skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well an NFL football field is approximately 5351 m2 so about 8000 gallons. not sure how big your bathtub might be though
Yes, we do it at Basecamp for all of our legacy apps (and our newest one, HEY), and we've ran Basecamp 2 in production via Kubernetes (we no longer do it, but we did it for a lengthy period of time).
Yup. The economy matters A LOT. Perhaps the crowd on Hacker News have stable careers so don't value it quite as much, so we find other things to worry about ;-)
FLIF doesn't parallelize well, but that's not really because of the MA trees, but just because the whole bitstream is inherently sequential.

Modular mode in JPEG XL also has MA trees, but the bitstream is organized in a way that allows parallel decode (as well as efficient cropped decode).
The ideas behind react will still be big in ten years yes.

My arguments are not religious but based on facts, I can share my PhD thesis from 2016 about user interface specification languages, that includes a comparison of more than 20 different approaches including react.

Flash was always a proprietary platform and only fools would have bet their whole career on it back then. The situation of the ideas behind react, and browsers as a platform are very different.

I’m not betting my career on it though (I’m a CTO in a company which Is not centered around web stuff) but I do believe that these ideas will leave an impact in the industry, and this belief is backed by specifically studying this topic for 4years, plus my 15years in the industry.
Also, quite similar to the aircraft presented in the article, the Pipistrel Alpha Electro from Slovenia: https://www.pipistrel-aircraft.com/aircraft/electric-flight/.... Also designed from the ground up as an electric trainer to radically bring down the hour costs at flight schools, with enough endurance for a flight lesson and battery swap capability for quick turnaround.
What, per millifortnight? cf. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22270160
Oh God why
That cuts both ways though. If JetBrains goes away or something shifts their corporate interest away from that then Kotlin has zero support at all. Whereas other languages are built on grass roots foundations. It's certainly unlikely in the short term but it's hard to say long term about the future of any company.
The worry is that you won't be able to output 400W. My approach is to reduce speed earlier and hope the green comes before I'm forced to stop.
I notice it most often when it alleviates correctness concerns with text output. I write lots of python scripts, and guaranteed stable iteration order in dicts lets me breeze through little details that I used to put effort into. Most recent example I can think of is: my human client provides a json schema and data. I iterate over the schema items, which are in the client’s desired display order and construct a validated dict from the input data. From then on, the data items are in correct display order. Previously I would need an ordered array of schema keys; now I can just iterate over the items directly.

Someone will probably argue that “implicit is bad” but I have been enjoying the benefits since it was an implementation detail :)
I think there's a level of discrepancy where they should override our intuitions. If I thought most Americans were unhappy these days, my reaction to seeing this poll would be to question how my intuition went so wrong, not to look for ways the might be biased.
Yes exactly. Satisfaction is significantly affected by your expectations. If your expectations change, then satisfaction changes as well.
An xkcd in the thousands is now considered "classic"? Man I'm getting old.
Layman's Explanation Greatest Hits right there. Except I was actually curious so I converted it. Assuming a 30-gal tub, it's about 267 tubs/field-hour.
You can absolutely bet that you'll start hearing about it again in a few months!
Yeah global warming is happening.

Could we use capitalism to provide solutions?

It's my only sustainable solution to the environment problem. I have little faith in government solutions.
I suspect the author is mistaken about calling it 802.11a speeds but if it was, then it'd absolutely be noticeable speed wise. 802.11a is a rather old (more than 20 years old now) standard that only supported up to 54Mbit/s speeds. Just copy a file or push some commits and you'll start to notice it.
Uber changing app to avoid reach of California's new gig workers law
Working with GraphQL.
I think so. A relative has a similar device with remote monitoring, and it had to be re-swizzled when they switched services.
It was just a recommendation. Those things would be fine too in any business setting
I am going to call BS- these devices have to pass basic emissions tests for their FCC license. Those labs are accredited and certified and the process is not cheap.

FCC SAR Test Reports for the iphone 11 Here:
https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/eas/reports/ViewExhibitReport.cfm...

This is more complex than just signal measurement- normally you have to know how to kick the device over into a test mode to test full power output since the devices will, by design, self throttle their power. I am really curious how "rfexposurelabs" setup the test. Also I find it interesting that they are going to make this claim and not publish the lab report so everyone can review their methodology.
They have a product, it is just misnamed. FSD gets you smart summon, navigate-on-autopilot, AP lane switches, and autopark. It should be called enhanced autopilot, because actual FSD is so far away that nearly all current Teslas will be crushed before it's a real thing.
Well shoot, my sarcasm detector was off there. But I appreciate you pointing out my mistake instead of just downvoting me. Thanks (genuinely)
I've heard the story that the idea doesn't matter. It's the team that matters, with a good idea. I'm not saying this is true or not. Probably depends.

In this case, they are presenting their "ideas" as a "shell" of an idea and soliciting anyone who is willing to match their expectations in "good team". They talk about a product by a Sell-Side Research Firm which enables a "robust research industry to help investors make better trading decisions". That's not a product. It's a meme. They even say it:

Think Morningstar for private markets.

A better idea is an AI crawler just for me, which only crawls what is relevant and deletes the rest from the search index.
a USB pd charger could try to put out 18v to a device that's expecting 5v though, and that can still burn out the device
>At the same time, a great founder shouldn't need to do this via Carta, and I'd be worried a lot about Carta's real intention.

Would you say the same holds true for ycombinator's seed accelerator program?
You misunderstand.. people like my parent are saying "if i bought it it should be mine" .. except they are discussing something that was never purchased.

If you scroll this thread, it's abundantly clear that many people are not reading the article and drawing their own conclusions based on the headline.
This was my initial thought as well. Seems like people are celebrating, but this is going to be a source of difficult to figure out bugs.
EDITED:

bathtub ≈ 302 liters

football field = 5351 square meters

They achieved 5.78 L/m^2/h

So 5351 m^2/football field * 5.78 L/m^2/h = 30928.78 L/h/football field

30928.78 L/h/football field / 302 L/bathtub = 102.4 bathtubs/football field/hour

h/t to brudgers for the correction about football field surface area!
I really enjoy artful displays of mental gymnastics, so thank you. A watt is a unit of power, a BTU is a unit of energy, and a watt hour is also a unit of energy. If you can show me how solar watt hours are converted into BTU's at an equivalent rate of 3.85 to 1, I will short sell all the energy stocks using my children as collateral.
Fined $27M, but how much did they profit from encouraging users to move to newer phones?
I don't consider this an article so much as a series of captioned photographs and short videos. From that perspective, the experience is lovely (though perhaps overengineered).
The only issue I have with the trackpads on Linux is palm rejection not working. This is an annoyingly common problem unfortunately, so you rest your wrist for just a second while typing and the cursor jumps to some random point on the screen and clicks.
The engineers don't enter into it; they used metric, of course.

I think it is important to use SI units, because it allows you to do comparisons between different approaches to desalination more easily, as I did in my comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22270160
The first three suggestions I would deem kid-compatible (maybe a bit too complex, but that depends on the particular kid), but...Elder Scrolls and Fallout? That stuff's for grown-ups, maybe older teenagers, but definitely not kids of the ages that this thread is about.
You're wildly exaggerating. It takes just about 20 minutes to get from Culver City to the end of the line in Santa Monica. It doesn't even take an hour to traverse the entire Expo Line between DTLA and Santa Monica, about fifty minutes.

If Metro were able to get traffic signal priority for Expo, traveling the whole line would be about 35 minutes.

Timetables: https://media.metro.net/documents/line-schedules/line-806_15...
It reads like a fact-based, non biased article to me. I suspect you agree with this assessment too which is why you resorted to attacking the blog's owners instead of trying to disagree with any parts of the story.
Right. I'm not good at those kinds of questions. I can code quickly but rigorous thought takes time for me. I need to ponder a design question for a while or work on two or three prototypes before I feel like I know what to do.

FWIW I've also seen the opposite. A developer who was a very good thinker and talker, but got stuck for two weeks on an issue with a Google API. It took me five minutes to figure out what was wrong. Not cause I'm smart, actually the opposite, I have to break problems down to things I can understand and it's that process which lends itself well to fixing bugs.

But I'm sure he would've run circles around me when designing an API or architecting out multiple systems.
I agree that this can be very attainable as a B2B developer. The main challenges are both knowing and understanding the problem and solution and then attracting the audience. It's doable and is being done. We hear more about the unicorns. But there is still a lot of room for the little guys.
Hrm - "To start, the standard bathtub will hold roughly around 80 gallons (302 liters) of water. Much smaller bathtubs can only hold around 40 gallons (150 liters) of water, which typically are more suited for smaller children or function more as a shower space."

30 gal seems too small.
No, the car had autopilot when Tesla sold it (Nov 15), then Tesla later removed AP, after they sold the car (Nov 18), because the new owner hadn't paid for AP.
Personally, I don't see how this could be anything other than scary and unsettling.

First, we should be able to exist in a world where advertising isn't so pervasive we can't even figure out what is real anymore. We're already heading toward this Orwellian dystopia of a glossy marketing shine on everything (and that's another State Farm touchdown!). It's a problem because it dehumanizes the receiver as just another set of body organs to manipulate into spending money, and it seems to turn the receiver into an inattentive, quivering set of reflexes. I can't imagine most of us thinking that would be a desirable world to live in.

Second, I feel that a writer should be able to write something once and it be done with. If I were writing an article for the NYT, I would push back as hard as I could if the publisher wanted to have some AI algorithm tailoring my message to sell a product. That is the opposite of respectable journalism, and perhaps with the exception of novel cases, the opposite of respectable writing in general.

Third, I think we as a society should be able to read someone else's views and be able to exist with the tension of them being somewhat different than ours. I don't want everything personalized to me. Let me learn how other people see things. We as members of society should be able to see ourselves as contributing members of that society and not merely individuals. We need works of thought to parse and debate so we can participate in the Great Conversation that humanity has continued for millennia.

If what you're saying is the direction we are going, I'm not a fan.
Want to Install Elementary OS? Why You Should
I dropped FreeBSD as my main laptop about four years ago (and have invested a fair bit of time on dockerising my experience on ubuntu so going back is hard)

But what I wanted then (and dreamed of having a million or so to make it real) was a FreeBSD reference laptop - basically a distribution of FreeBSD that worked in this laptop series - you bought the laptop and a years support and basically three hackers just kept on producing patches and co-ordinating drivers and making simple tools and simple videos on how to keep your base running.

I work on top of my laptop. I would prefer to just take the barest plain vanilla, and not have to work on my laptop unless I choose to.
My iPhone probably used 0.5 Watt hours in total to display it. Not sure about the assets size though, this could actually be a problem on the server/traffic side.
I mean, Andy Grove is treated like a prophet in SV, and his main thing is treating everything like assembly line work.
A surprisingly popular aesthetic! ^_^
Haven't had a thinkpad for a few years. Are they still dimpled? edit: doesn't look like it
Down the Rabbit Hole of Harvested Personal Data
JavaScript Party 113: Fullstack D3
GitLab has a pretty nice image for running their Community Edition in Docker.

I've investigated it a few times for several Rails applications that I maintain, but I've never completed a rollout. Running Rails on Docker isn't a huge hurdle, but Capistrano's default git-based deploys are just so _easy and fast_ once the server is set up. I also have to balance deploying Docker with ops' expertise.

I do recommend getting a copy of _Docker for Rails Developers_ to avoid needing to read a bunch of disparate blogs, though it covers Docker Swarm instead of Kubernetes.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Docker-Rails-Developers-Applications-...
These "50%" and "90%" claims are significantly higher than the measurements indicate:

https://stats.labs.apnic.net/ipv6 says 16%.

https://www.facebook.com/ipv6/?tab=ipv6_country says 6%.

https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-... says 0.5%.
High contrast is good; problem is on lcd displays you can only achieve it by having high brightness overall, because black isn't really black.

On CRTs you could set a black background, turn your brightness way down and happily code with enough contrast. Even with black on white text you could turn the brightness down somewhat because the black was... black.

Hopefully when OLED becomes usable for something between wall sized TVs and watches, this problem will be gone because there is no backlight so black is again black.
Replacing the main desktop, huh?

That processor sure has the potential. A few modifications to the cooling system and some undervolting can get it running at 30+ Watt TDP indefinitely.
How do I built an audience for my podcast?
I wrote a reaction piece to that one! https://kishorbhat.com/writing/2019/10/14/the-words-dont-flo...
Pretty nasty pressure move to strangle your rival's access to chips. New foundries can't be built over night.
I'm disappointed by the typical Hacker News folks complaining about the presentation format. This isn't the target demographic, and I applaud trying different approaches to convey the seriousness of these issues. The kinds of people who just want a spreadsheet and a PDF report are already bought in on the ideas.

While I find the format a bit cinematic for my taste, I can't help but respect their efforts to drive home the tangible effects of global warming in an emotional way.
I feel like denser housing is always a wildcard as far as any of the folks interested goes.

Bussing much less so.
This is wrong. The studies have shown that there is a point past which more money yields rapidy diminishing happiness returns. That is different from not yielding any additional return at all.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the intent of this post, but I'm reminded of a hilarious Facebook group I used to be in called "I'll handle the business side".

Example of the types of posts screenshotted and shared in said group: "hi i have an excellent idea for a startup, easily compete with Facebook/Google, i need a lead programmer you need to have 10+ years experience in javascript and C. i cannot pay you but if you build a model platform I will look at it and if i like it i will use it for my idea and you will get equity in my company. cannot offer salary. please respond immediately"
With student debt levels approaching the astronomical, and default rates escalating proportionately, I think we generally just have our heads in the sand about how absolutely wrecked we're about to become later on. So "sure, or course everything is great"... for now.
I use one of those too and made the switch rather recently from a MBPr. I used Linux Mint on it.

It's speedy, video calling works fine, can compile lots of code quickly, and it's refurbished and saved from the dumpster.

I hope to never buy a new computer again instead relying on refurbishing old ones as we go along. I keep all of my configurations and projects synced up so that booting up a new computer into my dev environment is straight forward. If I lose the device or it gets totaled it's a couple hundred bucks instead of $4k going out the door to get a new one in a few hours.
who cares if its not a mainstream os? how many people in the world actually cares?
Per the original comment about 5 sq mi:

Based on this random article I found from 2015 [1], the average cost per build able sq ft in Manhattan was getting to $1200.

So, if you magically found 5 sq miles in NYC, it’d cost around $167.3B just for the land [2].

I’m guessing you’d want to build it outside the city and pump it in via aqueduct.

Following the article, an array of off-shore desalinated that pumped water back to the city would probably be the most economically viable solution and could probably be built with other kinds of offshore utility systems to try and share costs.

[1] https://therealdeal.com/issues_articles/486631/
[2] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%241200+per+square+ft+...
Try disabling the trackpad and then just use the trackpoint.
It is perhaps better when thinking about sustainability to not think it terms of "what brands can I consume" but instead "what thing can I avoid consuming altogether"
> we can't actually go to the moon today.

On the same tech we did 50 years ago.
tbf, if you can convince someone you and your cofounders have a better approach to portfolio analysis and sell-side research than all the finance professionals etc doing it [big if] they'll make more investing in you than trying to replicate what you've suggested you might do, and you've got a much more defensible business model than the average founder pitch. Of course, you've also got well-established competition you're not going to beat by scaling really fast and having better marketing
> Firstly, it's not a "problem" when code is released under the GPL. In many cases this is the best way to protect user freedom.

Ah, thanks for the correction.

I went through a legal headache years ago releasing some software and our lawyers strongly urged against *GPL and pushed us to Apache because we would have had severely limited our opportunity for Fortune 500 companies. Apparently many prohibit anything with the letters GPL in the license, despite that the software was free and we were charging for services. It was a long headspinning debate and due to mounting legal fees we went with Apache.
Widespread Outcry in China over Death of Coronavirus Doctor
That's just a tax with makeup. That's why they never work in the real world, and why they fall apart under any political pressure.

The point of the market is that it provides political pressure from companies on both ends so it is insulated from political whims, at least to some degree. If some company wants to grease their local politicians to get exceptions or have the price set low they get pushback from other companies that want to redeem those credits at full price.
I flagged this because it's garbage reporting on something that was published in 2007[1] and 2008[2].

1: https://www.nature.com/news/2007/070521/full/news070521-5.ht...

2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2677413/
>The NEC is, quite frankly, extremely unusual in being a very dense, very linear corridor. The only other corridor in the world with similar circumstances is the Tokaido Shinkansen.

It's too bad the Amtrak NE Regional (and the very slightly-faster Acela "Express") are so horribly inferior to the Tokaido Shinkansen. Riding on an Amtrak feels like a bad joke after riding on any Shinkansen line, in many ways, including both speed and price.
It sure does expire its usefulness. Try running old phpBB forum, Android 4 phone, or browser from 2011. Software degrades into a point of uselessness.
At some point I decided that there's a fundamental difference between working for the government vs. private industry. I'm happy doing much the same thing for the government that I was unhappy doing in private industry or for a government contractor, because it no longer makes sense to give up. To a lot of people, the maze may look the same, but in one case, it's always worth trying to fix, and in the other the whole thing is dispensable.

The maze aspect of a situation, or the immorality aren't really the important things! The thing that matters is whether you have a purpose in participating, to make anything better. When a private company is going down the tubes, there's an inherent non-linear and self-fulfilling type of behavior where people give up when they think others are giving up. It makes a large difference in what can be achieved when giving up is not an option for a significant number of people.
> I wonder why we’re still in emitting large amounts of greenhouse gases now

Because enough people make a LOT of money from the status quo
We could easily go to the moon. It's just a completely useless exercise to do so, unless you can find a way to taunt China into another round of the space race.

The scientific case for the moon was always weak, and most anything they could come up with has been done. Just look at the useless lets-grow-salad-in-space-oh-look-its-just-salad timesinks the ISS has been busying themselves with.

So, in a way we've become much smarter. And SpaceX, a commercial outfit with both solid financials, a good track record on safety, and rather unlimited ambition is probably the most exciting thing happening since the first moon landing.
Also funny when authors rely on 3-line per scroll steps, but you have it set to 5 or 7 system-wide.
BDFL declared Python dict to be ordered in 2017 — It can't be more official than that for Python https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2017-December/1...
i.e., Python 3.7 (whatever implementation must keep the insertion order). CPython keeps the order since Python 3.6. Pypy even before that.
> replicaCount: 1

is an odd default for a chart designed to run in a cluster where pod killing is the _expected_ outcome (https://github.com/lucky-sideburn/KubeInvaders/blob/master/h...)

I guess it depends on how much of the game runs entirely client-side, versus polling an api or whatever
Hello, Elon Musk!
Having something to chase is part of being satisfied.
You don't need batteries to run a reverse osmosis desalinator from solar panels; you can run the desalinator when the sun is shining and store the water.

I'm surprised boats are already moving to lithium. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to tow the batteries in a separate buoy behind the boat?