skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if we had to replant the trees every decade, that would only be 5 billion dollars a year, forever. Trivially affordable at "world power" scale.

Lack of water is a much more real blocker, with space not far behind.
It's because Ted is not a programmer himself.
The go code under _examples/k8s is a demo client that will actually stuff `main` output into Kubernetes api endpoint.
There are other reasons I like it: huge library support, ability to do low-level stuff for performance but use higher-level features for an easier time, etc.

Mostly, I've yet to see something better that has the maturity, libraries, depth of talent (!), etc. that doesn't have problems of its own. It's certainly not perfect, but there are reasons it has remained so popular in many fields.
Fron TFA, it was taxiing when it hit the sign.

Edit: Disregard this, AV Herald links provide more info.
It can be useful to keep it simple and try to stay exclusively with HTML-latest + ES-latest + CSS and avoiding external JS libraries as much as possible. Using the latest versions of just the basics (HTML, ES, CSS) can help minimize what only recently required the addition of external JS libraries.
Damn Interesting is my 12 year old daughters favorite podcast.

Thank you for keeping it going. It’s great story telling.
Since both definetely have heavy influence on the mind, sure.

(in both examples he directly witnessed people influencing him, not that they were hidden in a dark room somewhere else)
Look at my top comment. Probably Bitcoin and physical gold is not for you, the important part is that for me long term investing is a great side project to make money. There are lots of ways to do it, and if you don't like my tools, there are lot of other options to be profitable.
That's a fantastic quote. Thanks for sharing it.
I believe the underlying thread here is positive or negative visualization which can sometimes produce effects so staggering that we mentally leap to the mystical.

Believing you can do something is often said to be a prerequisite to achieving it. Exactly how much it matters to the outcome I’m sure is up for huge debate, but small and large things alike in your day can be measurably impacted by your mental state, and visualization is an extremely effective way to alter your mental state in a given moment.

Weightlifters (even non-pro) will be able to identify with my own experience in reaching new PRs. Muscle activation in particular is some percentage physical and some double digit percentage mental. If you know you can lift that weight, it just doesn’t feel as heavy.

I’ve read that athletes often visualize their performance very viscerally to prepare their body to perform a routine. Reading the passage about a basketball dribbler thinking of himself being able to literally pass through other players on the court, to me is just a form of this positive visualiation.

To take it a step further, someone visualizing all that negative energy, turning it into a semi-controlled form of mass hysteria, absolutely has a significant physical effect on the people participating, and very likely also the people watching nearby.

The idea that this could work on a physically isolated subject who is unaware of the experiment would be the true revelation, but it is yet to be seen.

We do have “superpowers” in many ways, but unfortunately the laws of physics put somewhat of a damper on macro scale spooky action at a distance.
The NTSB seems to get a lot of work.

https://twitter.com/NTSB_Newsroom
Apart from that Common Crawl respects robots.txt (which makes sense) so many sites you expect to see there are not indexed. Netflix, Facebook LinkedIn and many more. If common-crawl sees serious adoption those sites will modify their robots.txt but it's and chicken/egg problem.
Might be prohibitively expensive but a recycling percolating cooker with an arsenic filter could be created.
You make it sound like those that got caught were just small timers that don't have real wealth. But some of those involved are extremely wealthy and have a great deal of influence.

And even the most influential and powerful don't always get their way. There are plenty of people with enough integrity and self respect that won't budge no matter your level of influence.
The thing is ‘filename’ is a bad example for a an object.

Of course, it should be a string. However ‘File’ object is a better example that favors OOP. When you call ‘.read’ on a file object, you expect its content. It doesn’t matter if it’s a windows file, unix file, an IO string, or a web resource. When you call ‘.read’, it just work. Whereas in the functional world, you’ll have to 4 different ‘.read’ function calls with an if statement.
As a user, if some other search engine can serve results that are better than Google, I'd be happy to use it. I've tried duckduckgo, the results are disappointing and often mis-intepreted what I intended to search. So I kept coming back to Google.

Will Google be willing to open its indexes? Probably not at their best interest, because it will help its competitors?
I too have seen technical car crashes, where people have chosen a technology and completely missed whatever value proposition it has, misusing it in the process. i.e "let our developers manage a cluster"?!

I wouldn't draw many conclusions about the technology itself from that though.
Crimes... Lies... Disneyland... Weird cryptic list of the attractions... Excuse me but what am I reading?
> “Do you even deserve to collaborate with our patriotic Huawei?” one Weibo user said about Leica, according to SCMP.

Is this an actual sentiment that Chinese citizens have?
> some kind of counter-voodoo that we can learn to defend ourselves. Phones are getting more expensive every year so it's prudent to take some kind of action if we can.

Ummm, a $50 case for your $1,000 phone?
How far is this from the (now defunct) DMOZ?

Publicly maintained directory that I believe was at least theoretically independent of the larger web companies. It certainly had it share of drama, but was a decent human vetted index of what was out there....
This is not totally true. It’s not 100% syntax. Elixir has one additional and widely used feature: macros.

In Elixir, as in Lisp, you can transform your code as a data structure into new code. This is importantly used in Ecto, the de-facto object data mapper in Elixir. It’s also used in Absinthe, a library from the posted link for making GraphQL APIs.
Wonderful until you have a few thousand files you need to declare explicitly.

Or do I misunderstand something here?
great write up. shall we dub this the PAAGER stack?
A lot of electronics between the years of 1999 and 2007 suffered from capacitor plague which severely reduced the effective lifespan of the device.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
E.g. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/event/lampsonfest/
I think you could use a curried read function, in this case. The read function would be passed as an argument instead of your I/O stream.

I fear I've slipped somewhat into OO habits by using Go interfaces.
For 30 years it was playing music. Doesn't pay well - it was basically my food budget. I kept at it for 9 years anyway after I retired as a programmer. Some of the gigs were fun, and most of my friends are musicians.
It needs to be talked about anyways. For every 100 nationals who laugh or scorn, 1 person hears about it and starts thinking "Hm... maybe what I've been taught here isn't so true. Maybe things really are bad here."

We need information to make decisions. One side providing all the info leads to biased thoughts. It's exactly what's happening here in the US. People pick their news source (CNN, FOX, etc) and gradually become polarized to think one way.

The lesson here is: Learn about the counter argument. You should find it isn't as crazy as people tell you.
Agreed that a social media ban makes contacting people more difficult, but not impossible(voice,txt,email,forums).

Recent amplification of fake news and violence(30+ deaths attributed) on social media in India probably plays a big factor, as does last year’s anti-Muslim riots in Sri Lanka.
There's been some good work on eBPF programs written in Rust at least.

https://unhandledexpression.com/general/rust/2018/02/02/poc-...
Not the normal flight path of an airplane, anyway.

I don't know which kind they hit. But based on what's on the left side of runway 31L, I suspect it was a runway remaining distance sign, those are all black, and around 5' tall, and vaguely resembles the passenger photo of something black embedded in the wing.

Edit:
Comment #77 in this forum thread is interesting if a true account.
https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1420137&...
> There always seems to be a pro-China backlash

Please, read my comment. I'm not pro-Chinese oppression. I hope I made it very clear that the ASML story was on topic and that it was very good to cover it, etc. This thinking of "either you are my friend and agree 100% with me or you are my enemy" is dangerous and I recommend you try to change the general thought pattern. You'll be a better person afterwards. There is nuance in the world!

> Everyone with an interest in technology and freedom would be wise to pay attention to what is going on in China right now.

I definitely do pay attention but the anti-China posts are literally everywhere by now. Every one of my news sources is constantly running anti-China pieces. As I've pointed out there is already a anti-China story on the frontpage. Isn't one enough? There have been anti-China pieces on this page constantly. Is hn the Chinese revolution headquarters?

Your idea of a coordinated effort to push an agenda might not be wrong, after all Russia has been doing this so why not China, but note that your argument works in the other direction as well: maybe the reason for all of these anti-Chinese news stories is because of the US-Chinese trade war. It's well known that the USA doesn't care much about human rights in countries that do what the USA wants. Instead, the big "let's gift them freedom" idea mainly comes up when they happen to be unaligned with Washington foreign policy. The US mass media has, let's put it mildly, always been patriotic and supported that pattern with suiting news stories. This old alliance works greatly, even despite the war between Trump and the media. This particular story is just part of that pattern. Just wait, by when US-Chinese relations improve, these stories will disappear from the frontpage and other news outlets again.

Again, I fully agree that the Chinese government is a big threat to freedom and democracy. I've said so in multiple comments on this page.
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Add https://github.com/google/j2cl to the mix if you're looking for java development for front-end work.
> much friendier syntax for developers

This drives me batty. More familiar? Sure. “Friendlier” is very subjective.
I feel like there is a ‘best’ answer to most if not all of these questions, and the build system should standardize on whatever that best practice is.

It’s great that Timmy thinks an obscure extension of YAML is the best way to define build configs, but all the rest of the engineers use JSON, so that is what we use.
Is it bad to prefer to be around people with similar backgrounds and interests? Isn't this the definition of a community?
However, most human beings in their situation did. There but for the grace of god go I.
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There's a long list, including private correspondence, commercial journals, proprietary databases, trade secrets, internal corporate data sets, private archives, financial trade data, classified national databases. That was before the rise of FAANG, big data, proprietary analysis / inferences / knowledge graphs derived from public data sources, metadata traffic analysis, and advertising surveillance business models.

I can't find a reference at the moment, but this topic was covered in a professional journal for historians.
Startup directories like ProductHunt, BetaList, AngelList are all great examples.

Now that I think about it, that actually describes a lot of blogs/vlogs/podcasts too (create an audience with great content, monetize via advertising). Not quite SaaS, though, so slightly different from OPs original question.

Places like https://designacademy.io/ sit in the middle - content-first to create the audience, then use that audience to sell online courses in your given niche.

The takeaway - which applies to any business really - is that you need an audience and you need to be selling something that someone desperately needs (rather than something that someone "wants").

Recruiters need candidates. Advertisers need eyeballs. Companies need investor networks. Find the need, build the audience.
It's not that mild. Still an attempt to stop information government doesn't like from spreading. Still targeted, more broadly, but targeted. Still requires internet censorship infrastructure to even be able to order ISPs to block websites and power, so much power to get there, pretty much dictatorship level power. China, the anti freedom villain, does this kind of thing regularly.

I get why people are making excuses though. Pretty much no political systems in the world can actually exist with truly free speech, because they all rely on controlling free speech to function. And now that actual free speech got out of their control it threatens them and makes them push against it, promoting restrictions to free speech.
Everything sucks, they just all suck differently.

I still think OO provides a pretty easy mental framework for programming. You can get good results. Bit of discipline without going crazy and it works really effectively. Despite its shortcomings.
I mean, the alternative is that they take trees or they take oil.. I guess ceramic is probably the most environmentally friendly option unless the wood is harvested sustainably.
Biochar can be produced (and is) by burning off the hydrogen. This is done by restricting oxygen availability, which the hydrogen preferentially bonds with. When the hydrogen is used up, you are left with charcoal, which powdered and mixed into the soil improves it wonderfully.

Look up "terra nigra", invented in the Amazon basin.
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Along with Augment
Link: https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-4
I used to know tool and die makers that did that back in the day. Sadly, a lot of manufacturing was sent off to China. I assume there are Chinese people doing similar things.
The great thing about a million nay-sayers is they tend to drown by each other out. Almost all unintended consequences or downsides will play out, but in a Darwinian sense what remains will be the tractable part. Trillions of plantings will only leave behind hundreds of billions of trees but also millions of jobs and effective enriched lives and for every damaged water table depleted another will be renewed and remediated. The downside of inaction is staying depressed about a solvable problem. The downside of acting is dying on your feet not on your knees. The far more likely upside is succeeding in some places and learning everywhere.

I'm tired of the jeremiad of gloom from Eeyore. Boastful optimism is tiring too, but somewhere in-between is a nice place. Can we have some realism tempered optimism in our kids ability to un-fuck-up the last 100 years? Please?
I don't know about "we", but the Sri Lankan government clearly are. I certainly sympathize.

What would happen if a US president were assassinated now? Several cities burned after Martin Luther King was killed. Lots of LA burned after officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted. And now, with social media? It'd be total chaos.
I find it weird when someone writes a dsl in lisp and then acts like that is a novel and unusual thing to do. Lisp is at its designed-for best when you work from the bottom upward.

Having said that, this is pretty cool, and is a good example of how most proficient Lisp programmers tackle the job.

When Lispers wax poetic about the strength and power inherent to Lisp, they're nearly always (poorly) talking about this very chameleon aspect.

tl;dr C is C. Lisp is whatever you want it to be.

PS: That use of else is hideous and not Lispy. But that's just my opinion.
Not for talking about it.
I'd extend the same argument to Python
Wow, really? I have a user?! You seriously just made my day!

I've wasted so much time on that side project, to finally hear that someone else cares about it is so encouraging. Please email me - I've got lots more Pingtype data that I collected and parsed, but didn't upload yet.
Honestly I'd much rather have a bunch of dice rolls on incompetence than the current centralized, single point of control over the entire index.

Google has been purging large swaths of data from the indexes and they won't say how or why or exactly what criteria they are using. It's difficult to imagine a worse solution for the web than this current model.
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You getting downvoted for this completely inoffensive (at worst) comment is pretty sad

I swear C++ gets a bad rap because most people have only seen a gross mixture of C++98 and C in their codebases

A fully modern C++11 codebase is a beautiful thing
Does anyone here who is working with elixir professionally have a sense of what kind of mastery is needed to jump into an elixir dev role? I've used it on and off for ~4 years at this point and in a few side projects (most recent one using everything in the title, weirdly enough) but can't really tell if I'm "qualified" to look for a job in it. It's this weird loop of "I've only done something as a hobby so I'm not qualified to do it professionally" vs "If I don't use it professionally I'll never be qualified to do so".

Same goes for react.
But, this is just one simplistic definition of efficiency. You could include as part of your model some % slack coefficient, some % of failure for each component in the network, and find some kind of allocation that maximizes expected "efficency". The problem isn't optimization, it's that your model doesn't include enough variables
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The Sahara desert is already being reclaimed at a remarkable rate by the people living at its edge, just to get more farmland for themselves. The more trees you have, the more precipition is collected.

Many places we think of as ancient deserts were climax forests in historical times, such as Petra. It became desert when too many trees were cut.
It's a POPULAR online forum, which is why people care. If tomorrow no one gave a crap about HN but HN mods still wanted people, they'd have to welcome more discussion like all the other nobody forums.
I think it predated that in that it occured with even slow "colonization" (regardless of it being occupied or not) but that is a good point. Expectations shape it first.
OO is the worst programming paradigm in the world except for all the others.
I think you're confusing "de jure" and "de facto" here.

Many people -- the earlier commenter among them -- believe that cops have some special grant in law to kill, but this is not the case.

Sometimes judges are lenient with cops; but that's not lawful, and we can't base further laws on stuff that's not lawful.

Cops may not have such rights enshrined in law, but they don't end up in prison when they flashbang a baby during a no-knock raid either.

This is probably negligent homicide and failure to treat it as such is a miscarriage of justice.

Earlier, though, we were talking about a case where a cop is threatened with deadly force or reasonably believes that they are. This falls under self defence. If cops walk away from that, it's not due to special treatment or special laws.
"racist misogynist hate of marginalized groups", that's got to be the winner of some bingo lol
Why are you so sure the downvotes are not coming from the opinion of the "ridiculously pedantic OO of Java"?
> Isn't it rather convenient to convince yourself that everyone in your outgroup is intolerant totalitarians

That's a pretty extreme strawman. I disagree with lots of outgroups, and I only call a couple of them totalitarians.

If someone hates all of the outgroup, they are almost certainly hypocritical and lying to themselves about being tolerant.

If someone hates none of the outgroup, we can agree they're virtuous and special, sure.

If someone hates 15% of the outgroup for specific reasons, that's probably okay. It doesn't automatically imply that they are secretly intolerant. Most people that claim to prioritize tolerance are here, and most of them are telling the truth.
This sounds awesome! I've been looking around at printing specialized notebooks (for various worldbuilding tasks) lately. Do you use local print shops and/or have any you'd particularly recommend?

I feel like the hardest part to get into would be finding a way to keep costs and shipping times down without maintaining a large floating inventory. Have you found that is a problem at all?
> If you are on HN then you probably are White/Asian/Indian and middle class or above now, or in upbringing. You are less likely to mix with who have bad interactions with the police.

I'm actually a black man.

Those friends I was mentioning who have gone their entire lives without a poor interaction with the police?

Also black men. Worse yet, some of them are immigrant black men with accents.

Racism exists. Police corruption exists. It's a known issue, but its not so systemic that it affects all jurisdictions equally.

As I said, I believe its much better to look at your current locality and ask "can I trust my police?" rather than think about the situation as a national problem.

Now, you might say that I'm lucky, or that I have never broken the law so its a non-issue.

Let me tell you a story. Once, I and two of my friends were in a car smoking marijuana. The police, having heard recent burglaries in the area, were on the look out, and thought it particularly sketchy for a poorly maintained looking car to be parked inside such a good neighborhood. As they turned on their lights, one of my friends gets the bright idea that he should run---yes run from the police. He doesn't get very far, and we're all gathered together and the story comes out in torrid detail. We're sure we'll all go to prison, but the worst that happens is that we are driven to our parents' houses and given an unofficial warning.

That's it. No writes ups, no tickets. The worst part of that night (for me) was that our stash was confiscated.

This is the kind of story you'd expect to only happen to a white guy? Perhaps even a rich white guy, right?

Nope, it happened to 3 black guys who ended up going to university on scholarships.

This stuff isn't rare. Lot's of time, the police are reasonable but people's bias colors their view of it. One of my friends, who was in the car with me, used to say (when we were younger) that this night was an example of the cops unfairly brutalizing us because we were frisked and he was handcuffed initially---he's the one that ran. Yet if you look at it from another angle, we were the criminals caught in possession of drugs who got a slap on the wrist.
Unfamiliar with Haskell. What are existential types.
Have there been any truly successful forceful interventions?
I don't think anyone is citing the M2 as some sort of transformation or as a novel design - just as an especially long lived one. There's not much novel about it. It's essentially just a scaled up M1919 (which is itself essentially an air cooled version of the M1917) machine gun.
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I am an avid fan of nootropic and life extension research and products.

However, is anyone else sceptical of “complex system science” as an analog to Artificial Intelligence used more by Product Marketing than Research, Development, and Production?

How do we find nootropic and life extension signal in the marketing noise?