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I understand that you may value your neighborhood.

But I think it is tyrannical for you to tell other people they can't safely develop on their property "because you say so". Why should your vote cancel out that of another citizen who wants to build on their own property? What gives you the right? Why don't you and your neighbors buy the property around you if you want to keep it as is?

Zoning laws are a modern invention. Historically everyone lived in mixed in neighborhoods. The businesses, the business owners, and the workers all needed to be near each other. Commuter train service started changing that, and then the automobile, allowing the rich to separate form the poor. A good bit of current zoning practices originated in the last century for classist and racist reasons, mandating the size of lots and houses to keep poor people out.

The regulatory restrictions on the housing supply cause houses to cost more. I assume you would agree? I feel bad for young people who can't afford a house. Will millennials needs to wait for boomers to die before they can afford to get into a house? It worries me that hedgefunds are buying more and more houses, because it is a rigged market and profitable. It embarrasses me that we don't let homeless people pitch a tent and live somewhere besides hiding in underpasses.

Japan is an example of a country that I would say has better zoning regulations. The regulations are set at a federal level, not by municipalities. As the concentration of residents in an area increases the buildings are allowed to increase in height and more businesses are allowed in the area. Industrial areas are kept separate. It is permissible to build housing in an industrial area if one wants to, but not the other way around. That seems logical and fair to me.

San Francisco is a good example of the problems caused by restrictive zoning. It appears that folks who didn't want to change the character of their neighborhood have changed it quite a bit. The San Francisco of today is nothing like it was two generations ago. Only certain people can afford to live there now. Instead of hippies, free thinkers, and musicians it is now a place known for overpaid tech workers, NIMBYs, and bums. It is so dysfunctional that teachers, fire, and police workers can't afford to live there anymore. Is that the character that current property owners cherish? Or their ever increasing property values?
Not necessarily. This expression probably refers to Qt's capability to use the subset of native widgets that are functionally equivalent across platforms. This blog post has some images of this feature in action: https://www.qt.io/blog/desktop-styling-with-qt-quick-control...
As far as I know, landlords are not known for possessing any of the qualities you list. Indeed, what is special and unusual about this situation might not be the bakery itself, but the landlord of that particular bakery. There might be thousands of such potential bakeries all over, but for the fact that the profits are extracted by the landlords, and this might be the normal state of things. We would have no way to tell.
> operating a nuclear reactor today is expensive due to regulatory constraints meant to prevent nuclear weapon proliferation

The way I read that, you seem to imply that this cost dominates all others. If you do mean that, i'd like to see a citation please.
I've been working on Chord Pro (https://datacrayon.com/shop/product/chord-pro/) for interactive data visualisation with chord diagrams... adding more features over time. It's a fun project, but it's operating at a loss if I factor in my time!
Doesn't work for me on Ubuntu 20. I've bought pretty much all those available on steam.
It's amusing in a dark and cynical way that this was the second time they'd managed to screw up in regards to EMS/XMS.

JEMM, integrated into Ultima 7, made that particular title hellish to get working. You needed to find a mouse driver that was small enough to fit in conventional memory because JEMM wouldn't work with EMM386.SYS or QEMM386.SYS loaded and would not let you play if either were loaded or you didn't have enough conventional memory.

Their best efforts to make the game friendly to people who didn't have the technical knowledge to deal with EMS/XMS actually made it significantly harder for non-technical users AND technical users alike!
Don't forget us network engineers who want to move abroad :) Would love to see a category for that
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> I also notice that lots of comments seem to be coming from front-end or customer-based companies. For backend and b2b, 2 weeks sprint for some new functionality is funny.

I develop internal tooling for a b2b company, and we ship features multiple times a week. Much of that is backend.

Often not huge features, but still features that make life easier for colleagues.
Why do you think the funding has been so low?
I will look out of an engineer’s curiosity, but as a customer, I already have one; I have no need nor want for a second one.

In 5 minutes of googling for "commercial battery leaf blower" and "backpack battery leaf blower", it looks like they're mostly still in the 500-600W (2/3 HP) range with a couple hitting around 1000W, even for the backpack units.
If you try to coordinate design and manufacturing among 35 participating states, delays tend to happen.

Perhaps also noteworthy from a historical perspective is that the whole thing was proposed by the Soviet Union, which doesn't even exist anymore. The US also pulled out of the collaboration in '98, necessitating a redesign; they rejoined in 2003, but congress periodically tries to pull the plug...
This is proven to be a physical illusion because the light sensor (camera) is capturing the same image as the two light sensors in your head (eyes). So no person would see the "correct" thing because the light in the scene is actually rendering this image with minimal interpretive transformations from the mind (this is in contrast to cognitive illusions). Unless there is a person with some extreme sensitivity to the polarization or color of the reflected light but that is probably unlikely.
Way off topic for a discussion about schools, but your comment reminds and enrages me about Abu Graib and how they court marshaled a few low level enlisted soldiers and nothing happened to the colonels, generals, and high level DoD officials who were responsible for, and well aware of, the conditions at that prison.
The monkeys in that picture were the picture representation of the "Africans" in that book.

Your ridiculous deflection is saddening. You yourself stated the criteria the publisher made their decision under, and now you will act like you have not said it

Edit: the very image you linked shows "the African island of Yerka", where they're retrieving the bird from, and you expect me to believe you can't see the implication that the monkeys in skirts holding the shaped bar the bird resides on are the African residents of that island?
"Income" is just a proxy for providing resources.

It's simply unreasonable to assume that the Sentinelese men who are best at procuring food/resources/etc aren't more desirable than their peers. Social status is likely a factor as well.

Authority is often derived in tribal cultures from being the best hunter/warrior, or being the son of the best fighter if the tribe has a monarchal structure of leadership transfer.

Not that any of us know, because the Sentanalese will kill us on site as trespassers if we show up on their islands.
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What we need is a SpaceX style company to accelerate development of fusion reactors. Elon make it so!

Although perhaps not with so many explosions...
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So much cheaper to pay hotels...?
It's true that the spending of the poor tends to be concentrated on the "basics": food, housing, transportation, childcare, utilities. Such a situation is inherently subject to more pricing risk. Relatively wealthier people might forego cable TV for six months in order to pay for unexpected car repairs, but that wouldn't be an option for someone who doesn't have cable TV in the first place. Still, your objection has it backwards. Yes, the poor face a relatively limited range of choices in how they can live in an arbitrarily unfair society like ours. However, increasing the income of the poor increases their choices, period. We don't know in advance how exactly they will react to this increased choice, but it's extremely unlikely that their reaction will be to give all the extra money to the same asshole landlord. A more reliable car might allow a family to live in a completely different neighborhood. Working a single job instead of two might allow a parent to spend less on childcare. And so on. Poor people are humans with imagination, not rent-payment-maximizing automatons.

I don't claim to know anything about your town, but I've lived lots of places and in general, in order to really fuck people over the bastards first have to limit their freedom somehow. Are there only certain parts of town in which the poor are allowed to live? Has public transportation been limited in arbitrary ways? Do zoning regs or HOAs enforce impractical restrictions on housing? Would it be OK if your neighbor parked a mobile home and camper behind her house for her recently-divorced sister-in-law plus five kids? What if her nephew and his girlfriend also moved out back?
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Technically speaking we already have « fusion ».

The problem is we don’t have « stable fusion » this one will take another 5-6 years.

Then we need « positive yielding fusion » today fusion has negative yield... that’s another 5 -10 years at least.

Finally we need «commercial scale fusion reactor » like France did with their Nuclear Reactor massive investment from post war to today in order to make cost and delay acceptable.

That would be 2040 at least for industrial nuclear fusion.

I have no idea what humanity will look like in that timeframe.
Sounds like you'd be happier using Workers Sites, which has been available for over a year. https://blog.cloudflare.com/workers-sites/

The point of Cloudflare Pages is to provide the CI for you, which some people want. If you don't want that, then keep using Workers Sites.
>The teachers are basically heroes.

What? Why are the teachers basically heroes for letting a student to the next grade while he's failing that much? And also not informing the parent about it? Huh?
The parent project, NodeGUI, has some Windows screenshots and examples – I’m not familiar enough with Fluent or WinUI, but basically the UI runtime is Qt5, so integrating it into genuine Windows apps is out of scope (but may well be possible with the right expertise). I assume it would involve some kind of Qt-hosting view. I’m unsure whether Qt5 can host Windows UI components.

Edit: NodeGUI here: https://github.com/nodegui/nodegui
Honestly I think the grid will change over coming years. The cities will remain similar but rural towns and remote homes will be switched to local power or limited connectivity. It’s too expensive to maintain a modern grid. Connecting power used to be closely related to phone, but this is less the case with cell and satellite service. Also building utilities can be amortized in a way that assumes the entire population in a region are captured customers. But as individual homes start generating power instead of consuming it, those methods of paying for the grid no longer make sense.
Looks really good! At first glance, this seems like probably the best Electron alternative I've seen posted on HN.

Apart from the consistent GUI layer, I think an underrated reason that many teams stick with Electron is the mature tooling for cross-platform builds and upgrades. It's pretty painful to DIY.

It looks like NodeGUI doesn't currently support cross-compilation--is that something that's on the roadmap? How about upgrade/auto-upgrade tooling? Code signing?
I am doubtful that is something I will see in my lifetime, but there are loads of reasons why people would want it. For a start in New Zealand we pay a lot more to the grid operators than I pay to generators for power most of the time, the only exceptions being large spikes in power prices due to shortages.
It's a lot easier to put an effective muffler on a generator than on a leaf blower that is person-portable.

I just looked at the stats for some Honda generators and they have a 7000-W unit with 120v and 240v outputs that runs at 52-58dB.

A new mid-range California (CARB)-compliant Echo gas leaf blower comes in at 74dB.
> THEY own the rights to

these rights are supposed to protect compensation, not as a means of suppression or censorship.

Why should society protect IP for this purpose, or compensate IP owners for which there are no damages?
You are both correct :) Tritium is used for boosting fission bombs, lithium (lithium 6/7 deuterides) as fusion fuel in thermonuclear bombs.
I'm not an expert on the topic, but as Jeff Hawkings says in the video, the differences are caused by the fact that different areas of neocortex are connected to different inputs. The underlying structure is uniform, which can adapt to different inputs.
This is pretty much spot on. A common pithy complaint about US schools is that they're funded by property taxes, so it must be all that extra money the nice suburban schools get that makes them successful.

Unfortunately, that's completely wrong. The worst-of-the-worst schools, especially in cities (maybe also out in the sticks, I have less visibility into that) get tons of extra money (state, feds, non-profit grants, et c.), such that they're not-uncommonly spending more per student than their "rich" counterparts, paying their teachers more, and so on.

The reason that's so unfortunate is because if funding failing schools equally to "good" schools, or even somewhat better than them, made meaningful progress to solving the problem, that'd be a relatively easy thing to do.

It turns out, instead, that any actually-helpful approach to fixing US schools amounts to "solve poverty". That's a much bigger problem, is much more expensive, is much more complex, and is far harder to sell, politically. One finds oneself immediately in the weeds of trying to fix US labor relations, wealth inequality, and our social safety net. But that's what has to be done to really fix the problems with our schools. Everything short of that is just a show put on so it looks like "we're doing something about it".

[EDIT] instead of down-votes I'd love a pointer to a more tractable solution than "solve poverty", but everything I've seen so far indicates that's the only thing that's gonna work and that the wonderfully simple solution of "fund schools equally" has little or no effect. AFAIK the only thing we've tried that even kinda worked was so-called "bussing", but that was so wildly unpopular (and not just among the people you'd expect to have hated it) that I can't imagine anyone having the guts to propose it again.
I don't think everyone who uses that term has an agenda. I'm sure most have good intentions, or just are naturally attracted to new buzzwords. It just so happens the term does play into the agenda of those who have one and who manipulate others psychologically in this way.

The whole topic is a sensitive one. I'm sure a sizeable number here on HN derive some direct or indirect profit from such practices (running, being employed in or having stock in a company that does this sort of thing, especially FAANGs) while also having some dissonant misgivings about how the internet and technology is evolving. Terms like 'dark patterns' only serve to deepen this confusion and create additional moral distance between such tech workers and the consequences of their work, even if they are not necessarily intended to be nefarious: therefore, we ought to discourage it whenever possible.

Of course, in the grand scheme of things, none of what I say here will actually have an effect on any of this, but it's fun to discuss these topics all the same.

In any case, I don't see how any of this can be inferred from that single original sentence, but I'll take your word for it.
I think the statement is that looks and political views are both observable variables that are dependent the same latent variable (genetics). And that through this link, you may be able to (at least partially) infer one observable variable when given the other.
Let's say there's a software tech lead and they've been code reviewing patches from a junior software engineer at your company. There are no tests, no CI to validate it, and it probably doesn't even compile... That tech lead approves that patch and that junior engineer deploys the code, taking down your site. Who is at fault here?

The tech lead. Sure, the system is broken to have even allowed this situation to occur, but the tech lead failed everybody by approving those patches.

This kid may have been absent and neglecting their studies, but the school kept promoting them to the next grade and didn't even attempt to take corrective actions by contacting the parent. They failed to do THEIR job and allowed for it to get to this point.
current US Pres Admin. there was a memo. did you not get it?
Right. I'm not saying the intent of GDPR was to provoke them. But empirically, they are an effect of the GDPR. An undesirable one - that does not fulfill its intent. I'd say we are in agreement here.
It all kind of runs together, but I distinctly remember walking into NCA (I think?) in sunnyvale california in the mid 90's. They had shelves full of huge crt monitors, all of them with wing commander, with full motion video and sound piped through computer speakers.

Of course, that got you thinking about upgrading your system and making sure your system could pull it off.
While both AppleCard and AppleID were involved in the story, the situation wasn’t exactly that.

Apple issued this statement in response: “We apologize for any confusion or inconvenience we may have caused for this customer. The issue in question involved a restriction on the customer’s Apple ID that disabled App Store and iTunes purchases and subscription services, excluding iCloud. Apple provided an instant credit for the purchase of a new MacBook Pro, and as part of that agreement, the customer was to return their current unit to us. No matter what payment method was used, the ability to transact on the associated Apple ID was disabled because Apple could not collect funds. This is entirely unrelated to Apple Card.”

https://9to5mac.com/2021/03/03/apple-card-apple-id-unrelated...
> "only break the law if it’s really funny so the judge will laugh and go easy on you."

A friend did just that. The judge read the arresting officer's description of the event, making sure to clarify all the really dumb/embarrassing stuff he did. Everyone in the courtroom laughed at my friend (including the judge), and he ended up just having to pay a fine + court fees.
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The key difference here is that it's a venture backed effort, which signals something very different from large state-financed research efforts like Iter.

Namely, that there is a path to financial viability
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I can honestly say I laughed until I cried the first time I saw that. Possibly the most hilarious thing I've ever seen in my life.
The phenomenon has a nickname - Anarcho-Tyranny, or the "Managerial State". 1994 Essay: https://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/anarcho-tyranny-u-s-a-5/
Neat project. I love seeing models of complex, real-world systems.

One that I've always wanted to try is modeling an elevator bank: there's a surprising amount of complexity in the different states that an elevator can be in, as well as relevance to basic CS concepts (hierarchy, priority, capacity, &c).
I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed the trend from that graph. We seem to be floating steady at ~50% now.

I don't mean to be cynical, but what do you think would bump the current trend into overdrive? My only estimation would be to make gamers actually want Linux over Win10, and my limited experience tells me that the word still scares normal gamers.
> I would bet that we could have a fusion PoC in 5 years if someone wrote a blank check and fully funded many different credible efforts.

If that's the case, then why hasn't anyone written that check? The potential profit from commercialized fusion seems enormous (unlike a mars base), and there doesn't seem to be a shortage of capital seeking large returns.
I saw Qt and immediately understood what you were trying to say, but for the record: That’s not what native means. Native means “uses the platform widgets and drawing/theming api” and Qt is not native: it actually draws its own widgets (for the most part with certain exceptions on certain platforms) that are drawn to mimic the system UI with subtle differences. If the system UI implementation suddenly changes (say with an OS release) the Qt UI wouldn’t magically change with it.

An example of native UI is libui or WxWidgets.
When all you've got is a hammer and sickle, every problem looks like systemic oppression.
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Disclaimer - friend of the author and have done the programming for some of his research. (Now I wish I’d cleaned it up more but oh well...)

I’d describe him as a hobby mathematician, not formally trained. But I wouldn’t put it in the numerology realm.
Libraries who purchase books for a much smaller discount than other bulk buys drive more sales than they cost. For a new release which is when most sales are made the library only buys n copies when n * x copies are simultaneously desired by readers who want to read your book now not after a 12 week waiting list. This is to say they drive more sales than they cost.

Here is an interesting answer on the topic.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-a-library-pay-royalties-to-th...

They also provide a net benefit to society by encouraging knowledge and literacy. There is a social expectation that physical goods are sold in most cases without expectation that seller will retain contractual control in order to derive maximum profit. Example nobody liked when Keurig sold coffee pots that wouldn't work with generic or indeed even older official pods via electronic tags in pods.

Also keep in mind that that we all exist in a society there is no reasonable expectation that you have a moral right to be able to use societies apparatus to maximize profit if its at societies expense. Limits are the norm.
Which communities do you mean?
That isn’t really enough... that wouldn’t stop aim bots, for example.
I guess this means John McAfee won't be eating his own genitalia, as he promised?

http://dickening.com/
As long as he's not cooperating with them and/or not holding covert positions, he can say whatever he wants.
Fair enough. I think it just depends on what you're going for :)
> But in those three years, only one teacher requested a parent conference, which France says never happened

An enormous amount of these kids come from broken families. I volunteered at a charter school in Cleveland, and would hear the exasperation in the school director's voice over parents who would pick up their kids while strung up on drugs, or not show up at all. There were also a number of great parents who were engaged with their kids, but this was also selection bias because the charter school was specifically for finding the students with the best chances of escaping the cycle of poverty in that area, and taking them away from the public school system.

This article should be used for awareness, not fingerpointing. This is an extremely challenging problem
I know QT is dual licensed for application development. How's the licensing here?