skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean I think most of us are much happier with the Second Avenue Subway existing at too high a cost than not existing, and I think we primarily blame government for dragging their feet, there's no evidence they were ready to build it at a normal cost but prudently pushing back on greedy unions.
If I were a We engineer, I would leave the company immediately after learning that the CEO ripped off millions of dollars from his very own company. I just can't see how that level of greed can help build a successful company.
There is no energy storage gap. The same storage systems that coal and gas fired plants utilize (pumped hydro dams, flywheels, molten salt batteries, etc.) are right there and available for use.

Anyone saying the storage of energy is a problem has not looked at what traditional power generation plants use for power storage after generation.
> If phone makers really work out any potential accidental touch issue

Doesn’t seem very likely. Maybe if you keep your phone in a purse or wallet, and you’re not very active. I can’t leave the ‘touch screen to wake’ setting on with my phone because it is always trying to butt dial emergency numbers.
The inspiration in particular is this demo, if you want to see how it's all working. - https://codepen.io/jakealbaugh/pen/PwLXXP
The content of the article?
Speedrunners thank you for reusing objects! I'm certain that decisions like this are what lead to interesting teleportation techniques and item duplications. Games wouldn't be the same without these fun Easter eggs!
Making change will be a neat trick, though.
So interesting.but cooling and toilet are major problem
Thanks for sharing your experience. It is interesting to me that it took 18 months. I was expecting a longer time.

In future years we'll probably hear more similar stories from other NoSQL databases and maybe even SQL databases. Who knows.
Scala 3 Is Coming
You’re not wrong per se, but the polyvinyl fabric roof or wall on a yurt can be replaced in a matter of hours for a relatively reasonable price. If you have to do that every 15 years, I think you’re doing pretty well.
The student loans are.
China, Russia and possibly Korea (which army is far larger than Japan's) come to mind. While Japan still does have 100+ million people the population is going to shrink and those who live there are getting older and older. The low birth rate will make it hard for Japan to maintain a standing army, the ageing population also makes it harder to maintain a reserve force.
I used to be in a very similar situation but have spent even more years of C coding and PCB design, working for multiple companies. I originally studied electronics. I decided however to move to server software development, web, UIs. Java, Python, Perl, JS and never looked back. Much better tooling, higher productivity, double salary and more fun.
You're merely ignoring all the content and asking how someone could even dream of asking about sustainability when it's so profitable to proceed right now with the status quo.

I've heard this line before. We don't have the luxury of picking and choosing our problems anymore.
Why didn't they call it Rython
I don't think C is as bad as you're making it out to be. It's a small language. There are some quirks, but I don't think it's any worse than c++. You can even easily become a standard zealot (just look any c forum).

Rewriting software sucks. We usually don't like solving the same problem more than once.
This would actually be closer to the realities in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale up to Palm Beach (Mara Lago), than the Keys. Most of the people in the Keys are not heavily politically active and have moved here to fall of the face of the earth or where born here. A decent amount of waterfront property is still family owned and used in family businesses such as shrimp, lobster or stone crab operations.

Funny enough, waterfront property in the keys is rather affordable when compared to other areas of Florida.
what is the default using when I'm using my desktop? My Wifi SSID and creepy pre-sharing to databases that I did inadvertently?
And I think the God of the bible explicitly agrees with you on both causality and that he doesn't balance those equations

(Sorry for long quote on escaping understanding) “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise ... Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him ... God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him --

And I think its fair to say there are many quotes that would also agree with you on 'escaping causality' and God being outside of what we can judge

Which I would agree is not an equation giving us space to understand/evaluate or even really act upon!!

So I support your search for an alternative to things as described

The ray of light providing a twist on viewpoint no1 (in my opinion) is that God is also quoted at as saying he reveals himself, explains himself, and even makes himself accountable and submits to the decisions of people who seek him

I.e. Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “Yahweh, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness, maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations

This and other quotes I hope are suggestive that God gives himself causality and interacts in a way we can evaluate?

Which if so, I think provides an alternative viewpoint
I started meditating when I was a young teen, and am 40 now. I go through periods where I don't do it as much, but I've been off and on meditating for quite awhile. Not so much 'mindfulness' meditation as has become the trend lately, but more of the 'empty of everything' style where you count breaths, etc. Fairly similar in results though it seems. Same avoiding of engaging with random thoughts that float by, which was probably the biggest thing I got out of it. Especially when I am stressed, it can become very difficult to sleep as my mind just won't shut down. Meditation helps with that.

I don't know if it is meditation or more my studying of philosophy (both in college and on my own time) that has led to my ability to control my emotions better. I would also say my emotions are ephemeral, but that's really because I understand them better. When they are justified, and helpful, I can nurture them and encourage them and indulge in them just fine. And if they're not, usually I can let them pass. There are exceptions, of course, for deep-seated things that I need more repeated attempts at suppression to change. Emotions are essentially a trained response, after all. Even if you intellectually know they're nonsensical, it has to be retrained.
And domain story telling is like a constrained form of Chekland's rich pictures (which had some good ideas along with a chunk of cruft).
As you liked that, consider "Twenty-First-Century Jet: The Making and Marketing of the Boeing 777" by Karl Sabbagh. I believe there is also a video series from PBS. The 777 development program might have been Boeing's technical apotheosis.
How would someone contact you?
Is that the question? Is that written somewhere? Or is the question, what will lead me (elected representative) to achieve my personal ambitions of, for example, being re-elected or landing a high paying job in the private sector?
Society pays for those who won't work? Nice promo material!
Of course. That’s why I said this is reasonable policy. Bailouts shouldn’t be a four letter word when done properly.
At least if you're rich...
Don't you guys have families over there? How do you raise your children if you enjoy those crazy hours? Even 40 is too much, I actually want to see, enjoy and teach my children while they grow up. Time goes by incredibly fast.
This is excellent! Perfect execution. Street View even has a night filter applied.

We'll include it in The Orbital Index (https://orbitalindex.com) next week.
Thanks. I sometimes miss those cues and don't know if I should take things at face value.
> they are not getting worse or more frequent

NOAA data indicates otherwise:

* https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/images/Atlantic_Storm_Count.j...

* https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/

* https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/climo/images/AtlanticStormTotalsTab...
You are making my case. Where is the problem with capacity factor? You still havent provided a shred of evidence.
I love how people just claim things without the shred of evidence of their claims. Again less than 1% of worlds energy, if thats your definition of a lot well...
All of those compiler families have separate C and C++ compilers.
They’re saying to use g++ to compile your .c’s instead of gcc.
Strongly trimmed linux kernel + minimal userspace based on klibc will certainly fit on 1.44MB. The dash (x86) built with klibc occupies something with <50kB in memory, below 100kB on disk.

I recommend reviewing this thread.
https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/ms...
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Ask HN: What is this website doing?
There is a fake google recaptcha button. You click it, it opens a window that quickly closes. Is this some form of new tracking?

https://www.beyondmeat.com/products/
Really great talk [0] from RailsConf about some lessons learned from Three Mile Island. Has stuck with me.

0: https://youtu.be/YBRiffheLXE
There are plenty of fossil fuels available. Far too much. If we burn it all, or even a decent fraction of it all, we’ll wreck the world. We must leave the vast majority of it in the ground.

We’d be much better off if, in fact, we were running out.
Is there a word for cloud billing anxiety yet?

I had an AWS account I wasn't using, but I didn't want to get surprised by any bills, so I set an alert to let me know when the bill was more than $0.

Sometime later the alert went off, so I anxiously jumped into AWS to see what kind of disaster was happening, and found that I got billed a few cents... for the alert itself.

I closed it altogether after that. It's better for my sanity to just use a new email address and sign up again than to worry about surprise bills.

EDIT: It's entirely possible that I set it up wrong, or set up the wrong thing, but in any case an alert was all I was trying to do, and as far as I could tell that's what happened. I must admit I rage-quit rather than investigate too deeply.
You can still get it here.

http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html

Demo video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VlI6IBEJ0
I'm talking about choosing when and what to think, to not be a victim to your default settings. The rest follows by itself.
Economic news about recessions are garbage. It's just a mean reverting process.
Who controls government?
Why Do Donuts (Almost) Disappear at Faculty Meetings?
This being HN, I interpreted the headline as an entertainment startup named Talking, doing some innovative crossover of literal fictional universes in new works of art.
I don't know, he seems extremely productive to me. A lot of the time he spends in the debugger is more of him trying to figure out exactly what is happening with an api or memory usage rather than trying to figure out something he coded "wrong".
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> Sentences like "about two weeks after the system’s unthinkable stupidity drove the two-month-old plane and all 189 people on it to a horrific death" should raise alarm bells in any reader's mind.

Yes, exactly: that's the point. Yes, a lot of technical detail is left out, but the average lay person doesn't care about the technical detail. They just want the bottom line. And as someone who has spent quite a bit of time digging into the technical details, I have a hard time quarreling with the language this author chose to describe the bottom line. This is not a case of "well, it's complicated". This really is a simple case at bottom: an unthinkably stupid system, a product of a frighteningly common managerial and corporate outlook, killed everyone on board two airplanes. And the author wants that to raise alarm bells in every reader's mind--so that maybe those readers will start wondering whether letting such a system continue unrestrained is a good idea.
Have you tried the "Send Feedback" link on the bottom of the page? That's probably a more direct way to contact them, compared to posting a screenshot on HN.
The massive natural gas boom has increased US methane emissions. Given methane’s vastly increased greenhouse potency (albeit for a shorter time) it may be possible that the big switch we are seeing to gas isn’t actually an improvement. I’d like to see something that takes these methane emissions of the fracking, extraction, shipping, storing into account when comparing natural gas to coal.
funny how your are referring a technically government job and conflating it with corporate jobs. completely different set of politics involved.
what is great is that the notion of engineers being above unionization is a ruse that has been clearly put to bed.
also it is not yours or mine concern as to whether or not corporations are operating efficiently.
Amazon sells both. I have no use for either and think "fits on a floppy disk" is not a very useful metaphor anymore but Amazon still sells them.
The current situation means that one or more entities are in desperate need for funding and will pay any price for it.
A similar situation happened in 2013 when China's Banking system was on the verge of collapse. The repo rate reached 20% before the Central Bank of China intervened to calm down the market.
How is this different from codeanywhere ?
Nuclear had some horrendous accidents before TMI. It’s just that they were military facilities, so it got hushed up. TMI was far from the first, it was just the first that didn’t get the cover of “national security” thrown over it. Look up Windscale, Kyshtym, and SL-1 for some prominent examples.

We can certainly do much better today, though.
When I was done :) this took a while to figure out too. You can always go "deeper" but what I've experienced are "thresholds" or "steps". Once I felt I "graduated" to a point, it felt like a nice place to marinate for a while (knowing fully well that it was one plateau of many), and would take a whole lot more effort (lack of effort?) to get further. By that time I'd have cleared out enough junk to get me through the day. I really don't know that I'm using the right terms here (and they definitely vary by tradition), but in my reading (again, nothing serious, lots of wikipedia and a few books on different modalities) these thresholds are described as different "states of absorption". I don't know if it is actually what I was experiencing, but descriptions the first/second jhana states seemed very apt at the time (when I was researching/testing this out for myself). (In traditional Jnana yoga there are 7 or 8 states, the highest ones are brushing on the nirvana state). (I can't stress how much I'm butchering this, I am but a student!)
This is very cool application of technology. I have always wanted to see the ISS but did not know where to look in the sky. The Google Street View integration tells me exactly where to look.
>My original family homestead is still standing and was built in the 1700's, it has seen many storms some worse that Irma and Dorean.

That is so epic dude. Can you tell me more about it? Where is it, what kind of place is it? How much is original?
> This is nonsense. You're arguing that being a punching bag is the only valid moral course.

The points you're arguing against are ones I never made, so I will not go to any effort to defend or disavow them. I get the impression you're making no effort to find sense in what I'm saying, and looking for an excuse to call it "nonsense". I don't appreciate that and I won't keep it going.
Posted 3 other times! (5 years oil, 4 years ago, 3 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8149110

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10581266

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13123913
What's HN favorite guide get started with meditation?
I'd rather the PR statement be added to the discussion, even if not all readers trust it.
Life happens. To be honest I have a good amount of time these days. It's more about scheduling it (and sticking to it), at least at first. I don't think it would take me 4 months to get back to the level I was at (I've accumulated a few tools in my proverbial bag of tricks along the way)
I had never considered a "data-centric" approach to be anti OOP but from the article:

> I am not an OOP convert. I've spent most of my professional life working with classes and objects, but the more time I spend, the less I understand why you'd want to combine code and data so rigidly. I want to handle data as data and write the code that best fits a particular situation.

I've come around to the idea much more that data should be the privileged structure and code should be considered transformations of the data. In some sense, code should be light and interchangeable and let the data is the first class citizen.

Are OOP and "data-centric" approaches at odds with each other? Does OOP only have validity when the data is relatively "small" and can be abstracted away easily?
You can, quite literally, find someone from a university in the social sciences who say anything that you want.

The practice of inserting quotes from random "experts" in news stories is one of the worst journalistic practices out there. It's fundamentally dishonest in very obvious ways, and forms the basis of many articles.
according to the charts you linked to Hurricanes and Major Hurricanes (the only ones a person really needs to worry about) look pretty steady to me.

It is well know that storm seasons peak and trough, on a roughly 10 year cycle. I remember the old timers telling me that long before meteorology could predict the weekly weather with any form of accuracy. We peaked in 2005 and hit bottom in 13 we are close to a peak again. I got hit by 4 hurricanes in 2005, it was a freak anomaly and I assume I will never see that again in my lifetime.

Take named storms out of the equation, we literally drive around in those things. The north gets worse storms when they get their noreasters. They are of little to no concern other than they have the possibility to develop.
I have actually worked on a system where malloc() was forbidden. In fact it always returned null. Buffers were all statically allocated and stack usage was kept to a minimum (it was only a few kB anyways).

The software was shipped with a memory map file so you know exactly what each memory address is used for. A lot of test procedures involved reading and writing at specific memory locations.

It was for avionics BTW. As you may have guessed, it was certified code with hard real time constraints. Exceeding the cycle time is equivalent to a crash, causing the watchdog to trigger a reset.
and you also won't be able to predict the timings of complex code as various "uncore" and on-core resource limitations bite
Or RytOn ;-)
I’ve heard anti union rhetoric several times a year for 15 or so years and I don’t even watch the news.
Thanks for the heads up. Our AWS costs were definitely up almost 30% for this month! Checking billing details...
The balance sheet of the Fed will. The coin is just a loophole, but the impact on the economy would be the same as actual cash.
No, he might have standing. If there jurisdiction requires that incorrectly priced items be sold at the marked price then he will. If they are like most places where the seller cannot be held to sell at an incorrect price then he does not.

Since we don't know which is the case saying for sure the he has standing is misleading. The information we have now is, "but I want to more sir". Compelling items to be sold isn't a common thing. Sellers can choose to decline sales.

He would have a far better case if the situation was that the offer to sell was withdrawn after they found out it's intended use. That does not seem to be what happened here. It was a simple pricing mistake.
yeah, 2013: http://acko.net/blog/zero-to-sixty-in-one-second/

just absolutely blew my mind as well

this talk by the same author is also great: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkx1aKv2z8o
> Objective-C doesn’t meet his mentioned goal of portability

Clang implements it, last I checked, meaning that it should be (at least in theory) portable to every platform Clang supports, no?
If It Works, This Will Be the First Rocket Launched from Mars
Dorian was the most powerful hurricane recorded in the history of the Bahamas, and the worst natural disaster in the country's history.

Last year, Hurricane Harvey caused catastrophic "500-year" floods in Texas. Just this past week, remnants of tropical depression Imelda dropped unbelievable amounts of rain along the Texas Gulf Coast - more than 40 inches in some areas.

As these types of extremes become more frequent, you need to ask yourself if this stuff is just what is on the schedule, or if things are getting worse.
Good question. Codeanywhere is more like a remote IDE that let you connect to an existing development environment. Imperius spins up the development environment of your team in one click from cloud. You can use any tool including Codeanywhere to connect to Imperius and start coding :)
Two of these are not like the others - are the ports (I count Galveston and South Louisiana as part of their nearby bigger cities) just going to be allowed to vanish?
DAU Project
So then you’re mapping to whatever data structure your app uses instead of objects. In OOP languages like Python, everything is some type of object anyway.
Are you aware that costs of everything can vary wildly between major cities?
I have had management opportunities where i was managing 4-8 person projects and I absolutely didn't enjoy it, most of the time i felt like i could do a better job, and i sucked at giving back criticism. and the main reason was i just couldn't go to work for a day where i could just sit in peace, put on headphones and lose my self coding im always distracted by people and assigning tasks.

I think part of my current motivation to move away might be my lack of ambition and outlook for what i want to do future career wise, im still relatively young with only 5 years of experience. Money is nice, but it's never been the main issue for me. I do find myself feeling jealous of my friends who are full stack developers because their jobs always drive them into new technologies, whereas i spent the last 3 weeks writing a driver for an SPI flash controller.

Thanks for the pointers though, you might be right, there might be other factors that are driving me into this thought process that i need to reflect on.
I visited South Carolina for a wedding and we had a house on the ocean. Every house was on stilts. I asked locals and they said that it was so the houses survived storm season. One also said that they still get obliterated every 20 years or so but you just budget that in.

20 year rebuilds turning into 1 year rebuilds is what I think first world "climate exodus" looks like.

Yes, they know the location is pretty bad. But the numbers had worked for that ocean side Vista. They won't anymore.
Here's the easy question: can you do manual GC in a GC'd environment? Yes, of course you can.

Here's the harder question: how hard is it to do manual GC in a GC'd environment vs. a non-GC'd environment?

"Environment" is the key word here. Because if you're writing in a GC'd environment, there's a good chance that existing code - third party, first party, wherever it comes from - assumes that it can heap allocate objects and discard them without too much thought.

So for small scale optimizations where you own it all, it can work out fine. But if that optimization needs to bust through an abstraction layer, all of a sudden the accounting structure of the whole program has changed, and the optimization has turned into a major surgical operation.
Nice! Didn't realise I was no2 for this week. Awesome job!
Otherwise known as NIH in steroids.