skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utah may soon become home to the largest artificial island project in human history.

The Utah Lake Restoration Project is a $6.4 billion project, including $2.2 billion dedicated to dredging Utah Lake, deepening the lake by seven feet, and using the leftover sediment to engineer artificial islands in the center of the lake.

“If it was done well, it might make the wind cycles better for people who are living there,” says Vineyard Mayor Julie Fullmer. “It might raise the values of the houses along the lakeshore. I think it would probably draw more businesses toward the area because if you were making those islands more accessible for the lake users, it would draw people to a destination spot.”
"Turns out a good arith coder is much faster". Citation needed.
Great point. I'm starting to look at Africa for that low hanging fruit.
> look more like Syria than first world nation

Serious question, have you actually been to Syria? Can you cite some sources that can prove this comparison?
The Space Above Us – “A podcast about the history of NASA human spaceflight”
GitHub at the UN Internet Governance Forum
It depends on whether or not the move to a less dense area corresponds with increased travel and car use. My wife and I can go days without leaving our house. We have a single car. When we lived in a city, we went out multiple times per day, but it was almost exclusively on foot. We probably had the same number of car trips per week to visit friends, since most of them lived in the suburbs, plus wanting to get out into nature, which we value.

When we lived in the suburbs, in an in-between space, we probably had the highest car use, and life required two vehicles.

So, it's not either-or. There's a spectrum. You can't expect to maintain the same habits and lifestyle in a rural location as you do in a dense urban environment, etc.

Expanding rural access to electric vehicle infrastructure, and re-investing in regional rail would be transformational for these communities, though.
> my idea is basically 4chan minus the bigotry

The idea that you can replicate the lasting success of 4chan minus the bigotry is misunderstanding the specific formula that makes 4chan work.

Part of the reason for the bigotry is as a defensive measure to keep out masses of thin-skinned people (some observers call them normies or NPCs) that ruin forums wherever they go. The types of people who can't mentally handle seeing pointless slurs are precisely the people who must be kept out to keep 4chan successful. And 4chan has mostly thrived for quite a while whereas many once interesting sites have become a bland, corporate morass.

And part of the reason for the bigotry is that reality in many cases is perceived as bigoted. You can't have a forum devoted to distilling ideas down to the truth without seeing bigotry. HackerNews is very successful in talking about technology and many ideas in many respects, but we all know that there's certain topics you can't fully discuss or you have to verbally dance around or risk getting blocked or banned. The pursuit of truth, as successful as it is for discussing many technology ideas, will forever be incomplete on HN.

> plus user profiles and NO KARMA SYSTEM

Another part of the reason that 4chan works is the lack of a user profile system. Unlike most forum systems, there's no way to save posts in any fashion. So the practice that has emerged is that really fantastic posts are saved as images and repeatedly posted. Essentially, the karma system that 4chan has is focused solely on the content.
It also shows that you have to care not only about the dependencies of your application, but also about the dependencies of applications that you use like Elasticsearch.
https://archive.md/XL6Yv
You're thinking like a capitalist, not a 'communitarian' for lack of a better word.

It's hard for me to grasp how people can really even think that way for anything but careerism - I always felt that it would be the perspective of industry, not the the community at large.

Teachers love children, and want to help, that is their vocation and calling.

For most people, money obviously matters, but it's not everything.

Generally, speaking, they are going to view children in worse conditions as a challenge and an opportunity to help, not some 'crap to contend with'.

Surely a few teachers are going to want to 'teach the best students' but that's a smaller cohort.

More broadly, yes, it can probably be a bit depressing to work in crappy schools, but they do often pay a bit extra.

But ultimately, the point is moot, because even if schools do operate 'sub optimally' in the face of non-participation from students, those same schools would pick up as the students did i.e. if you solve for the community problem, the school will be up to the task.

Bad schools are not creating these environments, it's the other way around.

The model for education works fine, just get people stable jobs, stable families, conscientious lifestyles and educational outcomes will go up.
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Someone submitted this a few posts earlier: "The Amazon is turning into savannah – we have 5 years to save it", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29540946

Two sides of the same coin but the groundwater problem seems easier to solve. Not because it is technically easier but because the incentives for (rich countries) seem to be a lot stronger. Preventing the own area from flooding is way less abstract than indirectly caused deforestation somewhere in the world, with effects that will be felt only years or decades into the future.

Without wanting to highjack this submission (the Amazon submission didn't gain traction, unfortunately) but any ideas how this problem could be solved and how one could contribute to a solution?
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I've heard this brought up as a kind of second round of white flight. The middle- and upper-class (primarily) white population is once again moving out of urban centers because telecommuting is something that these high-salary jobs afford them.

I think it will rebound a bit (but not much), as moving from urban to suburban is a very difficult transition, but its even harder going the other way once you've adjusted.

I miss living in NYC, but I'm actually looking to retire in the next few years, and pick up some remote land that I can settle with Starlink, and live off a VERY modest retirement (WELL under a million saved/invested) for the next 40 years. My retirement will look vastly different from my parents, as I will still work (building web apps, games, furniture, whatever tickles my fancy), just not for anyone but myself.
Except that this is not what's happening according to the OP. It's mostly a move from the largest, most expensive cities and suburbs towards smaller, but still high-density cities. Which implies less urban sprawl in general.
RSS users aren’t seem to be concerned with the single most popular way content creators make money: by displaying ads.

While there are RSS-compatible solutions for that (like AdSense in-feed ads), it is obvious that there is not enough financial incentive for content creators and platforms to continue supporting RSS. From consumer perspective, I’m writing this from Safari on iPad, and there is no way to see that RSS is present on the page, neither there is a way to subscribe to RSS without special plugins. Which tells me demand on consumer side also does not justify keeping these features up.

The only reason RSS is alive today is because it’s dirt cheap to implement, and is supported out-of-the-box by most web development frameworks.
As a Portlander, you might wanna rethink that plan if you think standard of living will go up by moving here.
This is in fact how @property works; the declaration is sugar for a pair of accessor methods. The dot syntax is sugar for calling those methods.

#include <Foundation/Foundation.h>

@interface Foo : NSObject
@property (copy) NSString *bar;
@end

@implementation Foo
@end

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
Foo *foo = [Foo new];
[foo setBar:@"Hello, world!"];
NSLog(@"%@", [foo bar]);
return 0;
}
While we have that feature coming too, in short, there are many cases where we want to see the whole world at once. Expanded on this in a comment earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29541230
I grew up in the north suburbs of Milwaukee. Did you consider it? Outside of keeping your kids in the same schools (and the schools north of Milwaukee are great), it hits all the same marks and it’s a LOT cheaper.
>> Fox News though has disappointingly gone off into a fantasyland of crazy opinions.

I guess I took that sentence to mean what I hoped it would mean, but of course you are right...
Maybe check out Mia's Worldmapgenerator:

https://www.worldmapgenerator.com/

The first version of this project is from 2013, this version is afaik from 2017 and covers this topic the best way i've seen.
I have to admit that I don't get it, although I want to. What is an example of synchronicity/meaning-correspondence that Pauli might have suggested?
I recommend using as few tools as possibly so that you don't need such a script.
This article and similar ones have been written at least a 1000 times for the last decade with a clear political tinge. The poster child is always around how people want to move to Florida and Texas. But somehow it forgets to include Washington and Seattle which has probably seen the biggest tech migration and grown into the second biggest tech hub in the country, far greater than Austin or Miami (hyped up constantly). I guess it doesn’t fit with the narrative ? My working hypothesis is that people in general want to live in California like places, if they can afford it.
As an European, I love the American culture. But if you had the European standards on healthcare (The Spaniard one it's great), America would enter in a 2nd golden age.
NewsBlur does (for paying customers for sure; perhaps free users too)
Nothing is wrong with them if 1) you have a specifically suited, niche problem and you understand the complexities and tradeoffs of the tool OR 2) it's not a critical requirement to solve the problem using modern, efficient tools AND you want to use something else for fun or learning or whatever.

If this isn't the case, stay away.
> First, people have been leaving large, dense, expensive urban cores for smaller, less-dense cities and suburbs.

This trend is going to make reducing CO2 emissions even harder.
>containerisation, cloud vendors, cattle not pets, infrastructure as code

Lots of shell script in that part of the code world.
theres wisdom in what you advise, but I think theres one glitch with the wording which might cause a backlash. what you say a "developer" should be doing/thinking, is really not what a software engineer does or should be doing. you're talking about product development. in a small enough shop where a few people must where all the hats, sure one person might be wearing the product development and software engineering hats. in a larger, more established company, they will not.

the vast majority of folks in software engineering should not be thinking in terms of user exitement, or market value or brand positioning etc.

if I were a solo indie entrepreneur/engineer who had to wear all the hats I couldnt delegate to others? heck yes I should follow your advice.

marketing, product design and UX are all incredibly important. but they are not the responsibility, or anywhere in the top concerns, of a software engineer. for the business overall? heck yes
You mention stationary action.

Interestingly, F=ma and Hamilton's stationary action are mutually derivable.

The usual presentation is to show that Hamilton's stationary action implies the newtonian formulation. Interestingly, it is also possible to start with F=ma, and move in all forward steps to Hamilton's stationary action. No additional assumptions are required.

I created a series of interactive diagrams to make Hamilton's stationary action entirely transparent.

http://www.cleonis.nl/physics/phys256/energy_position_equati...

(Of course, quantum mechanics is the overall deeper theory; we assume
that classical mechanics holds good because classical mechanics is a
limiting case of quantum mechanics; at scales large enough that quantum
effects average out the outcome in terms of quantum mechanics converges onto
the outcome in terms of classical mechanics.)
It’s basically a foregone conclusion that the water levels will rise and envelop a large number of properties that exist due to the value of coastal real estate.

Humans, because we are mostly water, love being close to water and seeing water.

The question in my mind is whether we will get a waterworld type situation, or if everything will be left to be destroyed and we will re settle the new coasts.
Even in your paradigm, NAT is a mitigation for a security deficiency of IPv4 (servers get too much visibility into client identity).

Rather than relying on each node to implement "privacy extensions" on its own, I think it makes sense to keep up v6 NAT for outgoing connections. For example, distribute every outgoing connection from a network to be uniform over the full address space + port.

(There may be even better strategies, like emulating a certain number of discrete devices. But you get my point)
> isn't just people optimizing for the size of a house and low cost of living

An important point!

I moved recently to a small village from a large town in the UK mainly so that I could afford a good size of house compared to what I could afford in the town. Despite never considering my self a "city boy", I have found the move very challenging. I initially thought it was isolating because of lockdown but then realised that the pace here is very slow and I find the lack of activity troubling. I just have to get used to driving to everything, something I have never had to do before.
Actually none of that was a factor for the model s, x, roadster or really even the model 3. In both the former and latter case the viral popularity was fueled by the fact that the products were intrinsically good, although flawed, and filled a gap in their respective markets that was neglected by large corporations. The “Elon musk is just a marketing guru” thing is a super annoying misinformation spread by people who only started paying attention to Tesla and EVs in general after Elon musk became famous.
Maybe the squirrel sent in a DMCA takedown?
How to get Google Maps to take action on report?
There's a path/road marked on google maps that cuts directly through my private property. It is not an actual road and I have found people trying to drive through it after seeing it on the app. I've made dozens of edit requests over the years to have it removed but google has not taken action or responded. Any tips?
Tell us how it goes. My channel was taken down for the same reason. A private video of a friend singing was marked as hate speech and my whole channel was wiped for it. I never got it back, no matter how many emails I sent.
They have a source link at the bottom. It's MIT's Technology Review. Here's the full-text archive: https://archive.md/cpEXX
The Collapse of the Critique of Biopower Under the Weight of the Pandemic
+1. Walkability is the main thing that keeps me in the city. A very large part of me wants to go back to the suburbs, rent a house, have a yard, garage -- space in general. However, every time I actually visit someone in the suburbs, the long drive there, watching things get more and more spread apart until it's just strip malls, grocery stores, and subdivisions, really saps the excitement out of having more space for me.
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I'm also sure a small percentage of people from the USA may even rethink living there.
I think your last paragraph is interesting and the crux of the question. I think all else equal that people will prefer detached homes. But I also think that all else is not equal; there is a trade-off between that and access to amenities without driving. I think a smaller but still large set of people place high value on that. Large townhomes with nearby amenities (restaurants, libraries, coffee shops, work spaces, schools, parks, rec centers, etc.) could be a sweet spot for a large number of people.
we do, it's called kaiser and it's amazing. it's unlikely they will replace the more rapacious alternatives, however.
Depends on many factors but brackish groudwater does exist near coastlines either naturally or via intrusion from human over pumping. Example of the latter from LA: https://www.wrd.org/content/regional-brackish-water-reclamat...
I've found lenses to be a reasonable way around this issue, so I'm not too uncomfortable with nesting records. If you're interested, I wrote a bit about that here[0].

[0]: https://jezenthomas.com/how-i-write-elm-applications/
Yes, and it's an increasing problem for coastal communities.

https://www.miamidade.gov/global/water/conservation/saltwate...
I think the point of this change is you can now make a personal decision based on factors other than your commute.

I want to also note there is a lot in between a dense neighborhood and having no people around.
It's serious, the person you replied to is talking about how to revive a dying _thing_. Whether you want to call it a spec or a brand or a product does not really matter in this context, RSS has elements of all three. Their point is that trying to get people to change their minds on RSS is going to result in wasted effort, and that if you want RSS to live you need to market the hell out of a functionally equivalent replacement to the spec that appeals in some way to the relevant decision makers.
To work along side them, we are really just thinking about the collaborative decision making bit. We do have document editing built-in (WYSIWYG markdown editing), but issue trackers for example, backlogs, kanbans would still be in place for _doing_ work.

I can imagine replacing Slack, for the right team. We are a small team, but internally we use our own app (all the time) plus Google Chat (rarely, for quick pings).
Malice hat:

Maybe bots are trying to muddy the waters of legitimate take down requests by flooding support with fake ones.

Incompetence hat:

Maybe YouTube’s abuse detection is broken.
Oh shoot. It's just a static page hosted on Netlify, wonder why is that.
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Narendra Modi's Twitter account hacked with Bitcoin promotion
There was a big study a while back that showed something like only 30% from out of state?

The tricky is they had an expansive definition of "local": they were measuring where people most recently became homeless, which means almost any housing in SF for almost any amount of time meant they counted as local.
I've no affiliation to this podcast, just a fan, for reasons I thought HN'ers might appreciate.

It's written/hosted by a systems engineer and a spaceflight enthusiast; has tight production with no ads; and often focuses on interesting or obscure aspects of space and shuttle technology or operations, that are often relatable to the world of (more terrestrial) software.
Exactly. People think it is modular and such a great thing to do, but it is not. Maybe it just has to do with flexing. How many libraries do you have? I have 9000! And then in reality it is just one function per library. Or... I have no idea why they think that this is a good thing to do. Can anyone in favor of having "isOdd" function as a library tell me?
I personally am happy that many people are eager to leave California and many more are actively discouraged from moving here. We've got plenty, thank you, and all are welcome to believe that this is a terrible state covered in syringes and human feces. I'm almost willing to believe it is deliberate propaganda by people who love California and have no intention of ever leaving.

That said I have no idea why people cannot separate the Bay Area from a state larger than many countries. So be it. I'd rather live in Fresno with its easy access to the Sierras than anywhere in the South.
that only applies if the squirrel holds the camera and takes the shot itself.
This is a great example of RSS being useful while almost no one realizes is. People have podcast players. There are podcasts. They subscribe to them. RSS is the technology behind the scenes that powers it which almost no one notices.

I bet that most podcast listeners don't know what RSS is or how it impacts their ability to listen to podcasts.

Podcasts also present a different problem from most news. People want to listen to a podcast and know about episodes. A platform can't easily come in and alter the flow of episodes coming without consumers noticing and being annoyed. This works for RSS.

With other news the aggregating platforms want to manipulate the flow of information for their benefit. If I look at my home in Twitter I might see posts from hours or days ago at the top. It's about engagement and they manipulate the order and display of posts to aide that. Their business model doesn't fit well with RSS as a backing technology.

Note, I can't stand the manipulation of my news feed. I just understand the business and other factors behind it.
You're decamping for Portland? You're in for a surprise.
No, I don't think so. JSX is too proprietary and not specified well enough. It is also rather ambiguous.

If you want a "no compile" JSX:

```jsx

const x = <div color="red">hello</div>;

// is the same as

const x = h("div", { color: "red" }, "hello");

```
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It's not just SF that gets bussed in homeless but many cities throughout America.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...

This article is several years old but does a good job illustrating where people are moving to and from. It's also not any local government policy to bus homeless people to other cities. Most of the time it's family and friends buying them tickets.
Between this, paywalls, and a lack of interoperability between messaging services, I feel like the internet has become a bleak place.
Hmm, interesting. I live in the East Bay (Walnut Creek) and spent a weekend in Healdsburg. Eating at Single Thread, drinking at Marin Layer, and staying at H2 hotel at the plaza. Seemed to be like SOL has gone up 10x over the last 10 years
My family moved out of NYC during the pandemic. We have a young kid and a dog - so finding a spot which had more space was imperative (given that both our gigs were remote).

The few factors for us :

* Is the neighborhood family / kid-friendly ?
* Is it comfortable ?
* Does it have space ?
* Does it have some of the conveniences of a city (not a cut-off remote suburb)

We moved to TX to be closer to family and it checked all of these boxes. That being said, I don't think we have it in us to do another relocation unless forced. It was painful to execute and I can only imagine it gets harder when you have deeper ties in the neighborhood/city with kids/family
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Different people value different things. You prioritize your kids school and proximity to important destinations and so that neighborhood makes a lot of sense.

When your kids move away after college, does that change the calculation much for you? Both of my kids are away at college and so I'm looking at where I live and what kind of life I want and am leaning more and more to moving further out of the city (I'm already in the suburbs).
I'd go South if the politics start to blue-up. I figure if this trend holds as the article says, by the time I'm ready to retire there will have been two censuses. I care about social justice, local produce, and warm weather. The south has 2 out of 3.
thanks! don't know how I missed that
This article is mostly paywalled, but the scientists involved have an excellent site for resources and more information for those more curious

Policy Brief (smallest summary) - https://www.theamazonwewant.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/S...

Executive Summary (more indepth summary) - https://www.theamazonwewant.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/S...

All Releases - https://www.theamazonwewant.org/scientific-literature/