skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building damns have a huge impact and there have been many fights over them as in Alta [1]. They also have a large CO2 cost [2] when being built as it requires massive amounts of concrete.

However they are now built and there is still plenty of capacity so there have been no new major ones built for a long time.

There are some smaller privately owned ones being built but not on a big scale.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_concre...
Alternative headline: AI-powered cameras become new tool for mass surveillance
> fingerprints: because if the system fails, you have no gun.

That problem too can be addressed through statistics. How often does a fingerprint sensor fail really? Note that the system could be made to err on the safe side. And could a different technology like Apple's faceId provide a solution perhaps?

> A central database with who has what gun at what time? I'm against it.

Could you explain why?
It's profitable is you remove management, R&D, supercharger and sales costs. Which is like saying that Uber is profitable if it's not for driver compensations.
There's no need to do conversions. Just look at the WLTP ranges on Tesla's European sites. Here's the Irish version of the site for the Model 3:

https://www.tesla.com/en_IE/model3/design?redirect=no#batter...
yeah except now when you're hired into fullstack job youre expected to operate or at least understand various cloud services and other components
There is something about these lists that just doesnt work. They absolutely dont help for me. I have thought they do at many times in my life but reading one again I’m like, ”what?”. This isnt even remotely actionable for me, its just some mad random philosophical collection. It LOOKS good but it lacks something very fundamental. I wish I could see exactly what it is thats missing. I have kind of found what that is now in my own life, if just barely, but I’m not clear enough about it to verbalise it even for myself. Maybe when I can completely see it I can write a blog post of my own :)

I would say this list would not have helped the author at all in accomplishing whatever it is that he has. I may be wrong but I have really tried to believe it :)
Chickens and eggs?

Perhaps in an ideal world, pushing demand for electrical power is how we would get to investing in clean electricity generation.
Because they’re too busy counting their money. We’re the lackeys of the mighty and powerful and when the “common people” sometime try to react to the visible power imbalances some of us feel the need to obey and defend our masters. Source: me, a desilusioned programmer approaching my 40s
In this case you know because Epstein already had a criminal conviction and MIT had already blacklisted him as a donor.
Everyone knows that Norwegians are insane so this trend will not last and most importantly, will not generalize to other markets
"Consumers seem to believe that products cannot become more sustainable without becoming more expensive."

This unfortunately prevalent belief is extremely destructive. If people believe it must cost money to be environmentally friendly, then they will not be motivated to look for profit from actions that have a net positive impact on the environment. And that means the entire motivation to make money, which drives business and most of the economy, is largely absent from the range of serious problems we label as "environmental".

Luckily some people (like the ones in this article) see through this myth to find profit from this collective blind spot.
I think that when mentioning the effect of Haskell on other languages, things beyond rust deserve to be pointed out.

Modern C++ has sum-types and 'optional' types.

Python has lazy evaluation (generators).

Java-script really likes higher order functions (reduce, map, etc).
The pictured sharp calculator made me rage at the state of modern desktop calculators in most OS’s. The other day I needed atan (inverse tan) and found the built in windows/osx calculators do not support this function. Google for web calculator, nothing. In the end I hacked up a quick c based program. A 40 year old calculator with a 4004 or 6502 CPU can do more than default desktop applications.

Removing features can eliminate a customer or two.
> In the summer of 2015, as the Media Lab determined how to spend the funds it had received with Epstein’s help, Cohen informed lab staff that Epstein would be coming for a visit. The financier would meet with faculty members, apparently to allow him to give input on projects and to entice him to contribute further.

Meeting with researchers and giving input into their work is “special donor benefit”.
> Only Java (begin the down vote without arguments) has good enough non-blocking IO and memory model for networked concurrency to be workable on the server side

I think you should post some sources or more detailed arguments if you are going to make that claim.
His blog post: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/
QM comes from a time where computers weren't powerful enough. It's a non-local theory that's helpful to calculate by hand.
With the advancement of computers, they stumbled upon ways of calculating the same results faster in a different way.
It was deemed too dangerous. So they figured a way to backdoor the science.

Come on, it's not that hard of a campfire story to understand, burning-man was last week and area 51 raid is very soon, you gotta step up your game...
Tala Moana, exile!

Very interesting to see a GGG answer here! I admit to being very curious about the Path of Exile architecture, and your answer has barely whet my appetite. I have some questions that might give me better clarity over architecture if you are up for answering them:
1. How is data replicated across regions? And how is trade across regions handled? Do the instance servers hand over character data to the account authority in the new region?
2. I remember speculation about some builds that caused extreme amounts of server side compute and slowed things down, was this compute performed on the instance servers? Like poison/chain/monster damage calculations?
3. Is there any sort of automated detection of inconsistent game states done by the instance servers? Duping protections or some such?
4. What is the scaling plan like at GGG? Does the system have obvious bottlenecks that are known or is it easy to scale for the near future?
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> Medical and legal are not having hype cycles that need to be kept up with in this way.

Medical and legal professions both have strong centralized authority. In the medical field, it's the professional organizations, in legal it's the judges, for architects there are safety and standards organizations. Software development doesn't have any such central authority, and the entire profession is also heavily influenced by biased business interests. So there's definitely a lot more BS and hype that floats around in software development.

That said, just because it's harder to keep up and filter the real from the BS in software development, doesn't give you a pass to ignore it.
Non-linguists tend to grossly underestimate the number of languages and diversity in regions of the earth. Because "language" is a political construct, it also depends a bit on how you count. According to official classification there are actually around 447 languages spoken in India by native speakers from the region. Of these, 122 are spoken by 10,000 people or more, and of these 22 are official languages.

Source: I'm trained as a general linguist, but are not specialized in ethno- and sociolinguistics. Check out https://www.ethnologue.com for more information.
Because they can't bring their dad's gun to school.

Also zoning technology could prevent people from using guns at schools.
you can get to it by https://juliaacademy.com/
But still: a VW (or for that matter any other car than a Tesla) will not have one thing that makes Tesla unique: software. Even discarding the fact that Tesla has probably the most data worldwide to train self-driving AI and way more experience in building fully-electric cars, no one comes remotely close to what Tesla can do. Modern non-Tesla still are sold with "map updates" ffs, and something like "remote software update" is totally unheard of.

Tesla's strength is software and extreme agility in software development. The other car manufacturers are prevented by their sheer size and corporate infighting culture to catch up and they will be for years to come.
I skimmed the article and closed it when I saw the Scientific Calculator being shown as an example of complexity. Most people would stop using it if a "UX Designer" tried to simplify it.

Not everything is a todo list app with rounded corners.
Organic farming is primarily about producing products better rather than producing better products.
Thanks for reporting. JuliaAcademy is back up again.
no that's non sense. R&D is a huge fixed upfront cost while Uber's drivers are an ongoing cost that scales linearly. Just like Intel (huge upfront cost to design chips) VS Victoria's Secret , the former has unlimited upside, the latter doesn't and cost scales linearly.
What’s there left to coerce in an 88 year old who had been pretty happy to take photo shoots with Epstein before and whom the same Epstein had in his pocket based on the potential financial donations alone? All I’m saying is that Minsky’s influence was at that point behind him.
The nice thing of functional languages is the establishment of invariants. A large part of that lies in purity / isolated side-effects. However, much of it comes from the type system.

When ported to 'imperative' languages, those factors from the type system help establish invariant given that people don't use all the footguns. Whilst it is sad there are still footguns that can ruin your invariants, getting better types helps you move away from the footguns. Moreover, it is much harder to export purity to different languages than it is to export good type systems.

And really, the good thing that is being taken over is 'make it easier to reason about correctness through invariants'.
Not to mention that even if some features(or buttons) are unnecessarily removed it's often the wrong ones, and all that's left is a nonfunctional mess.
One of the most extreme examples I encountered was the OneDrive app preinstalled on Windows 8 which had basically no options at all, no features except clicking on files to open them, and couldn't even show how much storage was still available.

Minimalism just for the sake of it doesn't end well.
First google result for "windows calculator atan": https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/3kb0n1/how_to_do...
Contra your first paragraph, isn't your second paragraph ultimately saying that MWI has won over Copenhagen as the more useful theory?
Which is why I said gross margin. And isn’t the point that traditional manufacturers like BMW are also going to have to invest in similar levels of R&D, superchargers, and sales cost? Except they’re 10 years behind.
"Less features make my job easier, so please have less features" - UX designers reluctant to solve the problem they were hired to solve

Well, duh. Developers can relate, short programs are exponentially easier to write well than large ones. That's the challenge.

> Think about the most successful products you know. The ones you use everyday, as a customer. Twitter, Lyft, Venmo, Slack.

I wouldn't think of these products and I don't use them every day.

I would think of very complex applications with an incredible amount of features that I'll mostly never use. However, this large surface area overlaps with what I need. There is no "more focused" app that does the job.

I would also think of the top software companies - Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM. None of these companies are known for their "simple and focused" applications. Quite the contrary.

Sure, if you have a little app that's just a frontend for one thing, keep the focus. Otherwise, keep in mind that "it doesn't do the one thing we need" is generally a deal-breaker, whereas "it does one-hundred things we don't need" is not. Everyone's needs are slightly different and critical mass is important.
I agree that no fly lists are a bit much, but I’m 100% in favor of red flag laws.

RE: red flag laws, I don’t see them rising to the level of thought crime. For example, I do not think it is unreasonable to use a legal process involving a judge to take away guns (either temporarily or permanently) from unstable people who are making thinly veiled threats. Society should have that right, and I for one fully support it.

Equating mass shootings to basically the “well, terrorism is so rare you’re more likely to get crushed by your TV” scare tactic argument isn’t really fair. I’m sorry, 283* mass shootings in one year in one country is absolutely insane. It’s not a scare tactic, this is quite literally a mass shooting crisis.

Short of national background checks, assault weapons bans and a whole host of other common sense things that Republicans and the NRA will never let happen in the US, I think red flag laws involving a judge are worth giving a try.

This new trend on HN of hammering red flag laws is really hard to understand. These laws are not oppressive overreach. They are common sense, reasonable approaches to dealing with the greatest domestic threat we actually have.

*https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mass-shootings-2019-more-mass-s...
It's not significant.
I hope you didn't miss the overall message for one poorly articulated example, then. Because there was an informative point put forth.
We all have to make decisions on complex products with very limited data and understanding. Words like "organic" are just a heuristic. It is maybe better than nothing.
I think the scientific calculator could be an example of this principle on its own. It's often far more useful for a mathematician than struggling with the calculator app on a phone or booting up a clunky laptop.

Ultimately I think the principle is flawed. The amount of features isn't an issue but rather whether each and every feature works well and adds to the value of the product. Eg. a scientific calculator would be an awful fit for a todo list application.
The FBI has statistics on "defensive gun use", reporting that it happens over 250,000 times per year.

How many of those incidents are someone with a gun shooting at someone else who also has a gun? If guns were banned neither person would have a gun, so the defensive shooting might not be necessary.
> Non-linguists tend to grossly underestimate the number of languages and diversity in regions of the earth.

True, but old-school linguists tend to revel in this diversity, whereas more modern linguists try to find commonalities between these very diverse languages.

I remember auditing a linguistics class in college largely because I was interested in NLP. Sadly, I got the old-school professors who were more interested in students memorizing hundreds of variants of sounds than understanding the links between them. I dropped the course. Maybe if I stuck around long enough they would get to more global insights, but I was turned off by their entire approach.
love glide apps.

Workflow is broken if

1) created a user
2) add to home screen
3) cannot login with previously created user :(

didnt know that glide now has an authentication feature, cool for them :)
MIT research finds statewide health savings from cleaner air exceed policy costs
at electronic arts the ancillary stuff like matchmaking, stats etc is C# microservices stuff in AWS.
Great products do what is relevant, but better. Tools should be as simple as they can but stop there.

E.g. Despite my background in design I find Bulk Rename Utility UX - regarding its market target - really effective even if it's ugly.

https://www.bulkrenameutility.co.uk/assets/img-bru/mainscr.p...
No, you're referring to very broad language families. See my other post or www.ethnologue.com for accurate information.

It's a bit of a tricky business, because what counts as a language is often also determined by political decisions. Mutual comprehensibility is not a reliable criterion. However, modern linguistics uses pretty good sets of "soft" criteria for the classifications.
It does make sense, the issue at hand is how it's done: by checking for the CPU vendor / product line rather than asking the CPU if it has the operations we want.
Turning the iPhone calculator sideways reveals a scientific calc layout, including tanh

Unfortunately feature bloat on a simple device often results in making things no longer easily discoverable. (I'm looking at you, force touch.)
My country (Cyprus) is not yet supported by Stripe. Is Stripe Capital restricted to countries that are not yet supported? How does this work?
This is the new flavor of scare tactic.

I'm British, and I find it really weird that Americans apparently live in abject terror of the world around them. The notion that anyone in Britain would ever need a deadly weapon to defend themselves is completely alien here. We just ... don't.
> It’s what’s necessary to move away from carbon.

You hear that a lot and yet the second someone poses the hypothetical question of whether everything should be taxed according to its actual “carbon lifecycle”# (and perhaps even beyond carbon) you usually get a “weelll... buuuuttt...”.

#That [whatever] that came on the most polluting cargo ship humans could build? Add $xxx to the price tag.
> they seem cherry-picked to highlight disparate aspects of Haskell

I only said that the article was unbalanced and provided some counter examples. I didn't say that Haskell does not have many good uses.
It's likely true in their own bubble of small business apps on Product Hunt where performance is mostly measured in time savings and the simplification of processes.

But this doesn't hold for more creative applications that are more like games, where the time spend doing a task is time that is regarded as time well spend, where there is value in developing your own workflow and explorations.
>“Why don’t you go live in Sweden and get the heck out of our country,” Mr. Blue wrote.” I will continue to roll coal anytime I feel like and fog your stupid eco-cars.”

Good grace. Maybe the Soviets did have a point with reeducation camps. Sarcasm aside, we as societies desperately need to come up with ways to cope with such people. Being as dense as rocks isn't criminal, but harming others as a result of that should be severely punished (and same goes for antivaxxers and abstinence-only ideology).
Reversible micro-B is also a thing, I recently bought such cable.
Fascinating chemical. Looks like you can buy it around a lot of places now-a-days. Did you notice any benefits from a nootropic standpoint?
The key is better education. Without this, all we others do to try and save the world climate from extinguishing human life is made moot.
> You can run the server within your own cloud

For me there is a tradeoff. On one hand, Bitwarden's online offering where you trust them with your data is convenient, but also a single point of failure. If their server goes offline, you can't access your passwords (And servers do go down). On the other hand you can repair your own instance if it goes down and have full control over it. The only caveat with self-hosting being the overhead. Regular non-techie people just don't have the time or intellectual curiosity to experiment with self-hosting. For me personally I just sync a Keepass database with Dropbox and call it a day.
Are you sure? I haven’t seen a windows calculator that didn’t have that feature since before I learned trig. Were you using the scientific calculator layout and the shift/2nd key?
Looks like a quite different car market. The first 3-row SUV is the Mitsubishi Outlander in 6th place. The market looks like mostly compact sedans and compact/subcompact SUVs. There is a lack of pickups and mid/large SUVs.

From other sources, it appears that the VW Transporter/Caravelle and the VW Caddy both sell in volumes that would put them in the middle of the list. So there may be a difference in how light vehicles are classified between the US and Norway. https://www.statista.com/statistics/731767/number-of-sold-va...
Sure it does. Anyone can write a blog post about why you should do X, and then they write another blog post 5 years later about "Boy was I an idiot for suggesting X, do Y instead!"
The first sentence is absolutely true. And frankly, unsurprising to anyone who has been around the magazine industry for longer than a week or two.

As they used to say of computer magazines in their heyday, “Everything in the magazine is an advertisement, some of which are labeled as such.”

Paul Graham wrote an essay about PR in this site’s early days called “The Submarine,” where he credited PR for the success of his own startup that he sold to Yahoo.

PR is part of the game, and recognizing it as such is part of the game.

BUt with respect to your second sentence, just because it’s PR doesn’t necessarily mean it is false or misleading. That assumption would be an ad hominem fallacy.

A PR piece planted in Jalopnik isn’t that much different than an interview with the CEO. You know the CEO is stating their company’s official position, but you may still want to hear their point of view.

I 100% agree it is useful to make sure that everyone reading this be aware that it is mostly ghost-written by VW Group. But once you are aware of that, it is still useful to read it and debate amongst ourselves whether their claims are reasonable and informative.

Personally, I thought the article did a good job of explaining that they were repeating VW’s claims. It did not feel like they were pretending to print the views of a so-called “independent think tank.️“

JM2C.
> a VW will not have one thing that makes Tesla unique: software

The ID.3 is supposed to have a large augmented reality heads up display which can do things like overlay sat nav indicators on the view of the road ahead. It sounds interesting. That's something I want to see more detail of at the official launch.

Volkswagen has a partnership with Ford and has invested $2.6 billion in Argo: https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/vw-investment-vaults-...

Volkswagen is doing other things like joining Automotive Grade Linux: https://www.automotivelinux.org/announcements/2019/04/08/vol...

They're investing big in all aspects of electric cars. I think they're across the issues.
There might have been, but not a very original one at that. Why waste your time on an article written by someone who doesn't grasp the material fully?
Is there another 'reason' they fly so high(predator avoidance, optimum energy usage, etc), apart from what the article mentions about the Himalayas shooting up under their migration route?
A brilliant article, also something that is posted nearly every other day on HN https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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The article is aimed at designers.
Both Mac and window have scientific mode.

https://support.apple.com/guide/calculator/welcome/mac

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4039496/windows-10-...

There is also bc, that macos should have by default. https://www.gnu.org/software/bc/