skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
energy and raw material per unit of GDP has been going down for a few decades (basically digital economy is more resource efficient). Sorry I don't have a citation handy.

Your other assumption is we are going to stay on one planet, which I don't think is true. We will consume asteroids + resources on other planets when it is economically viable to do so.

Also, the economy doesn't permanently "use up" earth's resources (other than a few exceptions that are fixed like land or go through a 1 way process like uranium). Water, wood, food, etc are all renewable resources. Even Petroleum might not be as finite as we currently think it is (https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation.aspx?paperid=...)
This is the code of the future to ensure your code remains original: https://twitter.com/TylerGlaiel/status/1611115741809627139
The BoS & electorate create laws, bureaucracies, structures and courts that would create those 25 year court cases in the first place. The properly allocated elected set of judges, supervisors, mayor and DAs can make most of those disappear in the first place by changing the law, how the government runs and how the courts run and rule on cases, complete with prioritizing court cases for the few they don't have a choice in getting rid of to make them get through the system quickly.
Sure they can, that's the whole point of acting. Also anyone who ever read a story to a kid can infer emotions from the text itself.
So you'd use git in a similar way you'd use obsidian, just with the ability to sync online and share easily/collaborate.
> This only becomes a problem for the agricultural businesses when cities try to take their water without paying fair market value

You've got this 100% backwards. It's the farmers who are not paying fair market value for water, as has been documented all over the place.
There is also Trail Break Farms channel[1] that document his experience with growing inside this greenhouse.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@trailbreakfarms/videos
I worked at a geo-polymer start-up. One huge hurdle is sourcing the right kind of ash, and other ingredients, in sufficient quantities and with the right level of quality. Building a kiln or a launch pad is one thing, but building a road is orders of magnitude more expensive. Like, it's humanly possible, but it's not economically possible.
Disappointed that this article didn't at least give a "tip of the hat" to the dogged research done by Dr. Marie Jackson, et.al., over her career at multiple universities.

Here is an excellent read on this subject from 2013: https://cedar.wwu.edu/geology_facpubs/75/
for slow neighborhood roads I see no reason why brick isn't used more often. my hometown had brick roads everywhere and once every 3-5 years a few bricks would get replaced here and there. in the 1990s I'd look around and see a lot of the bricks on those roads that were made in the 1930s, and there were probably older bricks to be found if I'd looked harder.

the rough ride kept speeding down a lot more than the police could, because I watched people scream through my neighborhood all the time after they paved over the bricks.

plowing snow is harder on brick roads, but it isn't so hard that it is an unsolvable problem.
Based on the paper, and some other comments I ran across [https://www.mdpi.com/2225-1154/7/5/67], it has to be pretty negligible overall.

Evaporation has been decreasing as salinity increases and surface area have been shrinking, and total precipitation has been staying roughly the same.

Which makes sense - most inflows are via precipitation on several large mountain ranges nearby (and relatively infrequent storms), and unless air movement was limited/locked to be solely within the great salt lake basin (in which case precipitation should be noticeably dropping, but it isn’t), the air volumes from daily evaporation would only rarely overlap with the air volumes causing the large rain and snow storms in the mountains.

Definitely still some effect though! And worth asking about for sure: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Lake_effect
I didn't quote anything, and I specified when looking at returns.
IMO, the rule should be that fees are only allowed if it's possible to get the product without the thing the fee is for. For example, Comcast shouldn't be allowed to charge a sports fee on top of the price of a cable package unless you can avoid it by giving up the sports channels from the package.
Interestingly, the article founds out that their concrete cured quickly.

Anyway, no, our usual concrete completely breaks down in a few centuries. No matter how it's structured, it does not match the durability of that concrete without ongoing maintenance.
Yes yes, OP had some really strange ideas. I was just adding some extra info to GP's answer, not trying to contradict them.
"A turbofan thus can be thought of as a turbojet being used to drive a ducted fan, with both of these contributing to the thrust.":

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbofan
A friend of mine who recently moved to the US from the UK put it to me like this: "imagine one state says they will pay out benefits without a permanent address. Where do you think the homeless are going to move to?"
Hey Marcus!
Super cool to see another fellow Minecraft-jumpstarted developer. I got into programming way back in 2013 with Minecraft mods and then Bukkit/Spigot plugins.

> I decided to look for open Developer positions, to work with a team of experienced developers so I can learn even faster.

Seeing as you're in Europe and not in the U.S. (with exorbitant tuition costs), I would actually recommend against skipping out on College. I can confidently say that while experience in the industry is great (having worked part-time at a startup, as well as various internships during College), I think the knowledge gained from University classes is often underrated.

Not only that, but College is definitely a life experience that I would recommend not to skip lightly.

Regardless, this is super impressive work!
My experience is that this happens the first few times and it gets less bad on regrowth each time.

I did an experiment when I started shaving my legs where I only shaved one for a while and then later shaved both, only the one that hadn’t been shaved multiple times was painful when the hair regrew.
Sent an email to the one listed in your profile.
I have a Bosch sander connected to a Dust Deputy setup with shopvac, and I recently found sanding some red oak to be a fairly miserable experience. It just takes so long. I did just get some of those fancy 3M Xtract sanding discs, which seem to be a lot faster, I'm going to have to see how well they do with the next set of sanding. It just took so long for me to get all the parts for my vanity sanded.

This morning I was watching Becky Stern showing off her shop setup, and it included this Festool dust extractor that I liked the look of. May have to look into that ffurther.
This is correct.

Any weight loss / weight gain regime that doesn't consider, at the very least, thyroid hormones is bollox.

Steroidal sex hormones can play a role, particularly female sex hormones.

Allergies too.
You spent $500-2500 on a water bottle?
Most of the first tier and probably some of the second are rich-people tax-dodge "farms", I bet. The rest of the first category is hobby-farming—my family probably counted as among that group, at times, because my dad grew up on a farm and liked doing some farm-stuff on farm-zoned land as an adult, but it represented almost no actual income—he worked an ordinary job, the farming was a hobby with books that just happened to sometimes be slightly in the black.

[EDIT] Oh my god, wait, that's revenue, not profit? I take it back, the entire second tier is tax-dodges and hobby farms, too.
Just making sparkling water. You don't drink the water that reacts with the soda/acid though. The CO2 produced is pressure injected into a separate bottle.
>we should blame predatory advertising tactics

Most sites that have this pop up aren't being predatory. The EU is fully to blame for ruining the internet.
I wished for some heliotex shirts for my birthday. My in-laws asked if I am sure cause they are 100% Synthetic. Only better shirts I have are the UF-Pros which are also 100% synthetic.

High-tech synthetics came a long way and are robust as hell. I have little kids and they are little ruffians. None of the synthetic shirts ever buckled
> If someone in Estonia decides to name their kid Muhamed, that doesn't magically become an Estonian name.

Correct, but it does not suddenly make them another nationality. Also, it's not spelled as you spelled it for a reason -- it's Estonian you're looking at. Not Russian. The reason it looks different, is because they're Estonian, so the name will be different.

My second point, which is pretty clear in the first place, is that a nation of people illegally occupied by Russia for decades, isn't keen on being labelled as Russian.
That's actually a shockingly decent list of provided features for $20 a year. A more than fair price, and worth every dime as long as the servers are at least semi-reliable. I pay $12 a year for a domain, and another $5 per month for a VPS to host services on that domain, and even that's totally worth it to me, so $20 a year for all that they're offering (even if it is only on a subdomain)? Quite good indeed…
There's an unintuitiveness to it: many people believe that you're less likely to win the lottery if you pick "01 02 03 04 05 06 07" because of course that pattern is less likely than a randomly chosen set. ChatGPT is a lot like that: it can produce real enough looking "intelligence" for us to intuitively believe it's very close to being able to offer real intelligence... but, is it?

ChatGPT will produce patently untrue statements that are logically inconsistent if you induce it to do so: our human brains struggle to grasp the reality that given enough input you can produce seemingly correct output about almost anything... but seemingly correct and correct are fundamentally different and very "rest of the owl"[1]

ChatGPT is a great step forward that introduces many interesting techniques that I am sure will be the foundation of future research and implementations that get us closer to AGI, but to describe ChatGPT's path to correctness as just needing a bigger dataset feels intuitive but isn't true.

Your example is one where our brains think "wow it really does understand the relationship between a couch and a room and being tidy" but that response is entirely plausible without any understanding of what any of those things are or how they fit together. The most likely answer is not the correct answer.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-to-draw-an-owl
I’m a complete idiot when it comes to geopolitics but I’ll put my tongue in the hornets nest in lieu of coffee today.

I would like it if Assange were let out, and I would like it if the US truly had a moral high ground. However there is little to no political capital in ideological consistency. If there was, the US would classify Saudi Arabia in the same camp as Iran: repressive and untouchable.

I suspect the realpolitik of the situation is something more like: ally with one, shun the other. SA has more strategic value, so Iran gets the shaft.

Anyways, the point of this is not to defend Iran. The point is that Assange isn’t in trouble for ideological reasons, but for political ones. He crossed the wrong people. George Washington himself would be in the same position if he ran Wikileaks.
> There's nothing magic about SF's geography

It includes two of the world's top ten universities, incredible natural beauty there and nearby, excellent weather (locals complain, as locals do, but it's wonderful), and all the resources and people are gathered there. It's hard to imagine the return on investment of moving.
I got this one on sale for BF, and it's been absolutely amazing. I cook fish to perfect temp using the probe, without having to check it at all. And I cook my side dish at the same time, and this thing finishes them together with smart cook!

https://www.ninjakitchen.com/exclusive-offer/DZ550WBKT/Ninja...
How long do these temporary displaced people stay in that state before eventually becoming "street people" themselves?
The criminal part I referred to is when it is insisted that you sign it under duress.
My point was that there is a meaningful, and I believe relatively simple, distinction to be made between free functions and methods bound to an object - a distinction which UFCS doesn't really help with. For any given example, I believe there is a reason to prefer one over the other, and I showed what reasoning I would use for the particular example raised by OP.
> whether someone will succeed in using the same development strategy as Jane Street, namely using a non-C++ language as their primary language

It’s gonna happen and it’s gonna be Rust

> you could stand to use a language like Rust that has an ecosystem and interoperability with C++.

Indeed :)
There already is some of this sort of tech. Electric rice cookers, instant pots, stand mixers, breadmakers and even microwaves all take a lot of the work out of cooking. They don't help with prep, but it's hard to argue with the effectiveness of a sharp knife in accomplishing most tasks.
Only some bridge designs can use un-reinforced concrete. Many (most?) modern bridges need reinforced concrete to allow the concrete to bear tensile loads. Reinforcing concrete introduces new ways that concrete can degrade such as rusting of the reinforcing elements. I'm not really sure Roman concrete would be much help here.
Are you a large tall white man by any chance?
The thing is, sometimes, centralized decision makers take decisions that are bad because they are too far removed from the consequences of the decisions. For instance, decisions on, say, water rights, made by the federal government in the US. The federal and state governments have effectively collaborated to create a slow rolling disaster across the entire west.

(Of course, now I think about it, local and state governments also take terrible decisions. Slavery and Jim Crow spring to mind. So there really is no "good" way to solve the "decision making" problem. I guess you're basically screwed if you have to allow other people to make decisions for you.)
Hmm, that's a reasonable scenario. I don't envision I'll ever be in it, but the cost of knowing how to honk is low. Fair point. Convinced.
> the only bottleneck is the human processing said communication

You said it yourself. I don't care if the ansible lets you communicate faster than the speed of light; the capacity of leaders at the top to understand lower-level facts and needs has not changed much from 1542 to 2023.
> If you ask ChatGPT how to use it, it will roleplay a character called “Assistant” from a counterfactual world where “how do I use Assistant?” has a single, well-defined answer. Because it is role-playing – improvising – it will not always give you the same answer. And none of the answers are true, about the real world. They’re about the fantasy world, where the fantasy app called “Assistant” really exists.

"Role playing" is a great analogy for what these models are doing. If an AI is asked a reasonable question it doesn't know the answer to, it won't go "I'm sorry, I'm not sure, let me go check," it performs improv by generating something that kinda feels like what the right answer might be
The quick cure may be very useful for most construction. And the self-healing may be better enough for use on pavement.

But most bridges and highways are quite demanding and can't simply adopt a new concrete chemistry based on an improvement in a single dimension.
Yes, there is, the culture towards shipping binaries, or selling component libraries.
Every self preservation instinct is something each person is ultimately responsible for, but that doesn't mean that is the only dial that can be adjusted to solve the issue.

Some people really do worry too much.

Some areas really could be cleaned up so that random people feel comfortable moving through them without threat of assault.
So...someone was harmed? How is this related to my question?
Ask HN: What's a body life hack you can purchase?
A couple years ago I changed my life by getting LASIK and I still can't believe money could buy this much impact. Do you have any other similar "life altering" things you can do to your body for money? I suppose this includes food and drugs..
And a bit of haze helps the aesthetic as well.
I like XML. It works well, typed and reliable, supported everywhere, great IDE support.
I don't have much experience with JSON schemas, but what they failed to work when I tried one time.
wow, sounds incredible! He should blog his experience - I'd watch it!
I've probably used awk in excess of 10-20 times/day consistently (and somedays upwards of 100 times a day) for the last 15 years, despite having a full complement (and reasonable knowledge) of Python, Pandas, etc...

If I'm going to use the tool multiple times - it lands in Python, gets checked in, might even get unit tests if I'm feeling energetic. But there are tons of times a day when I want to ask a question of a 5 GB text file that I can pound out in < 60 seconds with a bit of piped awk/sed/tr and some bash looping on the results).
Show HN: Wrote an action camera/drone media organizer program
I've been using several action cameras and drones for the last 10 years, and never had a utility to make importing media from these devices easier. The software will sort media by date, location and importance, as well as apply LUT profiles to photos, export highlighted moments from a video to an .EDL file compatible with Resolve, and update cameras firmware.
> if you can't figure out how to gain from an influx of wealthy, highly-educated, low-criminality, nerdy tech workers, then that's really on you. What a gift!

Those tech workers, once they move, are not customers, they are the city. It's their city as much as anyone's, any failures or successes are theirs; what have they done?
A fun exercise is to calcualte the cost of some road in a neighboorhood, and compare that to the total collected property tax of all the homes along that road.
On one hand it seems like a lot. On the other, it indicates that those companies are actually horribly bad at making use of it. Which kinda tracks.
That link is 'old news'.

What the poster of that link effectively said is that I know all there is about this topic, then post an 'interesting' link as his source, without realising that the current topic is new development not covered by it.
Average annual salary for Chinese people has increased by about 2.5x in the past 10 years:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/278349/average-annual-sa...

Average American income has increased by only 33% over a similar period:
https://www.oberlo.com/statistics/average-us-income

While wages in China are still only about 1/4 of US wages, 10 years ago it was 1/12th of US wages. If the trend continues, we should expect Chinese wages to reach parity with US wages in less than 15 years.
I'm giving it a try (using the cloud version) and can't find how to assign someone or set a status to a task. Is it limited to the private beta?
Sequencing is a structure.

Choice is another.

Repetition/Recursion is a third.

Now write a program.

cf https://www.artcollectorz.com/assets/managed/images/cache/AA...
First, please repeat the standard mantra: past performance is no guarantee of future success.

Then tell me the 95th percentile and the median geometric returns based of fixed periods (say, copy the 20 years.)

Let us also grab what an inflation linked gov bond would have given over those same periods. Classically I would always think of pension returns as vs the risk free rate (heh, us gov credit risk) which is essentially an IL bond.

Then repeat the analysis on, say, the G8 or G20 countries. Oh, and lets do a variety of stock indexes as well. I am a great believer in diversification - so betting on the US is not my standard behaviour.

6.9% assumed return is mad for any individual. It would be mad for a DB scheme _and they at least have some risk pooling in their favour_.

But. I am hella risk averse and see the world through that lens.
Anyone can recommend a reliable alternative Matrix server?
All home water usage in Utah amounts to about 2% of the total use state wide. Literally you could get rid of every residence including lawns, and you'd still have 98% of the water use from farms, industrial, and commercial enterprises. Alfalfa farming I believe is at least 80% of the total water use and there's zero need to keep farming water-intensive crops which alfalfa is, we wouldn't even need to stop all farming activities just this one crop.
Travel time is more important in wartime. It's quite hard to conquer a place if your supply lines are too long. But if you do conquer, you can hold it for a long time with much less effort.

I found this part of the article to be nonsense:

Alexander the Great conquered most of the “known world” of his day.
But his conquests took them 10 years, and after his death, the empire was split in six.
Which further proves that a strong army, without proper transportation technologies, can’t hold an empire together.

Uhhh..... first of all dude, only taking 10 years to conquer the entire known world (when the conqueror is 20 years old) is pretty fucking insane, let's give the kid some credit. But yeah, his empire was split in six when he died. Why? He had no heir, he was the king of the entire known world, and he died suddenly. Conflict was bound to happen. This in no way provides any evidence to this point that transportation is critical to keeping an empire.
>"Regardless of anything that did, or never, happened at wikipedia, NATO should have invaded Saudi years ago."

The only reason for one country to go to war with another should be in response to other country starting a war. If you do not like what they do inside then do not deal with them. If you feel sorry about their people - accept their refugees. Nobody gives you a right to declare yourself a saint and start killing people under "high moral" pretenses. We have already completely fucked up whole bunch of other countries and killed their people just to "save" them from dictatorship with the end result of them ending up in even worst state.

You are simply advocating crime.
I do too, but only because the warm air dryer gives my tushy a rash!
But we have heat pumps. The heat pumps are pretty well developed technology at this point, meaning for same electricity we could move lot more heat.
We have that one and accidentally programmed it to run first thing in the morning. Turns out that works pretty well. Acts as a bit of an alarm.. runs from like 7:30 to 8:30 or so. Manages to completely fill itself up with pet hair every other day.
> > some analysts and critics of the network are concerned that Bitcoin won’t use enough energy to remain secure in the future when it relies mostly on transaction fees. I don’t view that as a primary concern either

> Strangely no reason given for this wishful thinking that declining rewards leading to declining security won't be a long term problem.

Why would reliance on mostly transaction fees be a problem? Even with zero block reward, miners still have every incentive as before (with high block rewards) to compete for finding as many blocks as possible, because the creator of a block can choose transactions and gets the resulting fees. The chance to succeed is proportional to hashing power and thus energy usage. Do I get something wrong here?
Some would disagree that opting into eating meat—supporting an industry that kills billions of animals each year—is better than any violation of privacy.

As I'm sure you're aware, the majority of the population doesn't bat an eye at that. I don't think it's at all surprising that enough people wouldn't be bothered by some non-lethal deception for monetary gain.