skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 1. It takes 20 years to build a nuke plant, 2 years to do wind and 6 months to do solar. Solving the problem 20 years from now is not solving the problem.

As another comment suggested, it shouldn't take 20 years to build a nuclear power plant. "Modern nuclear power plants are planned for construction in five years or less" [1] (with delays, as with all projects of such scale).

> 2. In case you haven't noticed, the wind subsidies are now negative. Wind subsidizes natgas, not the other way around.

Then why is there still a "green tax"? If wind is as great as suggested, why is it being invested into natural gas, and not into more wind?

> 3. If the lithium supply gets cut off, existing EV's don't stop working. If gasoline gets cut off, gasoline cars are stranded. EV's are crucial for self sufficiency.

Lithium is just one raw material, out of many. It's not just power generation, we need massive investments into the electrical infrastructure, green energy to actually supply it (or it's pointless) and a way to feed power from EV's back into the grid on mass (to make up for the shortcomings of green energy). Some of these things will take years and years to fix. Look at how long it took to roll out fiber across the UK, and that's just a small glass cable. In the meantime, the Country actually needs to be able to run.

EVs will one day be the future in one form or another (I still think hydrogen could make sense), but for now and the near future petrol and diesel are here to stay. 2030/2035 will come and go without mass adoption of EVs (the typical lifecycle of a car is much longer than the intended 10 years). I suspect we will see more and more hybrids at that time to aid the transition, but we still won't have the infrastructure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_pla...
Not necessarily. Jackson is a typical blue city in a red state. Even before all the gerrymandering, a single city won’t have enough political power at the state level. Given the political differences, state officials can withhold funding or hold back on maintenance without much repercussions.
I'd like to think someone has asked a Down's Syndrome person what they think of this.
You’re talking about unknown unknowns. You can’t deal with the problem unless you know the problem actually exists.
Personally I believe in climate change but how are data points like this supposed to prove/disprove? Only ~12000 years ago there was a shift from the ice age and rapid flooding. Probably not man made and very recent. All evidence points to climate change being semi-cyclical and around as far back as we can gather data points. The cycles are very long relative to individual human lifespans but very short and frequent in the grand scheme. To me this is reason enough to make an educated guess that humans can affect the climate with our outputs. But it also makes it nearly impossible to disentangle natural changes from man made ones using science.
I understand conceptually how you could architect a desktop/server OS based on a local database instead of a local filesystem, and it's deeply intriguing to me in terms of how everything could share a common data language that is far more flexible than files but far more structured than text. Presumably things like terminal output would be formatted as query results instead of text. The database wouldn't reside in files on disk, it would reside directly in blocks on disk and in-memory as required.

But this seems to be proposing a distributed database that runs across computers, which confuses me. Anything that runs across computers seems to me to be application-level, not OS-level, by definition. What does it even mean to be running a distributed database on "microkernel services" instead of on fully-fledged OS's? And then... where is the OS-level CPU coming from? If the database is distributed among computers then fine, but which computer is "running" the OS?

Both the nomenclature and distributed aspect are really throwing me off here.
Paganitzu, Hugo's House of Horrors, Corncob 3D, Jetpack
In reality, TX cities are largely copying CA cities' worst policies in terms of preventing new housing construction; we need to fundamentally allow landowners to build as much housing on that land as any given land owner wishes to build.

But what about all the “affordable” destination cities? Restrictions there are, in most cases, just as bad. Duplexes and fourplexes are banned in 84 percent of residential neighborhoods in Charlotte. In Salt Lake City, minimum-parking mandates mean that apartments can’t be built without either towering garages or huge lots. In Austin, naysayers have successfully delayed a liberalizing zoning overhaul for a decade. And even in pro-growth states such as Georgia, California-style NIMBYism stands in the way of new housing in most suburbs.

To the extent that these cities were ever affordable, it was because they had undeveloped land on their periphery, where developers could build low-density residential subdivisions—just about the only thing that zoning doesn’t prohibit. But as Dallas is discovering, you eventually run out of vacant land within a reasonable commute of job centers. In Miami, local policy makers are even rolling back flexible-zoning rules in a brazen attempt to block new infill development.
Note that you could just setup/run brew as another Admin useraccount (without using sudo.)

So from your main non-Admin account you can then do `su - myadminuser` to then run `brew install vim`, etc.
You’re not understanding his argument. Medieval Europe didn’t have this internalized concept of race or skin color like we do - they categorized people more by religion (catholic, Protestant, Muslim) or origin.
There might be a certain threshold of foreground/background integration in your favorite example, but the games mentioned as examples predate Baldur’s Gate, which kind of answers your question, right? If we’re talking about just the concept of a pre-rendered background, games have done that since the early 70s or earlier.
This reminds me of War of the Worlds, where the martians had no diseases and thus no immune system. When they came to earth they died from diseases.

A society like that, with no defenses, would be very vulnerable. That's why it's better to actually have some bad actors to keep "selective pressure" on societies so we evolve our defenses.
You think you're being flip, but you're closer to right than you probably expect.
It’s not okay. The whole appeal of AI generated art is you don’t need someone with skills. Photoshop is not even close to an analog.
Wait till you find out about rural Alaska.
Except go's defer is scoped to the function, instead of the innermost enclosing scope.
So is everything fine until Earth becomes Venus?

A decent chunk of the Earth's landmass (where a TON of people currently live) is going to get pretty bad if temperatures rise 3C.

At 35C in India - it's believed even healthy young people can die in just 6 hours of exposure.

This will happen regularly if temperatures rise 3C.

India will be home to maybe 2B in 2050 - when many climate projections say this will happen.

I'm optimistic we won't reach 3C of warming by 2050. But it seems within reason that it could happen.
I wasn't talking about the lawsuit. I am not interested in the lawsuit.

Since you wish to dwell on the mundane, however:

You can throw a tantrum for any reason you like. It is your god-given right as a human to throw a tantrum, and it is constitutionally protected, to boot. Additionally, you can sue any american for any legally based reason you can think of. That is also a legal right afforded to you. You have a right to seek remedy under law for legal matters if you feel so inclined. It is additionally your right to not advocate for pet's rights. It is lastly your right to not raise money for a shelter.

Victim blaming and then going on to expect a victim to arbitrarily perform moral penance to your standards in lieu of seeking restitution is a bizarre position. The courts will promptly resolve this business in due course and in concert with lawyers will bill the victim accordingly for the cost of their use.
That was the most shocking thing to me when I visited the United States for the first time in my live last month, the road system is so incredibly poorly maintained and so incredibly poorly thought out. It all is incredibly expansive but not maintained.

That being said I only saw 3 (eastern) states, maybe it's different elsewhere.
Every time I've said "value == value; value != location" on HN I strangely get downvoted to oblivion. If I am getting $1,000 a day in Los Angeles, just because I decided I wanted to go live in a midden in the Outer Hebrides, it doesn't alter the value I provide, but immediately people trot out the "low cost of living" argument as though they are eager to throw themselves on any business' sword of justification for paying less money for the same thing. If I buy a Macbook Pro in SF or in Upper Tobago (we don't do Lower Tobago, the internet is lousy and there aren't any good restaurants), Apple ain't giving me a discount based on whether I am in a HCOL vs a LCOL (local taxes and minor exchange rate fluctuations not withstanding). I don't understand why so many contractors, especially in this remote era, are so eager to do the same and also tell everyone else why they should be paid less too. I'll keep banging this drum about "value == value" even if it means taking some lumps with it.
With the D programming language, to interface with C's stdio.h:

import stdio;

void main() { printf("hello from D!\n"); }

is all that's necessary, as D has a built-in C compiler that reads stdio.h, compiles it, and presents its interface to the D code.
They are two byte per item; it's the bitmaps (>4k entries) that use 1 bit per item.
It's entertainment and the entertainment factor is what gets measured.

Fargo had 10x less budget and was much more entertaining.
'Normal' people have not exactly covered themselves in glory in how they have been running the world lately. It's just possible that Down's Syndrome people have got it right and we are the abnormal ones.
not the one who downvoted you, but backblaze has similar pricing: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/cloud-storage-pricing.html
Conspiracy theory hogwash. Doggerland is well-discussed.
What an incredible career. His work made the internet so much better for all of us. RIP.
I imagine that most people haven’t thrown gasoline on a fire. Surely they can’t understand making something bad way more worse than it was.
From the article:

> Since it was installed in your home directory - no need to change any permissions. No sudo required.

Although I'd argue sudo vs no-sudo-but-in-your-home-directory is the same difference. Local exploits are trivial to find, plentiful and still not even necessary: 99% of the time some sloppy local configuration can be exploited to gain root access. I've switched to "let's try a few minutes on our own before asking the admin" a long time ago - and haven't required an admin's help ever since..
Wonder how comfortable they are for people who already wear glasses.
No, it's sample bias. You only notice when institutions fail. You don't notice the thousands of bureaucratic processes that work exactly how they're supposed to.
Thanks for the in-depth reply - that's exactly the sort of fuel for the mind that I hoped for when posing my questions.
This is tangential but kind of on-topic since Tavis mentions KF in the replies, but I’ve found it pretty amusing that Cloudflare’s position on enabling doxxing, harassment and DDOS-for-hire has been “Aw shucks, we’re just too darn powerful to do anything about any of this!”

It’s as if anybody could fall ass backwards into a situation where they built up an organization that dictates what’s on the internet as a whoopsie, and oh no, you too would have to enable harassment, doxxing and DDOS-for-hire because shucks, all that darn unlimited, unchecked and unregulated power, access to money and legal resources is actually the same thing as having no power at all! Poor Cloudflare, they can do literally whatever they want and that means they can’t do anything at all!
Mississippi's GDP per capita is roughly between Spain's and Portugal's, so by global standards, the state is actually quite wealthy -- definitely wealthy enough to ensure everyone has drinking water in all its cities.
No. This is doomerism rooted in nostalgia
Here's total percentage of employment in agriculture going back to 1991: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SL.AGR.EMPL.ZS?end=2019...

One and a half billion people are no longer behind a water buffalo.

"There’s someone in Bangladesh who would almost surely be a better economics professor than I am"

I literally can't even.
> Does anyone get the point with Artemis?

Making Senators happy.
Sometime in the 70s there was a reduction of federal funding and thus an expectation that the state could shoulder the costs of infrastructure. Combined with white flight that took potential tax base elsewhere, it became very difficult to support maintenance at this level.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/11498/under-the-surface...
We don't know that it hasn't left any physical evidence behind. The origin of many archaeological artifacts are not known for certain. It's possible that there is pottery and other artifacts from Atlantis that we've already unearthed.
I’m a big fan of SpaceX and (when he can keep his mouth shut about US politics and a dozen other things) Elon Musk, but they’re hardly the first ones to launch without regular scrubs. ULA does it all the time. So does arianespace. The Russians are pretty good at it, though aerospace is yet another sector of their economy being destroyed by Putin), and the Chinese seem to get off the ground with some regularity.

It’s about mature vs immature vehicles, mostly. Much as I loathe the entire SLS program and design of the rocket, it is not because they’re having some trouble with scrubs. That’s going to happen with a unique, complex, and new system.
Related: my latest discovery is Thunderbolt networking.

I have my main machine with everything on and my personal machine I use for testing and web browsing. They both have access to the same files at warp speed. If I then disconnect I can use wifi or I can use the internet.

The lack of latency enables keyboard/mouse sharing across my two machines to work seamlessly. Finding files is at native speeds.

The two machines 'research' and 'development' on their little Thunderbolt connection backup with rsnapshot to a low power NUC that just does backups and hosts 'assets' (images).

The assets sync with rsync to their respective project folders, the rest of the project is updated on a per machine basis with version control and deployment scripts.

I have the home router accessible by FQDN with reserved MAC addresses and port forwarding. This sits behind a CDN that is there to fend off any unwelcome visitors as well as to experiment with content delivery. It is my take on a locked down 'origin server'.

If you setup all of the networking options, for example NFS, SSHFS and SAMBA then you can create a network that can be used by wider members of the team working from home. For example art workers.

If you have buy in from the artworkers then consider NextCloud etc.

I run certbot on the local machines, so everything is https FQDN rather than IP addresses.

Motivation for this setup is in part ease of testing on mobile. I have no use case for wanting to ssh in or browse my file system from my phone.

I do not like using a VPN and setting up OpenVPN is not something I enjoy. I like UFW, bare metal, mod security, public/private key and generally upping my security game without there being passwords. I have 2FA for lots of things now.

I can share my work in development without it being on the official staging server, I can even check the logs to see if interest has been expressed.

For email I don't trust myself to maintain and update that bale of Postfix and all the rest of it. Not bothering with email (I run mailhog) is a good way to cop out of building a full beast of a server.

I use JetBrains Space to keep organised. It does lots of things that mean I can access my todo list and glorified bookmarks, not to mention repos, anywhere including on my phone to some extent.

This means that I don't really have to use a dropbox clone. I have a single source of truth on my backup server for the 'assets' that need to by rsynced across places. I can casually surf my LAN wherever I am or do things in my IDE with a ssh mounted drive if I need to get to the /etc folder (which is not shared).

Soft links are your friends, as are hard links.

By all means setup something that does every possible scenario, however, you might find it is just going to be people in the wider team that need a Dropbox feature, normal backups with rsnapshot work great, rsync with its options to exclude stuff is good for sharing to development environments in combination with version control. With router configuration and FQDN you can make this work elegantly. Finally, Thunderbolt networking in your own home is a good way to use your personal machine to test your work at silly speeds.
From the NYT article it looks like the state legislature holds the purse strings on any federal funds that might help:

"the State of Mississippi received $75 million to upgrade drinking water systems across the state, with an additional $429 million coming available over the next five years. But that money is in the hands of the state Legislature, not Jackson officials."
It’s well on the way to being fixed already.

https://www.wjtv.com/news/jacksons-water-crisis/more-improve...
California does certain things better, but we also manage to burn down half the state every summer.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/california-wildfires-grow-...

Today we're in the middle of a power shortage, to the extent that EV owners are asked not to charge their cars.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/california-electric-vehic...

Some small towns have literally run out of water.

https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2021/06/california-...

I'm not trying to excuse the negligent mismanagement of Jackson's public water system, just pointing out that there are serious infrastructure problems nationwide. The bill is coming due.
Theses graphs are always so useful on IMDB. The popular or controversial movies are always like that, usually it's less bad and you can actually see the normal distribution in the general population, but we are lucky to have the top 1000 raters in this case.
I doubt it. The current system is a local optimum. Better local optimums already exist elsewhere.

In The Netherlands, direct online payments using debit cards are very common. These are secure payments, verified through a bank’s mobile banking app or internet banking with 2FA.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEAL

This means there is no risk for the seller that a payment gets reversed. There is fraud, but it centers mostly on social engineering people to authorise payments for others, or to mail their debit card to “the bank” for “recycling”.

Cost per payment: about 30 cents.

Meanwhile, in other countries, credit cards are the common online payment option. Security? A number on the front of the card and a “secret” second number on the back of the card.

Cost: 1.5-3.5% of payment.

Better security is possible, but it’s hard to move from a local optimum when you’re locked into a certain ecosystem.

The credit card no-security scheme works because everyone gets reimbursed for fraud. It comes at the cost of retailers handing a few percent of every transaction to intermediaries, instead of just a few pennies.
One shouldn't generally expect the application of a single chemical hormone to improve cognitive performance. The brain is a computer, and doing this is roughly the equivalent of hooking up either side of a microprocessor with jumper cables and expecting it to "compute better". However, there could be an exception if the reduction of GnRH is one of the only significant effects of the duplication of chromosome 21, which is probably not true - but maybe.
Yes I walked around with a 640x480 monocular display tethered to a compactflash card in my toshibia e750 pda with usb host controller, around 20 years ago.
Of course I didn't do desktop work with it, but I looked up offline wikipedia entries (in tr3/tomeraider3 format), read books, watched slideshows and played interactive fiction.

I could do that lying on my bed or sitting in public transport. The only problem was that when I was walking I noticed that I was walking in a sinus wave. I never noticed that as I never had something to read so close attached to my eyes . The problem with this is that my right eye clear real world vision merged with the left eye 640x480 display vision creating an transparency effect on the virtual window. So in essence when I was moving I struggled to read the sentences on a moving background. If it was sideways it would be less of a problem, but it was up and down. Obviously you don't have that problem on a bike, but then it could be dangerous. But sitting and worknig should be ok, it would just take a little bit getting used to, but I guess it would a bit be less ideal then a fixed in space desktop like with the Oculus or Hololens.

For brightness, I used it in broad daylight, I could still see the virtual screen brightly.

Some time later I did the same with a eMagin800 HMD which had a 800x600 screen for the left and a 800x600 for the right. I used that for winamp stereoscopic visualisation. So for these types of applications it's for sure great.
It's actually a similar price in Germany. There are higher paying jobs in Berlin, but in general it's not unusual to have this price in Europe. France and Spain is even lower.
I can certainly identify with this.

Having done enterprise java for so long, I strive to be as reductionist and minimalist as I can be in order to avoid dependencies outside the JDK.

Vying for "you aren't going to need it", trying to keep things as simple as I can.

But it also comes down to not overcomplicating stuff we've already written.

Obviously there's an urge to reuse your own libraries, but you have to strive to not overcomplicate them as they're applied to new use cases as you drive the peg in to a rounder hole.

It's very easy to FactoryFactoryFactory in Java, but flexibility and configurability leads to complexity and black hole of combinatorial testing.

Almost better to fork the earlier library and hammer it to fit the new space without regard to its old use in the other system. But that leads to file replication (notably files of the same name doing subtly different things). And there it's a challenge to go "gee which one should I use" when you're working on version 3, when what should be happening is "pick the best one" and keep hammering.

We used to have our general purpose "catch all" library which, in the end, indeed, "caught all". "Oh look, somehow I have jars from Clojure, Groovy and Scala, when all I wanted was a URL Builder."
I could not disagree more. The proletariat has no voice in a country where actual bribery has been legally upheld by the highest court.
Compared to where though? The US is huge. Parts of it are shiny and new and parts of it are old and decrepit, just like Europe, Israel, Mexico, South America, etc.
No. The person you are replying to is talking about the sparse leaf case where the contained integers are actually being stored (to be more precise the low bits are being stored) in a sorted structure. The switch to the bitmap occurs when the sparse structure takes the same number of bits to directly encode the sparsely contained items. In this case they use a 2^16 bitmap and encode sparse elements using 16-bits, so it occurs at ((2^16 / 16) == 2^12) elements.