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No, time is not an externality: maybe time under construction yields to disruption to neighbours under construction and we can charge for that. Resources are fully internalized. If a building needs x sand and another needs 2x sand, the second will pay twice for sand. Carbon is externalized, but that's a general problem. How do we know that making a lasting building is better/worse than having the building not exist / exist and having people driver farther / closer?

Simple, for externalities, you directly charge for the externality.

All these stop-gap "it costs carbon, so we must make it last 50 years" is like placing massive `if-then-else` statements throughout your codebase and then being surprised when the emergent behaviour of your program somehow results in uglier, more carbon polluting, sicker buildings that are now 100 years old and imposing massive costs on society around them.
xlisp for example started small in 1983 and over time added some CL features. It was also used by Autodesk as the base of Autolisp for Autocad on a zillion PCs...

> The ones that looked anything like CL were pretty heavy

yeah, Coral Lisp needed 1 MB RAM on a 68k Mac. Morphed into a Common Lisp then.

mulisp in 85 supported 0.5MB RAM on a PC. It had some CL compatibility.
Yeah but you know it's hard to defend when they take money, show a tortured confession, don't reply to signal, then act as sorry pikachus years later when Belarus, so emboldened by western impotence, just pretends there are terrorist attacks just to arrest one journalist
> For any question contact us on Discord.

Hard no.
and now thanks to Obama and Lukashenko only more and more countries will do that.
Do you mean the proof that 0.25 >= 0 and the proof that 1/e >= 0 count as the same one, because there's a more general proof that a set of values including those is >= 0? But then where do you draw the line? When can you consider 2 proofs different enough to count as different ones?
The mere fact that Urbit is still a thing, that it has not yet collapsed under the weight of its own intentionally induced baggage, is worrisome to me. Something is keeping that project alive, and it's not technical merit. I don't see a lot of viable options other than some kind of fanaticism.
Following up late nights working by expecting people to attend an after-work event is not a benefit to the worker. As others have said, having a big team lunch and then sending them home is a benefit.
I assume Adafruit is fast for people on the east coast or if you pay a lot for shipping. I looked into Adafruit's west coast distributors but they only have a few of their products. (Jameco carries some Adafruit stuff but typically not what I'm looking for.)
Your assumptions in computing should be reevaluated every two years.

https://mobile.twitter.com/brandonhilkert/status/13973190133...
It gets even crazier.

https://nft.gamestop.com

GME as an NFT?
Simple: good monitors aren't kind. Try hi-fi speakers that are more warm than detailed
It seems like preemptively complaining about downvoted, somehow increases your karma, so inb4 I get downvoted for being a "shill".

This is the kind of reactionary attitude that causes YouTube to tune its moderation algorithms to be overly err on the side of demonetizing. Later, even more people will complain that their favorite YouTuber is being demonetized. Everyone has their own brilliant ideas of perfect moderation, but at the end of the day, they would never be willing to accept that responsibility themselves and the blowback that comes with it. See the grandstanding that occured during the section 230 Congressional hearings as a perfect example.

Why can't YouTube simply just make a mistake and correct for it? When governments failed to protect a plane from being forcibly escorted, I don't see why people expect a private business to fix all the world's geopolitical issues.
Similarly, for sound effects, once you learn what the Wilhelm Scream is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream), you start noticing it everywhere it's used, and it can pull you out of the immersion in the film you are watching.
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Whereas in the common law, it being the f** common law, there's no fixed term and it's just "what does the judge think is in line with similar past cases".
I absolutely love seeing history from different perspectives.

The White Silk Dress is an amazing Vietnamese War movie.
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It sounds like the emperor's clothes, he's wearing the most exquisite garment as long as everyone agrees he is...
The concept of symbols is inevitable.
> Make the test red before you make it green, so you know what the errors look like.

Oh! I like this. I never considered this particular reason why making tests fail first might be a good idea.
I mean, sure, they make a mockery of the art market. But the art market seems to have had no trouble making a mockery of itself before NFTs came along.

Like, why is this worth $58 million? It's a 10-foot tall balloon animal.

https://www.doublestonesteel.com/blog/art-and-sculpture/koon...

Or why is this worth $200 million? It's something a 5-year-old would make if you gave them an unlimited amount of finger paint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_17A

At least NFT creators tend to be honest about how ridiculous they are (see any interview with Beeple, for example), as opposed to conventional artists who like to pretend there's some sort of objective reason why their work is so highly valued.
This is the only post I found mentioning recycling, and I think that's a key factor in this all. My generation is going to be the first saddled with a lot of old buildings we have to deal with. We are going to have to get good at recycling buildings.

My understanding that the economics have already really pushed us massively forwards in the past decade or two, that we are far more aggressive about recycling construction aggregate[1].

The article has a nod midway through to these concerns,

> The many alternative materials for concrete reinforcement – such as stainless steel, aluminium bronze and fibre-polymer composites – are not yet widely used. The affordability of plain steel reinforcement is attractive to developers. But many planners and developers fail to consider the extended costs of maintenance, repair or replacement.

This definitely seems like a huge societal blind-side to me. As much as it's an issue of planners and developers, I feel like there's a consumer lack of understanding. The invisible hand can't push effectively here, can't reward the builders doing it right adequately. In part because society is not aware, doesn't know what to ask for, doesn't have standards, doesn't view & comprehend the role of maintenance & ultimately recycling. These are far off things.

As my generation starts to see the limits of sustainability, see where so very many many creations begin to become risks & hazards & losses rather than values, we may develop some sense, but switching over into a fear-based emotional reaction isn't necessarily a great fix. Trying to give us all a picture of the life-cycle, the costs, the trade-offs; that seems like the necessary task. Regulating our ability to see & ascertain.

Hopefully we just get better & better about recycling. It'd be so interesting to see how reinforcements are extracted from construction aggregate today. Stainless steel reinforcement isn't expensive... if you can safely view it not as a sunk construction cost, but as a semi-long term loan for a building. Where-as more advanced materials like fiber-polymer, I tend to imagine, may have wonderful characteristics in use, I also tend to imagine them as likely having less recoverability. Steel: material we know how to re-cast.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_recycling
Also violence happens all over the place, but it does not make it ok. Extremes and provocative-examples aside, the problem I see is not with exchanging life-obliterating work for money, but with signing for normal-ish work and getting brutal 24/7 instead.

We can think that they are free to go elsewhere like we can think that those in abusive situations can simply go elsewhere, but there are financial considerations, gas-lighting, just-another-month syndrome that leads to burn-out. Life is just in theory pack-your-bags-and-go easy.
Another perspective could be that we are creatures emergent out of the physical and chemical processes of the universe.

There is some similarity or equivalence to some of these processes with mathematics, which allows us to model a subset of physics/chemistry with mathematics.

Because physics/chemistry can create us using rules that follow math (or even some undiscovered rules), this same physics/chemistry gives us the faculties of reason that lets us think about and apply math in some universal way

The physical, chemical, and mathematical substrate to which we are born allow us to even discover that the rules of math can be applied to some subset of the laws (or chaos?) of the universe.
Social media use, and mollycoddling by parents.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/10/by-mol...
Google has officially outdid itself in under-marketing a major platform.

A brand new OS, and... barely anything even on hacker news. No barrage of media leading up to the annoucement.

Is this basically a boondoggle being relegated to IoT?
I think humans could predict solar eclipses and solve quite a few differential equations before they managed to give that answer. The normal answer to that question was “It hasn’t rained this week” or even “What do you mean? It hasn’t rained this week”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmagupta#Zero: ”The Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta is the earliest known text to treat zero as a number in its own right, rather than as simply a placeholder digit in representing another number”

That book is from around AD 628 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta)
It should be but is it? I don't think anyone ever tested this building, which has a combined market value of probably close to $200M.

None of the owners want to know that their investments are worthless. So nothing will be checked unless its required by law.
It's no worse than several other not-very-secure-but-nonetheless-common ways to install software. Would a MS-provided copy-paste-curl-sh-to-install, say, be any worse than a link to an MSI? Either way I'm trusting that MS isn't sending me ransomware or a rootkit or whatever. If that MSI just executes curl under the hood, exactly like the sh command would have, is it better (nb this is what thin web installers for big programs do, basically)? If I add a PPA for some company and apt-install something from it, unless I audit all the files before proceeding, I'm trusting that they won't format my disk without my wanting them to.

How terrible an idea it is depends on who's providing it, same as most other software.
Same with the capitole attacks yeah, we see a lot of people being arrested but no hour long interviews of thought leaders being QAnon.

Antifa and QAnon are the new Christianity and if the US was founded to protect religions, these should now be protected as well, in all their glory.

Disclaimer: Im in China, I may not have the US' best interests in mind :p
I see this with basically any Javascript test. Yes, mocking any random import is really cool and powerful, but for fucks sake, can we just use a DI container so that the tests don’t look like satans’ invocation.
So does plastic.
Oh, I bet Martin Shkreli or a protege would buy it in a heartbeat.
It's sad to see that the Julia ecosystem does not address these issues at all. Maybe Julia people are in some kind of bubble of people who like Julia and generalize that to all potential users and contributors. The true process is probably that people with other workflows (eg. non-REPL/Notebook) and past experiences (esp. more "general purpose" languages) just give up and are never heard of again.

I've ranted about very similar things for some time now, and had some fruitful discussions, and I even offered to help to try to scratch some of the itches me and others are suffering from. I've now mostly given up too.

It's a bit sad for me. I think Julia has many things right and the core concepts are potentially revolutionary. But for me it seems that Julia ecosystem is a bit too jealous of their discovery to let it free. Weird.
> The cheapest bidder will generally win and their building will last the "design life" of the building, but often not much more. The simplest way to change this is to extend the design life, which would result in stainless steels or another more expensive material being used in this application.

Just FYI, on a ‘plan and spec’ construction project, all material is specified by the architect and engineers. If the project specs say you have to use stainless steel rebar, then even the low bidder will have it included.
If he wants json, I will build it
Suicides numbers are nowhere near high enough to make a significant difference, they'd have to increase by 1000%. And apparently they fell by 5% in the US in 2020 anyway.

And US drug overdose went from 72k in 2019 to 81k in 2020. So less than 2% of the economist's 500k[1] might be attributable to that.

You might point at road deaths, which have increased quite strangely, but again, wrong order of magnitude, by 2 orders even, increase of 4k compared to 500k.

So to answer your question, no, it's not a questionable assumption.

Perhaps you might consider the simplest explanation, a deadly virus, is the best one?

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/04/05/deaths-i...
I rarely want the author name. What I want is the commit message explaining the changes, and I want to see what the code used to do.

Code without history is nearly unsupportable without reverse engineering it all.
Good point.

What hubris for a landowner to assume there will be a need for a building 1000 years hence.

Buildings aren’t usually demolished and replaced because they are dilapidated; rather, it’s because the new owner has a different need (and a different aesthetic.)

A building that takes 1000 to crumble is just as a much a blight — maybe more — as a plastic bottle that takes 10,000 years to crumble.
One manager I had would reward us with a nice lunch out. It meant we didn't have to give up personal time for the reward, and it also limited drinking since we all had to go back to work and it was midday (usually there wasn't any drinking).

We all enjoyed it because it meant getting time off work and having a nice meal without giving up family time.

You could replicate that by ordering a nice lunch to be delivered to everyone's house and enjoying the meal together remotely.
I've seen threads on this before but the "goto" (couldn'
t stop myself) reaching of object oriented-ness to "solve" everything is really frustrating.

I've found the single greatest contributor to more readable and maintainable code is to limit state as much as possible.

Which was really hard for me to learn because it can be somewhat less efficient, and my game programmer upbringing hates it.
> digital rights can be transferred

An NFT affords no rights at all. It's equivelant to a piece of paper with a URL that points to a site that has a link the video on it. Except the link no longer works, since the video was taken down.
I've much preferred, in recent years, to use Conan for fetching, building and importing external dependencies.

Being able to use Python to manage the individual packages made it somewhat easier to get stuck in to; avoiding, as much as possible, the dark art that is writing scripts for CMake.
Very true. JS has object freezing but that would affect the class's own mutations. On the other hand you could make a single copy upon mutation, freeze it, and then return the frozen one for iteration if you wanted to. Kind of going a bit far though imho.
What! HA
I understand it even less now.
I did this for years. During the pandemic it became a 1 room schoolhouse. Seems like a viable solution for most people in a SFH or even many townhomes.

Only thing I might do differently in the future is get an RV instead of fixed buiding, because then I can use it as an RV, too.
So? Of course this take time, but when Apple LAUNCH it, it do it with confidence.
Mine had the lake applet. It was gorgeous.
I suspect a combination of
1) the US military having extensively studied this problem already.
2) that they did it a very long time ago.
That was a very entertaining video on rebar ... with 1.5 million views!

Curious what happened with those 4 bridges in VA with debonded epoxy.
Given that Fuchsia is not GPL licensed (making proprietary forks possible & likely) and apparently developed behind closed doors, not by a self sustained community like the Linux kernel its not very far from your worst case scenario, especially if Google starts force feeding it into Android like it did with many non GPL and proprietary licensed software over the years.
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I don’t know what I expected but I guess I have a new sticker for my MacBook now.

Really nice and clean process though.
> That's a problem in and of itself, IMO. Construction is tremendously resource-intensive. We should not be building "throwaway" buildings.

If population levels change, up or down, we are going to have to be continually adjusting our usage of space to account for this. Making it easier to modify and/or tear-down-and-rebuild would make things a lot more efficient there. You'd need some policy changes too to fix the problems of, say, homeless people sleeping outside empty office buildings, but getting construction costs down would be a huge part of this.

We shouldn't be so arrogant to assume we are planning the right construction to serve us well for hundreds of years.
This hits the nail on the head.

I've been an active community member for over ten years (from age 12, I'm 24 now) and the truth is that with the availability of parts — combined with all the benefits of traditional open source — the hardware/"maker" scene has absolutely been flourishing for the past few years.

With rapid prototyping becoming more commonplace it's completely reasonable for your run-of-the-mill maker to own a 3D printer or be able to turn around a custom PCB within a week, tools that massively accelerate the development phases of early ideas or business ventures. We'll definitely start seeing more companies taking advantage of the community spoils as technology continues to advance at a faster and faster rate over the coming years, especially when those same tools are just as easily employed by your competitors.

(Hardware based startups are in a unique position as the tools to compete with larger companies or scale product are more readily available than ever before. At this moment for a few hundred dollars it's completely possible to produce thousands of PCBs through online overseas services, ready to ship to customers.)

Aside — it's also a community that is heavily invested in the history of computing/technology and how we got here - in a way it's comforting to be able to replicate a circuit from three decades ago, circuits that used to cost thousands, and experience first hand computing history for pennies on the dollar.
Some great visuals and imagery of the bombing of the Vietnamese can be found in the Ken Burns documentary series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vietnam_War_(TV_series)

Note: the imagery can be graphic and those afraid of seeing genocidal scenes and babies bombed should be warned.
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The code in the website is written in Java, not Python ...
NFTs exist that aren't pointers to artwork and are entities in games that can be traded or used outside of the game itself. Since the game state exists onchain, you don't have a dependency on oracles.
I'm going way out on a limb here, and claim both.
There is an interplay between the two. Wood, for example in a dark and dry place, can last for a very long time, but I doubt there are many wooden structures that are, say 2000 years old. Perhaps some supports for tunnels in dry climates. Those organic compounds will break down over time. The method of using the wood, how it's protected from its environment is important.
Stone is another obvious example. Plenty of stone buildings have been built and crumbled, but the really well cut, fit, and stacked stones seem to last a long time. There are countless temples and castles that are simple stone with very tight tolerances (methods) that last a long time. The pyramids are a spectacular example.
Hoover Dam is reinforced concrete, and is expected to last a long time. I suspect the steel will rust away, but the compression from the water will keep the concrete stable. (not a civil engineer, but I'd bet this was seriously thought about by civil engineers when it was built)

The materials are important, but they can be misused, and master craftsmen can use them far better than I ever will, So the methods matter as well.

_edit_

I looked it up, hoover dam used steel pipes, not solid bars, so there's room for the corrosion to expand into the void created by the pipes.

Master craftsmen I tell ya, they think hard about that kind of stuff.
> stainless steel is a different material

First time in my life that somebody said that about stainless steel.

"On HN, our job is being pedantic."
I'm still sad over losing iGoogle.
hijacked planes are often escorted anyway, with pilots prepared to down the hijacked plane should they be ordered to do so.

Not something that's talked about frequently, but bomb threats do not actually open restricted airspace.
> What a heck is that "power vacuum?" I never managed to comprehend the mechanics of Western thought process arriving to that philosophical concept.

It's called a "vacuum" by analogy with physics, because unscrupulous folks will rush in to fill it. This kind of chaos is not something you actually want, since it lets the worst guys around win easily. You want to give Mr. Dictator the best opportunity to establish well-founded transition/succession mechanisms (including respect for fundamental rights, which is even more important than democratic voting norms!) and then step down willingly and orderly, with a golden parachute to sweeten the deal.

The West has gotten this stuff horribly wrong as of late, even as recently as the latest wars in the Middle East, but that's no reason to do even worse.
Maybe the thing to do is what Slack did with IRC and slap a (better, as the case may be) GUI on rt or Trac.
Yeah, he is past the point of having feelings to hurt.

You know whose feelings are probably hurt right now, though? Like, picture yourself as a budding werewolf novelist, the sort of person who went to the University of Kansas and got a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in English Literature with a minor in Werewolf Studies, and you've just finished your first werewolf novel, and you're really proud of it, and you have a stack of rejection letters saying that the market isn't really interested in this sort of thing right now. And now, all of a sudden, you see everybody losing their mind over John Steinbeck's werewolf novel. He didn't even want to write it! He didn't want it published! But the world is clamoring for it, and your novel sits in a file drawer. I'm sure there's someone out there like that right now.
Nice hack, thanks. I'll try it.
As far as compression algorithms go, DNS' algorithm is ridiculously simple. Switching compression algorithms wouldn't improve security. At best it'd be a lateral move; more likely it'd be a net security loss. We would likely get better compression, though.

If the response is that people would just reuse pre-existing compression libraries, the exact same thing could be said here. In fact, Unix systems provide `dn_expand` and `dn_comp` in libc (e.g. BSDs, Linux/glibc, Linux/musl) or another system library (e.g. -lresolv on Solaris). And of course nginx could have used one of countless other DNS libraries, such as libunbound.