skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You aren't exactly correct. Cement is a binder. Cement can be used to bind rammed earth. I think you mean to say "Concrete." There is a difference.

Rammed earth will crack in a flat application just like concrete, which also will not crack as bad in a wall formation as it will in a flat foundation type application. This is due to rammed earth and concrete having excellent resistance to compression, as gravity does to a wall, but they are both weak in tension.

Sometimes rammed earth does require binders like I said before depending on locally available materials. There is fussy carpentry involved because you need to make forms for the walls within which you ram the earth.

It's not as strong as stone, unless you use the appropriate binders and you should get your finished product tested for strength before using it in a load bearing capacity.

It's still a good building material, I do agree with that, but it is not just as good as concrete and it only approaches the strength of concrete when cement is used as a binder. No readily available natural materials come close to the strength of cement bound aggregates.
> If we structured society such that the accumulation of material wealth was infeasible, there would be far less need to worry about people going around and taking things they didn't legitimately need.

Is there anything to stop people from just moving into and taking over my house when I go out for the day?

Also, I like having a car set up exactly how I like it, with music I like, the mirrors where I left them, and also with a few things in it that I might need even rarely.

Call me selfish but I don't want to deal with a dirty public car that may or may not be available when I want it. All other public things are dirty and unpleasant, I don't see why shared cars or bicycles would be any different.
The coolest coax cable is the YK-217 cable. 14.8 ohm impedance. 25kv. The center conductor was a 6mm plastic rod. Then came the braided inner conductor, covered with some very thin black plastic shit. Then some serious HV insulation, followed by the outer conductor and a thick outer protective jacket. The cable was about 16mm in outside diameter. I had to strip 100 of these cables, with the inner conductor extending about 35mm from the outer conductor. The only way to do this accurately was on a lathe. In my youth, I spent all afternoon and evening doing this, then went to a concert at Winterland in San Francisco.
From these cables, and a ton of other machining and one large 50nF capacitor, I built a nitrogen laser reliable enough to use in my thesis experiment. Every once in a while, a cable would short, always where my lathe knife had gone a tad too deep. As the laser pulsed at 17Hz, it sounded like a machine gun when this happened. I stopped the laser, used my grounding hook to discharge everything, and calmly unclamped the offending cable and threw it away. The laser ran perfectly well with 99, 98,97… cables. That’s why I used cables.
From the GPL section 2:

> You may convey covered works to others for the sole purpose of having them make modifications exclusively for you, or provide you with facilities for running those works, provided that you comply with the terms of this License in conveying all material for which you do not control copyright. Those thus making or running the covered works for you must do so exclusively on your behalf, under your direction and control, on terms that prohibit them from making any copies of your copyrighted material outside their relationship with you.

> Conveying under any other circumstances is permitted solely under the conditions stated below. Sublicensing is not allowed; section 10 makes it unnecessary.

So based on my reading, your employer can convey the software to you without complying with the normal copyleft terms.
I found this persuasive: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.5408/0022-1368-40.1.2... (Journal of Geological Education, Volume 40, 1992 - Issue 1), "Are the Pyramids of Egypt Built of Poured Concrete Blocks?"

"Since 1974 Joseph Davidovits, a French concrete chemist, has been proposing that the pyramids and temples of Old Kingdom Egypt were built of geopolymer “concrete” poured into molds, rather than quarried blocks of limestone. We use geological evidence and engineering principles to demonstrate the flaws in this daring hypothesis. Pyramid and temple blocks show sedimentary bedding, burrows, and optical and SEM-scale properties characteristic of normal microporous limestones, and they are cut by tectonic fractures. Block dimensions and shapes are not likely to be the product of pouring into wooden molds, and some blocks show quarrying marks. It is not easy to give a geological education to a brilliant and determined chemist."
Who really wants to take a train from Chicago to Los Angeles other than tourists?

Pretty much no one. But Chicago to St. Louis? Or Chicago to Minneapolis? Or Charlotte to Atlanta? Or Dallas to Houston? Or LA to San Francisco? Etc/etc? Lots of people. That's here high-speed rail investment helps. High-speed planes are fine, until it snows in Chicago, or thunderstorms in Atlanta, or high winds in Denver and then the whole national air system gets screwed up. Alternatives are good.
Usually when there’s no reason provided it’s because an account tripped some anti money laundering rule(s). Someone in a compliance team then reviews the account and makes a determination.

By US law you can’t tell the customer that you’re closing their account because you thought it was “suspicious.” You just do it and then submit a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) to FinCEN.

I can see how a high net worth individual could have account activity that looks like money laundering, but given his long history with the bank would be surprised if this decision was made automatically or by some junior analyst. It must have been escalated to someone senior, and they must have known who he was and still made the decision.
Air travel contributes greatly to climate change. When we are talking about High-speed rail in the US, no one is really talking about cross country trips like Chicago to LA. They are talking about regional trips like LA to SF or DC to NYC. Ideas like maglev or even the hyperloop are what I consider to be "looking up"
I recently started again after an abandoned attempt to play it when it came out. Surprisingly, it does not look or play bad at all, it is just unapologetically hard game, if you build your party the wrong way, you won't be able to progress. Hopefully with 3 they will balance it out better. You should also take a peek at Metro: Exodus, if first person post-apocalypse is your thing. Short and far from trully open world, but very well made and atmospheric
Ironman Mode, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Permadeath
> The thing with coffee isn't that it's delicious. It's actually quite hard to make it palatable

This is like saying it's hard to make chocolate, tea, or many other ultra-popular foods/drinks palatable.

Step 1 of 1: add sweetener. Not hard at all.

Many people (including me) would argue that coffee is delicious without sweetener, though. Perhaps you don't understand how people like it, but that's far from a universal opinion.
>free labor for SaaS companies

Approximately all then open source software I work with on a daily basis is SaaS companies pooling efforts on the problems they have in common, yes.
so much so that to avoid the controversy, the gov't chose to just build out a city in the middle between sydney and melbourne and use that as a capital city rather than settle once and for all which is better...
I don't know how professionals define it, but it seems to me logical to define an addiction as something which people cannot stop even when it leads to financial, health, or other difficulty that affects normal functioning and/or relationships. That is, the short-term need for a fix overrides universal parts of living a healthy life.

This is not precise, but it seems like an appropriate metric. It's basically the same as defining mental illness in general vs. harmless eccentricity.
> The function would not be tied to state and that function can be executed in the context of anything.

Non-OOP functions are still written against the interface of their parameters, so they remain tied to state.
To see if it is Actor, you have to check if it follows the rules. Akka and Erlang have been used to implement some important scalable systems.

What do you recommend as a "traditional" way to implement scalable systems?
Unfortunately, there's no single tome directly on point of these debates that I'm aware of. Some of these debates are very old, but some are also basically current events. I'd also be suspicious of any one point of view, including my own.

As for blogs, I'd strongly recommend all the folks mentioned in the post, all of whom I link from my blogroll (https://writing.kemitchell.com/blogroll.html).

Bradley Kuhn: http://www.ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/, but see also https://copyleft.org, to which he's contributed extensively

Heather Meeker: https://heathermeeker.com/

Van Lindbergh: https://processmechanics.com/

My own: https://writing.kemitchell.com

I think I remember correctly that Bradley and Van were generally against SSPL, while Heather and I were for it. But you should ask them, rather than take my word for it!

For a more general reading list, see this one from Blue Oak Council: https://blueoakcouncil.org/lawyer-reading-list
Oh, they're not commercially available. My dad negotiated with an optical filter manufacturing company to make prototypes because I was interested in commercializing the idea. If you were going to do something similar today, very likely your best bet would be to get one side as EnChroma and the other as a neutral density filter (or a tint matching the EnChroma).
Before asking this very dismissive question, did you pause to think about how you might design an experiment to determine a rough count of how many colors people can discriminate between? Because it took me all of 30 seconds to do so, and I'm just a graph theorist. I don't know shit about anatomy or color spaces.

I'd use a 2-panel diagram. On each round, the panels are assigned random colors. The subject is asked "are the panels same, or different?" Some proportion of the time, they're identical. If they just mash "different" every time, you'll see that in the data and you'd reject those subjects -- or accumulate those false guesses into an uncertainty measure. If they hit 'same' on different colors... make a graph with edges between those colors. Some time after the graph is connected, try and find a minimum vertex cover. The order if that vertex cover should be a reasonable estimate of the number of colors a person can see.
Oh, come on, there are a lot of cities that look worse than this: https://i.stack.imgur.com/Eg1OZ.jpg (and this doesn't even show the Opera House!)

I do agree that tearing down many of the old buildings in the CBD was criminal, but there are plenty (OK, some) of neighborhoods that have more or less managed to maintain that ye olde Sydney feel (the Rocks, Glebe, Darlo, etc), and many of the newer developments in Barangaroo and Darling Harbour are positively nice.

Sydney is also (IMHO) more pedestrian-friendly than any city in the US except maybe New York, and it will get even better once the light rail from Circular Quay down a pedestrianized George St is up and running in a few months.
Its fascinatingly interesting how it all subjectively ties into the narratives of scarcity and free will or the lack thereof in the background and how those meta topics obscurity actually feed into the endless cycle that is politicised opinions on topics like these.

Its a bit ironic to feel embitterment while not forgetting to work not harder smarter. If you catch what I'm getting at.
Right, so that's part of my gripe. in keyboad shortcuts, i've got global (all applications) shortcuts for select/show next/previous tab. Those dont map to firefox. Fine, but Firefox doesn't have a menu title for next tab, so setting a shortcut for a non-named function doesn't work. I've tried the documentation(https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perf...), using "go one tab to the left" doesn't work. It's just way more effort to figure out than it needs to be for a browser in 2019.....
These animations are great, but for some puzzling reason they only advance while I am scrolling the page. To watch an animation I have to hold my thumb on the screen and subtly scroll up and down. This is on an iPhone X.
“Tech companies should include mechanisms in the design of their encrypted products and services whereby governments, acting with appropriate legal authority, can obtain access to data in a readable and useable format.”

Yes, because governments always act with appropriate legal authority, by definition, right?
Workers can be made to work in a browser, but communication can be awkward and slow.
Well, I use ~40 gm coffee per mug. And if that were dark roast, I'd be adding way too much sugar to make it palatable.
Criminals lock their doors, you're not a criminal, are you?
> And this is exactly what your company @PayPal did to me after ~10 years. With absolutely no explanation... #Bitcoin

> Paypal closed my business account, and kept $5000 for 6 months. No explanation, no one to discuss with.

Some of the Twitter responses make this sound like poetic justice.
Ask HN: How to Http3 for a Browser Mmo?
Hi HN, I'm building a browser MMO and I face the classic issue everybody faced: paquet order.
Currently I'm using websocket over TCP but I'm not satisfied with this solution as a packet lost means the stream will be interrupted.
There is the webRTC option with unordered and unreliable settings but it seems a real pain to set it up, it looks pretty unstable from what I could ear from users and it seems to have an amount of data transmited which is over what websocket transmits.

Finally the http3 standard seems to be able to answer to my issue as it uses udp and not tcp. But http3 does implement the blocking packet order in each multiplexed stream (which is expected for a classic web data transfer).

Does anyone know if it's possible to use some webRTC unreliable/unordered setting like to http3? Does the spec offer a way to have real UDP connection without the ordering overload?
Can you really not run Cobol on a regular linux box?
Used to take the train from Orlando to South Florida (Ft Lauderdale) it cost as much as me driving but me not driving is a convenience I appreciated. It takes 3 hours to drive. It takes Amtrak on a good day 6 hours to get me there. On one holiday date I took 12 hours.
FWIW, Fowler's "Monolith First" engineering idea is closely related to Christenson's "Modularity Theory" economic idea.
Somewhat? I wonder how you would measure that. Many long years ago a co-worker was explaining a control panel to me. It had red and green LED indicators. He had them backward as he pointed them out. I asked him if he was color-blind. His reply was "Yes, a little bit."

It seems to me that when everything looks the same from birth on (excepting perhaps focus. ;) ) then it is difficult to compare what one sees with what others see.

I also wonder if some colored LEDs tend to be "worst case" as they may be monochromatic and if the eye is not sensitive to that particular wavelength, it will not be visible as color.

Actually... I also wonder about how a wide gamut of colors can be represented by relative intensity of three primary colors: red, green and blue. I would expect the emitters in, for example, an LCD screen to emit light at specific frequencies. How can any combination of three frequencies represent what must be a broad rage of frequencies that form any given color in the world around us.
It's really not. GGP was complaining about endless complexity due to data plumbing and the client server split. Just because we've managed to lift all of our massively overengineered plumbing and state reconciliation into the same syntactic language doesn't mean it's all on any sort of unified platform, much less the same one. Other folks have pointed to Meteor as an example that gets close to that ideal, and I'd also suggest Phoenix/LiveView as something that moves in that direction. However, even those are not terribly popular and still require a lot more direct engagement with the client-server-browser rube Goldberg machine than they should, I think.
This wouldn’t work for a whole script but I found a hack for forgetting what you were leaving one room to do: say “I’m gonna put out the trash” as you start walking through the door. You forget what you were doing but the concept of putting out the trash is working its way through the slower pipeline of becoming a series of vibrations generated by your lungs, throat, and mouth, and you will parse what you just said and remember what you are doing.
> Fundamentally, copyleft can only be instantiated once.

That's true of GPL-style copyleft, because it was designed quite intentionally to be a network-effect-leaden singleton. We say "GPL-compatible", but it's more accurate to say "GPL-submissive". The difference was felt very directly by the Eclipse folks in the run up to EPLv2.

But there's nothing about share-alike terms that require that stricture. The Parity license that I mention in the blog post takes a different tack. Have a look at its rule about how to contribute back: https://paritylicense.com/versions/7.0.0.html#contribute

A developer building on Parity code could choose to license their work on weaker copyleft terms.
certainly helps, but isn't the silver bullet. one summer all my brother did was play runescape and lift, and he ended up having to play with a wrist brace.
I think everyone has heard this claim from Amtrak. Anyone who has actually caught Amtrak has seen the gigantic inefficiency’s (the ridiculous boarding process, ancient trains). I’ve been stuck behind freight traffic on Amtrak, but only after we were already running late and had stopped for random “signaling” issues.

If Amtrak want to prove it’s the freight traffic causing the slowness they should quantify how many otherwise ontime routes are delayed by freight.
There’s so much data that could benefit the public that is hidden away it’s mind boggling
Difficult to know since you don't specify exactly what an "object" is. Seems more reasonable that "Actors are a recursion on concept of interacting computers."
It has been a long time since I've had feelings this difficult to sort out.

Can't wait for ATP to cover this in their aftershow.
I don’t understand what you are saying. There has always existed straightforward methods of preventing “freeloaders” as you call them from accessing your content. If you don’t believe me, go to wsj.com and report back.

TV Broadcasters don’t get to force you to watch their ads, in fact skipping ads on broadcast tv is a big and legal market.

Furthermore, today’s ad blocking detection can be very good at detention, so there you go - you have your script. When sites detect my adblocking and nag me, I am more than happy to leave their shitty website and never come back.
NYC and DC don't really project to other metros. Travel to and from Penn Station vs the airports is a non-trivial consideration to passengers. It is expensive or time consuming or a PITA to travel to JFK/LGA/EWR on public transit with a bag. I lived in Brooklyn and made the NYC/DC commute 15 or so times a year for many years and that was a significant issue for me, it just wasn't cost or time effective to fly in _NYC_.

I now live in Maine and wouldn't consider for a second taking the train to NYC. I'll fly out of PWM or, if I want flexibility, drive there. There is a non-stop bus that I'd prefer, too.
Sydney is not really even the biggest city any more, it's in the process of being overtaken by Melbourne, which is actually a lovely city despite jibes down thread.
As a Mustang enthusiast, this branding is terrible. It muddies the waters of all that they've built with the Mustang brand.
This only affects users in China: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/10/14/apple-acc...
Is there a reason why cut and cover isn't used very much these days, apart from mild disruption to car traffic?
Not a reliable source.
Study suggests objective reality doesn't exist
>Time to setup python scripts which could parse through the excel spreadsheets, figure out which row corresponded to gross profit margin, and a few other "standard" metrics: ???

If you just want basic financial data there are easier ways, e.g. the Quandl API (not affiliated).

But the bigger issue is that you can't accurately label your training data. A subsequent stock price move could have been due by something revealed in the 10-Q that the market somehow missed, or it could have been caused by a forest fire in Bolivia, or a competitor getting acquired, or any combination of near infinite external events that couldn't have been predicted from the 10-Q.
HTTP/2 and /3 tried not to change semantics so that you can losslessly translate between different versions.
Imagine for a moment that ssh became illegal.

Is it even possible for the tech economy to continue? What would that look like?

My head hurts.

Actually, think of what Attorney General Barr said: Corporations should have access to strong encryption, just not little people.

In that horrifying sort of world, there would be encryption licenses perhaps. And general purpose computing would be under a large threat.

It is so absurd that it would only work under a totalitarian system. Maybe that's what we'll eventually get.
I've been to Perth on a work trip and all the Australians I've met tell me that I've never been to Australia because I went only to Perth :)
Jio recharge plans: पहली बार JioPhone यूजर्स को कम से कम 49 रुपये में एक महीने
There is a quality about TBMs which vaguely reminds me of the feeling of getting a new LEGO set and building stuff. Imagine if we had cheap ways to build tunnels, no more traffic, no more congestion, roads and parking lots would only exist underground and cities would have more space for gardens, parks, buildings, and walkways. We have these things - Subways but its very expensive to build that system. Elon has an itch to solve this problem and I want this dream to succeed! While that's going on, please someone make a game out of building tunnels, it would be super cool!
Totally unrelated may be, I have a one plus 7 pro with the front camera that pop's up, when I opened the link it just popped up and went down. This is the first time that is happening. Weird.
Also sometimes titled De Vermis, which is the title of the blog post that Ford dropped the first comment on:http://nielsenhayden.com/electrolite/archives/003789.html
Another great example is that huge warehouse where they stored the Ark of the Covenant at the end of Indiana Jones.
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket: a survival guide
Intersex Pop Musician
Runtime system knows approximate latency to intended recipient Actor of a message, e.g., this core, nearby core, nearby chip on the package, nearby chip in the same server, nearby server in the same rack, nearby server in the same datacenter, another datacenter, another IoT, etc. However, Actors can dynamically move and so the answer can change over time.
The "default" install is headless, yup. Yet, if you want something usable in many environments, you'll need the GUI. We use third party (and Microsoft) tools that do pixels (and PowerShell still doesn't do everything).

So if you were given the choices:

1. Headless (lots of stuff doesn't work, especially third-party utilities)

2. GUI

3. GUI without Cortana and other crazy

... which option would you pick?

There is no #3, by the way.

> it is fair enough that Cortana is there since she is (or now was) a part of Microsoft Desktop experience

I don't care how you spin this, it's very bad practice for a "server OS" to download and run random code. Making Windows Server secure is hard enough without this nonsense. "Oh, Cortana comes for free with the Desktop Experience" is just begging the question, it doesn't make the underlying bad practices of that Windows component somehow okay.