skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm 51 years old. I built one to stop bank erosion in a stream at a change in level and direction at my parent's house about 30 years ago. All units are fine. They sit at least 1/3 height in water all the time and have soil/subsoil behind. They have a thin pour of mortar with gravel on top to make a path and have integrated into the bank and grass.

Galvanized steel is surprisingly rust resistant and that's the key. These gabions do get quite a bashing when it rains hard. The stream in question is in Devon, Woodbury (Salterton), near Exeter (UK), which is popple land. Popples are rounded stones found in the streams thereabouts. They make ideal gabion fill. They also destroy things downstream if the flow is fast enough to rouse them!

That's one case study that I've chosen deliberately to show that they work for DIY.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25449748
How do you play with other people? I'm confused, but happy to see a hosted SSH application in 2021! Wanna see more of these.
My interpretation of this article is that staying in bed is the only safe option.
Lots of money, easy target, and cognitive dissonance collapse focusing blame on the medical establishment.

CIA are notorious drug traffickers, the military industrial complex started a forever war in a region known for farming poppies, and then several years later we had a heroin epidemic. The market shift to fentanyl made it nice and easy to wrap up as a singular problem, and then blame it all on prescription abuse.

I feel fucking sorry for people suffering chronic pain that are getting shut out of proper medical care these days. I'm just thankful I was able to get enough pain meds when I was taking care of a family member dying of cancer. Some of the doctors would get a bit defensive when I talked specific drugs (I'm the primary provider of pain management, you idiot). But the oncologist gave me a nice big bottle of no-acetaminophen non-time-release before discharging, and so I never ended up in a desperate situation.

I've still got some left over that I'm holding on to, because access to essential medicines without totalitarian policing or wealth stripping is a human right.
Is it really that frequent? Or does it just feel huge cause it owns so much?
> I completely agree with you regarding museums holding large collections which they do not exhibit; in fact, I think it highlights how a sort of 'George-ish' tax on paintings might be helpful!

I'm not convinced; after all these collections are often already in public ownership. If there was something more beneficial to the public to be done with them, one would hope that would already be happening.
It’s amazing that the scale of sales is so large that they had years of meetings over the plastic wrap on the boxes.
I feel like nobody in this comment section read the interview and just started spouting off about their love/hate of PS.

He covers almost every point discussed here and then some.

Fascinating read, way more interesting than the small religious squabble here.
From my discussions with current SPD personnel, the SPD itself is doing a stop work protest. Money In doesn't mean Services Out (MISO), it only reaffirms the thuglike nature of our relationship with the police.
It's like that old screenshot of the "Boycott Modern Warfare 2" Steam group where everybody is in game: playing modern warfare 2.
To be fair, that’s the case for almost all scifi - and that’s not a bad thing :)
> because they're based on voting

All voting systems require protection against Sybil attacks. The best methods to protect against Sybil attacks are centralized. The not-best methods use proof of work, which has extreme downsides and only makes Sybil attacks expensive, not impossible.
PowerLink Gas Generator 250kW -G99 Certified
A PowerLink Gas Generator with a PowerLink engine successfully passes its first Energy Networks Association (ENA) G99 Test. Project is installed at a factory based in Leeds, offering 250KW power supply to facilitate main machineries and other electrical equipment. Any surplus power being produced will be going towards the grid, generating value to stakeholders.

G99 is a new engineering recommendation set by the ENA, building on the previous G59, which came into effect on 27 April 2019. All generating equipment that is connected to the DNO or IDNO must comply with the new requirements.

Passing the G99 witness test is a positive hands-up towards the PowerLink’s capability of meeting engineering recommendations, this means that we can now supply more generating units the UK for grid-connected project. Helping our clients to meet such requirements and being satisfied is what we like to offer!
Urbanists are extremely critical of the type of zoning that plonks suburbs in the middle of nowhere away from cities too. "R1 Zone" is practically a swear word.

Mixed-use zoning is much more effective. We do this in Europe, it's pretty nice being able to cycle to work and walk to the shops (not that I cycle to work personally, but almost all my jobs have been within cycling range).
Simple, then don't have that work be part of enforceable code.
Love the last few lines.
The 3DS isn't really a "failure". It still sold 70+ million units. Only in comparison to the 150 million of the DS is it a failure. Both Wii U and 3DS have some fantastic exclusives (although most of the good ones on Wii U ended up Switch or 3DS or both).

Super Mario 3D Land and 3D World are IMO the two best 3D Mario games made, 3DS has a trio of fantastic Fire Emblem games (granted one is a remake but for English audiences not really), excellent JRPGs in stuff like Bravely Default, SMTIV, Pokémon X&Y, Mario Kart 7 and Smash were as good as always and LoZ: A Link Between Worlds is really good. Yes, there was plenty of ports and remakes but they were ports and remakes of great games made portable like Ocarina of Time 3D, DQ7 and DQ8, etc.

Wii U had great exclusives like Mario Maker, Bayonetta 2, the aforementioned Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8, Breath of the Wild, Hyrule Warriors, Splatoon, Pikmin 3, Xenoblade Chronicles X, etc.

My bet is you have more fondness for the Dreamcast because you spent more time with it. Wii U was a fantastic system and still is.
It's also a major problem for many extensions, since ServiceWorkers (can) get killed every 5 minutes. No talk of a solution, just people trying hacks.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=115225...

Example of breaking long-runnng classroom extensions used in education: (comment 63) https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=115225...

And breaking a simple image picker: (comment 36) https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=115225...
That's what commuter light rail is for, is Strong Towns against that?
Global outages or reductions in service quality are very rare these days. Regional outages happen from time to time but are not very common. Local outages are frequent, but irrelevant -- the Internet is meant to be resilient to local outages, which presupposes that local outages are a common concern. Obviously if you shrink your scope enough you will be able to say problems happen regularly -- considering only the connectivity in my home there are many incidents each year.

The most significant incident in recent memory involved a severed fiber optic line in New York City earlier this year, which affected the US Northeast in various ways. The impact was relatively short-lived, and despite living and working in NYC I was not personally affected at all -- even though I use Verizon FIOS and the line in question was operated by Verizon (a testament to how resilient Verizon's own network is). That is the mark of an extremely robust system -- a major, overly-centralized component (one cable carrying many supposedly redundant links) is destroyed and the effects remain highly localized and the impact is not universal even within the local area.
> in 2008, then the haunting words "too big to fail" were used by both Obama and McCain

I don't believe those words were spoken by Obama in 2008, except possibly to criticize the idea.
That has been exactly what I experienced.
The documentation literally says that the results may be incorrect, not to mention documenting that it enables a flag with unsafe in its name.

I feel like a lot of programmers just type stuff and assume if it compiles it should ship.
> Look at the LA times report on the the Torrence police department. A substantial number of officers were texting klan like message and bragging about racially profiling and lying about it.

LA also has a serious problem with cop gangs[1] that have murdered people.

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/los-ange...
Any commercial aviation? I mean, google’s project wing involved drones delivering packages.
While I agree with this statement, it's also incredibly sad to read.
The training is effective.
Yes, communicating intent to other programmers and our future selves is hard, so let's not do it.
Why not use both? twin.macro is an excellent library that compiles Tailwind (and adds additional, useful variants) in systems like Styled Components and Emotion, so you gain the benefits of quick component creation, but the same pleasant maintenance of colocating utilities and styles/classes/objects composed of these utilities with your components.

It's been an absolute dream in a decent-sized project so far, and even with some refactors.

Regardless, it's not everyone's cup of tea, but depending on the UI framework of choice and the flavor of CSS you use, YMMV when it comes to dev experience.

In Vue or Svelte, I wouldn't even use a CSS-in-JS solution because vanilla Tailwind to compose utilities into localized classes is a straightforward approach.
But not human readable, so not a replacement for DNS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
On work computer, I use qemu to run arch & sid qcow2 vms, with whpx acceleration you get near native performance
For networking
You can use open vpn tap and a bridge to access guest from host
This is obviously not ideal if you don’t have 8gb ram and don’t want linux gui
With a wm like dwm and firefox running qemu takes up about 1.5gb ram
> What is a legitimate reason for a logging library to make network requests based on the contents of what is being logged

I encountered a similar problem recently, my own logger can get the current container/pod IP address, it's painful to tell which host from the IPs in logs, so I had to do a manual DNS lookup to include a hostname instead. I was hoping the logger could automatically do a lookup and cache it for me.
Most current Minecraft server versions as well as clients are vulnerable (to RCE).
I for one, am not going to blame it on an actual wealth gap. Shows like "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" and "MTV Cribs" were around long ago and didn't cause financial angst. Probably because watching a weekly tour through some poorly decorated Beverly Hills mansion wasn't that big of an influence. We knew that a fair number of the homes were staged and the musician didn't live there (from how awkward the "tours" were). [0]

However, we usually watched those shows with someone around us (family/friends), but social media is typically consumed while alone and no one else is there to laugh at the absurdities. If the people in their feeds aren't explaining that all the new clothes, cars, houses, and so on were given to them for free by their sponsors - that may be the real problem. Resulting in a perceived wealth gap.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ-Z7aFgDPk
Fall Bulletin: package management, e-books, AGPL, and more
AAP Sues to Block Maryland, New York Library E-Book Laws
Go Coverage with External Tests (2016)
Sugar is natural, so many animals live on sugar, it is just a quick cheap energy storage medium so you find it in most plants and milk produced by animals. The only unnatural and bad part about modern sugar consumption is how much of it we are able to distil and consume.

Also people could live on sugar 50 years ago as well, but people weren't fat then. However smoking still killed a ton of people even 50 years ago when they lived a healthier lifestyle, smoking is just plain bad, sugar isn't.
Have you ever tried to walk to a mall from where you live or work?
Read the username.

We can't be certain, as with most conspiracy theories, but there are regulations against it so there would be ramifications if/when it came to light.
Building? I was discussing cars.
Historians generally don’t call it the “dark ages.”

Moreover, it’s inherently ridiculous to look at the progress of science and technology on some sort of linear path from less technologically advanced to more technologically advanced.
Bus systems can work well to move commuters to rail-based mass-transit that bring them into the city. If the suburbs sprawl too far out, you can also plop down park-and-rides at the terminal stations of the mass transit system.

Why do you specifically need to drive and park at the exact location you're going to, especially when the land cost of the storage place of your empty car is prohibitively expensive (as they tend to be in urban CBDs)?
Your entire reply to me (sans the first two sentences) would have been a much better reply to the OP because it clearly states your skepticism to the claim but signals you are willing to change your mind given a certain type of evidence. That is something I will always respect.

This is much better than your coy ploy, which resulted in an edifying digression into what the quaint term "weasel words" means (though I actually did 'lol' at the realization we're probably of the same generation).

Finally, I sincerely apologize because I am sort of picking on you (but really picking on the maneuver) because I am so generally nauseated by what I consider an all-too-frequent conversational rebuttal that results in tedium rather than light shed on the matter.

edit: I saw that you were down-voted, so I up-voted you. I think you have a valid point of view (though I may not agree) and I see no reason why anyone should be down-voted for dissension, especially when you lay out clearly what it takes to change your mind.
It hardly matters. Once the button is pushed, there's no one left to care who pushed it.
Does anything actually use the ANE? I've had asitop on vanilla M1 running and have literally never seen anything use it.

This may be a dumb question, but would the space not be better used for more GPU cores? Then if an app actually does need to do neural net stuff, just use the GPU anyway? This way you wouldn't have the space the ANE uses idle 99.9% of the time.
Looking at all the comments in here, I don't think you are wrong here.
When I'm reading/looking at the news from Portland, "safer" is not the first word that comes to my mind. But in this particular case, what I meant is that Austin government has always been very liberal/left leaning, and considering it a typical representative of Texas would be wrong.
Bit of a cognitive dissonance between journalists and Halo fans. Shocker.

I've played Halo since Combat Evolved on Xbox, and played in the test flights of Infinite and was playing more last night. The core of Halo Infinite is good. But the release is not a triumph. Pretty much everything outside of the core game loop, in my opinion, feels half thought out. From the incredibly limited number of maps considering the 6 year development cycle (a greater duration than between Halo 2 and Halo Reach), to the universally hated battle pass progression system (even amongst players who were new to the franchise whom I watched on Twitch), unreasonably expensive armour customizations, three launch playlists, very buggy campaign experience, no Forge. The list goes on.

They had a lot of time to get this right, and as far as the feeling when you play multiplayer goes, they nailed it for the most part. But only if you happen to like any of the 6 maps and don't mind being forced into an incredibly narrow selection of game modes.
> I'm talking about a hypothetical. We have a list of problems such as theft, drunk driving, speeding, people in mental health crisis, domestic violence, crowd control, etc. In the hypothetical situation where we have all of these problems, but we don't have the police and never had, do you honestly think we'd assign all of these duties to one position?

Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who think that those problems should be beaten into submission by the state.
> I wonder when the (Halo 2) mantra of "throw em in a room with mountain dew and doritos until they have a banger" stopped working

It's arguable that it's more surprising that this happened to work the first time than that it wasn't repeatable
how do you do, fellow kids?
The Federal Government Is Embracing Telework. Can D.C.’S Economy Survive It?
I had a popover subscribe modal popover another popover subscribe modal the other day. Felt like a jackpot. Never left a site so fast.
>Who "wins" when we shift our building patterns towards Urbanism? Aside from everyone who gets to live there, of course. I feel like big political changes like this don't happen unless someone who stands to gain is busy lobbying to make it happen. And I don't know what, if any, entity stands to gain a lot from building pedestrian-friendly, dense, beautiful cities.

You may be interested in a policy the UK government is considering:

https://policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Strong-Subu...

The idea is to let small groups of residents (a single street) vote to loosen planning restrictions in specific ways, allowing for incremental intensification of suburbs.
> It now lets you recover all of your money too

Just the PIN? Or do you need control of the phone number associated with the account?
let's go to horse's mouth..

https://ticdata.treasury.gov/Publish/mfh.txt
Companies pay taxes on profit, not revenue. Otherwise capital intensive industries like banks and oil companies would be screwed.
Plenoxels: Radiance Fields Without Neural Networks
I imagine that approach would result in 0 eligible women! :D
Yes, there is a right way to do it. But in the code I've seen in the wild, people are often not doing it right and those 80 char strings of utility classes are on the low side compared to some of what I've seen. I'm skeptical of Tailwind not for its own sake but because a lot of (most?) shops do not have the discipline to use it effectively. And what you are arguing here is basically a no true Scotsman defense.
Sure, I'll acknowledge that that could fix this problem. My complaint then becomes that they want to make everywhere hostile to drivers before commuter light rail gets built, when there's a chance that it never will.
Inner-city malls are awesome for this— think the Toronto Eaton Centre which literally has a subway station at each end of it!

But yeah suburban malls which are surrounded by an ocean of parking? Terrible.

And not a lot of downtown malls / department stores have made it through the past three decades. High cost of space and low value add vs online shopping are a tough combination to be up against.
> makes it more convenient to through traffic

Yes, and this is a bad thing. The point of streets is to disincentivize through traffic, so that people can actually enjoy being outside in their neighbourhoods without worrying about getting hit by a motorist.

Well-designed cities don't rely on 18-wheelers being able to pass through their suburbs. In fact, they design to prevent that. Instead, an arterial road network allows overland shipping traffic to arrive and terminate at industrial hubs and big-box stores within cities; whereupon cargo is then transshipped onto "street-sized" delivery vehicles for last-mile delivery to homes and retail shops.

Logistics architectures designed before the advent of stroads still work this way, even in stroaded cities. For example, USPS: big trucks between hubs; little slow-moving trucks for the last mile.

> a bit of compromise to ease of crossing

Perhaps "a bit" if you're imagining the goal of a pedestrian is to commute. It's not too bad to cross a stroad once a day to get to and from a train station, sure.

But many of the worst stroads, exist in place of streets in what could and should be outdoor shopping malls, transforming them instead into strip malls. "A bunch of businesses on either side of a busy road" does not invite browsing. If the goal of the businesses in that area was to congregate together to achieve the sort of back-and-forth "let's go to X while we're here" foot traffic that a popular mall receives, then the "elevation" of a street into a stroad basically ruins the whole premise.

And, of course, there's the stroads in residential areas, where in cities where these were laid out as streets, children would literally be allowed to play in the street — not crossing, but using the street itself as a place to be present in — because traffic was going at a reasonable speed to react in time to stop if they saw children playing. Today, that safe speed is reserved for "school zones." Why should the area around a school be safer for children to be present in than the area immediately outside your home?

> not even particularly much detriment to walking on a single side.

...if you trust drivers. Stroads put sidewalks in the middle of what, on a road, would be the ditch area for cars to roll to a stop on when they're out of control. On a stroad, the cars aren't going much slower (for a few minutes, between stoplights), so cars still need that ditch area. But on a stroad, that ditch area has people walking in it. Bad idea, no?

...and if there aren't features like overpasses as part of the stroad, where all pretense of pedestrian access — especially accessible pedestrian access — is usually forgotten.

...and if it's doesn't snow where you live. Stroad sidewalks are rarely de-iced the way the stroads themselves are. In fact they're often iced — snowblowers taking ice and snow and blowing it off the stroad and onto its vestigial sidewalks.

(And don't get me started on non-separated stroad "bike lanes." Often sharing the same space as parking cars, cars turning into cross-streets, or worst, the suddenly open doors of parked cars.)
To be fair, Firefox is the most popular of the 3-4 browsers that lets you install addons on Android. So the fact that the process is convoluted and tedious is less important - at least there's a process.
Fugitive in crowd? US Marshals seek help in identifying Los Angeles Dodgers fan
"significantly limit privacy"? You either don't know what this change does or find it "significantly more private" when an extension developer has full read / write access to your web requests
The method that they're exploiting is akin to printf("whoops this is a format string"). The right way to handle user input in one of these is log.error("here's my user-provided input: {}", userInput) rather than log.error(userInput)
All candidates are by definition, candidates. Someone who you might be willing but they aren't, is not in the set of candidates. IE they have no bearing on this at all.
But those suburbs already exist. What should we do for all of the people who already live in them? (And keep in mind that there's usually a good reason that people chose to not just live in an inner city in the first place.)
> "Stroad" seems to be a new made-up word by strongtowns

Thank you! I clicked the link and then scrolled through several top-level comments thinking that either this was some sort of internet joke that I wasn't previously aware of or I somehow managed to not learn word that everyone else has always known.
Ask HN: How to use my dev abilities to harm companies that try to break strikes?
All within the confines of the law of course.
I guess we have to agree to disagree. In order to get Apple to stop their behavior, you either have to regulate morality and go beyond not just buying their products, but forcing others to not buy them either.
Yes it can. One example is the Juno app in the Apple App Store, which provides a very mobile friendly interface to hosted Jupyter notebook services. The same developer also has a similar app that provides offline support. I’ve also put effort into making my implementation of Jupyter in Cocalc somewhat mobile friendly…