skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's the same awful suburban sprawl as most North American cities

That's why I don't live there anymore. The Earth is bigger than North America.
Make the tax higher then.
But, but... where would all the Scrum Masters go?!
I would think it would be in the retailers best interest to require an online account in order to sell a console as well. Scalpers don't stock up on physical games unless they're limited edition. It's in the retailers' best interest to get physical people in their doors.
Would this make the Digital Yuan more banned than Terra or Ethereum?

That would show the true colors of how much of America's liberalism (e.g. free markets) is conditional on free markets being favorable for American hegemony.
The law in question is about restrictions around sex education. If I understand what you're saying, restricting these curricula leads to discrimination against LGBTQ people. This implies that LGBTQ people have some disproportionate need to talk about sexuality with young children which isn't a good look from my perspective.

> What that law actually say is irrelevent here, don't you agree?

No, I think the opposite is true. Just because a group of activists make up a slogan for a piece of legislation doesn't change what that legislation is, and the wording of the legislation is indeed the actual power behind the law. Any violence or discrimination that stems from any law is abhorrent and unconstitutional.

> if anti-LGBTQ people (mis)understand this law as a pass from the local government to beat up gays, it makes the state more dangerous. So to avoid for conferences.

Agreed, and if it indeed is dangerous culturally that is a much deeper problem than legislation and won't be fixed by legislation (all of that is already illegal).
It’s not that easy; read up on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Resource_Protection .
Thank you for this comment.

It's been a long process but I hope whatever job I end up at next is something new or different from my previous experiences.
I took pandemic time to learn some knots, and then forget a bunch of them that didn't offer enough distinct utility to me. I highly recommend the Farrimond Friction Hitch: https://www.animatedknots.com/farrimond-friction-hitch-knot

It's simple and fast to tie (with a little practice for muscle memory), and with an extra turn has exceptional friction preventing loop collapse in some situations where even a bowline would have an issue. However, by relieving tension on one side of the knot, like a taut-line hitch it can slide.

I use it for its common application of tensioning, but I also find it useful for cinching. It can go anywhere a cord lock might have been useful in but a few seconds.
Also, when you pick a place to move to in this huge country, "it's not that bad" isn't going to be chosen, even if true.
Honestly, I'd rather just pay the money directly than do all of this BS.
We already have enough population to maintain said economy of ideas, it's more about maximizing the population beyond the bare necessity.

Companies have actively been trying to make intellectual and/or creative work streamlined so they can reduce risk factors and swap out the old cog for the new one. They benefit from the increased competition so long as we don't unite against the status quo, which is also why automation is a potential disaster if we don't rethink our ways.

This is not to fight against skilled immigrants making an effort to keep things at peace while carving out their place, no. But we've seen this scenario unfold a few times now with different things, and it turns out companies tend to be the main benefactors at the cost of everyone else already in the market, and quite a few people entering the market. That cost should be transferred to the richest people, not to the working class with less and less breathing room to spare. Both have to be tackled at the same time.
Current day USA is the love child of South Park and GTA. You can't even parody it properly anymore, because it's become a continuous self-parody.

And best/worst of all, its inhabitants don't even notice.
Same here. It feels out of place, unnecessary and its rationalization unconvincing. Considering Python, an outright weird suggestion.
The 8086 couldn't properly run C unless you were willing to limit yourself to 64KB (or three times that, if separating code, data and stack didn't hurt your application). To use the full address space you had to use non standard extensions such as "near pointers" and "far pointers" (Microsoft) or "@" as an alternative to "*" but for the ES register (QNX). On the other hand, the addressing modes using the frame pointer were really great for Pascal. Segments didn't bother Pascal at all and even on the 68000 based Mac, which had a C friendly flat address space, the system software pretended to have segments.

Growing segments from 64KB to 4GB was enough to allow the 386 to finally run the same C software as other processors like the VAX or 68000.
Apparently it came and went and I never understood what it was.

My team meets regularly are we scrumming? We ship quickly and iteratively, are we agile?
If you want to be absolutely right, overthinking is necessary.

If you want to be productive (while being 80% right), it isn't.

I've spent my (short) life overthinking and being "right" about things, but I've noticed that people that don't overthink and just go for something that's just kinda right have better results than me.

Maybe in the upper echelons of achievement (Elon Musk and friends), overthinking is necessary, because they've already used other resources (like, actually doing things) to the point of diminishg returns, and then overthinking can become a competitive advantage.

For the remaining 99.9% of us, actually trying things, even if not 100% right, is better, I think. I'm personally making an effort to reduce my overthinking.
> hellish landscape where cars are the norm for getting to the work or picking up groceries

To each their own.
Sony is losing a lot - their customers are paying a huge "tax" on top of their product price and Sony gets nothing of that.
I like the idea of "MAYA". Most Advanced Yet Acceptable.

I worked in R&D and it was something that I understood well when it was about other people advanced concepts which came too early. Unfortunately I never was able to understand that for my own ideas.
For some house size is less important than have more to do outside the home if city entertainment is to your liking
because the oil companies bribed congress to require that cars be large and heavy enough to provide better safety...coincidentally, that decreased gas mileage a lot and increased oil demand...totally a coincidence...the oil companies pay congress to prevent small vehicles from being sold in america
I went to a mid tier undergrad and was easily among the smartest. I went to mit for grad school and was… still among the smartest although the bar was much higher. Luck factors into a lot of things. But the top decile of every school is probably great. The bottom decile is probably totally uninterested in learning.

It’s the median that’s interesting. My undergrad median was deeply disappointing. Couldn’t write a simple paper. Literally did not understand how to construct an argument.

Grad school median was solid and impressive e
> If I were a billionaire space tech guy, I'd be working toward O'neil cylinders instead of Mars colonization.

While I agree with you in the longer term, I don’t think we’re even close to ready to build O'Neill cylinders. First thing I’d go for would be a lunar colony. Lots of useful resources, relatively short trip home in emergencies, a way to get experience working in real vacuum, and non-rocket launch systems could already be built there with current tech.
CSS is nice because it's more readable than XPATH for longer queries, and is friendlier to newer programmers who didn't come up when XML was big.

XPATH is generally more powerful for really gnarly things and for backtracking. "Show me the 3rd paragraph that's a sibling of the fourth div id="subhed" and contains the text "starting".
As someone who still enjoys SF and wants to keep living here, I read this as great news since I expected rents to decrease by a similar amount.

But I just checked my apartment's website and it seems like if anything the rents have slightly increased compared to the price I renewed at last year!? Obviously this is a sample size of 1 and doesn't reflect the overall market.

Curious if anyone else has real data on rent price trends. Is it just my apartment or is this a case of the market staying irrational for longer than I'd have hoped?

EDIT: data was provided in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31533492
I’ve never heard this suggested before. Such a simple elegant solution I’m kinda embarrassed as a security engineer.
I spent a decade in St. Louis, MO, famously rated "Most Dangerous City in America" multiple years running and witnessed 0 murders. How many murders would you need to witness before you start to worry about your own safety?
> even if an independent claim is invalidated, its dependent claim may survive if it is novel and non-obvious over the prior art.

False. Let's say Claim 1 has elements A, B, and C. Claim 2 adds element D. Thus Claim 2 really has A, B, C, and D.

If 'A' is invalidated, then any claim that includes it, i.e. that depends from Claim 2, is also invalidated.
Why Student Engineers Should Buy into the Hype Around Serverless
BEVs also generally wear out tires slightly faster due to higher weight and greater motor torque compared to similarly sized ICE vehicles.
You would think they would be incentivized to fix this problem, even though it has been going on for years now. People will lose interest eventually and spend their money elsewhere. A few years back I was going to build a gaming PC, with an RTX 1080. I could never find the card in stock. As the years passed that 1080 became a 2080, then a 3080, and finally a bass guitar.
I believe there was one of these, or a device very much like it, in Google's headquarters in mountain view, as part of a wrap-around google earth display that lets you zoom around 3d space.
how many countries did China invade and/or bomb in the last 30 years?

how many millions of civilians are dead or displaced directly or indirectly because of China's actions?
Do you know the excitement that surrounds stories like this on foxnews? They want liberal Democrat cities to fail so they can blame leadership as an example
> Over the past 20 years, more people per capita have died in school shootings in Germany than in the US.

This is absolutely not true and can be verified by a few minutes research on Wikipedia
I think your missing the part of the bug report where Firefox is REUSING the existing TLS connection, which was established with a completely different SNI.

If I have a load balancer handling all these connections, and I routed a connection through to static-backend-1 then Firefox “cheerfully” decided to reuse this connection for api.host.tld, how is my load balancer which has already handed off the connection to static-backend-1 going to do anything about that?
Not containing significant numbers of people or human settlements
As long as everyone agrees on a global form of payment (USD) with swift and a 'Friendly?' globalistic enviroment there will continue to be no need for crypto.

However as we start to see fragmentation in the payment space between Russia, China and the EU/US along with an explicit writing in the transactions to disallow crosstalk, there start to be some kind of 'use' for crypto again.

The need for a verifiable, self-soverign, uncontrollable medium of exchange starts to become useful again.

Problems with the above:

Low liquidity,
uncontrollable is a loose term here. If the US forces publicly traded companies to dump crypto it will cause a huge crypto winter and a huge amount of money to be 'eaten up' by the bulls.
I think it's self-evident that a person should not be deprived of what they create without their consent. I'm not sure what you mean by "mutual agreement", but I assume you don't mean that literally, as there would be no conflict and no need for any kind of ethical theory in a situation where everyone agrees.
What a stupid post
Well, thank you for confirming my suspicions. I wish I saw this before posting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31533926
Foursquare founder banks $4M to build a browser-based 3D social network
"some time" is the entry barrier I was referring to and increases the cost of onboarding and adoption. However, rust also incurs a non-negligible ongoing productivity cost for its complexity.

Rust can provide some guarantees but it still won't protect you from logic errors or a "clever" coworker. In comparison, zig is simple and at the end of the day readability is my best defense against bugs/errors.

There was an interesting comparison (and discussion) of zig vs rust safety a few months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26537693

I find myself agreeing with pron and others in that discussion when they say no one really wants to use a safe language. What they want are correct programs.

What remains to be seen is how easy it is to write correct programs in each and the values people place on the deltas between the two languages.
Thanks for the feedback. We should simplify the mobile FAQ layout to make it easier to read.
You are right, our current browser+search app supports our search engine. We should allow users to change it. I'll add it to our backlog!
I'm wondering what the point of the period is here, could it be done without it?
How much will you be charging for the adversarial network to allow someone to get any PR approved? ;)
There are legal remedies, like being forced to pay the other side's legal fees, and even worse consequences than that.

Difficult to win, though.
That line between "business" and "consumer" is becoming increasingly indistinct. This is the very nature of "influencers." We have every-day-joes/janes setting up multi-thousand dollar machines in their own (or rented) garage for their own, or followers', enjoyment.

> are not consumers but media businesses.

This idea of yours is extremely out of touch with reality, just like Red are. Those "media businesses" would be nowhere without an engaged audience. The modern audience are participators, not watchers. Commodity 3D printers have succeeded for a reason.

People aren't as one-dimensional as they used to be. They take their interests to an extreme degree. It might take a videography/cinematography enthusiast 2 years to save up for a Red, but they will.
There are many incentives in NYC that prevent rents from dropping. What we saw during the pandemic was static rent prices with increased benefits that lowered the actual price, for example last month is free so in effect rent has been lowered by 1/12 while still being listed as 12/12. Landlords do this for a variety of completely [redacted] reasons, including price controls, taxes, vacancy regulations, credit for "improvements", advertising histories. Rents do not fall in NYC, they merely stop rising for a time.
I was literally listening to a podcast about this trade-off today by Andy Crouch, he’s the author of The Life We’re Looking For: Reclaiming Relationship in a Technological World
+1 on this, it hits the right spot between being not too mathy/theoretical but going sufficiently deep for most engineers.

It’s probably the right book for anyone who needs to learn more about crypto but isn’t planning to become a full time cryptographer
vimwiki is pretty good, but it uses a proprietary vimwiki format.

You can switch it over to Markdown but you lose a couple features IIRC.

I have a pretty extensive vimwiki, but it's only available on my laptops. I sync it via Git and have to remember to commit and push or it won't be available on another device.

I did hack up a simple React/Go app a while back to give it a web interface with a simple WYSIWYG editor I could access from my phone, with auto-commit/auto-push, but I ultimately haven't really used it.
Where the pocket calculators do?
Lithium Is Key to the Electric Vehicle Transition. It's Also in Short Supply
RIM explicitly starved BBOS with its introduction. The company had oodles of cash, and yet, tried to encourage app devs to port their programs over with… a $100 incentive? Like, WTF?

They had more than enough cash to go to any top company and say that they would pay those companies the full price of the app for every single copy legitimately downloaded, and provide a $10k bonus for every app ported over as a native (not Android) app.

That would have had companies breaking down the door to get their apps onto the BBOS marketplace. Instead, you had… almost nothing except for Android ports and a handful of the biggest social media names port theirs over “just because”.

BBOS could have been a strong third contender, but RIM strangled it to death in the cradle.

With that said, anything running BBOS10 is still perfectly fine as a phone, and still runs all of the default apps that don’t depend on RIM’s online services. It ends up being a wonderfully focused platform - you pretty much have only calls, sms, and traditional eMail - now that you can only side load apps and there are almost none available.
Growth doesn't mean that nothing dies. Individual people die, individual businesses go out of business, and yes, civilizations are conquered. That doesn't mean that growth isn't happening on a higher/macro level.

If you want to pick a civilization whose gifts weren't subsumed into a larger, still growing civilization, you'd have to pick, what, Atlantis? A myth? OK then.
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/us-tax-dolla...

The raw dollar value R&D in the private sector is higher, but that's accounting gymnastics for tax purposes, not actual R&D.
The US is slow to respond because it's an oligarchy with a powerful interests in prolonging the fossil fuel age.
Is this pixel streaming or WebAssembly tech?
That hasn't been my experience. I've been pleased, for the most part, with how r/woodworking, r/boardgames, r/cooking, r/18xx, r/cooking, r/gardening, r/boardgamedeals, r/visitingiceland, etc. are run. I've run into very few toxic subreddits.
Not unless you’re orbiting the supernova-ing star. It’s easier to put a big thin metal sheet between your planet and the exploding star to block the radiation, than to evacuate a billion people.
Rust does "true" cross-compilation, yes.

There is a tool, "cross," that uses Docker as part of its workflow, but it's not inherent in Rust's abilities to cross compile.
It doesn't concentrate wealth, because it's a zero-sum game. The only way to acquire bitcoin is to be productive and contribute to society. Otherwise, they'll have to spend their bitcoin. Fiat monetary system, on the other hand, allows creating more money for those who are already wealthy, i.e. wealth is constantly transferred from the poor to the rich.

Consumerism is caused by forced spending and growth through inflation. People who spend less are punished.

The article you linked looks just at bitcoin addresses, which is wildly inaccurate method, because it's possible to create infinite amount of addresses. In addition, it's impossible to know how many people are behind those big addresses which belong to exchanges, investment funds, nation states and so forth. This article[0] is more accurate, and puts the number at 2% of entities own 71.5% of bitcoin, where entities could still be multiple people.

[0] https://insights.glassnode.com/bitcoin-supply-distribution/
This feels like an extremely unproductive remark that essentially adds nothing to the discussion:

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.[1]

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> was subsidizing Saudi Arabia

Seems really odd to call a deal where Saudi Arabia was paying us for weapons in Yemen a "subsidy". You can argue that we shouldn't have allowed the sale, but it was a net profit for America.
It isn't a binary between 9,000 lb vehicles and 18 lb bicycles.

There is a middle ground with low-weight, low-speed vehicles like 800 lb "golf carts" and 1800 lb Japanese micro-cars.

Japanese micro-cars like the Honda n-box slash get enthusiastic reviews from motorheads and represent a realistic alternative.
I'm curious what actually uses up all the memory that gets consumed in a web browser these days. It's very interesting to me.

I worked on UI compositors in my early twenties or so and they can consume large amounts of RAM generally because backing layers aren't typically compressed. Though I think most people associate web bloat with JavaScript, I would assume these two comprise a majority of consumption, maybe with JavaScript being a distant second place, though I'm not confident about that.
What would need to change for you to feel that's not the case?

The open source version is fully functional and can definitely scale beyond toy projects. You don't get high availability, multi-instance clustering, auto-scaling, multi-region failover etc. built in, but if you put it on a beefy host it can easily handle a large number of users and a very high request rate.

The way I think of it is we give you the fully functional server, but charge for advanced infrastructure and a few advanced features (SSO/Teams).

It's comparable to the open source version of a tool like Vault where you get the server, but need to implement advanced stuff like HA, auto-scaling, networking, etc. yourself, or else use a paid version.
The US education system is a patchwork of schools systems of wildly different quality based on the student population.

>how simultaneously awesome and terrible the US has become

It's still significantly better than it used to be.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31407454.
3080s are buyable at essentially MSRP these days.
How many genocides has the US government undertaken?
Can it please take agile with it?
That seems like a fair point, yea - we weren't really subsidizing and more just enabling.
I believe you're ignoring the overall point of the article, which is not that lead-acid batteries specifically are unworkable.

> Rather, the lesson is that we must work within serious constraints to meet future demands. We can’t just scale up the current go-to solution for renewable energy storage—we are yet again fresh out of silver bullet solutions. More generally, large scale energy storage is not a solved problem. We should be careful not to trivialize the problem, which tends to reduce the imperative to work like mad on establishing adequate capabilities in time (requires decades of fore-thought and planning).

He further goes on to discuss gravitational storage (e.g., hydroelectric dams and pumped storage), kinetic storage (e.g., flywheels), spring storage (e.g., compressed air), and chemical storage (e.g., batteries, fuel cells).

Again, the point is:

> With the exception of the feeble gravitational storage example, each of the ideas presented here are technically challenging, expensive, and sometimes dangerous.

And further, to contrast them to the miraculous gift that fossil fuels have been:

> A short digression to contrast the miraculous energy density in fossil fuels: our 3 days of electricity storage at 30 kWh/day requires just 12 gallons of gasoline (1.6 cubic feet; 45 liters) burned in a 20% efficient generator (it seems like the other 80% is noise!). The Earth’s battery—a one-time gift to us—turns out to be vastly superior to any of these other “solutions” in terms of energy density and long-term storage, measured in millions of years. It will be sorely missed when it’s gone.

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/09/got-storage-how-hard-can-...
On the page about canvas fingerprinting[0], it only mentions Cloudflare. From what I can tell, reCaptcha v3 also uses canvas fingerprinting [1]

[0] https://github.com/reanalytics-databoutique/webscraping-open...

[1] https://brianwjoe.com/2019/02/06/how-does-recaptcha-v3-work/