skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You also get them when someone who is baking commercial quantities of bread in a batch has to scale their recipe down for a home baker who can't physically bake, let alone eat, that much. Bread recipes are designed to scale up and down, so at some point having 25% more of some ingredient could definitely make a difference.
Part of the reason for slow updates may be that new versions of Android really aren't bringing a lot of user-visible new features anymore. Android 10 brought dark mode (which is still only supported by a small subset of Android apps), but not much more that the end user can see. Are the users still "languishing" in Android Pie really clamoring for Android 10?
You are effectively saying oil drilling should be banned in America.

Gas is a natural byproduct of drilling, and currently it is the U.S. government preventing this byproduct from being used and exported due to pipeline bans. Gazprom--the Russian gas giant--has no such desire to set perfectly good resources on fire (literally), and has captured the European market because of it.

Edit: for those who have not quite made this connection yet, the "natural" in "natural gas" is because there's nothing you can actually do to prevent the gaseous mixture from escaping from the ground (due to depressurization) with liquefied oil drilling. It is just "naturally" there. If it can't be contained under pressure in a pipeline, it either has to be released or set on fire.
> cyborg devices

Uhhh....
tl;dr the kid hid in the attic instead of the basement, so they were actually unsure where he was, but it was still a hoax
> In France, the UK, Japan and the United States there are dumps of radioactive waste that are off-limits for the next couple of centuries.

I’m contrast, all the lead we’ve scattered around the soil is a problem forever. (Lead is an element. It does not decay. All forms are toxic to varying degrees.). Various polymer waste and other petroleum and coal waste are, as far as I know and until new bacteria evolve that can eat it, problems forever.

The fact that nuclear waste decays is a win.
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I feel this too.

As a kid, I could kinda understand how to go from programming in Basic to Pong or Space Invaders.

A kid these days has _so_ many more expectations if they're wondering how Fortnite works...

I had enough hubris as a 12/13 year old to write Space Invaders in ascii in Basic on an Osbourne2, and later to get a quite creditable imitation using sprites on an AppleII.

I wonder if kids these days look at computers and think "I could do that" about anything they care about?
Appears on the front page of the San Jose Mercury 7/15/14 as "Valley has a new whiz kid: Elizabeth Holmes may give Zuckerberg a run for his billions"
I think the rate of change has slowed somewhat in terms of big visible changes. Although 10 dramatically improved gesture navigation, afaik.
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What have been the most interesting WebAssembly demo/application so far?
Wait what? The original Pixel was updated to Android 10. That's three years of updates.
Farmville and Candy Crush were literally flash games. Also many genres like physics games were born from flash.

On Unity I agree. It's never going to have 50kb games that download and start instantly. It's also not particularly easy or good for working with 2D games. I've used both professionally.
I don't believe Colab is real-time live in the way that Google Docs is. I'm using it to teach a class and would love that kind of functionality, but unless I'm missing some option, when I make changes to the notebook, students who have it open don't see the changes immediately, only when they reload.
Aren't the UK windfarms sans-storage though? I thought they were reliant on offshore wind being a fairly consistent source.
> At the insistence of Doug McIlroy, the early Unix systems had on-line manual pages making the system much easier to learn and use.

I’m reminded of one of my favorite parts of the early UNIX story, the fact that adding the “BUGS” section to man pages was motivation to fix the bugs instead of documenting them. Shame is a powerful motivator.
Obviously most people and governments aren't going to agree to voluntarily lower living standards, regardless of the consequences. So we need to focus on what's actually achievable.
I keep a release TODO list and about 50% of every release, I fuck up and need to add something to the list. It's about 40 items long now (containing various terminal commands and activities), which includes making sure manual entries, documentation, the website, social media, dependencies, etc are handled correctly.
Not just NPM - the "web" is a diverse set of APIs with various peculiarities. It's not inviting to an artist with little to no programming experience (and even with the potential to learn). That was the advantage/disadvantage of flash - closed system, one (major) IDE, one language/standard library.
Software Development and the False Promise of Science
The ending got really dark, really quickly, but this is what I got out of it:

It's heavily implied that the writer thinks Mayumi was telling the truth in her written account, despite what she and Richard said when they called back: that Richard asked Falcon to hide in the basement, and when he wasn't down there, they were legitimately concerned that he could have actually been in the balloon.
Cigarette packets have graphic images of damage caused by smoking.

I think people would be upset if the equivalent were put for sugary drinks.
Amazing write-up. Do you mind sharing how much this costed you?
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https://web.archive.org/web/20191013235042/https://www.econo...
It keeps taking longer because we keep enabling the highly profitable fossil fuel extraction instead of making the singeing energy cuts and investments in other sources (renewables and nuclear) that we should have made decades ago.

Abrupt and large scale transitions will be an economic shock, bt will not 'crash the economy and kill off most of the population' as you aver. The climatological models are far, far more robust than the economic models we use, and suggesting that an abrupt transition away from fossil fuels is going to kill off most of the population is simple scaremongering. If you actually believe this, then I would like to gently suggest that You've Been Had.
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by 'minimalist', but Elm (elm-lang.org) seems really cool. I want to try it out on the next web app I make.
It's not. They have access to lawyers, but can they outspend the SEC or any other agency that wishes to participate? One of the best predictors of whether a lawsuit succeeds is money spent.
Question:
Why use this over Google colab?
It is very, very silly to suggest the Flash era was more creative than the YouTube/indie-game era.

In general, the Web is more commercialized now, so creative content doesn't always rise to the top, and there are incentives to be a low-quality content factory.

But there are thousands or millions of online videos (some, like Flash, are animated) and indie games on major platforms that are just as creative as the most experimental, interesting stuff on Newgrounds.
Product names matter. This needs a more catchy name. Maybe people here could suggest better names that are available.
What I'm doing is not "anyone with link can view", it's uploading the file in question to an SMB (or equivalent) share and sending the location of that. If the user in question doesn't have permissions for my department's share, they can't access it.
Imo, the fact that the world didn't put a huge dent in global warming by building lots of nuclear plants is one of the saddest "misses" of our recent history.

This I feel is due to irrational, emotional public opinion. Nuclear is the safest cleanest and most stable energy source we have so far but it's also "scary" because radiation is spooky and invisible. Coal is simple and local and it just silently kills millions through pollution. It's similar to the common fear of flying vs the common non-fear of driving.

Even today when people talk about the "cons" of nuclear power (spent fuel management, risk of catastrophe, terrorist target, etc) they are usually oblivious to the fact that there are 450 active NPPs today, and they are supplying 10% of the worlds energy and things are going great.[0] So even if these were acute concerns (and they're not) we would only have needed to increase them by a max factor of 10 to get 100% non polluting energy. That's not a lot, and definitively worth the "hassle". Even in Chernobyl (which was the main reason for the doom the nuclear effort) the number of casualties due to radiation, including long term effects, are estimated to be in the thousands, not millions as most people assume. [1] In Fukushima that number is 1. [2]

The number of NPPs were growing exponentially until suddenly plateauing globally since 1987 til today [0]. This is because building a new NPP is very expensive, time consuming, and since Chernobyl, headline-grabbing. Keeping an existing one running on the other hand is almost free, and a non-issue.

The other culprit is the fact that it seems that NPPs are not dominantly cost-effective as of now [3]. If they were, then maybe savvy entrepreneurs would have found a way to circumvent the public opinion and convince governments to build them. But as it stands, no one has the incentive to push this agenda: Not businesses, and not politicians who couldn't stand the backlash (on the contrary, France, who leads the world with 75% reliance on nuclear power, wants to reduce that number to 50% by 2035 because that's the will of the people [4])

In a (better) parallel world, the people would demand more nuclear power and get the governments to subsidence the costs to make it cost effective and removing the reliance on coal. Instead we're building wind turbines and solar panels that are so unreliable they stop producing energy when there's no wind or it's cloudy/night. I think it's quite clear that these green technologies can't really be effective at a large scale (at least without some major break-throughs), but it's what the people demand, so it's what we do while we continue to burn coal.

[0] https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-an...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_due_to_the_Chernobyl_di...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disa...
[3] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/537816/why-dont-we-have-m...
[4] http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Macron-clarifies-...
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I didn't accuse you of anything, you're projecting. I was only reminding everyone that the economy is not something you can just shut down and restart in a better form. Only gentle and incremental change is on the table.

That's BS.
Could you help me reverse engineering a bread I had, because I have no idea how to search for this. I had some grey-brown colored bread (looked like dinner rolls) in Greece that tasted so much more "real" than any American fancy bread I have had. It was firstly uniformly dry, like it sucked the moisture out of my mouth. Then it was very earthy, making my memories of american bread feel like they had sugar in it; this bread tasted like a fragrant earthy rock. Yet it was easy to eat, did not cut/scratch my mouth. What kind of recipe/process goes into making bread like that? I may be exaggerating a bit, but I do remember this was a very unique taste and feel.
As an older programmer, Flutter is the closest thing I’ve felt to programming as a kid. It’s given me some hope that the JavaScript era will fade as a dark night of the programming soul. Kudos to the development team that put Flutter together.
Kind of affected. Worked on hpcloud till the project got killed. EU with better employee protection kept people on a skeleton crew as far as I understand, and others got fired. Corp offered some materials around looking for other teams that would want you, but I was over working for corp already.

Got a good redundancy pay which covered more than the time needed to find a few job, so effectively they gave me extra money. The change was obviously coming - the team's manager moved to another company and the position was not advertised for many months after.

Not sure if it affected me that much otherwise. I was happy to see a change at that point.
I want to know, how do Costco's sale prices (coupon book) affect the markup/margins on a product? If the normal markup is less than 11%, is the sale price markup less than say 5%?

Edit: Or alternatively, are Costco sales negotiated ahead of time with the product makers so the makers are taking the cut and Costco's margins remain?
> We don't need to worry about the longer term beyond about 50-100 years

This is terribly irresponsible.

Creating a massive problem for other people, and believing that the future will solve it, is the very definition of magical thinking.
>I think what’s obvious is that the network is not truly decentralized and depends on telegram and investors expect to profit from telegrams work on the network.

This matches exactly the concept of collectible items. In fact, there's a blockchain based TCG: https://godsunchained.com/.

Is the point of the card packs not in large part speculation? One card apparently went for ~$60k, and there is a discount being offered for early buy-in.
Then I would be doubly surprised -- perhaps you did not notice the lack of coverage of certain important OR areas like (mixed-) integer programming and the many advances therein? Or in nonlinear optimization, interior point methods? Active-sets? SSOCs? Constraint qualifications? Also pretty thin on theory of statistics, queuing theory, combinatorics, etc.

These are all fundamental OR topics but the book makes different choices on topics to cover. (to be fair, the book does not claim to target OR, so I'm not disagreeing with the book's premise, only yours).

I do think though that the book could benefit from feedback from specialists in each individual area. In some areas, I find the selection of topics to be a little bit "unconventional".
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* Gogs

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* Email (yes, this is my primarily and only email)

* TinyTinyRSS

* NextCloud

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* MediaWiki
Certainly makes for a convenient excuse for Amazon.
Costco doesn’t make a profit on most items it sells, and some times it even loses money. They get money almost entirely from memberships
Your comment is entirely misleading, based on outdated data, and whitewashes the hell out of nuclear power. The fact you're trying to claim the parent post is bad is not cool.

1. Please look at actual data for power plant construction times. [1] provides an overview. Estimates are useless - if we look at how long things actually take to build... "The mean construction time of 441 reactors in use today was 7.5 years."

3. Are you actually serious right now? Radioactive waste sitting in temporary pools that will be an environmental catastrophe for hundreds of years if they leak isn't a problem? No, just because we tolerate other ecological disasters doesn't make this one ok.

4. This is no longer true, and will definitely not be true in another 5 years. Battery costs are decreasing at a reliable rate year over year. Power plants are already being built making use of them. Here's one going up now with 300MWh of storage [2].

5. No, you look up per capita demand. Here: [3]. It’s been dropping for a decade.

6. Your link does not report solar farm deaths because as far as I can tell there haven't ever been any. Unless you count birds. Rooftop solar is "dangerous" because installers fall off roofs.

[1] http://euanmearns.com/how-long-does-it-take-to-build-a-nucle...

[2] https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2019/10/08/the-sun-shines-only-a...

[3] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=32212
Sure it didn't make much sense in the HTML5 world, but if Adobe hadn't killed the upcoming new version of the language and engine (I think it was called Flash Next) it would have been an amazing tool for making apps and games.
When you owe someone a lot of money, you can make it their problem.
Yes, if users get a notification that says "hit this button to update" they'll do it. The question is whether they see that as a substantive benefit. I would predict that most users don't care, just like most don't care about filesystem access or sideloading.
Publix is opening a Greenwise Market store next to me. Can’t wait to see all the good stuff.
AFAIK the extreme, apocalyptic statements you are making are not supported by the science such as the IPCC.

Other people here are asserting that an abrupt and urgent transition away from fossil fuels 'will crash the economy and kill off most of the population' (which I take to mean >50%) without offering any citations for that claim whatsoever.
> Almost as if your current browser is not "what you need to access Youtube"

This is not just confusing. It's intentionally misleading and unethical.

And it doesn't just affect old people, or YouTube wouldn't have come up with it. Lots of young people grew up with computers and understand how to do what they want to do, but they never develop a systematic understanding of what they're using.

It gets worse, though. While we tech-folk know that all modern browsers are supposed to have near-parity, Google optimizes its sites for Chrome, leading to additional confusion for both knowledgeable and lay users.
> Where can I send a kid to learn to play with software and not have it all break six months later, rendering the learning useless?

If you had a Pentium 1 PC, would you not still be able to run DOS and BASIC on it? Software "breaking" only happens if you let it - you can still use Windows 95, or XP, and run all those old programs that no longer work. If you have a copy of Flash 4 you can still run that on supported hardware, make media using it, and probably still have people with modern Flash installations be able to play it back?

The difference between the pinball machine and video game is not so wide a chasm. The vogue of pinball came and went, and now it is a small community hobby. Hobbies come and go - just look at the resurgence in Dungeons and Dragons the last 10 years adjacent to a huge decline in "AAA" PC game RPGs.

In the same light, while the Fortnite gamer might never be able to re-experience the event that just passed, there are thousands playing Doom maps written in the mid 90s today on engines refined through decades of hobbyist volunteer work to provide features not even often seen in modern titles. And simultaneously there are new Doom maps being made all the time, entire games (look up the Adventures of Square) made with its engine, etc. That technology is now over 25 years "obsolete" but lives on through its community.

You touch on it - but it really does matter if you own it. All these transient experiences being offered as a moment of engagement by corporations all of which are held under lock and key and never see a bidirectional creative process between maker and consumer are all vapid and empty. The digital experiences that endure are those that go both ways, and that everyone involved can lay claim to and participate in.

Modern video games are themeparks, but the tooling available through projects like GZDoom, OpenMW, Godot, etc are sandboxes for creativity that no corporation can take away. This is why the free software movement even began, and why it has only gained relevance as technology has permeated society and culture.

But that concept extends beyond just video games - Blender makes its open movies, there are repositories and communities around free music, art, etc. Communities built around shared worlds all licensed permissively to encourage participation and collaboration in opposition to the common proprietary reality of creative products being weaponized against their own fans through copyright to reject participation. You just have to look for them - they don't have the billions in advertising to permeate your every waking second of consumptive behavior.
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> Flash sites were to my knowledge static layouts

Some were, the bad ones, but most were not.

I did a lot Flash back in that time and it was all responsive.
Counterfeit products are still a huge problem on their platform. Great QC.
For a paid alternative look into cloudron or unraid
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>Me and my team delivered a high frequency trading platform. Ahead of schedule, and better performance than requested.

Sounds like you have the startings of your own business there.
I’m not going to get into the specifics of this particular article, or public analyst reports in general, but FYI Barrons is possibly the worst source of financial information on planet earth. You’d be better served following WSB’s advice than take anything your read there seriously.
The Apple iPhone event gets millions of views every year. People know that their is a new iPhone OS coming out.
It appears the origin of the idea was in a non-profit consumer organization called FedCo - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedco. This company then inspired Sol Price to found the modern day bulk retail model.

From wikipedia:

"It was founded by 800 U.S. Post Office employees who wanted to leverage their buying power by purchasing goods directly from wholesalers, and eliminate the additional markup of a retail store"
It's also uncited. There are a few other articles that say the same thing (or more accurately, paraphrasing "the average customer at costco has a yearly income of $100k") and none of them are cited either.

I skimmed some investor documents/earnings call transcripts and couldn't find much discussion of what members are like from Costco themselves, just third parties.

I'm just a bit skeptical of that factoid. It smells funny.
This is completely the fault of Google. This is a solved problem with Windows and has been since the mid 90s.
Know someone who works on AWS. Says it hasn't affected them at all.
About 20-40 inches per year in NYC, while 12 is lucky in a year in Vancouver. And is prone to melting when the sun comes out.

The Pacific moderates a lot better than the Atlantic!
not even a month
The Vision Fund represents a huge share of the VC market though - at least 10%.

https://news.crunchbase.com/news/softbank-dealt-in-tenth-of-...

It could trivially collapse the VC market as companies are largely failing to IPO, and depending on how it's leveraged (I do not know nearly enough details) it could absolutely have serious economic shockwaves throughout the world.

> I can't imagine their failure hurting market sentiment overall.

I don't see why it would be any different than 20 years ago and the dot com bubble. Everybody says this time it's different, yet the overwhelming majority of tech companies IPOing are hemorrhaging money. Look at Uber - losing billions of dollars per year with no end in sight and their stock continues to decline. And of course Uber was a Softbank investment.
Try grinding your own flour from organically grown wheat and baking bread with that. I'm guessing she won't have a problem with it since this is essentially what is going on in Italy. They just call it making bread there.
We must teach our fellow developers of Apple's Evils.

And to consumers, what they lose by supporting the BP of tech.
This is a problem with everything being sold on amazon. I read reviews for a stamp (dates for ISO8601) and very few of the reviews are relevant to the product I was looking at. Almost none of them made sense for the product I was viewing, actually.
You’ve heard of a little service called Uber?