skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ecstatica [1] is another game contemporary to LBA, and coincidentally quite similar to AitD, that was similarly fascinating and weird/different-feeling. It's an early 3D game uses a unique game engine that renders everything as ellipsoids. You'd think it must be French -- it has that inscrutable feel of some French games -- but it was in fact British.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstatica
If we're talking about highways, you can usually find large stretches of empty space immediately alongside them, at least the same width as the road itself.
Your intuition is wrong. The opposite of a consistently wrong strategy is also likely another consistently losing strategy. Your intuition is not taking friction into account, i.e. trading fees.
Scott Adams of Dilbert? He is not credible in any way.
That is exactly what is being discussed, sorry if my harsh words hurt your feels...

I cut through the BS, and careful "Politically Correct" phrasing to boil the point down to its logical ends

Shielding this around a conversation claiming you only want to end "fake news" and "hate speech" is saying you want to silence those with incorrect thoughts.

Further Comrade is a proper pronoun for people that subscribe to such an ideology, an ideology authoritarian dystopian speech controls used to punish, silence, "re-educate" people that dare to speak in a manner not approved authoritarian left ideology
You know you kind of described how trains work? :)

I just did a quick calculation for Poland - we have 11k km electrified train tracks, with ~1.5m of space between the rails. If I calculated correctly, putting solar panels there would give us ~8-15tWh energy per year, which is 5-10% of the required electricity production for the nation.

I've never been a fan of the idea of solar roads, but solar railways might actually make sense...
With all the special characters in source code and attempts at a terse syntax for array-ish operations, it looks like Perl is trying to become APL. But statements like

return unique flat small-divisors, big-divisors;

are ambiguous even to a human, because '-' is usually used for subtraction, but I guess Perl's parser somehow manages to disambiguate (between a single variable named 'small-divisors', and the subtraction of 'small' and 'divisor')?
In the United States, very few reservoirs are exclusively for water supplies. Most large-scale reservoirs I've been to (probably 50 or 60 from Lake Mead[1] to Woodcliff Lake[2]) are also used for recreational boating, fishing, and wildlife habitat.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mead

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcliff_Lake_Reservoir
Nothing as recent as 50k years, but there's this...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/04/are-we-sure-there-wa...

I consider it kind of a thought experiment that shows us how little we really know about the extreme distant past. Our planet tens or hundreds of millions of years ago is as faint and remote as distant stars light years away.
The advantage that people wanted to get is that in the end you also get a road.

Roads take up space, cost money to build and maintain. If you build it next to the road the road need twice the amount of space and still require the space, construction and material for the actually road. If you build it above the road you get all the issue of overhead roof on a road (trees that fall on it, wind, height limitation).

In addition to saving money by not actually building a normal road, the idea in most of solar roads projects is that it combines the work of putting internet and power cables into the ground.

That it currently do not work economically is the issue that the article showcase. Maybe it will never work and it always will be cheaper to simply build the road with current construction methods, put internet/power cables under it, buy large lands (farming land?) and construct regular solar parks.

Other concept of combining solar panels and building materials that is argued as more cost effective are roofs on houses. Same concept as solar road, ie that you get a roof and a solar panel in one without spending the work and material for both, but I have no idea if the economics is better than solar parks or if it is cheaper to just build normal roofs and go the route of getting land and building solar parks separately.
>If you seriously believe that rising carbon levels constitute a catastrophic (or even existential) threat, then you should be open to these approaches.

My feeling is that a lot of environmentalists see climate change on the same way that fundamentalists see sexually transmitted diseases: as God (or nature’s) punishment for our immoral ways. Thus the solution is always change your behavior and stop doing the things that you like to do( for example have sex or live in too big of a house or eat meat or have too many kids). I think a lot of environmentalists would be disappointed if we could come up with a technical solution to global warming that allowed us to continue our lifestyle pretty much unchanged, just like a lot of fundamentalists were disappointed that condoms, antibiotics, and birth control allowed people to have sex without a lot of the consequences they had been warning people about.
Pleistocene Park seems like great idea, but unfortunately they do not have plans to use it for meat production, which could dramatically increase the speed of conversion of the tundra to grassland, and save the tropical forests.

And this seems to be the problem with other suggestions too, they are not ambitious enough!

At this level of CO2, reducing it is not a very pressing goal to most of the people.

But there is another issue: weather is bad over most of the earth without any climate change, and fixing it would provide immediate benefits to larger number of people, and fix climate change as a side effect, because if we can restore the deserts to a moderately green state, their biosphere would consume all of the CO2 that we have released so far.

A very promising way to build weather controlling machine is building large number of autonomous hot air balloons, which can be used to change the local temperature in several ways: if covered with reflective material they can create shadow;
if covered with dark material they can significantly increase the temperature above the cloud potentially dispersing the cloud; if combined into a structure similar to a solar updraft tower, they can transport dust and humidity to the height where they would not be transported by natural winds and by that either condensate the water or create new clouds.

With a large enough number of devices like this it should be possible to guide humid air to deserts, or to prevent hurricanes by removing convective available potential energy on their path.

And unlike sunshade in the space proposals, these would not require huge effort by the whole planet to become useful, for instance relatively small installations, affordable to the local population, can be used to create more sunny days in Amsterdam, or more clouds in Dubai.
I would have bought some in a heartbeat if it was available in Tokyo. I'd suggest adding a list of ingredients for intolerances and allergies, but this already looks like a very appealing product.

Best of luck!
Right? There are so many other good places with less issues, why pick the road-bed?
It's not absolutely great. All those pension funds that are going to support decidedly unwealthy retirees (teachers, police, other public servants) are going to be in dire straits. And if those blow up, it's going to be a pretty big problem for those unwealthy people, and a political problem for everyone else.

And it's not just wealthy people who worry about the national debt, I think that's a pretty big concern for anyone who gives half a shit about social safety nets.

And how do real yields correlate at all with Medicare For All and infra spending? If anything, higher real yields make it harder for the government to balance its budget as debt servicing costs rise.

I'm really confused.
Learn more at https://landing.google.com/sre/workbook/chapters/eliminating...
Not really. Bromide and chlorine are okay for humans to consume. Sunlight turns these into to bromate which is a carcinogen.

https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-s-really-going-on-w...
Study finds three typical emotional stages of digital-free travel
Great! The fat is coming from the vegetable oil used in the curry. If you have other specific questions about ingredients, feel free to email me at soham@pashi.com
In that image, the storefronts are still clearly identified with names and logos.
How do they provide those enormous number of cores (80000) ? Are they talking about distributed computing ? If not, how do they connect all the cores to remaining peripherals.
Just because building mature software takes a long time, doesn't mean the market or a company can't move in another direction in the meantime.

Photoshop is an example of a product that still maintains its market fit after decades, and why folks complain about alternatives.
A lot of those are not GUI toolkits.
One of the issue is that Google is not neutral to these results: the bot went out its way to index these pages, give exposure, and if any single person posting these videos can’t be found and sued to force them to remove it completely it will stay online forever.

In other words the asymmetry between posting something online and having it removed is exacerbated by Google exposing any copies of the information that could otherwise get lost in some random site.

Wouldn’t it be fair for Google to also provide decent support the to remove content from its index ?

From the article Google is doing some effort, just clearly not enough.

> Google’s policies dictate only two instances when they will remove content — child pornography and copyright-infringement requests.

> The current policy says Google may remove nude or sexually explicit images that were shared without consent, but the company maintains sole discretion about when to remove nonconsensual pornography.
Stanford builds a heat shield just 10 atoms thick to protect electronic devices
I fantasize about American cities doing this. Ads don't make Times Square attractive. They make it wretched. I'd love to see the transformation like the London's pictured in the article.

> the city would not only lose revenue from absent ads

The money would have mostly come from residents, with a bunch of it going to the advertisers, who advertise to increase profits, away from the city. I would see the city gain money.

I've seen plenty of billboards for soda and junk food, rarely if ever for broccoli. I imagine the change improved people's health and local farmers' lives.
This is sometimes the case. Other times renting the last few units brings in significant cash flow as it increases the NOI disproportionately to leasing the initial units. For example you’re probably not hiring more custodial staff and you’re probably able to make draws from your debt as you’ve increased property value by being fully stabilized
Just a manual copy-paste mistake
D has templates
Yours is an excellent piece. A bit of grounding context would still improve it.

Wabi sabi, as I know from previous exchanges.

Thank you all the same.
Here is a scam example of your anecdote that happened to a family member of mine, who was taken in for hours by "Police" in China (she speaks Mandarin).

They even spoofed the number of an actual police station and said, "Google the number on your caller ID to see we are legit". Obviously, call them back yourself.
Such solar farms are built fairly regularly. Examples: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-35705345, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/china-launches-lar....

Putting solar cells on top of (artificial) lakes not only decreases evaporation, but also cools the solar cells, making them more efficient.
Constantly getting 500 Errors here in the UK.
We do have plans to use automation to scale in the long-term. If you're curious about details, shoot me an email and I'd be happy to talk further.
I'm of two minds about what you're saying. On the one hand, it looked like a bold failure from the start. On the other hand, it put the idea of solar generation in "unorthodox" places into the minds of normal people and city planners alike. Solar roads aren't the way to go - but how many people, having heard about the project, encouraged their city to put up solar panels on all the light & phone poles? How many people have taken the enthusiasm from this project and looked to see where they could safely generate power from secondary sources in their own lives?

So it's a great idea, and it's also a massive and fairly obvious failure at the same time. The message to take away from this isn't just "solar roads were a bad idea". It's that "solar roads are a bad idea, but we should keep looking at other ways to safely generate the energy we need around roads and urban passages."
The problem is that you're under the impression that "consumption" is somehow less virtuous than "investment".

You mentioned China, but that's a perfect example of an economy that isn't driven by consumption. And they desperately want it to be. China is extremely reliant on exports and state-driven infrastructure spending. If there was actual domestic demand for everything they produce they'd be in a much better spot and that infrastructure would actually be utilized.
I hope nobody really believes Snapchat DRM is going to prevent their nudes appearing on a porn site. Just take a photo of the screen with another phone.

If anybody is suggesting that it makes sending nudes safe should also be held liable for extreme stupidity.
A reservoir is not a "lake", by definition.

Tell that to the Colorado River and its reservoirs Lake Mead, Lake Havasu, Lake Granby, and Lake Powell.
If that scenario ever comes to pass, I think the only thing it will push richer countries to do is to invade the third world country culpable and kill anyone poisoning the atmosphere. Problem solved, cheaply.
Charles Schwab is even better. Same deal, but no international fees period. I also have an interest bearing checking
account that pays way more than any brick and mortar bank.
Do not try to run database using bare kubernetes objects.
Try to see if some of the operators fit your need.
Lots of reservoirs or mining pits basically aren't suitable for life, and there are even more bodies of water that have areas that aren't. Sometimes that's because of pH or salt concentrations, but more often it's because they dry out seasonally, they're very low oxygen, etc. Many of those areas are large enough to get substantial power out of, and in the case of the seasonally dry reservoirs you might even be building a better ecosystem by reducing evaporative loss.
I would be willing to put a lot of money that the same application built on HTTP/JSON will be much much less error prone than the same app built on TCP sockets.

The tooling is better; debugging is easier; the interfaces are less finnicky; the transfer is less brittle; dealing with objects and documents is much easier conceptually than streams; very powerful performance optimizations and catching can just be turned on while being transparent to the app; crappy networking equipment won't ruin your day; corporate firewalls won't get in your way; encryption is basically drop-in with transparent tooling support.

In no way is HTTP/JSON the best protocol for every situation but thinking you can do better with something home grown on top of TCP is ignoring all the human effort that's gone into solving the problems with straight-tcp protocols. So yes any protocol that's had as much love put into it would probably be just as good but few things have.
Floating solar is doing well, with global capacity over 1GW (global installed PV capacity surpassed 500GW).

It's technically easier to put things on land if possible.
The distribution controls and market requirements are unfortunate, but if they are being imposed on you by a platform owner then it's that vendor's fault. Those app store agreements are absolutely loaded with commercial restrictions. Please don't pin the blame for this on copyleft licensing, when those vendors have explicitly decided they were against it long ago and would do everything they could to stop it including banning it from their platforms in an effort to destroy the commercial viability of what they view as competition.
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Not sure about CSV files, but every time I'm pasting numbers generated by Python or Java I had to use Notepad or Excel itself to replace dots to commas because of (Windows'!) regional settings.
They either overestimated the durability of their devices or were running a quasi scam.

I'm leaning toward scam, because if it can't handle leaves, it can't handle anything.
Plus, if you really want it Python has tons of hooks to make json.load return whatever sort of struct you want.
There’s a place in Berkeley called urban turbann, that fills the niche for Indian chipotle. Wish they would expand.
Only issue is, a bad dev can still make mistakes that compile and run but fail at the first hint of trouble.

A friend used to say, "every line of code you write, you make at least one, if not more decisions about the architecture of the program" and I totally agree. So I can still see a really good architect being betrayed by a below mediocre engineering team even if the architecture is sound.
No - Google should be liable if it enables repeat offenders to purchase ad-dollars and SEO their way up to the top. At that point, Google isn't an innocent by-stander, but enabler.

The article mentions a clear pattern, where the base URL stays the same, and small variations are employed to circumvent any legal actions, because Google refuses to acknowledge the "repeat offender" status of the base URL.
You can estimate your Japanese vocabulary size on this site.
https://www.arealme.com/japanese-vocabulary-size-test/ja/

Here are examples of native Japanese speakers. Usually we can achieve 20,000 easily. My result was 36,000 words.

http://burusoku-vip.com/archives/1798300.html
https://b.hatena.ne.jp/entry/s/www.arealme.com/japanese-voca...
Maybe the cyclists avoid the solar section. Remember, cycles are a lot less inherently stable than cars and provide much less protection in case of a crash, and glass is slippery. Even metal manhole covers get a little scary when wet.
I wish EDN would catch on. The simplicity of JSON with better number handling, a few more very useful data types like namespaced keywords and sets, arbitrarily complex keys, and an even terser, more readable syntax. [k v k v] beats [k: v, k: v] hands down, and you can use whitespace commas if you want them.

https://github.com/edn-format/edn
I'm under the impression that the main driver of long-term wealth is increases in productivity. Hence why "investment" in productive assets (including a well educated populace) is a larger driver of long-term wealth than "consumption".

They're reliant on exports and state-driven infrastructure spending because they're not yet wealthy, per capita. It's the stored wealth that allows a consumption-driven economy, not the other way around.
$12/portion is a ridiculous price. Around here you can go to the Indian buffet and eat yourself sick for less than $12.
It was "unprecedented" in 2016 mostly because it was kind of a sketchy idea.

I mean, the road will get car-exhaust-sediment on it, like any other road; and all sorts of mechanical trauma. Roads wear down, after all, one way or another. Why have panels on the roads? Is there no land available in France?
> I think people undervalue clean-looking (alphabet-only, few special character) things, things that don't require people to use the symbol-parsing part of their brain. Basically easily human-parseable things.

The symbol parsing part of the human brain is what parses letters and numbers, as well as other abstract symbols. The division of symbols into letters, numbers, and others is fairly arbitrary. Most people would say “&”, but the modern name of that symbol is a smoothing over of the way it was recited when it was considered part of the alphabet and recited with it.

> I suspect this phenomenon can be observed in the case of relative popularity of JSON, TOML, YAML and Python plus the relative unpopularity of Lisp, Haskell, Rust, XML.

I suspect not: Lisp and Haskell have less use of non-alphanumeric characters than most more-popular general purpose languages, and not significantly more than Python; also, if this was the phenomenon in play, popularity would be TOML > YAML > JSON but in reality it's closer to the reverse.
You're on the correct track here.

My 5 min of reading the article and thinking about it idea is thus:

A slanted roof angled to shade and water/snow protect the road, shedding runoff in to a gravel area beside the road with drainage considerations accounted for. The far side might have some sort of attached tarp over part of it, and there'd be a gap between top of said tarp and the bottom of the panel roof. That would promote heat-stack ventilation along the underside of the panels and thus also SOME cooling.
> Usually within 2-3 years one has to throw away most of the code as it was written in an obscure, low adoption language, or it is just so difficult to maintain that new features can't be added.

So you've never worked in good code, that's all. Most of the world runs on software evolved over greater than 10 years. Everything you said is wrong, because you've been surfing trendy crap that businesses mostly ignore. Good architects don't use immature languages that might not be around in 10 years, they're smarter than that.
> Now if I'm China, and I'm looking at what Russia just did in the last presidential election, I'm thinking, let's just buy ourselves a pro-China candidate here in 2020. And I think our system is still vulnerable.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_United_States_campaign_...
I can, Regus. They’ve been around forever, this business model is not novel.

But the lack of examples doesn’t support the argument the way you think it does.

That means it’s very much an open question if this model could ever be successful. Unlike chain food/beverage which is a highly proven business model.
I don't know how they do it in Poland, but in some countries when you flush a toilet on a passenger train going above a certain speed, the nasty stuff just evacuates to the space between the tracks.
Janet Yellen says yield curve inversion may be false recession signal
There are not 1000s of Bukowskis out there in my experience. Some artists are undeniable and they don't have problems becoming famous. For example I've seen a lot of really good musicians in crappy venues. I've also seen musicians of the same caliber who are famous.

But I've never seen a great musician in a crappy venue. And when I see a world class musician it is undeniable that they are great.

In my experience there are 1000s of writers not quite as good as Bukowski and some of them will make it but very few. When a truly great writer comes along I believe the hard part is actually writing the great literature and not finding a publisher.
I think this sort of setup is frequently found in HPC systems with lots of compute nodes. Tons of software installed into a NFS share, so the nodes can be reimaged easily with no breakage of user software (ideally).

Our /soft mount is at 200 GB for a small group after 8 years operating.
https://www.theepochtimes.com

Read it and judge for yourself
I have Apple Music and like the New Fire playlist.
Sure, and above the road, and on the tops of buildings, and all over the place. Solar roads are a bizarre idea. The only point I was making in my post is that if all roads generated electricity they wouldn't need to be very efficient, so using that argument against solar roads is flawed logic.
In Perl there is a framework called Mojolicious that has an OpenAPI plugin that does not use a code generator.
I find it extremely elegant as it uses annotations in the spec to route the endpoints to the desired controller method.
We often need several dialects of our API, and now we can just deploy the same code, but with an altered spec. Very little overhead.