skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is from 2014 - but definitely still relevant. It contains some interesting facts and commentary:

> Although many Californians think that population growth is the main driver of water demand statewide, it actually is agriculture. In an average year, farmers use 80 percent of the water consumed by people and businesses — 34 million of 43 million acre-feet diverted from rivers, lakes and groundwater, according to the state Department of Water Resources

> Bill Patzert, a research scientist and oceanographer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, says that the West is in a 20-year drought that began in 2000. He cites the fact that a phenomenon known as a “negative Pacific decadal oscillation” is underway — and that historically has been linked to extreme high-pressure ridges that block storms.

> Such events, which cause pools of warm water in the North Pacific Ocean and cool water along the California coast, are not the result of global warming, Patzert said.
Squingle VR Puzzle Game
Hey I am working on a low code framework for a use-case like yours for both WebApps and Mobile Apps.

Think of it as combination of glitch.com and bubble.io / www.adalo.com

My contact info is in my HN Profile. I would like to learn more about your use-case.
Motors, compressors still are more efficient on AC, for place like American South where air conditioning represent largest segment from electricity expense AC grid remains making sense.
They don't have a monopoly control of "land", the have control of the land they own. And whether or not new land is being produced or land is unique is pretty flimsy. There's vast amounts of land around the globe under varying laws and systems of government and usage. Land use regulation is also not equivalent to regulatory capture. I don't have much time for redefining common terms as a way to argue -- if you want to abolish private ownership of land, just out and say it.

> Land is essentially monopolised through regulatory capture (council land use restrictions) and the lack of new production of land (ignoring for now the very minor exceptions of, say, Dubai, Singapore, the Netherlands). There is a lack of viable substitutes of land, and due the necessity of land for human life, the owners of land are able to extract rent far above their marginal cost.

This is just emotional handwaving. Water is vital for human life and you can't produce more of it ignoring very minor exceptions of chemical reactions. If I pour myself a glass of water I don't gain monopoly control of water.

And Ricardo's Law of Rent does not explain that land-lording is rent-seeking. Millions of people own a second house and rent it out, how are they rent-seeking?

> Note that by saying "Investing in appreciating assets of any kind is also not." I suspect that you see land as equivalent to other forms of capital,

From the point of view of an investor it's pretty equivalent to other assets. Everything is finite. Water, sand, apples, cell phones, gold.

> and thus a legitimate form of investment to be pursued without any ethical qualms. However, land is not capital, and is distinct from other forms of investment.

Everyone wanting to live in the Upper East Side of New York City but not being able afford to rent or own a place there because everyone else wants to live there does not illustrate any ethical problems with land ownership at all. No more than me owning a box of corn flakes when some people starve to death because of poverty.
All the graphic design/branding was done by The Designer's Republic: https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/

Direct link to Wipeout: https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/wipeout
This is my favorite comment (please don't down vote)
There are infinite branches that lead nowhere though. This isn’t some data hinting that an effect/correlation doesn’t seem to exist. No useful data or knowledge was discovered here.
This is the main reason, but AirBnB isn't helping. Even when more housing is built, developers build housing that's meant primarily for short term rentals. The margins are high enough, and the obligations low enough, that running an illegal hotel can be much more profitable than finding long term tenants.
Rust got M1 support in November, 2020. There are many other Rust apps that work on M1. This isn't a viable excuse for a publicly traded behemoth that keeps taking on new verticals while ignoring the one feature users care about.
Make that a Wndows-compatible app and I'm sold.
You can run many Linux distros on MBP, so why not just replace the OS and continue to enjoy the exceptional hardware? You may need to research the distros to see exactly what issues may exist for your specific model of MBP.
"...reservoirs, designed to store water during exceptionally wet years, were considered all but useless... never built... 2016 & 2017 California received record snow & rainfall... windfall of millions of acre-ft of runoff was mostly let out to sea." http://bit.ly/2HnjQTR
Liquidity matters in free markets as it effects the ability of buyers to buy and sellers to sell. In Urban housing markets many individuals do not have the liquidity to buy even if they have the cash flow.

The number of actors matter as moving to different cities typically means changing jobs which may or may not be viable, if alternative cities have the same pricing dynamics at play - then it may not be possible to find a better alternative in price.

As to the reason why this all matters and we aren't content with simply choosing to rent from REIT A or REIT B is that zoning boards have proven unable to cut through A & B's protests against new construction. While A&B may compete with each other they do not compete with any alternative, and all potential customers must acquire housing. As long as the total number of housing units remains below the demand for housing then A&B will benefit.

In practice there are still a number of players who interact with the zoning board - but the net result is still a frustratingly stagnant housing supply.
DFO is far slower to converge in general than gradient based methods even when it’s close to the optimum because it doesn’t use derivative information. Newton’s method on the other hand has local quadratic convergence. Not sure I would bet on DFOs to have better performance than gradient methods. DFOs have two advantages: they’re embarrassingly parallelizable and for non convex problems, they don’t succumb as easily to local optima. But they’re not better performing in general.
The worst part is that he's allowed to recommend his own answers above others, inflating his own stats... regardless of how much of an unhelpful arse he is in his own replies.
Any engine is limited to the carnot cycle; the themoelectric effect still requires a cool side and heat gets conducted along the two leads to equalize the temperature. That's where the power comes from, the temperature differential across the thermocouple wires, and you consume the temperature differential when you generate electricity.

Different types of engines have different details of where that energy gets lost, but ultimately they are devices that if left to run indefinitely would equilibrate in some way and the way that they idle tells you a fair bit about where the energy flows are.

Turbines are pretty impressively efficient, but something can always be better. They often utilize the low grade waste heat in steam heating though, so a lot of times the efficiency is extremely good when you include free heating or process heat (in a plant they might use that steam to heat another piece of equipment).
I did some investigation because I was curious as well.

I think one distinction is in the lowercase 'm'. Primarily around the left most stroke of the letter where the first arch of the 'm' meets. Neue Haas Grotesk's 'm' has a narrower starting stroke on the arch when it's leaving the first stroke. Whereas Helvetica has a mostly even width arch on the 'm'. This one I'm relatively uncertain on and it could be my monitor but it does seem like there's a mild difference in whatever that nook/cranny is called.

Another spot where I think the differences are apparent are with the lowercase 't'. Helvetica has an almost right angle change in direction on the inside of the base of the 't' whereas Neue Haas is smoother.

I would also look at the lowercase 'a' for differences if you really wanted to see it, Neue's is much curvier on the "belly" of the a.

Sorry if these aren't the right words, not entirely sure what to call the "parts" of a character in a font.
At one point, Lambda didn't expose the ability to write custom runtimes, and only provided runtimes for specific languages. People reverse-engineered those runtimes and figured out how to build custom ones. Eventually, Amazon provided a documented, well-supported way to build and run custom runtimes, but that required documenting the interfaces provided to those runtimes (e.g. environment variables and HTTP APIs instead of language-runtime-specific APIs).

I'd love to see Lambda support custom kernels. That would require a similar approach: document the actual VM interface provided to the kernel, including the virtual hardware and the mechanism used to expose the Lambda API. I'd guess that they haven't yet due to a combination of 1) not enough demand for Lambda with custom kernels and 2) the freedom to modify the kernel/hardware interface arbitrarily because they control both sides of it.
You’d use a derivative, although at this point I’d imagine the move is already priced in (unless you want to gamble on total collapse).
No, no it does not. You believe this based on a continuous stream of suasion and half-truths with zero, zero tangible evidence of a crime, or even of malfeasance. If you clear your mind for a moment and review the actual facts you will recognize this. However, I recognize it is very difficult to relinquish closely-held beliefs, especially when you look around and see people agreeing with you and confirming your biases.
Bluesky – decentralize social media backed by Twitter
Hi. I saw the following link being shared here a few weeks back titled 'Few people know that Google voluntarily removes some search results':
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27477797

This is likely not exactly the same, but you can hopefully be able to either request this yourself, or guide the pastor to fill in this request for possibly removing some of this data. I know this isn't exactly what you likely need, but hopefully it helps some.
Thanks for clarifying. Yes this would be fairly different and requires an extra layer or configuration on our backend. You’re absolutely right about following the same route to the server per user and since our current configuration allows a workspace level workflow, we would have to write some middleware to handle this use case.

You are absolutely right about a self hosted solution being the better workaround which means it resides on an internally accessible network where the setup experience would be much more seamless.
Or they have, but just don't want to release the video and scare people.
I should have submitted https://blueskyweb.org instead.
This has come up before, with no resolution. Someone who has been harmed by this needs to sue Google; Google as an organization simply won’t care unless and until there is a monetary and PR cost. Even then it may take multiple suits brought by multiple people.
One thing I've noticed about NA cities vs those in Asia is that NA cities sort of just stop growing upwards at a certain point - they never make the leap to having an actual urban core, with transit, density, and many apartment buildings.

Condo buildings in asia often can have a 10x-100x difference in price between units. The maid for the person in the penthouse might live downstairs, or a few buildings away. They planned for their cities a lot better to actually have a lot of people in them. New condo projects go up constantly, all the time. Seattle for a while in the past few years had the most cranes in use in the US, at something like 18. That number seems pitifully low.
xmpp gchat still works. It was supposed to be deprecated long ago, but it still works (maybe with limitations). I use it on my phone with conversations.im. You'll need an app password to log in.
What's the transport cost on a t-shirt in a container? 7 cents?

My guess is that these countries have protectionist duties, which just makes goods more expensive for locals. Textiles aren't a very strategic industry. (Yes, everyone needs them, but it's not hard to find a selling country).
Was that character "+"? :)
low voltage is just not a good way to send high amounts of current over even moderately long distances, because low voltage means higher current, which means higher losses to resistance in your wiring, which means you will need much much thicker wiring.
There are other ways CO2 or other greenhouse gasses are emitted besides burning fossil fuels. Examples include outgassing from construction (e.g. concrete), metal refineries, and livestock.
They are a diamond platinum supreme member, doesn't that count for something? Sadly, he/she's paid as much as the asker.

In seriousness, I recognize that name from past Google searches. They've been doing 'support' for a long time.
I mean- its not like we did the best job with the Kurds or the Hmong or the Mien.

The best outcome would be not doing any more occupying army stuff. It is not very productive.
That's utter rubbish, "right to point fingers"? A problem does not somehow become not a problem when the observer (or pointer-outer) changes. Many Asian countries have massive terrible problems with their waste management and refuse to address it. Not created by the west, created by their own decisions. That's the simple fact of the matter.
TCSEC [1] levels high enough specified that root wasn't omnipotent, nor could do things unilaterally, and never without logging. B2 and higher, if memory serves.

SGI's IRIX could be a part of a B2-level installation (because criteria was applicable to more than just the OS).

So much wheel reinvention sometimes...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Eval...
Almost every type of DC-DC conversion requires some intermediate AC conversion anyway.

And surprise, a lot of DC-DC topologies require a transformer too.

Transformers still soundly beat solid state conversion on cost, and efficiency at above the wall outlet voltages.

You can't run away from that entirely. If you were to give a free hand to a good EE to redesign the electric grid from scratch, I doubt the result will differ much from what the world has already.
SMON: Subacute Myelo-Optico-Neuropathy
> ...why do we still use steam?

It hits the sweet spot on fiscal, engineering, safety, and science fronts. Energy extraction is very challenging, we're likely hundreds of years away from aneutronic fusion, for example. The research area you are asking about is direct energy conversion, of which aneutronic fusion is one small branch (though within it, there are many scientific and engineering branches to explore).
> literally has "commie" in their username

Are we to assume you're an actual Linux distribution having reached sentience from your username, or can we assume it's just a moniker selected for some other reason?
A long-winded post for the well-established idea that patterns and systems of thought can be passed between people and down through generations.

Maybe I’m missing something?
One way to work through this would be to provide viewer vs collaborator user types - but ofc a viewer wouldn't be able to actually create tickets. The true goal is to build a system where everyone is productive as soon as they join, where a $5-$8 cost seems incremental, vs the work the system is able to augment for a full-time developer, business person or a contractor. This is why we're designing Tara to initially be an interface in terms of user interactions, but over time, to augment work as it happens. We've started down this path with effort predictions, sprint loads and automation of statuses.
DerbyJS and ShareDB/Racer are meant to go together.

I know of one big company using it extensively, hundreds of millions of messages a day! :)
This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. May be it can take a while with training needed developers and etc. but come on, it's not some insurmountable problem. Plus Vulkan is supported for example on Windows without MS even lifting a finger.

And about your last point - Apple is really the worst candidate to ask for something to collaborate on.
Space Jam and the cultural logic of capitalism
Anu at YC taught me to do an energy audit
Meanwhile, we can't even manage to phase out the penny.

Sorry to be so pessimistic on my first post, but I don't see this happening for a long, long time.
zip/gzip are LZ algorithms, as mentioned near the top of the article. Based on LZ77 to be exact.

Did you perhaps mean LZW (gif & compress), which was based on LZ78?

zlib isn't really dominant, today. lzma seems to have overtaken it for anything destined for public distribution.
Ubiquiti has POE panel LEDs https://unifi-led.ui.com/ Obviously geared towards offices. I’m sure there are other options.

I’m also looking at whole house USB-PD, https://voltekinc.com/dc-power-advantage/
Renting.. outside of the downtown core.
Ask HN: Free or cheap UI design course?
Hello, I am trying to improve my website's design.

What is the best free or cheap UI design course?

I have searched past HN posts, and found two interesting course/book: Refactoring UI, and https://learnui.design/.

But Refactoring UI charges 100$, and learnui.design charges 1000$.

I can't afford them for the moment. Are there any cheaper alternatives?

Thanks ^ ^

Edit: if I want to learn UI design from the fundamentals (like learning CS from fundamentals), are there any resources?
> We're just going to create another environmental crisis down the road (which may or may not be related to all those reactors

How? What other environmental crisis do you see happening if we embrace nuclear?

> We need to find how we can continue to improve our quality of life while reducing our consumption.

It seems short-sighted to focus _all_ of our efforts on holding quality of life the same as reduce consumption. I certainly agree that this will be a part of the solution, but by constraining the problem thusly we make it much harder to solve. A robust mix of nuclear, renewables, and efficient consumption is much more likely to work than any of these three options alone.
Dr. Ryan Cole, a pathologist, appears to make serious claims related to covid vaccines without supporting evidence. Searching his name reveals he's being given a voice by some of the right-wing media, but if there was substance to what he had to say, other doctors, researchers, scientists, etc, would eagerly jump to verify and act on it.

https://www.factcheck.org/2021/04/scicheck-idaho-doctor-make...
How Colours Get Hacked by the Web
You're trolling because you just made up the numbers. 5%... Why not 10% or 0.5?

There is such a thing in the world as altruism. Sometimes people inconvenience themselves to help others (not just themselves).
I can't help but wonder, with fusion:
When we'll be able to harness this energy in a stable and net producing manner, yes that will cut carbon emissions and solve the nuclear waste problem, but also, is it going to be the catalyst that will enable humanity to accelerate wreaking havoc on what's left of our ecosystems?
Anecdotally, the State of Alaska sometimes serves that purpose in the US, a place where you can go to escape your past and get a fresh start. It isn’t the easiest life but it is common enough that people there are tolerant of it, because there are so many examples among people they know. It used to be a bit like that in the rural West but I’d say less so now.
Definitely a market need for this, having built one of those layers myself.

Are you planning to support saved payment methods across multiple providers? Thats always seemed like the touchiest area for me, especially since it would seemingly invalidate a lot of the fraud protection that payment providers use to keep lock-in.
7.5% is significant. And this doesn't even touch the particulate pollution which ruins health, or the ground poisoning which combustion engines cause.

A tax/higher prices on fuel would push people to more efficient methods faster and will put more money in to investments on new technology.
I disagree with "There were no checks on who the sender was." - there was a password/token authentication. That was the check, and it's harder to spoof than a regular sender check would have been back then (nowadays with DKIM etc. the situation is a bit better).
Here are the issues though with Jira's Github integration:
1- Requires unito or an additional plugin to truly function
2- Needs quite a bit of setup to get minimal value
3- No built-in dashboards optimized for git events (ie when is a PR merged, predicted vs actual, how does that relate to your team's current sprint).
4- One-directional sync (vs a true bi-directional sync).

We've optimized for built-in dashboards, minimal setup and a bi-directional sync. Over time, we're also going to be building inside the terminal or inside Github's interface, to truly enable seamless interactions with Git.
I should hope that at least some of the intents have changed, since Ford was an award-winning white supremacist.
Now that Apple has proven they can do it, how long before it’s required by law, regardless of their wishes, and how long before Apple is forced to implement it for other types of images that governments may find objectionable or interesting?
The real hill to die on is the private equity firms buying trailer parks, then extorting poor people who own trailers but not the land under them. Imagine having a 50 year old trailer you grew up in and you inherited, and it’s your only asset but it’s too old to move. Suddenly the trailer park is bought by a hedge fund and rent is increased to an unaffordable level. This is happening all over America right now.
Australia tried something similar with a carbon tax a few years ago - not for fuel, but for carbon emissions generally. The policy was very well designed and ensured that lower income earners were compensated for any increase in costs to the extent that they had a net benefit, and in the short time it was operating, was successful at reducing emissions.

Unfortunately for us (and the world) this was too complicated for many Australians to understand and the political right exploited that to tell a scary story about a 'new tax', leading to their election and the removal of the scheme.

While economists (and rational thinkers) generally love carbon pricing schemes, they have been pretty unsuccessful politically because people are generally too stupid to understand them and cynical politicians in bed with the fossil fuel industry are happy to play to that.
We'd have extended our carbon budget quite a bit. However we must act now with our current best abilities. We do not have time to wait for the the nuclear construction industry to improve productivity to meet our current needs. And for that matter the construction industry has been stagnant in their productivity as a whole since the 1980s, not just the nuclear sector.
> What we know about nuclear today is that it is not feasible to construct.

It's definitely feasible to construct and run, it's just that folks are scared to run nuclear power. France has a _lot_ of nuclear power but only started dialing back after Fukushima scared them.
This is a very strong point. It puts some rationalization behind my intuition that hyper tumors are not a correct explanation, it emphasizes the strength of the gene explanation and this consistent with OP’s article.
The market didn't find an efficient solution to this problem, so you want to use non-market forces to influence the market and then double down on relying on the market to find an efficient solution again?

How much do we have to sacrifice to the market before we'll admit that maybe we should consider other solutions?
A lot of the posters on hacker news have just mastered the cynical take. It’s an ego booster for people who can’t handle that there are other people out there accomplishing things.