skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
112 gallons a day is not a lot. We have exactly this and our water bill is $25/month in the SF Bay Area. Our SERVICE CHARGE just to have water is about $30/month whether we use water or not.

Lawn care is the most expensive part, that can be hundreds of dollars a month, depending on how much water you use.

When I lived in Vancouver, BC, our house had a flat water rate of $40/month. My parents would use water until the cows came home, would leave the faucet running while walking around the house, etc. When they came to visit here, I made sure they broke themselves of that habit very very quickly.
Cool, I'm gonna flag all your propagandistic bullshit comments.
Concrete in general can fail from simply being mixed poorly, which the slump and strength tests used on each batch are meant to address. But also additives can sometimes be added to concrete, which in some cases react with surfaces/chemicals over time and cause all sorts of problems.

For reinforced concrete failures, see here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforced_concrete#Common_fai... https://www.usbr.gov/ssle/damsafety/risk/BestPractices/Chapt... By the time there's spalling the reinforcement is already rusted and breaking up the concrete. Of course you can say "Oh but we know all that now, so just design it right and you're good!" Sure. Unless you make a mistake, in which case you won't know it until the structure is crumbling. And remember, "it's a monolith", so good luck with those repairs.

I'm not saying CLT is better - but let's not kid ourselves, reinforced concrete isn't perfect. It's just cheap, strong, and easy to install.
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I think because of you can still get long sequences of 1's or 0's depending on which bytes are next to each other. http://www.reverse-engineering.info/CD/EFM_Table.html
/r/classicwow too. Just saw this post and let me start to cancel my account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/dez4yc/breaking...
Do you test your water for impurities and chemicals?
Hi guys,

I'm the maker behind epiphany.pub, a crossover of Jupyter notebook and Medium.com.

This is an example of implementing a simplified video compressor using it. Every code block is editable. The edit button is at the bottom right corner.

Looking forward to your feedback.
I think the main issue is that the choice of the words "privilege" or "right", when used by enough people, has the power to set societal expectations. Why should a privilege ever be extended to more people, the people who have them should just consider themselves lucky they aren't taken away.

And I think there are plenty of things that are "privileges", but it's based on the idea that it is impossible to extend it to everyone. Being admitted to a top school is impossible to extend to everyone by the definition of a top school. Being believed in a court of law when it's just your word over someone else's, but being more trusted because you belong to a particular group is a privilege. Being let off with a warning at a traffic stop because you have the right face is a privilege. Living in the "good" part of town is a privilege.

Surviving a traffic stop without being shot by the cop should not be called a privilege. Being able to receive a competent education should not be called a privilege. These are things that can be extended to everyone and the words should reflect it, so that it's clear which things we should be fighting for, vs the things that are impossible for everyone to have.
That's not what playing devil's advocate means in the slightest.
also FYI, with zero maintenance requirement Agile approach will not work. Throw anything agile out of the door, you need a strict top to bottom waterfall with set requirements.

Another argument that Agile can not be a hammer for every nail. Common sense with project management and architecture is extremely important.
"I feel the list of useful for commands should be much shorter ..."

My own list contains:

ssh user@rsync.net "git clone git://github.com/LabAdvComp/UDR.git github/udr"

... which is how I make my own copy (in the cloud) of (what I consider to be) important packages that I want my own archive of.
>Actually, we already are to some extent with trans individuals. While most groups that support LGB also include the T, there are a few who do not and take offensive.

That isn't the comparison being made.
The idea is interesting, but everyone is a caricature of their role (marketing people have no morals, programmers are clueless about business). I guess there may be some "intentional" hyperbole but overall it's a badly written but interesting idea.
Seemed like a clear implication. Boycotts and cancel culture travel together at times but they are themselves orthogonal.
The (single? childless?) people you know, and yourself, can certainly choose how to spend your time, and nobody is saying otherwise.

I know plenty of people who spend every waking moment outside of work with family and friends, and a side project would mean choosing other things over those personal relationships.

Which, again, you can choose to do. I'm with the GP, though: I've done side projects, and even had one turn into something I sold, but for now I choose to spend time with my friends and family. Any TV I watch, I watch with my family. Any games I play, I play with them. Camping and hiking, I do with them or with friends. Weekend trips I take with them.
Now that I've actually read it rather than starting with the comments, as we're all prone to do, I think it's an interesting little piece of fiction that reminds me of two things.

One is the Monty Python weaponised joke sketch: the premise of the sketch is that the joke is so funny that anyone who reads or hears it promptly dies from laughter, so it is carefully divided into pieces and translated into German for use as a weapon.

The other is the Dreyfuss affair, and its notorious ability to fragment French society for years.
People are weird... don't take it personally and focus on the crowd that appreciates your writing!
Your view appears to reject the study of history as a valid means of inquiry.

I may assert that the US Civil War was due to slavery, and point to, for example, documents at the time which say that slavery was the reason for succession. Eg, https://portside.org/2013-11-04/absolute-proof-civil-war-was... .

But then you reply with "we don't know - and can't know - anything about counter-factuals." Who knows - perhaps the South would have succeeded anyway even if there hadn't been slavery.

I may assert that the Manhattan Project was a result of Einstein and Szilárd's letter to Roosevelt. You can reply with the same quote. Maybe someone else besides the most famous physicist in the world would have written a similar letter, and started the effort. You might be right, but the existing causal chain is pretty clear.

And so on, and so on, and so on.

Is there any description of likely historical causation which you cannot respond to with a claim that it's "a lot of speculation with little or nothing to support it"?
Forget it, HN is no place for facts or anything from the real world. If you want upvotes, post something wishy washy positive about web development or space. There's always Apple, too.
I don't see how its acceptable to use coercion to enforce an opinion of "duties that trump free speech rights" that don't involve force, fraud, or defamation.
It’s never a good sign to need to split hairs over which caliber atrocity is being committed. That being said, separating children from families is genocide according to the Rome statute, so this pretty high up on the list.
Why revolutionary technologies will drive African prosperity
No goalposts were moved by me. In this thread, the only thing I've been saying from the very start is that the majority of these ADA lawsuits are shakedowns and the UC-Berkely case is just one more datapoint. I provided an article with detailed analysis of the practice as well.

At the same time, all you've been doing is disingenuous interpretations of my posts and dismissing other reports as "biased", while not providing a single datapoint yourself.
"GASP! How dare you say blind people are not interested in paintings! The horror and the arrogance!"
Sure, there are blind people buying paintings and interested in art. How does that invalidate anything of what I said? The point is not that there are literally zero blind people buying paintings, the point is that they are very very far from the target audience and hence it's not worth investing a significant effort to cater to those people. People from Africa are not my target market either and I make zero effort to make sure the site is accessible there. Am I now a racist too?

> For the record, I think it's fine for someone to sue UC-Berkeley and other private businesses for not following the law.

Are you fine with a frivolous suit against UC-Berkeley too? Because it is possible that lawsuit is frivolous and UC-Berkeley is breaking the law. In fact that's exactly what's happened - UC-Berkeley is in technical violation of a botched law, they got threatened with a frivolous lawsuit and decided to just remove the free content. As a result everyone loses but I hope the ADA defenders are happy.
- Have all binary dependencies part of the repo

- Never upgrade

- Cloudflare for SSL
> Although I agree that visuals are the most important part of the movie, I don't think that there is any necessity to try to eliminate the importance of sound.

I think most great movies are (perhaps surprisingly) very watchable without sound. That might have been a better way to phrase my original comment.
Sorry, I can only speak for myself.
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Maybe bad parenting results in a massive (mental) health crisis?
It seems like he used the word “maybe” there.
> If we're going to repeat the same cycle with Vietnam and India, we'd do well to encourage democracy this go-around.

I don't think the idea is to introduce democracy, because it's cheaper if the people making our consumer goods had less rights. It was like that with the original banana republics, and it's like that now. Sure we the people may want democracy and we may elect people who want to spread democracy (like Obama or Merkel bringing up the topic of human rights in talks with China) but corporations run the world. And we the people prefer having cheap phones and clothes rather than pay the "made in a democratic country" tax.

You bring up climate change, well, maybe the Chinese government was wondering if they could keep up their oppression, but maybe they also think, "well, just 30 more years, and the world's going to end after that anyway."
> What a strange lack of curiosity. Framing the conversation of controversy around an anecdotal one involving someone arguing against someone else's right to exist seems like missing the forest for a very specific tree, and in a way, that's sorta the point of the whole story.

The story mentions Kavanaugh, and coincidentally today the Supreme Court happens to be hearing one such existential case: whether it's legal for employers to fire their employees for being gay or trans.

I guess there's a certain sense of curiosity that's satisfied by debates about issues like this. But I imagine that the people entertained by it aren't the ones who have a stake in the outcome. If you're gay, you don't want to have to endlessly convince people that you shouldn't be fired for just being yourself. You just want to be able to exist in society like everyone else.
Singapur's market is hugh. Amazon did a big deal.
Is China a more profitable market than the US? It's worrying that US companies are willing to go this far for foreign profit.
> Half-assing something in Unix can produce great results as long you chose the right half of the ass.

That is a great quote!
> Are you saying that I am a hypocrite for liking the contents of some speech but not others

Not OP, but I believe they are talking about objecting to censorship ostensibly because of freedom of speech, and then not objecting to other censorship.

If you don't believe in freedom of speech then there is no issue, if you do, you can object to the content of someone's speech, but not their right to express it. That is, if you care about not being a hypocrite.
Right, general politics is not really in the wheelhouse for HN, but these two specific cases encroached on tech, which is why they got much more attention. Other acts of technological censorship from China also often reach the front page. I don't think there's anything nefarious, it's that those other topics aren't really relevant to HN.
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21179153
The NRA has clearly converted to an arm Republican Party.

The GOA competes with the NRA because they find the NRA more pro-Republican than pro-gun

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

I'm not sure if there is a gun organization that promotes more nuanced theory of partially-limited gun rights but not just shilling for a party.
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I love command lines, but if you are reducing this to a minimum you can replace the top line with

git gui
> All the stable democratic countries are much richer than China.

They had a substantial headstart, China is really only about two decades into this, and they're just getting warmed up. If things continue more or less along the same path, and I see little to expect otherwise (China only gets stronger, it's citizens more allegiant) Let's see where they are 10, 20 years from now. Especially now that they are actively exploiting one of the West's biggest Achilles heels: our unique combination of greed + the sense of individual freedom + corporate control of the economy. China is demonstrating how easily they can control Western corporations, and in turn individual people. What percentage of the American public works for a corporation with interests in China? This control may not be that sophisticated yet, but give them some time.

And what plausible recourse do we have?

- Government sanctions? The trade abuses were far more obvious than this, and look what a shitstorm of half-informed but hyper-emotional arguing that turned into.

- Corporations recognizing they are strategically putting themselves into a situation that threatens their long term existence, or, thinking beyond a 5 year window? It seems unlikely.

- Western society collectively recognizing there is a genuine existential threat and banding together to do something about it? We can't even get people on forums to even remotely agree, so seems unlikely.

It's going to take time, but my hunch is this capability will be a big part of China's eventual checkmate on the West. And all executed within a timeframe of < 50 years. History in the making.
Sort of agree, but I’ll add that the constraints need to be clearer too. I’m sure pro athletes have contracts that mention what they can and cannot say in the league TV interviews when it comes to political or commercial messages for example. This just had a vague catch all formulation.

Also: Blizzard should stand up for liberal democracy. It’s as simple as that. One can’t treat all political messages the same.
1. I used to work for Disney. There is no such thing as a non-competing project if your employer is involved in enough industries!

2. Please, calm down and don't rush to judgement. You'll be better for it.
The Singularity = Nerd Rapture 1.0

Super-intelligent AI = Nerd Rapture 2.0

I'm a lot less worried about Artificial Intelligence than I am about Artificial Stupidity.
The reason we constrain the government the way we do is that Blitzchung is still perfectly free to go on his own blog, or out in the street, or to any media network willing to broadcast him and share his view, and the FBI won't lock him up.

It's a key distinction, and yes, the media still has the liberty to not broadcast is views (because the same liberty that lets them refrain from repeating "I support Hong Kong protesters" lets them refrain from repeating all manner of "Death to all X").

Is that gameable in a multinational world where some media companies are cross-oceanic superpowers? Sure. There are other media outlets that aren't that.

It's possible the solution to these speech issues is to aggressively enforce antitrust.
I grew up in rural Bavaria. I have vivid memories of the view from my rooms window to the dozens of farms and hundreds of cows directly outside. And of one cow getting loose in the middle of the night, chasing down my mother in our garden and ramming through the terrace door.

I've never considered the possibility of someone never ever having seen a damn cow.
New social community for artist and animators:D
You're making the argument that pro-China activists have more to fear in their online presence than Hong Kong activists? Could you point to some data that backs this up, because it overwhelmingly appears to be the opposite.
We're definitely in the crazy years. A conversation about a Chinese crackdown on freedom, a country that literally throws minorities in jail for being minorities, devolves into a squabble over people in the US not feeling entitled to express their opinions, even though the letter of the law, every single politician, billions in private funding amongst corporations, banks and non-profits, does everything possible to ensure people feel entitled to express their opinion.
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Yeah that's a common theme on reddit sadly the website has kind of gone to shit in general.
That is a commonly overstated and misunderstood term.
I love how a single episode of a show can piss off the government of a country. Just recently Saudi Arabia banned an episode of "Patriot Act" and now this. Tyrants are really sensitive I guess.
People generally only care about things they care about. I know far more hearthstone players than anything related to Hong Kong.
That one is more likely a case of "islands are not part of a country, because disconnected components are hard", like the US "lower 48"
What, a piece of crappy legislation that would allow corporations to sue sovereign states? That is not going to help this problem in our culture.
Yes I agree. Revolution is not the way. That's how China for into the current mess. But I see no problem with assisting with regime change from within.
Exactly this.

I hope that what people see is that we've been in a cultural war with China for 20+ years. Now that the Chinese market is big enough, Western companies are dropping any standards they have to keep access to the market.

Individual companies are not going to fight this war.

I don't like Trump as much as anyone, but when Trump adds some tariff on Chinese goods everyone goes batshit insane in the US. The Chinese government almost every day shuts some company or product off from access to the Chinese market for not doing something they say. But until the Hong Kong protests, it seems like no one cared. I hope now that it's LITERALLY, blantantly, and obviously about freedoms and human rights -- it's enough to get people to care. China should lose access to the WTO if it forces any company anywhere (including in China) to censor anything in order to gain or keep access to its market. End of discussion.
The 3D version sure is cool but the 2D version would be much more usable.
I can't find those leaked transcripts anywhere
I love how you licensed it. I'm seeing a trend in how developers are being thoughtful about the licensing and how it will help monetize their efforts later. Excited to see how this goes.
Do you have multiple clients at the same time?

How many weeks do you have no client work? I guess you use it for networking/marketing, right?
> but catastrophic enough that all the plants on this list are destroyed or rendered unusable

All the fabs on your list are fairly modern, and it is easy to see how they would be impossible to maintain in a Tainter-style collapse.

I would be looking into what you can do with ~1 um processes, which are currently accessible to amateurs. E.g. designs like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11720289
Does anyone know how that fits into the picture?

Well, at least you left out the "legally required" part. The board most certainly has a responsibility to shareholders. It can be a long and tiring argument, but from my POV there is only "responsibility" not "fiduciary responsibility". Now, most of the time the shareholders want more money. But AFAICT, there is not a law on the books that says that the board must maximize profits above all else. For instance, and perhaps it's a poor example, but Costco says they will make 15% profit. That's it. You want more money, sell more stuff. Doesn't the board have a "fiduciary responsibility" to bump that to 16% if they can get away with it? Apparently not.
The thing that I always wonder is what isn't work providing you that you feel like you want to program outside of it? I find my job really challenging/rewarding and I basically can't program after work (though I work like 50+ hours)
> And today, post-modernism attempts to put forth the notion that all morality is simply cultural context and relative. Which, while perhaps strictly true, is, IMO, pointless.

Kind of self-contradictory: the statement "it's all relative" is itself an absolute statement.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativism#Criticisms
They do have 5x the population. Obviously not the same purchasing power, but it is quickly growing. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a very significant chunk of their revenue.
Maintenance means change. Any time something changes, you will need to update the application.

An application with zero maintenance means that it either has a very, very targeted function that doesn't change, or it isn't being used after a certain period of time.