skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>leads the world in so many good and important metrics.

Can you help me with a few? Maybe 5? I'm pretty low on the US government at the moment. I can name quite a few things we lead in that are horrible.

>One of my local reps is leading the big tech breakup movement, and I'm incredibly proud to have her representing me.

I think that's great but I doubt that will ever be allowed to happen. Too much money will be thrown at congress and they will either do nothing, or do nothing in a way that makes them look like they did.
Platforms are good

It's on your team culture to enforce good standards of what not to use.

You can just as easily write a clusterfuck in Python (it's a huge language!) as in C++. Python just has a good overall culture of "what is pythonic" that helps this matter.
Airships would probably be much fast than cargo ships though. Ships cut through the water at like maybe 30 mph in good conditions. Airships could easily keep as they are dealing with so much less drag. In the 1930 they moved at like 70 mph aka 2x the speed of container ships. I mean there cargo space would be like 1/40 but with the difference in speed thats only 1/20 in the rate of moving cargo not to mention that you aren't bound by water which is the major issue with ports. They are just very congested and ships are stuck in ship lanes. The air is much more limitless in terms of shipping paths.
"The green bubbles are people who can sext, blue bubbles are spies for Apple"
"Markets will allocate capital according to risks"

Like you know, the risk to end organised civilisation through climate change. Haha, funny
https://archive.is/GljH6
Logging increases fire risk in the short term, because it leaves behind a lot of slash fuels and stimulated brushy undergrowth. It is not analogous to a burn.
I got a Seiko 5 as well, non-sports model. SNK809. I absolutely adore the little thing, it blows my mind just how little energy it needs to operate. Even when fully unwound, the slightest nudge gets it ticking at exactly the right speed. What an incredible work of engineering for so cheap.
> Private Equity buying up housing

I know there's a lot of media saying this headline but This is actually false. checkout Stephan graham, he's got a post on this on Youtube where he investigates it deeply and finds that an extremely tiny percentage of houses are being bought up by private equity.
I find Comms Lead role to be super useful bc i dont want to be bogged down replying to customers in the middle of the incident + probably don’t even have all the context/access. Everything else except ICM seems like a waste of time to me especially Recorder
> Dont know why you opinion/ theory is being downvoted as much. Its well within the realms of probability.

If you have 3 hours to spare, this is a good Epistemological explanation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAqOMGnJ2MQ
I was just baffled by https://vimeo.com/584985260. This is utterly amazing.
It's curious the article didn't propose solutions.

> Confusing short-circuit logical operators
> Using == instead of .equals to compare strings.

These problems are more typo/syntax-based rather than logic-based.

> Ignoring the return value from a non-void method.

This is more logic-based but also something that IDEs or other static-analysis tooling can usually spot (I wish java had `[[nodiscard]]` but alas).

You can certainly say that Java's syntax is an additional layer of complexity to beginners, and this syntax can make it hard to see the forest for the trees.

But any language or learning environment is going to have its quirks. I wonder if the real problem here is trying to teach programming in a total vacuum. I.e., not also teaching how to program using a competent editing environment and teaching how to use its feedback to solve problems.

I taught myself PHP at 13 using only Windows Notepad uploading to the server and refreshing every change. The concepts of an IDE, a syntax-aware editor, or a local development environment never occurred to me despite having read plenty of examples and explanations.

I don't know if the teaching/discoverability situation is any better in general now, but in my teaching I spend the first lesson showing how to type, do editor things, and look at feedback in VSCode before I explain even the first thing about syntax or programming. I would hope that teachers of beginners would show some tooling that gives students direct and actionable feedback.
Was your Treo also a Windows Mobile device or the PalmOS version?

Didn't RIM perfect the convergence of PDA and phone or did Blackberries have their own issues?

Were those proprietary OSs a form of *nix, TRON, or something else entirely? I thought Motorola's RAZR phones, like the Sony Ericssons, licensed Symbian from Nokia, but I could be mistaken.

How deep into the hardware were you when you were building games for those platforms (e.g. ARM asm, special undocumented microcode, etc.)?

Were gaming phones like the N-Gage or Xperia any better than their purely mobile counterparts in coding or feature-set?

While you had those Japanese phones in your hand, did you try iMode or play any games on them? Any models that were notable to you in '99? Any features you were hoping would make it stateside?

Did you ever work on older mobile systems like the Apple Newton, EPOC32, and GEOS/Palmtop PCs?
Indeed, Switzerland is very conservative. Like in every other country you have a divide between the progressive/liberal/young-ish big cities (Zurich, Bern, Lausanne, Basel, ...) and the conservative/old-ish rest of the country (great skylines, very low population density).

And then you look at the actual rules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_initiative_(Switzerlan...): "A double majority of people and cantons is required to change the constitution."

--> Swiss cantons are split up historically, not by population, similar to US states. The conservative, low-pop cantons can hold the progressives hostage on anything they don't like because even if you get the liberal cities behind you that is still way beyond the majority of cantons.
I don't know how old you are but my career now exceeds two decades. I definitely see this more now but that's because I institute it. Earlier in my career, we failed at incident management and at ownership. We now share the burden of on-call not just with the operators (sysadmins or old) but also with the people who wrote the code. We've spent a lot of time building better models based on proven methods, quite a few come from work done in high intensity roles paid by tax dollars: risk analysis, disaster recovery, firefighting, command and control, incident management, war games, red teams.
This reminded me of Kim Stanley Robinson's "2312" and the idea of standing on Mercury in the narrow hospitable belt, looking at the sun, and experiencing solar rapture.

Apparent size of the sun from the planets
http://www.astronoo.com/en/children/sun-apparent-size.html
https://archive.is/QActr
How much the most iconic technology in history would cost today
> Those periods of near zero production can last non-trivial amounts of time no realistic battery could provide for.

Interestingly not the case. New Zealand is currently considering what would become the largest battery in the world, Lake Onslow.

Consisting of a giant artificial lake and hydro dam it could store ~12 terawatt-hours.

This would be enough to smooth over any variations in renewable load and remove the need for fossil fuel peaker plants.
> Which "we"?!?

Those of us that value contributing where and when it makes sense to us.

For example, I have submitted a trivial patch to one of the tools in FreeBSD. And it is now part of a base install of FreeBSD, which means that when I install FreeBSD from official media, my patch is already included “free of charge” – that is, I don’t have to apply the patch myself on top of the official sources, nor to maintain a separate build of the tool in question. I benefit, and other users benefit.

Likewise I have some software on GitHub that I have released under the terms of the ISC license. Others may submit pull-requests, and if their patch is in line with my goals for the software, or if does not burden me overly much to maintain my software with those changes merged, I will merge the patches. The people that submitted the changes benefit and I benefit.

Meanwhile, sometimes I may want to modify a piece of software and not share the change. Being free to choose whether or not to share my changes benefits me. Likewise, me not forcing others to share their changes to software that I release under the terms of the ISC license has the potential to benefit other people.
>You can think of venture capital as privately financed stimulus package focused on a few sectors. So its actually necessary for the growth of an economy.

>PE on the other hand is more of the rent seeking behavior (buying cash flows) that we should really worry about.

You don't think that VCs are buying future cash flows with their investments? Do you think they're just giving out free money because they're feeling generous?
Agreed with some of your comment, but I think the gig economy is much worse than simply being underpaid at a regular job. An example:

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1424034689799516161
Keep in mind that electric cars still have tire and break dust. Its not all tail pipes, tho clearly it’d be great to eliminate that.
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> we'll see people move in together so that not only will housing prices drop through the floor but rents as well.

When two people move in together so that they now only have to pay 1/2 the rent of a house, that means the rent of each house can double and the occupants can still afford it.

There’s a way this plays out where both home price and rent double, but an increasing number of houses sit on the sidelines empty. Watching the commercial real estate market over the past decade, that scenario doesn’t strike me as outlandish.
I think this is a good intuition about it, and Xyla Foxlin goes into this a bit in her video explaining the build for Veritasium's video.

https://youtu.be/VUgajGv4Aok?t=432

The essential 'gear' ratio is between forward motion of the vehicle and the propeller pitch (essentially how far the prop would screw through a tub of jello for a given amount of rotation). The vehicle has to move *faster* on the ground than the prop does through the air for this to work at all, and it sounds like it should be roughly twice as fast for it to work on something that is reasonably simple to engineer. So if your prop pitch is 5", your wheel size and gearing should allow the vehicle to move forward approximately 10" for each rotation of the prop.

(Note that her video does not explain 'why' this is the case, just that it is a phenomenon that the Blackbird inventors had determined/discovered and is an essential design criteria).
copper wow.. what can you do with it? make wires?
> low cost now, high cost for grandchildren.

[sarcasm]
so, why transfer this "high cost" to grandchildren, let THEM solve whole problem of "habitability of this moist rock"
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But these are opened snaps. They don't have to live somewhere because they're supposed to be dead.
I absolutely would not want to be a security AV guy for anything in the pot industry. You'd be the first one they'd pop come reckoning time.
I think we need to ban Christmas lights too, after all we all have to endure the consequences of people using electricy for stupid things like creating a decentralized financial system without the government stealing everyone

I guess we need a government to regulate all these things, the same way they did with the victorious war on drugs.

At least you don't have a meth store at every street corner, right, what a win
No. Depends on your definition of rare, of course. You can see prices for various formulations and purities if you Google. Strontium titanate is used for jewelry, as it was one of the main diamond simulants back before cubic zirconia. I did my PhD working with crystals of strontium titanate and contributed to two Wikipedia articles on it.

Looking at the elemental abundances you can see that titanium and strontium are fairly high, above both gallium and arsenic, another solar cell pair. Barium is in the ballpark of gallium and arsenic.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_the_chemical_el...
So Amazon is basically a type of eBay in India?

You're right about the whole phone number masking thing. It's pretty simple to implement these days, so any platform that doesn't do it is probably not all that concerned about looking after their customers. There's a taxi ordering startup here in Dublin where I live that has only 10 employees and they use phone number masking, if they can do it then there's no reason why Amazon can't.
> problems that privacy inherently allows for

I wonder how we ever survived with the level of privacy we had before the advent of the internet. It must've been a living hell. /s

Privacy is not a problem, it is necessary in order for freedom from tyranny to be possible. Even if all the governments of the world mandate that all communication devices must be compromised like this, criminals will still be able to have private communication channels, but lawful citizens won't.
Thanks for the info. I did not know this, but it does not surprise me. I am sure there are similar examples.

The first section of the linked article says that Fortran "was an odd choice from a pure computer science standpoint", that they "developed hardware optimized to run FORTRAN", and that large parts of the OS (in particular, the kernel) were eventually rewritten in other languages.

This is, in my opinion, a great example of how Fortran could not compete with C as a systems programming language.
Looks like it's marketing material for a "development agency", so probably a few non-technical salesmen and managers that act as a middleman between the client and a bodyshop.

> We call them the “CEO of the project” as they’re ultimately responsible for connecting the dots to make sure goals are hit in a timely manner as well as for problem-solving when an issue surfaces.

PM managing devs is a red flag.
Likewise, but more as a way to experiment with a big integer crate for rust.
Not negligible at all. Comets and asteroids do not target to move a planet in some other direction, but a swarm of satellites can do it in a coordinated way. Of course you will need millions of satellites performing such dives over million of years.

But if your goal is to move the planet farther from the sun because it becomes more luminous and threatens to scorch the earth and you need to move away to cancel it, it is probably doable.
Derek from Veritasium asked Xyla Foxlin to build a functional model, and she goes through the trials and tribulations of that in quite a bit of detail in her video here:

https://youtu.be/VUgajGv4Aok

There's a key aspect discussed in 7:10 relating to the ratio of the propeller pitch to the vehicle forward motion that is necessary for this to work.

(Xyla's channel is a great follow overall btw)
Aluminium must be really exotic material in airspace applications?

Also:

The truth is that the dope used on the Hindenburg was specifically chosen for its low flammability, and the composition of the dope had almost nothing in common with the formula used to make rocket fuel.

https://www.airships.net/hindenburg-paint/
I really like your take. Also Fidelity offers a Cash Management Account(https://www.fidelity.com/cash-management/fidelity-cash-manag...) that is insured up to 1.25 M. That's a lot of money(at least for me). I think for people that are not rich, and need a certain amount of money saved in their account for rent, utilities, etc... a market downturn will put them in a pretty horrible situation. Imagine you get paid 3000 at the end of the month by your employer, and the next day you have only 2100 left, how do you make up for the difference?
At least in my mind the nascent days of the web was the early 90's when a large portion of games were still mostly text based with most of the graphical fidelity coming from clever uses of flat 2D images that had sprites overlaid on them. You certainly had 3D games going back to 1981 - but there were still quite rare compared to isometric 2.5d games.
A turbo charger increases fuel consumption though. You can’t just consume more wind.
Just live in Tunisia or Barbados like a real pirate.
Shielding itself is not perfect. Probably enough for the simple circuitry of an analog quartz. But it's not guaranteed. It's a buffer that reduces a wave by a few to a few dozen dB. A EM pulse through even a properly grounded faraday cage will still replicate another smaller wave internally.

Just let me collect my tiny mechanical toys, dammit, don't ask questions.
Actually I think we can argue about lovecraft not inventing the lovecraft genre because of the “Lovecraft Circle” which consisted of several contemporary authors all borrowing ideas from each other. Generally we talk of pioneers in a genre specifically because how commonplace such exchanges of ideas are.
what happens when your bank sends you a new atm card when the old one expires?
Or not. It doesn't matter. Some already have so it can't get any worse. They've already generated enormous value in doing the thing that made them rich.

They're not feudal lords. We own our own property, not Bezos. He has almost no power over us. If nobody told you he was so rich, you wouldn't even know. That's how little it matters beyond jealousy.
They still contribute a good amount to localized air quality since there is still tire particulate at play, and these vehicles tend to weigh more than a given ice car of the same class.
UC salaries are public[0] and it looks like he made $219k in 2019, which is pretty decent for a professor but yeah $10k would still definitely be a significant setback.

[0] https://ucannualwage.ucop.edu/wage/
Just tell me where I can live that won't kill me, then where won't hurt me.
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I'd say because Amazon doesn't care.

If a seller pushes the boundaries a bit too much and Amazon is forced the ban them, they really don't care if they sign up again using a different name.

If the seller has a strategy worked out on how to get good reviews quickly then they can keep repeating this process safe in the knowledge that they're making money and Amazon are making money as well.
I do this with the Overdrive app and my local library. I think they have Libby also. I prefer the audit books during my commute to work.
It’s worth remembering that almost none of the world’s most used apps/websites had a team like this when they were created.
Due to the extra weight you also breath in more tire dust.
I’m not sure where you got the 12% number from as I’ve seen other numbers. But regardless it’s an AND game, not OR. We should be minimizing everything simultaneously, as all those gains add up. It’s also not like all changes will be a step function either, so as things gradually change we absolutely need the addition rather than waiting for certain CO2 sources to become 0%.
To me hitting should maybe be on for kids because its a way for them to learn.

Although after being hit a few times by my nephew when he was younger, I understand turning it off. I have not had kids, but I get the impression that most kids are just prone to certain tendencies at a young age. Like, they are kids. Maybe there are a rare few that act less like kids, but I think there may be limitations on training especially for the young ones.

But anyway I was happy to find the last time that I was in with my nephew, I had no fear of being accidentally attacked with a sword.
Haven't hooked it up to a badge reader yet. Main use currently is as a garage door alert, have some custom code hooked up to a sensor that alerts on gotify. Just don't want to leave the door open :P Other uses are minor, but like some chat notifications (rocket chat stuff), or major alerts for some of my homelab.
Always looking for more uses!
I tend to prefer gaming mice, simply for their long-term comfort, lots of buttons, and precision. I'm still holding on to a Logitech G9, it's one of the best mice I've ever had. Discontinued, sadly.

The Logitech MX series is pretty decent, though I've had to start fighting with uneven mousewheel acceleration. Corsair makes decent mice, and Razer as well.

The double click issue I've had happen with a couple of products. A Razer opto-mechanical keyboard had this crop up, a previous Logitech MMO mouse did this (double left click as well), and even a "Topre" switch keyboard had this happen. I haven't had it happen with cherry switch keyboards (yet), but I'm sure it will.

It almost seems like an industry-wide problem that combines less-expensive switch components and debouncing tolerances that are set too tightly - it's like none of the newer products are set up to handle aging switches. Just a guess though.
Why can't they be "threatened with a crowbar" to sign the exploit?
what type of vinegar do you use on laundry?

For cars, sometimes it is as easy as changing the cabin air filter.
a spyglas (=lets you zoom in) and lightning rods (catch lightning that would have struck in a radius around it otherwise). And the blocks look nice, and slowly oxidize and turn to green copper (which you can stop at any stage by waxing the block with bees wax)
> We also had a "see ya in the morning" culture. Instead I'd be much more impressed to have a "see ya in the afternoon, get some sleep" culture.

German labor laws forbid employees from working 10-13 hours after a long on-call situation after a normal work day, just like that. Add in time compensation, and a bad on-call situation at night easily ends up as the next day off paid.

I've found this to take a lot of edge of on-call. Sure, it /sucks/ to get called at 1am and do stuff until 3, but that's a day to sleep in and recover. Maybe hop on a call if the team needs input, but that's optional.
Obligatory mentioned of the AC72 using rigid wing sails. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbPTnF6liF8
And when the certificate is compromised ? Crxpto AG ?
There are a lot of companies/states which supply certificates which are then used for MITM.
(grand)kids toys especially large cumbersome play center type ones free off Craigslist. Also kids books cheap at garage sales and goodwill. And for grandpa two buck chuck and box wine :-)
I am not sure either but I have a feeling English is not their first language.

Regardless, most interesting comment in the thread in my opinion.
For want of a screenless MP3 player
It's been said elsewhere, but it bears repeating: E2EE is useless if the ends are compromised.

Furthermore, since the end is compromised, it's no longer a true end. The true end is the user and a system compromised in this way doesn't offer any guarantees to the user.
Experience with fundraising under your belt, yes. That was my point.
The people-mover has to expend more energy to push you because you're applying a stronger drag force, so energy is conserved.
Some context about the motivation for the project, https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-founder-builds-the-ultim...
Do you have numbers to back that up?

I can hear ICE engines accelerating roaringly from miles away. I do not hear the same from electric cars.
I am just asking whether geoengineering has been demonstrated as a feasible solution to reverse trends of global warming and anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions.

Geoengineering proposals typically aim to reduce the global greenhouse effect through several hypothetical means (like increasing cloud albedo.)

http://www.geoengineering.ox.ac.uk/www.geoengineering.ox.ac....

Dykes and dams that curtail flooding of coastal regions can be monumental undertakings but aren't typically referred to as "geoengineering." Hydropower from a dam could be a good way to reduce carbon emissions, but again wouldn't be considered geoengineering.