skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why exactly this aquaduct is article-worthy or even on HN. In The Netherlands we have plenty of aqueducts, the first modern one is the Ringvaart Haarlemmermeer one [1], built in 1961.

[1]": https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaduct_Ringvaart_Haarlemmerm...
Perhaps I worded that wrong. When I said mixed feelings about the need to mother, I mean the pull where society says she must choose between career and mothering, and that it’s selfish for her to choose more time working. Yet this is of course never done for the husband who is assumed to by default be the one that can and should choose work over fathering.

The larger point being that 2 parents working to cover child care costs seems impractical from a viewpoint that looks at that net, but that would exclude the fact that many people define identity, societal productivity, fulfillment and even enjoyment from their jobs outside the home.

It’s also means that you can continue advancing in your career so that when you don’t need full time child care you’re in a stronger position. Many women who leave work for years to parent have a very hard time getting hired.
> This is one of those factoids people constantly repeat because it sounds like it would be true

Preventing immigration (both permanent and temporary) has been a political priority in Japan for centuries. Are you saying this has changed recently? The US is a bit special because even with the hurdles it has it still receives a lot of immigrants. Japan, to my knowledge, would never accept being in such a position.
Molecules essential for life found close to the center of the galaxy
I never said that wasn't the case, just as it is obviously the case at Oxbridge. Making misleading comments about US schools using parental income directly in admissions decisions doesn't help fix any of that.
I totally agree with you. I wouldn't necessarily say that rich people subsidize poor ones, other one we wouldn't see Facebook racing for Brazil and Google racing for India. But yes, one major property of ads is how it adapts to the user's revenue.

I believe that anyone who wants to take on ads, need to understand this first. And to accomplish an ad-free realk, one needs to somehow have people pay differently based on their incomes. And I can't see any way without tracking on how to do that.

One company who managed to do that, to some extent, is Netflix. Their price range from 3$/month (lowest tier in India) to 20$/month (highest tier in France), for pretty much the same service. It's still only one order of magnitude of adaptation. While ads scale from pretty much 0 (poor people who can "mis"spend only 5$/month), to I think maybe 100$ for some clicks.

Basically, from my point of view, ads are a way to raise money based on what people can give, while removing the free-rider problem that doing it directly would raise. Can we make a useful crypto money that fixes this? (you're allowed to a big computation budget, since ads have a very expensive global budget)
The history of US colonization of Hawaii is legitimate and relevant. The hint that WWII Japan was gracious towards island natives is absolutely wild.
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The signature pretty much only gets checked if it is contested. As much as anything, the act of signing is a demonstration of intent (and in cases of fraud, it's a demonstration of fraudulent intent...). It's not really authentication.
I don't have the time to write elaborate comments right now, but see here:

http://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-run.1.html

Especially the "userns" option with the "keep-id" value.
How is the crisis artificial? The amount of agricultural land China needed to sustain its population is totally calculable. the Chinese population grow threefold from 1912 to when the policy was introduced, had it been growing like that, today China would have HALF of the world's population. it's understandable to think it might an ecologically unsustainable growth.
Even hundreds or thousand of samples of a species would most likely still be an enormous genetic bottleneck. [0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck
Of course they forfeit ownership, if this were not the case, you could stick and a sticker on cop cars and expect them to return the sticker to you without damaging it. Its not grafitti officer I'm just leaving my paint here, please give it back soon.
The bin man's life would be complicated if everyone still owns what they put in the bin or throw in a river.

If cops put a tracker on someone's car they can expect the same response to a bird shit on the windscreen.
Active investing and activist investors are not the same thing. And passive fund managers do vote their shares as has happened here. There's nothing stopping them from proposing board names as well.
That is a rational feeling.
The introduction of Chaos Vehicles and specifically the "predictable physics simulation that can be replicated over a network" sounds like something they made for Rocket League.
This is just a guess, but the former Soviet union countries that potentially would re-align with Russia aren't huge countries with big oil appetites. They likely don't have the means to start buying up billions of dollars in Russian oil.
The issue I see is that pain you talk about is overwhelmingly inflicted by the journalist doing the interview. “How do you think your father (who passed recently) would feel about your win/loss” and all that. Perhaps that wasn’t always the case, it the only ‘parasocial’ connection I get from watching those is sympathy for the athlete subjected to them.

Maybe Osaka is benefiting from others past participation, but I think she’s right in identifying that the audience today (at least her audience) does not demand or even want that sort of interaction
I don’t like their discovery, personally. I know I don’t represent the average shopper- but I generally know what I want before I buy it online or I am using a specialty retailer for discovery.
Playing devil's advocate here. Let's say people start making car bombs that look like tracking devices. Or they modify the tracking device to become a bomb. Many police tracking devices already look similar to a pipe bomb:

https://www.npr.org/2011/11/08/142032419/do-police-need-warr...

This gets kinda scary if the person you're tracking is a dealer working with a violent crime syndicate.
Would also think a big enough airline may have staff based in other countries. Being Air France staff based in Dublin wouldn’t let you fill many hours if you could only work on journey between Ireland and france.

There’s probably some union rules restricting them from working exclusively outside of the country they’re based.
International is good; run up those SIM card charges.
The answer is simple: nuke your social media. If you need them? Start from scratch once a year.

It isnt challenging. But privacy takes effort.
Are aqueducts common where you are from?

As someone from the Netherlands, I honestly don't understand the article. It speaks of a 'unique' project and a 'novel' approach, but the only thing that's supposed to make it so seems to be:

> Unlike other solutions for allowing vehicular traffic and waterborne traffic to pass over or under one another, engineers decided on a different approach: a water bridge.

While aqueducts are far less common than normal bridges in the Netherlands, they're a normal concept to me. Are they that uncommon? Does your country have them?
Sure, nodejs is easy to run locally. nodejs+npm of the exact version that a specific project needs, which is different and incompatible with the version some other project needs starts to get more annoying.

Basically all of our projects have some level of external dependencies in the form of libraries or binary tools. Some projects overlap dependencies, but on incompatible versions. This gets really hairy.

Trying to do this without containers (from experience, this is what the devs were doing before) turns into a massive documentation project and a nightmare of trying to get all these incompatible things to exist on a single system where we don't even have a consistent target because everyone's local dev environment is different enough to make it a nightmare. And then continually hounding the devs to keep the documentation up-to-date. But even that doesn't solve the problem because "apt-get install nodejs" today is not necessarily the same as "apt-get install nodejs" in six months or a year and nobody's thinking about this so it's just "worked for me last time!". Onboarding people at one point was a _days_ long process and a group effort.

Instead we just re-use the same 30-odd line Dockerfile we use for deploying out to the infra for local dev. Instead of pages upon pages of out-of-date documentation. a bunch of tribal knowledge, and continually running into new and interesting bugs, we now have a short and simple source of truth which _has_ to be up-to-date because otherwise the environment the project is deployed to is broken. Onboarding people takes 5 minutes.

If you're a single person working on a single project, yeah, containerizing stuff is maybe some annoying overhead. Even then I still use it because once you've gotten past the learning curve, it's actually a really effective way to document and define your project's environment and ensure it stays consistent.
Facebook is just a flower in someone else's garden.
Designing an async API, from sans-I/O on up
The bank could take collateral in something else than the house. But if you have that kind of collateral, you might not need a loan in the first place...
Many humans struggle to stay on the path of activity that their best rationality and knowledge of a fulfilling life recommends. If you ever stay up too late, drink too much, struggle with a bad relationship or smoking or you know too much Free Flow, you have to chance to be aware of some of the weaknesses in our nervous systems. Perhaps you are so far away from the human norms that you don’t find anything tempting that is not also beneficial, but is it quite common I promise you.
Fast Inverse Square Root: A Quake III Algorithm
I'm wondering if Apple tried selling it's current line of smartwatches a decade from now whether they would be competitive or just retro.
Another thing I've recently found helpful was docker layer caching inside github actions. Pretty easy to integrate, saves a lot of build minutes.
AI is being used to profile people from their head vibrations
This was just an (expected) reaction to the banning of Belarusian airlines by the EU. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27273752
"more than 1024 Watts per square centimeter"

My kettle can do that.
I am pretty sure that we all agree that humans will never have a complete universal morality because we put so many things into the bucket of morality that could not be addressed by a universal morality. There are people who find it immoral marry between races so no logical system could ever resolve their specific belief. Logically though, we could propose a set of core axioms that everyone could agree on and then build up a system from the axioms. This is what Rand attempts to do so from her logical system you can at least define some moral arguments as universal.
With open source software neither you nor anything else is the product. Got it?
Grades aren’t terribly important. Some companies (including notable ones) will filter those with lower than a certain GPA, but there’s always ways around that.

If you don’t have good grades, rely on your school name. If your school isn’t notable, projects are key.
One of, if not the first, production uses of Rust was a Ruby gem :)
...At mp3 quality

As the creator of this project I can assure you that the audio used here is at least CD quality (44.1kHz 16bit). With the HiFiBerry hat the digital audio comes in at 24bit/192kHz. The NeuralPi DSP processes the audio at 44.1kHz with 32 bit floating point precision. No reason the sample rate can’t be higher though. Elk OS claims latency is less than 1ms, but I’d like to test and see exactly what the latency is running the plugin. As a guitarist, I can’t tell the difference between this and an analog effect.

runs and ducks for cover
TBH that's better than I'd expect on an old laptop with an unoptimized build. Like the hardware they're using is what, 20% faster CPU and 400% faster GPU-wise, and they're developing on Windows?
The definition is

> breaking force divided by the expected force

Note force being used here, not energy or speed.
You may not be as highly paid or have as much control over your career immediately out of school but it’ll be a non factor as your career develops and you have demonstrated work experience under your belt. I was like a C student and 15 years on I think I’m one of the higher compensated alumni of my class.
Should include a 1996 tag.

I go read this every few years thinking maybe I should learn WordStar... Just like I should learn Emacs for Org Mode. Then I slouch back off to Sublime Text, Scrivener, and Word.

I still write drafts in fountain pen, though.
Yes.

I host my own mail for this and many other reasons - more insight, more control, more flexibility. I use different addresses for anything commercial or governmental or... anything, really - the only people who get my normal address are family and friends. This makes it easy to see who abuses mail addresses which can subsequently be blocked.

Spam does not make it into my inbox, most of it doesn't ever make it to my server.
On the other side though Google uses this stuff, also wifi hotspots, to track you as well.

Whatever the opinion on tracking, Google definitely carves out their own moats and are hypocritical in a lot of respects. Arguably pushing changes to hurt their small competition given they have better/more pervasive personalized tracking without the low hanging fruit.
I also dig the XT layout. I never tried my Model F XT with WordTsar though. I probably should!
To call the Yangtze dam a "short term gain" is ... short sighted. Now, I can't speak to the effectiveness of the dam, but its goals and objectives were literally epic in scope. But to understand the goals, you have to understand the history, and that history stretches so far back that it merges with legend...

Legend has it that one of the early great kings of china was 大禹 (Yu the Great). But what made him great? Was he a great conqueror like Alexander? Was he a descendant of the gods? No. Yu was "great" because he built the first major floods control projects for the Yangtze river. Pause and think about this for bit. How horrible must the floods have been for a king to have literally entered legendary status for managing them?

The Yangtze river has been the lifeblood of northern China for thousands of years. But it has also literally killed 100's of millions of people. Historically, the river floods quite often, and once in a while floods on a massive, epic, scale. The sort of flood that covers thousands of square miles under many meters of water. The sort of flood that wipes out settlements across vast swaths of land and kill millions of people. Then millions die of disease and starvation. The mouth of the Yangtze has moved hundreds of miles during recorded history. And this doesn't happen little by little... it happens catastrophically with huge floods that have kill 10s of millions. Think of the Mississippi mouth moving from where it is today to someplace in south texas or georgia. The Yangtze river is that kind of epic (but not in the good way).

The Three Gorges Dam was built with the intention of finally, once and for all, controlling the Yangtze. Now, in a few centuries, maybe history will show that it was a bad idea. Or maybe history will show it was one of the most important works of civil construction in human history. Hard to say right now.

But what is clear is that it wasn't built with "short term gain" in mind. That dam is the definition of long-term civil engineering (for good or ill).
Of yeah, definitely, and Apple makes it far easier than other OS vendors. But I'd be willing to bet that the vast majority of people don't actually do that - even programmers, sysadmins, etc.
> why wouldn't you do it on a (performant) blockchain

I don't see value here over JP Morgan Chase operating the market as a neutral third party. Maybe Chase won't really be neutral because they want to steer you to USD and not tokens. But there's gotta be some neutral party that can govern it, something like Coinbase.

Boring old databases and the tech of 10-30 years ago are more efficient than blockchain in all cases, afaik. No matter how efficient, the design of blockchain requires distributed workers verifying each other's transactions. On Chase's server farm, server A can trust server B. All I need is a ledger of how many tokens I have, and a way to convert to USD, the tether of the real world. I can use USD to get into Ether and those 1000 tokens any time I want.

> a 1000 such tokens can interact.

It's basically an API / standard for tokens right? Today I can make an app that uses the IMDB api, but if nobody cares, the app is useless. You can make an app that uses the latest hot tech (raytracing in GPUs) but if nobody likes what you made, it's useless. Same with ERC20, if I understand correctly. I can stand outside Chuck E Cheese and try to make a secondary market in tokens. Nothing illegal about that. Tokens are traded using the hand-to-hand protocol. Yet the number of such businesses is close to zero.

Gift cards for places like Walmart and Amazon are nearly as good as cash on eBay. Nobody buying them is worried about those companies issuing too many cards and crashing the currency.
Yes, one very harsh winter, then you do everything you can to be remote on the job, and you spend your winters in Spain, or in Thailand. :)
The consensus in civilized countries is that US healthcare is a disaster. If you want to brush all that off as “propaganda,” fine, that’s your business.

But I don’t watch TV. I do things like read HN. Where I recall an essay on the front page a few years back where a wealthy tech founder cashed out and then tried to buy health insurance for their family.

Despite being wealthy, they reported that basically, it was impossible to get insurance that met their needs. They did not say “no problem, the whole family got medicaid.”

Now tell me: How many people in the US had medical bankruptcies last year? How about the year before? Or the year before that?

I’ll let you tell me, since you believe that I only watch propaganda on television, and you believe you have all the answers. What are these medical bankruptcies, if medicaid solves all problems?

Is all this propaganda spread by smug Canadians to boost immigration? I think not, but if you’re prepared to cite some numbers showing that nobody ever loses their home because of cancer or some other major health problem, I’ll gladly read what you share.
Report finds disinterest in ethical,responsible use of AI among business leaders
I think this is a completely reasonable way to respond to finding a tracking device and simultaneously discourage them from continuing the practice but please do drive out of county first so that the police officers that respond don't just say "Oh hey, Joe put that on this morning, we don't need the bomb squad for that."
For what it's worth, I agree with you w.r.t. tech firms. We can observe the unsatisfactory nature of their practices without concluding regulation is the answer.

As for the WHO, I wish I could simply ignore them as easily as I ignore what Facebook do. Facebook's power is limited to doing stuff on their platforms, more or less, and whoever they can influence via that. The WHO directly commands national governments who then command the rest of us. Dysfunction at that level filters down to the whole world.
I'm not a civil or aerospace engineer so this could be built into the safety factor models already. Reading the post had me wondering:

If safety factor adds mass and additional mass requires additional force to accelerate is a lower safety factor safer since you'll lower the amount of force required thus increasing the structural safety?

Calculating safety factor for a given scenario feels like a complex multivariable equation. Is that the case?
oof, that's some distopic shit right there! How haven't they gotten sued over that?? (rhetorical question, the answer is obviously money)
Speaking for myself, the accessibility and convenience is a huge part. Instead of lugging around a 60 pound fragile finnicky pedalboard, I just throw my Helix in a backpack and am good to go. It has way more pedals in it than I could fit on a real pedal board, and I can also switch presets with the tap of my foot (including rewiring all the connections between pedals, changing their order, swapping pedals, swapping amps, etc).

And yeah the sonic possibilities are endless. On a physical pedalboard, it's pretty involved to rewire everything to change the routing, or add/remove pedals, etc. With the digital modeling ones, this all becomes trivial and you can try all kinds of different setups much more quickly, save them and go back later, share them with friends, etc.

All that said, it's kind of like asking an acoustic guitarist in the 1950s why they would use an electric guitar. Electric guitars obviously have lots of advantages, but it's not like people stopped playing acoustic guitars. I still think real analog pedals are cool, they're fun to collect, in some cases they sound better, etc. And sometimes you don't need the mega-flexibility -- if you have a 4-pedal setup that does "your tone" maybe that's all you ever need.
They should make more vehicles that spew fart spray in all directions if the vehicle is touched in any way without the owner's key being within some range.

Would stop tracker attempts, unauthorized tow trucks that don't make attempts to contact the owner first, and thieves alike.
I think you would need a laptop with more powerful cooling. Your MacBook is most likely throttling a lot to not melt. My 2019 gaming laptop, i9 and a rtx2070, becomes a fan heater if I want good performances in Unreal Engine.
While it would be incredibly fun to see the police be led on a goose chase, it's just as wrong to put the unsuspecting truck driver under the same non-consensual tracking situation that original person found themselves in.
Not sure what you expected.. a 5 year old _mobile_ GPU simply isn't cut out for modern gaming.
Older CBC cipher suites padded to the next multiple of 16 bytes (for AES). TLS 1.3 doesn’t support these anymore but added a more general padding mechanism [1]. I don’t know whether any browser actually uses it though.

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8446#section-5.4
It seems the phrase originates post-2008, with not much to do with WW2

https://en.public-welfare.com/4135353-quotbomb-voronezhquot-...
For many of us, the ads aren't necessarily the problem, its the surveillance.
PostGIS is now basically the "industry standard", so most third party tools work with it, even Esri! Here's some open source parts:

Desktop: https://qgis.org

Middleware: https://mapserver.org, https://geoserver.org, https://mapnik.org, https://github.com/crunchydata/pg_tileserv, https://github.com/crunchydata/pg_featureserv

Web UI: https://openlayers.org, https://leaflet.org, https://www.mapbox.com/mapbox-gljs
I’m not deep in this space but was thinking something along the lines of your response. If I understand it right, advertisers will lose efficiency here but I’m skeptical that it’ll cost ad networks much because advertisers will still need to reach an audience but will now suddenly be less effective at targeting.
No, this needs to be called out as the obvious racism it is as this mentality is slowly infiltrating the European tech sector.
I said decriminalized, rather than legalized.

I was thinking of Switzerland and Spitzplatz in the 1980s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platzspitz_park
The hidden work created by artificial intelligence programs
There are many ways to share information other than ads.