringement
(I'm no expert but..) I recently got into Prolog, and Alloy sounds very similar. So I was asking "How is it different?" Strangely, in the FAQ, no mention of Prolog. I found just this:

>How does the Alloy Analyzer differ from theorem provers?

>The Alloy Analyzer's analysis is fully automatic, and when an assertion is found to be false, the Alloy Analyzer generates a counterexample. It's a "refuter" rather than a "prover".

(i.e. where Prolog would just write "no" if nothing found.) In the Alloy* paper also, no mention of Prolog. To find a counterexample, couldn't you set Prolog to find one?
If you can't bypass an IP block then you need to git gud