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Ask HN: Why can’t big cities buy up small towns?
If big corporations can buy up smaller companies, then why can’t big cities buy up small towns?

Countless dying small towns in the US have had their population numbers decline over the years with many young people and families moving to bigger cities. You see so many “Help Wanted” signs at different restaurants and shops with nobody fill these positions.
Similarly, other small towns in the US South get hit by massive floods, tornadoes and hurricanes year after year and yet, they still rebuild in the same place.

So why don’t big cities like New York City buy up some of these small towns, help move the people, give them priority (affordable / subsidized) housing, help them find jobs and invite them to integrate with a larger community?

Wouldn’t it be a positive for everyone involved? Some of the changes:

• People earning minimum wage in a small town with no future now have much bigger and better opportunities and choices in a big city
• Small town folks who get moved to a big cities will be exposed to a much larger culture (some may not have even seen or talked to black people or Asians in person); not to mention all the different foods they’d get exposed to
• The small towns are demolished and are turned back into what they were 100+ years ago fixing the environment: forests, swamps or land given back to the Aboriginals
• No more re-building homes in these tornado / flooded / hurricane damaged small towns year after year; it’s not wise and it’s just a waste of time, money and resources
This sounds like typical "roadmap via bizdev" to me. Bizdev strikes a partnership (in this case, with the firm making the loans), and then it gets handed to the poor PM to push it through.
This:
https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

techempower is isolated to web framework testing as far as I know
you write the intcode computer in AoC 2019

https://adventofcode.com/2019

Not everyday is about intcodes, but day 2, 5 and 7 are the first 3 days with intcodes and they built on top of eachother.
Between flash and html5, there was a brief moment where DHTML games looked viable. I remember building something like a space invaders clone. Literally repositioning DOM divs each setInterval tick. There were a few full fledged experiments out there. The beauty is since its just DOM, they are playable forever if still hosted ;)
Holy cow, that must have been quite the adventure. Back then the Iron Curtain was in full force and that alone must have given you plenty of challenges and then there is cycling in East-Block traffic for the better part of that trip.

Do you have pictures from that trip? I'd be very interested to see what you encountered back then (assuming you were allowed to make pictures).
> I prefer the MPLv2, it lets commercial users actually use the code, but they still have to contribute back any changes they make.

Sure, but how is this verifiable? Not verifiable = not happening.

Anyway, the idea of using a 20 line function in a 20M line codebase is a total strawman. Think of it from the 20 line function author's point of view - free money for corporate? They lack the expertise internally to write this function?? It's crypto code and getting it 100% right is extremely valuable? Then they need to be licensing it from the author.

It sounds like the idea you have here is that someone has licensed their code under the GPL but "didn't really mean it"? I think you should flesh out that side of your argument... why should corporate be permitted to use this code? Authors who are worried can release their stuff as MIT or CC0.
Yes, this is the way I do it as well. There were quite a few cases where I went all in with an apparently overengineered solution, and then I could use the code directly for the second problem with almost no changes.

I don't go for being the fastest or anything, I just want to do everything in a way that I like. Last year I did everything on the same day it got out; I plan to do the same this one, unless there is a particularly bullshitty problem that puts me off.
It all depends on what you are used to, and on the weather. A 30 km stretch of 6-8 Beaufort will take the piss out of anybody, trust me on that one.
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I think it is a bit of a chicken and an egg problem. There are a few Gopher+ servers out there (pygopherd gas Gopher+ support for example, which is reasonably widely used), and the Gopher+ protocol is pretty flexible and designed with the metaverse in mind originally (see GopherVR from the original authors).

It is a shame that a lot of current Gopher users seem to be strongly against anything apart from standard Gopher, when the original authors of the protocol had much grander ideas for interactivity & visual interfaces. Sigh.

For anyone interested, the Gopher+ protocol doc never made it to a proper RFC, but is on github in a hyper-linked format to make it easier to read: https://github.com/gopher-protocol/gopher-plus/blob/main/gop...

https://github.com/gopher-protocol/gopher-plus/blob/main/gop... specifically mentions 3D representations of Gopherspace. They also provide provision for a "general purpose" scripting language - I think Javascript would fit the bill - there and in section 2.8
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That game was full of really neat Easter eggs that were a lot of fun to find as a kid.

If you “buckle up”d before driving and got into a crash it would cost less money to fix.

You could exit your truck, lock the door, and throw away the keys to strand yourself.

You could order room service from the motel.

Looks like you can play it online through Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Crosscountry_Canada_1991
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I agree. That's really not usefull comparision. They should create categories for each benchmark, like:

- very naive code (shortest, most readable & easy to write code)

- idiomatic code

- optimized code without other-language-libs wrappers and without SIMD, single threaded

- optimized code without other-language-libs wrappers and without SIMD, multi-threaded

- optimized code without other-language-libs wrappers and with SIMD and/or multi-threaded

- optimized code with other-language-libs wrappers allowed and any other optimization technique
Yes any benchmark will be invalid for some people, such is life. If you want to claim or know something specific you will have to so your own painstaking investigation or find someone who has done that work.

benchmarkgame does not attempt to compare idiomatic solutions for languages, it is closer to a “what is the best you can do” benchmark
Extending this idea further, you can place legislative, political, and other external events on this timeline. Visualizing the regulatory impacts both to users and the system might be interesting.
Unleaded solder is awful, sadly.
Ah ok, so that's more like two 200 km trips. I thought you meant 400 km in one shot.
I love advent of code, but I always burn out on it after a couple of days because it just starts taking up too much time. I'm always amazed at the people here that complete the whole thing, I feel like there must be a vast gulf in skill level between me and the average hn poster. Excited to try the first couple of days again this year.
You can never be too careful, you can get cancelled for thoughts that go against groupthink.
Great suggestions. Personally I'd put LXLE in the mix here as well:
https://lxle.net/

My understanding is they started as a fork of lubuntu when the latter moved to LXQt and changed focus away from older systems.
The lesson for me from modern mobile games and microtransaction models is that addictive gameplay is actually distinct from engaging gameplay and very few modern developers are focusing on the latter. It seems to be very nearly the exclusive domain of indies nowadays.
> (uBlock now seemed to warn me about adware, not sure what's going on)

The real Lubuntu website is https://lubuntu.me/ (it's linked from https://ubuntu.com/download/flavours)
People live in small towns, because they want to live in small towns.
Parties also generally drain my energy. But I've found out something interesting. If people start playing games at a party (like card games), or if there is a discussion of a topic that really interests me, then my energy is magically replenished. Weird.
Adjunct here - students are also demanding to take off the masks and remove instructors from behind plastic barriers. Thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands, of people including the majority of the student body can cram into a football stadium shoulder to shoulder and completely unmasked.
But the minute they step back into a classroom they all have to cover their faces?
While most, if not all, are vaccinated.
It's stupid.
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>Regarding your first point, why not just run scripts with `bash script.sh` or even better, use shebangs and `./script.sh`?

Because I forget. Because some scripts are run from others. Because I don't want to check the shebang of every script I run.

I would probably deal with the annoyance if I could see a really compelling reason to switch.

>The standard shell experience is decades old, and makes it cumbersome to keep up with the pace of today.

Supposedly but the features I'm missing out on seem to either be cosmetic or something I've been doing in bash for years.

>I have a shell config using zinit [^1] that installs my dev environment for me

I have something similar in bash.
That's a very decent time. The good thing about a group is that you can rotate point, that makes a pretty big difference assuming everybody is in roughly equal shape.
As always, a developer tried to reinvent the wheel and make their own pseudo-GUI library. As always, accessibility was promptly forgotten.

Tiny, lean, minimal and beautiful apps might be cool, but most of them are unusable for me for that very reason.
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This reminds me of the case with Simon Stålenhag—when he got hassled by token enthusiasts trying to convince him to join (to lend their space such direly needed credibility), and later found somebody else selling his art as on some NFT marketplace.
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Wouldn’t it be a domino effect where debris from the first few military satellites would destroy pretty much everything in orbit?
Yes it is, even with all the COM love, there were only three C++ talks on the VS2022 release party, .NET stole the show for everything else.

Most desktop applications targeted at Windows are written in .NET and C++ only comes into the picture via COM/DLLs, hardly anyone writes pure Windows applications in straight C or C++, unless we are talking about games.
Orange, or more specifically Amber, was one of the popular options for monochromatic terminals from Digital and not only. Personally I had an amber VT510 attached to my AS255/233, and that one was essentially a budget model (effectively a slightly upgraded VT220 with PS/2 keyboard) and was apparently common choice for system console with Alphas. Unfortunately from what I heard default text mode on colour displays when using them instead of serial console was apparently white-on-blue (familiar from winnt BSOD among other things).

Interestingly enough, there are few systems in Alpha lineage that have what's known as "external console", meaning that instead of running SRM on the normal CPUs, they had separate frontend processor and main cpus only had shims to communicate with it. Marvel was one of those, but apparently there were older ones as well.

Also, if you had partition-capable Alpha, the carrot prompt would be made into Pxx> where xx referred to currently selected cpu. With VMS, you could then boot into "VMS Galaxy" mode where you had multiple VMS systems running without hypervisor, just with all of them carefully avoiding stepping on each others' resources.
> that doesn’t make my software any less free

You might say it makes your software less yours, though.

A restrictive license protects your interest in the code. After all, that's why companies are releasing their code under restrictive licenses.

100% agree there's a tradeoff of this with popularity, and it will never matter for almost everyone. But the people for whom it does matter get upset sometimes --- licensing is a choice that needs to be made with eyes wide open.
This article feels like something straight from Buzzfeed
It seems disabling smooth scrolling helps for some reason.
It may well be that the decision to go uncrewed was given in by either higher purchase price or higher operating costs so they had to do one more thing to make the ship competitive. But making an electric ship uncrewed is feasible, doing that with a diesel would be a little bit more tricky, boats that size are - unsurprisingly, I guess - mechanically quite complex.

In this case they 'crew' the boat from the shore, which will probably work well as long as conditions are good, but I'd hate to be in the driving seat of one of those and to see the comms link go down.
As an ex-PM, the idea that PMs are the ones making all the decisions absolutely does not resonate. Fundamentally, of course management in general (not specifically product management) is approving these things and carries the responsibility, but in my experience (not at Microsoft) the involvement of another firm is a clue this originated with a bizdev conversation. That sounds more likely to me than a PM saying "I really want to offer loans through Edge, let me see if I can find a partner to help execute this."
> lGPL

I was googling "I" GPL. Maybe consider upper-casing the L next time so it's not as ambiguous?
It's subjective because it can't be used as a source of truth. Of course "I measured X and my results were Y using methodology Z" can be a statement of fact but X and Z are where the subjectivity lie.

For example, benchmark game allows for warmups and so does awfy. This favors jits because it allows them to warm up when they would otherwise be slower. This might give the mistaken impression that java is a great choice for command line tools due to the performance characteristics.

In contrast, most benchmarks I've seen don't use profiler guided optimizations for C or C++. Hence the subjectivity.

And the claim of only wanting idiomatic code in awfy. This is, of course, subjective as well.
Good article. I'm E/I neutral so I've had to learn many of these for my I-half.
It seems like blatant fraud to me but I'm not a seller, just a shopper who is currently reevaluating their relationship with Amazon(unfortunately not for the 1st time either). I feel that the fact they canceled my order without offering me a raincheck for the items they already charged my credit card for or at the keast give me the option to wait for reshipping. Now every item on the store is 15% to 250% higher if it is even available anymore...well is unfair especifically so close to Xmas. It just seems any response would have been better than the brow beating served up by an angry customer service rep.

Heres the FOAD letter they just sent me.

>>>>Hello,

As you are likely aware, unprecedented weather events across British Columbia have resulted in road closures and damage to infrastructure that is severely hindering transportation into and out of Western Canada.

Unfortunately, because of these events, we can no longer provide an estimated date for delivery of your package. If you do not want to wait for your package, please contact our Customer Service team to discuss other options.

Thank you for your understanding. We wish everyone affected a safe and quick recovery. Please know that we also continue to prioritize the health and safety of our Amazon associates while we work through these challenges.

Sincerely,

Customer Service
Amazon.ca

SINCERELY? Pfft! At keast they are not canceling the items that real carriers fedex, canada post picked up....unlike the amazon contract carriers they use and abuse.
You can burn hydrogen in ICE engines as well. In the 2000's both BMW and Mazda did limited series developments of cars that can be switched between burning gasoline and hydrogen - the BMW 750 with the M73 V12, and the Mazda RX-8 with the dual rotor Renesis Wankel engine.

Currently batteries (and possibly fuel cells) seem to be winning out for cars, but burning hydrogen in large piston engines seems to be a promising option for ships.

I've heard Yanmar is currently developing a large slow two-stroke marine engine burning hydrogen, probably in the 5 MW range.
Figures! I'd be staying away from all that for the same reasons. When I was a kid, it sure wasn't right wing. At least the boards I cruised.
On the other hand, if you can't prove to a court that you wrote the code, then you can't claim to have copyright over the code for the purpose of accusing LLVM of infringing your copyright by relicensing your code.

Not that I suspect LLVM to take that kind of risk, but it is an interesting consequence of anonymous contribution.
I love Advent of Code. If you like programming, Advent of Code probably has something for you. It's a great source of practice problems for learning a new language or style. There's a "competitive" aspect for people who like programming competitions, and you can even make private leaderboards so you can compete against your friends even if you can't make it on to the global leaderboard.

Last year I was earnestly trying to compete on the global leaderboard, and scored points a few times, ending up 103rd overall (slightly frustrating as the displayed leaderboard only goes down to 100th place!), but it's too stressful for me to want to do that again, and in my timezone it requires getting awake in time for the puzzles to be released at 5am.

This year I've been building a homebrew 16-bit CPU from 74xx logic, and have written an operating system and development environment for it, and I plan to do as much as possible of Advent of Code 2021 on my homemade computer.

There are 2 big hurdles to this. The first is that my computer is very slow. It takes over a minute to compile a typical program, which makes for a very long edit-compile-test cycle, and I don't have any hardware multiplication etc., so even integer arithmetic can be quite expensive.

The other hurdle is that it only has 64K words of memory, and IIRC some Advent of Code problems in the past have required keeping track of state for dozens of thousands of separate things. In those cases I'd either fail, or come up with a way to use the disk for extra storage. I look forward to trying, regardless.

As it happens, just this morning I did kind of a "dry run" on problem 1 from 2016 on my homemade computer, and recorded my attempt, which you can watch if you want: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOizI9qi6FU
About the last thing people in small towns want are arrogant city folks coming in, kicking them out, and moving them to a nightmarish megacity. It might come as a surprise to denizens of coastal cities, but no one in a small town looks at NYC or SF and thinks it’s a successful, nice place to live.

If you want to help small towns, push for more remote work. There is absolutely zero reason why millions need to be crammed in a single geographic location when we all work online anyway.

I’m honestly not sure if this post is satire.
Yet the licence that provided an escape route gets bashed, so much gratitude.
I've spent many years of my life fighting against my introverted nature. I've now embraced who I am, and I respect my need to isolate & recharge. Some people (my wife included ;p) don't always get it, but I don't care. I know what I need to feel better.
Prof. Davis' software is Jed. Slava Pestov's is Jedit. All is good.
Yes. I've had this happen when I order "politically incorrect books". They are literally censoring idea they don't like.
Arcane director of animation on how they did it
Is your moral responsibility to care for the market?

Is it more immoral to devalue the market for light than to inconvenience your neighbor?
A friend brought his Macintosh home from CMU (the summer of '84 or '85?). We spent a good part of the summer making our own cassette tape labels using MacPaint and an ImageWriter printer. It should have been obvious then that Desktop Publishing was chomping at the bit, not even waiting for an affordable LaserWriter.
Agreed. I use some Adobe products on a daily basis. The features I use within the applications have been consistent for years, but the bloat of the software has been significant year after year. I don't need any of the bloat or extra features just stable consistent software.

Sometimes I think I'd be happier buying a legacy suite rather than paying the monthly subscription...
At the same time I remember being struck by, "Where's the BASIC prompt? How do I program it?"
Daily two part puzzles, for one star each, 50 stars total. Second part is usually related to the first (but unknown until you solve the first) which makes you refactor or learn to write your code generically the first time. Input is usually a small text file. Puzzles are often dependent on earlier ones (spoilers: most years you write a interpreter for a made up language over a few days and later puzzles use it as an input generator which you seed with the text file)

Leaderboard points are only assigned if you're in the top 100 for either parts which you should ignore if this is your first time since it's not the point!
This sounds like a good thing, from natures standpoint.
You skipped the part where it is the matter that your consciousness observes.
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> I can't see how you can build an anonymous system for transferring wealth around that requires significant bandwidth and CPU and not screw the planet by providing a service for drug dealers and terrorists.

I think you can accept that with any new technology there will always be bad actors using it, so this argument makes no sense to me.

There are also cryptocurrencies out there that are more efficient than others and solve the environmental issue, I just hope that you're not conflating Bitcoin, Ethereum with all cryptocurrencies.
I spent a lot of time on BBSs back in the day. There were some moderated tech support communities that were extremely tame, but most of it was like 4chan if 4chan was restricted to just your local calling area.

In person BBS Parties and later IRC Channel Parties were full of the greatest and most bizarre mix of people I have ever come across with a common interest. That's probably because with just the screen name and no avatar or graphics or profile info or anything, nobody divided into their usual social groups.
I like to compare it to public art or a public art museum. One entity paid for it but everyone is allowed to look at it and take pictures of it. Not quite the same since public art is typically a physical object and not a digital one.
MSP for a bunch of dental offices here.

The number of times I've xrayed my car key fob or cell phone when testing out the digital xray sensors after a new PC install at a client site can't even be counted.

If they have a digital xray system it'd take literally seconds and cost them nothing, so if you have a good relationship with them you can probably do it.
I would say less technically savvy people probably use more electricity, not less. And you're assuming that you're the average American consumer. There are probably old toasters and electrical heaters that contribute significantly to that figure. In any case, the conservative estimate is still several times that of Bitcoin's usage.

I'd also say cruise ships are more egregious, which no one seems to care about despite them definitely not using clean energy or being remotely useful, using 2.5x the amount of energy as Bitcoin - or as much as Spain!