skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the goals of regenerative agriculture is to get most of the benefits of fallow land while still using the land.

From that standpoint, the math about "but you get less yield" is a bit of a non sequitur. I'm changing the divisor in the equation, which is usually how bad logic slips into an argument predicated on numbers.
A "sidewinder missile + F-22 flight time costs" are a rounding error in the national security budget. The experience and lessons learnt from using it are valuable to all layers of the military and administration, significantly more so than the financial cost.

(I'm British and so not a US tax payer, just a spectator, but would argue the same here)
Aside from the areas around CU Boulder which have the normal amount of college things, it is very quiet, bucolic and great for cyclists.
yeah usually, there are some stringerless constructions but they aren't super popular
This whole thing reminds me of this comment when Tumblr "died":

"I think the real problem here is that big media corporations seem to believe that social media userbases are fungible, and persist in acting on this belief no matter how many times it’s demonstrated to be wrong.

There’s a specific pattern of events that plays out over and over (and over) again, and it looks something like this:

1. Social media platform becomes popular

2. Social media platform is purchased by big media corporation in order to gain access to it large user base

3. Big media corporation realises that social media platform’s demographics are not the demographics they want to sell things to.

4. Big media corporation institutes measures to drive away “undesirable” users, apparently in the honest belief that the outgoing users will automatically be replaced by an equal number of new, more demographically desirable users

5. This does not, in fact, occur

6. Social media platform crashes and burns

You’d think that, by the sheer law of averages, at least one person who’s capable of learning from experience would become involved in this whole process at some point."
Part of me thinks they wanted to shoot down the first balloon, but the president was kind of incapacitated and unable to give the order. That's the only thing I can think of for why they didn't shoot the first one down when it was over Alaska, but they shoot this one down when it is.
I hide the dialer deep in the menu. I also keep the phone on airplane mode.

To accidentally call 911 they'd have to find the dialer, and press 9-1-1 in the right order. At this point they're old enough to know better, and before they were old enough, they didn't know what it was, so doing it maliciously would be unlikely.

Also since the phone is on airplane mode, they'd also have to disable that first, because even emergency mode doesn't work in airplane mode.
We're talking about cities, so... the urban density of Oulu is 2,372/sq mi. The urban density of Indianapolis is 2,352.6/sq mi. Pretty comparable!
People treat you differently, generally worse when they know you make many times what they do.

It's also dangerous and unnecessary and comes as posturing.

I live a modest life and no one has to know how much I make.

It's a terrible idea to share it, if you want that's your business.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GiYO1TObNz8

Technology Connections

The relevant part about the old incandescent bulbs is at
3mins 14secs
King Charles coronation logo created by iPhone designer Sir Jony Ive
I'm Medium's CEO and I left a longer answer down below about what I think went wrong. But I also think your summary is about right. Every startup needs to choose a business model eventually and we botched the rollout of ours.

The subscription actually does work and could (will?) be enough to sustain us. But we didn't roll it out in a way that's congruent with anything else we were doing.

Most notably, the subscription implies that we have some premium content to share. But instead of incentivizing premium content we spent the subscription revenue to pay people to flood us with low quality click bait and content mill articles. Of course, that's not what we set out to do. But it's effectively what happened. I'm partly through reversing it.
After West Seattle, the city built up around the area where the stadiums are. Capitol Hill was called that because they were going to put the Washington state capitol there, but decided not to because it was too far from "Seattle". That should give some idea of how small the city was. There were single digit thousand white people in the entire area at that time. The width of the isthmus was not a problem at that time.

The reason the city picked that spot is because it had the best deep water access on Elliott Bay.
Running into burning buildings because the fire alarm stopped (2017)
What's the next step for a solo founder after an exit? An open source Dev?
To be fair, YouTube does have a serious problem with millions of dud, autogenerated content videos trying to game the algorithm to generate ad cash.
I am not sure I understand the first comment very well. Are you saying that instead of duckdb use modern data stack? Because DBT and DuckDB don't seem to contradict, but can work together. FWIW, I think the only important breakthrough in the "modern data stack" is really dbt. The rest, nothing modern about it
The bag of helium isn’t the expensive part I consider. I’m wondering how much computer hardware “the size of multiple buses” costs. I’m sure much of that is casing but much of it also is not. How much effort went into designing these things? There’s probably a significant price tag on these bags of helium all things considered.
They would still have Mac revenue that is more than they ever had pre-iPhone.
People moved on from Covid long before these balloons.
It incorporates error bars. A mini is a small car, but maybe a mustang is a small car, too.
I'm air based.

When I built my house, I called around and it didn't sound like geothermal works very well where I live. I suspect the reason why I was talked out of it is because my yard is very rocky.
What's important to me is that I can feed a huge amount of data generated by one process into another process without ever having to write it to disc.

This is important in a practical rather than theoretical way.

As for structured data......lines of ascii is more that useful enough a great deal of the time.
> (...) that's not something I would consider a viable walk.

Why not? As long as it's truly a 15m walk? The metric should take into account that the speed is going to be reduced when walking on a steep incline, otherwise it's a bad metric...
May I know what these eng message boards are? :D
I don't know, maybe it's an American thing, but here in Europe we boast much less about our success. It's considered rude.

Anyway, boasting of financial success is something I find sad, unnecessary and potentially dangerous.

Tomorrow some friend of a friend junkie may need money and may think I'm collecting rolexes or idk.

Better people don't know shit.
Not really. There was an academic project around this but I've not seen signs that it will be integrated with SQLite core: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/1/sqlite-duckdb-paper/

The key thing to consider here is trade-offs.

Analytical databases tend to be optimized for analytical queries at the expense of fast atomic read-write transactions.

SQLite is mainly used in situations where fast atomic read-write transactions are key - that's why it's used in so many mobile phone applications, for example.

It's not going to grow analytical-query-at-scale capabilities if that means negatively impacting the stuff it's really good at already.
Most of us are small-time businesses that never bought the overcomplexification of anything and we were constantly shamed about it. "Server-side-rendering" is still a laughable phrase though.
Like everything I think this is at least a half truth. COVID did happen but probably not intentionally. And then China (And a few other countries) saw it as a great excuse to try a few things out on the general population and see what they could get away with.
I just applied for an Elm job a month ago. It's not dead, it's just super niche.
It's a boogeyman, a harmless prop hyped up by the GOP in an effort to heighten tensions with China and criticize a tepid response by the administration.

The Biden White House seems happy to play along, justifying more equipment from top donors Raytheon and Boeing.

The balloon panic helpfully distracts from the massive freight derailment chemical disaster currently spewing vinyl chloride into the atmosphere over Ohio.
> (one of those pipes was suspiciously left undamaged).

You do not offer any reason for Russia to blow up three of four pipelines just to leave around one.
Given the Chinese have been complaining to the UN for the last year about American Low Earth Orbit satellites spying on them (Starshield, Space Development Agency, etc..) this balloon thing is pretty clever.
As with speculation about US Covid measures being some kind of training or testing for god-knows-what crazy thing, the political and economic costs of the measures are far too high for those to make any sense as major motivations.
Money laundering is financial thoughtcrime (2013)
> "Plain HTML" gmail vs. any other version. It's way faster to navigate.

And offers far less features. Attaching a file to an email takes ages without drag and drop, this alone is worth waiting few more milliseconds to most people (Gmail loads in less than 2 seconds on my crappy hotel wifi)
So, 120hz is only on the 12.9. If it’s worth twice the price to you, that’s your decision.

The apple pencil difference is magnetic charging and magnetic storage on the side of the ipad. Which is nice, but it also means you have the camera in the absolutely most annoying spot in the world. Good luck using faceID while you’re browsing and you’re always going to have the worst angle/look like you’re staring into space during video calls.

iPadOS just doesn’t cut it for multi-tasking/any pro workload that would justify an M2 chip
but the internet connections in our pockets certainly don't help things either
Phones won't boot with battery disconnected, there are very high current spikes, especially while booting. Also there may be a required boot check for i2c/spi handshaking with the battery.
"This web browser is not supported. Please use Google Chrome on PC to continue with Alfred WebCamera."
> If you had assets during the pandemic you got many good gifts, some once in a lifetime (those 1.95% mortgages).

Exactly. Real estate doubled, tripled. Stock prices skyrocketed. Established stocks like Apple triple during the pandemic. It's mindboggling. That's after 12 years of continuous growth after the 2008 recession. Going off of assets, the past 15 years has been the greatest economic boom in human history.
Full article (no paywall truncation): https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanbanker.com...
> it seems like there are cheaper ways to cause the US to spend gobs of cash.

Yeah, the Mig-25 / F-15 thing comes to mind. Soviets develop a super secret jet, very big, very fast.. it must be very impressive fighter jet! America is spooked so tons of resources are poured into the F-15 to make the absolute best possible air superiority fighter jet they can, to counter this new Soviet threat.

Except then it turns out that the Mig-25 was never a fighter jet, it was an interceptor that was very fast in a straight line but not much more. So the US built an incredible air superiority fighter to counter a phantom of a jet that never really existed in the way America thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_F-15_Eagle#F...

Come to think of it, maybe China is going low-tech with balloons to avoid this dynamic?
You aren't alone.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33223222
As long as you're running a proper business you shouldn't fall foul of IR35. Sadly that won't stop a lot of risk-averse large clients insisting on paying you through an umbrella company. And it won't stop many other clients from insisting on money-costing and time-wasting IR35 assessments so they can take out insurance policies. And even if you don't have any of that to deal with it won't make you feel any better if HMRC decide for any reason to launch an IR35 investigation that will eat a shocking amount of your time and money even if you are eventually found to have done absolutely nothing wrong. All of this risk has a chilling effect on this whole sector of the economy.

Even if they're determined to keep IR35 the government could at least clarify their intent for people like contractors who work with a single client but for a limited time. Right now I have the sense from my own network that there are a lot of games being played in that sector to try and avoid being caught by IR35 because no-one really knows if they're supposed to be. If the government wants to charge people who are working as flexible labour through a PSC the same taxes as permanent employees then they should at least be honest about it and accept responsibility if that flexible workforce then shrinks and economic damage results. Or if they want to incentivise the flexible workforce then they should give clear guidance on how long is considered to still be "temporary" and won't be treated as disguised employment (even though the "employee" probably lacks any of the job security and benefits of a real employee as most contractors do) to remove the risk for many genuine short-term workers and increase the efficiency of the contracting market.
> But even balloons are maneuverable in some sense, by changing their altitude.

Most balloons are not equipped to actively change their bouyancy.
> …this sounds like a very poor way to enforce the OSS license

I thought the same thing, reading the article.

A much more effective way, IMO, would be to establish a trust or foundation with the desired openness characteristics (eg FRAND) defined in its charter, and then have participants assign IP rights to the organization in some contract.

Or, as I said in my other reponse, just end the patent system.
I don't really agree that much with this idea, "..any fundamental advances beyond...", ok, technically chatGPT is just somewhat a reshuffle of pretty well known models, but the implementation is king, always.

And first, some weeks ago you have all these powerful secret models behind corporate firewalls, inside some secure lab, now most of those owners are rushing to reshuffle their respective models to catch on with chatGPT and now with Bing + chatGPT.

Hence, the implementation is what did the trick, the tech was there for sometime already (more than a year? I'll ask chatGPT). And now other public facing applications of this technology are on the table too.

Because, the rabbit is out the hat already, if you don't use your technology, somebody else will have the upper hand in other reachable markets, just like Microsoft is now running away a good million miles ahead of the rest of the Search market competitors.
It's rather unbelievable to me that people find ML syntax unfamiliar and off-putting. It makes no sense, and I have always found it disappointing that both Rust and Gleam moved away from it.

People seem to love Python syntax. ML syntax is just more regular, consistent, and typed. How is that worse?
Yeah boring, god of the gaps.

Imagine being the 10000th person to give this uninspired take.

> Cats have a representation of the world that help them navigate it. They also have instincts programmed into their brains, allowing them to act with relative logic. In contrast, GPT and Co only have patterns of human-written text devoid of meaning.

This is wrong. To say chatgpt doesn't represent the world instead it only has patterns is distinction without difference. This is the new dualism. There is "real understanding" and AI can't do that by definition because "understanding" isn't anything except being a human and acting apparently.

The Loki thought experiment is laughable.
But it's the other way around. Esri offers so much in the education sector apart from software licenses in a complete package, which you unfortunately have to search for in the FOSS sector.
Mission accomplished. The previously published ceiling of the F-22 was 50K feet. The Pentagon said it (edit: by "it" I mean the F-22) was flying at 58K feet when it shot down the first balloon. Guess it can do (at least) 58K.

This was probably not entirely groundbreaking news to anybody including China. Everybody knows that the published specs of military hardware are intentionally distorted in one direction or another.

The F-15's known ceiling is 65K feet for example. So it's not surprising that newer fighters can match that.
I would say that contacting them and explaining the situation is the best thing you can try
Containerize .NET apps with dotnet publish
Lisp before parenthesis were a thing![0]

[0] : http://www.englishproject.org/june-and-parenthesis
China Pulls Back from Subsea Cable Project as US Tensions Mount
Never had a valuation that high.
I wonder how much visitors you have, i.e. how much popular is it? If its not a secret of course.

I couldn't imagine any web developer need such kind of tool [knowing curl by heart], but obviously I'm in my own bubble and I'm wrong on my assumptions.
How many pieces it’s in, I suppose.
What's the difference between walking and hiking, elevation gain?
The shootdowns did not involve using airplane guns/cannons. Those are less accurate, especially at the engagement range (the aircraft were at 40,000 ft., IIRC, and shooting at 60,000 ft. balloons), and would have likely damaged the payload.

The shoot-downs used AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles (per TFA). We also don’t know the ceiling altitude of the F-22 since it’s classified.

However, the F-22 can carry the AIM-120 Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missile (AMRAAM) which has a disclosed engagement altitude of 70,000 feet - capable of engaging even higher altitude balloons than these. As I understand it, the Extended Range AMRAAM-ER is believed to have an engagement ceiling of 85,000 feet.

Meanwhile, the US also has the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-ballistic missile system, an air defense system capable of engaging targets at very high altitude. While its capabilities are classified, its max engagement altitude is at least 490,000 ft. or 93 miles … though using it to attack a balloon is like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer. THAAD is mobile and could be deployed in response to a high altitude balloon threat (some of which can fly 120,000 ft.)
Stderr output does not indicate that a program has failed. It's just a communication channel to the user that's not affected when you pipe or redirect stdout. So useful for programs where to want to make sure that data doesn't get mixed up with messages to the user.

exit codes are the only true way to tell if some process failed and programs should set them properly.
Equally is putting it midldly. Jquery sites are blazingly fast today. Anything that involves compiled javascript is impossible to load on bad connections.
Here's 1000 reviews I ~~paid for~~totally legitimately acquired. All "A++++ would marina again". Much repute.
They also used to hire a hippy to do groundskeeping who would come around with a 5gal bucket (painted with dinosaur stencils) and carrying his pet Bearded dragon named Greg.

I ran into him one time meeting a business associate at Mags on Saturday. I initially just saw Greg, and exclaimed "wow who's lizard got loose" and this guy just came out of nowhere and said "oh, that's greg we do landscaping around here - he just likes to take in the sun while I pickup leaves" and proceeded to talk my ear off about how we needed to go "solar as a society" and how he disliked Donald Trump. It's by far the most "austin" thing to happen to me in recent memory, incredibly wholesome and positive and it all happened on the side of Mags with the big Limestone pavers in 2019.

Good times.
I think it’s elegant, but it seems to me that the check shouldn’t be evaluated until after type checking. But I’m probably missing something about the way Zig works.
Can you email me luke <at> stadiamaps.com? I would love to chat about QGIS plugins, and we may be able to sponsor you to build one.
Australia to remove Chinese surveillance cameras amid security fears
Why Microsoft’s CEO is ready to take on Google with ChatGPT [video]
ha! i'm using duckdb for a similar use-case.. plotting 18-month aggregates take less than 2 seconds.. vendor only provides data for the last 3 months (through the web portal).

(i'm "only" working with 30 million rows though)
I put in a new Mitsubishi Hyper-Heat heat pump last summer. It got down to 17 Farenheit in Seattle this winter. There are no heat strips or supplementary heating arrangements. The heat pump performed well the entire winter.

My energy bills are 1/2 of what I was paying with an electric furnace last year.
Another "grew up playing AC" here and fondly remember interacting with Bael'Zharon on the Harvestgain server during the life events. Did you also blow up Arwic? :D

I still use AC and to some extent AC2 as an example of how wild, weird, dynamic and interesting MMOs were before the EQ formula won through WoW's success.
Political adversaries will always attack the administration, that's par for the course.

But regardless of what the actual facts on the ground (er, in the sky) might be, or what party A says about party B, the media and online commentariat are framing them within a narrative of aggressive threats from China, and of war being imminent, possibly even necessary. Our consent is clearly being manufactured for something.
I believe the relevant factor is the ratio of school aged children to adults. This determines the relative demand for schools over other amenities such as housing. That ratio is largely dependent on the birthrate regardless of the population or density of the city. While people are moving in, it's not clear that new residents have a higher average birthrate than existing residents.
Why, though? Your own government has far more power over you and far more reason to be interested in you than China ever would (unless you're a prominent critic of China, politically connected, or involved in military intelligence or something like that).

I mean I don't want anyone spying on me, but I'm less worried about China targetting me than the Czech government (where I live) or the UK one (where I'm from).
I've developed a few Elm apps, and tried Iced. I liked Iced, but I'm not a proficient rust developer, which really limited what I could do with it.
We’ve used LiveView/Phoenix for 4 years at River.com and are very happy with it.
Yes, regulating everything someone doesn’t like has a long storied history of success.
Any instance is plausibly not xenophobia. Which ones are is hard to prove.

But in practice it is set up and carried out by people who often have some level of personal xenophobia. Thereby generating an institutional cover for personal feelings. The extent of this is impossible to verify. But certainly more than zero. And, anecdotally, likely far more than zero.

That the policies are not simply distributed in accordance with weak national financial controls is demonstrated by the fact that Patrick McKenzie (US citizen) has encountered these problems multiple times while trying to get Japanese banks to deal with US financial institutions. Japan does not doubt that the USA has strong national financial controls. But "foreigner wanting to deal with foreigners" still generates heightened scrutiny and sometimes real problems.
I don't think Kickstarter "doesn't care", they just don't care enough to proactively find out. Indiegogo will keep outright scams up. Kickstarter says "eh, someone will flag it if it is a scam"
"And are also unsafe to walk on," though? Most of those are residential streets with low traffic. I lived in that area and ran around somewhat regularly for several years. The street I mentioned as the worst one is in that district. :-)
I've had a few interactions with him person to person, he seems like an alright guy.

Then again, so did my last boss till i got to know him better
Emacs as a religion