skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case anyone is curious why tarmac gets so hot:

> The rate at which an object can reflect solar radiation is called its albedo [source: Budikova]. The bigger the albedo something has, the better it reflects radiation. Traditional asphalt has a low albedo, which means it reflects radiation poorly and instead absorbs it.

Asphalt has an albedo of ~0.05 - which means it absorbs ~95% of solar radiation. Tarmac is ~0.1 - which means ~90%.
At this point I believe almost 0% of “science” news I see. This headline so so insanely outrageous I knew it had to be wrong.

Between pre-prints, overly enthusiastic press releases, and reporters who often don’t have the slightest clue what they’re talking about it’s not worth it.

I’m not surprised an ever increasing portion of the public doesn’t believe in science. We’re practically conditioning them not to.
There must be plenty of 50+ year old EE developers that can do that, probably very cynical neck-beards by now, or even retired. Most people move into better paying roles so it is hard to buy them, and you duck your resume by taking on low-paying work (even if you paid highly, the next gig won’t).

There was so much low-level microcontroller dev work in the past, but perhaps that has mostly moved overseas now?

I used to do that work and I am not working at present, but I’ve moved up the stack a long way since then, so my pay and working condition expectations are probably ridiculous. And I don’t want to move from New Zealand!
No one needs to get angry at anything, and people are free to change their minds if they decide their previous decision to open source was a mistake. It's just worth remembering that this is a deliberate part of choosing to make open source software, and not an unintended consequence.
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Yes, it's not practical, and by design. In effect, this is simply acknowledging the reality that if they want to ensure a certain process, then someone has to bear the overhead of monitoring and control; so if a company wants to buy some sensitive service from a solo founder or a smallish company then they have to take responsibility themselves, and they can only delegate this duty to vendors only if the vendor actually has certified capability to do this high-overhead process.

It has some parallels to earlier initiatives like PCI DSS for payment cards which effectively said "If you can't do this list of requirements, then you'll have to delegate the sensitive stuff to someone who can", ensuring that every mom&pop pizza shop doesn't have a full list of their customers credit card numbers unencrypted on a publicly exposed database. It doesn't prevent all breaches, of course, but it did make them fewer.
E-bikes are illegal in Toronto, yet they are everywhere because the police rarely enforce the rule.
It was definitely the aesthetics of it. It was _incredibly_ cyberpunk - this great combination of digital storage format, small-size tech-looking disk, the way the players looked and opened - the whole thing was straight out of an anime. It's this artifact from the last moment before tech swerved off that cyberpunk mixture of physical and digital to just straight digital - after that, everything became ephemeral bits, and increasingly the hardware "existed to not exist," as it were - the iPhone, iPad, etc. were all designed as "blank slates" for the software, which was where all the action was.

I think that's why the original Motorola Droid is so loved - it's not just that the hardware was useful and interesting, but it "existed to exist" - it had an aesthetic and was trying to be something by itself, not just to disappear.
'All possible'? What are all possible temperatures? I think you've answered your own question, if you think about it: a line has to be drawn somewhere, you have to do some sort of statistical analysis, chance of circumstances occuring which this would not cope with <x%, yeah ok good enough, that sort of thing. That's engineering.
I don't use peer reviews as a proxy for paper quality. Many great papers had terrible peer reviews, and vice versa. Enough that it's not really a predictor of anything.
Without any real restrictions? JavaScript is very restricted in what it can do. Most APIs that you'd expect to be gated behind a permission are gated behind a permission.
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Honestly, the logo including a running shower gives that impression.
Interesting, I didn't know that!
That's not the way metal works.
It depends on what you mean by critical I guess. comma.ai and OpenPilot uses CAN to perform steering, acceleration and braking (I think).

https://github.com/commaai/openpilot/blob/master/selfdrive/c...
> Send BP and Shell the bill for the infrastructure upgrade

Should they also get credits for all the progress oil has allowed us to make?
Yea, but they've been getting more expensive with inflation.
No it's not and even Stepanov, the person who gave it its name, has admitted it was a mistake:

Link to lecture by Stepanov:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etZgaSjzqlU

Furthermore in his book "From Mathematics to Generic Programming", Stepanov says that if he could change its name, he'd have named it "array".
That would be the general public by buying any newspaper with pictures of Jane Fonda on the front page, and giving undue weight to whatever she said.
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Most states restrict non-commercial licensed drivers to well less than 20k an axle so I'm guessing you might have mixed up per axle limits and non-commercial license limits. Not to worry though I get your point and non-commercial licenses vs commercial ones were not part of the discussion. Perhaps it is a distraction to even mention them at this point. I only bring them up as they also serve as practical governmental restriction on vehicle size. I don't really see there being a demand for commercial driver's licenses so that one can drive a bus for fun.

I do agree that the maximum for a non-commercial driver is "a lot" in the context of everyone driving a motor coach around town. However, as you point out, there is a limit to weight and I can assure you there is also a limit to size.

We can agree that we feel that the limits are not restrictive enough but they are clearly there and I feel it would be wrong to suggest otherwise.

YMMV as they say.
Also .cyou

Be advised: You will be in a pool of spam domains. Feel free to download the Zone File from ICANN CZDS, it's insanity. Almost all domains are random strings, there is basically no signal, only noise.
Nobody is saying they are incapable. I am incapable of running a nuclear power plant, or a modern pharmaceutical lab, even if you give me the manuals. I imagine you are too. Qualifying either of us to do those things would take years of education in the basics of both of those fields. That doesn't make us stupid or incompetent or backwards. It just means that we haven't had to learn those particular things.

Simple question: Have you ever seen an example of what you're describing work? If so, where?
What's interesting is how many engineering teams put up with low-polish tools. It's not just the pretty-factor. Most in-house tools cannot justify the expense on building them to product quality - which means engineers suffer along.
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Because that's not possible without a lot of expense. Metal expands thats just basic physics. Its hard to stop that.
To take your argument to the extreme, why have for loops, when then are syntatic sugar over while loops?
I'm generally a fan of syntatic sugar in a language if it's purpose is to simplify what's already there; but it is a balance between developer productivity and ease-of-use.
I once saw javscript described as 'pithy', becuase of it's small syntatical footprint, that's probably not true so much now.
Syntax migration is easy. It is the semantic migration that is hard.
Trump spoke like Eudora Welty on amphetamines. It was all over the place, garden-path on uppers; Biden can't seem to properly read off a teleprompter. Any of the other Democrat candidates would represent the presidency better, I think.
Awesome! Needs more 5xx pizzas.
Major players going to war with each other means mutually assured destruction. I do not think they will.
Yes, my family is not in the mind of the people asking for pickup trucks to be banned, but generally people with that mindset don't ask for narrow, tailored legislation.

Source: we got burned by this plenty often.
So major cities are just one big pre-defined 'corridor'? What's the point, may as well just un-restrict it at that point?
> In otherwords, what carbon can do that Rust can't do, is take a C++ class with a `foo` method and call that method. Or create a class with a `foo` method and call that method from C++. Probably one of the biggest hurdles to get over in C++ interopt. Most don't do that, instead you'd make a C function binding and struct and move data/invoke functions through that.

https://cxx.rs
Agreed. This can be a helpful tool, even if one of the sources is kind of lame. Besides, since it is open source we can just erase that or add a different source.
I’m not blaming the baseball team? Unsure where that comment came from.

The article, and my response, is just acknowledging reality that things have gotten more expensive including parking, and that mostly people still drive to these sorts of venues.

Most people still drive to the new Atlanta dome. And Turner Fiekd had effectively 0 public transit prior to that move anyway unless you count a singular temporary bus shuttle route, as did Fulton Co before that. You have never been able to take public transit to a Braves game.
This is one of the big reasons to use Obsidian (or similar). You still get markdown files on disk, and you can even still put it in a git repo if you really want. But you also get decent desktop/mobile apps with higher-level organization tools on top.
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Its much harder on the tube, as where do you dump the hot air? Back into the tunnel? London's clay has basically baked around the tube and is a really good insulator. Its not a particularly easy problem to solve.
Hmm, yes, that's true. I wonder if that works with cookies disabled.
I don't see the name explained anywhere in the excellent FAQ and other documents, but I wonder if it a play on Rust/Oxidize/Oxidization -> Carbon/Carbonize/Carbonization.

Only mention of those terms seems to be https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/issues/505 which seems like weak evidence against naming conjecture.
I highly doubt it and don't think you'd be able to quantify this claim. Poor science literacy is one thing, but the idea that producers or consumers of popular media were more scientifically literate in the past doesn't pass a basic sanity check. People were less formally educated, the resources to become informally educated were less accessible, the general push for statistical literacy and data-driven approaches to anything at all largely didn't begin until 10-15 years ago. Where would this greater scientific literacy of the past have come from?
Carbon is intended to kill C++ in just the same way as C++ is designed to kill C, Kotlin is designed to kill Java, and Dart is designed to kill Javascript.

Which is to say, "Not at all".
I use Reeder for iOS + Feedly. What the OP describes started happening to me with all sites at the same time 2 days ago. Interestingly, it does not happen on the main Feedly site. So I do think that Feedly is making the experience worse with third party readers. I would speculate that this is done because third party readers don’t show ads.
The ones who are making real money don't come out publicly unfortunately. I personally know 2 solo devs making over 500k per month with apps. But they are in a b2b niche and have nothing to gain with sharing their story.
That’s not the claim being made.
At one place I worked at back in the 1970s there was a speaker on the mainframe (it may have just been a transistor radio picking up interference) and you could get some idea of what the machine was doing from the sound.
Again, not true for loads of places. Most American cities are hugely dependent on cars as the primary source of transportation.
Have they not already been financially compensated for this?
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Except, interestingly, in the bad guy of this story, China, where overcritical capitalists are regularly submitted to the state.

Will be interesting to see which loadout is more functional long term, China’s or the USA’s.
I'm pretty sure it comes down to cost. Steel rail has to meet certain wear and strength requirements as well as be reasonably inexpensive to manufacture. And there is not likely an alloy that will accomplish that and not expand in the heat.

In the US, the typical construction method is welded rail. AFAIK there is no allowance for expansion, at least on straight sections. Perhaps curved sections can move a bit to allow for expansion but move too much and the train goes off the tracks.
Thanks! This is a totally valid feedback. I agree it can get very messy when showing everything by default.
Since we have a button to go to next unread message in a discussion that also expands whatever needs to expanded to show the unread message automatically (but doesn’t make the expansion permanent, so on next page load it will still be collapsed), I think it makes sense to collapse by default
Your just restating (or not understanding) what I said, the average is misleading because its seasonal, which isn't even clear unless you look for it in the graphs (because they swing). edit: (and I should be clear, its still swinging when the daily average is 5%, it might say produce 8% during the evening but only 2% during the day).

Here look at whats going on:

https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/expanded-view/cu...

You will have to tweak the graph because I didn't spend the time to figure out how to create a link to a graph which isolates just wind, and then expands the time-frame out to an entire year.

If you do that, what you see is during the summer the lulls are much lower and last for much longer. AKA it might go for a week or two basically not producing anything. It happens at other times of the year too, but during the spring/fall the weather is changing faster (aka its less stable) and the running average goes up.

This is what the wind/solar people seem to refuse to understand, its not a simple averaged calculation over a year because the worse case is much much worse for storage and capacity. The wind blows at 5% nameplate for two weeks, and the amount of storage and overbuild required to bridge that makes it an order of magnitude more expensive than pretty much every other source. Made massively worse because in say TX, that is also when energy consumption peaks.
yt-dlp supports a lot more than 6 sources (check out https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/tree/master/yt_dlp/extracto...) so I don't think that's a useful comparison
Are media apps and their data collection policies even under the FCC's purview? This seems like an FTC thing at best.

As far as I can tell, this is just some random commissioner (who also wants to get rid of net neutrality and Section 230) making a political statement, and nothing more. Yes, you should be worried about big companies collecting your data. Yes, you should be worried that the CCP has a direct line to VERY influenceable kids. Both of these are legal; the first amendment guarantees the right to publish propaganda that is potentially bad for national security. If you want to stop propaganda, start investing in education, Congress.

I don't see how TikTok is doing anything out of the ordinary here and why they should be specifically targeted. Everyone is doing the same things they're doing. I get that the US is scared that China is going to replace them as "the superpower". Getting rid of some social media app is not going to change that. We're closing the barn door after the horse has bolted. We lost this battle decades ago, and it's too late to stop it.

I really feel like this is a token stance against China and not a whole lot else. They won't stop buying our soybean exports if we take a hard line against TikTok, whereas they would if we took a hard line stance against stealing American intellectual property or invading Taiwan, which is the problem we're actually worried about. So nothing changes, but when Commissioner Carr runs for some political office (his term is up next year, and I'm guessing Biden isn't going to re-appoint him), he has some token "I did a thing" to point to. (And knowing his political affiliation, "I hurt people that aren't white" is probably a good selling point for his candidacy. Sad that such a thing is true in 2022.)

If someone wants to do something about this, Congress should make some laws. "It's illegal at the federal level to bypass device privacy protections to sell ads." or "It's illegal for a US company to help law enforcement track users." or "We don't import goods from countries that have concentration camps that kill ethnic minorities." This will never happen. Congress loves it when companies bypass device protections to sell ads, and they demand that companies like Apple break the security on their devices to aid law enforcement.

Finally, if the FCC really wanted Apple and Google to delete an app from the app store, I doubt that posting a poorly-researched rant to Twitter would be how they go about doing it. I'd be surprised if Tim and Sundar even read this letter.
Given the nature of variables and blocks in Logo you can do quite a bit. Like say you want to do a modulo-like operation:

IF :SIZE > 100 [MAKE "SIZE :SIZE - 100]

You could do:

TO MODVAR :VARIABLE :AMOUNT
IF THING :VARIABLE > :AMOUNT [MAKE :VARIABLE THING :VARIABLE - :AMOUNT]
END
MODVAR "SIZE 100

But even things like WHILE can be implemented:

TO WHILE :COND :BLOCK
IF :COND [EVAL :BLOCK WHILE :COND :BLOCK]
END

And the blocks are just lists, so you could potentially rewrite them.

I was looking at Berkeley Logo to remind myself of the commands, and found that CASE (similar to switch) is implemented as a macro: https://github.com/jrincayc/ucblogo-code/blob/26ae6f01105832... – though it seems like it could be implemented just fine as a regular function. Though :caseignoredp is confusing me a bit... it's technically a dynamically-scoped variable that affects many comparison operations, but that wouldn't work with a macro. I wonder if that's a bug from when it was converted from a normal function to a macro.
The required storage time for nuclear waste in Germany is 1 million years. Storing anything safely for one million years in one of the most densly populated continents is a huge challenge and certainly not as easy as "just dump it somewhere in the desert".

Also: uranium is a finite resource. After it will have run out, it humanity will have to maintain and check these storage sites for that amount of time. Who is expected to pay this? People who don't profit from the power anymore? In my eyes the only solution is either transmutation into less harmful wastes (very costly) or paying the future storage cost for that timeframe upfront (very, very costly).
Lobbyists are not a conspiracy theory.
No matter if they act on behalf of businesses or state actors, one has to admit that they do exist and have influence over public policies.

Also, the fact that in most countries there are multiple hidden agents acting on behalf of other countries hardly seems to be a conspiracy theory as well.
Yep, this is ironic to say the least. I actually wanted to try it but the first step of escaping Google is switching to Firefox... so I couldn't install it.
Its about building a surface that will also survive the winter and the summer. Its a tricky problem to solve. We could probably replace this with tarmac that could survive much hotter temps, but would just crack and break in the winter when its gets too cold.
The ES6 additions were great. It's the ones post ES6 (like private fields) which are becoming increasingly questionable.
Finding problems earlier increases velocity, so I would expect the opposite. If people are spending all 8 hours coding it is unlikely they are producing good code.
Personally, I use Obsidian.md [1] to take notes, especially because there is an extension for excalidraw [2] that I particularly like.

To publish my notes, I use PineDocs [3] which generates a very nice website with the markdown files

I synchronize the machine that hosts PineDocs with my note-taking machine using Syncthing [4]

[1] https://obsidian.md/
[2] https://excalidraw.com/
[3] https://github.com/xy2z/PineDocs
[4] https://syncthing.net/
To be fair, for many many many people there is a requirement for deep, complex interop with C++. Even if you're getting started on a new project being able to easily leverage the C++ ecosystem could make or break it.
To be fair, that’s been a work in progress for years, and some lines do have AC. It’s not like they haven’t been planning for it at all.

IIRC a big difficulty is that the tunnels are extremely narrow, so it’s just difficult to get any extra equipment in there. (I wouldn’t have thought that’s insurmountable, though, so there’s probably more to it than that.)
Such offerings have discontinuities between tracks or beat matched transitions. These generated tracks are constructed to continue with the same themes and sounds as long as wanted. It may or may not be desirable, but it is different.
>Disneyland has become an activity for wealthy childless millennials

What on earth would be the appeal for people that do not have children? If I want rollercoasters I'll go to six flags.