skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For space-based solar to be efficient, ie for it to be better than just installing normal solar panels, the beamed energy would have to be at least as powerful as sunlight (1000watts per square meter). That is a very very high bar to overcome. Compared to the simplicity of solar+batteries, I don't see a future for beaming solar energy down from space. Maybe once every square meter of roof space has been dedicated to solar panels, once every city is essentially blanketed in panels, then it may be time to turn to space for more energy.

One might say that space-based solar would operate 24/7 and so is better than normal solar panels. That's isn't reality. Low-orbit satellites spend half their day in darkness too. To hit a receiver on the night side of earth a satellite would have to be at a very high orbit, reducing beam efficiency and increasing launch costs.
It’s also a chicken and egg problem; it’s hard to build strong cycling traditions while cycling is poorly supported and dangerous.

It’s more than needing to reduce speed. Many countries need to completely invert their mode of thinking; an hypothetical space alien in some cities would be forgiven for assuming that cars actually rule and humans serve. We’ve come to act like the fast movement of cars is the highest social good, and anything that slows traffic is heresy. We need to get back to a point about asking what the people of a city need, not just the commuters.
You mean an Alexandrian solution (to a Gordian knot?)
This looks like an excerpt from the in-progress book mentioned on the author’s web site: http://rozannatravis.com/
15-year old publishes an article in NEJM
You could just serve a webpage that queries your desktop, and visit that with the browser on your phone. Slightly more work, but definitely viable.
You can even make a shortcut on the home screen of your phone that automatically navigates to your custom search page.
Have you considered that maybe the implicit social planning idea here is "these folks really don't need to know about calculus"? All this reminds me of throwing babies and books on top of electrified floors in Brave New World ..
They are not morally superior to others. They just have more ownership over open source projects. They can decide what project roadmap is, they can spam your terminal with ads[1] and they can even remove or abandon the project.

Only people that feel that they are morally superior would go to project issue tracker or public forum and tell maintainer what they can do with their own project. If you do not like it, you can stop using material-ui. At least stop naming people assholes just because they disagree with you.

Olivier Tassinari created one of the highest quality react UI toolkit used literally by everybody. My interactions with him on issue tracker were always positive.

[1] https://github.com/npm/policies/blob/master/open-source-term...
In the model you propose, what would I think instead of “this box is full of water”?
Due to the surprisingly high number of thromboembolic events they recommend prophylactic Heparin treatment even for ambulatory care COVID-19 patients.
I live in Los Angeles; it’s been glorious how clean our air is. We’ve been able to see the Hollywood sign miles further away than you typically can, because of the haze.
The tricky thing about search AdWords, different from AdSense, is that for search AdWords, ad revenue comes in when the search results are bad.

Snippets generate revenue due to brand loyalty in the from of future searches.
How to Cope with Stress
> The official reason is that the "internals of Git" weren't conduce to the kinds of invasive changes they needed/wanted. But I think the truth is closer to being that it was going to be too hard/slow to get those invasive changes past the Git mailing list.

Which is about the same thing, mercurial was built to be at least somewhat pluggable, so facebook could build their extensions independently, and work to get a subset of them integrated into mainline. Git is designed so it can be built on top of, but not really under or within.
I don't disagree with the idea that game companies want a captive audience, and I loathe the microtransaction economy and psychological tricks that fill my games with distractions, but I'm not sure if that's directly related to the lack of community servers.

I only play Valve games (CSGO, TF2, L4D2), so I don't know how true it is of other companies, but you can still run your own game servers. If anything, it's easier to do so now than it used to be. Few people do it, because the Valve-run servers are easier to interact with and they're good enough for what most people want.

The community tried to handle cheaters before, but they weren't good at it. It relied on admins being present, and put the onus on them to identify and kick/ban cheaters. In a large-enough active gaming community, admins were around often enough, but the best they could do was guess at who was cheating. Sure, the egregious cases were obvious, but there was rarely definitive proof, and people who were subtle could cheat without getting caught. Good players who didn't cheat were also the victim of constant accusations. I was banned from plenty of servers just for having a good night and winning.

I'm glad that anti-cheat software has gotten good enough that it works for casual play. It's rare that I see anything in CSGO these days that looks like cheating. Sure, it's out there, but it's not very common. On busy weekends as a server admin, I used to kick and ban dozens of people. On the public servers now, I might run into a couple suspicious people all weekend.

I don't see companies running servers as directly related. At least in these Valve games, I still get the marketing spam through the Steam client and in the games themselves, and I can still use all the cosmetic junk whether I'm playing on an official server or a private server.

It's better now.
WebKit is a browser engine, not a search engine.
I am not confusing CCP with the entirety of Chinese people, culture and history, as I have already explained elsewhere.

I am, however, claiming that the CCP is massively intertwined with mainland Chinese people. See this article that explains this in more detail: https://oxfordpoliticalreview.com/amp/2020/04/24/china-serie...

So if you say "I am against CCP, not the Chinese people", then that statement only makes sense if you exclude "many many mainlanders" from the definition of "Chinese people". Which makes the statement rather weak, or even nonsensical.

You say that if we accept this intertwine, it makes criticism impossible. Not so. You can still criticize the CCP, but you need to be more nuanced with your criticism, do more due diligence instead of merely rehashing western narratives, and realize that you're criticizing the CCP and the people at the same time (which could be entirely legit).

I therefore argue that recognizing the CCP - mainland people intertwine is a good thing, as it makes criticism more honest, more accurate, and possibly more helpful/constructive. No longer can you put all the blame on "just the bad guys" -- all of us mainlanders are complicit in some sense. We all own the problem, so we can't stop at just blaming, and have to actually find a solution.
I'd argue that time would be better spent actually learning any single stack properly.
"Italian"
If you want to know more about the atomic css-in-js Facebook is using, check my article
https://sebastienlorber.com/atomic-css-in-js
I've been developing for 30+ years and I honestly don't see much of a productivity benefit using multiple monitors. I work differently when I have them, but not necessarily more efficiently. I find the head moving required to use multiple monitors more annoying than just alt-tabbing between windows. The only major exception is if I'm doing intense UI or visualization work and I want to see my code and the output at the same time. But even then, most of the time I can just resize my windows on a single screen.

Different strokes for different folks and all that, but, anecdotally, having been tech lead for various sized groups as well, I never saw a performance boost when people got the multiple monitors they always wanted, either.

I think part of it is that I find building a mental space of what I'm working on is the most important thing, and having tons of screen real estate acts as a replacement for that and thus goes against it, ultimately causing me to perform worse.
Why Introverts Are the Best Leaders
Show HN: Paccurate – An API to put things in other things
Hi folks. Paccurate is our first product after working freelance in the logistics tech space for 5 years. The business has been off to a great start, but we've had the most fun seeing the API used in hackathons and other creative venues. Eager to see what applications HN can come up with.

Quickstart: Just paste this in your terminal.

curl -X POST -d '{ "itemSets": [{ "refId": 0, "dimensions": {"x": 5.5, "y": 6, "z": 6}, "quantity": 3 }], "boxTypeSets":["fedex"] }' api.paccurate.io/
It does eliminate most of wallhack opportunities, unlike CS:GO/PUBG/CoD:Warzone/Valorant.
Social group sizes, Dunbar's number and implications for communities of practice
> But part of me worried that I wasn’t seen as enough of a threat to warrant intervention from casino management. Maybe it meant that I wasn’t as good at this as I thought. Maybe I didn’t belong with the team after all.

She felt like because she never got caught, she "wasn't good enough"? How does that make any sense? I get self confidence issues are often irrational but, c'mon...

That's like a criminal lamenting that they weren't a very good criminal because the police could never catch them; everyone knows real criminals get caught and arrested.
I'm referring mainly to the idiomatic fanfold PSR doc comments which litter PHP codebases along with the head-scratching practice of inserting a blank line between each line of code, the upshot of which is that you're lucky to be able to read 10 lines of code on a screen without scrolling.
The problem for the Fediverse will always be domains, in my opinion. It sounds silly to the technical demographic, but to a normal person, it is a massive issue.

"Which server do I choose to get in bed with?"

It's not just a question of which server do you trust to be a good actor and to not shut down tomorrow. It's also a question of which domain name do you want associated with your user account?

Do you want alice@cucumbers.pizza? Or do you want alice@witches.bike?

I believe that gmail won email not because of security and good user experience. I think they won because it removed the complexity of this problem.

When I sign up for gmail, I can just be myself. I don't have to be myself + something else.

Consequently, this is the strength of P2P networks. Remove the domain question entirely. I _am_ just a long string of characters (which is like my essence), but people call me by my name. Just like in normal life.
Was the car turning right, by chance? I only ask cause I was almost hit once while out walking in a similar situation. All because cars turning right often don't actually stop at red lights, feeling that can keep going as normal, especially if no traffic is coming the other way. I wish the US would do away with that law, and strictly enforce it for a while. It'd make things a little bit safer, at least.
Submitting duplicates is not impossible indefinitely, just for something like 12 hours.

(And yes, it's quite random whether even a good submission ends up on the front page or not. But there's no point in complaining about it in the comments. Linking to earlier submissions mostly makes sense if there's interesting discussion there.)
I was fascinated by a "puzzle version" of this problem as a child, and a couple of years ago I wrote some little Processing applets to explore the idea of "gamifying" it:

https://cjauvin.blogspot.com/2012/02/implicit-bridges.html

https://cjauvin.blogspot.com/2012/02/eulerian-hoax.html
This is the future of hardware. Specialized chips baked for a focused application.
The people that want everything made explicit and all lies banished from human relations lost, have always lost, and will always lose.

I recognize that for some this imposes significant hardship but changing everyone else’s human nature is not a reasonable accommodation.

The kindest thing those of us that know young people of this type can do is pull them aside and explain how the world works. It is unkind to feed their delusions by vigorously agreeing with them online and then turning around and continuing to act pragmatically in our own lives.
I like microframeworks because they do one thing well and they don't in the way - like a library. When I use batteries-included frameworks, I end up not using a lot of what they offer.
Sprite_tm! His hacks are always tasteful.
Count your blessings, and read the articles I posted about Evan Spiegel, then you'll feel like you met one of them, then you'll want to take a shower, and then you'll appreciate all your decent open minded friends you're lucky to have.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23124729

And it's not just Tech Bros, it's Frat Bros in general. See: Jared Kushner.

https://www.businessinsider.nl/coronavirus-kushner-impact-te...

>Jared Kushner’s coronavirus ‘impact team’ mocked as the ‘Slim Suit Crowd’ and a ‘frat party’ descended from a UFO
But maybe they are? I mean, if you agree on differences ("in some respects"), how can you then seriously expect to not see any differences in outcome at the end?
You're just filling comments with strawman arguments now.

Good luck with life buddy.
BTW : with so many smart and connected people interested in source control management in one place, does anyone know what happened to veracity scm (http://veracity-scm.com)?

It was very promising but the suddenly stopped updating and then (more or less intentionally it seemed) links stopped working, but the site is still up 7 years later...
Daughter is an architect. She's been doing origami since early kidhood, and I marvel at the intricacy of the models she now handcrafts. Point being, like anything, the art of patience takes... practice. Tons of practice.
I think it's more that they were hired on as typists and secretaries, basically the only office professions that women could have at that time.
Think of it this way, it can be uses safely on high altitude and trans-oceanic flights which means less fossil fuel usage,less fuel-weight to carry and more flight capacity (even lower carbon footprint).
Or just move it a few more sentences away from MacKenzies name, or possibly add some more HTML tag gunk to separate it, or out then author's name near the phone number.
Humans are social creatures and very little of what we do is innate, and we have extremely flexible brains which change based on use. Social cues and training are enormously influential, and arguments based on biological determinism have a steep bar to reach controlling for those factors. For example, there are significant variations around the world on math and science academic performance so it’s unlikely to be innate. Even when you do find differences in a study (e.g. spatial reasoning) it takes years to test whether those are due to practice (i.e. are children equally encouraged to develop those skills?) and also establish whether those low-level differences are key to a high-level task.

There are some low-level differences (e.g. ratios of different cell types in the brain) but there’s no conclusive evidence linking that to academic skills or job performance (just how does 3-d reasoning affect your ability to write Python, anyway?), but there has been a history of earlier results attributed to gender not holding up under scrutiny.
The real frat people are in management (men and women). They are socially adept enough to hide their actual opinions and oppress "lower class" women and men equally.

The struggle between men and women benefits their divide et impera strategy, because playing people off against each other while maintaining an irrational authority is their main talent.
Minecraft is one of the most popular games and servers are self hosted (aside from realms, which was added later and is not used by most people)
Huh? They are growing, not surving. It was the same thing back in the day. When we migrated from Ustream.tv to Justin.tv in 2010, gaming became their largest section and continued to grow ever since. So it made sense to spin it off, as the non-gaming content was mostly regarded as clutter and the illegal streams of Simpsons and the like that I mentioned in another comment were issues too.

Not sure why you address that line as the name is obviously not good and the "sounds nice" doesn't refer to any name.
Based on the responses here, it is apparent that I should spend some time documenting this concept in more detail for the greater good. I do not have the bandwidth for this right now, but perhaps in a few weeks I'll have time to put together some realistic examples for a proper Show HN submission.
Not the OP, but I enjoy playing R6 with bots more than with other people. However, unlike CSGO, R6 doesn't allow you to team up with bots and that makes it a lot more boring.
A lot of them get into management by starting out as Tech Bros, then rising to their level of incompetence.

But in the case of SnapChat and Uber (and many other tech companies), the founders were literally (and archetypically) both Frat Bros and Tech Bros, who set the tone and culture for the entire company, and rampantly hired other Frat Bros from their own Frats, at all levels of incompetency.

Incompetent nepotistic job placement is basically what frats are all about. (Once you get past all that other stuff that Andrew Moisey documented.)

“This is what our leaders looked like when they were young.” -Andrew Moisey
> it isn't "the rich" who need cars to drive to the city center.

What sort of data would convince you this statement is true or false? As expected, car ownership rate increases with income [1,2]. But not sure if this is the right thing to look at. The first reference also says that only 50% of the poorest people (income<25K and ~50% of population) own cars even if they have children, but 85%+ of higher incomes own cars, irrespective of whether they have children.

[1] http://content.tfl.gov.uk/technical-note-12-how-many-cars-ar...
[2] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personal...
Because it used by one party — the GOP — as a voter suppression tactic.
> Yes, and for most people in America, this is unquestionably the case.

Maybe you should start questioning it. AFAICT, people in other developed countries enjoy comparable day to day freedoms.

> It's debatable that the US public defender system somehow mitigates this impingement less effectively than any other Western country

The original argument you engaged with was about a complete lack of public defenders in the past.

> The US's copyright laws are on par with those in most of the Western world

Empirically this is not true - eg most VPN providers prohibit torrenting on US exit nodes. And international copyright infringement inducers (eg Kim Dotcom) aren't prosecuted strongly in their own countries, but rather extradited to the US.

Overall, this refrain of "freedom" is actually blinding and counterproductive. And this doesn't change when it's limited to "negative freedom". Unquestioning assertions of "We're #1" erode our rights - detailed critiques preserve them.
What about Chris Smalls? Is what he did also an “ultimate sin”?

Should your logic be applied there?
The information in the snippet was correct.
Observations from an Author and Librarian
Seems to be 12 patients, not 192. Typo in your title?
I was where you’re at 15 years ago; my language of choice was C++/Boost. I was advised to try C, not because it is a good language, but because it’s so hard to use, it helps you focus on the exact problem you need to solve. To this day I always “do one in C; do one in X”. I think Python (substitute any ‘batteries included’ language) can be good for this, too, as there’s no need to Yak shave with them.
{fmt}, a modern formatting library for C++
The studies looked at predicted life expectancy when you consider the various health benefits of cycling vs increased severity of road accidents and expose to pollution. They don’t need to model for survivor bias, they weren’t tracking individuals, but deriving specific population stats from larger general populations stats.

> The author of it died in a bike crash.

I’m not sure what your point is?

People die that’s not a surprise, the fact the author died in a bike crash doesn’t invalidate their work.

Doctors die of smoking, some scientists studying nutrition are fat. None of that changes the validity of their work.
White nationalist as in nationalist conservative [1].

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/07/nationa...
Thanks for the tip; I'll check R6 out.
> Just because you picked Spring Database to implement your persistence layer it doesn't mean you are bound to Spring to add a webapi or a web app, though.

I agree, you're definitely not bound to, but again, in theory. For what I've observed in practice, factors like convenience and friction in going off the beaten path mean that when you pick Spring your app ends up being 90% Spring stuff. Which is not necessarily bad, there are certainly many good things about using the well supported, robust, and predictable set of Spring components. But I wouldn't say that Spring is the kind of framework that merely helps you tie together your app, that otherwise stays out of the way, and that you can swap out at any time.
It does a memory map (mmap). Your file is addressed in virtual memory. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mmap and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory-mapped_file
I agree it never made much sense for games like wow, but I preferred games where you could host yourself and tweak a thousand knobs and add mods and whatnot and integrate it into a website thanks to rcon. I'm not really gaming anymore for more than a decade but I'd be surprised if there aren't still games around that ship with server software. Just not the triple As anymore.
What is this that I'm looking at in the response?
> What's that, standup comedy for psychos?

You’ve got it backwards. No “psycho” would consider it funny; they would just consider murder something normal one could conceivably do with a hammer. There is nothing funny about it, to them; it’s just normal.

The murder joke was only funny to those people who consider murder something utterly unthinkable. It is its very outlandishness which creates the humor.

If it is no longer considered funny today, it can mean a few things: Either more people now believe that there are more “psychos” than they thought previously, or an extraordinary number of people have turned into “psychos”. Or possibly both.
"I do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions."