skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Getting rid of single-use plastic now is the best thing we can do.

Is it really? Single-use plastic from western countries is mostly not the plastic found in oceans. So while they were busy implementing these measures, they do not even scratch the surface of the issue. Do the proponents of these ideas care about the environment at all?
The UK has a number of brutalist university campuses, but they're often set in extensive landscaping - which actually makes them quite pleasant.

But I wouldn't idolise pre-war architecture. There are some shockingly awful 1930s estates around London, and they're almost as dispiriting in their own way as archetypal brutalist tower blocks.

The garden cities are much more pleasant, but then you're not comparing like with like. Tower blocks were built to replace Victorian slums, with relatively high population density in both.

Some of the original designs were terrible, but sometimes they can be salvaged.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/may/12/grand-p...
Have you ever completed any sort of ambitious project on your own? Let’s 10-50k lines of code, that correctly does something nontrivial? If yes, then you’re suitable for the job. If not, you should perhaps try it (it will require leaving the job for a while). If you genuinely cannot complete it, then you have your answer, but if you can, it will give you lots of skills for the next role (you learn much more when doing things on your own vs being in a team) as well as a confidence boost.
Are you talking about the colored concrete fiber side?

https://www.allurausa.com/blog/17-fiber-cement-siding-color-...
Netflix has plans for E3 beyond its 'Stranger Things' game
In my experience, that works great as long as your schema never changes and your software never has bugs.
It's always Sunny in Philadelphia ruined "philanthropist" ("full on rapist") for me, forever.
Contrast with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
This is a very Academia driven problem.

They have been so detached from problem solving that they forget how to problem solve.

Modeling a human randomness with math didn't give you perfect data and conclusions?

What was the original problem? To solve something unsolvable with our current understanding of biology?

Industry asks better questions and finds solutions. Academia waddles around in theoreticals, and makes minimal meaningful progress.

Edit, to clarify. Academia picks a unreal problem, and can't find a logic driven solution. Industry picks real problems, and doesn't make money unless they solve it. We should be learning to solve problems from Industry, not our underachieving professors.
You use functions and stored procedures to provide a controlled API over the table. All actions will go through those and that will have your logic to enforce the constraints.
There's now quite a cottage industry of YouTube vlogs criticizing the final season of Game of Thrones. But I'd need more evidence before concluding that making the show bad is part of a deliberate strategy to get people talking and watching.
You could read it as kids being the next generation, young adults being current generation, and helicopter parenting happening en masse in places other than Estonia.

As an Estonian currently living in Demark, the contrast is very stark. Kids in Copenhagen don't have any freedom at all. Parents are climbing playground equipment alongside them, touching their playballs every 10 seconds etc. On top of that they are holding protests that this isn't enough.

> aim is to persuade the government to introduce a minimum ratio of 1 adult to 3 children in nurseries (roughly 0-3 year olds), and 1 adult to 6 children in kindergartens (roughly 3-5 year olds)

https://outline.com/KRFf33
Yes, but at the new price of $35,400
> Fibers/stackful coroutines are a different approach with its own tradeoffs.

The only tradeoffs involved, as far as I'm aware, are effort of implementation. There are no runtime tradeoffs.

> The price you pay for that, is the higher overhead of having to allocate stacks.

You have to allocate memory to store the state of the continuation either way. Some languages can choose not to call the memory required for stackless continuations "stacks" but it's the same amount of memory.

> Both carry some memory overhead (unused stacks) and computational overhead (stack resizing). Their "advantage" is that, because they're inconvenient, people try to keep those stacks shallow.

Stackless continuations have the same issue. They use what amounts to segmented stacks. "Stackless" means that they're organized as separate frames.
> Because Return renames the file. To open the file or directory you use Command-O, just like you'd use Command-P to print the file.

How often do you rename files?

How often do you open files?

Based on that knowledge, which of these actions deserves a single button? Which button is universally used on all other platforms?

Yes, many of these things are preferences, but they're also bad defaults, having good UI and bad defaults are mutually exclusive in my opinion. Apple has some of the worst defaults in Finder.
What Is Cyclothymia?
I'm not sure what that means.
>But empirically, for general systems programming, C is second only to assembly in performance,[...] and gives you control in a very accessible way.

Alright, but to what degree is the latter the cause of the former? The OP has already noted that C used to not be very fast, and that it became fast through the rise of sufficiently smart compilers. Do you dispute this claim?

>Why don't you try improving SBCL times there and then come back?

What good would that do? You have already seceded that you can write a C-like program in Common Lisp. This is especially true in SBCL, where you could write a Lisp program to generate the correct assembly code for the program.
I forget where I read this, but I recall that due to patent situation it's practically impossible to build a GPU without infringing on some patent or another. By keeping drivers closed source it's possible to maintain deniability- if ARM released open source GPU drivers it would be trivial for rights-holders to look at the implementation and see what they can sue for. It's not impossible to do this with blob drivers, but harder.
There is no actual ARM platform, like in the case of a PC. (Intel x86/64 is not a platform. You can find an x86 compatible chip in a PS4, but it's missing all of the critical components that let it boot like a PC. See the Fail0ver video on PS4 kernel hacking for more info).

ARM chips are just System-on-Chips with random pins soldered to random shit and broken, non-upstreamable kernels that are only released after a phone has been out for like 6 months.

It's a shit system for any type of truly open development:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/android-fragmentation/
Does this still have the much hyped Intel image coprocessor chip[1]? I wonder if it ever saw any significant use.

https://www.pocket-lint.com/phones/news/google/143562-what-i...
I had a Pixel 2 XL and the camera quality was quite bad under non-Google ROMs.
Deal with USPS? Would be hard to find a manager who can make this work and not obviously post it as a huge disaster on their resumee. USPS continues to bleed money, is always understaffed, continues to misplace the mail and is bugged with pretty old technology that is hard to upgrade. Add unions to it and you have a perfect government entity altho USPS is not actually a government organisation. If anything it would make more sense for Amazon mail to offer USPS a helping hand ;)
According to the article:

> In an email sent to employees obtained by Electrek, Tesla said that it also applies to the base Model 3 off-the-menu:

>> “Today, in the U.S., Model 3 base prices increased by $400. This price increase applies to all Model 3 variants, including off-menu Standard Range and Long Range Rear-Wheel Drive. Leasing for Model 3 Standard Range Plus continues to be available for $399/month.”
i wonder if this would work if small towns in usa could implement it, like those with around 500-1000 people living in them?
The Open Source Developer Who Doesn’t Fit in Your Company
Has there been any efforts to add a wrapper around git's commands to make a more friendly command line UI?

I've tried maybe 3 different GUIs for git and none of them really seemed to help that much. However my usage of git is pretty basic, with branches and tags being about as complex as I get.
We're talking about employment here. Masculine vs. feminine has nothing to do with job performance except in maybe porn or something.

If masculine men are preferred, then that means everyone else isn't. It's an obvious avenue for discrimination against women and LGBT people.

I'm a very masculine gay man (I'm just stating that as a fact, I'm not better than anyone else for it). I do know many more effeminate gay men. Things really are more difficult in the workplace for them especially, not jut in my experience, but empirically. I'm glad I don't have that affect because it makes my life easier, but biases like this can creep in and will always be damaging.
I don't care much for opinion. Science does not seem too divided on the matter. But humans are emotional creatures, and Monsanto understands that it does not really matter what the science says, it only matters who gets the better media spin. You can bet they are really wishing right now that they had gotten a better handle on the PR.
None of the things you mention would make me happy. Things that would make me happier are: autonomous colony on mars, 1000 year or more life expectancy, huge floating cities in all oceans, faster computers, better batteries, 100 billion people living on earth, resurrection of mammoths, elimination of mosquitoes, ticks, and other pests, having five children who would be more successful than me, better understanding of physics, electric aeroplanes and dirigibles, general ai, artificial womb, crispr therapies to make people smarter, etc...

All of this depends on number of people constantly growing, and more of them buying more stuff and doing more stuff.
Paying for RAM on servers is one of the cheapest ways you can pay for performance.
They also died of cholera for thousands before we started "wasting" all this money on indoor plumbing.
That effort does not at all sound worth a $5 Amazon gift card
Strategy for Developer Weight Loss
Three-way diff is (probably) what you want. E.g. Intellij Idea uses it by default, and likely plenty of other IDEs and editors do too.

You see original code, you changes, and the other side's changes—and where exactly they conflict.
Great to hear Outlaw Techno Psychobitch is pioneering on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ
Provided your database system has triggers. Cloud Spanner, for example, does not.
> Are those regionally different?

Perhaps, but I think most of the difference is between healthcare provider plans. In other words, depends on who employs you.
> I’m torn. Practically Mercurial feels like it should be the winner. The commands are more uniform and predictable.

I think that's true if you're coming from something like Perforce or Subversion and have some notion of what the expectations are around those environments. It's much easier to translate that model into Mercurial commands.

But in the end it's deceptive; git, ugly as it is, reflects the underlying data model. Once you understand that data model, and how the basic commands manipulate that model, then it becomes a very natural language for manipulating the commit chain.

If there's a downside, it's that git doesn't let you get away for too long without learning the data model, while Mercurial lets you live in blessed ignorance until the first time it doesn't work like svn does, and then you're stuck because its data model is not as cleanly exposed, so you need to gently massage it into a good state rather than just surgically moving it to where you want it to be.
The Big Picture of Scrum
Oh man. I needed this.

I'm working on a map generator, and the previous version generated land by placing tiles at random. I implemented the SIR algorithm, and now the map looks much more like an actual map.
Agreed, and 60 minutes away the "Walmart every 20 min rule" applies. What's funny, is our region would welcome an Amazon "fulfillment" center because of the job creation, but Walmart is "evil".
Chinese phone cradle for boosting daily step count
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17050436 for past discussion and link to the original paper mentioned in the article.

There's also a similar article which discusses the same paper:

https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/why-do-neural-networks-work-5545c...
Walmart did realize what AMZN did with prime membership. But they probably also realized their customer base wont pay for another membership.
From TFA:

> “Today, in the U.S., Model 3 base prices increased by $400. This price increase applies to all Model 3 variants, including off-menu Standard Range...”
Unfortunately I'm convinced that the only thing this will achieve is getting your account suspended for suspicious activity(a lot of created and then cancelled orders).
i agree, find some enterprise-y software and learn it well and then go out and contract/free-lance to large companies and consulting firms. If there's a certification for your system of choice pick it up. It may seem worthless to you but to the people who have to get budgets approved resources with certifications are a golden ticket.
I'd not mind writing raw SQL if it was anything other than a big, non-typed blob of crap as far as my language is concerned. I want compile time safety in my SQL. Tbh, I'm surprised that raw SQL folks don't promote some type of non-ORM but also compile-time type safe SQL implementation. The runtime-ness of SQL strings have always blown me away.

I imagine it would be pretty easy too. Move SQL out of the program language (ie, into files). Verify the syntax. Compare the SQL to the db to ensure validity. Bam, compile time verified SQL. Though, I've never used a setup like that, as that is what my ORM does, just in-language.
> SQL is already an abstraction

Still a leaky one, though. Sure, the syntax likes to pretend that you "just describe what you want", but in practice getting queries on large data sets to perform well involves layers of optimization, all the way down to deciding on how data is partitioned between storage backends and what the on-disk format of it and its indexes needs to be.

In fact I view SQL as a somewhat thin abstraction, with a bunch of unavoidable (or at least unavoided) holes. Maybe that's part of the reason it's been so successful.
Did he burn it in an enclosed space?
I don't buy this. See: AMD and Intel both have open source drivers.
me as well. I'm just really glad we as a society are working to solve problems like this.
they also failed users. forced telemetry, reverting user settings on every update, bloody disparate application styles between classic and new flat l&f, multi-gigabyte updates that fail, the list goes on.
Is there a good way to notice you're doing subvocal speech?
Citizen's United was decided on Jan 21, 2010. At this point the court would have still been dominated by Bush II appointees not Obama ones. Always hard to say for sure, but it probably goes the same way under this proposal.
And yet much profit has been derived from the privatization of publicly-funded academia.
If you had read the post you'd have my answer to that question.

I have read your post, and just reread it, and I don't see where you answer that question. How does an SBCL user deploy a program with an LGPL library so that the reciever of the program can relink it as required by the license.

P.S. "are you a lawyer?" argument is very cheap

I used this question on a post where the poster just makes a claim, not supporting it by any reasoning or linking to supporting documents. The question must be allowed how he justifies his statement. So for legal questions, this would be: are you a lawyer? as I would ask a random poster making definitely medical statements: are you a doctor?

And yes, I know, beeing a lawyer per se doesn't guarantee a correct evaluation, I have worked with far too many corporate lawyers, which are usually not experts on open source licenses. But I also had no doubts on the competence of those, who looked into the details of the licenses in question. I have been able to get their OK on LLGPL software for example, though GPL is of course limited to very isolated usages.
I was looking for cheap college furniture a year or two ago and Walmart had a similar 'walmart prime' where you pay x$ for free 2 day shipping above a certain price point for a year. So, they've had this for a while, but not the mindshare IMO. (Other specialty stores also have this, but the mindshare isn't there).
It's so weird to me that people read "Without Hot Air" and think that it is pessimistic about renewables. It's a perfect example of what I'm talking about here. It was written long ago. Read it again, and insert modern numbers, and the unbelievably expensive scenarios are starting to become the reasonable ones.

Add in other tech like HVDC, and as I said in my post, conversion of electrical energy into chemical energy storage in hydrogen or methane, and it all becomes quite feasible.

Why is coal dying over the past 5 years? Because huge government subsidies kick started fracking technology which ended up making US natural gas incredibly cheap, as the tech descended the cost curve.

Why are solar and wind the cheapest (non-dispatchable) electrons in much of the US? Because we are far enough along on the tech curve.

Why are solar+storage and wind+storage project bids for 2022 and 2023 coming in under the cost of combined cycle gas turbines? Because lithium ion batteries are transitioning to cheap from impossibly expensive, particularly as vehicle demand drives massive scale up in lithium ion battery production.

All that stuff in "without the hot air" that made it hard in the UK is coming within reach. And the UK is pretty much one of the worst possible situations for solar, one of the main legs of renewable tech, and it will still work out. Offshore deep sea wind is getting super cheap and it has much better intermittency properties, making it require even less daily storage . seasonal storage still would be great to minimize overprovisioning of generators, but how much we overprovision versus how much we store will just be a cost optimization between the relative prices.
My opinion? Competition with deep pockets and a lot of relevant expertise. Tesla is going against the whole automotive OEM sector and did well dor quite some time. Continuing so requires a lot of cash for a long time which Tesla has trouble generating from operations.

Uber on the other hand is going against a fractured market with uncoordinated incumbents that are to large part protected by regulations. That means small competitors who are not used to that kind of competition. Also requires a lot of cash, yet has a clear end game and less market penetration challenges.

Both are a gamble, sure, but Tesla is IMHO the riskier bet.
Learn to use Proxy Servers for Troubleshooting

Whenever your web app, mobile app, etc depends on a network response, Charles Proxy (https://www.charlesproxy.com/) can be super helpful. It sits in between and captures all the HTTP request/responses and allows you to manipulate them. So, you could capture an API response (or request), manipulate it, then let it continue. It also let's you interrogate the requests easily.
Teens Smuggle Burner Phones to Defy Parents
The proofs are in this paper [1], see Section 3 “Game Transformations” and Appendix E.

[1] https://prosecco.gforge.inria.fr/personal/bblanche/publicati...
it is a very elementary idea that applies to few real life markets. things are more complicated than what your learn in basic economics
Web Browser: Chromium

Email Client: Delta Chat

Terminal: Terminology

IDE: Geany

File manager: PCManFM or Rox-Filer

Basic Text Editor: Leafpad

IRC/Messaging Client: Riot.im

PDF Reader: Okular/Evince

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: California

Video Player: SMPlayer

Music Player: DeaDBeeF

Photo Viewer: nomacs

Screen recording: peek
It's disingenuous to take "X has big problems, Y have some problems" and just whitewash it with "Basically the whole alphabet sucks". No, screens are hard and some do a better job than others.
Carbon dioxide hits a level not seen for 3M years
I whish they would go the same way that AMD did, but I doubt we will see it any time soon. The thing is, AMD/ATI lost the software war against NVidia for quite a while now. AMD didn't have much to lose by open-sourcing their driver. And the AMD proprietary driver on Linux where always a mess, whereas NVidia at least "work" (even though they just refuse to play well with the linux env...).

Now, with NVidia diving more and more into the ML / GPGPU market (which is less windows-focused), they might have more pressure to actually open-source their driver (or at least, finally make them actually integrated properly with Linux), at least for their server focused hardware. But I wouldn't bet on it any time soon.

Let's be honest, they have a dominant position on the market. And their driver, as awful as they are, work. I think a lot of things would have to change for them to have the incentive to open-source them. My only hope at this point is that, with the growing GPGPU market, they might finally start to see Linux not as a second-class citizen.
> Do you dispute this claim?

I wasn't alive at that time... But as described I'd wager to dispute it. You need much more sufficient-smartness to make LISP fast. Isn't it obvious? Or is that somehow counter to any history you've read, except when cherry-picked and reinterpreted by some HN commenter?

> The OP has already noted that C used to not be very fast

Not very fast, compared to what? It's just not extremely fast when compared to numerical Fortran code (not: systems programming) or when compared to Assembly. Right? In my book this is just the worst kind of cherry picking.

If it was a reasonable claim, then would someone name the production OS from the early 70s written in LISP, and explain how it's better?
Thinking should be a time boxed activity, with time proportional to the priority of the thing at hand. As a classic overthinker I've realized my overthinking is a weird amalgamation of perfectionism and procrastination. That took me a long time to accept, since I've always rationalized my overthinking as ultimately a good thing. If you assume that action (instead of thinking) is the primary unit in the world, then you can see that thinking is just a tool which informs action.
In a related vein, see this slate star codex article for an in-depth look at how a recent regulatory change regarding generic drugs has made less manufacturers willing to produce them, and increased prices. In a nutshell, manufacturers are now forced to pay the costs associated with government inspectors in a new way, strongly discouraging competition.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/09/24/the-problems-with-gene...

I get angry over both corporations fixing prices and government employees designing stupid laws with stupid consequences.
don't forget Salesforce. It's pretty shocking what you can be paid for setting up Salesforce, granted it's an incredibly wide and deep thing. I wouldn't call it a webapp nor would I call it a platform... it's a thing heh.
HN engineers and detail orientated people. Is there any workable option to add a "trash capture" device/system to the river outlet?
Agreed. I’ve no idea which businesses OP is talking about. Even if he’s referring to small mom and pop shops or local bakeries I’d argue that design, content and SEO matter.

For startups it’s even more important.
Fiat Chrysler is also paying Tesla $2 billion over the next 2 years for EV credits in Europe to avoid even higher fines for the inability to sell enough low emissions vehicles.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300393/tesla-fiat-chrysl...
How so? As a consumer, I personally have a lot less trust in Amazon. At least with Walmart I know I'll get what I ordered instead of some cheap Chinese knockoff.