skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> to use force (up to and including deadly force) to defend oneself against an intruder

Perhaps only one place (Texas) uses this to justify regaining possession of property, which is what the GP was talking about.

Also:

> At most the Castle Doctrine is an affirmative defense for individuals inevitably charged with criminal homicide, not a permission or pretext to commit homicide.
I heard a variation of this in a podcast comparing the difference between various language learning apps:

Easy things feel fast, hard things feel slow, but in the long run you'll get more from doing the hard thing.

In the context of language learning, they were comparing apps like Duolingo to WaniKani (for learning kanji). In summary, your brain can sucker you into thinking it's learning something, when in reality you're not being challenged at all. Doing 100 multiple choice in a day can FEEL like you're learning a lot in a short amount of time, but picking an answer when it's in front of you doesn't test your recall. Being forced to recall 10 kanji from memory over 10 days will help you learn them more reliably.

I think this lesson extends to almost any domain. You can fall into a trap thinking "I understand how to do X in theory, but actually doing it will take so much longer. It would be a waste of time for me to do something I already understand how to do." But in almost every case where you've thought that, once you dig in and actually do the thing, you will hit roadblocks that you have to work around, you'll feel discouraged and confused about why it wasn't straight forward, you'll commit things to memory because you're forced to, and when it's all said and done you will have a much deeper understanding than if you had optimized that task out.
Ask HN: Are You a Pilot?
I'm interested in learning to fly light aircraft, do you have any experience and/or advice you could share?
The UK media is likely backed by Big Concrete™
>there is an established framework for holding companies and nations liable if they do stupid things.

International space law, like most other international regulations, is only for the small fries. Any country capable of inserting into geosynchronous orbit with a domestic manufactured launch vehicle is usually also nuclear armed, hold a permanent seat on the Security Council or allied with a holder, and is immune to most low level sanctions. No real space power can be truly bound by treaty if things heat up because they are usually the enforcers.
When there's a global limitation on what can be done with land, it limits how much use can be achieved by any given bit of land. The demand is still there, but it's met by further and further out parcels of land, causing them to go up drastically in value. In addition, this causes all sorts of urban sprawl. Which is exactly what happened in LA. They had a huge downzoning of the entire metro area 50 years ago, driving up the prices of land everywhere, to the benefit of suburban NIMBYs in sprawl.

TL;DR, when the use of land is broadly limited, on the macro scale, the demand still exists and shifts the price of all land up on the supply-demand curve. The dynamics of limiting individual parcels or small sections of land often have the opposite effect, though.
Compare to geofoam:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geofoam

In particular the use of geofoam at Chicago's Millenium park: https://www.insulfoam.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/april-1...

In the specific case of Millenium Park it makes some intuitive sense since there's a parking garage beneath it that can only bear so much weight. For individual homes, I'm not convinced. I'm probably just ignorant of polystyrene's properties and the tradeoffs relative to other materials, but I'm worried about it just kind of hanging around in the environment as buildings degrade. Concrete, steel, and glass do that, I suppose, but in a less displeasing way...
Prosperity and insecure property ownership rights don't go together - see every third world shantytown where making something which could be a road out of pauperdom gets it seized or you extorted by local strongmen.
Trying to go down the rabbit hole, any suggested phrases to search?
I'm not sure which setup and games you are thinking about but if I'm not mistaken, right now we are still struggling with 1440p@60hz for ubisoft games and other AAAs
Have you considered making your patent into an NFT? Let me know if you are interested.
Merriam-Webster on ecology: "a branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of organisms and their environments"

Humans are organisms. Humans go to space, and will go there more with it getting cheaper. Orbital space is an environment. Debris collisions are an ecological concern for spacefaring organisms.
Wholeheartedly agree. Your comment gives me Aussie vibes, yet it looks like you’re in the US. Did you relocate?
r/elixir as well, as apparently there's a crypto with that name.

When I google "elixir strings" I also only get results for Elixir guitar strings instead of the hex doc page I'm looking for :)
Das Schmiergel? Mit diesen Standluftpumpen machen Sie richtig Druck auf Ihrem Treppenlift!
Something that fills the same need as traits have been available for Python in the form of zope.component architecture for some decades now

https://zopecomponent.readthedocs.io/en/latest/narr.html

However in the end abstract base classes and class decorators take you a long way. zope.component power is only useful for complex frameworks like Plone CMS and Pyramid.
> from the UK that the number of people I heard on a ~weekly basis who lost possessions or even lives in a house fire went from effectively zero to more than zero.

Really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grenfell_Tower_fire
How do we know that this source is better? I can't find anything on their site about ownership.
Civil discourse is getting harder and harder to find online. HN generally isn't too bad, but the weekends seem to be the worst. I think the comments and moderation gets dominated by people with nothing better to do on a weekend.

I think it would be nice if HN periodically made you read a short click-through agreement to remind people of the tone we expect here.
I came here to say the same thing. We use mjml to abstract away all this nonsense for us. Great library.

https://mjml.io/
Erase CO2 negative construction and replace with CO2 positive construction. Sounds legit.
It is still defense of life in robbery cases. Robbery is potentially lethal violence or the threat of violence to get what they want. That is what justifies self-defense.
In Norway we have always built our homes with wood, but the last decade or so there have been a few buildings that would normally be built with concrete instead built with timber. Schools, hotels, apartment buildings and so on. Specifically they are using glued laminated timber that is said to to withstand fire better than f.ex steel.
Does it prevent stealing? Are there fewer catalytic converter thefts in the US than elsewhere, per capita?
El Salvador: A $1B Bitcoin bond, to set up ... Bitcoin City!
encouraging these sorts of sting operations could lead to all sorts of weird stuff down the line.

See: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/stash-house-st...
That is sensible only to you. I love how policies are designated as 'common sense' to try to promote acceptance. Let me decide what is common sense.
...and then has to be rebuilt, by a concrete company!!
> This is a well known problem in reddit. The self-aware joke is /r/suberbowl, which is commonly mistaken for a football game, when it's really a place for suberb owl pics.

> I remember /r/crypto having predictable problems, given its a fairly small community going back long before cryptocurrency gained mainstream attention.

/r/peloton is about professional cycling, but many people think it's about Peloton trainers
Unrelated to the article itself, but the design of this page on mobile is a beautiful experience.
We usually solve the tragedy of the commons situations by adding a regulating authority. One could argue that that's one of the main reasons for having governments. Of course we don't have a world government to appeal to here and the number of nations with launch capabilities is rapidly growing. But as private organizations lose profit from worsening Kessler Syndrome they will push for a solution, since this a everyone-looses situation, not winner-takes-all. I would predict we wind up with another UN organization, similar to the ITU.
Perhaps it was me who woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I’m going through some heavy health stuff right now and don’t feel great. I guess I meant by soccer mom someone in a better position financially who would’ve paid someone to do the job thus costing them more. I hope all is well in your life, cheers.
it's the naming convention that does it.

"Impls have a strict naming convention, like ImplMyTraitForMyStruct. This is used to automate the list of implementations for MyStruct; you don't need to explicitly list any superclasses of MyStruct, just based on the Impl name it will inherit from all relevant Impls."
Thanks! Also learned about https://validator.w3.org/ from your blog.
The parent made this exact point.
I've found most "tech debt" planning to be incredibly vague and nebulous. Many engineers can identify what makes them uncomfortable, but it takes real effort to fully explain why, and what the real impacts are.

Maybe trying to think about "tech wealth" or "tech capability" might change this. Instead of a ticket to "improve error handling" it's "ensure the system can recover from a DNS failure safely to the DB without manual intervention". This sounds more like a feature, because, well, it is.

I've found most of the places talk a lot about having good quality, but few actually did anything concrete about it. Most changes ended up not making any impact. And this is over the course of a 20 year career.
I'm curious how largish software projects are organized to deal with tech debt. Is it just ingrained and taken into account for say 20% of the work at each sprint planning? Is there a specific team dedicated to doing tech debt stuff? Do people just work on tech debt when they feel like it? Are there just a few people in the team that like to go around the project and take on smallish tech debt tasks?

I'm curious because our team is struggling with tech debt. We are divided in feature teams and I had this idea of maybe simply having a "tech debt team" that, just like feature teams, has sprints achieving tech-debt related goals such as "improve startup times by 10%" or "decouple router module from auth module" or "setup webpack to tree-shake modules" etc.

How do y'all do it?
I would say Factorio is all about routing & layout. The functions are handed to you.
> Dick Smith is a legend

He was a legend.

For many of us in Australia he is remembered more for his racist, xenophobic views and efforts in advising the One Nation party.
History of MIT Multics, including source code
He can sell it on an NFT, but legally it will still be his patent...

I can already guess that you don't know anything about patents and how they work in particular.
They sell these (with seat-belt cutters) for $5-10. Billed as a way to get out of a car that is sinking into a body of water (does this happen to more than a couple of people a year?). Alternatively, if you are in a cab/uber that locks the doors and traps you inside. Or if you just want to break into some cars.
It also requires that "the use of force other than deadly force to protect or recover the land or property would expose the actor or another to a substantial risk of death or serious bodily injury."

So not only must deadly force be the only option to keep the property, but you've got to believe that if you tried something other than deadly force you'd be seriously injured or killed.
Black people likely would not be allowed to request the police to block the road in this hypothetical.
Actually they make variants of stud finders to locate rebar in foundations and walls. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Qn3Eu87h4
They are called "one plus five" or one plus four":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-plus-five

>The one-plus-five style of buildings exploded in popularity in the 2010s, following a 2009 revision to the United States-based International Building Code, which allowed up to five stories of wood-framed construction.
You thought correctly. The D is for dynamic, not distributed.
Note that compared to real neurons this is very, very crude, and it does not replicate their functionality in full. The key thing to understand is that a real neuron is not a constant thing, it is subject to its environment, meaning that if it receives a lot of spikes, for example, it may become temporarily depleted, and that very depletion will play a role in how the bigger system works. It also does not have "time steps" - it processes the signal continuously. In general, as in any biological system, everything depends on everything else, often in circuitous, ambiguous, non-obvious ways, which makes things extremely difficult to model and/or understand.

What this means from the research perspective: it's like that joke with a drunk searching for car keys under a streetlamp because it's easier to search there. People make progress where they can until someone unusual comes along and installs a new "streetlamp" elsewhere. 100% of research and engineering (and life in general) works this way, not just neuroscience. It's just that at the moment the street lamps in this field are few, dim, and very far between.
It's much easier, and much likely to be worth spending time on, to fight a bigco than the tiny business that doesn't care.
I might also want to add that rust allows decoupled allocation rn. There are some popular allocators, like jemalloc, but also some project specific ones, especially for some custom OS no-std projects.

Edit: See https://docs.rust-embedded.org/book/collections/index.html#u... for a through explanation
also worth checking out: https://old.reddit.com/r/bbs/
The tools most useful for me as a solo founder:

* https://paddle.com - Paddle (payments) - selling internationally without having to deal with all the local taxes

* https://uxwizz.com - UXWizz (analytics) - built my own private, self-hosted analytics platform that provides everything I need (stats, event tracking, session recordings, heatmaps, a/b tests, etc.) in a single platform that doesn't cost thousands per month

* Gmail - Like it or not, I got used to using gmail to handle customer support requests (I use the auto-labeling features to keep them categorized) and the SMTP forwarding to send/receive emails using my own domain names. I am thinking of moving away (for privacy reasons mostly), but it works really well at the moment.

* DigitalOcean/Contabo for VPSs for self-hosting everything that I need

This is mostly it, I try to stay as lean as possible. Self-hosting is pretty easy nowadays and it rarely needs maintenance, so I usually prefer it because of the control over the product/data and the cost reduction that it gives.
The USA also has a much more diverse set of climates than England - nit, your source is studying fires in England specifically, not the whole of the United Kingdom. I'm also curious where your figure for the USA Comparing rates of fires in hotter, more arid climates like Texas or California with England seems like a pretty big leap.

I'm also curious where your figure of 928 fires per day in the US comes from, maybe I overlooked it but I didn't see the USA statistics in your link. FEMA puts the figure at 1.3 million per year, or over 3,500 [1] per day. It's likely that there's a significant difference between the definition of a "fire" between the US and UK sources.

1. https://www.usfa.fema.gov/data/statistics/
It feels like I've read this same introduction for the last 30 years. I mean, I remember reading stuff like this around 1992 in the Sean Connery film "Medicine Man", with Connery's character searching the Amazon for a anti-cancer drug.

> One hope was that the next antibiotic breakthrough would emerge from making and testing enough of these synthetic compounds. But that effort has fallen flat: Though other medicines have been developed in the lab, no new registered classes of antibiotics have been discovered since the 1980s.

Doesn't that also speak to a failure of natural products research, which has also been trying to find "the next antibiotic breakthrough"?

Look, I'm a coder, not a pharmaceutical chemist. But even here on HN a search for "antibiotic class" (like https://hn.algolia.com/?q=antibiotic+class ) finds:

"Antibiotic resistance: 'Snot wars' study yields new class of drugs" - "A new class of antibiotics has been discovered by analysing the bacterial warfare taking place up people's noses, scientists report." - 5 years ago, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12180966 . About lugdunin. Doesn't seem to have gone anywhere.

"New class of antibiotics discovered by chemists " from 7 years ago, about oxadiazoles. Found by computer search. Doesn't seem to have gone anywhere.

"First pictures of enzyme that drives new class of antibiotics" from 2 years ago, about obafluorin, "made by a fluorescent strain of soil bacteria that forms biofilms on plant roots". Wikipedia doesn't know about it.

"A new class of antibiotics active against wide range of bacteria" from 11 months ago, since retracted (?!) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-03074-x .

And if I do a DDG search for "new antibiotic class", I find:

"Murepavadin: a new antibiotic class in the pipeline" (2018) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29451043/ . Wikipedia describes it as "the first example of an outer membrane protein-targeting antibiotic class with a novel, nonlytic mechanism of action".

"A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance" (2015) https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14098 . Teixobactin. Wikipedia describes it as "a peptide-like secondary metabolite of some species of bacteria, that kills some gram-positive bacteria. It appears to belong to a new class of antibiotics, and harms bacteria by binding to lipid II and lipid III ... discovered using a new method of culturing bacteria in soil, which allowed researchers to grow a previously unculturable bacterium now named Eleftheria terrae, which produces the antibiotic."

That's at least 5 new natural product leads on a new class of antibiotics, yet none made the list.

> the focus on nature waned as scientists instead built large chemical libraries filled with tens of thousands of lab-made molecules

If natural product search doesn't work, and lab-made molecules don't work, then ... is it really right to focus only on the failure of the latter?
I imagine due care means choosing the correct people to run down. Some people's lives are less valuable to society than others
Do you know why that is? That's very interesting.
I would too.

But I understand that, like A-frames, adapting vertical furniture, cabinets, etc. to walls that are not 90-degree vertical can be problematic. So you add vertical walls inside ... and then you're losing space.
When the fed is printing money hand over fist (and only has plans to slow down the printing press, not to reverse it), the way to win to is close your eyes and buy (almost everything) and quickly.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...
I live in Mexico where houses are made out of concrete. A house fire is even worse, because you end up with a structurally unsound concrete shell that has to be demolished (and is quite expensive to do so). On a wooden home you simply rebuild on top of the ashes.
What exactly in what I said is not sensible?
You either believe in a democracy or you don’t. Minority rights have been pretty well protected through democratic decisions.
Sentinel-6, GRACE-FO, ICESat-2 are among only a few of the many numerous LEO observational satellites that are at risk should a Kessler syndrome occur... our ability to watch and build predictive models of what's going on with our ecology can/will be lost; this is a huge added problem to the ongoing global ecological collapses and affects our ability to mitigate climate change

Not to mention all the communications systems we have in orbit that we rely on for our economy which would result in significant loss of logistics / economic efficiencies and straining growing social political issues. All of which means higher likelihood of damage to local and regional ecologies
>In Derek's example the switch and the bulb are 1 meter away from each other and therefore the time is 1/c seconds, i.e the time light takes to travel 1 meter.

Perhaps I didn't make my example clear. Imagine loop with 2 switches...one switch 1 LY away...another switch 1 meter away.

Derek flips the 1m switch and light instantly turns on: What does that tell you?
Derek flips the 1m switch and light doesn't turn on: What does that tell you?

How were you able to find out that information before waiting 1 yr?
Clearly you've never inherited anything written in Perl.
I prefer open-sourced mindustry
This isn't about disagreement. If somebody sincerely, honestly, and without conflict of interest has something to say on a topic, I'm interested. Especially if they have done some hard work around understanding and acknowledging other perspectives.

On the other hand, there are a lot of people out their paid to create and push propaganda. As a general rule, one shouldn't engage with it. If even the writer may not believe something, one isn't obliged to take it seriously. Indeed, I think it's a frequently exploited mistake to bring more credulity and good faith to something than the source itself does.

Much better to spend one's time finding reasonably sincere sources and reading those.
I enjoyed an anime called 'Im a spider, so what?' where the main character gets transferred to another dimension, except as a spider.

She's a genki girl in the anime (hyperactive trope) but only when she is alone. When she talks to others, she's an introvert (very terse and soft spoken), which is an interesting version of the trope. The only name she goes by is Kumoko (rough translation: Miss Spider, or maybe Spider-cutie).

In the original source material (the original Novels), she's fully an introvert. But I think the problem with anime is that acting in front of an audience is innately an extrovert activity.

Introverts can be side characters in an anime (Rei from Evangeleon, Nagato from Haruhi), but since they sit around and think to themselves so much it's hard for them to be a main character. Kumoko is an interesting way of doing it, since she is only hyperactive when she is alone.

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Mild spoilers: but the people who got transferred over got forms that best represented their soul. Most became a human again, but a few swapped genders and another few became monsters.

In the case of Kumoko, her introverted nature matched the spider the most. In contrast, teacher has the 'young at heart' trope and thus the teacher got the form of an elf, for example.

As an Isekai novel / anime, it's fantasy + sci-fi. They are all clearly in some kind of techo-video game world, but magic seems to have been the cause for how they all got trapped in the first place.
Oh yeah, that's good, I use it to monitor a database backup cron.
Well I got bad news for you. SLS will probably never fly, and it will definitely never reach the moon. NASA pretty much accepted this publicly when they gave SpaceX the contract to have Starship fly itself to the moon and pick up the astronauts once there.
Not just "plausible". I'm talking about near exact, not just "plausible" simulation of the signals they will consume and produce, in time domain, at an arbitrary time resolution. There's no "package" for that.
"It is not a compiler error, it's your code"
Drywall+wood also lets wireless signals through easier.
See post from 2 days ago, with more comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29281060