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> Ostrom’s achievement effectively answers popular theories about the “Tragedy of the Commons”, which has been interpreted to mean that private property is the only means of protecting finite resources from ruin or depletion.

I found this a weird characterization of the Tragedy of the Commons. My sense of TooC has always been that it's an effective refutation to the belief that the Nash equilibrium is best for everyone. With some first-year calculus you can prove that a regulated global optimum creates a greater individual payoff over time than a Nash equilibrium. That's the opposite of the above characterization.
The fried liver was the first opening I ever studied while learning chess as a 8 year old. I had so much fun with it until someone pulled out 5... Na5 on me. Then I cried.
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To me, the maths of the radar are the easy part.

But the physics of it? That's something that seems entirely more complex to me.

Is it really? Could any of you explain how you emit the radio wave, and how you detect it back? In terms of hardware?
This article describes that: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18051974/gallium-nitride-... (link was in the article).
The Internet has democratized information. Big media has lost their monopoly on news. So they are lashing out and accusing small media and independents of anything they can accuse them of, including fake news, fake views, plagarism, anything at all. It's not that their particular accusations are necessarily wrong. But the story they have been pushing front and center for the last few years now is the idea that all news sources and websites other than big media are somehow suspect, dangerous, untrustworthy, fake. This is self-serving and disingenuous.
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If you want to learn more about this stuff, the guy in the video wrote a great book called Origami Design Secrets (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1568814364/). It's certainly still the book about origami design.

For something that still touches on some of this stuff but is more beginner/child friendly, I'd recommend Jun Maekawa's book Genuine Origami (https://www.amazon.com/dp/4889962514)

There's also the OSME books (http://osme.info/) which collect origami related papers.
GaN has a higher breakdown voltage than Si, and a higher drift velocity, which allows a faster switching speed (for the equivalent bias).

For power supplies and switched mode RF amplifiers, you need to switch the transistor on and off as fast as possible; ideally an open or short circuit. During the time is is transitioning from on to off, it is dissipating power, thus losing efficiency in your circuit.

If you can operate at a higher bias, your passive support circuitry can operate at a lower current (lower I^2*R losses) not to mention smaller due to higher frequency (smaller inductors and capacitors).

The faster switching also generates more harmonics, which can align in phase to cause higher voltage transients, thus you need a higher breakdown.

The issue with GaN is fabricating it. It is a compound semiconductor grown with epitaxy (layer by layer) and has to be lattice matched to a carrier substrate, unlike Si which is diffusion doped into the bulk Si substrate. So GaN is maybe at 8” wafers while Si is much bigger. Some GaN is on Si carrier (cheaper but lower thermal conductivity) and some in SiC (expensive but better thermal conductivity). The goal is to grow it on diamond, but again the lattice matching is a problem.

The longer term goal is diamond semiconductors. Maybe 30 years from now that will replace GaN, as GaN is doing to GaAs and Si for certain applications.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18213022
While I don't agree with the sale of the .org to a for-profit entity, I believe the premise of this objection is not tenable. From what I can glean, while PIR is a non-profit, it was not a non-stock company (non-profits are often, but not always non-stock companies, meaning they have no shareholders). Were it a non-stock company, it would be impossible for it to be acquired for any material compensation, because there are no shareholders from whom to buy the company. In this case, however, it appears that PIR was a wholly-owned subsidiary of ISOC (ie. a stock corporation with a single shareholder). As such, it is an asset of ISOC and can be sold by ISOC legally. A non-profit is allowed to sell its assets, so long as it does so at fair market value, and the value received remains on the balance sheet of the non-profit (i.e. proceeds cannot be distributed to any kind of shareholders). As long as ISOC retains the $1B it received and continues to use it to further the mission that it was given non-profit status to pursue, such a transaction is perfectly legal.

(I'm not a lawyer but have been involved in the creation and certification of multiple non-profits, including in Va. where PIR was formed, and have been party to asset sales from non-profits.)
> AWS will win on reliability and probably price over an AWS startup

From my experience, Snowflake is both more performant AND cheaper than Redshift or other RDS options from AWS.
And then there’s this thing which is smaller than either and 60W

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GBYVF4Q/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Fu...
It harms the individuals who currently control the economy. It does not harm the economy as a whole. In fact, it greatly benefits most people, since, as workers, they get a fairer share of their work product and control over their own workplaces, and as consumers, the corporations that they rely on are no longer incentivized to fuck them over to make a quick buck. I think that's worth the cost to the bankers and barons.
It's the opposite. Iirc, icann was a semi gov entity and everybody complained that the internet is effectively controlled by the US gov via ICANN. So the gov decided to yield and give ICANN freedom. Sure enough, icann was quickly captured by pirates.
The submitted title was "File Systems Are Not Created Equal: Complexity of Crafting Crashing Applications [pdf]", which was a valiant attempt at squeezing the whole thing into 80 chars, but I don't think that's doable.
Absolutely. (Though I live in the same place :p).

The car driving culture throughout Australia is objectively pretty toxic. And I don't mean the addiction to cars + suburbia (that's a whole other topic). I just mean the general entitlement and objective hostility to any other community member, road user, or alternative use for roads/resources.

Anyone who's spent any time as a cyclist, motorcyclist, pedestrian will know not only that sense of entitlement, but also probably have been the target of active hostility and intimidation.

Mobile phone use while driving is objectively dangerous, and God forbid such standards be enforced while driving a dangerous chunk of metal on a public good.
While in theory there could be a lot more competition for arm based compute platforms, is there any risk of the cloud providers adding custom extensions to their silicon to increase performing, creating yet another platform lock-in? I'm thinking if the Intel compiler is somewhat analogous.
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There is fantastic webinar (consisting of 5 videos) from TI which covers CW and FMCW radar techniques:
https://training.ti.com/intro-mmwave-sensing-fmcw-radars-mod...
Title should be "I was a drug rep. I know how pharma companies pushed opioids.", as per the original article.

Here's a tl;dr of the article (quoted from the article itself) to save you a click:

> Medical students and doctors didn’t just learn how to assess and pay attention to patients’ pain — they also internalized the idea that prescribing opioids was a professional, even an ethical, obligation. Exaggerating the clinical significance of pain drastically expanded the market for opioids, bringing them to populations with a high risk for addiction, like adolescents.
If the analytics records aren't associated with those IDs, and can't be reidentified due to protections like k-anonymity, I don't think it's relevant that Google has other records that are subject to gdpr, and are handled differently.
Correct, and it also appears in Electromagnetism and Quantum Physics (in several ways), and in Lie theory that is useful for rotations and differential applications.
Iframing is ideal for that purpose, it pushes all the costs on the original content creator and pushes all the profits towards the assholes.
You can already buy 30,000 lumens car led bars on amazon for $50. They are for offroad use, and turn night into day (for 100m or so).
Pictures get taken at lights, tollway points, car parks already.

This is not much more intrusion. Whether it will help us much as they I don't know.

I do know that mobile phone use by drivers is a serious problem.
Yep, and that's the same pronunciation used in Western NC too (ie, how locals say "Appalachian State" in Boone).
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Thank you for the link. I am at a juncture where I need to relearn some of the basics to help my higher school going daughter. The book on math and physics was exactly something I was looking for.

I would also like to get my hands on Resnick and Halliday books that I studied back in India during 11th and 12th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentals_of_Physics
http://archive.is/VryJ4
The problem is trusting the submitter. How do you make sure derivate work is not submitted?
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To me the fundamental problem is that someone has to own the tld itself.
I guess you’re well off if you survive the crash and are one of the few remaining.

You have a pretty captive market.
I think the recommendation from USPSTF is every 3 years. If a provider is forcing yearly examinations on you without a good reason (i.e. suspicious findings on the path report) then I would consider talking to your provider or finding a new one.

edit:
Here is a link to the recommendation
https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Page/Document/...
The same happens in print media, 'Het Financeele Dagblad', the Dutch analogy to the Financial Times had a whole pile of IBM advertising copy in it that was the spitting image of their editorial content.
I agree with 150k AUD being a closer estimate. Maybe 125k. Once you include superannuation (big) and all other costs associated with maintaining an average foot patrol officer their fully-loaded yearly expense is going to be way more than 88k.
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Don't forget that many of the colleges had scholarships for the "poor, stupidly bright" kids going back several centuries: the Oxbridge colleges had traditional links with different areas of the country going back surprisingly far in history. For example, writing of Merton (Oxford, founded 1264) "By 1370 the college had been converted to a predominantly monastic society, but by 1384 arrangements were made for the maintenance of five poor secular undergraduates who were to assist in the chapel and who were to act as servitors to the monk-fellows. After achieving competence in grammar, these poor scholars were to study arts and one or two of them might even proceed to civil law." [1]

Whilst it is undeniably true that the predominant occupant of an Oxbridge college was a comparatively well-to-do member of society, I suspect that the disparity of fees mentioned reflects the disparity of charges made at the time.

[1]: The History of the University of Oxford: Volume II: Late Medieval Oxford by J. I. Catto and T. A. R. Evans, Print ISBN-13: 9780199510122
For your bedroom you'd really want an old 5W charger. Why turbo charge and put permanent strain on your battery when anything that takes 6+ hours will do.
Do you find that developers, system administrators and other IT professionals (the typical HN crowd) are just as guilty of this?
Or 60ish sheep per year.
Man. It’s a conundrum. I mean the concept and execution is brilliant. Damn does it make it hard trying to actually meet someone on tinder. SMH lol
Maybe some old pro-soviet folks (there are quite few). For others the mere ideas Russia now being next door is disgusting.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological or political flamewar. Let alone personal attacks.

We've had to ask you repeatedly in the past not to break the site guidelines. Would you please review them and stick to the rules when posting here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That’s true of the USA as well, though. The point is, of those who do care, more are leaning AMD and that is interesting. I’d be surprised if the US wasn’t heading in the same direction
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SketchBook seems to be the most serious drawing app available on Android. It's quite good, but that also means there's a somewhat steep learning curve and you basically need serious art skills.

I have modest skill as an artist and I would like a tool that helps me more readily capture ideas as illustrations without needing to be a serious artist type.

I'm currently envisioning something that would kind of combine photo editing and hand drawing to accomplish that goal.
Fair, I haven’t been to country in Belarus.
Calling anything from Arthur "vaporware" is really laughable.

This article isn't great, but it's from a finance site, not a technical site: of course it's going to be low on technical details. You would think that people who want technical details would know how to use a search engine.

Further, kdb/kdb+ (which Shakti is the successor of) is a columnar-based database. "How many results can it return [...] from a table with how many rows?" is completely irrelevant.

There are hundreds of benchmarks for kdb+, and the speed of k is unrivaled.
Please don't take HN threads further into generic ideological flamewars. Once a thread gets to the gulags it's never coming back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> I disagree, because Wordpress powers 34% of all websites in the world. Surely that is an example of adoption? Showing it’s possible for non techies to own their own stuff?

This is a very bad example since most of them are insecure, out of date, and not actually run by the non-techies. Most people just contract it out, once to someone who said he could setup a Wordpress site for cheap, and then they just pay them or someone else to make any major changes. If it isn't that, it's another company, or Wordpress itself hosting their instance, again, the software isn't being run by the "non-techie".

> Why did people install web servers instead of hosting on AOL?

I don't think a lot of people did, again, they paid someone else to host it. Shared web hosting was, and still is, a very large market.
> PHP's value proposition has always been one thing - ease of deployment.

I think that advantage may have been real at one time, when FTP deploys were a thing. The myth loves on. Folks that chant this praise are often not be the same folks that have to maintain the webserver side of things, though.

Easy to deploy looks like this:
./foobar --port=80
> Listening on port 80, ready for traffic

That could be Go, could be Rust. But not PHP.

PHP webserver / application separation does bring some advantages - for example if you bring your application to a corrupted state or crash it, it will go and die. Recovery is, well "implied". But deployment wise, no.

It actually seems to be a LOT harder to run PHP that at first blush. Take this example:
https://github.com/laravel/valet/issues/290

Turns out if you php-fpm app one Tuesday at 15:43 starts to write more than 4k to stderr (maybe it writes some nice verbose logs after being hit by some recoverable error), you will find yourself wondering what does "upstream sent too big header while reading response header from upstream" imply while your endpoint responds with 502. This is just one possible footgun .. ekhm .. tuning option.
No. For example, I have a .org email domain. In order to make this work, everybody involved, that is dns, email hoster and various dbs, ssl certs infra, browsers and email apps, they all need to properly resolve my .org domain. It's unrealistic to expect all these parties to suddenly respect the new dns resolver.
If I may ask you a personal question: how do you feel about working on ads
for Google, given that a lot of people find Google's tracking practices
(to make personalized ads possible) questionable at best? Did you
specifically choose that team, or was that just were Google needed more
hands?

Personally, Google ads give me mixed feelings. I see how personalization
is useful for everyone involved and, so long as only machines look at my
data, I don't have any personal issues with it. But at the same time,
Google collects everything on everyone worldwide to the point where I
feel like the USA would have an easy time conquering any country they
please (if a nation already has live data on pretty much all its enemy's
subjects, war would be exceedingly efficient for them to start and
quickly win), so that kind of threatens our freedom if you see what I
mean; and secondly the data is not necessarily 100% secure, so in the
event of a breach it might be seen by humans, specifically people that I
would not want to know what I searched for (or pages I visited that have
Analytics or an embedded YouTube video or ads or a map on their contact
page or ...). So it's a mixed bag of feelings and your position (job) seems
like the kind that would make one think about before accepting. I'm curious to
hear your thoughts on it.
I type "name of the movie !imdb", which takes me straight to IMDB's search results for that name.

!bangs are the main reason why it's always going to be difficult for me to switch from DDG to anything else.
More importantly, it's questionable journalism. It amazes me how much fluff the mainstream media pumps out. So much so that the real and actual news gets buried (read: most people end up under-informed).

The MSM events might be real, but that doesn't make it news. News has importance. News has relevance. But that text book definition a lot of MSM news is in fake not real news.
Man, you really got them here haha.

Thanks for taking the time to dig into things. Comments like these are why I continue to regularly read Hacker News.
With respect, the US is hardly an example to be followed when it comes to road safety.

It comes down to whether you believe driving is a right or a privilege. If you believe it's a right then this does seem like an invasion of privacy. If you believe it's a privilege then there's nothing more objectionable about this than having a CCTV camera in your workplace.
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I'm still shocked at how poorly most plugs are designed for fitting in various outlets and power strips.
Guess what semiconductor white LEDs use?

It's gallium nitride.
Says 2014. Has anything been done with, say Git or SQLite since to make them more robust against filesystem fragility?
https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-intern...
You obviously neither know what the backfire effect is nor why you should engage in open debates, anyway. I've talked to people believing in god before, so I know what it's like to talk to a wall. And I've talked to flat-earthers. They are fun and have interesting arguments that nicely intersect with the NASA conspiracy nerds. I came to the realization that I don't know enough about earth to counter the arguments of the flat earthers. Same with the holocaust deniers, really. But the debates were interesting and I gained new perspectives. Climate change stuff on the other hand I've never debated anyone about, since I already know that I know nothing about how this is supposed to work. No idea why CO2 is bad or why it's bad that it gets warmer a few degrees. I wouldn't mind it getting warmer. Maybe the South Pole would become a continent people can live, then. Not that I have noticed any climate change the past couple of decades I've been alive. Highest temperatures I remember are from over twenty years ago, which was about 44°C. Nowadays the hottest I recall are like 38°C. But then they changed the term from global warming to climate change for a reason, I guess.
When it's the board of directors doing that it's not even illegal.
> Gallium nitride seems like it might be more toxic...

Surely not more toxic than gallium arsenide. The amounts of material involved in a manufactured product are pretty tiny, so the semiconductor material is not hugely concerning.
that's mostly because American domestic outlets are the worst in the world.
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And the ones in their 60s remember half their family dying from the famine when they were children, especially the villagers who moved out.

When you live in a country where any negative expression will get you killed, arrested, etc. You quickly only hear the positive voices.
It sounds like they are using the AVX primitives to accelerate certain operations, when they talk about 256 and 512 bit wide instructions.
This was downvoted as if entrapment is not a common behavior of law enforcement:
https://twitter.com/Kinnardian/status/1200465791520428033?s=...
Nice Finegold call-out btw.
What are they using for the moment (Excel, Trello, ...)?
> The Electoral College's intention was to balance large states' power with small states' desire to not let large states run everything.

To pretend this is the only factor the designers had in mind it absurd. To ignore tensions between the north and south in the design of the system is equally so.

> Slave states gained more power in the Electoral College from the extra 3/5 votes,

You cannot look at something with massive implications and pretend they are accidental. Unless you want to admit it's poorly designed.

> 3/5 of a vote gave less power to slave states than their preference, a full vote for each slave.

Is there a point to this statement, other than to complain the North did not fully capitulate to slave power?

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From Madison’s notes on the constitutional convention:

> There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to the fewest objections.

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Who cares how invasive these are. A car is being driven in a public setting. There should be zero expectation of privacy. And I say this as a driver.
> Since I left the industry in 2000...

That's a significant time to be out of the industry and still speak with credibility about today's methods and practices. Not impossible to be entirely on point, but it would be more credible from someone closer to practices in at least the last decade.
Why is reverse psychology not an effective method of entrapment. I'd expect it's a standard component actually.
You acknowledge that there are many factors which may have contributed to improved road safety, “but causation / correlation etc.” It’s hard to find good evidence when there are so many confounding factors. So what is the basis of your opinion that “money would be far better invested in a more intensive exam” and this policy is “just posturing for the next election cycle”?

The road toll is an important political issue in Australia. All politicians face pressure to reduce it, and it has gone down a lot, in per-person and per-car terms. It is still the second-most common cause of death for young people, after suicide. Since we can’t be sure if this new policy will work, aren’t you just “posturing” to avoid the political consequences of “not doing” something that might save lives?
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