skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking in the context of working with the framework, not how the widgets are implemented. When i write "Qt and wxWidgets already do" it should be obvious i refer to something they both share, not something they differ. There are many differences in how all the mentioned frameworks, there isn't a point of comparing them down to that detail.

FWIW the majority of LCL is also designed in the mid-90s as it is really a clone of VCL which was designed with Windows in mind and has a lot of Windows-isms (e.g. TColor is 24bit only, no alpha channel, the extra byte is used - like with Windows - to encode a pseudocolor to be translated in one of user-defined colors ... from back when Windows allowed users to modify the color palette, but anyway).
Doing a task queue in an RDBMS is not as simple as some might think, though. https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/what-is-select-skip-lock...
The Lil Wayne example is interesting. The Beach Boys faced this problem too. Some, like the Beatles, Bowie were able to transcend it. A couple of alternatives:

- The Beastie Boys faced this problem, and released a jazz album outside the US (I think it was eventually imported). It was largely invisible to their customer base.

- Steven King and J. K. Rowling both used pseudonyms to publish outside their recognised genres.
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Ah, the rare exception to Betteridge's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...)!
current negatives ? Increased cost of doing business

Will there slight increase in safety failures ? maybe, I accept that.
The problem is that gas station is owned by Google and in theory the faceless algorithm that runs everything says all cans are the same but in reality the RC Cola can criticized Sergey a few years ago and keeps making jokes that reveal some uncomfortable lies and you now have to go in the bathroom and climb a ladder to get the RC Cola.
Irradiate?
I’m willing to wager that by the time we are concerned about finding homes for another full earth load of humans we will be spreading out far beyond just the Moon and Mars. And, as part of an effort to “back-up” humanity that is a good thing. We should be on many, many planets and in many solar systems.

To that point. If one of these habitats is built the first ones should serve as transit vessels to nearby systems, with the final destination of its crew being a planet.

Additionally, let’s take Bezo’s own logic a step further. When gravity levels are less than that of Earth, say, on the Moon, we we’ll be able to build much higher with greater economy. And we will be able to build into the Moon with greater economy as it is 60% the density of Earth. This effectively increases the livable area, if we are to count “engineered surface area”. The same is true of other planetary and Moon surfaces in our solar system.

You once again are left justifying the effort of building the habitat instead of extending the pre existing available planetary foundation
The moon is "a couple decades away from any practical use" in the same way that fusion power is. Likewise, there have been models of orbital economies for decades, and no one has even tried to actually do it. For all practical purposes our current reach extends to the surface of the Earth and no further.
There are libraries for this like GNU ffcall and libffi.
possibly due to Mar's lack of activity vs Earth's quite active innards. That said, would be a while before you hit anything that mattered too much.
Develop a project that has two local processes that have to communicate, one local database, and one remote service that the two processes have to communicate with.

Doesn't matter what the project is. Could just be tossing around a string of data that eventually gets dumped into the db and sent to the server.

Research different methods of architecting such a system. Code up a few.

By doing this, you will actually find the answer to the question you posed. And, arguably, have fun doing it.
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Not to mention that it makes it prohibitive to start a new business for anybody with dependents.
Very true. Certainly, this can be the case, but even small farms have overhead where a loan can create instability.

I don't want to make the mistake of assuming farmers can't manage their finances, they certainly can. But on the farmer's end, there's lots of variables that can be in play, adding unexpected debt can only increase that.

On the bank's side, if "widespread tractor failure" is a real event, banks would be issuing potential risky loans in the millions to farms, businesses, and people. Though yes, if it was a local credit union, dealing with just a couple clients, it might be a risk worth taking. Maybe it'd help out some small local banks as well as small farmers - but whether that's scalable could be a challenging business question.
My thoughts exactly? Why would any store ever want this? It's completely against their interests. They want to sell high priced/high margin items. They don't want customers shamed into spending less on bakery and alcohol and other non-essentials.

Likewise customers might feel alienated seeing how much data they're giving to the store and feeling bad for spending 20 percent of their meat budget on a rib eye.

If you want to follow this closely your food buying habits, get an app. I think it'd be weird to have this receipt. I mean I'd have to shred the thing before I'd even be comfortable throwing it away!
From a user's point of view this seems great. No need to wait for congested LTE to download an app in order to pay for a scooter or parking.

I'm curious about the security implications of this though. Seems like it would be easy to make a NFC sticker "skimmer" that you sticker over the official sticker.
Well duh; would wouldn't do X if X was affordable and no sacrifice?

Everyone would buy fancy new electric cars powered by lithium from exploited natural resources in poor countries, if the cost was affordable and they got a high status Electric Car.

Would you, instead, walk 2 hours per day to and from work, in all weathers, in expensive heavy, several times patched, thirty year old woolen clothes, and eat locally sourced vegetarian food, to combat climate change?
Thinking In Systems by Donella Meadows is great.
Rustam can weigh in here, but I'm not exactly sure what with Argo we'd open source. Argo is a collection of a bunch of different technologies that we use to measure the performance across our transit, peering, and backbone connections. We then send different requests down different paths depending on each customer's particular needs and settings. While I'd imagine we will open source parts of the overall system, there's not really a stand-alone package that we could make available for anyone else to use.

If there's a particular part of the overall Argo that would be helpful for you or others, let us know and we'll certainly consider it. Here's a list of things we've built at Cloudflare and open sourced already: https://cloudflare.github.io/
This sounds right to me. Rust takes its compatibility promise seriously, but reserves the right to break it when there's a security issue. This looks like it's one of those times.
There are people who use cable news, and consume cable news through cable.

There are people who like cable news web sites, and search for them on Google.

Let's say for instance that 2/3 of the people who search for news on Google are people who like cable news web sites. Then, by a ratio of almost 2 to 1, cable news web sites will be favored.

Rephrased: Perhaps people are actively consuming CNN through the Google searches on the web, and people are passively consuming Fox through cable.

Not that it's strong evidence, but consider: "According to Nielsen ratings, the median age of Fox’s audience was 66 in 2016." [1] [2]

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/how-old-is-the-aver...

https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/heres-the-median-age-of-the-...
It's worth noting that other than going to jail for SEVERAL YEARS for what I understand to essentially contempt of court, her treatment is not that much different from the average "disliked" inmate in prison.

This is a bad thing
Just running the numbers here.

As per your Wikipedia article, current technology limits the borehole to 50 cm. That gets us 500 to 1000 m^3 worth of storage per borehole, assuming the lower 1km to 2km is used for storage.

From this[1] page, as far as I understand, on a global scale the current amount of nuclear waste in need of such storage is 482000 m^3. So roughly 500-1000 boreholes to store the current waste inventory.

Anyone got any ideas on how much it costs to drill a 5-6km 50cm hole?

[1]: http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fue...
When I was software dev contractor I had clauses in my contract that said that I had to perform the work myself.
The industrial revolution helped spur the Progressive Era and the modern welfare state, the current technological evolution will likely bring about the next wave of Progressive actions. The US is more conservative than Europe, but sooner rather than later we are going to have to reckon with the fact that employment based health care doesn't cut it when the blue-collar jobs of yesteryear are eliminated by automation.

It's not Amazon's role to provide jobs for Americans, it's their job to increase profits -- it's the government role it tax Amazon appropriately and use those funds to support Americans disrupted by the changing landscape. It's time for all of us to accept what the future brings and act appropriately.
In some cases, keeping your personal views to yourself is part of the job requirement.

In 2019, it's not uncommon to see shops expressing a political opinion, and refusing to order books for customers on that basis.
If we ever saw a successful CIA operation this is it. I bet in twenty years we'll be reading how it was all organized.
I said the public at large via retirement funds. Teachers get less because CalSTRS lost money* either via direct purchase or through asset managers.

* Just an example I don't know if they bought into the IPO or not.
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> Getting resources from the moon seems out-of-date these days because the moon is far away in terms of energy even if it is close in distance. Getting resources from asteroids makes more sense.

You're right about raw energy, but one advantage of the moon is that you can build electromagnetic mass drivers that can sling raw material into orbit without affecting the natural orbit of the body (technically you are but only negligibly). For asteroids, you probably have to haul the whole thing back into Earth orbit for it to be useful, and you'd probably have to use some kind of propellant.

Also asteroid missions have much longer timelines if you have to go all the way out to the belt to get them. Less so if you get a near-earth rock, but those missions are pretty complex if trying it in Kerbal Space Program is any indication, and getting it wrong can be catastrophic. Many countries might not take too kindly to people wanting to sling city-destroying rocks around. Moon seems safer in that sense as a first option.

The two aren't mutually exclusive of course, and there are advantages to both. I imagine we'll see both strategies employed in a variety of different ways.
One of the worst problems with using windows (in my opinion) is that there’s no native GNU make.
This argument has been made before e.g.: http://harvardpolitics.com/united-states/the-pro-business-ar...
Supreme Court justices are appointed for life. There would be no reason to rule either way based on the election cycle. That's the whole point.
I sure wish there was an app, or banking service, that automatically collects receipts.
Are there any plans for allowing customers to use Cloudflare Registrar without Cloudflare DNS?
It's too easy to find facts and figures to support either side of the argument and I think the left finds a better argument in it simply being a human right and the moral thing to do, neither of which are easily refuted.
I would love to see this design adopted by major retailers. If that were to happen, could Ms. Lu receive any compensation for her contribution? I gather that the profit motive was far from her mind but this idea could still turn out to be a major contribution to commerce.
The L4 and L5 Lagrange points that O'Neill advocated in the 1970s really make no sense.

Halo orbits around Moon-Earth and Sun-Earth L1 and L2 make a lot more sense because they are energetically cheap to get to. L4 and L5 are a ghetto.

Tech like the mass drivers can move material from the asteroid belts in more cheaply than it can from the lunar surface. You also have to consider what it costs to stop the projectiles when they get where they are going (one reason to use the Earth-Moon L1 because you can hit it with nearly no excess velocity)
I would argue the point of consumer choice is at device selection. If they choose the ecosystem with the heavy markup, when they had alternatives, then they are responsible for incurring their own additional costs. The information is public regarding app costs between devices and marketplaces. This seems to me a bad ruling based on that.
I'm surprised by the reception this is getting.

I may be wrong here, but my approach to this would be completely counter to the one taken. Instead of overhauling POS systems (which are painful/tedious to do), I would try to build an OCR app that reads the items and does all that viz in the app, saving some paper and ink in the process.

In addition to above constraint with POS systems, I don't have one stop shop for getting all items in one category (say groceries).
I'd disagree with you on the point of transducer theory. It's well understood and poorly published. In particular, proprietary models are significantly more reliable than what is publicly available (both for old school lumped-element and newer finite-element analysis), and the major manufacturers keep those close to their chest. Even the published models by those engineers are glorified approximations of internal research. The limiting factors are in manufacturing, where DIYers and small shops do not have access to the materials and testing equipment of the big players.

I think the real elephant in the room is that audiophiles spend a lot of money and don't like being told they're wrong. There's a weird psychology in high end audio (both professional and consumer) - sales are made based on the users' preconceived notions about the product/brand, and you make money by playing into those notions instead of trying to subvert them.

PS: based on your username, I think I apprenticed under you a few times.
Anecdotally I know people who were running a small business and moved to Canada partially because how much of their revenue was going towards insurance. I think they pay more in taxes now but it still is a lot less than they were paying in insurance.
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What's the biggest advice you wish you could have given to your former self?
You'd like to mandate that all stores keep a permanent record of every purchase ever made?
We're discussing this now, using materials available now, and discussing a historical event that differs by two weeks. It could have been that the time stamp on the warrant was backdated two weeks.
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I can't remember who, but someone's said that design patterns really would be more appropriately called something like "palliatives for static manifestly typed languages."

Knowing idioms that relate to certain expressive / organizational problems is a good thing (especially if you're primarily working in a static manifestly typed language), but there's a weird overcelebrated status to them, and I'm not sure I'd encourage a developer I was training to become familiar with a full catalogue of them.
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There's also and even more educated group who knows humans only accelerated a natural and enevitable carbon cycle that humans didn't cause nor can stop.

Humans can't stop global warming. Then what can we do? What should we do?
What's the incentive for a shop to provide this info? From their PoV they provide it in the itemizations. You can do with that what you will.

It's in the shop's interest to use an antipattern that obscures detail so you don't reflect on where your money is going, and possibly choose to spend less.
In the conclusion the author says he considers T f() to be prettier than T f(void). I personally prefer the look of T f(void) to T f(); the former is explicit to both the programmer and the compiler that this function is not supposed to take any arguments. If I can cause the compiler to not be helpfully clever when it doesn't need to be, as well as make it clear to my future selves, or any other poor soul condemned to read my code what my actual intention was, I see that as a Good Thing.
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> I've been concerned with endless VC funding for years.

Their goal is to build monopolies by out-funding every other entrant in the space.

Reid Hoffman calls it blitzscaling.
Stuff like this just give me more trust that the rust team is taking the promises of the language very seriously.
Ringworlds and orbitals are significantly bigger and harder to build than O’Neill cylinders. O’Neill cylinders are potentially feasible within a century or two; ringworlds and orbitals would take much longer.
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The reason that this tends to lower prices for consumers is that these innovations rarely stay confined to the companies that invent them. If this lowers costs for amazon to fulfill orders, then these techniques tend to get adopted by their competitors.

And once adopted by competitors, when everyone's margins have increased, these companies do compete on price.

This process doesn't happen immediately but it does happen.
> I don't think you can argue effectively that granting the same medical care to all as a matter of law will fly. People will always find a way to get better care if they can afford it.

I’m not sure anyone is arguing that. In almost any country with single payer health care you’ll also find a thriving market in private health care, but they’re typically competing on things like providing private rooms and maybe a shorter waiting list rather than whether you get to live or die.
Wealth inequality is because capitalism. We collectively permit a very large share of wealth to return to owners of capital. Frequently, this is concentrated because of a variety of financial realities (e.g. large amounts of liquid collateral make it easier to gain leverage, which can increase returns, etc.). OTOH, this return to capital has made the retirement funds and investments of many people's pensions possible. After all, Vanguard and others like them are probably the biggest beneficiaries of the great return on capital (who do you think "Shareholders" are?).

Balancing that return, is of course the relatively lackluster returns on cash. Companies sit on cash not because they enjoy counting it, but because they cannot find appropriately productive uses of it. They also hold it because it helps them cope with uncertainty (of economic reality, regulation, opportunity, etc). Taxing cash is fine, but companies will just change how they balance their uncertainty with other methods.

It sounds like what you are concerned with is that labor is not receiving an equal share of the output, compared with capital. this is likely because true labor productivity has not been great (https://www.bls.gov/opub/btn/volume-6/below-trend-the-us-pro...) and also because capitalists (including pension fund shareholders, often the workers themselves) are engaged in rent-seeking on behalf of their capital. I think in many cases this reflects a shift in the role of savings from the employee to the employer. In eras past, the employee received relatively more pay compared to shareholders, but was required to save for themselves. Corporates that offered pensions had to set aside money to managed those obligations directly. In modern times, corporations tend to create retirement benefits that come from an employee's salary and the company's money, but which have been underfunded due to the assumption of future returns. This "optimistic" assumption about rate of return on the 401k/retirement fund/pension funds of today drives a lot of capital into the role of rent seeking from corporations. Corporations respond by trying to meet their shareholder demands, and corporate officers tend to be the beneficiaries of generally capital friendly activity, since they themselves are shareholders.

There's a lot to unwind here, and a lot more that I haven't written, but I think it is best to not assume that there can be a single solution to a very complex problem which results from a system built of many interacting components.
That's what every round of VC incentivizes: Here, take our money and spend it in 12-18 months, so you'll need to raise more money from next-round investors and we can mark-up the value of our stock to show to our LPs, so we can raise our next fund and collect more management fees....
Nuclear is not a yes or no question, it's a how much question. Wind/solar/battery are going to be a huge part of moving us off fossil fuels, but it doesn't seem likely that they will be sufficient in all cases across the world. Nuclear seems like the best option available to fill in the gaps.
> but developed country waste is getting safely landfilled

That's definitely not true in the UK. A lot of our "recycling" has been being shipped to China until recently. I believe that other countries have been doing that too.
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Society has effectively abandoned and destroyed a large section of do-it-yourself culture in favor of a rapid and disposable one. I'd wager that most people would not even consider the idea of making a cloth bag, and of those that would consider it a lot would not know how to do such a task, even if all that were involved is just sewing shut the holes of a shirt to make a sack, because their parents and their parent's parents were already fully immersed in atomized, disposable culture.
1) it has been made, but..
2) it doesn't naturally appeal to most people on the left, and everyone else knows it, so it comes off as unmotivating to the left and insincere to everyone else.

None of which means it isn't true (it is), or that it isn't important (it is), but that's why it doesn't get used as an argument very much.
> However, if that's the extent of it, and HR decides nothing is needed, then there isn't anything really there.

True, but then again, it will probably go into the permanent file and if more complaints come in later, it adds up. Similarly to how you're supposed to report even small things to the police if you expect more to come. Even if they can't do anything now, it starts a paper trail and will be taken into account if anything else happens.