skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nile delta is in a desert (4-8" rain/yr), so yes.
tryapl.org if you are curious to try your hand at programming in it.
Which part can't be done here?
Have you tried starting with a clean profile and no extensions? It’s been many years since crashes have been common on Windows or MacOS – generally since they moved Flash into a separate process.
WASM's (abandoned, because brotli is good enough) Binary Encoding proposal was essentially a binary AST compression system that worked for both JS trees (esprima) and wasm ASTs.

You get pretty good improvements by converting ASTs into SoA representation, interleaving them, and then compressing them. Fast to decode, too.

https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/issues/1180
Actual title: "Google confirms dark mode is a huge help for battery life on Android"
Years ago we had a lot of good problems. Not just 2006, but 2007 was great too where you had secret messages to save Endo. 2008 at least had you doing some fun things with the rover. 2014 you programmed a fun machine. One of the years was an optimization problem, I forgot which, but it involved orbital mechanics, so it was a lot deeper than the current setup.

In the past 5 or so years the contest has settled into a pretty boring rut. The problems are all the same. "We came up with a system that has an agent. It can do 5-15 things. Get it to solve this simple to define problem efficiently."

It's not that these problems aren't fun, it's that they're all the same :(

What's the point in doing the 10th contest in exactly the same format? It's gotten to the point where I can just reuse code from previous years.
Wouldn't large owning interests simply control many small operating entities thereby dodging such a tax while simultaneously introducing pointless inefficiency?
> I can't think of any laws/rules/different version of our world where wealth won't always concentrate to the top.

The question is numeric. Obviously any system is going to be disproportionate in some way. The question is whether it's OK as it is. The answer for liberal democracies of the last three quarters of a century has been some variant of "this is fine, rising tides lift all boats".

But at this point that's becoming increasingly hard to justify. In fact by most measures the boats stopped rising about 20 years ago, yet the people in the yachts off shore have continued climbing higher and higher.

So the answer to your question is "more than they are now", almost certainly.
I would argue yes. If the answer to a question is sufficient to warrant publication, any significant revision/contradiction to a published result obviously warrants publication.

Further follow-ups need not be published in the same journal, but the first correct/convincing refutation of a published article definitely should be.
Uncaught ReflectionException on Google App Engine
I want to take two tesla motors, which according to the tesla tear-down, cost $750 each, then take (2) battery packs - place these into the base as a powertrain to a 20’ unit(s) stacked two tall, such that you have a two-story “tiny-home” which can be moved with ease...

Make it draped with solars which can be pushed out as A-frame or other configs.

And all of this can be done for <$100k

This is my goal.
Boondoggle: A Texas-Sized Mess of a Highway Plan
"especially considering that there was no class system when people were painting caves in Chauvet, nor was there one for the 20,000 years after then"

You're right. The strongest/most aggressive person won. While there was no class systems, there was most likely considerably more bloodshed. I don't think we want to go back to a world like this.

"Capitalism is even more short lived."

I sure hope not. Forced egalitarian systems usually end up with everyone poor and a few wealthy people in government. I have this theory that the people suggesting these sorts of changes either think they are going to be at the top or just hate their life and want to watch the world burn.

While capitalism has its flaws, I don't really think any other system comes even close to pulling so many people out of poverty.

"if we are carpenters turning $150 of wood and material into $200 every hour, we keep our created wealth as wages in the beginning of the day, at the end of the day we are working only for the heir."

Nothing is stopping you from advertising your services and charging what you think you deserve for your services and keeping all the profits. That's capitalism for you.

"We work and create wealth, they expropriate surplus labor time from us"

You may be creating value, but wealth isn't comprised of just work. You act as if most companies are providing no value on top of your work, which just isn't the case.
The spec isn't long. It's accompanied with helpful examples and illustrations to help people understand.
The owning interest would be taxed.
I don't get these articles or facts.

Is anyone worst off because top 1% of 1% own more than the bottom half or whatever the number is?

Wealth creation is not a zero sum game.
> If we agree that poverty is the problem

You must not have read what I wrote. The important thing is the social relationship between those who work and the heirs who don't work and expropriate from those who do.

Also, you mention the US, the average inflation-adjusted hourly wage in the US is below what it was in the early 1970s - that is not progress for people who work.

> so many people want to migrate to the US and so few people want to migrate to Cuba

The migration ratio between the US and Cuba is about what it was a century ago.
Sounds like a lot of pre '78 guitar/bass/horns/keys solos/intros are potentially non-copyrighted in the USA, because they were not transcribed into written musical notation.

You'd still probably need deep pockets at some stage to pay a legal weasel to defend you from another legal weasel suing on behalf of the estate of a dead or aged musician.
I can't put a finger on it but something feels sort of dishonest about this article to me.

He seems to be applying the concept of fear in an inconsistent manner that ends up just reducing down to “things are happening I don't like" and then noting that people experienced the normal human emotion of fear relating to that list.

Like is manufacturers being worried about about being undercut by a competitor for a big contract a wave of terror? As unpleasant as I could imagine that is for the small supplier, that's a pretty healthy way for that transaction to work.

It just seems like fear is another way of saying, not everyone gets what they want and this article is simply a list of things this guy doesn't like. It's not even a bad list it just doesn't really say much of anything.
The article included details that the original press missed out on. My verdict: it's not word for word copy. Also it's properly sourced.
From 2017, with contributions from CliffStoll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14014218

From 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10551590
As per the other comment, I sure hope it's a clever legal maneuver.

It is absolutely shameful that a city in the richest nation in the world cannot have clean water. I don't understand how no one's been to jail, no one is taking charge, nothing seems to be urgent. Sitting on the West Coast where things are comparatively amazing, it's really sad to see such negligence from the local leaders, due to either incompetence or helplessness. Human beings deserve better. Fix it already.
Probably the hard part is not about overall traffic. If Slack have a billion channels, while every channel only has 10 to 1k users, it's much easier than say, if Discord having a million channels while some channel having 100k users. If you thinking in algorithmic complexity.

I'm pretty sure the Reactiflux channel exceeded 50k long time ago.
The efficiency to spend a billion dollars for defending the patent on a black rectangle is not one worth defending.
I love this man! I only wish he and Kevin Conroy would work together more!
It is possible that the rest of us are worse off, because wealth buys political influence and the power to distort markets. A nonzero sum game can still be a poorly rigged game.
Aside from 2006-2008, the ramp up of complex "fun" projects, nearly all the contests were the same optimization style, often maze-solving format. Off the top of my head I remember the ant colony, the Mars Rover, the Pacman type game, the mining maze.

The oldest one I remember was an html compressor.

The real downfall of icfp is that in the past 10 years, anyone talented enough to participate is no longer merely a student or professor, but can get a job at or create their own a
startup or big company or meaningful open source project of their own.
It was likely published because it was "new". You always need a belt-and-suspenders study if you're sniffing around for interesting phenomena. With that said, often times "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" as they say.

As for why it got lots of press: It's the kind of study that would drive clicks/engagement, increasing ad impressions. So... Capitalism.
> At least in Finland, newish office houses typically don't even have windows that can be opened.

That's because the costs for heating of the building during winter are way cheaper than a better thermal isolation of windows and a good ventilation system combined.
If I remember correctly, chemists back in the day didn’t live too long. Chemists used to use copious amounts of chemicals that today are considered carcinogenic and tetragenic. College chem labs today tend to use far less toxic chemicals then they used too, in addition to using much smaller amounts.
>We already bear the burden of pregnancy and it’s various side effects

You also have one hundred percent of the associated rights. Men have no reproductive rights whatsoever. In the United States women can and have raped male children and then forced those children to pay child support after the resulting pregnancy.

https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?collection=journals&h...
It's hard to take anything you write seriously when you're being disingenuous.

>Unfortunately, these prototypes broke the web badly. The web was simply not ready for such protection.

Yet Apple was fine disabling third-party tracking since 2001 according to GP?

>Now, Apple, with their iOS monopoly

A monopoly over their own product?

>If you recall, Apple's stance on privacy is quite recent. The tech world has a short memory, but I remember Apple being caught red-handed slurping data from user's iPhones not so long ago.

A quick Google search shows that Apple was embroiled because they enabled WiFi-assist by default, which caused some people to use more cellular data than intended. Is this the privacy-invading data "slurp" you mean?

>But don't forget that they do this for strategic reasons

Who doesn't? Apple is not a charity. We should rejoice that Apple is monetizing privacy, because it means the system is working.

>We're also working on it (is anyone else doing so?)

GP literally just mentioned expiring first-party cookies after 7-days.

I don't trust Mozilla _at all_ these days. Instead Mozilla seems interested in marketing themselves as privacy-focused only enough to grow their userbase for the near future. Once at some critical mass, Mozilla seems to proceed exactly like Google.

- Google Analytics tracking users on configuration page, https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785

- Firefox Focus, a tracker blocker, sending user data to third-party Adjust https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-ios/wiki/Install-Tra...

- Firefox installing an add-on without user consent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15931730

- Targeted advertisement via Pocket

- SHIELD Studies and Telemetry
I pay Rs 499 (~$7) for 84 days of 1.5gb data/day, unlimited calls, and 4g speeds between 1-10mbps. This is one of the best things that happened to India in recent times. All thanks to Ambani/Jio.

Even broadband here has reached next level. I pay $30/mo for 200 Mbps speeds and 1 TB data transfer. It's hilariously cheap. This is thanks to ACT Fibernet.

I think UPI is up there in the list. At present I make 80% of my digital transactions (and close to ~100% transactions below $10) via UPI. I can't believe something this cool came out of a body of our country.

Game changers.
I'm not sure what your point is. If the commenter is an expert on the subject, or has some inside knowledge, making those things clear would be one way of making the comment more substantive. As it stands, it reads as if it has just been made up.

I'm assuming that by "the locations were pre-selected" the comment means that the outcome of the process was predetermined. That's a huge claim. Obviously a comment making a wild accusation without providing any basis for it is unsubstantive. It lowers discussion quality noticeably when people sling such charges around. I realize it's a fun thing to do on the internet, but there are other places for it.
That's a chilling thought.
Depreciating currency would help, or permanent negative interest. Then the default behavior of wealth would be to shrink, rather than grow.

The deeper problem is that wealth is power, and power can be leveraged into greater power. I can't see any way to fix that except a culture where it just really bothers people to see any differences in power.

In hundreds of years, if we manage to eliminate all suffering from lack of food, health care, etc, the next thing might be to eliminate the suffering of lack of social influence.
Appending | to each line and a last line . is a jq program that reproduces the original json.

jq -r '
( tostream
| select(length > 1)
| (
.[0] | map(
if type == "number"
then "[" + tostring + "]"
else "." + .
end
) | join("")
)
+ " = "
+ (.[1] | @json)
+ " |"
),
"."
'
IIRC in a hashbang isn't posix compatible
This feels like the truest answer.

I was very opinionated and had a bunch of random knowledge to back up my opinions when I was young. I had a lot of confidence that I actually knew a lot.

Then at some point, some people started saying that I was almost right, but not quite. I didn’t have all the info. Just some. Sometimes I was just wrong. Was I getting stupider, or was I finally being called out?

I think learning you don’t have all of the answers and restraining your opinions is an important part of becoming a sensible adult.
No. I just tested KeePass.

1. I created a new test-entry with a long and random password.

2. Opened the process's memory in the HxD hexeditor.

3. Ctrl+f

4. Found this password 4 times.

Even after i locked KeePass i still found the password 2 times.

This is bad!
Hey Matt Stoller, you should be familiar with ISO 8601.
A 7nm part won't be manufacturable outside TSMC or Samsung for years more, so this tech is really dependent on good relations with Taiwan or South Korea.
When pondering guerilla resistance it should be noted that Hong Kong is not Singapore - they have no army or any military trained population. There's just angry civilians.

There won't be any guerilla resistance in Hong Kong in the case of an armed intervention.
The deeper problem is that wealth is power

No, the deeper problem is that wealth comes from power. And you can't eliminate all differences. Trying just shifts the difference that makes a difference elsewhere.
Benchmarking Cloud Native Databases: TiDB, CockroachDB, YugaByteDB
I would say that if Science ran an article they are morally obligated to seriously consider a refutation of that article, and if no problems can be found, publish it.

I did not get the sense that the refutation was seriously considered, and my impression is that the original article has not been retracted in any way, correct? So Science's public stance could be seen as the original article is still the best truth they've published on the topic, which feels wrong.

Wiggle room may be appropriate if the article is already retracted or has already been refuted.
I was wondering about something similar, but also designed to add suspended floors above existing structures in order to increase housing density without tearing down streets.
It's highly unlikely that any country would impose sanctions on China for such measures. Hell, we don't even have formal diplomatic relations with Taiwan anywhere because everyone fears losing the chance to do business with China.
The difference is that the internet happened and it became way too easy for anyone in the world to exfiltrate all your data with a simple free program. This is why we can't have nice things.
The exciting thing is that removing barriers to popularity make talent and persistence more and more important.

(barriers like the cost of extremely polished production, which is nearly free compared to 30 years ago, and access to an audience, which this article is more about, where there are fewer and fewer gatekeepers)
Labor can only be paid at the present value of any foreseeable output. Without the investment of a capitalist there's no foreseeable output.

Where there is equality of value there is no incentive to exchange. "Also goods such as the soil, wood in trees, water power, coal beds, stone quarries, petroleum reserves, mineral waters, gold mines, etc. are often the subjects of exchange. And they embody no labor time. How then can Marx explain the exchange value of these goods? Surely the common element that governs the exchange values of these goods cannot be the amount of labor time embodied in them"[1]

If you are interested in seeing the other side of your beliefs you might like to read Böhm von Bawerk's refutations of Marx's theory of capital.

Are you against inheritance by heirs? Would the State manage wealth better than heirs or than the market? According to what I see in totalitarian states, I believe the answer is no.

Anyway, I believe there's room for improvement, I don't think capitalism is the ultimate system.

By the way, I think this article is pertinent regarding this topic https://mises.org/library/b%C3%B6hm-bawerk%E2%80%99s-critiqu...

[1]https://mises.org/wire/labor-and-capitalist-exploitation-boh...
> Japan was an economic competitor to the United States, but not an ideological or military competitor.

That is my exact point - As one of the closest allies of the US, when Japan challenged the US with its rising semiconductor sector, US responded heavily under the name of national security.

> By contrast, while India may in the future become a serious economic competitor to the United States, it shows no signs of being (or becoming) an ideological or military competitor.

So you are trying to convince me that US is going to hand over its dominance of the world to another democracy.
An interesting thing about the minimum wage is that it isn't one. We allow $0 per hour. (called "volunteering") We allow negative numbers. (called "education" or "training")

It's just a narrow range of values that is forced into the black market.
Parent is saying that the magazine that trnascribed the music can get perhaps the copyright to music they didn't create, due to the OP loopholes
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Its the subject matter that seems to warrant intervention by a moderator. Speculation about a state actor in a high profile breach or outage or speculation of any kind where the poster might only have tangential knowledge and not be a true insider doesn't seem to warrant moderation.

I've noticed lots of instances where a high profile technology company may be responsible for some wrongdoing gets the notice of moderators.

It leads me to believe this particular kind of speculation presents a specific problem for hacker news and the moderators.
I work for a smaller e-commerce company\* (specifically with the fulfillment centers, so very much in tune with shipping/logistics). $25 would make sense for an individual shipping one-off boxes (and - in the US - not doing the smart thing and using USPS flat rate boxes), but (assuming a reasonably-sized box and ground service) that's exorbitant for any company shipping out even tens of boxes a day (let alone hundreds, or thousands, or tens of thousands).

Without further context (or an exact weight, or whether they were gonna use an expedited or overnight service) it's hard to say how cheap they could go, but $25 seems too high. Either the seller is really small scale or they need to renegotiate their rates.

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\* We're big enough to have a bit of negotiating power, especially with smaller/regional carriers, but we're nowhere near Amazon-scale.
> these prototypes broke the web badly

So what? The web wasn't ready to mandate JavaScript for rendering HTML, so why should we double-down on "not breaking things" now, instead of when it mattered?
I guess my confusion is if writing a signature for a FORTRAN function wrong is undefined behavior.

I wasn't thinking that having a function prototype incompatible with the external fortran code would be undefined, just, uh, wrong in a normal sort of way.
Nice!

I wonder how it does in windstorms, though.
You can do this easily with the json_tree function from SQLite's JSON1 extension. It's given as an example in the documentation:

https://sqlite.org/json1.html#jtree

SELECT big.rowid, fullkey, value
FROM big, json_tree(big.json)
WHERE json_tree.type NOT IN ('object','array');
I would imagine they try to encourage earthworms as well as many types of insect.
Cognitive load is a real thing.

People have a finite ability to multitask especially with similar actions. The only possible approach to driving to to not pay attention to most things as you focus on something specific and then cycle through each activity. Further, when you are forced to pay attention to something specific you must spend less time focusing on other things.
I wouldn't want someone who won't bet $15K-$75K on their own product to have access to any of my data.
Voted down. How exactly am I wrong? Even Chinese people agree. 60 million Chinese people were starved to death under the communist regime last century, while the Americans were inventing microprocessors and launching rockets to the moon.
Such perceptions are in the eye of the beholder; whatever a reader feels most strongly about, that's what they'll notice the moderator moderating, or failing to moderate. It is an inverted image of your own feelings and beliefs. People who like/dislike other things have different images of moderator bias.

I don't much care, either way, about Amazon or any other high-profile technology company. I care about doing a good job for HN. Assuming I didn't misread the GP comment, it seems like an obvious case of somebody making something inflammatory up on the internet, so I posted a moderation reply. This is routine. Yes, there are plenty of other cases just as bad where we don't reply. That doesn't mean we secretly agree with those comments. Most often it means we didn't see them.
> As to luck there's an old saying that I really like: the harder I work the luckier I get.

Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
I remember reading about some of the criminal charges that were being filed, and in one instance at least, someone was being charged for "criminal negligence" (or whatever) in the water testing that they did. But after reading about the procedure they used, I thought to myself that AFAIK their procedure seemed valid, so I couldn't understand why they were being charged.

Now granted, it could probably be argued that their procedure could have been more comprehensive. But for the testing they were actually trying to do (determine how much lead was leaching from the main water lines) the procedure they did use seemed to me to be a valid one.
Giant squid caught on video for the second time
My Model 3 did exactly that this morning. I was in the act of changing lanes, expecting the car behind me in the target lane to either maintain speed or slow to avoid hitting me. Instead it sped up, my car alerted me, and as I glanced in the side view to see the car approaching, the steering wheel gently tugged me (us??) back into our lane, avoiding collision. I’ve never felt so grateful to an object before.