skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wasn't it the great economist Milton Friedman who said, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs"? Or was that someone else who said that?

In all seriousness, the way the west (and California in particular) price water defies logic. All this talk about senior and junior water rights doesn't make any sense: it only benefits the entrenched incumbents. A properly setup market would simply price out water uses whose utility was materially less than demand of the produced product.
It's definitely beat for beat a description of Bear's Blood Music, although the story is about a scientist who uses genetic engineering to modify his white blood cells into a sort of primitive biological computer, and when his employers order him to destroy the cells, he injects himself with them to smuggle them out of the lab.

The work was originally a short story, but was later rewritten as a novel.
I just watched it for the first time, and it seemed like it was pretty innocent. Right after the moment in question, they point out a continuity error, and then go on to list several examples of the challenges of a complex production like that. It did not seem like they were blaming the VFX artists, just acknowledging that those movies are made at an insane scale. They didn't say it, but it seemed to me like they were both a little detached from the process due to its size, despite being nominally so crucial to it.
If the Boring Company's cost estimates are anywhere near realistic a 1500 mile tunnel isn't too far off the cost range of other big infrastructure projects.

(Yes I realize this taken with a heaping spoonful of "what if", there are far better things to spend this money on, unknowable environmental impacts, there is a personality cult around that company, etc.)
The problem with stuff like introducing .env support out the box is breaking backwards compatibility in a silent way, ie without any code changes and in a way that'd still run the same in dev, and pass tests on CI etc, and then just affect prod.

I know this shouldn't ever happen, but you can well imagine plenty of legacy/badly configured setups where it would. More pertinently, where it would no matter how loudly you warn about it in release notes etc.

When you're as mature and used a platform as node, you just can't risk things like this, unfortunately, no matter how more convenient it would be for the vast majority of users.
My sons schools use a system called PowerSchool for grade books. I wrote a little script I call powernag that scrapes and then txts them all their missing or incomplete assignments. They hate it, it’s perfect.
Any time the subject of electric car efficiency comes up the first comment is always "we should build trains." The perfect is the enemy of the good.

In the US, trains would require an expenditure of trillions of dollars with a multi-decade long fiscal commitment for an idea that's deeply unpopular with the citizenry. Ain't gonna happen here in our lifetime. Maybe in other countries, but not the USA.

You can buy an electric car today.
If it's good enough that Telegram wants to make unlicensed copies of specifically a set of emojis among other comparable designs, it would be hard for Telegram to argue that it's not original enough...
Thanks! OctoPrint's plugin system is what helped me ship a prototype quickly. The project would have ended up in the elephant graveyard otherwise. All of the optimizations (building tuned Linux kernel, rolling a distro, porting code to Rust) would have been daunting without OctoPrint's maker community cheering me on and enthusiastically testing PrintNanny.
For whom? The hundreds or thousands of people who need to be exploited under harsh conditions to make it a reality? Or the one person who gets a gadget?
We had a kids' birthday party ruined by UberEats. The pizza arrived 90 minutes after the original estimate. Some slippage may be unavoidable, but this was terrible. They just don't have any quality control. They can't predict when Uber drivers will be available.
On a lark recently, I tried to get node setup on my Win10 gaming box so I could try out a basic workflow and see how I liked it. My normal environment is using MacOS and Linux.

I don't remember any specific "wtf" details, but generally it was kind of a non-starter. I got node installed, but then there were issues with using that runtime for my simple server demo. The whole attempt was frustrating. Tried installing the pseudo Linux shell thing for the command prompt and I gave up trying to use that pretty quickly.

Obviously I'm not a native Windows developer. This was just me experimenting. I'm not sure how Win devs actually work these days on non-Win applications in any productive capacity.

I can easily get stuff done on MacOS and Linux but Windows is just this multi-decade old black box of cruft.
alex got good points here as usual.

it's been a long time since i've used node's built-in http module since I've found uwebsockets.js.
Yes and? EVAL isn’t call/return, it’s a mathematical function from type S-expression to type S-expression modulo some details. At least it was to start, Lisp now has side effects which considerably opens up the domain of easily expressed programs.

Perhaps you’re confused because you’ve never done anything nontrivial in a modern Lisp and the word function is so heavily overloaded?

Here[1] is an example of the Actor model expressed in Common Lisp. It shows a paradigm that is very much not call and return expressed cleanly and directly.

[1] https://github.com/naveensundarg/Common-Lisp-Actors
Definitely 'Blood Music' by Greg Bear.

They aren't Nanobots. The protagonist unofficially augments his own lymphocytes to create thinking 'noocytes' on company time and (mild spoiler) injects them into himself when his employer forces him to destroy this unauthorised experiment.

[Edit]

It's great sci-fi with elements of horror, especially when people who are immune to the noocytes discover what they are doing to the world. The "'integrating' him into the fabric of his house" you mention actually happens to different characters (at least in the novel), which is what is so horrific to immune people.

[Edit 2] Another book by Bear that suddenly swerves from sci-fi to horror is 'Psychlone', which has one of the most disturbing 'stuck in cabin in haunted woods' passages I've ever read. I actually got rid of my paperback copy because I really never wanted to experience it again. It now seems out of print, and is listed in Bear's wikipedia bibliography but doesn't have its own page.
If you’re into railroad photography, O. Winston Link is the dean of American railroad photography.

https://www.google.com/search?q=winston+link&client=safari&h...

Steam Steel and Stars is an amazing book.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Steam_Steel_and_Stars.h...
Seems like these protocols used a centralized service that provides information about which addresses are subject to OFAC and they just blindly used the results.
The ones you mention can be had on Linux too (optionally, as everything, of course). But one place where the Linux ecosystem is really behind is running untrusted applications.
Because a zero-day doesn't actually stop being a zero-day just because it's existed for more than 24 hours.
How do people find 0x.co to get the data out of the code? Maybe the code should be written like 0x.co/something instead of just 0xSOMETHING?
Libstdc++ errors notwithstanding, what about heartbleed?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed
Will that college degree pay off? You can see the numbers
I think people's psyche are less integrated than we realize. We're a bundle of emotions/desires all cohabitating. Some peoples subcomponents have good stable relationships with each other, others are chaotic and dysfunctional.
I’m already ill imaging imagining a wall sized screen swapping between two static background at 24fps
I do 100% of my browsing on firefox, but half of it is on firefox mobile. If i used chrome, that mobile portion would not have adblocking.
Income tax is 30-33% up to ~4500usd/month, for everything above it is 50-55%.
Capital income tax is 20-30% depending on the type of capital.
Boot speeds on the timescales in the video end up having little to do with horsepower once you get to having "some sort of SSD to load the boot image from" and "some sort of CPU that can at least decompress that in a reasonable time". It's more the "Wait here for 1 second for this hardware to probe", "Wait here for 5 seconds to see if the user wants to go into setup", "Wait here for network to timeout" type configuration items. Having a ton of high end hardware just makes this worse, more cores to initialize, more memory to initialize, more devices to probe.

I picked the low end fanless box as example because of this - it boots significantly faster than my high end box after all. It still loses out to how little a VM has to do while booting but not by much. It defaults to assuming a very short "wait on user" time for BIOS/UEFI, it has a mostly static and very simple hardware topology so doesn't need to dynamically load much during BIOS/UEFI, and systemd isn't told to do all those boot time loads/delays the Debian default config seems to have. For whatever you have "slimmed down" on it you're still trying to load nvidia GPUs, run cloud-init scripts each boot, and whatever networked service you mentioned thinks it needs to wait for network before letting the box finish booting is. Those kinds of things are what make the Debian VM boot slow, not systemd or necessarily the size of the kernel until the more noticeable things are fixed. Systemd is just what Debian uses to do those boot time things and if you did the same things with OpenRC or SysVinit or your own init system without changing what was being done it'd be a pretty slow boot too.

As for VPS if "not systemd" and small/fast/static are high or your list I'd highly recommend Alpine Linux over Oasis. It's known as the gold standard for containers but it makes a nice lightweight VM box too. I don't have anything against systemd but I did run Alpine as my standard VM image for a number of years and was very happy with it on the server side plus you get to keep convenient things like a package manager if you so desire. Their "Virtual" pre-built image will have the kernel image and firmware files slimmed down to the point you might not even care about trying to roll your own changes into it.
Maybe my standards are too low but the fact that we don't have societal wide unrest, mass murders, famine, revolutions and the like that was pretty common just 100 years ago is good enough to provide for an environment where scientific and technological progress can happen.
CBDCs will become the norm, the vast majority won't notice the change from what they do today. China is already blazing this trail though I expect the western version to be much different, more of a public/private partnership and a rise of thin banks.
If you're a founder of a startup working full-time and unable to pay yourself a salary yet, can you receive unemployment? (Maybe you would count this as "underemployment"?) What if you left your previous job voluntarily?
Not the OP, but in a similar situation. It’s amazing how much more time and energy you have available to do other things when you aren’t wasting time and energy (both physical and mental) on a stupid pointless commute.
The notion of growing "food" (i.e. almonds for export to China) in a desert is ludicrous, but how would you accomplish a ban on agriculture? At best, you might be able to create a program for farmers to give up their water rights in exchange for compensation. Even this is dubious, however. Water rights east of the Mississippi work differently than water rights to the west. In the west, they are based on seniority.
Downvoted for a wholly unnecessary Nazi comparison.
Everyone I know who has woodworking tools doesn't want other people to use them because

A) The tools are dangerous and they don't want people to cut off their fingers

B) they don't want other people to fuck up their blades because they are expensive
> And the way this system detected a process failure was to search the process list for a matching process. If we run the command super-ha-proxy..., and then it's in the process list, the process is working. If it's not in the process list, it must have crashed, exited, etc. and we need to launch a new instance.

> The supervisor script just starts detecting the old process, and has no idea that the additional instance has been launched

The number of times I've seen outages and weird flaky problems from some shitty script trying (and failing) to parse ps output...

daemontools, runit, s6, systemd, etc all solve this problem properly.
Very interesting, haven't even heard of bayesian filtering before and I work with email security on a daily basis.
That was a reaction to the direction of movies which eventually evolved into this, but sort of an overreaction in my opinion. Rules like "the camera must be handheld" and "the director must not be credited" seem unnecessary. It felt like that manifesto was meant to make an ideological point rather than to help make better movies. In practice, even most of its adherents broke those rules, because they were bad rules.

That said, while reading this article I did think about Dogme 95, and started wondering what a similar manifesto specifically related to the use of VFX would look like, if it were maybe a little bit less reactionary, and more tailored to "how do we make VFX an integrated, manageable, sustainable part of movies?". Has anybody done this already?
Not sure if being facetious, but just in case not or in case others are unfamiliar:

It's a quotation used by the socialist trio of Cabet-Blanc-Marx, and itself has origins in scripture, just with a materialist reframing, instead of a spiritual one.
Only if you make workspace-specific settings changes.
That's funny; I always thought my product manager was trying to make my head explode, what with the 45-minute stand-ups and all.
No, it was another capitalist thinker. He loved capitalism so much he even wrote a book about capital!
There are complex languages and there are readable languages. One language can be both at the same time, like Swift.

The syntax examples here is what makes C++ hard to read: scores of special symbols hiding rather simple underlying mechanism.
De gustibus non est disputandum - I like the original version much better than your proposal.
Why is that food grown in California rather than in places with better water situations?
There's one of these here in Brazil too: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposi%C3%A7%C3%A3o_do_rio_...
First commit tests for broken behavior and then fix it
>he’s a villain with good PR

In the context of Watchmen, he isn't the only character who fits the description.
I built https://www.musicetutor.com/ for music ear training and music theory in general. No marketing so far but its growing nicely.
This is exactly what it does. Tuning.
The honeycomb-dot-io case was bad, I attended their conference once and it was like I'd been suckered into a neverending timeshare sales tour. Thankfully I haven't noticed the domain on the frontpage lately.

Compare:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=honeycomb.io

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=metaplane.dev

Both look like they want to game HN pretty hard. If only they'd publish actual novel or interesting information instead of thinly veiled SaaS marketing!
What calls my attention of this story is that employees of that app would go through the trouble of creating a credible shopped image of her and sending it to all of her contacts. Do they have almost no clients, was the loan particularly big, do they have loads of employees just to do this...?
> Sounds like this was the job.

What does that mean? Sounds to me as if you were thinking that the CEO might in fact have been working for a competitor (I didn't downvote, just curious)
Climate migration growing but not fully recognized by world
> but none with a link to the specific explanation you have in mind. If you happen to know of a reference, it's a courtesy to others to provide it directly.

It is unclear what exactly you want explained to you. Or what reference you are referring to. I asked what patent you are pointing to as evidence of the allegation that you made and instead of addressing that, you're asking me for evidence that no such patent exists? How will I be able to do that?
Can you expand on this comment? It's a bit unclear, at least to me.
> There's a lot of agriculture that occurs in California.

in good part because California doesn't charge people a fair price for the limited resources.
The Colorado River Compact controls water allocations from the Colorado River, not the individual states. The problem is the compact allocates more water than is in the river on average historically.
You seem to have missed the bit where he asked the bank for his own money
Because nuclear energy is the only viable (with the ability to not be capital-intensive if NIMBYs can be excluded from processes like siting) energy option for a process as energy-intensive as desalinization is. However, there's no realistic hope of excluding them.
Getting a "This site uses features not available in older browsers" message with Falkon (!) so here's a snapshot from archive.org:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170222090404/https://wiki.c2.c...
https://hollr.at Got tired of having to resort to FB for our team sporting activity. It's been coming along for a few years. Once I finish the REST api and perhaps an iOS app (keeping my fingers crossed for push notifications so I don't have to) I'll at least do a Show HN.
It's a shame it didn't get more eyes at time, this is super cool!
Uber Open-Sourced Its Remote Shuffle Service for Apache Spark
>I wonder how it measures up to Julia

In what way?

Julia is of course an entire language ecosystem whereas lisp-stat is a collection of packages mostly maintained by a single dude.
Bullshit article from a bullshit website! The idea that everyone is now some slouchy, pot bellied, dry eyed slob as a result of WFH is just insulting people's intelligence.
I have the best luck just being honest and concise, know your number and ask if they can meet it. If not, no-one wastes their time. If they say the can but low-ball you, not a big deal, decline and move on.
The point is that it’s wrong, particularly for type 2 diabetics, and not just a little wrong, it’s dangerously wrong for type 2 diabetics to eat the way the organization that the medical establishment was relying on for providing sound diabetes advice was actually distributing dangerous advice. The general consensus for years relied on an assumption and confirmation bias driven by marketing rather than any actual science.
You can also buy an electric bicycle today, too, for 1/10 of the price of an EV.
(Off topic): this page linked at the bottom of cloud.gov is quite interesting. Visitor analytics for government sites.

https://analytics.usa.gov/
Why should they blanket ban loan apps?
That's finer grained than I imagined. I am assuming hashes for large pieces of code that are completely relocatable in memory.
Debian has reproducable builds going for it. I would be very interested in static gentoo like source distro though.
Teams is full of weird bugs and strange UI, but it is the only conferencing app I've used that seamlessly transitions between devices during a meeting.
Do you have resources on the simplest way to establish a startup in Germany?
I’m not holding my breath on makeup and skin care becoming meaningless in our societies for another 50 years.
As any machine learning dev knows, building an accurate utility function is a bugaboo.
"these apps are all running from China"

I'm curious about this. Can you please tell us more?
It could, but doesn't; I've been in the river south of Memphis once long ago and had some relevant experience but not expertise.

All hail the Army Corps of Engineers guys who actually design and are responsible for understanding our efforts to modulate that river. I've just helped scratch at the dirt in accordance with their directions a couple times.
Have you seen Buster Keaton’s Railrodder? It is his last project and is filmed across Canada.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Railrodder
the state gets away but at what cost?

lebanese pay it every day
Node never had a crown. It’s a dirty turd.
The importance of vacation for your career
Taking time off is very important for employer and employee. Learn how important vacation can be for your career.
Whenever someone estimates the time for some big project like this, "reviews and permitting and lawsuits" is always the biggest component. That's what scuttled the Huntington Beach desalinization plant.

After the Northridge Quake in LA, the Santa Monica Freeway was repaired in less than three months. Given the political will, the procedural roadblocks can be dealt with.

[1] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-04-06-mn-42778-...
What dreck. What was hurting my body and brain is the ~2 hours of commute I had to go through every day when I was working in the office.

Nowadays I can spend the extra time working out or taking care of myself.
The fact that other people are willing to pay money for a professional's work is a social signal that the work meets at least a minimum standard of quality or fitness to purpose.
This is going to be a god send for a lot of smaller gov agencies.
Deserts are great places to grow things if you have the water available. Basically the foundation of civilization. See Egypt and Mesopotamia. Almonds grow great in California and are a great cash crop. We need to trade something to China for all that stuff.
Nuclear engineer here, I can try.

Before you get cosmic energy out of nuclear fusion fuel (usually isotopes of hydrogen), you have to put a bunch of energy into the fuel to get it into fusion conditions. Namely, you have to heat it up and compress it so the nuclei get close enough to fuse (after which they'll release energy).

There are a few milestones along the way to commercial fusion energy:

* Get more energy out of a fusion fuel than you put into it

* Get more energy out of fusion fuel that it took you to make the energy you put into it

* Build a way to capture the net gain energy and convert it into electricity

* Demonstrate the integrated power plant as a prototype system

* Build and operate the first commercial power plant

* Assuming good economic and technical performance, start building a fleet

* Deal with fleet scaling issues

* Profit!

This is a celebration of the first bullet.
Thank you for your response. I agree that the art market deserves much more scorn than it receives.

Regarding your friend, I’m curious to know how competitive crypto is for your use case. Western union charges about 2% to transfer $5000 from the US to the Philippines and can deposit directly in a bank account. I understand that international wire transfers are comparable. Services like remitly appear to be even cheaper. How does crypto compare in price and convenience?
The code was taken down by a private company, where your free speech does not apply. This is closer to the debate about content moderation on social media, because after all, github is more like a social media site than most realize. GitHub suspended the developer accounts of their own accord, likely to cover their ass.

The Tornado Cash case is all about money laundering, the fact that there was code to automate the process is besides the point.
I have a thing that I do since years since I live in Vienna. I basically go around to at least 2-3 cafes a day, sit and work in one for a couple of hours, then walk to the next one for 4-5 kms and so on. On a typical day, I walk between 8-11 kms depending on the circuit I choose.

I have never enjoyed office atmospheres and need life/noise around me to be able to concentrate. I'm also fairly restless and need that walking to be able to think / clear my head.
Do analog computers have the same fundamental limitations?
Sometimes it not a good thing when it keeps people using JavaScript.
Actors are selling an image.