skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the circle packing does accomplish though is to collect more of the uncovered space into semi-rectangular areas at the edge of the plot, which could be used for other purposes, like buildings or specialty crops. The plumbing is more complex though. One circle is one pipe, 1/2 of the width (sqrt(2)/2 diagonal) Four circles is at least two pipes, 2 width or more and, you might have to run the irrigation sequentially due to flow rate. That could mean time in the field.

I was watching a Joel Salatin video recently and he was pressing the point of having irrigation and other systems where you don’t have to cross the property, on foot or with equipment, to do chores. It’s a huge time sink and some days you will run out of time. If you have to stay for the duration it’s even worse.
This works: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/essentials-programming-langua...
Having worked in megacorporations my entire career, I have seen more than just VC push for "moving fast and breaking things" with little regard to trust and safety.

If you are an engineering manager who is telling your product management and sales folks that you're going to miss the end-of-year contract bonanza because you're going to take the time necessary to get metrics and monitoring, tests, and validation in place to meet an acceptable quality bar, gods help you. You'll be dinged hard for "missing critical deadlines" and promptly replaced with someone who will abuse the team's work/life balance and screw over customers.

But then the new manager will be blamed for burned-out engineers leaving the team and customers raging because of the abuse the company heaps on them.

It's a ruthless cyclical no-win situation that speaks to the need for organized labor in tech.
I know someone who lives just south of the border in Maine. They have told me many times over the years that they see unusual lights sometimes for numerous nights in a row.

I have a few pictures they've taken over the years but honestly it is hard to say what anything in them could be. Not enough magnification in the camera, focusing problems, color saturation, etc. I can confirm that they fit the description of the lights reported in the Loring descriptions.

You can grab the Loring qriteup from the site listed in a post here but you have to navigate through their history page and then almost to the bottom of the historical events they documented. It is a pdf of the events and the investigations.

[Loring AFB - Reading Room - pdf of UFO Event near bottom of list](http://www.loringremembers.com/park/multimedia/reading-room)

After reading this story I decided to see where this Loring SAC base was located. It turns out that the lights this person has observed are close to the old base (tens of miles). I have confirmed that their appearance is not explained by the rise of planets in the evening, stars, etc since I know within a few meters where they were taken and have located ground features visible in the photos on a map.
I meant to imply that the pain of such caused those technologies to invest in autonomy to mitigate needless human labor, but I lost the point when revising the comment. I'll fix it.
Where does R3D source their sensors?
> Flight Sim modding was a thing long before modding for other games...

That’s unlikely to be true, game modding is at least as old as the flight sim franchise.
At my employer, we use a sensible bi-modal approach, where every machine gets a base configuration applied through Puppet, and we consider this The Platform, and any per-machine (or per-use-case) changes should be applied through an Ansible repo.

Puppet lays down those things that the platform "promises"* to provide - syslog, time, auth, DNS, etc, and Ansible does application-specific things.

* - Not a strict promise in the Mark Burgess "Promise Theory" sense, but similar in thought.
What does it mean to say that fossil fuel plants killed exponentially more people?

Isn’t this just the triviality that any two points (with different y values) are exponentially related?
I think the OP's definition of "user" is the end user, meaning the person who sees the ad, not the company placing the ad.

they had to switch to using facebook streaming to make money

This I find hard to believe. The could easily have streamed on another service like YouTube, Zoom, or any of a dozen other solutions. Nobody "has" to switch to Facebook streaming.
It’s actually $120 for the highest deluxe edition, which includes the 787, SFO airport, and Heathrow. I imagine a decent chunk of folks on this site wouldn’t want to play without the decked out SFO experience.
Evolutionary Psychology of Sex Differences with Leif Kennair
Recursive Goodhart's Law
I'm not sure if it's intentional or not but this is what some online stores appear to do (poorly). E.g. suggesting me office chairs after I just ordered one, suggesting motherboards incompatible with a CPU I'm looking at...
Assembler and Hardware Simulator
A Hardware Simulator and an Assembler with its own assembly language, with several Instruction Set, Memory, I/O Architectures supported. Aims to show basic RISC and CISC instruction sets, underlining major differences.

Was developed as a part of a project to help our fellow freshmen students understand Assembly better. Code is open on GitHub, feel free to laugh at us: https://github.com/dariaomelkina/poc_project/
Ironically you'd need hidden cameras to catch guests that place hidden cameras in rentals.
I think that would work with airbnb's rating system as well if the hidden cameras weren't hidden.
Embarrassing reading. I find it hard to believe there's a "science" to menu design that has its own "experts" who don't mention a thing about typography or graphic design. The Z pattern is simply related to the language the menu is set, which for languages of latin origin (and obviously many others) is left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Adding boxes for attention does the opposite most of the time because people will read text in that same fashion. Meaning that if you place a box between two text blocks, it's easier to jump over the box and continue reading the block below than having to find the (now indented) first line inside the box and then having to find the first line of the block below once again. The box breaks the pattern your eyes have been following up to that point. And on, and on, and on...
Even big software vendors whose products auto-update, e.g. Chrome, have to support differing versions to some degree - even if it's just to achieve A/B testing, phased upgrade rollouts, etc.

Being forced to flip the switch for all of your users at the same time can make that an awfully big and scary switch you're about to touch.
Goroutine local storage is the stack? If you don't want to push values down as arguments and want some global state to access it, your code is probably horrible already. Pushing down a context as a value container instead of actual values is horrible too.
My only worry is if one day they decide to stop supporting it (even if it's 10 years in the future) and all of a sudden it's not possible to fly around because the service that streamed map data from the cloud isn't running.
Show HN: Web apps with no ads and no tracking,100% respectful of your privacy
I think it’s really kind of funny that you’ve got all these companies decrying Apple completely destroying their business with onerous conditions. Then you have facebook chiming in. No Facebook. Not you.
Lesser minds?
The Biblical Flood That Will Drown California
To My Friends at Facebook
Anti-nuclear people like to ignore the fact that the status quo _will_ result in many equatorial regions being uninhabitable for thousands of years.
It's in a very specific way only. Have you heard about Jay Inslee?
Isn’t that what academia is for?
Sensors such as CCDs are largely analog devices (up to the A-to-D converter), where thermal noise / shot noise etc. are things that matter. Cooling a CCD via active cooling or a heat sink will help lower the noise floor and improve the signal-to-noise ratio and thus picture quality.
Based on skimming the docs there, you can do infinite loops but may have finite storage (strings are apparently <=64KB and there seems to not be a way to append to arrays). It does have subworkflows, so maybe you could store data in the callstack in some horrendous way, but it's probably also limited in size.
For those who don't know, the five monkeys experiment was completely made up by someone trying to sell books about business and has never been replicated.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/6828/was-the-ex...
I've been reading "Normal Accidents" by Perrow. I started reading the book expecting an even-keeled explanation of risk, but I was pretty shocked by how prejudiced against Nuclear the tone was.

It was also a reminder of how TERRIBLE the industrial design (aka UX) of reactor monitoring and controls were at the time the book was written (1984).

So many of the things he seems to have felt were insurmountable could be solved by better design, something the book goes a long way toward dismissing.

Anti-nuclear sentiment seems to be one of those things that became widely fashionable, and Pro-nuclear became demonized.
I wonder if Google or Microsoft would stop this indirect way of copying through Google Maps. I think Google would claim copyright on the 3d scanned data that is available through Google Maps. Without this the Open Source community wouldn't be able to as easily shovel this over through programs into MSFS.

Though I think Microsoft would be out of harms way for as long as they don't blatantly paste back the user improved buildings. However, obviously not all improvements are gathered from Google Maps and dependent on the scale this might become an issue in detecting these.
The 30% tax that everyone have might actually be a good thing. This makes the market for another OS champion way more likely.
Pop OS mobile? Amazon?
The price to create an OS is humongous so the rewards has to be too.
As someone who grew up on Commodore, DOS/Win, and later Unix, I just never had a problem with case sensitivity or lack of. shrug

99% of the time I use lower-case only filenames, as they are easier to read. The times I don't shell completion and/or GUI selection obviate the need to care anyway. Given the significant complexity of Unicode I'm not sure insensitive is the way of the future.

There was a window of time where insensitive made the most sense, the time of DOS. 8-bit per character filenames, with a very primitive CLI shell, ie. no assistance. Now? In the days when a majority of users don't even see filenames? Meh.
The business model can be the overriding factor. If you're selling to Fortune 500 firms, they will require you to allocate them their own database and application servers. But if you're selling to small/medium business you're in more of a volume business and you can't justify the expense at that price-point.
You have to be able to direct a signal to the thread blocked on the syscall to be terminated.

Go has no way to obtain the Id of that thread. That's what the issue I linked above covers.
This is interesting. I thought they use aerial/satellite data to generate 3D models, didn't know they rely on things like floor number. But isn't floor height vary a lot? Also I guess it's not the only info they use either?
> That being said if it was demonstrated that un collapsed wave functions are somehow more efficient to calculate that would definitely give credence to the simulation hypothesis.

Well said. I can certainly imagine a few functions that may prove to be more efficient at generating waves than fixed known positions + velocity for every subatomic particle in the universe.

Here's the part that really takes us off the rails, if we assume for a minute that we are in a simulation and that the parent world has godlike resources compared to our own and they likely have similar hardware concepts (ram, cpu, gpus, maybe even ASICS) then what functions are more efficient would depend on which hardware they have less of.

If ram is plentiful why not have fixed known values for every particle? Store it in memory and let the gpu detect collisions.

If gpus are plentiful (my guess) and we're bound by ram limitations, best to only store positions of things that are visible and clear the rest out of ram for more important calculations.

Imagine how inefficient it would be to render and simulate black holes colliding on the other side of the universe if the players will never even notice. Just queue up the function and run it on off-peak hours. Save the extra server resources for other simulations running in parallel.

If I'm right - a big if - we're likely an anomaly or early prototype among the simulations, one in which the dev team never imagined a race would evolve and progress enough to measure the bounds of their container. If I'm right again on this last point, we're likely being monitored closely to decide if subsequent patches require more resources to simulate completely and avoid player's realizing they're in a simulation or accept it as a remote possibility and move on.
> If it's detremental to your business to not be able to track users on such a granular level, it's a bad business.

Except that Apple still allows tracking on this granular level, it's just that now they have to explicitly ask users to allow this.

Says a lot about Facebook's (and others) business model if it only works when the vast majority of users are mostly unaware of the amount of tracking they do, but the minute you make these users aware of the tracking and ask for their permission, the business model falls apart.
Well, one side effect of this is developers will rely on App Store adverts to promote their apps, whereas before Facebook ads were an effective way to promote them. So indirectly, Apple will be gaining revenue from this move.
> Everyone today should be absolutely livid over what happened.

Why? Perhaps additional serious nuclear accidents (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_and_radiation_accident...) were avoided because nuclear plants were never built.
If Xbox game pass is available for you, you can also get it for free with a $5 monthly membership.
If you haven't seen it, there's a great community[1] geared toward documentation. Their guide[2] is an excellent starting point on documentation.

1. https://www.writethedocs.org/
2. https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/
Bigger objects of the same weight feel lighter
The article states that the Republican Party is pro-nuclear and anti-government, and the Democratic Party was anti-nuclear and pro-government.

While it seems from the headline that both parties are now pro-nuclear, it is unclear how that will play out at a policy level. Based on the quoted stance of being "technologically-neutral", it may well be the case that Democrats still won't support nuclear power, not because they are against it as a rule but because they see solar and wind as being superior alternatives.
That would be awesome! I'll work on it and add it some time! Opened https://github.com/vinayak-mehta/present/issues/45 to track it :D
It's good to move around a lot, yeah. But in a few years you will find that the position you sit does indeed matter. It's actually super easy to sit "correctly" in a chair though, to avoid the typical problems. I wish I learned it way earlier, because my posture is terrible as a result of my years and years of slouching in chairs at a computer for hours on end. I sat on a stupid wooden chair for most of my teenage years, for literally hours and hours -- and I never sat "correctly" in that chair.

Check out how these guys suggest to adjust their chair -- you can follow this with any adjustable chair and you will be 100% good to go IMO: https://www.hermanmiller.com/content/dam/hermanmiller/docume... (PDF)
Aside: I wish FS2020 had more indepth tutorials, more focus towards learning how to fly properly and a ground school with missions. The built-in tutorial is so lacking, it doesn't even teach you how to use a VOR for navigation. I think they've done simulation/realism of the physics right and the way the airplane feels is very real - just the education part should be more of a focus than the pure entertainment bits.
sincerely, why do this in the first place?
I still haven't heard a convincing protocol for long term storage of spent fuel. That's even worse than a remotely possible nuclear disaster: because unless a solution is found, it's a certainty.
Computers are hard to manage as easily as our codebases for a lot of reasons. But it should also be known that the field is fairly young and there's a lot of competing ideas while we're trying to keep the lights on with software from several decades ago that keep paying the bills. This is not a challenge that we incentivize our best engineers to tackle necessarily because our industry currently values pumping out more features than actually streamlining existing features. It's also not clear whether some of these problems can be solved with "better" engineering rather than a completely new way of approaching software systems. From a project / engineer alignment perspective, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JNXx8VdbAE
Lua isn't homoiconic, though.

This is basically Lisp without the parentheses.
The first version of Flight Sim dates from 1983.

I remember commercial addons being sold IN STORES by the mid 90s.
That’s the sensor area. GP is referring to the diameter of the wafer, on which you can fit many 36x24mm full frame sensors. Larger wafers improve throughput and thus reduce cost per sensor.
> nuclear accidents can make a place uninhabitable for thousands of years

Note that this is not special to nuclear materials; it's true for a good chunk of industrial chemistry in general as well.

> peak uranium

I'll need to look up some more up-to-date numbers, but going by https://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_162.shtml, there's more than enough for couple centuries (and new reactor designs can make one-two orders of magnitude better use of what's available).

But even if we only had 100 years worth of nuclear fuel reserve, that's more than enough to fix the climate problem and fully develop renewables (possibly including orbital collectors). Or who knows, maybe even fusion.
And just more specific tutorials for plane types.

But YouTube has been great for that.
>How does this explain different phenotypes in grouped populations?

Random fixation and/or founder effect, among a myriad of effects that don't involve natural selection.

>Let's say for instance that a species of ant is known to be more aggressive, why it was that way is probably generic drift. Why it stays that way is because of its environment, and it is selected for.

Or the different alleles for aggressiveness (whatever that means, and assuming they exist) got fixed due to drift? Who knows. The burden of proof is on the adaptationist to show that something other than contingency happened.
If your config files don't have more comments than code; you're doing it wrong.

Filed under things that have been true since the 1970's if not before.
The government could never build an important highly advanced technical project in a hurry; the atomic bomb project should have been put out to the private sector. /S
uBlock Origin worked great too!
I appreciate this response. However the “cellular” is represented by the minimal computational data structure to simulate the gas. There is no automata. Ordinary physics, adhered to as closely as possible, and not phantasmagoric creation and annihilation rules, are used to calculate the next state.
One of brain’s responsibilities is to model the environment, which means modeling all it’s parts. Since each brain is unique - those models are different and “personal”. Physical stimuli evoke some of those models and that’s what we call “blue color” or whatever else we’re experiencing.

I don’t think I understand the problem enough to understand why it’s a problem.
It's not just that "The existing regulatory structure for nuclear power was designed for the previous generation of reactors."

It was designed specifically to bankrupt them. It was designed to make them unprofitable.

Just changing an ordinary light bulb in a nuclear power plant is all sorts of certification and paperwork.

There was a ratchet effect on regulations. You could always add more, but nobody would take responsibility for removing regulations. The existence of regulations makes the reactors seem even more terrifying (because why else need the regulations) and then the resulting terror was used to justify more regulations.
My understanding is that at least until recently, it was illegal in many states for stores to charge customers a different price for cash and credit, but that gas stations lobbied for an exemption. But I don't know the current state of the laws.
Would there even be one?
The problem comes from a typo by an OSM editor, as they also import OSM data for some areas (this is a 2 way relationship, they allow OSM to trace their satellite images to build out OSM's database)
Monitoring Chips After Manufacturing
@notahacker was not talking about the original MCAS, but about the patch to it -- the modifications now under development to fix the problems.
Seconded, that sounds interesting and a brief search didn't turn up anything promising.
Do you know of any good courses on developing compilers for static languages?
I’m curious, why wouldn’t a private owner just clear cut all of the land for maximum value? Private land owners choose short term windfall over long term sustainability all the time. I don’t see why private owners would preserve old growth forests if the lumber is more financially profitable when cut down and sold.
Does this scale?
Thanks for that.

I'd say that's the type of stuff that insecure people do. As a manager (the one that made hire and fire decisions), I saw this type of behavior from folks across the age range. I'd gently suggest that, were you to look around, you'd see others behaving in similar manner; but, for whatever reason, you are noticing it more with this chap.

I remember seeing that attractive folks (of any gender) tended to have these types of behaviors ignored, and "attractive" doesn't just mean someone with whom we want to bump uglies, but also people that satisfy our confirmation bias.

I know that I had to constantly be examining that. I worked in an extremely diverse environment, and managed a lot of folks with a lot of quirks (and brains).
There is a whole industry that has been set up around cleaning and servicing Airbnb rooms. With financial incentives, I don’t see why these services couldn’t be co-opted to also screen for cameras, as part of their regular cleaning. This is just another component of client safety. Would this eliminate the problem? No. But it sure as hell would help.

Making hosts civilly liability for these hidden cameras, unless they can demonstrate they’ve taken proper steps to ensure safety, would motivate this change. Of course hosts will won’t like it, but it’s not as if these people are going to stop renting out their rooms; it’s too financially lucrative.