skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Secret: babysitters in Amsterdam are $12/hour.

Secret: housing is cheaper than most American cities.

Secret: graduating CS engineers make $45k.

Secret: the Dutch urban template is well suited to produce/expand new cities. And 50 years ago they made a massive new province just 15 minutes from Amsterdam by raising the land out of the water. There is plenty of room for growth.
> living on a ship for many generations.

Thanks to time dilation, with 1g of acceleration you can go anywhere in the galaxy and back in 40 years.
https://archive.ph/xBOgj
This is some advice I wish I received as a teen/young adult: good sleep is more important than you think, for your quality of life, longevity and achievements.

Sleep is also a very good canary.
> objet d'art

Why french?
A nuclear power plant went down when it's lake froze. Coal power plants did the same. Natural gas fared better when the supply wasn't frozen, because natural gas turbines don't require intensive cooling that steam generation does. And yes, it's really ironic that steam generation had to stop due to lack of cooling on the coldest day of the year.

Wind Turbine gearboxes froze up (oil congealed, not froze) because they were too cold and also not winterized. They could have been but they weren't.

Solar could have powered some people's homes, but most home solar turns off when the grid turns off.
Many of the problems seem to be because of the EU - maybe they should fix that instead of stopping growth?
> Always take sides. By not taking a side you are automatically wrong.

Hard disagree. Sometimes "I don't know, we should research that more" is the best response. Maybe even often rather than sometimes.
Two strong points for BearSSL:

- Its sans-I/O design. Too many networking-related libraries out there mix the protocol state machine logic and the I/O. In doing so, they impose a certain style of I/O and make it impossible to integrate with an existing event loop, unless you’re willing to sacrifice scalability by spawning a thread+semaphore for each connection. I’d love it if I could use libssh2 or libmysqlclient’s state machine with io_uring or DPDK! Other TLS libraries do have stuff like memory BIOs, but they’re managed by the library and force an extra memory copy to get your data to its final destination.

- No mutable global state. The fact that all functions are fully reentrant means that it’s easily usable in an interruptible context, common in freestanding environments or runtimes with fibers/coroutines.

The tradeoff is that it lacks TLS 1.3 and DTLS support. The latter in particular is something I look forward to so that a QUIC state machine in C is possible.
What to do when no one tells you what to do anymore (2021)
Talking about me: I'm very much abstract and academic and do not really care about practical applications. I went into Physics and realized how much I hated the lab and the more experimental oriented subjects: I love the Math sequences, love Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics, loved Special and General Relativity but hated Laser and Optics, hated Electrical Circuits, hated Nuclear Physics (prof was an experimentalist who talked endlessly about detectors).[1]

Nowadays the tendency remains: I love study Philosophy, Theology (even if I'm not religious), History, Math, Theoretical Physics and I love speculative or fantastical literature like Sci-fi, Fantasy, Occult, Conspiracy Theories... not because I believe them but because let me explore my own thinking.

Sometimes I wish I were more building oriented: it would help me in the working world. Projects, results, metrics, outcomes are all so tiresome.

[1]Thinking about it I should have done Math instead of Physics.
Twice as much capacity was taken offline from gas, coal and nuclear generators than from wind or solar.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/16/natural-gas-power-st...

In all cases it was because the infrastructure wasn’t hardened for the weather. This is something that they have now been doing I believe, although how ready they are will only be found out at the next big freeze.

Wind works fine in cold weather if you build it with the weather in mind. Cold states like Michigan have wind turbines and do just fine https://empoweringmichigan.com/how-do-wind-turbines-work-in-...
GM suspends advertising on Twitter to evaluate its direction under Elon Musk
Last century's space race hastened much discovery and many triumphs, and ended in collaboration(despite Putin's worst efforts). This one feels more like a cold war race. China is catching up fast, I hope we can bridge the divide before politics turns space into an environment of war games. We can only hope with tyrants & sociopaths driving the bus.
I recall reading Iceland could roughly sustain 50k people before the industrial era. It took them a long time to sustain the hundreds of thousands that live there today.
The reddit board of directors? That doesn't seem right https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/company/0893288D:US
The difference in performance between existing systems languages is greater than 1%. This is just not a big deal. People will not choose their systems language based on a 1% performance difference. It's so far down the list of considerations that it's a total non-issue.
They can turn the screws using trade deals, etc.
That's a better idea than raising interest rates but it has the downside that banks are so fragile nowadays that any raise in the reserve requirement could cause a chain of bankruptcies.
Essentially I see two competing processes here.

Google still has powerful boolean operators. If you use those with intentionality, and pick the hidden 'verbatim' option, you'll have a decent chance of finding what you need. However, these are all vestigial features that a minority of users employ.

The vast, vast majority of users are funneled into product choices. In a way, it helps to see that as the core function, and everything else as a secondary funnel towards that primary funnel. The search engine is designed to work so that people use it, but the end goal is for ads/SEO to be effective for the great mass of users that are particularly vulnerable to them. The GP was looking for price differences, which is something many websites base their business off of, but that's still a tiny portion of the whole and not something Google needs to optimize for compared to the misleading but lucrative results the GP had to sift through.
"How to do nothing"
No doubt they'll attempt to crawl and their webmaster console will say so, I just think it's important to verify the request actually made it to your server via your own server logs in cases where you're using a WAF like Cloudflare, just to ensure that Bing saw what you intended to serve them. If they're reporting 4xx errors, it could just as easily be a WAF giving them the code, or your server but judging by your response, it wouldn't be your server. The server logs would explain away some of the issue.
Then in the spirit of democratic values, I oppose the world you think we should (or do) live in. I hope a sufficient number of others will as well. I think we can and should aspire for more.
Soon someone will enter here and tell why nuclear anyhow is the answer to all problems and worries.

Great to see this in Texas! Didn’t know they were big in this
Sometimes I wonder if I'm not depressed because of all those economic choices that makes no sense to me. I have known about climate change for 20 years now, since I was a teenager, which is why I never really wanted to have a car or get money.

I guess one person can become depressed because the world doesn't make sense.
Solar worked fine during the winter storm.
Spec fiction - Nona the Ninth (my review: https://timothyrice.org/nona/)

Third entry in the absolutely fantastic Locked Tomb series by Tamsyn Muir. Highly, highly recommended it.

https://www.goodreads.com/series/229503-the-locked-tomb
The very vast majority of native games I played don't have the kind of lag that unity games have (and seem to do much more things). Only very bad one I could remember was Neverwinter nights 2.. that one was really unplayable even on god-tier computers
Would be great to get some context / examples around some of these
The formal place to start is by talking to the architect handling the remodel and to other people on campus,

Particularly the physical plant, facilities management, and instructional technology.

Because that will give you a practical starting point of agreement with the professionals who will ultimately make the decision.

Lay a foundation for having an opinion formed from relevant considerations. Satistically you are not the expert here. At best you'll be a trusted collaborator. At worst, sand in the gears.

I mean everything has to fit withing the allocated budget, time frame, and support/maintenance criteria.

Good luck.
I had one of those buttons. I got it at one of the regular Usenix conferences, as I recall, or perhaps at LISA.
> I'm pretty sure this is related to people "on the spectrum" often having low "theory of mind" capabilities. People without that will just assume people know what they know, and proceed to fail at communicating with those who don't.

The OP overstated things, but it isn't completely wrong to conclude the basic idea from your above statement.

Also, the OP did not say you wrote it, so maybe being less pedantic would help the situation.
Sex God Method.
Never be humble. Business does not care about you, it’s not the world to be humble in.
The Netherlands has the majority of the worlds exports of fresh flowers. That doesn't include domestically grown and sold flowers.
What do you mean by "fixing that". Increasing even more emission limits? We are already going down a serious climate change path, so let's contribute even more on that front?
I’d recommend So You Want to Learn Physics… by Susan Rigetti: https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics
No, I'm not convinced that the vulnerability is something I need to care about, because there's no details about it. I can make that determination when I have details. I am well aware of that project's history. I see no information given that would imply this to be anything more special than a regular update for me, for which the process I have already streamlined. I understand the practice of not giving the details until there's a patch and I'm OK with that, but there's now been over 10 submissions to HN about it with over 150 combined comments and all we know is that an update is coming. I'm not buying into the hype.
I would be more interested in an induction cooker that has a traditional mechanism of action, but with a far more user-friendly, analog control scheme.

The primary challenge with induction is that you cannot really control the heat transfer with cookware placement. There are some that try to emulate this but it is "laggy" and inconsistent at best.

For whatever reason, my brain keeps coming back to something approximating a foot pedal you can use to directly control the amount of current that flows through the element. Remove all of the digital control circuitry and let the user be 100% in the loop. Safety issues be damned. Many are cooking with open flame, so I really don't see the relative concern here.

Today, I prefer induction simply because of the speed. I can bring several liters of oil up to 400F in < 4 minutes. Boiling water for tea takes less than 45 seconds. The tradeoff is the heat control. I've got 5kW of power, but its wrapped in these horrible kid gloves right now.
> The Earth has a heat budget, where it can only emit so much heat over time

Yes, but it's much higher than most think. We're already creating technology like paints and evaporators that downconvert and upconvert photons into a band of the infrared spectrum that passes straight through the atmosphere and into space. Read up on passive radiative cooling, fascinating stuff:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_daytime_radiative_cool...
yes, it would be much better if we could somehow do divergent even competing innovation in a more controlled manner. It is a good idea to have a red team vs blue team approach, but only if there is an overarching structure governing them!
This article is really bad and self defeating:

"This does not mean that Mr Putin is about to bow out, be overthrown or fire a nuclear weapon."

I don't like Putin as well, but there's no analysis in this article.
I'm not making those assumptions. You should come to TW and do some bike-riding around the island sometime. It's beautiful.
Wirth’s law. Lack of good or clear design. Lack of concern? Less well-defined process?
The thing is that unless there's some underlying fundamental principle of reality itself that guarantees that every intelligent civilization turns to VR to such an extent as to completely lose interest in reality, it's still very strange that we don't see the galaxy buzzing with life.

There are just so many planets out there that even a 99.9999% chance of VR obsession taking over a civilization should mean having a very visibly living galaxy.

Personally I think that one of the bigger explanations (I think there are likely to be several layers to the paradox) might be that as civilizations grow they naturally focus on becoming more efficient, which effectively makes them more stealthy. We see this with ourselves, where our radio emissions have gone down in transmission power over time and the switch to high frequencies and digital has made them more akin to noise which does not travel very far before becoming effectively impossible to detect. I think our gradual shift towards sources of energy that pollute less is more of the same.

Similarly, while an early interstellar civilization might expend the vast amounts of energy needed to cross the gulf between stars in biological time scales, a more advanced interstellar civilization has very likely achieved some form of immortality (like giving up biology and becoming digital) and may have no reason to try to be much faster than a rock thrown out by its star (in part because when you're effectively immortal grey goo, even a galaxy worth of energy might be something to conserve to maximize your civilization's survival).
The entire concept behind a demurrage currency is to turn paper currency(and demand deposits) into money that always circulates and certificates of deposit into money that never circulates.

When you do that, then you can control inflation simply by controlling the supply of paper currency. Like the monetarists suggested.
The fonts are way too big.

The answer to your problem is for you to increase your default zoom level to a comfortable level, not for individual web sites to use non-standard big font sizes.
Dumb question: why would someone use an alternative library for something as important as encryption?
That ruling is (a) only relevant in California, (b) has been significantly narrowed since it was issued in the 1970s, and (c) involved political solicitation, not simply yelling slurs.
I'd probably go even further and say that if there's any hidden check or restriction on reading or writing from a pointer, then it's not a systems language. I'm glad D does not have anything like that.
Isn't child care sort of socialised in Dutch? Through a combination of generous parental benefits, child care facilities (day-care/school) etc.,? I lived in Amsterdam for a short period and no one I knew had a regular babysitter. It seemed as if there are regulations around having a child care facility in the vicinity of every X number of houses.
I'd suggest searching HN for other reviews of the book since it comes up pretty frequently in these threads, but personally I liked that it covered a lot of ground quickly and fairly deeply, and the content remained engaging for me throughout. Some specific things I liked about the book were its coverage of SQL isolation levels and how they work, different ways to coordinate separate systems when you want atomicity (like 2pc and queue-based synchronization), failure modes to keep in mind when dealing with distributed systems (like unbounded network delay and split-brain situations), and references to a whole bunch of production-ready software that solve distributed computing challenges in various ways depending on the trade-offs you're looking for.

Overall I felt better equipped to make intelligent decisions about systems design after reading it.
> where each part could be GCed separately

That would mean disallowing cyclical references across different GC heaps; non-cyclical references would just create additional GC roots. It would be a step away from totally automated memory management and towards something closer to "smart" reference counting.
I'm a long way from Texas. Should I note this as a win for the free market or is there something going on here?
worth noting the moment: private sector corporate actors, contesting public sector cultural concerns.
That makes sense, although these topics could still potentially be mentioned in the documentation.
Housing costs is something that gets more complicated the closer I look. The mere material shell is literally dirt cheap, and can be made by someone in a jungle who starts by looking for rocks to bash together to make an axe to chop wood to fire clay into bricks and use the ash as mortar: https://youtu.be/eesj3pJF3lA

But the shell isn't the expensive part. Even for much newer and fancier places, like where I live, most of our iconic cityscapes are either over a century old or from the immediate aftermath of WW2, and in either case made with and for a much lower income economy.

What's really expensive is the land, and for that we bid against each other for the right to be close to the interesting things. The interesting things can be specific cultural centres, or good schools, or economic hubs; but it also includes the physical infrastructure, the roads and electricity and sewage systems.
Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died
> Is Europe trying to destroy American companies

In the same way that the EU's food regulations are bad for companies that produce pink slime from beef paste.

We've seen time and time again, that if there are no regulations in place to advance consumer's interests, then corporations will take the most profitable path, which is often a user hostile one.
Final frame composition can occur on the home PC to avoid input latency concerns.

I envision some combination of LFNs and diffusion; you could produce near approximations of likely desired scenes and have the client select and refine WRT its input and previous state.
Advertisers have always been choosy about what kind of content their ads are placed near.
Open Source and the Hyphen
We are 100% convinced that if you want to save time on development, you need to be using a component based framework for internal applications, where exact looks aren’t as important as functionality. PrimeFaces provides an incredible amount of components.

The other indispensable technology is CDI. This dependency injection specifications is very minimal and allows you to do perfect composition with your code, and makes mock testing with Mockito a breeze.

Quarkus is awesome, but it can’t run PrimeFaces directly. This would be best the best back, and if you wanted to write an SPA.

Another option is TomEE, which can run PrimeFaces, but it’s quirky. This would be best if you want to write a full stack application.

Spring/ThymeLeaf is quite good but is not a component framework. This is sort of in between and follows the MVC pattern.

There are so many choices compared to other languages and Java is faster than everything else out of the box.
The untold history of macOS System Preferences (2020)
I can't imagine the data is particularly forthcoming. Especially considering the social dynamics autistic people struggle most are verbal tone and body language which don't really affect text based communication.
European here.

The EU is not Europe (although the EU often conflates the two).

No citizen ever voted for any of the commissioners that come up with these regulations.
The unified theory is that Dylan just sort of smooshed together music and poems into new songs, like a sausage making machine.

> Which leads us to my Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan. The theory isn’t especially complicated or even novel... In order to stave off creative exhaustion and intimations of mortality, Dylan has, over and over again, returned to what fed him in the first place—the vast tradition of American song. Anytime he has been in trouble, he could rely on that bottomless source.

> “These songs didn’t come out of thin air,” he said. “I didn’t just make them up out of whole cloth. . . . It all came out of traditional music: traditional folk music, traditional rock and roll, and traditional big-band swing orchestra music. . . . If you sang ‘John Henry’ as many times as me—‘John Henry was a steel-driving man / Died with a hammer in his hand / John Henry said a man ain’t nothin’ but a man / Before I let that steam drill drive me down / I’ll die with that hammer in my hand.’ If you had sung that song as many times as I did, you’d have written ‘How many roads must a man walk down?’ too.

> “All these songs are connected,” he went on. “I just opened up a different door in a different kind of way. . . . I thought I was just extending the line.”

I though that was sort of a given. That's how creativity seems to work for everybody. I'm trying hard to think of some exceptions. I don't know that it's "unified" either, since it doesn't explain why his songs are different than other people's songs. It doesn't explain very much, really.

But it's still a pretty good article. I liked that it wasn't trying to destroy the myth or somehow take down the artist, which I was afraid it would try to do.
This is how I started out as a contractor / freelancer. I got a call via my website to help a local company rescue a project that was suffering some problems having been worked on by not-so-great offshore companies. You may be well suited to and enjoy challenging projects. After 13 years however, I've got quite tired of a high percentage of projects that are hard for the wrong reasons, and correcting common avoidable mistakes. It seems to be that companies that hire contractors have something lacking in house (that's not true all the time by the way, there are plenty of other good reasons for using temporary contracts). It's been a great education in how not to do something, but now I want projects that are hard for more novel reasons.
I'll let you in on something else that used to be a conspiracy and is now true. They did it on purpose. Between sanctions and tarifs the Chinese economy was being crushed by Trump. They needed a way to reset the world economy.
I reiterate my opinion about well-known providers, and do not believe that any good faith discussion can happen here.
Except it's not true. Here's the relevant part of the terms of service at https://stackoverflow.com/legal/terms-of-service/public#lice... :

> You agree that any and all content, including without limitation any and all text, graphics, logos, tools, photographs, images, illustrations, software or source code, audio and video, animations, and product feedback (collectively, “Content”) that you provide to the public Network (collectively, “Subscriber Content”), is perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Overflow on a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive basis pursuant to Creative Commons licensing terms (CC BY-SA 4.0), and you grant Stack Overflow the perpetual and irrevocable right and license to access, use, process, copy, distribute, export, display and to commercially exploit such Subscriber Content,

So, Stack Exchange does not "all your intellectual property". You still control the copyright and free to use it elsewhere - that's the "non-exclusive basis" part.

You can also use someone else's contribution, under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 terms.

And, while I've never tried it, all of the contributions are available for bulk download from https://archive.org/details/stackexchange .