skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Space-efficient, energy-efficient, and labor-efficient are three different things. A tiny "elderly" farm might create lots of food per square-foot, but only through increased labor. Too much labor and the farm simply cannot produce enough to feed the workers working it.
I think MAUI is in part built on the back of Blazor. They might converge, but I don't think its underlying model is going anywhere.

I don't work at MSFT though, so YMMV? I don't think its going to end up like Silverlight. They seem pretty committed to not back pedaling anymore like that, they know it hurt them so much, at least thats the message I been getting from MSFT developer relations, is an some admittance they really borked their DX by going through such rapid turnover of UI frameworks and such.
China wants its youth to stop giving livestreamers money
It is a helpful marker for fundamental incomprehension of the topic being exposited, allowing us to skip to some other, possibly more enlightening material.
Don't use a css framework unless you don't know how to design or don't have a designer. In my experience, you end up stripping out/overwriting more than the help it suggests it provides.

Also, from concept start to final product, the process is extensive. There are plenty of resources online, but boiled down > start with a concept, research/validation, wires/prototypes, test/reiterate, design exploration, design, test/reiterate, dev, test/reiterate 10+x, release, repeat. Missing a bunch of details and likely steps, but that's the gist.
A majority of the work on M1 was completed before the remote work arrangements started.

(Source: I worked on that project at Apple.)
I notice a big difference between how social workers and social "warriors" talk.

So far, universally, the people "on the ground", doing the work, are very nice to talk to. Informative, understanding, firm, kind.
Here is a source(ish) for the above. On the supply side:

41% Groundwater
36% Colorado River (limited to 2.8 million acre feet annually)
18% In-state Rivers (unlimited)
5% Reclaimed Water

https://www.arizonawaterfacts.com/water-your-facts
I look for something interesting on HN. But, um, it doesn't work all that well if I do it too many times in the same day...
FYI (not just you but generally): one tool that is very useful in this situation is called "DXVA Checker", it checks the DirectX video acceleration modules that are available for the current hardware/driver and then you can compare that against the file ("codec information" in VLC) and see what's going on.

I would hazard a guess that your laptop probably doesn't have a hardware H265, or that the H265 file you're using doesn't match up to the decoder module (eg 8 vs 10 bit, or color space, etc). It is then falling back to software-decode or hybrid mode, and then it doesn't have enough oomph to do the file.

https://bluesky-soft.com/en/DXVAChecker.html
> The entire article is based on online group dynamics over people trying to figure out how to come to grips with historically ignored problems.

You have to ignore quite a lot of history to come to the conclusion that these problems were historically ignored.

> I fail to feel outraged by this process.

Maybe if you end up on the receiving end you'll feel differently?

> Is "White Fragility" without criticism? Probably not, I think it is a fantastic book, but it scares the bejeebers out of some people and we get instagram drama and articles like this which I interpret as another attempt at purity (trying to outsmart "wokeness").

Robin D'Angelo has made some deranged, outlandish assertions, and instead of defending them she simply follows up with more outlandish assertions. I had the pleasure of having a non-white person explain things about "white people" that she'd learned from that book that were patently false.
Highly motivated yes, bright, probably not. He never actually managed to build anything useful. He did manage to designate his backyard a superfund site though. And managed to get arrested for trying to do it again, this time in an apartment building full of people.

If you read through the history of his life, it looks much less like a smart, resourceful person trying to do science being kept down by The Man. It's more like untreated mental illness putting others in danger, and resulting in his premature death.
Weapon swap glitch was also 'fixed'
Us Americans have been brainwashed against unions. We have TV shows portraying "the lazy union worker". We have an entire political party dedicated to talking about how unions raise costs, are corrupt, and have burdensome dues. Any shop in the US that starts talk about unions will hire union busting PR firms and shove anti-union propaganda and fear mongering down employee's throats.

Americans hate unions because big business here has been effective at demonizing them.
In fact it seems to me that overall drones as artillery spotters have been much more impactful than direct fire drones in this war.
The author of the Harper's piece also expanded it into a 2004 book:

https://www.amazon.com/Radioactive-Boy-Scout-Backyard-Nuclea...
Yes, absolutely. Kansai airport and the recovery of New Orleans were to some extent (from an engineering point of view) a Dutch effort.

For instance:

https://nltimes.nl/2017/08/30/new-orleans-turns-netherlands-...

One interesting bit about the Kansai Airport work was that the Dutch advised the Japanese to leave the reclaimed land untouched for a while (20 years or so) so it could settle, the Japanese ignored the advice because they had run the numbers and realized dealing with the damage from the settling was more profitable.

We're cheap, it's a local joke that copper wire was invented by two Dutch traders fighting over a single coin, I think the idea of wasting good materials on unstable ground just didn't sit right with the Dutch engineers but the Japanese had no problem with it at all. I wonder how the Japanese look at this today from a financial perspective.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/how-to-sav...

Edit: I originally wrote Narita, instead of Kansai.
I wish therapy were more accessible and better regulated. You shouldn't have to still be so upset about a normal early adopter experience 27 years later that you unload on strangers like this.
You have clearly never been to any Dutch city. Bicycles are priority #1 even in the most crammed and tight spaces, and thus the distinction between "urban" and "suburban" becomes completely mangled. There's simply places with less space (Amsterdam) and places with a little more space (Almere). Does that make Almere a suburb? Possibly depending on your perspective, but there is nil relation to bicycles.

Now, of course, you could argue that that makes the Netherlands a relatively suburban place in general - the fact that it is one of the most densely populated countries on earth would disagree.
Not literally every time, it has a value threshold (also depends on your previous relationship with the vendor, I guess)

So, for most purchases it just doesn't trigger
progressive water rates. Figure out a decent figure for a person to live on in a decent manner (say 100 gallons, or whatever), then make that 100 gallons super cheap, but go above that and it rapidly gets expensive.
I feel like the unsung winner of Project Loom is going to be Clojure. Its already immutable first data structures, it should be relatively straightforward for the Clojure project to expose the benefits of Project Loom to their ecosystem, as a language its designed to fit well its execution model.
Meanwhile here in the actual actual world, we've seen that inflation is caused by wars and botched pandemic responses, not taking care of disadvantaged people.
If you care about your users don't use cloudflaire.
This is a 227-page book by Richard W. Hamming from 1997/2005.

The link doesn't seem to work for me on mobile. I'm not sure why.

See also https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30
Ah cool, interesting!
The problem is it tried so hard to be a 3D movie that it was lacking in all other area. The movie itself was pretty boring with everything so predictable.

Funnily nobody watches movies in 3d anymore I think? Looks like it was bust a fad.
> You can have progressive water rates.

> You might be able to give water to poor people for free.

This would be a lot more fair. Allocate a reasonably small minimum amount of gallons/month/person and that is very cheap (maybe not free). Then have increasing tiers of expensive and much more expensive usage. If someone wants to have an acre of lawn it should cost them millions a month instead of just thousands as today.

Unfortunately some water systems in California have almost gone in the other direction to discourage conservation. During the previous drought they encouraged conservation and everyone did. Then they complained about not making enough money because people conserved.

Instead of raising the top-tier consumption rates to compensate, instead they raised the base rates by a huge amount (base rate being the flat monthly fee they charge even if you use zero gallons). It's not almost $100/month just to be connected even if usage is zero. So a poor family who conserves a lot and barely uses water is still stuck with a huge bill.
It's odd that the browser supports AC-3 but the MS video player does not unless you pay for the codec, while all the other video players include it.

Going with AV1 is not an option for the vast majority of people as it requires hardware support. If you try using AV1 on a computer that didn't come with a hardware decoder for it, your machine will crawl.

I force h264 in YouTube for this reason instead of using VP9.
That's close to Skyrim remastered requirements and that works ok on an integrated Intel.
It can depends on a lot of factors such as the journaling mode you're using as well as your hardware. SQLite has a single-writer-at-a-time restriction so it's important manage the size of your writes. I typically see very good write throughput using WAL mode and synchronous=normal on modern SSDs.
At around 1h16m, Dr. Rick Johnson talks about how the human body on a high salt diet can convert glucose to fructose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbSic4Oo8ME&t=4590s

If you're eating a high glucose/carb diet, the body will convert glucose to fructose. Enough fructose will switch your body from fat-burning to fat-storage mode => obesity.

Hypertension (high blood pressure) can be caused by high uric acid levels.

Foods high in fructose and purines (beer, anchovies) will increase uric acid.

I sound like a spokesperson for this video, but watch the video for how fructose (and high purine content food - beer, anchovies et al.) causes high uric acid -> high blood pressure and gout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbSic4Oo8ME
NY Senate Bill S5474 proposing a universal single payer health plan for NYers
In India, they have a vibrant Entertainment Industry, and it has a strong cultural tradition, which means that music attracts a lot more people, and they have a pathway to make it a career....

But since Bollywood is the heavyweight, it therefore creates a gravitational effect, where successful musicians tend to gravitate towards the type of music that would better fit Bollywood's needs, instead of taking risks.

And Bollywood in turn heavily promote the music, which tends to drown out all the competition.

This means that for the average Indian, despite having a diverse set of musicians, the usual youtube/spotify recommendations tend to become the "same old".

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Meanwhile, In Pakistan, the more conservative/religious background meant that there was far less cultural acceptance for a career in music. Ofcourse, the old great musical lineages still exist, but the industry has stagnated some what. Cinemas have started to close, and there isn't much a film industry anymore.

Most singers were of the safe "pop" variety that could be played on state owned TV. Any chance of making a fanbase by concerts vanished when terrorists started threatening to attack venues post 9/11. Singers changed industry to either acting in TV dramas, or left it altogether of other ventures. ( You can find Pakistani Rock stars running a dollar store in Scranton or running a radio Channel in Houston)

This mean that there is more risk taking, since most people making music are doing it out of passion, not because they believe this could lead to a career. And they take to social media, and have an equal chance of getting on your recommended list as some one who is already established.

This means that Indians looking for some "fresh" music are getting some interesting choices from across the border, since these tend to not be drowned out by music labels.

Also, now Brands are using the social media scene to make their own channels. Coke, Pepsi, Nescafe, Walls ice cream, heck even Strepsils have their own small music scene, just make a small music studio, hire a house band and invite singers to jam and essentially create a musical ad

I feel that these new programs have now also devolved into a same old routine where singers are now, instead of creating new music and taking risks, are just taking old popular songs and covering them with a new twist, the title of the old song providing an incentive to click.

++++

Still, Pasoori was a good song, it was not just a cover of an old song and it was not just a jam session with the house band, so good for Coke Studio to encourage some thing beyond the routine
This is pretty cool: it's very complementary to the EHT's ability to directly image a black hole shadow... but the EHT can only resolve the shadow of 2 black holes, while this technique could look at many more.

I'd advise clicking through to the paper, this is explained pretty well in the introduction.
There's an area in SE Portland where trains regularly take an hour or more to pass. Many of the streets that get blocked are one-way or really have no alternate once you are on them. It takes the cooperation and coordination of a lots of drivers and vehicles to prevent the effective shutdown of 40+ square blocks when these crossings happen a few times a day.
Artillery has been used by Ukraine, and by a lesser extent by Russia, extremely effectively as a precision weapon against all kind of targets, including MBTs.
Match Group Files Lawsuit Against Google over Unlawful Billing Mandates
The correct way to see this is probably that licenses have already been patented for the existing implementations, and dropping support for future ones means money saving.
> Stop aggrandizing him, it doesn’t take courage to take time off, it takes money. Hypocrites.

This is a fine point to make, and I 100% agree.

But your excellent point is ruined by the obnoxious negativity preceding it. It's obvious you're incredibly envious, and you've allowed your envy to turn you bitter.

But more on topic, there was another thread somewhat recently where I commented a similar thing: There are so many people that rave about how much happier they are once they quit their job and started just doing things they want to do like travel the world and work on projects they deem enjoyable. These people conveniently leave out the fact that they've got a 7-figure savings account to fund their activities. They will literally ask minimum wage workers why they work shitty jobs instead of going backpacking in New Zealand or some shit.
Super cool! Congrats, Ben!

I've been building all of my projects for the last year with SQLite + fly.io + Litestream. It's already such a great experience, but I'm excited to see what develops now that Litestream is part of fly.
In Firefox I just disable all custom fonts and resizing.

> [General/Language and Appearance/Fonts/Advanced][uncheck] Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above
IIRC the punk in the term cyberpunk was not inspired by the musical genre, which Gibson was not particularly familiar with, but of course they both share common origins in referring to a person as a punk.

(and also IIRC at the time the line between punk and new wave was not as clear, patti smith, the ramones, and the Sex Pistols shared little other than an attitude, everything seems clearer in retrospect, it’s a long time since I read londons dreaming or American hardcore or pattis memoir, and anyway, I wasn’t there.)
For what? Their poor city planning?
I watch a lot of YouTube and a fair amount of Twitch. Sooner or later every creator talks a bit about their anxiety working in that content creator grind.

On Twitch, taking a day off may mean losing hundreds of subscribers. Streamers are cautious about taking bathroom breaks since they can lose thousands of viewers during a short break. YouTube ruthlessly punishes creators that don't upload on a consistent schedule. I imagine TikTok and Instagram are similar.

My guess is that Kottke has been living under a similar stress for 24 years. That has got to wear a person down.
I wonder if this from 2016 was the previous 100M hitter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw4tT7SCmaY
> A better plan would be to let the market allocate water. If people want golf courses, lawns, almond trees, microchip plants, etc. let them pay market prices for the necessary water.

Those who use lots of water on such things also have tons of money to spend on it without caring much, or at all. So it won't conserve any water, but it will price out all the poor and middle class people who can't play that game.
Well, Heroku Postgres is more "managed" than fly who basically just hands you some nice tooling to do it your self. I don't think they set up backup for you. For me personally, Point-In-Time recovery is maybe the most important thing about managed PG.

Also worth a mention are the free tiers of the "cloud scale" SQL new kids Planetscale (MySQL/vitess) and CockroachDB (mostly postgres-compatible).

Then there is supabase which also includes a postgres DB and AWS where you can run a small RDS instance free for 12 months.
If they had taken a more organic approach from day #1 I think that could have been avoided, but then the growth would have been much slower. It quite literally feels like a city designed behind a drafting table instead of something that matured over time. And that's not something that you can buff out a few decades later.
Right but DAI is mostly backed by things that aren't pegged to USD like ETH and wBTC.
I've always wondered this about microchip plants and their water usage. They need ultrapure water, so it makes sense that they'd need a lot of water if they're using reverse osmosis systems. However, for every one litre of pure water used, hundreds of litres of water just a shade less pure are produced. Can't this just be resold, since for any other purpose, it's still perfectly fine water.
This has been downvoted, but as someone who has been blogging for 13 and a half years now, I’m sorry you had to deal with that. You did not deserve that discouragement.

I faced discouragement early on when I wanted to get into blogging—in my first attempt, I faced a guy who was effectively trying to cyberbully me—but I eventually found my way in. I’ve been at it ever since. I encourage you to give it another shot, if you haven’t.
IMO, they are focusing on the right thing here. Getting a good virtual thread API GA will be paramount in the decisions around scheduling and continuations in the future.

Maybe a little disappointing for low level nuts and other languages like kotlin, but the right move IMO. Virtual threads alone will be a huge benefit to the ecosystem. The other stuff will help, but won't have near the same impact.
I've sent a note to the team internally asking them to address this.
3,000 gallons a year comes out to 8.2 gallons per day. Seems a bit low. Even a low flow toilet uses 1.1-1.6 gallons per flush.

In my experience, with a family of 4, a lawned landscape is gonna take up about 50-70% of your water use in SoCal. This is based upon living in a couple of places down here.

Also, pools are a giant red herring. A noncovered pool would take up about 5% of that above water budget. Once you cover it it consumes basically no water (once filled).

Note that drought tolerant grasses use upwards of 60% less water than standard lawns. And subsurface irrigation uses upwards of 70% less water. Still not a good idea to have tons of the stuff, but if you want a small patch of it you can do so without blowing the water budget. Most people don't do this though.
Is it just me, or one can’t find this open sourced CW repo?
Tesla FSD Beta 10.11 Is Overly Confident
The various "racefail" episodes over the last decade in science fiction, for one. They were definitely as acrimonious and sprawling as the knitting blowup, but after several of them, they've settled down, no one's been cancelled, and the community seems healthier for it.

As the article's author notes, the knitting community has mostly healed as well. My wife is a knitter so I've followed it more closely than others. Some prominent voices aren't so much anymore; others are more prominent. As the author notes, Nathan Taylor came back and made more money than before, covering his losses and then some.

Contrast that to the "new athiest" collapse that led to two distinct communities. Whether that's for better or worse probably depends on perspective. It only seems bad if you feel a need for there to be a monolithic community. I think the split (which I also witnessed at the time) really did reveal a deep schism in the community, so I'm not sure it isn't better to be two factions divided.
The movie Chinatown was also about California and water.

"The film was inspired by the California water wars, a series of disputes over southern California water at the beginning of the 20th century, by which Los Angeles interests secured water rights in the Owens Valley"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(1974_film)
While the title is about a business acquisition, the article is mostly about the technology itself -- replicating SQLite, suggested as a superior option to a more traditional separate-process rdbms, for real large-scale production workloads.

I'd be curious to hear reactions to/experiences with that suggestion/technology, inside or outside the context of fly.io.
For me too in the 90s it was a lot more ad hoc, with a higher degree of trust in the developers.

I think many people found software quite mysterious. You had to let the wizards perform their strange magic ;)

I think what agile gives us over that world is better feedback cycles.
Safety theatre reminds me of COVID. Why upgrade HVAC it's too expensive, so let's just install plexiglass everywhere because people don't understand fluid dynamics.
People may have different definitions for "urban" and "suburban". Regardless of the words used, there is a huge difference between a city designed for walking and a city designed for people using vehicles (cars, public transport, bicycles).
Commuting is not the only part of work life that has an impact on the environment. It is dramatically less efficient to heat/cool thousands of separate homes throughout the day as opposed to one large office building. Remote work could actually be much worse for the environment.
Isn't option 1 more like compile .NET interpreter to WASM and ship with your dlls resulting in huge download and terrible runtime performance?
"Back in my day..."

Always amazes me how rose-tinted people who supposedly deal with cutting edge technology are.