skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if you still have to go inland, it's the same problem but worse. Sure places on the coast can get cheaper/less wasteful goods by water but once you have to take those goods inland you have the same dilemma. At least with local production you only have to worry about the last X miles rather than those last X miles plus maritime travel.

Additionally, local transport doesn't preclude using waterways. There's plenty of viable river shipping lanes in most regions not exposed to the coast but once again the last mile is going to probably be by road.

So local production can still happen on the coasts but by making it local you free up whatever percentage of international maritime traffic that could either be used for something else or go unused and save some amount of pollution.

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Side note but if we want to cut down on pollution why isn't there a bigger push to replace diesel propulsion with nuclear propulsion in commercial vessels? Just a quick search and it looks like Maritime shipping accounts for something like 13% of Sulphur emissions, 15% of NOx emissions, and 3% of CO2 emissions. That seems like a pretty big/easy way to cut down on atmospheric and greenhouse gas pollution from a global standpoint.
it is easy to put all the blame on the land lord, and I am sure they are partially to blame.

However in many area's "downtown" is not a good place to be, there is limited parking, little public transit, high crime, high vagrancy, and the city does not spend much in keeping up their end of the bargin either.

I know more than a few places that left downtown not because of increasing rents, but because of decreasing customers and other issues with being downtown, they moved a little outside the city core where they can have their own parking lot, their own good signage with out tons of regulations, get deliveries with out issue, etc... and the business boomed.

Me personally, I live in the 2nd largest city in my state, I refuse to go to the down town area. There are plenty of businesses down there but there is no parking, higher prices, smaller shops, and it just is not enjoyable to me. I do not like high density...
> 'sinsemilla'

Now there's a word I haven't heard in a very long time. It used to be quite a selling point if you could offer pot with no seeds.

Remember the days of breaking up a bud into an upside down box lid, and tilting and shaking the lid so the seeds would roll out?

Nowadays essentially all cannabis is seedless, so you hear the word "sinsemilla" about as often as you find a seed in the jar you get from the dispensary.
> But you just created a circular dependency!

Only if those things not only need to be able to “get to” each other, but also need to know, at compile time, about the concrete implementation of the others.

That's possible to be a real need, but its also something that often happens because of excessive and unnecessary coupling.
You can smoke less burning plant matter to achieve the same effect.
In ny hometown near San Diego the water from the local sewage treatment plant gets used by some nearby avocado farms.
I lived in Colombia in '95 right after they legalized cocaine and weed. It was funny, there was all these fake police harassing the Europeans by getting a street kid to place a jar of actual weed (not cannabis) beside them on the beach (this was in Santa Marta) and then showing them their tinfoil (really) badges and demanding to go to a bank machine to get money. It was a past time to watch it. https://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/07/world/use-of-drugs-is-leg...
Ubiquiti bundles physical and virtual security
Well I'm glad that's settled!
I visited Chimney Rock on a trip to Yellowstone last year. Felt nostalgic, like I had been there before. Was more worried about dysentery than Covid. I lost a lot of good people to dysentery.
if you think other countries police forces are the same as america then we're done here, lmao. ask yourself, how many other countries' average daily police forces have guns? you can't be serious
The thing I learned recently that happens in Spain is that if you have a property sitting empty, the government will calculate a "virtual rent" so to speak and charge you based on that (normally lower than actual market rate, but not much). If you rent it out, you get taxed based on what you actually make and not on this potential rent. Real estate taxes are apart/independent.

This makes people really want to rent out places, and you see a much higher occupancy than in other countries (you still have squatters, which is a big issue, pushing in the opposite direction so it's still not perfect).
The liters per kg of beef number we often see around is not accurate. It doesn't take into account that most of the water cows need, they urinate it and it goes back into the water cycle.

But it could be, even taking account that they urinate most of what they need, they still need a lot more water per calories than other foods.

I don't eat beef because of the environmental impact, but I recently discovered that the impact of beef has been exaggerated.

It still has a big impact and I will keep not eating red meat, but I am more prudent with the numbers around beef I read in the news.
That's how you deal with mobile phone operators :). Threaten them to leave if they won't give you a better offer, and if they don't, then just leave... and come back some time later, to get the much better "new customer" treatment.
That happens in every country with drinking age laws right? This can't be what makes the USA different (assuming GP's thesis is correct, I've never been to a place that had a bouncer let alone to the USA).
> In fact, given the scale disparity, peering with Cloudflare likely increases AWS’s marginal costs.

Look, I don't care how it's done at a technical level. If they'd like to just stop charging so much, with no routing changes, that's fine too. The problem is that I can get full transit service for a tiny fraction of what AWS charges for egress. I want a competitive price. And I don't care how selfish cloudflare is being while they highlight a real problem with AWS that's been obvious for many years. Their selfishness doesn't make what they're saying 'swill' either.

And it's pretty hard to distort "this is how much egress costs to supply, rounding up. this is how much amazon charges.". Is their number egregiously wrong? It's reasonably in line with what I've researched in the past.
Be careful with this line of "utilitarian" thinking. Food production is not easily replaced.

California produces 95% of tomatoes grown in the USA.[0] 18.5% of milk.[1]

These volumes can't be readily replaced by other states' production. California is an agriculture powerhouse. Certainly luxury export crops like the oft-vilified almond might not be sorely missed, but staples like tomatoes, lettuces, dairy, and beef would be in shortage at sky-high prices without California's production.

[0]https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/...
[1]https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/DataFiles/48685/milkcowsand...
“metric tensor of spacetime”… When I hear a series of words that I feel sound like bullshit I Google them. And, like you I felt this paragraph felt like a healthy bit of BS but was surprised that this paragraph is pretty much the Wiki definition of the phrase “metric tensor of spacetime”. I still dont understand it however.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_tensor_(general_relat...
I have a hard time calling immense wastes of resources "wonderful". Think of how many man-hours of at least better-than-average engineers have been wasted developing something like 5 separate chat apps... it's absurd.
An ECDSA signature for example can be represented as 64 bytes with good security, and adding 64 bytes to a PDF417 isn't too big of a deal. That's basically just the curve coordinates and nothing else though, so the verifying device has to either guess-and-check or use some other data to figure out what public key it should be verifying against, and there's no expiry or anything like that. In practice, now that we have elliptic curve algorithms that tend to allow very compact keys at a good security level, the bigger problem is less the actual cryptographic signature and more all the PKI metadata that normally needs to be tied to a signature to make it useful (especially if you have multiple levels of authority, which you probably want to or revocation becomes a huge problem). There are ways around carrying around PKI metadata with the signature (i.e. a normal x509 certificate) but there are tradeoffs and it's not like a well-established standard, which tends to make government organizations uncomfortable about adoption.
Ew, don't tell me what I 'know'.
> they dig a hole in the river

Maybe a silly question, but why did they dig a hole in the river? Wasn't there water there already, at that time?

Or maybe the river is dried up in the summer, and they dig a hole (dig? drilled?) to access water in the ground below?

> though apparently fish supersede their water rights

I'm curious about what your grandparents think about the water restrictions (if you happen to know, and if I may ask)
Note how

A) You start out with "either cognitive ability or interest in engineering/CS", but by your last paragraph you're down to "cognitive ability" alone. Damore's thesis was, AFAICR, mainly about the "interest" bit. Does this divergence in what you are talking about vs what he was mean anything, and if so what?

B) > The well understood answer to your question is that there was a split in gender roles at about the time agriculture was adopted, with men working outside and women doing indoor tasks.

And this split... Just happened? Or was it maybe due to differences in, well, how interested people of different sexes on average were/are in different kinds of tasks? Or why else were men "superior agricultural fieldworkers thousands of years ago"?
Yellen urges Congress to raise or suspend the debt limit by Aug. 2
I like JSON and CSV. JSON if I want to write code. CSV if I just want to analyze it with excel or gsheets
Yes. You can send any file descriptor. You might also be interested in socketpair[1], which creates a pair of FDs connected via an anonymous Unix domain socket. Sending a socketpair over a Unix domain socket is a nice way to establish a new channel of communication.

[1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/socketpair.2.html
You don't need old school MTV to find this. Just go to a grocery store and see all the women's magazines that promote insecurities. It's an entire business model. Female editors are presumably highly represented at these magazines and they don't seem to have a problem with the destruction they wreak.
You must be confusing Catholic for some other denomination. Can you provide a single actual example of someone who publicly admitted to being gay and is still a Catholic priest?
You're a really great writer on this topic. If you're not already, and you have the time, you should seek out ways to do this in a way that has more reach. Thank you!
If call bind with port 0 in Linux or Windows or OSX the OS will bind to a random unused port within the unrestricted port range. Whether there is any forwarding or firewall associated with that port is outside the scope of the code that opens the port. If the application is assigned a random port such as 55555 there could be forwarding or a firewall on that port at the OS level that the application is unaware of. If an application is opening random listening ports it just needs to record that information somewhere so clients can actually connect to it. In the case of using this for testing localhost servers the application can just print out the port number or save it to a file so that you can look it up easily without going through netstat or something.

Opening a random listening port to serve content to clients which initiate communications to it is less common than the use case of initiating a communication to a listening port elsewhere and sending content through that socket, though both of these use cases open random local ports.
So what? The very first step to unifying GR with quantum mechanics and the standard model might actually be to realize that part of the standard model can be embedded in GR (at least when EM is considered as a classical field theory). I don't think it's a deficiency of the paper that it doesn't present a solution to everything.
> Suppose you have some method of A which does something special if it gets an instance of B.

While that’s in rare circumstances the right thing to do, it's mostly an anti-pattern—you should be taking an object supporting a protocol, with the behavior difference depending on a field or method of (or actually implemented in a method of) that protocol. If you do that, you don't create a dependency on a concrete class that happens to require the special behavior.
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-prep-rite-passage-asian-americ... ("While affluent Asian-Americans are more likely to take test prep, 46.7 percent of low-income Korean-Americans still took a prep course.").

> OP’s comment about other needs (haircut, clothes, etc.) is very real.

Those are short-term expenses. Families can plan for long-term expenses over years. By your logic poor people would never be able to afford a car. But 80% of people living in poverty do have access to a vehicle.

> Are you really suggesting that all poor families that haven’t spent on test prep are simply ignorantly misprioiritizing spend?

I don't know what the priority should be for doing well on tests. My point is that a $1,400 one-time expense is not out of reach even for most poor people.

And nobody said "all."

> It seems like there’s a massive gap between your life perspective and that of a poor person’s.

I grew up very comfortable, but I have family from Bangladesh who immigrated to pretty close to the bottom of the totem pole. Not the very bottom, not homeless, but public housing, working the lowest end service jobs, etc. My wife's parents grew up extremely poor (as in buying meat at the grocery store was a luxury until she was an older kid). Many people really don't understand the difference between people who are destitute (which is a very small number of people) and "normal" poor people.
There's an app for that!

I Reveal My Attributes (IRMA) proves things like age without giving up SSN or whatever. I don't know the details but I've been hearing about it from nerds for years so I'm assuming there's a solid signature scheme behind it or some way to prove you're not carrying your of-age friend's phone.

Doesn't seem like anyone's interested in rolling this out though... something something proof of vaccination in the EU without compromising privacy, perfect solution mumble mumble...
I've been afraid that I was going to loose K-9 (due to it becoming incompatible with a newer android or something). Thanks!

One note, If I opt out of giving the app contacts permissions I get nagged about it each time opening the app and composing a new mail etc. etc.
DoD says DJI products pose “potential threats”
The cost of solar panels is now low enough to be a secondary factor for residential use. In USA and Western Europe, the cost of installing is the biggest expense, also the cost of batteries (for off-grid). In Europe there is also the availability of good quality MPPT, batteries (LiFePO4), converters - there is a lot of 110V equipment on Amazon, not 230V.

So in the overall picture, for residential installations the cost of the solar panels is not an issue, people in Europe can afford to pay a premium for German-made panels. If the efficiency is higher, that premium is well deserved, I know the efficiency of solar panels is continuously increasing, today we have more than 50% more efficient panels than 10 years ago and those were 50-100% more efficient than another 10 years ago (the base was very low, it allowed for such huge increases).
That would be much better. Otherwise, I'd rather stick with Gen X than Xennial as Millennial has so many negative connotations these days.
nice list.
Books like "The Phoenix Project" belong to a category called "business novel". It was invented by Eli Goldratt in his best seller "The Goal".

The Goal was rejected by several editorials. one rejection letter said: Dr. Goldratt if you want to publish a book about Plant Magement we would be delighted to publish it. If you want to write a novel, maybe we would look into it. but a novel about Plant management we wouldn't know we're to put it."

The Goal has sold over 30 million copies.
I've been using K9 email on my android phone for ages, and it just works.

Anyway, there's an app update today, a major one. There have been recent updates, but only minor ones.
On page 32 of the paper they provide rankings of the two pilots against whom the automated system flew (Michael Isler and Timothy Trowbridge). My personal opinion of course, but I would call both of these pilots "serious human competitors" given both have been competing since 2017 in international events and received many podium finishes. But that's also beside the point.

This paper is about generating time-optimal trajectories through waypoints given the system's physical constraints (e.g. limitations in thrust and rotational rates). A time-optimal trajectory is a trajectory which is time optimal—meaning that no faster trajectory exists. Given that this algorithm generates the fastest possible trajectory through the waypoints given the physical constraints of the system, it would be impossible for even a "serious" human competitor to beat it.
Good book recommendations, but the article looks strange on my browser, wonder why (Firefox 90.)

The Thrawn Ascendancy series is great, especially Greater Good. Conflict/Plot is a bit crazy to follow, but I'd highly recommend reading it, even if you aren't an extreme Star Wars fan.
Association between exposure to desalinated sea water and ischemic heart disease, diabetes mellitus and colorectal cancer; A population-based study in Israel https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00139...
I tend to get downvoted a lot. That's how I know I'm right.
The same way the government funds any kind of project.

Contractor says: we can do this for $X.

Government says yes or no to the project.

You do the same for patent applications.

It's basically answering the question "how much is this technology worth to society?" If they don't pay for it, then the technology will end up as a trade secret.
Conquest – open-source Risk clone in Godot
Possibilities sure, but IMO that doesn't translate to "likely". Other vaccines also give you only minimal or short protection after the first dose with long-lasting protection after the second (or third) one.
The exhaust muffler industry would love that.
I believe he is referring to the first commercially available headset, which is indeed, the CV1 "Oculus Rift"
Yeah but it's like 0.001% of the people killed by conventional means. We're only flipping out because it's new. It's not like the Minneapolis police needed George Floyd's phone metadata or encrypted chats. Or that Russia was picking targets in Crimea with it. Arguably fear of spying has caused more deaths than actual spying if anti-vaxxers are being honest.
Yup... Wonder what will happen when the bond yields and interest rates go up
Hmmm while I agree with you, doesn't the fact qualsys went looking out eyes on it? We sure that a seq_lock bug isn't present in say OSX, QNX, Windows?
It is abundantly clear how all of your data will be used, not buried in ToS/legalese?
Linux doesn't have to be complicated, even today. Slackware and Void are BSD-like in their configuration simplicity. But I appreciate the BSDs being there... especially since they have code bases that are squeaky clean and thoroughly documented, at least by Linux and GNU standards.
> we understand gravity very well, at least in the sense of the word that physicists are used to

(emphasis mine)

As someone with a background in mathematical relativity, I would like to note that GR actually is not very well understood at all. Physicists seem to focus on the few simple solutions to Einstein's field equations that people have found through educated guessing, but there a ton of questions about the field equations that are open to this day.
I’m pretty sure you never own the river.
Cry for help vs giving up.
> The goal was to find how to make the job more attractive to female developers.

But why should that be a goal? Is there any inherent value in having all jobs be equally attractive to everybody? If so, where are all the efforts to make jobs like garbage collection less male-dominated?
I don't see how it's a weird opinion, I'm also speaking for myself others are free to enjoy the platform if they want I don't care
In defence of the quote, it did mention trading essential liberty for a little security. Implying a bad trade.

I agree with what you say about these decisions being made as a society, and there being disagreements.

I would like to point out that you may misunderstand anarchists. Anarchists understand disagreement over such trade-offs better than most, and work harder than most for compromise and census. Anarchists are fine with large political structures and rules, as long as they are not forced upon anyone. Anarchists prioritize not forcing anything on others [0].

An anarchist might refer to what they have been doing in Switzerland for the last 150 years as a great example of bottom-up direct democracy in action [1], which is basically what political anarchy is. Currently a country of 8.5 million people, Switzerland is split into 26 cantons (they divide into more when needed). Each canton has its own constitution and parliament (averaging ~330k people each). Cantons are divided into municipalities (some large, like Zurich, and some small, with only 2-3k people). A big part of their political culture and the structure of their government is that what can be done locally is done locally, and the people are in charge. People can petition for a vote to not only create new laws and amendments, but to have laws they don't like removed.

Many of the problems in the U.S. are due to the fact that the federal government was never meant to be as involved in our lives as it is (10th amendment, powers default to the states) and was not designed to be responsive to the people (technically states vote for president, not people). So now there are 330 million of us arguing about more and more stuff. Even worse we allow rich people and corporations to fund politicians (which is illegal in most civilized countries), to the detriment of most people. The U.S. needs less plutocracy (rule by the rich) and more democracy (rule by the people).

Sorry, this has been on my mind lately. I just learned about how much anarchists are into democracy, and about Switzerland's democracy.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchists (refer to first sentence)

[1] https://wolf-linder.ch/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Swiss-poli... (page 4 shows how powers are divided)
"you want to preserve your work somewhere so that it cannot be wiped"

This is my biggest concern. Confiscated devices are never returned to their owners.
According to this https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/1943/1/... they're all peer-reviewed. An average number of reviews per paper of 1 seem a bit curious though.
I'm sure you'd make more money after takes renting it out but you have more costs associated with having a tenant (and risks). If you can just sit on a vacant property get some tax rebates and watch it appreciate you don't need to do anything. Your tenant won't break stuff, you don't need to find new ones, its just appreciating slowly and requires less hands on management.
> Why doesn't California use a more market-based approach? It could simply decide how much water can be sustainably consumed and then auction-off rights to that amount of water.

Because it would have to first seize by eminent domain lots of permanently held rights in order to put them into an auction, and the costs of the initial purchases would be prohibitive.

In the US, a State can't just up and decide to conduct, say, an annual auction for use of property that someone already permanently owns, and that's how a lot of water rights are.