skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have relatively few regulations on ag land usage so farmers saturate their fields with nitrates which inevitably run off into our water system to the point where there isn't a river in Iowa which isn't unsafe for swimming and drinking water becomes polluted.

https://apnews.com/article/politics-environment-iowa-des-moi...

Farmers don't care. They care about profits, not sustainability which is why they are fine letting the top soil just erode away. They know at some point they will be bailed out despite their complete irresponsibility in managing their resources.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-say...

Finally, there is some talk about gravel roads being the right choice for rural areas but that's not so clear cut. The cost for maintaining gravel roads is significantly higher than indicated and you often need more than just a grader and dump truck because these roads are prone to washing out which requires major repair. The initial cost of paved roads is higher up front, but the maintenance costs are lower over time. Gravel needs to be maintained yearly.

https://blog.midwestind.com/road-maintenance-costs-unpaved-v...

Rural residents rarely feel the actual cost of maintaining their lifestyle. Miles and miles of county roads servicing a handful of people a day. In Iowa roughly 40% of the population lives in rural areas and there are 98,000 miles of road to support them. While the other 60% of the population needs 17,000 miles of road to support their daily activities and that's putting all highways on the city side of the budget. Rural residents love to talk about how much cheaper their lifestyle is, but they are being heavily subsidized by people who live in the suburbs and urban areas while pretending to be "fiercely independent" and "self sufficient".
Need for better awareness around timing of electricity usage among customers
Yup - Lake Baikal. Holds about 20% of the world’s fresh water.
I think there's a lot to be said about smart home devices and accessibility. I could imagine voice assistants controlling devices for those with vision impairments or mobility impairments would be a huge boon.
For completness sake, pmap -XX $(pidof gnome-shell) shows 2G in Private_Dirty for me. I have since restarted Zoom so can't measure that..

Naively summing up the Size totals to around 9G. I assume that's the measurement you thought I was referencing.

I agree interpreting memory usage numbers on Linux is hard. I also do think modern apps (including here gnome-shell and associated processes) eat up memory like it's unlimited and free.
From the look of the PR, does this mean they ported LLVM to Serenity, so all languages that build to LLVM will work? Or am I way off the mark?
In fairness, most car dealers are also setup for people who expect to be able to haggle, probably need financing, want to drive a car off the lot, etc. So the whole system just isn't set up for someone to basically go online, place an order, and wait to get told a delivery date.

There is a bit of a paperwork dance--also insurance--but, as you say, that's hard to eliminate totally.
I think its largely a combination of "shiny things" syndrome, procrastination, and estimation being hard. You will have a tendency to want to do the shiny things first because they are new/interesting, you will tend to put off the nebulous/harder bits, and you will not realize certain things are much bigger than you thought.

Procrastination is the biggest one for otherwise well-meaning/smart people in my opinion.
Have any writers migrated from Substack to Ghost?

Substack support has been nonexistent for the past 6 months. I've reached out about a handful of broken features and get no response, except in one case months ago where they dismissed it in the weirdest way. Archive search does not work; ex. I have a post about monkeys, it has "monkey" in the title and the body, and when I search "monkey" it doesn't come up in results. The support response said "this is normal, just because a post has a keyword in the title or body doesn't mean it's always included in search results"...what? I asked for clarification and they never replied.

It feels like Substack has strayed from the promise of being focused on writing and email. They added "Save" and "Listen" buttons to the top of emails, which are visually prominent; and those buttons make no sense in an email. They're a trick to take people to the iOS app.

They endlessly promote new features to writers and readers and it all feels like their trying to lock you into something that's harder to migrate out of.
I hope not, having a consistent ecosystem where all parts of the system share the same building blocks is one of the beautiful aspects of SerenityOS.

For example in this video Andreas implements palette support for commands (commands are usually shown in the menu bar or contextual menus) and it has the nice side effect of immediately enabling them on every GUI program, even the desktop itself!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAqGLkRCFb8

I think Zig can be a polite guest in SerenityOS thanks to Zig's general interest in supporting uncommon targets, but the hosts are C++ and Jakt.
Totally agree, though I don’t know how wind performs in extended and deep subzero / heavy snow conditions. Hydropower is the traditional baseload for the Midwest, but it’s tough to square the destruction to natural beauty that entails in comparison with a remote nuclear set-up.

EDIT: It seems not too badly [1].

[1] https://empoweringmichigan.com/how-do-wind-turbines-work-in-...
I assert that you have it backwards. Virtue only exists in interactions with actual people, not with abstract people. Paying a maid more than market value is putting his money where his mouth is, because he believes the maid should be paid more is actual virtue. (Paying the maid more so that he could boast to his friends about resourcing the underprivileged/oppressed-group would be virtue signaling, but at least it would still have the virtue of some amount of self-sacrifice) Voting for politicians is the abstract. Not necessarily virtue signaling, if you actually believe the cause, but how is that likely to help the maid? Even if the party succeeds in doing something effective, how long will it take before the maid is actually better off? And is anyone going to evaluate whether the changes are actually effective in making people better off?

Or consider two scenarios: 1) someone claims maids should be paid more but pays them market rate and votes for politicians who claim to be changing the world to make maids better off, or 2) someone else pays the maid 3X the going rate (which he appears to be doing, see other thread) and does not vote for politicians who claim to be making maids better off (to be clear, this is hypothetical, I doubt he does this). Person 2 has made the maid actually better off. Person 1's maid is not better off, and any impact on maids (if any) is disconnected, and conveniently does not require any sacrifice on the part of Person 1. Person 2 has made the maid better off at the expense of themselves; this is the opposite of virtue signaling.
Before we bring back dinos, I'd love to see us bring back species we drove extinct such as the dodo.
Realistic fusion (with the best understood technology): build powerful magnets around a donut shaped chamber, which allows to contain a plasma comprised of Deuterium and Tritium (both Hydrogen isotops) which is then heated by externals sources. Reach very high temperatures such that fusion reactions occur frequently. Some of this energy stays inside the plasma, and some of it escapes under the form of neutrons. Capture these energetic neutrons in a blanket around the chamber, creating fuel (tritium) and heating water pipes that then drive a normal steam turbine. Tritium is radioactive (but has a very short shell life; just wait a couple of decades), and the chamber may be slightly radioactive after decades of neutron bombardment. There are no problems of long term radioactive waste, and the reactor can't do a chain-reaction, so no Fukushima or Tchernobyl.

I need to explain what Q is in the context of fusion. Basically, you heat the plasma with some energy (Energy In), and the fusion reactions produces some energy (Energy out). Q is basically the ratio (Energy out)/(Energy In). When Q is bigger than 1, we call it break-even. However, (Energy In) is not the actual cost of energy you need to run the whole facility, it is only the Energy that reaches the plasma. The same goes for (Energy out): this energy cannot be captured 100% efficiently. Some of it will heat the plasma itself, some of it will escape but the conversion back to electricity is not 100% efficient.

So in a sense, Q > 1, aka break-even, does not mean commercial fusion, it is only a kind of a psychological barrier to achieve (so this is what the NIF announced; still a major breakthrough). We need at least to achieve (Total Electrical Energy out)/(Total Electrical Energy In) > 1 to achieve commercial fusion. But physicists consider the rest as engineering problems, not physics problems. And great news, there is no theoretical limit on how big Q can be: for example, the sun has a Q of infinity, as there is no required energy input. Current estimates put Q at least 30-40 to achieve commercial fusion (again: there is no physical limit to achieve that, only engineering difficulties).

Main costs are: difficult to define, because we haven't commercialized a reactor yet. I would say, for now, everything around it is expensive (magnets, the blanket, the fuel (tritium)). However, once we have sufficiently understood the optimal parameters on how to produce net gain energy, there is no reason why the design of the reactor can't then be simplified to be mass-produced.

Note: the technology used by the NIF is very different from what I described for a realistic fusion device: what I described is called magnetic confinement, and what the NIF did is called inertial confinement.
Or it's capital preying on basic research funded by the public.
Young are moving in with their parents in record numbers. Meet 5 making it work
that makes no sense to me. clearly something's missing here. could you elaborate?

I understand a plateau to mean that there's no more upwards
This particular CKD issue is inexplicable despite multiple finished and ongoing studies. Several compared rates in adjacent Latin American countries with the only environmental difference being average temperature (same rate of exposure to pesticide/herbicide, similar cohorts compared). It's not a settled issued as far as I know.
I've come to the conclusion that most industries are filled with bullshit, "bullshit" being defined as going through the motions in directions orthogonal to the mission in order to satisfy someone's/the institution's character flaws. That activity is naturally unfulfilling, but unless you're going to bootstrap a company or go for high-level leadership there's no way to combat it. So that means finding work where the amount of bullshit is minimized and/or the remaining non-bullshit work makes it worth it.

I have a wife and kid and another kid on the way, and I'm a sole provider, so I don't have the luxury of leaving for a lower paying position. Hell just looking at embedded development (bare metal C, micro-controllers, RTOS work and such), the tech work I find most fulfilling, I'd still have to take a decent haircut vs web-backend software engineering. My solution is I'm trying to spin up lifestyle business side projects that can compensate for any loss in salary when I find a job I actually want, and ideally train me for the jobs I actually want. I think that's the best balance I can strike while remaining an engineer.
As a longtime FPS player one area of complexity that is easy to forget is the maps.

When I play the game, I can learn a new map pretty quickly.

When I watch a game played on a map I'm not familiar with, it takes me much, much longer to develop the same understanding. It doesn't load into memory the same way. Similar to remembering the route to a new location as a passenger vs a driver.

The broadcast might flip back and forth between two players, hunting for each other in different parts of the map, and unless I know it pretty well I could be totally lost until they actually meet.

The broadcaster can help by using third person / freecam. But at the same time, an FPS loses a lot of the tension and visible skill when combat is viewed from freecam. So finding the right balance of camera time between individual players' views and an overhead view is challenging for a broadcaster, far more so than in traditional sports where we're accustomed to seeing a wide open field and perhaps some tracking of the ball.

Edit:

To give a practical example, I used to dabble in Quake Live. I was never any good, but there are some maps I know well: dm6, ztn, dm13, t7. Even though I'm not a big eSports fan, I don't watch streamers or whatever, I've seen some VODs played on those maps that really held my attention with suspense. I've been surprised at how entertaining it was watching top players duel.

At some point I watched a Quake Champions duel match between Rapha and Cooller and while the gameplay was quite familiar, not knowing the maps made it far less entertaining. I just couldn't follow the significance of the player's positioning nearly as well. Before that I totally underrated how much my familiarity with the maps was adding to my enjoyment of the Quake Live tournaments.
Unfortunately, not fair comparison "Although we have every confidence in boattest.com’s findings, they were only performed on one boat, and unlike Motor Boat & Yachting’s sea trials, its tests are paid for by the manufacturer".

Need big scientific research, with many other participants.

For example, it is wide known, that 6-blade prop give near same power as 3-blade but at half rpm, so tip speed is also half.

Curious people, could google quiet helicopter, there are few open publications.
Overall, same conclusions - more blades, lower rpm, quiet tip techniques, and try to avoid turbulence from one blade by other blade.
‘Polycrisis’ may be a buzzword, but it could help us tackle the world’s woes
What does such a violation usually entail?
Get a donkey, they also smash hyenas for fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t5eOK05mZQ
> In eSports, the arenas are typically strategically complex

I think that is a key point. In most sports the arenas are quite simple. Most ball sports have some rectangle and you can judge intuitively whether a team is likely in a better position than another. And even in marathon or triathlon or such the course itself may be complex, but you can reduce it to "X meters till finish line" and "athlete A is in front of B" to get a good enough understanding on the situation.

Of course all sports allow for some amount of tactics, when to play a bit more passive, when to attack, ... but you don't need those for some basic experience while watching.

In eSports the arena is complex and hard to preceive, the physics aren't exact as we all know them, the virtual equipment (weapons, boosters, ...) are unknowns.

And then eSports typically are quick, which makes learning hard.
Is the fan shroud not mostly solving or mitigating the tip vortex issue on something like a computer fan?
I agree with you that the New Yorker's classification of authoritarianism is lazy and I think it nullifies its credibility. I also agree that some powerful people have it in their best interest to hide the costs of democracy because they have the means to influence voters through emotion.

But you lose a lot credibility when you talk about Trump (I think?) using "authoritarian" as a defining term (the guy relatively easily could've taken on so many emergency powers during the pandemic but largely left it up to the states), as if Obama and literally every other president didn't also have mostly authoritarianism in their policies.

Also, most so-called democratic societies don't value democracy at all costs. E.g. courts with appointed judges are less democratic than mob justice.
Issues of potential output and safety considerations aside:

> Surely Fission provides us with unlimited carbon free energy (given enough fissionable material).

The crux of the problem is, there is a limited supply of fissionable material. If we manage to survive as a species, our energy demand will continue to grow, and one day we would meet a hard cap, limiting what humanity as a species, is able to do.

As a very very rough estimate, if we burnt through all the fissionable material that we have available on earth, it would be about enough energy to launch the mass of Mt. Everest into orbit. Long term (as in, many generations from now) we will need more energy than that.
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What other current rocket system matches the specs of the SLS, or has the same goals? The only thing comparable is Starship, which isn't ready yet.

There are legitimate complaints to be made about things like cost plus accounting, but the project itself isn't a boondoggle. Like, the people who greenlit it aren't idiots.

If you want to complain about boondoggles, look at the military.
I see a lot of people calling BS on the basis that you can't properly analyse dreams through a computer, or that dreams don't have value to begin with.

We know. Or really, we don't. Psychologists and biologists don't understand dreams, and dream analysis is a centuries-old practice based off of pseudoscience and pop psychology. No one is asking for directives in life from this bot, it's just fun to see what our dreams mean from a third-person perspective. At it's best, it will help someone to break down what their subconscious is feeling. At it's worst, it will give someone meaningless words of encouragement.
What would prevent them from going extinct again?
I would agree with the above, as an easier version of TLS fingerprinting. One could also ise nginx/haproxy to extract enough TLS info, and detect requests xoming through proxy Magic string: JA3 fingerprint
Is this a GPT front end or something? I find it hard to believe that several different conversational AI systems were released independently of each other within weeks.
The meltdown has nothing to do with the content of the views he's expressing, it is that he is spending so much time focused on running and expressing political views on a social media site. If he has gotten Tesla and SpaceX to the point where they could be handed off to others and no longer require his attention at all, a better next step would have been to start another awesome new thing (fusion?).

There are already plenty of people on all sides focused on posting about cultural grievances. It's sad to have lost a talented person to that negative-sum rabbit hole.
Lets engineer them for Mars.
Whoa!

Hotlinking Ghost CDN URLs in Substack production HTML.

Yes this is a bad look for Substack. And it puts them - and their users - at Ghost's mercy.
I spent years cleaning hundreds of pounds of weed (1 lb == ~8-10 hours of cleaning, if you're doing it well). Never once cut myself with scissors.

I also used canola or coconut oil to clean the resin off as that worked really well and was an inexpensive way to do it (and seems better than pouring alcohol all over your skin... which would cause it to absorb even more of the resin). Just don't get your hands wet before you put the oil on.

Even though the resin is oil based, you definitely absorb it into your skin. Hours of trimming turns into a spin.
This is inherent in GCed environments, and firefox/etc aren't tuned to enforce minimizing memory utilization because it saps perf.

So, you end up having to do it yourself. Run a tab discard plugin, and then keep an about:memory window open and click the minimize memory utilization button on a regular basis (probably a plugin/etc to do that, but I just trigger it manually every once in a while). And that is on machines that have 32-64G of ram.
Russia will end up with more land than before the war but it will be so insignificant that the war will be regarded as a failure both inside and outside Russia.
Amazing boomer thing to do

> If you exclude Hispanics

In that percentage of how many people are white in America. Ok Boomer.
> Must be the focus on profits that helps push companies to build products users want, while the love of the craft pushes developers to make the best foundations.

Ghost is a non-profit organization that publishes it code as MIT.

You don't structure your company as such because you're wanting to generate a lot of profits nor prevent others from profiting from your work.

It seems like Substack is just embarrassing what Ghost set its charter as: a non-profit that allows others to benefit from its work.

https://ghost.org/about/
> written into the standard

What standard are you referring to?
I know it is not Ajay Bhatt (he co-invented USB), but this reminded me of Intel's "Our rock stars are not your rock stars" campaign.

https://youtu.be/0QYcgwjUlWo
LOL! Thank you for the laugh. This is great.
I think containment for such organisms could be more challenging beyond the Jurrasic Park movie plot. For example would we also have to account for side effects such as horizontal gene transfer[0]?

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
Isn't this the case with nearly every aspect of "proposed" fusion reactors. Just because it's proposed or "not yet tested on a commercial fusion reactor" does not necessarily mean that the mechanism is not well understood.
RAM is the new tape...
During the Little Ice Age in Europe there generally was a higher death rate (shorter life expectancy). Food production per capita declined, and while most people didn't outright starve to death they became weaker and more vulnerable to disease.
True, if we bring back dinosaurs, that will be the biggest example of it
I'm leaving Spotify because their Android client is hot dogshit (sorry, not sorry).

They put the unfavorite button right next to the cast button AND in the drop-down shade. Why would I ever be trying to unfavorite a song from there? There's no confirmation to unlike a song. If you are so unfortunate to hit it, you will instantly lose that song, have no idea what it was or how to get it back. And even if you do, you will never be able to reorder your Liked songs.

This is beyond the INSANE REFRESHING behavior it has where it regularly shows you stuff for 5+ seconds only to yank everything and refresh the page with basically all new data as soon as you go to click something.

Truly, what the hell is wrong with these app developers and designers? I would love to watch one of them actually have to use the app. How is this the standard?
In fairness, the signatories and even the Agile Manifesto itself admits that it takes a special kind of person to thrive in an environment free of management. It is abundantly clear that you are making a mistake if you venture into Agile if your team is not comprised of those special people. It makes sense that something else will be needed for 90%+ of the remaining organizations happy to have been able to hire anyone for the job. And, well, make hay when the sun is shining, as they say.
Not are carbon fuels are carbon negative - biofuel pulls down carbon from the atmosphere when it's created, so is considered carbon neutral.

I think it's highly likely we'll be burning a lot of algae fuel in the coming decades in situations where the energy density of carbon fuels is necessary.
Former M1/M2 Dev here. The benefits of headless to me are that it's far easier to find javascript developers than to ruin someone with learning the Magento architecture.

I haven't seen Magento - under Ebay, under Adobe, under anyone address what I think is the biggest issue facing them - total cost of ownership in comparison to the competition.

Is mageOS mostly just a maintainence mode, keep this alive till everyone can switch off (like the M1 forks that exist) or do you actually envision trying to solve some of the challenges magento is facing as a community and platform?