skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The falling cost of EV's and renewable energy is a relatively recent phenomenon too, though. Even 5 years ago vs. now, the choice to buy EV has gotten easier.

If I were in the market for a new car, I'd be looking at EV's. I drive about 5-6000 miles a year and can't really justify the money, though (and tbh 6,000 miles a year at 50+mpg means driving is a relatively small part of my carbon footprint. Really, I need to fly less)
Breakable DRM is there for legal reasons. IANAL but you can make copies of copyrighted materials for private use, but you are not allowed to circumvent copy protection mechanisms.
Good docs are more about the practice than the tools or medium. I think that's why there is no free lunch ;]
Just like any large warehouse, they need an exhaust system to vent dangerous fumes.
I wonder if the stone is solid enough to develop for climbing. That would be cool.
> But for most applications they don't cut development time, minimise bugs, simplify maintenance and bug fixes, de-complexify system architecture, [...] scale with minimum effort

I honestly have yet to see a Java or C++ codebase that is better on any of these fronts than a Clojure one.

> they were solutions made by people who like to tinker for other people to tinker with. For the sake of tinkering. Hyped into orbit with industrial quantities of hypeology.

This seems to lack context of how we were doing development at the time these technologies picked up.

One should be careful not to apply the "just keep doing what we did in the 90s/80s" argument to every piece of technology not taught in academia. I've used NoSQL databases in cases where traditional RDBMS would have fallen over and exploded.
If you are without valuable payload in 18-25km height there is nothing you can harm really even if you blow up.
so maybe it may even make sense to add a self-destruct (ignition) of the balloon, if it malfunctions.
Me too! The most memorable ones are the Iran CIA coup of 1953 which is pretty much considered the truth. Torrijos "murder" remains a mistery imho. I'm willing to believe the book...

I also love the way the book is written, like an adventure, very immersive.
I thought this was HN content with all the non-CS stuff filtered out with some sort of ML-based tool.

Turns out it has its own content.
Okay, thank you, I didn't know that.
There is basically no upper bound to the display resolution people want, even if their eyes can't physically resolve it. Graphic designers and gamers will still swear there's a difference. It's like audiophilia for the visual system.
I think it was from a pretty prominent researcher that had a .edu site, but I couldn't find it and I really tried.
Why anonymous social media is better and I prefer it too
It serves Cache-Control: max-age=0, private, must-revalidate. Same thing as far as I get it, maybe wider support.
Wasn't there a political expectation that if we produced our own oil, the price would drop? That was false from the start because we're a part of OPEC, right?
The market capitalization of the large oil companies have also been very closely correlated with oil prices, so cheap oil could in fact hurt their margins rather than help shareholders.
I wonder how much of this data got hacked and sold on dark web :) my guess is nil
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The fallacy as far as I can see is yours.

Mining companies don't have more choices than the consumer. The mining companies are also forced into making the choices they do or go out of business based on the reality around them.
That's not what it implies. The article is just talking about the price of housing in Seattle. The journalist was comparing the cost of the home the family bought, with a theoretical similar house in the city.

Moreover, almost everyone is highly leveraged when "buying" a home. Hell, I my wife and I could swing a 1.5m mortgage if we really wanted to. According to mortgage calculator, a 1.5m house would take 60k down-payment and 1.5k/month[1]. That's very reasonable for a large portion of the population.

I've paid triple that amount in rent for apartments.

[1]: 30-year, 60k realtor cut, 4.2% fixed rate, $2400 property taxes/year, average credit

Edit: Yeah I think the calculator is giving wrong results. There's no way that's possible.
Because lowering the number of tourists means lowering the amount of money coming in for tourist services.
I like playing with different web frameworks, but the article had a bad hype:information ratio, so I googled the Svelte homepage, which I think is really well presented: https://svelte.dev/
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20321272
Why is transcoding necessary even if the AAC option is used? (I was under the impression that audible used aac under the hood.) Is this avoidable?
Two things:

1. I don't think she'd think about backups and I didn't mention them.

2. I simply wouldn't have come and was prepared to drop the thesis and simply redo it next year. In retrospect, it's the only thesis that didn't teach me much (other than how to cope with a very unfortunate situation) and was very unfulfilling. I'm a bit ashamed I went through with it.
Venice's problem seems obvious to me -- there are no roads. And you can't bike or use a scooter since the alleyways are narrow, zig-zagging, and full of stairs. The only modes of transportation are to walk or to take the ferry to one of it's very few of stops.

It's a casuality of modernity, there is no use for a densely packed city built on a dozen slabs of rock in the middle of the sea.
What you are referring to is an ullage burn. Apollo definitely had ullage burns that mitigated this problem before lighting up the rockets in earnest.

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

Another note is that it wasn't just for the calculation of how the main burn would go. If the propellant was sufficiently distributed in the tank, not enough propellant would actually get to the valves at the back of the tank, and the engine could potentially not even fire.
Agreed. I was able to implement image.Image for a set of pixels from a Cgo library (written in Rust) and it works cleanly w/ the other Go image tools such as PNG saving[0].

0 - https://godoc.org/github.com/cretz/go-scrap#FrameImage
Ask HN: Can Java shops revitalize their appeal by using Kotlin?
(Please correct me if I'm wrong)

In my personal opinion, Kotlin is a joy to code with. And since it's 100% compatible with the JVM and essentially IS (much much) prettier Java, why not use/promote it more? I don't see why it should still be thought of as just "the Android programming language".

If you're an experienced developer, I don't think there's a heavy lift to understand how Java is translated to Kotlin. It might be worth the "downtime" overall. Thoughts?
I think it would probably be more effective to just provide seeds for native flowering plants to them directly, as well as sowing county/city/state parks and interstate/highway greens with some.

I've had the idea for years of playing Johnny Appleseed by being "Ryan Flowerseed" and driving around throwing hand fulls of seeds from native flowering species off the shoulder/into the medians of interstates and highways but it would actually be quite expensive to do it even over relatively short distances and I'd probably get a ticket for littering facepalm.
I will not be at all surprised when disease rates in areas near fracking skyrocket. Of course it will take probably ten years to even loosely correlate illnesses and deaths with "new" oil activity, and longer still for any change of course (if ever)

In many ways it feels like we still live in the wild west
In all fairness the functional paradigm isnt exactly all too hard to grasp (when it comes to what you need to be effective at least, you dont need to understand what a monad is, I still dont!). I started learning Clojure completely cold going through Exercism and it took me maybe 2 weeks of doing a problem a day (not much work at all) before I felt like I started to "get" FP. In fact, I would say it's even easier in a lot of cases because FP is a much "purer" skill set- any imperative language still uses functions, and arrays, and switch statements, and overloading. In FP, you have all of those familiar concepts (just presented in a possibly different way) but you dont need to worry about how classes work at all, or even loops in some cases!
Thanks, let me just set aside one month to read this enormous wall of text for which no one in the comments here has given a coherent summary to rouse anyone’s interest.
The word to google for is "ullage"

There's been a lot of creative solutions. If you have non-cryogenic fluids you can use pressurized bladders. Lots of strange looking (to me) surface tension designs exist to manage the bubble, as long as the bubble is far from the intake who cares. Supposedly the cryogenic Saturn V third stage simply vented its boiloff to the rear such that the stage was essentially under continuous tiny acceleration, which must have made the navigation calculations interesting and set a time limit on how long you could screw around in low orbit before going to the moon.
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Netflix is officially making a show based on Neil Gaiman’s ‘Sandman’ comics
I thought moving to Connecticut with kids was the ultimate status symbol.
> Using an interface masks the underlying representation and consequently prevents any sort of inlining.

This sounds like a limitation of a particular optimizing compiler/interpreter rather than a problem of the language itself. For example, the plain lua interpreter incurs quite a lot of overhead for this, but the luajit interpreter is oblivious. The standard python interpreter definitely adds a lot of overhead.
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Conclusion

Tip-off moments applied to the service module at jettison cause the spin vector to be misaligned with the service module X-axis. The rigid body spin motion of the service module excites longitudinal slosh of the propellants in tanks. The sloshing then becomes the dominant force and causes the spin vector to approach a position normal to the service module X-axis. The sloshing can orient the service module spin axis such that the net -X thrusting over a period of 300 seconds can not only reduce the separation velocity of the service module but also reverse its direction. This condition introduces a remote possibility of recontact between the service modules and command module. An optimum separation velocity can be obtained for a range of propellant loads by restricting the spin thrusting to 2 seconds and the X-axis thrusting to 25 seconds of firing time.
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There is also a Heka but in C.

https://github.com/mozilla-services/hindsight

Unfortunately deployment of Hindsight isn't as nice as Heka since you need to compile it yourself with all the Lua extensions you need, and the documentation is very disorganized.

Vector looks great on those counts, will be excited to try it if they get features like reliable Vector-Vector transport and more flexible file delimiters.
Aren’t features like if-expressions just that?
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Anyone moved from programming to product management? How was the transition? What resources did you use?
What you're asking for kinda exist, it's called mtail, check it out !
> I often wonder if we should think about minimizing how often we name things as well.

Personally, I think that depends, so I like to challenge my own assumptions and examine things case by case. The implementation of a math equation, especially one that is the result of solving a different equation, and so went through a symbolic/algebraic transformation, that is one place where adding more names might not clarify the implementation.

In general, though, my personal experience has been one of not seeing things named enough. Specifically, feature creep in software tends to try to add code with a light touch without disturbing too much of the surrounding code, but with new concepts that deserve more naming than they get. This can and does lead to code that is difficult to maintain, and I think I’ve seen more of that mistake than of naming things too much, and I suspect it’s much easier to not just shoot yourself in the foot, but cut your leg off, by under-naming rather than by over-naming.
The United States is not a member of OPEC, if that's "us" and "we" to you

https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/25.htm
Kids can roam much more freely in a city that the suburbs. You need a car to get around in the suburbs and so kids need their parents to drive them everywhere. Cities are much better for kids because they can take the train or bus and gain a sense of independence.
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Thank you! Very glad it looks useful to you.

It's still slightly rough around the edges, but Vector can actually ingest metrics today in addition to deriving metrics from log events. We have a source component that speaks the statsd protocol which can then feed into our prometheus sink. We're planning to add more metrics-focused sources and sinks in the future (e.g. graphite, datadog, etc), so check back soon!
Good to see a Google Earth Web instance is finally working in Firefox. Works for me as well, in Firefox 69.
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ClojureScript compiles down to JavaScript, so yes, it is entirely possible to spell the same buggy jQuery site you would in regular JavaScript but with the parentheses on the outside and it will solve no problems for you. I don’t think it’s reasonable to say eg reagent does not solve any DOM problems. Similarly, CLJS uses the same source map standard as every other JS targeting language, so you can debug in CLJS with the tools you already use just fine.

Their negative experience is based on facts not in evidence so I can’t really comment specifically. The StackOverflow community survey results suggest their experience is at least unusual.
Using JS ternaries for conditional rendering doesn't feel natural to me at all
If it wasn't for the copyright infringement this wouldn't be a bad business idea.

One video per day is free - if you want extra "credits" pay for it on the website.
So the people who fund them are happy to just have the money go into a hole and... then what? They definitely have metrics. How do they know which journalists are writing good articles? How do they know which topics to write about?
> The problem is that those people who chose shiny new technology only see the benefit, while all the others in the company will rot in hell because of the stupid choice of a junior engineer (who jumped ships 3 times meanwhile). I don't see how does that benefit the company? The whole point of the article is that you should make wise technology decisions which benefits the whole organization.

Sure, if your interests are closely aligned with the company. But as you noted, the junior engineer jumped ships 3 times already, probably with significant salary increase each time, and in part due to a CV that includes the use of exciting modern tech, which shows he's eager to learn and is passionate etc. Why would he care how the old company is doing?

People often don't stay at the same place long enough to feel the long-term consequences.

People will do whatever the (job) market rewards and is fun.

It's a bit different when you wear multiple hats. Then it may be best to focus on one specialization and keep things boring for the rest. For example at a small company, as a single-person data scientist/engineer/developer you may want to focus less on the IT fads and more on the modeling, because your CV is best padded by fancy new ML models, not by fancy new database engines. Or vice versa.
> Supposedly the cryogenic Saturn V third stage simply vented its boiloff to the rear

This occured after the ullage burn. The vents were not enough to do it alone, but they did keep the propellant settled between the cut off of the ullage burn and the real burn.

https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/31618/why-did-the-...

Also, I believe the Saturn V also had baffled propellant tanks to help keep the propellants from getting too unsettled even in zero-g.
fwiw AoT with Substrate VM

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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It's nice that different people have different interests. I, for one, find materials science fascinating and car engineering rather bland.
Thanks that's really helpful. Can you share your ALSA config also (.asoundrc)? I'm having trouble configuring the loopback for recording the fluidsynth output.
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Browsers would deal with it just fine (assuming the site is down hard and not responding with errors). Its some of the API tools and old libraries that may not. They would need retry logic that mimics the browser cycling through multiple A records. OTOH, API tools that have retry logic would just keep trying until the errors clear up. A browser will stop retrying when something responds unless there was javascript running in memory that had retry logic.

If there are errors, the site would need to be modified to not respond if broken and unable to proxy to a working origin. Perhaps CF have not coded their proxies in this manor.
Except that they specifically said "raise more revenue from each tourist" and "while cutting maintenance costs". Both of those seem like they would negate your point.
Cast to image.RGBA (or whatever) and bang away on .Pix []uint8.
Note that a proper resolution here is for some tech press reporter to formally ask them to address whether or not they’ll stop and report on what they say. Unfortunately that’s outside the scope of an HN comment discussion :(
I was there a few year ago with my wife and kids. We stayed in an airbnb on Venice. You can spend the day around the outskirts and avoid most of the cruise ship tourists. At night you have the island to yourself to explore. We also visited Murano which was almost deserted.

I actually enjoyed Venice much more than Florence.

Italy is a big place and there's tons to see. Make Venice just a couple days of your trip and you'll probably enjoy it.

(Aside, to me it's tour groups that are the worst, with bus loads and cruise loads being the most egregious example. I've seen this everywhere I've been a tourist. A destination that can easily handle a stream of individuals or families becomes overwhelmed when 20+ tourists arrive all at once. Venice would definitely be helped by a metering system.)
Nonsense. It is impossible to prevent Apple from knowing every app you install on your phone, and you can't even develop for your own phone without deanonymizing yourself with payment info. Any app that requests location also causes that location to be sent to Apple, and there is no way to turn that off. On even Google-flavored Androids, you get to choose what information gets sent to Google, and sending location info to Google for every location request is opt in instead of impossible to disable (as on iOS) or merely opt out.

To make the point really obvious, even Google-flavored Android devices are perfectly usable without a Google account (install apps, etc.). iOS is unusable without an Apple ID.
Flume, but in Rust?

https://flume.apache.org/
Especially not one of the most popular bands for new hams (and probably one of the most popular bands period). The vast majority of young hams these days enter the hobby by getting whichever basic license their country offers and buying a cheap Chinese dual-band 2m/70cm handheld radio (like the ubiquitous Baofeng). Learning how the repeaters work is a rite of passage.

While I think 70cm is probably more popular than 2m in Europe, 2m is the preferred default in North America. Just about everywhere you go on the continent, you'll be able to find a 2m band FM repeater on some nearby hilltop with the customary 600 kHz channel spacing and a CTCSS control tone. Is every cash-strapped amateur radio club supposed to go and drop a few grand to convert all these stations to 70cm?

I could probably see an argument for potentially clawing back (not eliminating) the bandwidth for some of the microwave allocations in C band and up, which are definitely under-utilized by the amateur radio community. But Thales trying to make a land-grab on one of the most popular ham bands simply because it happens to be globally allocated is utterly absurd.
I really, really don't want the power company to control my thermostat. Big companies are invading my home and violating my agency enough as it is. If past behavior is any indication of future behavior, smart appliances are more likely to be snuck in like the phone-home misfeatures on smart TVs than they are to be a willing contract between the home owner and the power company.
The same kind of "slowly being choked to death by massive tourism" is starting to happen to Barcelona as well.

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2018/aug/30/why-tourism-i...
That's a strange perspective. Users only care that a service works and there is a long history of them blaming whatever is most visible.

If you're site is down, it's your fault in their eyes, not some core infrastructure provider.
>How is it that hundreds of developers know there's an issue before AWS do

Trust me, they know.

They know about problems we never find out about, too.
I get a 500 error on the second page of the "getting started", so... nope, not the most beautiful I've seen.
I'm definitely not suggesting CF should cover losses. Sorry if I gave that impression. That would effectively require them to be an insurance company since they'd have to investigate claims, and possibly charge customers differently based on risk. (i.e. you don't want to bill a customer $200 per month if 10 minutes of downtime could lose $20 million in sales.)

I mean something like Amazon EC2's SLA (https://aws.amazon.com/compute/sla/) where credits are proportional to downtime, but not 1:1. i.e. they credit 100% for >= 5% downtime. With Cloudflare's SLA, 5% downtime (1.5 days in a month) would only give you a 5% credit.
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I don't want my life training your NN using satellites. Creepy.