skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ship weighs roughly 100,000 tons. I very large lorry might be five tons. Factor in the static friction of the ship's keel stuck in mud, and the suction opposing any movement.

For kick of initial momentum, I suggest nuclear weapons.
Success mysticism is a problem in tech
"Some people have suggested unloading the ship. I don't think you realize the infrastructure required to unload a ship."

I would guess someone could figure out how to use a normal-ish crane to unload some of the containers and set them down in the sand. The top containers look like they are maybe 150 feet or so higher than ground level.
"You gotta stick the state somewhere."

I like this a lot as I run into so many arguments about stateless this or stateless that, and what gets lost is that not contending with state is problematic. Databases are forced to get massive and do all sorts of goofy shit so some people don't have to ever think about state; this goofy shit creates interesting reliability challenges which translates to bad user experiences.

For my future projects, I've decided to build my own application-as-state-database-container thing: http://www.adama-lang.org/docs/why-the-origin-story

Granted, I'm focused on niche board games since they redefine complexity.
Sorry, I was typing 1/2-thoughts & talking to someone. I deleted the sentence fragment.
> Microsoft Corp. is in advanced talks to acquire messaging platform Discord Inc.

Uh oh. That's it. It's over.

Microsoft® Discord™ it is.
Warehouses used to be built with rail spurs going to them. If people could do it 200 years ago, I don't see why this is an impossibility today.

I've lived in the Seattle area for decades. They regularly pull up tracks and destroy the right-of-way so they can fail at mass transit. I've heard all their excuses for doing this madness.
> was to show that the gains the original post made wasn't solely due to the video being an unchanging desktop

I assume your point is "while both reduced the size (from an unchanging desktop, which is easily compressible), H.265 reduces the size even further. So it (the choice of codec) is also a contributing factor."

And I get it. My point is that even this wasn't proved by his experiment, because he failed to prove the two outputs have the same quality. And without having this, comparing file size is meaningless (because as stated by others, with lossy codec you can generate arbitrary file size by tweaking the parameters).

Yes, he did say "there is no visible difference". However, most of people can't tell any difference bwtween 600kbps and 1000kbps, using the same codec, either. In other words, there is a huge range of bitrates where average eyes can't tell difference. So the "same quality" premise has to be very strict and objective. It's not I'm trying to be picky.

A better approach, as I have said above, is to fix bitrate instead of quality. This way, you can find a certain point where people DO find the difference in quality, and then you can conclude more confidently that one is better than the other due to higher quality/filesize ratio.
I wonder, could you liquify the soil around the buried part of the ship by pumping air into the surrounding areas?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction
I like the idea, but could they get enough acceleration to create more than a ripple?

As an enhancement - use multiple ships in series (there's no shortage at either end). Each ship adding a bit more more energy to the wave as it passes.
>TSMC Arizona HR director came from Intel

That whole Intel diversity programme came from BK. And look at what it has done to Intel in that 4 years.
I've seen enough free software to know the UX would be even worse than with the real Stallman.
Eh. PulseAudio is nothing like PulseAudio. People hated PA when it was forced into distros before it was ready, and still had many bugs. That PA doesn't exist any more and most of the issues have been ironed out for years. PulseAudio can do a lot more things than ALSA ever could.

(Yes, obviously at least one person reading this will still have intractable issues with PulseAudio, but there are exceptions to every rule. By and large it just works and has been a great solution for Linux for close to a decade now.)
TEU being Twenty-foot Equivalent Unit, and containers generally are either 20ft or 40ft long.
If you like Adam Ragusea, you might like my other favorite YouTube channel, Ethan Chlebowski. (although I'm guessing you've already seen him).

Those two are actually about learning to cook better, rather than "cooking entertainment", like PBS cooking shows vs. the Food Channel.
> We have not yet found a system that effectively removes the angry shouting, or urinating, or otherwise crazy-acting person from the sidewalk, or bus, or urban train, that is not uncomfortably close to a police state.

Huh. The whole damn Europe. You 'remove' then by having a safety net. Which is one of a few things I'm really glad to pay taxes for.
For me it is more about not leaving all the comfort zones all at once. Say if I start doing a project with 5 different technologies in the stack, I pick at least 4 that I’m solid with and maybe 1 wildcard.

E.g. I got interested SvelteJS exactly because I got jaded of how ridiculously complex many front end applications have gotten, albeit they are doing just barely more than fetching a JSON from a server and turning it into html. Then I got a really good use case for using it in production because the low end mobile phones and bad internet connections of our users were struggling with the very heavy SPA the company started off with.

For another project in the future, it might well be SQLite that is the more experimental part, but in the end it comes down to managing risks and benefits.

While one part of me would love to experiment with everything all the time, the other part likes to finish the work day on time to be able to have plenty time dedicated to non tech related things and that sleeps well at night being fairly sure that stuff is running smoothly
The ones arguing for blood on the street ?
It is a shame that motorcycles have moved away from this model. My last bike had a manual petcock with a reserve setting. It was problematic because I’d forget to turn it from off to on, take off on what’s left in the carburetor bowl, and the engine would start sputtering just down the road. But I also never got stranded.

New bike has a vacuum-actuated fuel valve, no reserve. It does have a fuel gauge but since the tank is not a nice simple rectangle and the angle makes a difference the gauge is basically untrustworthy. So I go by the mileage and hope I don’t get it wrong. How hard would it be for them to add a reserve setting so it could just be between On and Reserve so I could just flip between them as needed?
On Google Podcasts, a Buffet of Hate
The irony of an organization bullying a non-neurotypical person by calling him "ableist"...
Of course much of this lost power is due to browsers providing mostly terrible, inconsistently implemented and at times buggy APIs that are suited for blogs and news papers but not really any graphically demanding stuff. Yes, you can hack around the APIs, you can also just do everything from scratch again obviating much of the browser but I don't think that is something laudable... and then we have Safari which is basically the modern IE. Somebody misspoke and said Sahara instead of Safari on a call and I found that quite fitting actually.

Nothing of what I describe makes the UX better for anybody, not even the developers of the web browser.
PlantUML is quite handy and text input based. I'm embedding the text state chart directly in the source code as comment to have it under version control.

https://plantuml.com/en/state-diagram
Territorial waters extend 12 nautical miles (22 km) from a coastline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Convention_on_t...
I hear this derogatory term "hoarder" being thrown around a lot. When the pandemic first hit I bought a ton of food. I still ate and bought the same amount over time.. Nothing went to waste. I just wanted to make FEWER but BIGGER trips to the supermarket so I had reduced chance of getting infected.

In the same sentence you complain about "hoarders" being faster than you whilst justifying (reasonably well imho) why you yourself bought more.

People did what they thought they needed to and will always do so. The world was always still a bit of a jungle out there (any nation is three meals away from anarchy). I'm sure those with immune compromised or elderly family members were more excessive on "hoarding". We need to get out of this blame mentality and realize our system needs improving so it can respond to these challenges.
If RMS is really the best ambassador possible for the free software movement then I guess we might as well just give up on the whole idea, as he's done a pretty terrible job of it.

Being the person who comes up with an idea doesn't have anything to do with being good at selling the idea to other people.
There's another great one of Jobs in 1991, ten years later. The footage is equally raw! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_t-iKeWdRI
In both examples, a higher authority may have also acted but if they had done the same with free software things either would have been caught immediately or a lawsuit would have been possible for breach of license if they tried to hide it.

>In both cases higher authorities hired by people to protect them, protected them. Not FSF,

The FSF did a better job of protecting them with their unwavering stance. Neither would ever have caused an issue if you followed their advice to never use non-free software.
Former ZEIT (Vercel) employee. It's amazing how much Vercel is different from when I was there.
Increasing the efficiency for the consumers appears to be generally a good.

The bad is that the consumers end up stranded in areas which are unsustainable satellites that are no longer fit in a more globalized, technically advanced, specialist filled world.

The fact that these small towns continue to exist, rather than being bought up and shutdown in an orderly consolidation process, is a failure of our society to require planning and execution at scale.
Oh, ABC/PBS have mostly digitized archives online? Where? How did you get access to this video to post it on Youtube?

(Anyway, thanks for doing it!)
Among the core languages - C++ > Java > Go > Python. Also possible to have a lot of impact with JS (client) > Java/Kotlin (Android) > ObjC/Swift (iOS).

Most good devs - and basically all devs who make it to L5+ (Senior SWE) - will end up working in multiple languages, though. There are a bunch of proprietary ones as well, some of which are open-source (like Protobufs and Bazel) and a few I'm not at liberty to discuss. L6+ your soft skills (communication, EQ, management, prioritization) become more important than your technical skills.
Not in my case, I'm a pollution fetishist.
I'm ripping a quote from another HN user the last OO/FP discussion I read on so apologies if you see this and are like, "Hey! I said that!" buuuut:

OO says: "State is hard—let's hide it!" (er, sorry, "encapsulate it")
FP says: "State is hard—let's isolate it!"
Even if so, now you've got a handful of containers on the sand and a giant ship stuck in the canal.
If curious, past threads:

Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19715191 - April 2019 (380 comments)

Why OO Sucks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9481369 - May 2015 (16 comments)

Joe Armstrong: Why OO Sucks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245737 - July 2012 (256 comments)

Why OO Sucks - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=474919 - Feb 2009 (114 comments)
The second to last image is interesting because you can see that the water line is not level along the side of the ship - perhaps its momentum caused it to run up a bit? It's hard to tell the scale but they may need to dredge a volume of sand/dirt (estimating) 10m x 60m x 100 m or 60,000 m^3. If they get the dredgers in place they might be looking at 3 days of dredging, if my estimate of 20,000 m^3 per dredger per day is correct. What a project.

This thread is pretty informative: https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1374942502684405761/pho...

I'm not even going to guess at how long this will take.
Don't forget teeth!
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She should lose her PhD for "stupid extrapolation".
The Latin interrogative pronouns are quis (masculine and feminine) and quid (neuter). I do not believe there is any distinction made between people and nonpeople. (Quis on its own will be translated as "who", and quid as "what", but this is just an example of the more general phenomenon that when modifiers appear alone in Latin, you supply an implicit "man", "woman", or "thing" as the noun to be modified. Thus dicta is common in the meaning "things that were said", without the need to explicitly say res [things] dictae or verba [words] dicta, and quis is common in the meaning "who?" without the need to explicitly say quis homo. If you wanted to ask "what sand...?", you'd say quis harena, not quid harena.)

The relative pronouns are qui (masculine) / quae (feminine) / quod (neuter); again I don't think any distinction is available to be made between people and nonpeople. You have to use the pronoun that matches m/f/n gender.

> I guess if the definition of gender is along the lines of "a group of words that behave in a distinct way"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender :

> In linguistics, grammatical gender is a specific form of noun class system in which the division of noun classes forms an agreement system with another aspect of the language, such as adjectives, articles, pronouns, or verbs.

In this case, we have an agreement system between nouns and pronouns.

There is another very significant division of noun classes in English, the division between mass nouns ("stuff"; "ice cream") and count nouns ("things"; "ice cube"). This has effects in several areas of the grammar (e.g. mass nouns do not have plural forms), and it does have some agreement effects also (you could analyze many and much as the same word in agreement with a count noun (for many) or a mass noun (for much)), but this distinction for whatever reason usually wouldn't be thought of as a "gender". The people/nonpeople distinction, which is reflected only in agreement effects, is much more typical of the terminology "gender".
I've been reading costs estimates related to the situation and pretty much all of them are in Billions of USD.

If that's the case, can't they just bomb the ship and be over with it? Maybe don't even bother to unload the cargo, take the fuel and oil out, take the potentially hazardous materials out, take the high value and easily movable items out, destroy the blockage and start a clean up effort with priority of just opening the passage.

Too blunt? Well, that's how we deal with blockages all the time. Probably it is is within the realm of the military tech and operational capabilities, just a matter of cost and time making sense.
I've just gotten used to it. I'm fairly reliable about always resetting the trip meter when I fill it up (and always fill it to full). I know it'll get 200km easy, maybe only 180 if I'm having _way_ too much fun. That's always about time I want to stop and stretch my legs anyway. It doesn't bother me enough to "solve the problem".
I guess I should have put a /s here, but meh. Bring on the downvotes!!
If you have that control for long enough to effectively replace the court, then that defense mechanism has failed.
I'm concerned about the clean-up work of the pieces that end up in the canal. The canal is pretty tight, there's not much space for debris in it without blocking it.
How did the captain screw up so badly? He must be terribly embarrassed.
I can heartily recommend contacting _fool for support at Netlify. Always an absolute pleasure.
nah, rebasing is white lies. everybody is in on it. not all lies are malicious.

rebasing is "rewriting history". where I'm from "rewriting history" is lying..
> I wouldn't mind if languages left no freedom for formatting and enforced a style. People would get used to it and a lot of ultimately fruitless discussions wouldn't happen.

That's exactly what enforced style guidelines are for. Most big software companies do exactly that. They define a set of rules and those are enforced using tooling (i.e. you cannot check-in and/or successfully build code that doesn't adhere to the guidelines).

It's a pain sometimes (especially if line-length restrictions are enforced), but it frees your mind and that of the entire team from the fruitless discussions you mentioned.
A billion?
There should be a (738 CE) year on this article.[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Ddai-ji
Heads up; this article is only a thoughtful proposal for good style, not a proven "optimal" style as I initially believed.
You are incorrect. This is only true if you can precompute all sort orders (many types of sort orders cannot be precomputed and depend on additional context data only available at query time, especially for personalization or trending solutions). Additionally you must deal with precommitment to very poor sharding properties with Solr. With our Python approach, we could hold all results (billions of content items with trimmed down data structures representing only the thinnest container needed for each sort order representation) in memory easily, and dynamically resort on the fly or double sort by multiple sort orders that each required contextual data only available at query time.
This tickles me. If only my comment had been artful by design, and I could say I was in on the joke!
I read the quote first and I thought you meant California when you said "the state".
Structs and classes work fine for that. You don't need getters/setters/inheritance/factories etc.
Let me try to explain what the other person is saying.

If you have an 8gb spacer file, at some point the disk will get full and cause some errors, so you will have to log in, remove the spacer file and then deal with the problem.

If you have an alarm for 8gb remaining, you will receive the alarm before any application ever notices the disk is full. You will have basically the same amount of time to solve the problem for good, but if you're able to solve it before these 8gb also ends, you won't have to deal with any "app crashed/misbehaved because it reached a point where no space was available" issues.
- Snowball by Alice Schroeder (it's a biography of Warren Buffett). So many life lessons here (in addition to teaching you a way to think through investing)

- The Goal (and its descendants). Changes the way you look at organizations

- Inner Engineering by Sadhguru [0]. Changes the way you look at yourself. I'd say base some of your life decisions around this and you'll live better

- The little book that builds wealth [1] . No, despite the corny title it's about companies that have managed to build moats around them. If you are / want to be an entrepreneur, I am sure you will get some wonderful ideas from this. My personal favourite (to invest in - Waste management companies :) )

[0] https://www.amazon.com.au/Inner-Engineering-Sadhguru/dp/0812...

[1] https://www.amazon.com.au/Little-Book-That-Builds-Wealth/dp/...
Is there a chance the ship could tip over in some type of manouver, considering it's stuck both at the front and the back?
I was wondering if not all of human society is game theory through time/space taxes and prices.
I had assumed the containers would be retrieved by tugboats or whatever works.

Depending on what's in the containers, I'd expect most would probably float, at least for a little while until water leaks in. Maybe long enough to drag them out of the way; either to the sides of the channel or out of the water altogether.
Strap it to a Falcon Heavy.
Recent and related:

Suez canal blocked by a massive ship - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26560319 - March 2021 (419 comments)

Also ongoing:

Is that ship still stuck? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26585282 - March 2021 (446 comments)

Suez Canal: How are they trying to free the Ever Given? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26586278 - March 2021 (44 comments)
Sure. Just guessing that taking weight off of the end that's marooned in the sand might help.

Edit. Okay "ends".
If you could pump a lot of water at high pressure and release it just off the bank where the boat is stuck you might be able to scour away the underbank while at the same time creating a slightly higher hydraulic head, kind of a standing wave or mound of water, that may float that end of the ship higher. The hydraulic jump may cause suction or cavitation that would make it harder to free the boat though.
I took my phone out of my pocket for hours this morning, the feeling kept going. Not sure what I'm expecting.
It is – legitimately – a big issue for the parents of transgirls who do want transwomen (women) in women's sports.
Considering HN, it would probably be written by GPT-3.
You're breaking the anchor chain or housing in that case. The problem with just trying to pull the thing out is it's extremely likely to cause a leak and then becomes even harder to move.
Not OP but things got way to complicated and not much better IMO. Usability has gone down and the number of ecosystems and methodologies has grown and continues to grow at a pace that makes few people want keep up with the latest trend. And things are only accelerating now with wasm. Featurewise the web technology has grown enormously though and one can live inside the browser and get all their needs met but I wonder if this is the direction we really want to take. Living inside the browser is also more distraction prone, not very compatible with the ones who want to do deep work
Well, that would trigger some Freedom of Navigation Operations.
Why are all these within a few cm of 400m? Is there something special about this length?
Create empty disk partition not possible? Seems easier to manage, no?
This a a loss distributed over many businesses.
And 70 years later the radiation levels would be getting back to normal.
The spacer solution guarantees you will always have one instance of "disk got full", even if the fill rate is slow. With an alarm there is a chance you end up solving the problem with zero instances of "disk got full" if the fill rate is not that big. That is the main difference.
what fossil is sadly missing at the moment is a vim plugin a la fugitive.
Possible organised pro-Stallman campaign from Russia
Yeah I also want to use a system for servers where critical functionality depends on goddamn bash scripts that will regularly break. I also enjoy hunting down bugs in each distro that does things just a tiny bit differently...

Central design is somewhat restrictive but a bazaar style of development for everything will only result in chaos. The kernel itself has become pretty much cathedral at this point, and not having a central init system (which is quite good, I don’t see the blind hate towards it which is usually never justified on technical merit) would have set back whole of linux by many years.

As much as I dislike that Red Hat has a specific role in the linux desktop case, they do sponsor important work.
>In this case there is no cost to the individual, only to the group.

So like all the externalities and their associated costs that capitalism throws at us without a single care...
Congrats! You've discovered that engineers like to stretch their imaginations and theorize about solutions to problems for their own fun and enjoyment
> not all lies are malicious

The Fossil manual is pretty clear about calling it deceit. “By discarding parentage information, rebase attempts to deceive the reader about how the code actually came together.”

> where I’m from “rewriting history” is lying...

What history? Rebase is normally used before push. Rebase is used before it’s “history” to someone other than yourself.
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