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I think the effect paralyzed him and then he died of starvation.
How are we to judge it without numbers? While everyone likely could be better in thid spacd focusing efforts disproportionately on the ones better than average already seems irrational, arbitrary, and potentially counterproductive as it turns into "Improving anything in response to complaints is a mistake - giving in only leads to more trouble over doing nothing and waiting for them to go away."

Disturbingly the later anti-pattern has held shockingly true with ethical standards and as infamous actors go on with bad practices for decades while those who improve are subjected to increasingly harsh criticism and boycotts. Ethical Tall Poppyism is a disturbingly common trend.
Monetization of something as a goal to be the next billion dollar unicorn vs monetization of something useful as a lifestyle product are different paths that cater to a majority of people who frequent HN. But constant hustle to find an angle is another part of it. In some cases people find the next thing organically, and then you have others constantly trying to slam the square peg in a round hole. It seems as though the latter is more often focused on acquiring wealth to be rich rather than having a passion for a tangible product/solution.
That would negate the advantage of not requiring extra effort/energy. And decomposition of organic material is required for the rainforest ecosystem to work.

And I'd go with radiation or heating for sterilization.
Depends on the market. Do your clients talk to each other?

In a small market with few potential customers, reputation loss could kill you. OTOH if you sell to general population, then even a scandal involving you being featured on national TV won't hurt your company directly (related lawsuits might, though).
Elephants and whales have big brains but they don't have as many neurons as you'd think from their brain volume. For most mammals neuron count scales as roughly the 3/4 power of brain volume. For primates and birds it scales linearly.
> It is the seller’s responsibility to get the package to me, once I have paid shipping

You're not wrong, but as a buyer of things, my end goal is to get the thing I bought. If I have to shlep a few blocks to the post office, I would rather do that than live in the world of ambiguous will-they-won't-they-deliver-it.

I'm strongly considering simply having everything shipped to my local post-office and picking it up, if such an option is available, but luckily (knock on wood), our mail delivery hasn't been awful recently.
My life is incredibly rich, but I measure it more by my physical/mental health, my community, and time I get to spend with my family
Much of this is thanks to the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) which will celebrate it's 30th anniversary next year. I can remember how much people despised that the government was forcing another regulation on the poor businesses and how the world was going to come crashing down as a result. But here we are with at least a mediocre of accessibility and much of it can be traced back to the ADA.
I think it’s unlikely they would evolve more advanced intelligence than its possible for them to make practical use of in their behaviour.

Now, clearly humans have been able to adapt our intelligence to uses far beyond the behaviours it evolved to support. Our ancestors 50,000 years ago had more or less the same brains we do. Nevertheless their behaviours were highly complex. They broadly did what we do, crating art, manufacturing artefacts from multiple processed materials, ornamentation, social rituals such as burials. We just take those behaviours a lot further.

To argue that whales might have sophisticated intellectual capabilities, you’d need to show what behaviours they exhibit that require them. Otherwise that intelligence would serve no evolutionary purpose and might actually be a survival disadvantage. See the cognitive trade off hypothesis.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Cognitive-Tradeoff-hypothe...
I would welcome all of these except maybe a separate chip. E.g. having 3 separate languages built in a browser does look like a overcomplication.
I mean, heroic is always a subset of dumb.
Can we get some additions that replace the garbage one-liner `is-even`/`is-odd` npm libraries that are a scourge?
Again, the issue they want to address is not climate change but retention of soil and improving their regional climate and water cycle.
> people are largely indifferent.

Count me among them. While I'd be happy with rising tiger populations in specific tiger reserves, I do not want them roaming towns like leopards do these days [1][2].

[1] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/udaipur/leopard-mau...

[2] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/leopard-en...
> 4) Requirements are conveyed verbally, not through written documents.

I can't even begin to imagine the sheer amount of meetings and "chats" that would need to take place on a regular basis just to keep things moving along.

I admit to knowing very little about XP but this sounds like my own personal hell.
This is incorrect. Jon Krakauer who wrote Into the Wild pulled this out of his ass. The dude just starved cuz he had no idea what he was doing. He was a pretty shitty person all around.
As does are relatively short height. Shorter folks make it through famines better. The recent resurgences of tall folks is a byproduct of our caloric abundance.
That sounds nice. I'm convinced a mid-size college town has the best of both worlds
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The Serverless framework provides offline functionality (https://github.com/dherault/serverless-offline) to do this - I've found it works pretty well.
I don't think the movie makes him look like a hero. Rather, it tries to tell the story from his viewpoint, and it's far from heroic when he contemplates the mistakes he made and its inability to escape his adventure in Alaska.
I like TypeScript's (stage-3) approach to feature adoption.
I thought the berries just weakened him rather than killed him outright. In his weakened state he was unable to go forage for food and due to his malnourished state (especially lack of fats) could have died from the cold just as easy. I need to re-read the book though it has been a long time, I really enjoyed it and I remember having a feeling of understanding and agreeing with his way of life thanks to problems I had at the time with major depression. I remember I even planned to leave everything behind and go and head to Alaska to try and see what he saw before I probably died myself.
Ok, what's interesting about it?
My claim is that the realities of our climate are harder than political realities. Changing people's minds is a necessary part of a solution, so if we can't do that then there is no hope at all.
People seem to interpret it a few different ways. The idea of "checking out of society" really appeals to some and he's heroic for doing it. Fight Club has a similar, almost cultish, following.
It seems that only `when` and `->`is the new syntax, no? The arrow seems something that could be replaced with `=>`, but anyway, neither seems to be very restrictive with regards to future syntax. (After all they are only defined in a `case` context, so the can be reused for whatever future purpose outside.)

Plus it's a stage1 proposal, meaning it's far from serious.

Could you link the type annotation proposal, I can't find it.
Except you dont put yourself recklessly in danger on purpose for fun relying on rescue infrastructure meant for accidents. Being reckless is not an accident nor should it be an emergency.

I dont really see a difference to Everest tourism, where people push beyond their limits to reach the top hoping that someone will get them down again. And then there is an outcry when they cant be helped, like the media spectacle around David Sharp. He went up there without oxygen and people saw him dying right on the track unable to get him down.

If you value your life so little its your choice, but please consider what that does to people who have to leave you begging or getting them to gamble their own life to save you.
Is there actually a decent alternative to JS for front end stuff? Another part of the solution to this language turning into the blob monster from the end of Akira surely has to be making those with an interest in the language's success less complacent.

I mean, why argue for _not_ having a standard library?
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I'm getting serious "Building Dropbox is trivial with with curlftpfs, SVN and CVS"[0] vibes from this thread.

Sure, all it provides is already technically possible with what exists - but what if the 10% they shave off turns out to be the crucial 10% that carve out a completely new area in programming? Maybe having a fully integrated development experience actually is the "retrospectively obvious" missing thing...

That said, their exclusivity-first approach whose first step essentially is full and complete vendor lock-in makes me skeptical too. I personally don't think they'll be too successful, as the model they're proposing is both uninviting to newcomers and fraught with sustainability perils for any serious long-term project. And that's just from a business perspective, I can't overstate how important I consider open technologies to be.

But I can't get rid of the "future of programming" tingling, which a few people here have alluded to as well. The "open-decentralized-interoperable" bazaar and the "monolithic-integrated" cathedral conflict is as old as time. And while zero-friction infrastructure is a nice selling point, I'm personally more interested in what's allowed by having the language, editor, and apparently the entire ecosystem be developed hand-in-hand from the first step - a lot of fancier features (smart code completion, thorough static analysis, code exploration, automatic diagramming, proper e2e testing) is hard specifically because it needs to built on top of what already exists.

Having a garden with walls this high might actually bring a lot of surprises.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
That's not a bad idea.

I'd be concerned about being accused of/blocked for crypto-jacking. That said, I'd like to see a proof-of-work based captcha that donates any earnings to charity as cryptocurrency.

I came across hashcash.io before, previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7944540

Alternatively I could write something dead simple from scratch that looks for sha collisions to burn a few cycles. Would this be less dubious?
Whether a load is fulfilled from L1, L2, L3 or main memory is a dynamic property of the program and very hard to predict statically.

Aliasing is also a dynamic property, but read ahead hardware should be able to handle it (but failure might stall the whole pipeline).

Saying that Mill doing is fine might be tiny bit optimistic seening that the whole thing is still vaporware. Do they have a working compiler now?
What's the point of pattern matching? Why not just a switch statement?
It seems likely that were the accused to be convicted, a fine will be part of the sentencing, and Capital One may opt to pursue separate civil legal remedy against the convicted person to seek damages given their cost is stated as being >$100M. Unclear to me if this somehow isn’t allowed under U.S. law because the federal prosecution may be where it all gets determined, and a civil case may be “double punishment”?

So after coming out of prison and finding a job, which is likely to be hard for a felon, and may not be highly paid, what wages they make will be garnished to pay the criminal/civil financial judgements.

For most people who’ve worked in technology, the potential punishment here would qualify as “destroying your life”. Enormous impact.
You realize that the European powers of 17th and 18th centuries "exploited" the Americas to include the U.S and yet here stands the U.S head and shoulders above these "exploiters".
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Numbers about Ethiopia's forest cover vary greatly, I see 4% in the year 2000 mentioned on Wikipedia, I see 14% in 2018 mentioned in this Bloomberg article and I see some numbers in between in a 2015 paper by Abraha Hatsey http://wiki.awf.forst.uni-goettingen.de/wiki/images/e/e9/6_3...

I wonder why the numbers are varying so wildly.
This actually makes sense, thank you for actually reading the Wikipedia page rather than just searching for a quote :)

It doesn't really contradict this article, but there were a number of articles a couple of years ago about how Europeans had Neanderthal DNA that other ethnicities didn't share. In reality all modern humans are descended from the exact same Neanderthals, but Europeans still retain more of their genes.
Helicopter rides aren’t that expensive. Uber Copter offers rides starting at like $200.

Also, if you want something safe, you can pay for it. If you don’t want to pay, accept the consequences. Nothing wrong with giving people choices.
> Only a few prefer liberty, the majority seek nothing more than fair masters.

- Sallust, Roman historian and politician
That seems like a great way to waste your own time accomplishing nothing.
> * content that is uploaded by users who are not within the jurisdiction of the united states

Really? And how do you think that works out for the millions of content creators in Europe, Asia, Australasia, Africa and South America?
people still had sense of community then, because there were challenges that needed cooperation from everyone. In areas of the world where this still holds true, often there is still more care for each-other.
I saw a demo of the test board on video and the touch interface latency was very high. is it the hardware or the software? has it improved? It was quite frustratingly slow by the looks of it.
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Different products/teams can move at different speeds if they target a specific market. For example, for internal apps teams can expect that browsers are up-to-date, or that even only a specific browser will ever run the app. Also, people who write JS for back-end (eg node.js) or an embedded engine can control the environment their code runs in, and can use more up-to-date features.

It’s similar to all the new tweaks and elements in HTML or DOM. If you’re working on Wikipedia, you will likely never get to use them. But if you work on a more niche app, they become quite useful. Over time, old browsers die out, and the amount of people who can use new features expands; early adopters do the testing for the late majority.
Fast charge is DC, they wouldn't use an inverter. Theoretically if the semi can handle it and the voltage were the same they could connect the semi pack directly to the megapack battery to charge. It would only get you to 80% charge but it would be simple to implement.
Why would it? None of these demographics would be able to interact with online advertising either, and that's what today's web is all about.
Over represented minority. Asian people, mostly from Hopkins. Along with white people, they disproportionately live in the few “nice” neighborhoods; they either don’t have kids yet or can afford to avoid the awful public school system; they don’t get randomly harassed by police.
And don't forget the recycled Red Scare neo-McCarthyism they are currently using to overturn an election. Between the twits on the left and the twits on the right, we're doomed.
> "A lot of effort has been put by individuals to promote new ideas. Many of those innovators get nothing out of their effort but the fame of their library. The TC39 would gain the power to render an existing effort mute and thereby ruining a life's work. What do you intend to do to prevent private agendas resulting into half-baked and/or derivative solutions that might do more harm to the ecosystem than good?"

I don't want to swear on HN, so I'll just say .. wow. So there are elements of the community who want to keep the deficiencies there so they can get micro-fame for filling them? People want to feel important by maintaining left-pad?

(also I think they meant moot rather than mute, but hey; also, this is software, we don't really respect idea precedence and any work may be rendered moot by the work of others at almost any time as technology shifts.)
This was definitely it, thanks.
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Most of visitors coming there are young, saving pennies for the trip, they won't pay for anything except food. The better idea would be to relocate this damned bus closer to habitable area.
I'm pretty sure that's because they are hard to program for.

Although automatic compilers and instruction schedulers for VLIW machines exist, they aren't nearly as good as hand-tuning. VLIW machines have a niche where a fairly small amount of code is both very arithmetic-intensive, predictable, and executed in a power-sensitive environment.

In HPC and most business workloads, you just can't dedicate the labor required to making your code work well on them.
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I dig it too, but you could previously flatten an array with concat, and the spread operator. [].concat(...array)

Lodash wasn't necessary.
Sure. Write a desktop app with something like JavaFX or Qt.
We believe people tend to opt for the less complex solution over time. This evolution happens slowly and may upset many people but in the end, simplicity wins. Caching, SQL, Load Balancers didn't exist a few decades ago and now we spend months of our limited time trying to tame the cloud machine.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a lover of (complex) systems, but not everybody needs them/can maintain them.

Edit: couple => few
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> none of the data was actually resold or used...

Yet.
When people drive, we expect them to have a certain level of competence and for their car to be in good working order - there are unavoidable risks to driving, but society expects people to take reasonable steps to mitigate those risks. It's the same principle if you're going into the wilderness. Going into the back country without the right training and equipment is just stupid and selfish.
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> part from a few diehards flashing custom ROMs to SNES cartridges, I'd expect almost everyone playing it is doing so through an emulator, so this should be easy.

But, which emulator?

People play SNES games on Windows PC's, Macs, Android phones, Raspberry Pi's, 3DS's, etc etc. And the emulators in use have shifted: ZSNES was the emulator of choice a decade ago, but using that today would be ill-advised.

Coincidentally, there exist some old translation patches that were only ever tested against ZSNES as opposed to real hardware. Playing them today is a PITA.

There was an Ask HN some time back that asked "How would you write software to last 100 years?" My answer—which I very much stand by—was: "Target the NES".
There are two times of the day to catch software engineers: the start and end of the day. Usually at the start of the day we haven't gotten our minds into "programming mode" yet. By the end of the day, mental fatigue is setting in.

The team I joined - 4 developers and 1 manager - goes for a coffee walk in the morning. The manager waits for us to go through email and other communication that came in overnight. Then we walk to a nearby coffee shop. On the walk, we discuss issues and what we intend to accomplish for the day. It takes about 20 minutes.

Occasionally, we take a walk at the end of the day as well to discuss issues. When the manager calls for an end of day walk he senses our energy is low.

As I get older, I like routines in the morning. They help me get my mind in gear. We go for the coffee walk. When we get back I might read a short technical article. Then it's time to get stuff done.
Excise the part you made up and simply say Defense industrial complex pollutes town then pretends they didn't and you have an accurate assessment of what happened.
Because all three of those are, at the core, the very same thing? Whether removing, adding, or modifying, you're changing the contents of the HTML/CSS.

Whether it should be done in a more finely grained way, not sure, but if you have the permissions to modify then by definition you have the permission to remove or add content.
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I don't know how well it scales, but trees perspire and also provide shade and root systems that keep groundwater from leeching out of the soil. They may not survive, but the ones that do I imagine will help as long as they're of the right varieties.

An example would be olive trees, but hey there's a whole wikipedia article about it that definitely knows more than me:

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

"Trees store water, raise water from underlying aquifers, reduce evaporation after a rain, attract animals (and thereby fertility through feces), and they can cause more rain to fall (by temperature reduction and other effects), if the planted area is large enough."
> I followed my mentor’s advice and started to check-in at least every half day with each pair of engineers I was working with

Yeeeeah... did you get the memo about those TPS reports?