skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Default measurements in link are taken at 100m above sea level - turbines are currently built at around 80m, some 90m, and 100m in development.
Just way below the number needed to influence elections.

People say this like there are no close elections, or are only talking about Presidential elections (and ignoring Florida 2020), but pretty much every year there are razor thin votes in statewide and congressional races. Good example is Iowa 2nd district in 2020 which was decided by 6 votes:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/democrat-rita-hart-ends-elec...

GOP Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks was certified the winner in November by a mere six votes out of 400,000 cast, marking one of the closest House races in modern history.

Given 400,000 votes, there is guaranteed more than 6 fraudulent, mistaken, or sabotages ballots. Maybe that affected the result, or just missed flipping the seat, who knows. But small time voting fraud can still be a big problem.
A key takeaway from the study is that Americans are getting healthier. Figure 5 shows a big drop in heart disease which must be due to more exercise and better eating habits. Also:

"In this national analysis, we found that Americans living in counties that voted Democratic during presidential elections from 2000 to 2016 experienced lower age adjusted mortality rates (AAMRs) than residents of counties that voted for a Republican candidate, and these patterns were *consistent across subgroups (sex, race and ethnicity, urban-rural location).*"

I.e. many of the tried and true methods of "explaining away" a study's result does not apply.
does revealing that you accessed something from the index vs nothing a leak of information?
>The Brennan Center summarized almost 200 errors in election machines from 2002 to 2008, many of which happened repeatedly in different jurisdictions, which had no clearinghouse to learn from each other.

The analysis done from Brennan gives me opposite of hope if you read everything published by them.
I think this sums it up. Being a politician just fundamentally boils down to one skill - being able to convince the masses that they should vote for you. When we look at desirable characteristics like ethical values or personal integrity, they would likely just be harmful so far as success in this game is concerned.
In this case it looks like you could bribe the volunteers to simply give ballots without checking for ID, then bribe the overseers to validate the fraud.

So long as the people who’s votes you are stealing don’t come in, then you are safe.

There are no systems safe from fraud if you allow human judgment to be a part of the system.
You should try decorators for that. They're pretty decent
The terminology here doesn't work. If you're calling something a "tulip," you're calling it an *unsustainable* bubble, because it comes from Dutch "tulip mania." But to take an easy example, gold isn't an unsustainable bubble. Neither is art. Not like Dutch tulips. It's too late to successfully redefine what "tulip" means.

Even if you use a different word, the category doesn't work. The fact is, bitcoin and ethereum are each sui generis.

Bitcoin, for example, differs from gold in *important* ways. There are various theories people have for why it might be able to hold value in the long run, and none of them are reducible to something that has existed before. It's a new experiment. People can argue that bitcoin won't hold value, but not by a 1:1 reduction to something that has existed before. On that note, the author is very right to point out that bitcoin is not, technically, a Ponzi scheme, and that point is much appreciated.
You can use a runtime type system like io-ts or something like reflect-metadata. Let's not pay the cost when we don't need it.
Reminds me of Ezell's Chicken in Seattle. Apparently Oprah loved the place (they had a big photo of her on the wall that she'd written a fairly lengthy note on) and supposedly she would regularly have their chicken delivered to her by plane from Seattle to her home in Chicago.
I had some hope that Microsoft's purchase would somehow change things (not that Microsoft is necessarily more benevolent, but maybe could realign the team's priorities and politics), but the (pure) speculation suggests "no":

> Bethesda officially became a part of Xbox Game Studios on March 9, 2021, which placed Fallout 76 under Microsoft’s stewardship. When asked whether or not the acquisition had improved the internal work culture within Bethesda, several sources offered lukewarm responses.

> One source suggested that Microsoft’s emphasis on a “hands-off” culture toward its studios meant that the new owners trusted Bethesda to take care of its own problems. Sources at Undead Labs also mentioned that Microsoft had a “hands-off” policy, which they claimed had “allowed dysfunction to fester” at their studio.

No quality of game could justify the senseless anti-human mentality and processes described. But the fact that Fallout 76 was just such an abysmal and hated release just increases my contempt for Bethesda. Not seeing the moral value in treating their employees ethically is bad enough; not even having the cold business sense to see how it obviously affects their bottom line is just pathetic:

> Some sources noted that the project drove an exodus of senior developers who had worked on some of Bethesda’s most prolific titles. Many developers developed physical health issues, such as tinnitus and back pain. One source said it “wasn’t uncommon” for artists to have wrist braces. Senior staff who’d remained loyal to the company for 20 years finally found their reason to quit. Some had been around since Fallout 3 and Skyrim. Fallout 76 was their final breaking point.
I thought it was a April 1 joke. Are they planning to freeze the food first before shipping through Fedex?
Yeah, no.

I've seriously considered moving back to Sublime Text because VSCode has become annoyingly slow for me (like waiting for text to appear). And also the Python extension auto-complete only works some of the times lately.
Now imagine further bogging it down by running it in the cloud.
Clearly they should have included an authenticity NFT printed on synthetic polymers that can survive heat and strong electrical fields with embedded NFC chips for multisig validation.
It's so annoying. Even worse is it's started adding "ads" for other Amazon products like shopping, etc.
I look forward to ordering my favorite Thai delivery[1] from LA

[1] http://www.tgexpress.net/
I'm not misinterpreting what you wrote. they will not try to reign in spending because holding more money becomes less valuable
> It seems pretty clear to me that in the video games industry (and pretty much any 'art' industry for that matter) great results are driven by singular, great people. Todd Howard was the mind behind TES and Fallout 3/4

There are also many great results that are a team effort.

And according to this article Todd Howard was also part of the problem. For example:

"[A]lmost none of the Bethesda designers wanted the game to launch without NPCs. The design teams at both Rockville and Austin wanted NPCs to fill out the world of Fallout 76, but they say executive producer Todd Howard was not willing to budge all the way up ‘til launch."
I’ve used GoldBelly to ship Philadelphia tomato pie to Florida for an inflated price. Same idea. It’s great for special occasions and gifts.
I want this mostly because it will give a reason for people like this to care about the city around them in a real way, and act to make it better for themselves. Rather than consider its problems not their responsibility because they can avoid them by using a car.

It sucks to access things without a car because we made it that way, it's not an inherent quality of dense environments.
> Is the database updated notification going out while the transaction is still in-progress?

No, that's not what happened.

> If a cache tries to update itself while there's an open transaction against the data it's trying to read, shouldn't the database block the operation until the write is complete?

Yes. Generally speaking, having a read transaction here would be better. There are unrelated reasons why it's done this way. The point of the example is that it's really intricate and we can still identify the bug regardless.
Why are the democratic counties nearly halfed over the study, while the republican counties increase slightly? While the number of people increase? Are democrat counties growing together?

"The study period covered five presidential elections from 2000 (673 Democratic counties, 132 833 397 population; 2439 Republican counties, n=147 957 141) to 2019 (490 Democratic counties, n=176 971 611; 2622 Republican counties, n=145 413 920) (supplementary tables 1 and 2)."
It might be quite obvious that memorization is convenient, but 'required' means "you can't do it any other way" and that's obviously incorrect.
It is extremely difficult to actually get good internet on short notice, at least in the UK.

Mobile, while technically capable of this, does not fit the bill because their business model depends on locking people into long-term contracts or using it as a marketing platform (I've tried launching a startup that does away with all this, it's impossible).

Right now nobody will sell you a SIM with unlimited data (excluding Three because their "unlimited data" is so oversubscribed that it's unusable) or a large enough data cap no matter how much you are willing to pay. Your only option is to either sign up for a yearly contract (which involves wasting time with support if you ever need to make a change or need to increase your data cap) or use Pay & Go SIMs and top them up regularly which involves using an IVR and listening to minutes of upselling random bullshit - there's no API and the billing is intentionally complex (depositing money isn't enough - you have to use that balance to buy a "bundle" of data, and you can't stack these bundles meaning you need to do this every time it runs out).
For me, it’s the noise and clutter — every time I spin it up, it feels like VS Code is demanding my attention in multiple popups, and there’s a new tab or button I’ve never seen before with some mystical purpose, and the bottom bar is some jarring color that makes me feel like something is broken.

IntelliJ IDEs feel similar — sometimes I’ll open them up and after upgrading several plugins and dismissing a bunch of popups and “what’s new” dialogs, I don’t even remember what I was trying to do in the first place.
Why are things so bad in the games industry? As compared to other IT / programming fields?
I think it doesn't really matter one way or the other, anyway. Even if it takes 10 years to proliferate, at some point in the future, it'll be 10 years from now, and we'll be able to use it. depending on your usecase, maybe sooner.
> “The Constitution does not apply to foreign countries,” Justice Brown wrote. “If these possessions are inhabited by alien races, differing from us in religion, customs, laws, methods of taxation and modes of thought, the administration of government and justice according to Anglo-Saxon principles may for a time be impossible. . . . A false step at this time might be fatal to the development of what Chief Justice Marshall called the ‘American Empire.’”

Kind of a weird statement to be given by a person charged with adjudicating lands whose inhabitants had no concept of "Anglo-Saxon principles."

In fact, I seriously struggle with the logical contradiction that this opinion creates. How can this man claim the privilege to make such a ruling over a land, when his opinion so clearly implies that the USA, and it's Constitution have no no place ruling over the "foreign countries" that the USA now claims as territory.

Obviously, if I could ask him this today, he would hand-wave the argument with that being different for whatever bunk-ass reason.
I'm sorry that's the way it is, and I would never suggest more police is the whole solution, just a small part of it. The kind of person who can't tell a dangerous person from a person walking to their neighborhood pool regardless of skin color should have never been allowed to be police in the first place.
What if they get the order wrong?

Also, is there anyway they have logistics to handle something like this?
I worked in the video game industry for a long time. This is a story you’re being sold - it’s the teams who build great games, not some singular great passionate mind. It’s a way for marketing teams to build a brand, not much more than that.
c.OnHTML("a[href]", func(e *colly.HTMLElement) {
e.Request.Visit(e.Attr("href"))
})

Sometimes I wish Go idioms included an iterator abstraction, it's easier to understand and less hideous than that functional callback style.
Don't get me wrong; I wish we were less car-dependent too, but it isn't going to happen in our lifetimes. Cars are too deeply ingrained in American culture, and Europeans bragging about their cities isn't going to change that. Not to mention how massive the US is! We have states (California and Texas) that are larger than over half of the European countries.
> Less parking improves density which can improve many other things, as well.

Less parking makes density higher, which is a bad thing, not a good thing. Why do you call it an improvement?

People are not livestock to be packed in a tightly as possible. Give me space to live. Everyone should have a basement or a garage where they can keep random tools for random projects.

People should have backyards with enough spacing where they can have solitude from other people.

People should live far enough apart that you don't hear your neighbors.

Are there actually people who prefer to live packed in tightly with other people, in tiny apartments with barely space?
I'd guess the vast majority of cities Netherlands predate cars by centuries. They were already "designed" without cars in mind. That is not true in the US, and doubly so for the post war, suburban construction boon.
You do not purchase the material, but the history of the item.

I don't really buy that for functional objects. I've restored old Teletype machines, some almost a century old, and provenance is not a big issue.
In fact, because of the way they were maintained, many are not an original set. There are four main components of a Model 15, keyboard, typing unit, base, and motor. All are field-replaceable, and the first two are easily swappable without tools. Maintenance was often a swap, not field repair. The units went back to a repair depot, were repaired, cleaned, and oiled, and then went to another rental customer. Retired machines rarely have the original subunit combo, and nobody cares.
Looks like programmers wish their favourite language would adopt their new favourite feature right after they've just learned how to use it. Sure, it makes the language you use more sophisticated, but at the cost of raising the bar for everyone else to learn that language.

To continuously add features and complexity to JavaScript makes getting started with web development that much more cruel and arduous for our more junior colleagues.

If you like types (and personally — as someone who for the past several years has almost exclusively written Haskell and Elm professionally — I do), why not just pick a different language that has the features you want and compile it down to JavaScript?

I have a perception (and I'm sure some would argue it's inaccurate) of the web development community that likes to pat itself on the back for being smart enough to use JavaScript's [relatively] new spread operator, but at the same time whinging about Elm because its syntax looks weird.
Well... there is quite a bunch of "serious audio" software available for IRIX.
Let's not forget the meta verse!
Not only is there no functional advantage to buying the real thing, there is no easy way to prove for certain that you have the real thing, so even speculation is difficult.
this is actually a really interesting point.

Gender identity vs Gender equality.

I guess the authorities might find themselves in the position of having to judge the authenticity of a gender identity claim, something which they would not want to do, so I suspect they would wave any claims through
> try playing PoE on hardcore with no prior knowledge

Why would anyone do that? I can't imagine this being fun for any game that offers a hardcore mode. Actually I'd pay to watch someone do that with like, Elden Ring.
In any case authors are clearly making a political argument and implying if not explicitly making a causation argument here, not merely describing the state of the world.
I don’t know but I suspect given the comments that a disproportionate number of HN posters may have been in gifted programs.
I live 5 minutes from a grocery store, 10 minutes from a town of 50k people. Hardly remote by US standards. There is no cell coverage, and the only internet option plugs into a phone jack. From where I'm sitting, that spending didn't translate into much.

Edit: realized you were speaking in future tense. So I guess we'll see how it shakes out.
It's quite subjective. It comes down to how popular culture romanticizes a thing. Popular culture has romanticized 50 year old cars, or old books, but it hasn't romanticized 35 year old gaming consoles. Why that is, I couldn't say.
Enrique Peñalosa, Colombian politician and past mayor of Bogota, put it well: "An advanced city is not one where the poor can get around by car, but one where even the rich use public transportation."

Crime on public transit doesn't mean public transit is bad, it means that public transit is a last-resort option patronized by the most desperate members of society. If our cities were designed for more convenient public transit, more people would be willing to take the bus, and your average patron would be less likely to be one of the scaries that you and your visiting friend were worried about.
Don't we also recognize a horse by "gut instinct" or intuition? It is not that the jot down notes to make up our mind between a horse and a zebra. What we instantaneously identify does not come from nowhere, it is that our pattern recognition happens below our conscience. And this move from conscious to other-than-conscious happens for any simple or complex skill, when the latter is of course properly practiced, which means, most often, a lot.

Is the example provided by Gladwell different from the instance of "something is off" that many of us had when we got to our home and something, a plant, a chair, or something barely noticeable like a medal, had been moved elsewhere, and we could not explain why our "off" button went off?

If many among us had spent a lot of time dealing with art and forged art we would have acquired, conditioned on our "talent", similar "gut feelings" with respect to original and forged art.
I don't think it comes down to a singular person, but I'm pretty sure it is about passion. Modern large game studios have removed all the passion and turned game development into an assembly line of 100s or more people working on it. Creating a very large game and also having it be good seems more like an exception at this point.

Games with small teams probably have a much easier time creating a game they are passionate about even if the scope of the game has to be smaller.
I agree. Producers and designers that frontline a successful project get the visibility but they have to be backed by highly effective teams of equally gifted folks that collaborate effectively. I don’t think this is different for any complex human endeavor. Often times the front liner isn’t the one who built the team - there’s often an anchor person more in the middle of the project that attracts talent and creates the atmosphere of collegial collaboration. Smart front liners bring those folks along to the next projects. From the article it sounds like that was Starfield, not 76, which is probably why it was so miserable.
I live near Hennepin and Lake St in Minneapolis.

People getting murdered, assaulted, and robbed isn't a homelessness problem (it is quite hard to survive winter being homeless in Minnesota) it is a gang, poverty, and policing problem. Part of it is accepting a large number of Somalian refugees, a small but significant number of whom disproportionally contribute to crime, but it's not exclusively that group.

Despite the business robberies, gun shots, assaults and murders blocks away from me, my rent is still $2000.
> Note: don't let "anarchism" put you off

Because (Social) Anarchism is good the end.
Scale really does require some degree of dimensional analysis. You can go very far with just Amazon S3 and an EC2 host. The place to begin is really with the fundamentals of a single host, and then looking for where bottlenecks will happen per project. That's when you can go through the catalog and find something which may be an ok upgrade to then buy into the lock-in.
OpenCV Patch Notes
This ^^^^^^

Without viable mass transit in most American cities the "less cars" mentality falls flat. As a society ruled by "NIMBY" we just don't have the social will, nor seem to care enough about one another to move anything productive forward. As another comment said, the nations that reduced dependence on autos did no decades ago. These towns/cities/suburbs were literally built around a society where everyone has a car. Very difficult/impossible to change at this point without a major catastrophe or other externally influencing event.
I got called a communist on hacker news for suggesting this idea. It'll be interesting to see how the comments shake out.

Less cars and less parking is a good start, but we also need to build more transit and bike infrastructure.
I guess it looks like a list of random signatures to me.
A joke, I'll bet, but that is not what Adam Smith meant.
> It helps that TAO is a write through cache so clients can't really forget to invalidate, correct?

That's not the case.

> If someone were to directly write to MySQL shards there would be stale data

For the sake of this discussion, you can assume this is the setup, and everything should still stand.

> I'm assuming the versioning is what ensures proper write, invalidation, and fetch ordering so that e.g. slow mysql writes/replication don't cause remote TAO clusters to receive an invalidation message and then read a stale value from a replica?

You should join us :p This is getting into the details of our cache invalidation protocol and our cache consistency model. Maybe another post on another day!
I own a significant-to-me chunk of AMD stock, & want to believe, but this ability to keep chips shipping, to get basic wins consistently moving, has long been concerning. Mini-pc market is a huge enterprise market; this should be a great lock for AMD with reliable volumes. Availability has been terrible.
And still, motor cycles are still legal to buy and ride. But more dangerous than even the most flimsy car.
You'll notice the totals are the same (673 + 2439 = 3112, 490 + 2622 = 3112), the changes are likely due to the counties' flipping in elections.
Investigation report on the OVH data centre fire in Strasbourg on 2021-03-10
Having cars as the primary and often sole viable method of transportation, under any circumstances, be it for a soda craved in the middle of the night, vacationing in a different state or daily commute, and having all the cities and the country designed for them is totally a ridiculous concept.
Glad that sunsetting of emacs is not going to happen any time soon :)
You'll always have the memories of the good times you shared together, and they're probably better than the real thing anyway.
Wonder how In-n-Out burgers would taste if they were frozen like White Castle sliders.
> What I thought the article would tackle is the dependencies between stored objects.

Like tracking dependencies, so it knows what to invalidate on mutations?
Typically these things will ship deconstructed and require minimal cooking/assembly, like a weekly meal delivery kit. For example, you might receive a roll in one type of packaging and the sandwich contents in another, boxed with a few freezer packs.