skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cities grow around something. In the past, that "something" has generally been a point-specific natural resource that can be exploited. Natural harbors, confluences of rivers, mines, etc. Sometimes cities grow around point-specific artificial resources like crossroads.

Sometimes there are resources that are exploited but everyone knows that the resource is very temporary so a city doesn't really grow. Instead, a town forms but never plants roots. For example, the small cities across the Bakken Formation which grew huge transitory populations but no one stays because everyone there knows when the price of oil shifts the Bakken will become unprofitable.

The important thing is attempting to plant a city in the middle of nowhere almost always fails absent very strong government incentives. Washington DC is sort of like that, where it was put where it is because of very strong political incentives (Virginia and Maryland didn't want that land). Brasilia is the other example that jumps to mind, where they wanted the seat of government away from Rio and forced the issue.
You're exactly right.

Reading this article and the other HN comments, it makes me think our community is aging and becoming stuck in old ways of thinking.

It's surprising and disappointing to see it happen to this group, but I guess it's inevitable.
A product manager's decisions go unchecked most of the time because engineers and responsibility for business concerns are like oil and water. That's why PM exists, no? If engineers could just talk to marketing, sales, etc. then there wouldn't be a need for them, but alas, that is not the case.
Like Clockwork
About as well as prayer itself works..
Why do you much prefer

func changeName(p *Person) {
p.firstName = "Bob"
}

to

void changeName(ref Person p) {
p.firstName = "Bob";
}

?
Most Air Forces are nowhere near as professional as USAF so they might be much less likely to be enforcing pilot pre-flight checks.

There are no shortage of horror stories about what is found when USAF pilots get deployed to train pilots in other Air Forces.
> Besides everyone knows what the real problem is: teachers not having decent levels at a bunch of subjects themselves, and not willing to improve.

It is not abnormal for Californian high schools, including in some of the prestigious areas mentioned in other posts, to have math classroom sizes of 40 children, with classroom size penalties ending in middle school. When classroom sizes get that big, the problem becomes one of classroom management (are children even listening now?) and targeting average performance.

And then there is the matter of teacher pay. To have the credibility to convince the math faculty that you are ready to teach Calculus, you likely have a Masters in education and a Bachelors in math. Such a technical person may just have well earned a CS degree instead.

Lastly, the students. The schools which are severely underperforming are those schools where absenteeism may be enormous... in all classes. This is not a matter of math teachers not being engaging or ambitious enough. One might merely volunteer at some schools in East Palo Alto to see some of this. These are problems which extend well beyond the school.

I would also ask, if learning were just a matter of quality instruction, then what's wrong with Khan Academy? Khan Academy is a world class resource and it is delivering pedagogical wins. But something is missing.
graalvm and graalvm's svm/native-image as well, the latter having only SerialGC, with G1 in EE only, and crashing ;(
> Houses are not zero-sum, as it's possible to build more.

Every newly-built house lowers the value of every already-built house. It is straightforward to specify initial conditions where the result is negative-sum.
Me too - coming back to emacs. On a .net team now and everyone else uses VS. They'd like me too also but haven't really pressured.

I'm curious why you went with spacemacs.
I found it very unclear because the next section explicitly states that, in the case of Cloudfront traffic, it won't age out. But they don't make that statement about the regional traffic.
`find` is definitely one of my least favourite among the traditional Unix tools in terms of interface. `dd` is also a little weird with its syntax but at least I rarely have to use `dd`.
I'm sticking with IRC, thanks. I don't need my friends to be minted on the blockchain.
what's the python course? link? I can only find challenges in python..
> There is a somewhat coherent proposition that crypto assets are effectively unregistered securities contracts, basically like stock in an empty company that doesn’t do anything except promote the sale of its own stock.

I sometimes think that when anthropologists from the future look back at today, the primary lessons they'll draw from us won't have to do with our technological cleverness, but rather our financial imagination. Greed is at work in the world, and it is a strong force of propulsion in terms of how the world we are living in is changing. Perhaps dramatically more so than technology, in a given period of time.

The willingness to speculate in a manner that is completely unhinged from reality: that is the dark heart of cryptocurrencies. It is rent-seeking behavior taken to its brutally logical conclusion. And it is not unique to crypto. Look at people's behavior in the stock market, or the housing market. It isn't that these assets are actually appreciating that much in the real world, so much as investors are simply trying to find a place to put their money and get a return.

In that sense, the speculative utility that <meme stonks/Vancouver condos/cryptocoins> provide, as a store of financial value, has become orthogonal to reality. In some markets, I'd argue that we're even seeing a weird parasitic effect, where the host is kept alive simply to serve as a form of blue sky contract by the force of our collective willingness to play Russian Roulette speculative games with each other. GameStop is a good example.
I am so confused by this use of political labels. I understand your argument, just not the political labels. Not siding with any specific label, I just want to make sense of these labels.

I understand that left and right mean very different things in Europe or in the US, for instance.

Inequality on access to housing has shifted you away from hard left. And neoliberal leftist economists and media are defending the status quo.

What are leftist politicians for you? the Democrat party?
What are some examples of neoliberal leftist economists? I cannot think of anything neoliberal that it is not center-right to hard-right.

Probably it is because I am not from the US, and would be curious to know. To me, hard left is anarchist/communist and neoliberals are always right/hard-right/center-right depending on how much one likes them :)
My bad, I thought you were quoting the article title. I see it's been cleared up in other replies now.
Things that are on my wishlist:

- Compute-Module should have a unified interface, that is not about to change for the next 3 generations of compute modules

- Someone create a "notebook" case having a board with mount for exactly this interface

- Case should have a decent keyboard and display without being to big

- How about having GPIO pins hidden

I would love to have an "upgradable" Notebook with arm architecture...
Reverse-Engineering Fiducial Markers for Perception and Augmented Reality
You could have been Lebron James if he didn’t bench you.
I assume there was some reason you didn't just remove the beeper? Or put a switch inline with it so you could turn it off?
A 4 lane PCIe switch would allow for a much cheaper board and still be plenty to saturate the available bandwidth. Maybe 2x 2.5Gbe with one hooked to a switch, plus wifi.

Around this price point there are already ARM boards (and passively cooled x86 machines) available much better suited to this kind of use case, like the Honeycomb LX2K.
I want to compete in the Olympics, but whether that actually happens is a different question.
They also have substantial foreign assets that can be sold. The situation in Japan is very unusual because the financial system has a massive synthetic net short JPY position. Because rates are so low, savings have been effectively dollarized in an economy that isn't dollarized (this is why USD/JPY is so correlated with rate differentials)...so I don't think anyone really knows how this will works out (there aren't a lot of historical examples, no country that held so many claims denominated in a foreign currency has been such a large part of the world economy...this is the end game of the export-oriented, mercantilist political economy...Germany is a ways down the same road).

It makes no difference whatsoever that JGBs are held domestically in practice because it is harder to push through a debt restructuring politically when voters are the ones losing money (you have seen this in Italy too, they have "bailed in" domestic savers which has significantly reduced their options...if the debt is owned by foreign investors, you can usually restructure and point at them: look at these greedy capitalists, terrible...but we have no choice).

On some of the other stuff mentioned above, the reason why Japan is in such a mess is because their financial/corporate sectors is totally screwed. There is no real demand for money, corporate balance sheets are loaded down with cash, no-one wants to invest, demand for money is so low that Japan's savings banks are huge players in US corporate lending, banks seem to have no actual capacity to make corporate loans...they don't know how, they just buy US bonds and call it a day, monetary policy (counter-intuitively) is making this worse, it is reducing the supply of "safe assets" but hasn't increased the capacity of institutions for "non-safe assets", it has led to a significant reduction in lending within Japan because rates overseas are so much higher...it is a real shit storm, but it all comes down to monetary policy officials not understanding money transmission (unusually for Japan, in the 1980s the govt was involved in directing lending on a loan-by-loan basis so they have a history of real control over monetary transmission).
The ERCOT campus has their own generation capability along with sitting between two distribution grids. Same with their DR site in Bastrop. In the case of a black start condition (grid totally down), ERCOT would need to come up first to coordinate the grid restoration.

Taylor is an ideal place for a large manufacturing operation since it's close to major highways and railroads, not too far from Austin, and land is very cheap.
I'm guessing that's because the regional traffic never aged out before.
Lol, thanks on behalf of everyone enjoying the AWS free tier, jgc.
Honestly this most infuriating thing about this entire situation is that the devices we have the most issues with are actually the ones provided by big name companies (specifically issues with Google and TP-Link in our setup).

I try my hardest to stick to Zigbee and Z-Wave devices wherever possible which has lead me to purchase devices like Samsung's SmartThings plug, or Sonoff Minis etc that I can connect straight to a Zigbee/Z-Wave dongle to expose them to HomeAssistant. This setup is actually very reliable and the only downtime we've had over nearly three years is when I've pulled the HA virtual machine down to do updates - I think we're up to about 40 or 50 zigbee devices in our network now that all work flawlessly and locally.

So what about Google and TP-Link? Google Home is becoming chatty and has started to regularly mishear commands, or it will say a device is unavailable but still perform the action successfully. TP-Link pushed a silent update out to the couple of smart plugs we had from them that disabled functionality that exposed them to Home Assistant - rendering them a complete waste of time and money.

It's mind boggling to me that the (m/b/tr)illion dollar companies of the world are the ones fucking up my smart home. It annoys me enough that I would no longer purchase hardware from any company that uses WiFi or relies on the cloud for "smart" home stuff.
Alpine is more of a command-line distro. It's compact design and lack of many dependencies make it ideal for virtual servers and containers. Personally I've been eyeing it for an install on a small ARM board as a music streaming server, which it seems quite suitable for. In this case I would still connect to it over the network, still with no GUI or desktop.
I do, if it's still on the ground when it happens.
Wanting to update titles is so out of my usage scenario for Pocket that I wouldn't even think about it.
It's extremely sad that after nearly 2 years of this, governments still haven't mastered the ability to say "our uncertainty is high so we will not make policy recommendations" and then to - only once having collected the new data - render data-driven policy.

Even I, as someone who fully accepts vaccines and sees the data illustrating that mRNA vaccines reduced death rates enough to make COVID "the new flu" were it not for the antivax population and their role in overwhelming hospitals, am quite tired of hearing about how the boosters were only going to be for old and sick, and then it was a sudden flip into "everyone should get them". I don't even know what data would suggest that I should get a booster shot, I do not see death rates climbing and I have fatigue from doing the research I wish the nation-state which sets my laws would simply have done correctly and before recommending my action.
For new folks like myself, Scott Adams is a prolific game designer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Adams_(game_designer)
https://www.1billionamericans.com/
> most of us would probably be pretty lousy investors since we would try to make decisions rationally instead of memeing and YOLOing

I think those are the makings of an effective bond investor. But as far as stocks, or stonks, go you're pretty correct here.
> You can just have your official address be wherever and so long as the tax benefits make sense financially you'll make more money with a fake address in a state with no income tax while mostly living somewhere else.

Do you not expect governments to use their powers to issue subpoenas to banks or get location history from mobile networks or license plate readers to figure out this fraud if their tax revenues suffer?

A few years ago, Connecticut had Newegg send them a list of all purchases shipped to the state, and then mailed everyone a tax bill with penalties for failing to pay use tax. The onus was on the recipients to prove they already paid the use tax.
This comment is the literal definition of FUD.

The idea that a government or bank would expire your money is pretty hilarious.
To play devil's advocate, the fact that it's someone's money and people are losing it doesn't automatically mean better or worse. For example, Netflix bankrupted Blockbuster and people lost money but it is clearly "better". I guess we're just still waiting for a popular use case, outside of crime, speculation and money transfers to places with no infrastructure.
I never understand why people criticize using interfaces for most functionality. How else do you write effective unit tests? Interfaces with dependency injection make unit tests far easier to write. Smartly designed interfaces also make code easier to read and understand. Lastly, adding new interfaces is trivially easy, so why not?
That can only happen with ground rules, which is what governments are for.

Nationally, it means an act of Congress. Internationally, it means getting enough consensus and laws passed and enforced to make doing business with China less appealing.

With US liberals who only pay lip service to STEM and education; and US conservatives who are all about hollowing out strong government?

Good luck with getting collective action anytime before the situation becomes truly desperate.
`sudo vim` will not load your user's vimrc, sudoedit will
Stupid crap imo
Just because it isn't as good doesn't mean it's not a direct answer. This is basically the lowest hanging fruit response AWS can give against Cloudflare to convince people not to migrate over.

Maybe the idea is that if you're doing 1+ TB of CloudFront traffic, you're already deeply locked into AWS anyways and less willing to make the jump anyways.
Texas is nothing if not hypocritical and reactionary.
Is there a list of cloud providers that have a free tier somwhere?
How does research on poorly understood atmospheric phenomena relate to war with China?

If there's danger of a peasant revolt, war with the US would be a pretty effective way to prevent it.

French Economist article archive: https://archive.md/fcTkA ("brigades, or a division" sure doesn't sound like WWII)

Grauniad AUKUS article archive: https://archive.md/LFsoo
Yep. We're getting Economics 2.0, complete with the Vile Offspring and making the earth uninhabitable.
Nobody seriously believes that COVID-19 could have been produced via exploratory work.
It is a business-to-business product that doesn't seem to have anything to do with crypto.

It's not like crypto is a thread for this business.
Solaris is built on some idiosyncrasies (Speaking as someone who, as a Linux person, has to sysadmin Solaris systems).

For example, on our Solaris machines, after install, "reboot" does not do a clean reboot, it's a hard reset. If you want a clean reboot you need "init 6". Same story for "shutdown" and "init 5".

"killall" also kills all processes. Not the one you specified. Or more specifically it SIGKILLs all processes that have open files (ssh session and server go byebye). If you type "reboot" or "shutdown", this is in fact the binary that gets called do that.

Sadly, Solaris is also one of the few systems that support the NFSv4 ACLs (Linux supports NFSv4 but not the ACL Extension, TrueNAS has a patch for that).
I agree with you, expanding cities should be preferred.

But that doesn't happen either, maybe because existing cities are surrounded by private lands, or other stuff that is hard to displace, in a litigious place like US.
First of all decentralization is not a property solely confined to cryptocurrencies. The traditional banking system is decentralized, there are thousands of banks that are all separate entities. There is no single central bank, even central banks are not unique, every country has one. Additionally the traditional banking system and cash have a huge advantage, no global consensus is required, Iran still has a banking system much to the dismay of the American government.

> *Control by a majority, not a minority. (democratic)

It's a majority of hash power in the case of PoW and a majority of capital in the case of PoS, since hash power costs capital in both cases it's a majority of capital that has control, oh and the systems devs of course a small group that essentially decides the future of the system.

> * Open ecosystem that visible and able to be analysed by anyone (transparent)

That is not necessarily a good thing, the fact that all the transactions are public means that they can be analyzed to identify people, this is bad not for criminals that will use sophisticated anonymizing techniques. But casual users that don't know any better and maybe identified doing either illegal (buying drugs), compromising (paying for sex) or simply being associated with other known users. In the traditional banking paradigm these problems are usually circumvented by using cash, or relying on the institutions privacy guarantees when no law enforcement is involved.

> *Immutable

All these schemes while claiming to be immutable are really not, firstly the last block is always subject to being overridden by a longer chain with more blocks, thus everyone waits for multiple blocks(confirmations) before accepting a transaction as committed, secondly even if the development team / or the majority of the miners does not like a specific transaction they can always revert it, by controlling / or being the majority as was the case with the events that lead to the existence of ethereum classic. So these schemes are not really immutable, they are only immutable when a single users tokens are stolen.

As for me, I don't believe that cryptocurrencies are completely useless. I just don't see why everyone is so excited.
FWIW, the problem wasn't a generalized grid management problem. It was a failure to properly winterize gas plants for rare freezing events. The Texas grid itself is in reasonable shape as far as I know.
The author completely omits any mention of immutability or value storage, instead choosing to characterize crypto as an overengineered scam platform.

Really dubious analysis imo.
Is there a single statement about C# in this piece that isn't a complete falsehood?
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/consortium-japan-fi... this one doesn't mention blockchain. Which gives me hope.

The cozy relationship between the state and the big corps gives me worry, but ideally:

1. Giving everyone a central bank account makes issuing a UBI really easy. That would be great for Japan to boost domestic consumption, and get those hikikomoris some non-shit non-saleryman jobs.

2. If this does eventually displace cash, they can also try out fun things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage which would really counteract deflation in all the right ways but none of the wrong ways.

Ultimately, per stuff like https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300244175/trade-wars-are... the world really needs the big exporter countries to consume more. The world we live in of large trade imbalances is not healthy for the US or the big exporters alike.

I don't think the US has the political will to overcome it's oligarchs and stop the imports, plus the poorer countries that don't even export a lot still greatly depend on our trade deficit to be able to get USD reserves. It is better the big exporters stop "importing our demand" so much, and focus more on domestic consumption (and at least China has stated they want to do this). That will put the pressure on the US from the outside to side-step our failed-state politics.
Not the Debug versions though.
This is absurd. You are confusing Linux distributions with DRM.

Did you not read the last line? You are free to do whatever change you want.

You are also free to use a distribution as it is without having to spend your time handling security, stability and compatibility across applications all by yourself.

Yet you cannot mash together a frankenstein OS while also expecting it to provide security and stability. Not because of a distribution decision but because of reality.
Thank you for sharing in detail why you think the article is so low quality.
What can be stated without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
The reason I am disconnecting those issues is that Bitcoin was never designed to solve the type of fraud you're talking about. There is no proposed mechanism to solve it, because it's outside of it's scope.

It was designed to solve a specific set of frauds related with having a central authority though: censoring people from financial system, seizing your savings from your bank account and debasing the currency for the benefit of the political elite.

Counterparty risk is real, but there are other ways to solve it, besides having a central authority that has the power to revert transactions, which comes with it's own risks.