skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Figma’s performance is excellent due in large part to the fact they compile a lot of native code to Wasm. Electron or not it’s still fast.

To answer your question, collaborative apps ideally need to target the widest possible audience. Barring a massive budget, the best way to accomplish this is to also have a singular compile/build target. In most cases, that’s the web platform.
Thanks for this comment, and largely good points here, but you're certainly mistaken on the most pertinent point you made here, namely the role of Colorado River water in Arizona's water plan.

Arizona gets 35% of its water from the Colorado River [0]. "A literal drop?" I wouldn't agree.

However, since reductions affect various water-using constituencies differently, Tier 1 reductions don't have an effect on municipalities' water availability (but future tiers do) [2].

Again, largely important points you've raised here, but it's also important not to understate the value of the Colorado River / Central Arizona Project in municipalities' water availability and water contingency planning, as you have.

[0]: http://www.arizonawaterfacts.com/water-your-facts
[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/climate/colorado-river-wa...
[2]: https://www.amwua.org/blog/tier-1-shortage-what-does-it-mean...
> A lot of "safety culture" is composed of things like checklists and hazard warnings which are more geared towards shifting the blame for accidents onto somebody else than actually preventing those accidents

While there are sometimes misalignments, those things are effective ar shifting emotional ans legal blame elsewhere because they are perceived (and, at least in a stunningly wide range of fields, this is supported by massive empirical evidence for checklists) as being very effective at preventing avoidable accidents.
Oh, no disagreement there (though I do enjoy driving, and turning it into an optimization problem too :)).

I was mostly debating the OP's claim of how to solve it mathematically. With smarter, self-driving cars, it's likely enough to solve the problem "locally", for a sufficiently large definition of "local" :)

I am not convinced we'll get to self-driving cars that can navigate the real world obstacles anytime soon, though. Like barrels falling off a truck in front of me on the highway. Or a sideway collision that has almost blocked the road.

Unless the self-driving tech is trained in Mario Kart, it will take a while :D
This can be depending on a delivery address - sometimes Amazon will have local delivery delays (some oregon areas had delivery partner issues a while back). Not sure if that might be part of it.
There's no evidence for either of these conclusions. Just people debating what "a very long distance" is.

Sure, spare your attitude in the future as well.
So it's like MobX in UI world?
> why would you bother keeping your money invested in them at all.

I wouldn’t. They’re a money losing company that raised money by selling shares and didn’t even have a plan for that money. Then they did the least creative thing possible: bought gold. Something any investor can do with a dozen different funds.

If you want to share in palantir’s gold bet, save their fees and buy a gold etf/closed end fund or coins/bars directly that you can keep in YOUR basement.
There are plenty of true believers working in fusion energy. Enough to support big projects like ITER.

But consider this analogous situation. I was working in a government physics lab when Star Wars (excuse me—SDI) was still a program that you could get money from for all kinds of projects. Nobody—I mean nobody—actually doing research believed in the program. That we would actually build a Star Wars defense shield to make Ronald Reagan proud. But they happily sent off grant proposals and were glad to accept money to work on various things. You can spin lots of pet projects so it sounds like they are all about missile defense. But the algorithms I worked on, during my brief involvement, would have been more useful for game design.
There is one problem people have for their use case, so it’s inappropriate? Have you ever created an issue on some GitHub project? I guess you were using the wrong tool?

People choose their tools for some reason(s), and there is no law of man or nature that says that using a common tool for some esoteric purpose is somehow wrong, just because you consider it too easy.
Working on hard problems will soon be the only thing to provide my life meaning, as all trivial labor becomes automated.

There will exist a window between the automation of all trivial labor, and the eclipse of human intelligence by artifical intelligence, such that within this window meaningful work will remain possible.

I intend to try to contribute to hard problems within that time frame.

All else is a meaningless waste of time.
My apologies; I grew up half and half between Marin and Fresno and that’s what I recall for both.

If I mistook where the term up north came from then I do apologize.

Edit: I think an issue was with my explanation. The people I know in both areas actually love it; people outside the area think they are stupid for living there. Therefore there is some appropriation of the pejorative.

Once again, if that’s mistaken in reference to Livermore then I apologize.
Just incase HN isn't aware, GB news is basically Fox news of the UK, or the daily mail on television. I would be very sceptical of anything they say.
Neither of these camps of thought know whether it was or wasn't. My point was to say both are plausible at this point.
Aside from obvious visual differences, how does this compare to Linux Mint?
Palantir is also buying up Bitcoin. Palantir is also trying to create more customers by buying startups via SPACs and giving them its software. Palantir is also largely run at the whims of its eccentric presidents-for-life and printing stock to compensate them like there's no tomorrow. Palantir is many things, and this is just one. I doubt it tells any larger truth about the market by itself.
No evidence of danger backs my assertion, that they’re lying about why they destroyed the data. They’re claiming they destroyed it due to fears of the precinct falling; if they can’t back that assertion, then we know they’re lying.

That leaves the question about why they’re lying, which is where losing the benefit of the doubt matters.
As recently as the early 90s there were still grocery stores that'd take back glass soda bottles to refill them, but the only places I know that still do anything like that are some fancy dairies (via the grocery stores that distribute their product).
Then it's finally time for my guests laptop yearly update. Until now I always hated the exercise - no real way to upgrade just wiping everything out, dangling update sites in the settings which throw error popups, three different package managers which seem to do exactly the same thing... I start with low expectations.
That provides some great context, but I couldn't help finding it a little unsettling at 03:09 when one of the robots is suspended off the ground and "bleeding" a pink fluid onto the mat beneath it.
Yes, because it builds local industry, and textiles is often a key industry in industrialization. It is "easy" automation, builds local tooling and machining demands, and still requires significant further labor to finish which is cheap in that area.

It certainly isn't the only way, but textile production often one of the first industries to get build in industrialization.
You are not sheltered - they are endemic in the UK. And if you have them, you will know the smell (human languages are notoriously bad at describing smells).
If I remember correctly, you replied to one of my comments on fusion power in the past and that you are actually working in research yourself.

Most fusion projects seem to take years between major steps. Do you think a rapid-iteration approach (like what SpaceX is doing to develop Starship) could work for fusion research?
Thanks for this -- it's critical to recognize that the supply for the groundwater replenishment upon which much of the "100+ year" assured water contingency rests is provided in part by the Colorado River.
> Unless Google also solves fingerprinting

FLoC is one of a collection of proposals, which does include preventing fingerprinting: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandb...

If you're not going to prevent fingerprinting, why even get rid of third-party cookies? Fingerprinting is a step backwards from cookies, since, for example, closing and reopening a private browsing window gives you a new cookie jar but the same fingerprint.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, speaking only for myself)
But isn't the challenge actually capturing, storing, and transporting the methane? At a minimum, you'll need the first 2 even if you colocate your generator and mining rig near the methane source. I guess I would be skeptical that this is cost effective vs. other cheap electricity sources.
Elon Musk jots down a list of improvements made in FSD Beta 9.2 (release notes)
1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo
I meant to respond only to the quoted section comparing Java and Go, which states that Go doesn't have a way to do cleanup on GC (finalizers). I agree with you (and the two other replies and the quoted section itself) that finalizers are not a replacement for RAII etc.

I don't use them for resource cleanup, but I think they probably make sense for library authors as a back-up mechanism (for example, the standard library has a finalizer to close file handles, and the current runtime does GC every two minutes in the absence of memory pressure). You can also explicitly run the GC in Go, and while generally there's a lot of problems with that idea I could maybe imagine it being viable for certain unusual workloads.
> First of all, it feels like a patch for latent discrimination.

Try learning a language that's not English. You're definitely judged on your accent, ie. your ability to properly pronounce words. If you want to fully assimilate to the environment you choose to exist in, speaking with less of an accent helps with being understood. Also, the 'standard' American accent (ie. Hollywood/West Coast accent) is understood by absolutely anyone; even those who are new to speaking English.

Heck, even English speakers from regions such as the Caribbean, England, Australia, etc..., turn their accent 'off' in business environments to be better understood. Many native English speakers can't even understand creole from the Caribbean for example.

Accents can definitely also hamper communication. I'm a native English speaker who's interacted with many immigrants so I can definitely understand almost every accent. But two immigrants both speaking English as their second language and from different parts of the world will often have trouble, I've seen it plenty. Even my girlfriend, who speaks English at quite a high level but isn't native, has a difficult time if I speak too quickly using local slang and pronunciation (and our accent barely deviates from standard American English).

Focusing on a standard pronunciation, especially in a job or school environment, helps a lot.
Because the cost of production inputs rise faster than they can pass on the costs to their customers. If no one suffered from inflation, we wouldn't bother measuring it.
> links to more credible sites supporting or denying the claims made in the article?

There were a lot of claims made - which claims are you interested in?

There is growing scientific consensus that naturally infected individuals who recover will acquire robust and durable immunity [1][2][3][4].

> new people are going to get born who are completely susceptible because they have never been infected yet and won’t be vaccinated

This claim stuck out to me as especially unsupported, hinting at the authors lack of expertise in this area. Here are several publications supporting the fact that infection and immunity can be passed from mother to child in utero [5][6][7].

[1] SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03647-4.pdf

[2] Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-medicine/fulltext/S2666-37...

[3] Antibody Responses 8 Months after Asymptomatic or Mild SARS-CoV-2 Infection
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7920668/

[4] Naturally enhanced neutralizing breadth against SARS-CoV-2 one year after infection
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03696-9

[5] Efficient maternal to neonatal transfer of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 and BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/150319

[6] Possible Vertical Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 From an Infected Mother to Her Newborn
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2763853

[7] Compromised SARS-CoV-2-specific placental antibody transfer
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742...
I see. Thought that node/fastify and vue/bootstrap were ecosystem enough for some developers, but I understand your point. Thanks!
Zero vs. One indexing in business domains; debate rages again
We don't have to consider a hypothetical world. We can just look at history from before social media. And yes plenty of people believed in conspiracy theories and spread misinformation. Witch trials, the red scare and satanic panic were a thing prior to social media. So was the fake moon landing and alien abductions.

So with social media, the question is whether the problem is magnified significantly, or it's just more visible now.
If you have the time/skill to do a quality custom job go for it.
> A lot of "safety culture" is composed of things like checklists and hazard warnings which are more geared towards shifting the blame for accidents onto somebody else than actually preventing those accidents,

If you stay in spreadsheets these problems mostly don’t occur (that is, once data entry is squared away so that the initial spreadsheet has what you want it doesn't tend to get lost), its when you move in and out of spreadsheets via text and take the path of least resistance [0] to do the transition that the problem occurs.

[0] and to be fair, there is a lot of resistance off that path.
Yeah, and I remember beer in iron cans... and that's about as relevant to the majority of consumers.
The gotcha question goes back a long time. See "Loki's Wager".
If the product causes provable harm then company should be prosecuted criminally by the state to determine if the testing done was sufficeint and there was no faul play.

But letting random people sue manufacturer because they have some symptoms at later point in time than the time they took the vaccine is just recipie for what already happened on case of Lyme vaccine. Everybody looses except for lawyers and people loose the most.
> Zoom was the very first to let people join meetings without a) signing up; and b) downloading anything

I find your second part interesting because for years Zoom has tried to force you to download their client — you have to learn how to construct the web URL to generate links to use it in a browser since they removed the option from their web UI.

> I'm not sure whether you're arguing that Zoom did not have 10x better UX than anything out there when it launched, but if you are, I can't help but think you're being willfully ignorant.

I'm not sure why you're inclined to take such an uncharitable view but I'm coming at it from the perspective of someone who was relatively late to using Zoom (2020) and found it pretty similar to the competition. I used Skype, WebEx, Teams, Hangouts/Meet, and Chime professionally first and Facetime / Hangouts personally prior to that and the only one I'd say is 10x worse is Skype.
>Should the death penalty be on the table for executives in particularly egregious acts of pollution

because that worked so well to deter murderers?

>These people are making millions and it doesn't seem like current enforcement has the desired deterrent effect. Slaps on the wrist with small fines don't seem effective.

I don't understand why the logical progression from "small fines" is "death penalty".
> recently

So you're confirming what I said? "Last year" isn't "recently", meaning the current rise has nothing to do with dropping restrictions.

More than anything else it looks like it's fully seasonal, with timing of the the drops and rises this year matching last year pretty closely regardless of restrictions.
You're right that they're not all equivalently terrible, and Target's better about it than Amazon and Wal Mart.
https://web.archive.org/web/20210817160932/https://blog.zori...
Two half-baked comments off the top of my head:
-HIV targets, infects and cripples the immune system. While CoV2 infects and replicated aggressively, causing inflammation and fibrosis, HIV goes in, gets a foothold, hides and lingers like an insurgent, slowly exhausting the immune system. Very different approaches and how they are impacted by vaccines may be very different.

-Convincing people to take the vaccine would be hard. Look how hard it is with a respiratory pandemic. It's "easy" to be non-high risk for HIV and people probably believe they can't get it, but people seem to continue getting it.
Did you just switch from solar / wind, which is totally workable and cheapest form of energy, to arguing about batteries?

Batteries for storage are problematic, especially grid scale lithium - globally unfeasible regardless of nuclear.

We need to move a lot of consumption onto electric (or direct solar) so we will need to manage the time and location aspects of consumption - easier with nuclear (if you get it built) but not a deal-breaker as argued elsewhere. Technology already exists - least sophisticated one is called a switch.

Solar by itself is already rated at 3.7% of world electricity consumption, so your table is .. grid batteries? Yes, unworkable and besides the point.

y GW cap % of 30TW
2020 700 2.3
2025 2200 7.3
2030 7000 23
2035 21000 71
2040 65000 210

If we keep the pace of x1.25 year-to-year increase, PV solar achieves global domination by 2040 and Li-ion is considered an archaic technology (at least for grid scale load shifting).
> is great for dirty bombs and catnip to terrorists.

This is another variant of “think of the children”. How many terrorists have built these dirty bombs?
100MW seems like a substantial moving of the goalposts, given your earlier statement that "there is no reasonably foreseeable future with fusion as part of the electricity grid" and that I've already cut the timetable by 25 years :) That said, I'll still accept - I'm emailing you at your profile address for the details!
The way you can get rid of anxiety and burnout
> Imba's Memoized DOM approach is an order of magnitude faster than Virtual DOMs (Vue, React). Learn more here: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/the-virtual-dom-is-slow-me...

Just in case...

Sciter's native built-in Reactor https://github.com/c-smile/sciter-js-sdk/tree/main/docs/md/r... is using that so called "Memoized DOM" approach, which, as far as I understand the wording, is "diffing with real DOM": you have real DOM tree on the left and virtual DOM tree on the right. Reconciliation in this case is just patching of the left tree by the right one.

Essentially Sciter's Reactor is a unification of React with WebComponents ideas into single entity.
TFA suggests they don’t hold any crypto currencies, but after 12 years of cryptocurrency, they have heard about them and talked about it over beers.

> was asked on an analyst call if the company could have bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies on its balance sheet, he said, “The short answer is, yes, we’re thinking about it, and we’ve even discussed internally.”
I meant people already past their retirement age, in their 60s and 70s. What are the options for them? They would get bored to death (sometimes literally) if they stayed home and watched TV.

I'm in my 30s and I've been really struggling to find something both enjoyable and meaningful besides work, and maybe gym.

> those options are unburdened by the unpleasant aspects that every job has.

Anything worth pursuing has some unpleasant aspects.
While your general assertion is true (log2(10billion) ceil'd is indeed 34) it is also misleading. For it assumes that that your identifier will be almost completely uniformly distributed. That is a very hard to achieve, in fact every team that's trying to track users is effectively trying to solve this problem.
'Maybe Not' is a great talk on this subject matter.
https://m.youtube
.com/watch?v=YR5WdGrpoug
Make Body Language Your Superpower [YouTube]
Queue (YC S20) – Collect visual feedback for a website in seconds
Hey HN!

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What:

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Just paste a URL into Queue to enable commenting directly on the website. We also support videos, images, pdfs, and documents!

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Exactly. What's disturbing is how many contemporary writers seem to believe that the "Fairness Doctrine" had anything to do with "Fairness," that it's even remotely compatible with the First Amendment, or that anything like it would be workable today.

Forcing Fox News to run strawman counterarguments to satisfy the letter of the law is not going to magically turn them into the Fair and Balanced(tm) news outlet they've always claimed to be. A better approach would be to establish and enforce a legal definition of "news" and apply deceptive trade practice law to any broadcaster who has to go to court to argue that no one takes their commentators seriously.
Recent and related:

Zorin OS 16 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26841166 - April 2021 (76 comments)
TLDR “anything I don't agree with is disinformation and needs to be silenced, also orange man baaad”
The Modern Emacs [video]
Actually, it sort of does put water away in storage tanks.

Groundwater replenishment is a huge part of how urban development projects "get away" with assuring 100+year supplies. In a way, this replenishment is sort of equivalent to putting water in a storage tank. Especially when the water comes from somewhere else, like the Colorado River.
I think you misunderstood what I'm saying:

- there's no direct evidence that says the precinct was in danger, but it's also reasonable to assume a group of rioters would attack other precincts in the area and that they acted based on proximity.

- there's no evidence to suggest they're covering up for something, but it's reasonable to assume that this would be a good opportunity for someone looking to do that.

In Afghanistan I was part of three base attacks. All three were a surprise and two quickly overwhelmed our defense forces on the perimeter and they breached the base. One was in Musa Qalah, the other is one that made headlines in Camp Leatherneck. The chance to act is a very slim window and that's something you're reminded of continually. So yeah, I don't see it as totally unreasonable but I can see the other side of this argument as well.
Looks like a great parkour spot!
I started https://fabform.io as a soloprenur. I looking for feedback on how to improve my form builder.
An adult test can't give such a score.

However the Stanford-Binet test is still used for children. And in young children can still produce extremely high IQ scores.

Also note that while usually the standard deviation is made to be 15 these days, there are still tests, like the Binet and OLSAT, where the standard deviation is 16. That's why I said that the standard deviation depends on the test.
it's 81% right. from this era, the only addition that fully welded into me was screen snapping windows

there are some good fun stuff in today's desktops but .. it doesn't add much to your journey IMO (and often you lose CUA services like full keyboard access too 99% widgets)