skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> " This style of thinking is present especially in environmental laws like the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) at the federal level, or the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) at the state level. These laws both require the government to conduct an exhaustive review of government projects—sometimes even permitting decisions on private projects—that might have negative environmental impacts."

There's a reason those laws were passed, and it's because of all the massive groundwater and air and soil contamination problems created by unregulated free-for-all industrial development that have had to be cleaned up at great public expense. Those waste problems are solvable but solutions are often expensive, adding a large percentage onto the end-to-end cost of a manufacturing line for semiconductors, for example:

https://www.epa.gov/superfund-redevelopment/superfund-sites-...

As far as large-scale public infrastructure projects, a lot of that is repair and rebuilding of existing installations (bridges etc.), so there's not as much environmental review there - just a need to devote resources to the task. I suppose a more autocratic country like China (which has rapidly built out high-speed rail) wouldn't bother about EPA reviews, but the air in China can be pretty bad.

As far as doing things quickly? The global supply chain problem is pretty evident right now, maybe offshoring and 'just in time' manufacturing wasn't such a great idea due to its lack of robustness under stress? Critical supply chains should be located domestically. Yes, that would either raise prices or cut profits due to increased domestic labor costs and pollution regulations.
What are some good resources around System Design?
I am looking for resources around system design, in the form of starting describing a problem and the solutions that took to be address (even if that involves discussing cloud provider specifics like AWS services that were used). Any good blog or newsletter?
More cows could be grass-fed. Because the percentage isn’t high, it does not mean we need to stop eating meat, but demand grass-fed cows. In the Netherlands it is pretty common to grain feed cattle, but there are also 100% grass-fed operations. It’s like saying let’s stop driving cars, because the majority run on petrol. No, let’s make cars electric then.
It’s true, and it’s sad to see. A long time high performer on our team based in Germany makes a pittance compared to more Junior US based folks. Alas, I cannot do anything about it.
While private union participation has sharply declined, public unions are still quite powerful and present a virtual lock on substantial changes. Witness the teachers' unions. Particularly, their obstinance during the pandemic and reluctance to providing true school choice.
Why not include testing of a native game, like World of Warcraft or Balder's Gate 3 in addition to testing an x86 game under emulation?

They are making it sound like the performance of an emulated x86 game on OpenGL is the only level of performance you can ever expect.
For a really rough comparison, you can look at the building of the east span of the Oakland Bay bridge. It's also worth noting how many people died while building them. (Disclosure: I've never looked this up or done this comparison myself)
Yes because consumers want to know how the hardware performs for their existing catalog of games, many if not all of which won't be ported? Obviously depends on what you play etc
What you get if you live in the boonies:

"There aren't enough streets in this area. Please select somewhere else"
Thx I laughed. But nobody thought BlackBerry phone sucked except Jobs and his team that's why Apple is multi-trillion dollar company today. The same thing can be said for Gates, Page, Zuckerberg and other computer tech people who rejected conformism and status quo. This phenomena is called Innovator's Dilemma.
We need some free-for-all zones to build new cities. I know with the current political structure it's near impossible, but "Hamsterdam" from the wire ( uhh, sans drugs and killings... ), comes to mind. A libertarian paradise. Perhaps it could start with more landgrants on just a fraction of the massive bureau of land management reserves. Free from entrenched politics of existing cities, these zones, if done well ( technocrats, here's your chance! ) could serve as inspiration for exporting the know-how to the existing cities.
This analysis might seem simplistic to some, but IMO the reason why the Atom text editor failed is because it was built with Electron.
You just gave me your story again, you being able to repeat it has nothing to do with QED.

For the individual there is no contract and no consensus, you just said so. For the individual its do as you are told at the threat of violence.

Differently put, you just repeated a story which with you justify forcing other individuals around.

You not liking this framing doesnt change that.

edit: I am not repeating myself for fun here. Once we agree that your "consensus based societal contract" is code for "forcing other individuals to do as you tell them at the threat of force", we can look at what anarchists actually say and how much better of a story they have.

How much better is "being born into an involuntary "contract" that dictates your actions at the threat of violence" described as slavery vs "consensual contract"?

All completely unrelated to the implications. Facts generally dont care for implications. You not wanting to hear them dont make them go away.
An aside: let these photos be a lesson to us amateur photographers. You don't always need to shoot from a standing position.

I see so many photos of children (especially) where it looks like the photos were taken by a drone given how relatively tall the adult taking the photo is to the child.

I made a point of getting down to my children's level to take photos of them when they were young.

I suppose back in the 1950's or so when people had waist-level cameras we had less of the drone photography thing.
British fighters triggered strike on Ukrainian base after phones were detected
Yeah, I wish I had more power here.
What's weird is how common it was to have completely polluted rivers inside US cities.

And how Nixon needed to make it an Agency first because he didn't want Congress to have a Department of the Environment which would be out of control from the executive.

And how that has shaped the US environmental plans by making it a bargaining chip of the executive rather than a foundational aspect of our representative government.

Disband the EPA and create a Department of The Environment under Congress. Executive Orders do not have the gravitas required for a solid policy.
>Your argument proves the exact opposite of what you're expecting it to

Actually, you're proving my point. The Zimmermann Telegram publication caused outrage and was the main catalyst for why the U.S. entered into World War I. And difference here is that Mexico ultimately decided to not join this alliance (so we didn't invade Mexico), whereas Ukraine announced they'd like to join such an alliance.
REPL* and paredit for Lisp/clojure code.

It's hard to describe in a way that sounds compelling, but once you've experienced it, it's profoundly faster and (therefore?) more joyous than any other dev experience I've had.

* Cider / SLIME for me.
>Memory Stick Classic stores all per-device management info in the Boot Block and in the Backup Boot Block. They are written in the factory and never erased/programmed again. Erasing them both will render a memory stick inoperative and make recovery rather hard, espcially if the data they contained is lost.

This also sounds like Memory Stick flash fraud would have been trivially easy; on SD cards you at least need to know the special private commands to reprogram the SD card controller.
Learn Go Language with Tests
Fallen in love…

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1ux2na/german_wife_...
I never thought about the length in time it takes to build things in the US today when compared to previous time periods in the US.

I had to double-check this but it did really take 4 years to complete initial construction of the NYC subway system; however, what's failed to mention in the article is that a plan was approved to build the NYC system 6 years prior. In total, it took 10 years of planning and construction to actually have an initial system in place.

Even though the author failed to mentioned the planning period in that instance, it doesn't take away from his argument that things are slower today in getting large projects built or renovated due to legal and political structures that stop each of these from happening through procedural delays.

I have a great local example of this. My interstate bridge has been in need of repair for the last 30 years, but nothing has been done of it due to so many groups getting in the way. It's been a nightmare and that bridge is very much needed for the local community to stay as strong as it is. I believe the political will to do anything has vanished out of frustration.
My point is, Duchamp saw it as art, where the creator of the thing did not. So what was the matrix like for Duchamp? I argue he saw something was art, that was not created to be it.
I’ll add one more: there is a strong preference in a large percentage of the population for suburban and rural style homes and light business areas. We build a ton of that and often very quickly. We are very good at building that type of landscape.

The HN crowd tends not to be the target market for this though so it gets criticized and downplayed here.

There has been a shift toward urbanism in the last 25 years though, and prices exploding in the cities show that the market is lagging in satisfying that demand.
Probably due to bureaucratic overhead. Everything needs to pass through ten layers of approval and every bureaucrat plays power politics the whole time.

I was once involved in a small city project, and the town liaison treated the project like we were in charge of the nation's nuclear arsenal. It's mind blowing how something so trivially small can become such a big deal when there are too many cooks in the kitchen.
Regulations took previously externalized costs passed to labor and made them internalized costs to businesses.

A lot of that which is cheap is only cheap because a combination of exploitation that involves externalizing costs and pushing constant pressure on labor efficiency. Every now and then we get gains in reduced cost from a technological innovation where a simpler or improved process is able to shave things off vs passing them on. In these cases, gains tend not to be externalized but instead internalized unless competition can drive the gains to be externalized.
Going bankrupt is a bit extreme in my opinion. A gas line company was infiltrated and held for ransom last year (Colonial Pipeline), yet they are still up and running. In the end, gas went up a couple of cents nationwide if I recall correctly (might have been limited to the east coast?). Company is still in business. The only people that were really hurt was the Main Street.
Trustpilot Extorts Businesses
It feels like what you're going to get out of using it is basically a set of conventions, best practices, rules and tooling support that make doing the right thing (for some specific opinions of right, but I think I share enough of the opinions to leave it at that caveat) the natural and obvious thing to do.

I'm sort of reminded of adopting a formatting and linting stack across a codebase - so long as it mostly makes mostly good choices, the shared conventions are usually a net win overall just because it (a) makes code more accessible across the team (b) gives you a solid default way to resolve a lot of choices.

The whole "can -reliably- figure out which tests need to be re-run" part specifically sounds like it would be a very nice thing to have.

I suspect your biggest challenge in terms of adoption will be the requirement for development group wide buy in to get the full benefits, but that's a problem that's kind of inherent to the goals you're trying to achieve here and so I shall simply wish you good luck with that part.
I failed completely because in my selection (US: Boston/Cambridge) there are multiple streets with the same name like Broadway and First Street, and I always picked the wrong one.
We can't compare ourselves to China when we have a labor participation rate of 160 million and they have 50 million construction workers.
This is one of those reasons why I wish there was an easy mode. There is great value in the games beyond just the system mastery.
Sounds like a heap of clichés, for making a living in France too.

Besides, I'm not sure who you would vote for, no candidate here has a real pro market, small government stance.
I'm aware of that (it was covered already in the press), and it's clear what the slide intended to show. This is standard apple reality distortion field. I work in the field of high performance computing and we know how to interpret a graph that is intended to deceive the naive.
That's hot dipped galvanized steel. The zinc crystal pattern formed on it is a called spangling.

https://www.steelmillsoftheworld.com/activities/datacenter/G...

It shines like that, with only some of the crystals being lit up at a given view and sun angle, from the surface being anisotropic. Light reflects more mirrorlike if it bounces parallel to the grooves in each of the individual crystals, and it is scattered if it bounces perpendicular to the grooves.

I think there's also an oxide layer contributing some iridescence, essentially a thin layer can cause constructive and destructive interference depending on light wavelength and thickness. If the light bounces mirrorlike, then a fraction of light bounces off the oxide surface, and a fraction transmits, then bounces off the metal. Depending on wavelength, these two light packets will interfere constructively or destructively. It depends on how many extra wavelengths the transmitted light travels (which depends on layer thickness, reflection angle, and light wavelength).
That's one of the more dystopian things I've read this week.
See Physical Review D 104 (2021) 124079. Html page is updated.
Germany and France are a pretty bad example to use here.
What about Oh My Fish https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish
Has it been upgated to support new version?
Biggest discussion was on the TomsHardware submission[0] (170pts, 215comments), the verge was also submitted[1], but no real traction (7pts, 2comments).

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30719654
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30715759
This is one of the reasons why any project I work with, I always include pre-commit (pre-commit.com).
The difficulty is part of the artform
I'm wondering if environmental reports could be made faster and for less money? Maybe someone should do a deep dive into that?
the biggest reason is simply financialization, which infiltrates every nook and cranny of our socioeconomic perceptions.

it creates the perception that everyone else is getting ahead of you by hook or by crook (which is true in the minority but not the majority), rather than building stuff for the pride of having done it. that distorts all of our incentive structures for the worse, which is just one of the many adverse effects of financialization (which i define as economic activity focused solely on money itself, which includes most of real estate these days).
Well, they should but apparently these things take time. The level of incompetence in the public sector here in Bulgaria is so obviously mind blowing, it can only mean one thing - corruption.

E-government services speed things up and reduce opportunities for taking bribes. Of course the mob that ran the country since 2009 fought progress on every step.
It's not about PC gaming though, more like the consoles. Apple can absolutely disrupt the market of Sony and MS (not so much of Nintendo). The MSRP of PS5 and Xbox are $399/$499, if Apple can target this segment they would have a field day. The Apple TV already exist and maybe not now but 1-2-3 years down the line they can fit the next generation M1 Ultra there.

BUT you need a very strong game back catalog (see the PS exclusive games and the GamePass on Xbox which is a killer deal). I'm not sure Apple is willing to go that far, just by judging their Apple TV exclusive line up for example compared to Netflix and Amazon. To me it seems they rather have the iOS games on the Mac than have actual AAA games on the Mac. But that might change in the future, who knows.

In the end it's all wishful thinking (or not) but I'm pretty sure competition is only good for the consumer market.
Why is the focus on arable land? Is it that important considering agriculture is ridiculously effective? Imo, any net gain would be offset by the massive energy use needed to offset climate change (in turn creating even more climate change), the destruction of natural habitats (animals won't just up and move to new land) and the unrest from mass human migration (humans won't want to settle that new land, either, instead opting for already developed parts).
Agreed. There is more to soil than dirt, including microbes, fungi, and soil dwelling aerators like worms.

Soil is a miracle of which we are the beneficiaries. Increasing the amount of available land doesn't result in improved soil quality.
The 2nd and 3rd points seem somewhat at odds? How do you balance team discussion with encouraging individuals to experiment and push the boat forward?
So, if I made a GPU that has 1GFLOP (but can never go above that) and uses 0.000001W, would you jerk me off because "tEcHniCaLlY It'S aBoUt pOwEr CoNsuMpTiOn", even though it's wildly inferior, just because you extrapolate that to GFLOPS if it was using 300W ?
You'd expect touch-gesture zoom to still work under pixel scaling though. You'd expect to just see a downsampled image up close, plus normal-looking text up close, right?

Here even the text doesn't zoom.
> I suppose that notion went away _because_ of JS and cookies.

I don't understand what you mean here.

> Looking at it from a business perspective

Which, I suppose, is the underlying problem. In my opinion, the drive to turn websites into revenue generators has had a corrosive effect on the entire web. I suppose that I just have to accept that increasing portions of the web are going to be hostile and to be avoided. It just saddens me, as so much -- perhaps a majority -- of the web is already more of a security risk than I can bear.

> Still, would be nice if most sites would at least render some plain HTML fallback with a bit of info, instead of a single line on a white page saying "this doesn't work".

More info is better than less info, but either way, the page still won't work.
Maybe. It uses the geolocation information Cloudflare provides. In general, it isn't extremely accurate and it doesn't always return the same location, so this doesn't surprise me too much.

If it consistently works in one and not the other (at the same point in time), then the only difference I can think of is that Back Of Your Hand uses their "edge handlers" / "functions" and I made that other URL with their "workers". Hmm.

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Maybe I could inform the user somehow when it cannot find a location at all. I really want to avoid a browser popup asking for the user's location though
Thanks for your response, which I found quite sensible. I think you are right in discussing with employer. I guess it could be overreach that should really be negotiated and fine tuned. I'll have a chat with them and see what they respond with.
Okay, but the frightening part is that this is only true to a point.

And that point is where positive feedback loops dominate at which point it is very much boolean, habitable by humans or not.

But we do not know where that threshold is.

And we may have already passed it.

We just pretend there isn't a real threshold because scientists can't tell us exactly where it is yet so we might as well just keep doing what we've been doing for another 20 years... like we've been using as an excuse for the last 40.
It’s MATH, dammit, speak English! /s
There is already a similar device on the market called a dehumidifier. It takes a fair amount of electricity and costs over $150. I think the core of the problem may be the amount of energy it takes to harvest water vapor, especially in arid conditions. (Likely the areas where the need is greatest.)
No offense but I Honestly think you need a break. You are letting comments and random people get to you.
COVID has definitely slowed down urbanization.
Try mouse without borders if you’re on windows as well - works without login, across multiple borders, with 3rd party mouse buttons and crashes cause quick disconnect.
Thank you so much. I feel so lazy to do anything worst phase in life
Time-travel decision like rr and Pernosco. I’ve heard firsthand stories from developers that found and fixed rare race condition bugs in minutes instead of hours or days. https://pernos.co/
Switched and never came back. Always recommend people to use fish if they're not the "customize everything everywhere to my liking" type.

The defaults of fish are great and common tasks are simple. The for loop syntax was so intuitive I got it right the first time without checking Google (which I have to do every time I write a bash for loop).

Not much more to say I think.
"It's a UNIX system! I know this!"
The problem is that a pure software solution can't distinguish between clock skew and forward/backward relative time differences. Consequently, no such solution can guarantee error better than RTT/2. If your RTT is 2 microseconds, it's impossible to guarantee synchronization within hundreds of nanoseconds without incorporating additional information, regardless of jitter.

Hence my initial question: are they adding extra information to actually achieve those stated goals, or are there algorithms just "probably" better, and in the latter case what are the use cases? Distributed transactions and whatnot are fundamentally broken if your "better" synchronization might still be wrong.
This provides an efficient method for drawing samples from BetaBinomial(n,alpha,beta) when alpha and beta are positive integers. What about when alpha and beta are positive reals, but not integers?

[edit]

What about using two measuring sticks instead of red-coloured and blue-coloured balls? If you pick from the red measuring stick, increase its length by one; and vice versa for the blue one. The lengths of the sticks can be varied continuously. Does this allow for alpha and beta to be arbitrary positive reals?
Research in Visible Light Communication Systems with OpenVLC 1.3 (2019)
Ask HN: What book changed your life?
What book (or books) changed your life? I'm looking for inspiration and would love to hear what and how you were impacted.
golang (from pjmlp's comment here[0])

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"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt. – Rob Pike 1"

"It must be familiar, roughly C-like. Programmers working at Google are early in their careers and are most familiar with procedural languages, particularly from the C family. The need to get programmers productive quickly in a new language means that the language cannot be too radical. – Rob Pike 2"

Sources:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2014/Pa...

https://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article

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[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30696562
Has anyone here used xmake in anger? How did it fare?
BGP Implemented in Go