skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very good article, with several illustrative cites going back to 1979.

The west is dominated by the [0] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermontane_Plateaus] , much of it losing water since the pluvial lakes like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Bonneville] reached its greatest height 18000 years ago. "The abandoned shore lines have yielded evidence of past climatic changes second in importance only to those of the Pleistocene glaciated areas."[0]

A lot of snow falls in the winter, but for a century the meltwater has had plenty of mouths to feed. A lot of the distribution plans have been based on only a couple centuries of experience.
Trolling Tesla Owners by Wirelessly Opening Charging Ports
The author relies on you, the reader, to exercise thought? Say it ain't so.
Sometimes tropes exist for a reason. After all, when someone says they think society judges certain views too harshly, it begs the question: which views?
U.S. would be initialism, not an acronym. I think we’ve stumbled into a linguistic grey area. Really a matter preference I guess.

https://abbreviations.yourdictionary.com/reference/abbreviat...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/whats-an-acron...
No, unfortunately. This is one thing I've always wished Ruby had.
I think that misses the point. Ruby doesn’t have macros! The metaprogramming makes it possible to create very readable DSLs but it’s all very consistent not “magical” like macros.

At the end of the day coding is hard. I’d rather have nice DSLs to learn than verbose spaghetti to read.
The article closes with this thought:

> While both languages are much easier to read than say, PHP or Java, [...blah blah blah...]

Which leads me to wonder: Have there been any serious studies of the readability of programming language syntactic and semantic conventions? For instance, a good friend of mine (whose day job is working as a software consultant, and whom I imagine would disagree with the author's assertion) finds it extremely difficult to understand python code in particular due to his dyslexia, and I wonder how common such problems are, both as a % of people and % of programming languages.
The really hard part is dealing with the data still in backups.

It leads to having to do crazy things like individual keyed encryption per user, escrow hilarity, etc.
> Once someone starts doing advanced meta programming, get the shovel, because you’re going to kill whoever wrote it and need to bury the body.

This is why Elixir makes me hate life sometimes. They took a language like Erlang where it seemed almost impossible to write an unreadable program even when it was doing very sophisticated things, and Rubied it up.
"35mm" film is called the 135 standard. As in 110/120/135/220, etc.
Part of the reason for the push for mobile is that a big chunk of the tech industry nowadays competes with power users - if you're a power user you may not need their "solution" as you will defeat their attempt at rent-seeking by using your existing, powerful tool (the general-purpose computer) that is built to serve you rather than them. Worse, a power-user sharing their solution with others would also obviate the need for the rent-seeker's solution. A power user is absolutely not something a typical "growth & engagement" startup wants because they'll be a troublemaker, constantly poking holes into their bullshit business model.

Essentially, we had a gap where computing devices (whether mobile or desktop) became mainstream and it was just a matter of time before laymen would eventually learn how to use them to their advantage, except the VCs beat them to it and started weaponizing the devices to not just exploit laymen's inability to use them but eventually reshape the devices in a way that prevents them to be used for the user's benefit even if they somehow gained the knowledge to try.

In the old times you could pay someone a one-off fee for them to teach you fishing and then fish on your own. Nowadays, standard fishing rods are being pushed out of the market (along with the knowledge of using them), being replaced by fishing-rods-as-a-service that rely on your perpetual lack of fishing knowledge to seek rent since they now have a monopoly on fishing (and everyone's lack of fishing knowledge means a competitor making non-DRM'd fishing rods would have a very hard time starting up).
This is the way to go if you have the option. If you need to keep the bike outside but have a reliable designated area, you may want to consider leaving a heavy chain and padlock on site. If you don't have to carry it with you, you can invest in extra robustness.

If you're talking about trips in addition to the commute to the office, the considerations really depend on the location. The sturdier the lock the better, but in many cases, a superior lock out of view could be considered worse security than a lesser lock with more eyes on.

You'd be well-advised to secure, in addition to the frame, components like wheels and seat, especially if they're quick release. For that, a lighter cable (maybe even one with a built-in combo lock) might suffice as deterrent, but again, it depends. Some of our opportunistic friends seem to be more interested in wheels than frames.
It just came across as yak shaving ;) Sorry, I wasn’t trying to accuse you, and I really admire your development path.

The pattern that I have commonly seen is a company getting sidetracked from mission, by something technically cool (especially dangerous with hardware where the costs are high).

> I wouldn't say it's on the level of a PR stunt giving supplies to elementary school students...

Yeah sorry: being cheeky is hard to get right in text -P
The rest of the sentences in that paragraph present an argument for why it might matter.
Yep, this is it. They projected 2 million loss. They only lost 1 million. So it's a "win" for NFLX stock.

I expect them to return to growth some time in 2023 because of a low cost tier and a crackdown on password sharing.
When Are Expired Drugs Truly Expired?
>We have the largest population of immigrants in the world

Until you realize that metric would only be meaningful per capita, which again proves you’re talking rubbish:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/immigrati...
How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2022
Ask HN: Who's making it easier to procure software/vendors?
Seems like any time our engineering teams find a useful tool or service that could solve a lot of our headaches, we have to go through a long, arduous process of getting finance and legal to enter into a service contract. Every vendor seems to have their own idiosyncrasies that make this a nightmare. And it doesn't matter how close to free the service is. As long as there's a non-zero cost involved, it involves a giant roll of red tape.

Are there any startups out there that are trying to make this process easier? Like, maybe have a central vendor with whom the contract is held, and then you get access to a whole bunch of associated vendors with standard terms, without having to negotiate each one?
The right to erasure to is not unlimited (few things in GDPR are as absolute as people imagine). Yes, is personal data is retained based on consent, that consent can be withdrawn and the data must be deleted. But there are many other bases for collecting and retaining data as well.

The examples in the GP were mostly around the data being necessary for fulfilling a contract (can't request deletion of your mortgage records) or meeting legal obligations (can't delete tax records). But there's also legitimate interest.

Legitimate interest is vague and open to interpretation, but I'd be really surprised if there were any decisions from a DPA suggesting that a VCS commit log would be problematic. The legitimate interest seems really strong in that case: being able to audit who actually made each change, e.g. for security reasons.
The minimum bar of richness is probably when the police chief is a buddy of your buddy. A couple millions in assets isn't enough.
How does this affect users whose location jumps around regularly because they're using a VPN to work around region blocks? I imagine their content providers would love to knock that on the head if they could.
What concerns me is that I see quite a lot of writers who don't know the difference between fact and opinion. Without that, the reader doesn't have much hope. Especially when the writer has some incentive to muddy the waters.

I'm all for pieces clearly from a personal perspective. There one can drop the redundant "I think" bits. But often dropping the qualifier turns it from a statement about one person to a universal statement, as with the title of the article. For me this erases the many interesting possibilities in between.

For example, a post title something like, "Which programmers find Ruby more readable than Python?" is way more interesting. The universal is false, but I'm sure it's true for some people and false for others. An exploration of that could lead to interesting ways to think about languages. E.g., is it better for novice programmers? For programmers from non-engineering backgrounds? For programmers with difference cognitive styles or capabilities?
I don't think I understand - where is any kind of framework mentioned? And even if frameworks were mentioned, I think it's a fair comparison to say "language A has battle-proven / easy-to-use / etc. framework to achieve X, but language B doesn't".
In history of mankind no one has shown a working „free energy“ generator.

Id someone can do, jackpot richest man on earth, Nobel price and happy life.

Every single claim ever was a scam or failure.
yes. they don't do a good job of dealing with seasonal variability, but batteries are great at dealing with milliseconds to hours, and pumped hydro is great on scales from minutes to weeks
Broadly, though - trademark law specifically makes note of how "evocative" the particular word is. Which is to say, "Apple" for computers is more permissible than "Apple" for e.g. a food company.

Not sure where I'd put "Meta" here though, it's so generic for anything.
Has anyone thought of large rafts of floating solar panels being towed behind a ship? Given the massive surface area of the ocean I wonder if a few football field sized floating solar panels can recharge the batteries during the day time.

Also, what about windmills on the ship itself?
Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar novels. I read them in my early 20s, they were fun then but would have been magic when I was 12. Short setup: the Earth is hollow, there's a sun at the center.
How much equity and control does China get for their investment in chip manufacturing? They use the “National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund” to fund these projects. Nobody is giving free gifts and they don’t allow companies to name prices or just walk away with money.

https://sayari.com/resources/inside-chinas-largest-semicondu...
Often it’s mark for deletion after some number of days.
The only way that would make sense in if it was a cancelable timed deletion. People make mistakes. People change their minds. People get hacked.
or for surveillance of their own workers
For gosh sakes 'swarm' / 'saturation' practically the same thing.

And yes, there's no point in 'hypersonic missile' obviously if you can just shoot $100K rockets, but the hypersonic cruise missiles have a much bigger payload and much longer range, and, likely cannot be used in 'saturation level activities' most times.

'hypersonic' are just cruise missiles that go a bit faster.
Great call - I will add those in the coming days. Appreciate it!
Don't Burn Out
I was mainly going off this.

David Johns, head of the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, describes it as "a literal drop in the ocean." Johns would know—the Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey has been running since 1958 and has accumulated more than 265,000 samples.

The Continuous Plankton Survey has indeed cataloged a loss of plankton over the years—but nothing close to the 90 percent loss claimed by Dryden. "We have noticed long-term changes—northerly movements of plankton species as surface water warms, changes in seasonality in some taxa, invasives, etc.," Johns told Ars by email
Popular vehicle GPS tracker gives hackers admin privileges over SMS
There's a very legitimate case that I've seen made for soft-deletion in several different situations: foreign keys related to "created-by" columns. Hard-deleting a user who created an object that remains in use after they're gone would trigger referential integrity complaints on those columns. Without being able to reference a "deactivated" user's primary key in such a situation, you'd have to come up with some counterintuitive system for revisiting such objects. And the result (short of removing the foreign key) would be to give you inaccurate information about who created the object. Maybe one of you smarter people has already thought of an elegant way to handle this, but I've never seen one that satisfies my taste.
As an American, it sounds normal for the US.
America’s Love Affair with Iced Drinks
Even APS film canisters were made by Agfa and Fuji. I think you have selective memory. If disc film was the only format made by Kodak, that’s not really a pattern. there were many others (APS, 110, 124, Polaroid instant, etc) that were not.

In any case even if Kodak did something like this 100 years ago, that does not preclude Sony from taking it to a new level in more modern times.
China-Made GPS Tracker Is Found to Be Risk for Vehicle Hacking
Small Explosion at the Hoover Dam in Nevada
> It's not just a matter of funding; there's only so much lab capacity.

Lab capacity is a matter of funding.
I often think what Richard Feynman says "What do you care what other people think?"

In general I've found people don't really spend a lot of time dwelling on other people's actions. They have their own problems.

We are all our own worst critics. In most cases it's best to let things go until you have more information or feedback. Otherwise take note of your actions and try to let go of guessing what other people think.

If your intentions are good but you think you might have screwed up, try to give yourself the benefit of the doubt and return the favor in the reverse.
Nah, I moved out to NC from SoCal last year. Harris Lake is the place I'm talking about, cools down Shearon Harris nuclear plant. Looks like thats up around Sacramento? My cousin recently moved to Modesto from PA so I'll recommend it to him.
missionary as in not just mission-driven, but cult-entangled (aka more cheaply exploitable)
adding to it (some inspired from bitwarden)

- spellable passwords would be worth trying (passphrases)

- avoid similar looking symbols (1lI)

- also min length of each parameter (like 2 numbers, 3 letters, 2 symbols)
We can understand the directions of groups by looking at their elected leaders. Take the US House for instance: just today those representing the GOP in the US House voted overwhelmingly against a bill protecting same-sex marriage at the federal level. Today!

I mean, a party platform is exactly a document declaring the direction of a group of people. They get together and vote on it. Why can't we take that to be a pretty clear expression of their values and beliefs?

How much clearer can this get? The Supreme court gutted the constitutional foundation of Obergefell. One of the Justices is begging for a challenge to the decision. A US Senator concurs. The former VP agrees. State parties agree and make it an official plank of their party's platform. And now House Republicans have shown where they stand. What more proof do you need?

I guess another way to ask this question would be, what would you need to see before you would agree that the Republican party is coming after gay marriage next? How much more explicit do they need to be about it?

And yes, the language used by the Texas GOP does take the debate back decades. Homosexuality is not a “choice”, and definitely not merely a “lifestyle”. I thought that debate had been settled, but I guess gay conversion therapy is back on the menu. And as a matter of fact, homosexuals are normal, and have been an integral part of human societies as long as they have existed, including American society since before it was founded. That Americans had not accepted them as such doesn’t change that homosexuality is normal.
It only seems idiotic because you're not really seeing it as a deeply moral issue from their point of view. I don't agree, but to them it's similar to allowing a sex offender or a pedophile as a tenant (and conflating LGBT people with pedophiles is a time-honored tradition). Even if there's zero chance that they'll do anything to anyone, it still invokes a moral revulsion. Landlords are emotional humans like everyone else, they aren't motivated solely by rent payments.
>>4. More funding to police, in other words? Theft won't investigate itself.

Yes, and more funding for prosecutors and correctional officers. But it doesn't take much enforcement and prosecution to establish deterrence.
I think how "good" prolonged exposure to direct sunlight is might vary wildly between demographics. I'm of Viking extraction (pale as a ghost). I quite literally get sunburn indoors if I'm not careful, no exaggeration. I can't see that being good in the long-term, especially when my aunt had melanoma.

Following WWII, my gruncle lived in Africa as his skin grafts wouldn't take in the British climate. He was like a patchwork quilt of grafts following his plane being shot down. Most white expats in Africa got nose cancer from the sun eventually. He moved back eventually, but had stayed out of the sun and never got nose cancer.
For hundreds, my guess is, someone used your identity. (unless they are doing it for thousands of people, which then will become a noticeable problem shortly).

I think you need to take this more seriously, at least until you cross the identity theft. Someone out-there could be impersonating you and he might do it again.
You probably want to put the account on hold for a period where it can be undone. And then clean it up after.
Sure, in the sense that some amount of fish we just let die in the ocean. We're using that freshwater to ensure there is a path from the ocean. I'm as much against enviro-loons as much as anyone (especially the bullshitters like the Burning Man guys or the ones against Diablo Canyon), but drying up the river flow is definitely risky to us in an irrecoverable way, so it makes sense to not go full bore on it.
Republicans also opposed Medicare and Social Security expansion, so by that logic they hate older people too.

"Institutional bias" is a meaningless phrase that does not explain anything. Conservative positions and their sources are well known and do not need any magic invisible (or visible only to the left, magically) properties to explain. It is not a huge surprise why conservative Christians don't like abortion - they have been talking for decades why, and one needs no magic "bias" to understand that argument, even if you disagree with it. Introducing this just makes the whole political discussion weird - people tell you "we think so and so because of this and that" and you tell them "no, in fact you don't think this, you are just not completely sane and affected by 'bias', which you can not see but I can, so let me explain what you truly think and why!". That doesn't sound like something that can lead to anything sensical.

It is true that older people tend to be more conservative, statistically - but it is just silly to reduce all the gamut of political opinions and ideologies to that one thing.
Neat I didn't know that had happened. I can't say I follow SQL standards all that thoroughly.
And there’s the heart of NIMBYism. All projects must scale gracefully as they grow or face technical and political debt, and cities are no exception.
Windmills on boats?

So like, sails? :)

Iirc there has also been wind-driven electrical generating devices on boats too.
> Also, what about windmills on the ship itself?

Great idea, powering a boat with wind. If only someone had thought of that sooner!

Less facetiously, it's usually better to use cylindrical rotating sails (which need power, but far less) or kites. Combined with solar could be an interesting prospect though.
Not sure what you mean.

You can do…

module Foo
extend self

def bar
“Bar!”
end
end

Foo.bar #=> “Bar!”

And you can include that module in other modules. No classes required.
But it is a cross-platform GUI app, which the post was about. Granted, it is (or was?) experimental (so not production-grade), but the PoC for GUI app in Rust should be there (assuming they didn't use something else just for the GUI, I'm not an expert on Servo).
Ah sure, this alternate implementation assumes that the BlogPost class is final and never subclassed.

If you plan to subclass BlogPost, the translation is not identical, as the alternate implementation would not keep track of a global count of posts across all subclasses, only of `BlogPost` instances exactly.
> It's basically 90s PHP all over again.

Which is funny because Laravel give you this for free as well through it's ORM. Soft deletes are an easily solved problem with $table->softDeletes() in your migration.
>...in light of recent space team psychological problems...

I saw this reasoning and thought, "OK, what about the survival knife, or potentially lethal pieces of rope, or in fact any small pointy thing like a screwdriver?" Also consider that they are in a fragile environment where a deranged individual could do considerable damage with just bare hands.
By law these meetings have minutes recorded and made available to the public. If you really want to confirm the situation for yourself the messy details are likely missing from this record while the situation in general is reasonably well presented.
AngelList is great for both. Better discovery than Product Hunt and there's also an application form. Applications via AngelList have extremely poor response rates, though.
Solar may be highly unlikely due to waves and salt salinization.

See windmill ships for more on the second question
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windmill_ship
If the police are actually as bad as portrayed here, it seems like VanMoof is actually offering 4 for the price of 1 plus 300 dollars, plus the cost of insurance.

Just have an accomplice keep the stolen bike in an enclosed area where there is no GPS access. Disable the AGPS for bonus points (apparently that is possible)
keep in mind that in this case Amazon probably has better market analysis and information than ring. It is pretty tough to bluff a negotiating partner like that.

Meanwhile, there is a lot of value in communicating intent and maintaining their interest.
I should also say: Unfortunately, Conda’s environment exports only work for similar OS’s. I don’t know why Python’s situation is like this, after so many years.

Does docker fix all the above issues?
PHP has a bunch of hacks that are here for technical reasons. Function names are inconsistent and terse because they were inherited from C, and there is the historical name-resolution quirk. The prefixed variable names don't bring anything and are not here for any good reason (compared to shell where "naked" identifiers are interpreted as strings). A lot of the object-oriented features had to settle for unusual tokens like backslashes. You might find that the PHP syntax is objectively problematic.

For Java, Rust, etc it's a bit different. I would say that's up to taste. Using "public static" is very verbose but more obvious than @ or _ prefixes.
>You can’t delete IP as this is not covered by GDPR, but you sure can ask them to delete your identification data from their records as GDPR also works for employees not just customers.

You can ask, but the right to have data erased is not an absolute right. In fact there's an enumerated list of the circumstances in which the data must be deleted but data controllers are otherwise under no specific obligation to delete data, and there are even a series of criteria which dis-apply that obligation.
I don't eat meat in the UK for similar reasons. It's fucking awful. Partner is half-American and even she agrees that the meat is terrible quality.