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I sometimes forget how amazing things you can build by hand.

Everybody seems to talk about 3D printers, CNC routers, Waterjet cutters, pick and place machines...

But a lot of the things can be made just as well by hand. People have been making gears for a long time before there were CNC routers, all you need is patience.
Regular jack-off here. It’s hard enough coding in Rust as-is. In addition to that, I don’t think I could take into consideration a coding style just to bring the build times down.
It's not the only solution I can think of, but it's the only practical one. Sure you could build giant sea walls around the area or bring in land and start literally raising all the buildings above sea level (similar to what Chicago did in the mid 1800s), but you are talking billions of dollars, maybe hundreds of billions. Once you get into that situation it just makes sense to move everything upstream and perhaps only fortify key infrastructure like ports until even those pieces have to be relocated.

The army corps of engineers is not given the option of not trying to save New Orleans. People in government tell them to go build levees and protect the city from flooding and they do the best job that they can, but they are fighting a losing war. The time to introduce relocation assistance programs is now, so you spread the cost and process out over many years; otherwise, you are going to just end up doing the same thing later, but it will cost more money and more lives will have been lost.
So your counter-argument to "Australia is turning itself into a prison state" is "Australia is not yet 100% a prison state, there are still some places where you could roam free, if you're careful not to go to wrong places and don't try to get out". That sounds like arguing supermax prison conditions aren't so bad because there are also county jails that people get more time for walks in the yard.
>Maybe his supply is not unlimited, and maybe nobody would buy a taco for $50 and he knows it

Not true.

>While Chipotle raised wages from $13 to $15 an hour, or 15.4%, menu prices, on the other hand, were hiked between 3.5% and 4%. Price increases are generally quite small relative to the increase in workers' wages.

>he knows it, and he made the calculation and decided there's no way to pay all his costs, charge the price that people would be willing to pay, and make a profit.

How does he know for certain? He never even tried raising prices.
> It does not mean ‘fear of homosexuals’ (regardless of etymological considerations).

It does mean "fear of being perceived as homosexual". There are backwards people. The stigma that some may ascribe, is rarely removed. If they are in a position of power, this can hurt you professionally or socially, despite modern moral standards.
To add to this, -phobia suffix is used to express aversion, not just fear. For example, hydrophobicity.
This is market forces at work. There is not necessarily someone to blame, generally speaking. I expect we'll see prices going up, wages going up and margins going down. I think that is good since I think we have gone too far in the other direction.

What frustrates me about economics (with my one intro class level experience) is that they could only talk about equilibrium. The dynamics of things changing like this is what would be really interesting.
No... That's not true. You're off by over one hundred years for the Western world. The UK passed the Cruelty to Animals act in 1876

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruelty_to_Animals_Act,_1876

The act states that:

> "Researchers would be prosecuted for cruelty, unless they conformed to its provisions, which required that an experiment involving the infliction of pain upon animals to only be conducted when "the proposed experiments are absolutely necessary for the due instruction of the persons [so they may go on to use the instruction] to save or prolong human life"

It also contains punishments for not giving animals anesthestia, which is a ridiculous waste of resources if "people didn't even think animals felt pain until the 1980s."
If it was a pure job creation program that would be pretty poor value for money, but based on the article there’s a slightly larger play here.

Notability Germany wants to build technological independence, and I imagine part of that is becoming world leaders in battery manufacturing. Even if they don’t end up with Tesla IP, the knowledge that ends up in peoples heads and eventually spreads around the German economy will be incredibly valuable.

Given the EU ban on ICE cars in the near future, and the size Germany’s car manufacturing industry, it makes perfect sense for the German government to spend potential very large sums of money to make sure the next generation of cars is built in Germany. Not just ensuring their automotive industry keeps going, but also make it harder for other economies to compete by ensuring the majority of the manufacturing expertise world wide lives in German brains.
Generally speaking, for all but the smallest of changes you should never only review the diff, but pop open the actual file on that branch (GitHub makes this fairly easy, I can't speak to other tooling) and consider the change in the context of the surrounding code. Does it contradict comments? Needlessly duplicate code from elsewhere in the file instead of creating a single function to be used in both places? Shadow variables confusingly? Add yet another 5 lines to a 100 line function instead of leaving the code better than it found it?

You can't really judge any of this if you're just eyeballing a diff. Diffs are just the starting point for a review, and while tooling could make this easier, the full file is always just a git checkout away.
whats wrong with battery factory
The Suzuki Jimny isn't really all that rare in the Nordic countries. I think I've seen several in more southerly parts of Europe too, but I may be misremembering.
Also, some languages (like Go, C, C++, Rust) make it easier to get relatively self contained binaries, as opposed to a Python or Perl script with a lot of external dependencies that one has to install and manage.
MI6 backed ‘right-wing religious fanatics’ in Afghanistan
>"I'm not sure it was communicated properly save for the flash flooding broadcast that could have also come from just a lesser heavy thunderstorm."

The National Weather Service Service issued it's first ever "flash flood emergency" for NYC on Wednesday.[1] It's not like these are common for the region.

Alerts went out to cell phones in NJ and NY at 8:41PM EDT with 3 more alerts following. Why would it matter whether a flash flood emergency accompanies a heavy thunderstorm vs tropical storm? It's still the same potentially life-threatening and catastrophic event.

[1] https://twitter.com/NWSNewYorkNY/status/1433277322048663554/...
Why not let the users choose? Have a TEXT type that only allows you to store text, an INTEGER type that only allows you to store an integer, TEXT | INTEGER (or whatever) that allows you to store both, ANY that allows you to store anything, etc. ... Don't force your preference on the user!
Communications Status Report for Areas Impacted by Hurricane Ida [pdf]
Most authors of scientific papers will gladly send you a free PDF of their papers if you ask them (assuming they remember to check their e-mail and respond in the first place). The profitability of their publisher is of no concern to them.
False dilemma. There is a state of being between subsistence farming and outsourced meals, and it's characterized by frugality and patience.
Espionage is highly unlikely since nobody important will buy cheapest of the cheap dumb phones. Most likely it's used for CC theft, spam, proxying, forcing unwanted paid subscriptions, and other scamming schemes. That DEXP is involved is especially interesting because it's a face brand for DNS, a large Russian retailer. While all these models are Chinese OEM phones with a label slapped on them and little to no modification otherwise, it's possible that DNS is involved.

I also want to mention that "Russian hacker groups don't do cybercrime at home, and the state lets them do it abroad" meme, which half of HN seems to sincerely believe, is extremely misguided, and just sounds bizarre to anyone who follows the topic. There is a continuum of loosely related Russian-speaking criminals in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Baltic States (mostly Lithuanian criminals who traditionally work as the EU bridge for others), and it's always hard to tell who located where. Some of them have some ties with the Russian state (regardless of the country of origin), most don't. Domestic cybercrime is rampant in Russia, often involves big names (such as top 3 mobile operators in Russia) and the mere notion it's controlled in some way is ridiculous. The only issue is there's not much money to steal, so they turn to EU and US targets.
Postman supports dynamic variables for tests [1]. Of course nothing requires you to use postman, you could just as easily script this with just ruby and curb/httparty.

The reason for this is that a lot of api endpoints support a large number of parameters, and we want to be sure that we test a decent sample of real world usage instead of only a few examples that we can think of to implement in controller/request tests.

We can take a month’s worth of request logs from production, deduplicate them, run the requests against prod and record responses, then run same requests against stage and verify responses match even after you rewrite half the backing queries. This helps a lot with peace of mind when we deploy :)

For another, more advanced approach to this idea, see traffic mirroring/shadowing [2].

[1]: https://learning.postman.com/docs/writing-scripts/test-scrip...

[2]: https://www.haproxy.com/blog/haproxy-traffic-mirroring-for-r...
Just like all social media
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The C++ Standards Committee itself.

Take expected (which missed C++ 20 but may land in C++ 23). The idea here is like Rust's Result type†, but C++ lacks a sum type so it's instead presented a bit like a smart pointer. You check it for errors and then just dereference expected to get your answer if there weren't any errors. Simple. If you can't be bothered to do error-checking, no worries, dereferencing expected when it's an error throws an exception, and your usual C++ exception handling applies.

But no, the committee says this doesn't look dangerous enough to us, so they required it to be rewritten to say dereferencing expected when it's an error is Undefined Behaviour instead of throwing an exception.

Imagine deliberately adding more Undefined Behaviour to a programming language (technically in this case the language's standard library) in response to work to compete with safer languages. It's an act of self-sabotage without question.

† Unlike exceptions, in Result your error is just more data, to examine, process, store and use now or later or not at all at your option. An exception changes control flow in the program when the error occurs, which may not be what you need at all. This is crucial to some designs.
Dan Norris: 15 Lessons – #12 – There is no blueprint
The receiving rectenna would be large, but from what I know it would basically consist of a spaced array of small vertical antennas.

The sat does not need to be in geostationary orbit and in fact a better solution is to have a constellation at lower orbits. This also eliminates the last problem you posed because if something goes wrong with the sat you just de-orbit it before you had planned and write it off.

If you fly through the beam or walk through it you would not know. Do you feel a slight warming when you put your hand on top of your wifi antenna?

There are problems with space-based solar and beaming energy, but none of your objections make the list.
This needs to be brought up every single time congress proposes encryption backdoors.
Like I said, zero reasons for using reverse thrusters in the air. Complete loss of air craft if you do.
>For an area that is already on average 7 feet below sea level.

There are areas as low as -22' msl. Maybe -25'.

But that's irrelevant, because the edge of the bowl and protection is at a minimum elevation ~+20' msl and up, depending on adjustments for things like modeled wave height.

Whereas New York's highest protection is currently something like +8', and isn't a closed loop.

And what's the elevation of the deepest basement/ subway/ tunnel in NYC? Because I bet it's a lot lower than -22' or -25' msl.
Eh.. do you have your astrological-signs on your profiles? If not, why not add them in solidarity with those who are deeply emotionally invested in seeing the world through that lens? Not only would it help them feel validated, knowing your astrological-sign would help them better understand you and know how to interact with you.

At the same time.. not everyone wants to have to play along. A lot of new identity-trends emerge (and reemerge over time and in different places), giving adherents ways to self-conceptualize who they are as well as rules for how to interact with others. Some trends get really popular and can get a lot of true-believers, while others don't really get into them.

Can you understand how both sides feel? This is, can you understand both what it'd feel like to be someone deeply invested in the latest trend in spirituality, and can you likewise understand what it'd feel like to want to give the latest trend in spirituality a pass?

If this is the first trend you've seen, then it may seem like this big, huge thing that everyone should adopt. But you ask about 50-years from now? ..that's a long time for a trend to remain relevant, even if you're currently in a sub-culture that's super into it.
It's a lot closer to UBI than existing systems. The Finnish case is an experiment where a random sample of unemployed folks can be paid for some time even after taking a job. It explores the impact of the very incentives you're talking anout.

(And yes, the lower-middle class will probably still be net UBI recipients if only barely, because this helps with smoothing out incentives at the lower end. You don't want to have a sudden benefit cliff, or else a breakeven point that's infeasibly high.)
General ledger

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_ledger
Okay, if "illegal" is the wrong word, then it would be "infeasible" for Ravelry to prohibit Trump discussions without taking on liabilities they are unlikely able to take on?

Why does that make sense?

The only options are "infrastructure" = "common carrier" and "provide editorial oversight on all materials?"

What do other countries do?
> Now it's crept up to 15-20% and spread to a lot of jobs that you didn't think of for tips (e.g., somebody handing you a coffee) because wages suck.

A couple days ago I had my oil changed at once of those drive-through places and the payment terminal had a prompt for a tip.
Isn't this part of the SQL standard already, to some extent?
Because the next move made by your opponent would trivially be to capture your king, ending the game.
This doesn't make much sense to me.

Considering the high degree of competition in ~all rental markets, claims of monopoly are unfounded.

Returns on capital for land-owning businesses aren't higher than other sectors.

In the US in particular, we have ludicrisly large amounts of space. Even in our most expensive areas we don't approach the density of places like Hong Kong. Scarcity, as usual, is due to government fiat.
AirBNB, second homes, and rentals aren't pushing up rents and house prices even a fraction as much as central banks artificially lowering interest rates, zoning laws, and NIMBYism.

Population growth and lower family formation rates - which is hard to blame on anyone but women actually having a choice for their own lives - are much bigger reasons for price increases than AirBNB and second homes pretty much everywhere outside of the most touristy vacation destinations.
PeerCDN was too early; the web wasn't ready yet.

For example, to intercept network requests to serve them from the peer-to-peer network, a <![CDATA[ tag had to be inserted into the <head> of the document to block rendering of the subsequent document. Then, once the document had finished downloading, the page HTML was manually rendered so all assets (eg JS, CSS, images, etc tags) could be loaded via JS instead of the browser natively. This was both slow and resulted in empty white pages on load. Now? We have the Service Worker API. (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Wor...)

I'm not as familiar with Peer5's tech stack, so I can't speak there. But hi Shachar!
Engflow has some very smart people.

There are also a number of other open source alternatives such as Buildbarn (https://github.com/buildbarn) and Buildfarm (https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-buildfarm) which you can host yourself.

Personally, I've found Buildbarn great to throw up in Kubernetes and build massive projects with.
Worth it.

It’s also a strategic advantage to build battery manufacturing capacity domestically.
You are welcome.

I don't know of any such list. I was thinking of including native platforms in the list, but I think that there are no too many examples. Web is dominant platform for this.
Doug DeMuro also did a video on the Autozam AZ-1 (the coolest of all Kei cars?), just the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn-Z5FHXcBA
Batteries are easy and cheap enough to ship - either as cells or completed packs. They'll build the plant wherever gives the most incentives.
You are not the only academic that feels this way.
So, are you from the "I hate the woke" side? Because facts haven't mattered for many years during the Bush and Trump admins. If you are a Trump/Bush/conservative, it's amazing to me how much blinded someone can be about the weaknesses of his own side. Even when I googled this term you're twisting the facts about what AOC actually said.

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2019/01/07/aoc-facts-dont-ma...
> non technical staff requesting the data

That's a good way of looking at it.

Consider the cube as the end product of a process of automating data the business needs to make decisions. It starts with "How much did we sell yesterday?" and expands to include week-over-week/year-over-year comparisons, breakdowns by category, leaders/losers and other frequently looked at answers.
Sure. Dating is essentially the way we assess a suitable potential partner. The end goal in (hetero) dating essentially boils down to starting a family and this is also implied and assumed unless stated otherwise.

I guess nowadays people also informally call "having casual sex" dating. I'm also not sexually attracted to trans women if that's what you're getting at. We would not even be able to have sex.

Ok, we're on the same page regarding the violence.
Xerox PARC (2013)
> How I judge liberalism doesn't matter. I don't call the shots. I am asking you to think about how most people judge liberalism.

That’s not accurate. You are making claims about liberalism.

You have no privileged access to what ‘most people’ think, nor do you have a time machine that makes your predictions about the future special.

These are simply rhetorical devices you are using to imaginatively express your own thoughts.
Thanks for the YouTube link. Auto translate to English subtitles worked good on interview parts.
Why payment apps that thrive in India struggle to succeed in Mexico
> why offering for free what others have the right to monetize should be considered okay.

Because having the possibility to monetize something doesn't make it inherently right to do so. People have monetized things that we would now consider abhorrent to do, like human lives in the form of slaves, wives as property, and countless examples of human rights violations.

Heck, even today in many places of the world people monetize access to education or health care for example, prohibiting some people from accessing things that are considered basic human rights. That they have a "right" to monetize it doesn't make it okay to do so.

I guess the underlying questions here is: should we consider access to scientific publications a right that anyone should be able to exercise? I personally think that yes, freedom of information is a laudable goal, and is definitely worth the inconvenience of losing some antiquated journals.

If you don't agree, what do you think would be the issue with having universal access to scientific papers?
I went to the skate park with my son (in the Netherlands) it was crowded but all the kids were on these [0]. There were some skateboarders but I was the only on on inline skates… (I’m 39).

[0]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=stunt%20steps&iax=images&ia=images
Careful there, you're standing on a Hacker News landmine. For whatever reason, whenever Woit's name is invoked here the downvote brigade is not far away.
I recall an instance when I was doing improv classes where we were doing freeform scenes with a partner with a given input. When the scene began, I tried to engage with my scene partner, but she kept saying 'leave me' in response to anything I said. After giving it three chances, I exited stage left, end scene.

Our instructor then explained the scene with, "anytime something is talked about three times in a scene or play, it pretty much is immediately invoked into being."

Nothing was better for me in helping me understand the art of storytelling than the 6 months or so I spent there. You hear about the 'rules of stories' and whatnot, but it's not until I was up on stage, grappling with it, that that whole world started opening up. I don't know anything better other than actually studying it in school.

Ignoring the rules just makes for harder-to-watch scenes, you just can't make sense of the why.
Indeed, like this one

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
Eight Larry Ellison predictions that were wrong
Apple still hasn't said if it has, or plans to fix a zero-day flaw in iOS 14
People can make companies. You know that, right?
The interesting thing about space-based solar power is that you do not need to direct the beam at the earth. You can also use it to beam energy to remote probes and robotic installations. If you want to mine asteroids you are better off beaming the energy from earth orbit than you are trying to capture solar on site. Sending the energy from earth makes it much easier to fix/replace the power generation satellite if your remote mission is going to depend on that for power generation.
> The hypothesis speculates that, if a building's assessed value is lowered, it could trigger conditions in loan contracts that penalize the landlord or investor.

This is the issue exactly. A commercial mortgage lender will insist on a certain maximum Loan-to-Value ratio. The value of the property is directly related to the long-term income that it generates (i.e., the net present value of all future cash flows). If the amounts of cash flows go down, then the value of the property goes down and the loan-to-value ratio goes up. In a commercial loan, the lender can often call the loan due at certain times during the term of the loan for any reason. One big reason to do so is if the loan-to-value ratio goes up beyond the level that the lender was comfortable with. Refinancing in such a circumstance could be very expensive. Thus, it may make more sense for an owner to keep a property vacant and lose money temporarily than to take on a tenant at a lower rent and possibly cause the lender to call the loan.
I don't think anything too bad could happen when landing light aircraft on slippery but long runway. I was doing some winter flying and was landing pa28 on slippery runway (compressed snow) and I didn't noticed any difference until i started pressing brakes which had virtually no effect on deceleration. On touchdown you have a lot of aerodynamic authority on your controls so runway friction doesn't really matter unless you have super strong crosswind that could blow you out the runway i guess.
Pretty sure he means highest of all fixed costs, not variable costs (COGS).
Ooops, I guess my stomach was typing. Better go eat some veggies.