skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the thing you are missing is that raising the low side means that the next boat to use the lock going up has to drain the high water into the low canal. The Panama Canal has system to conserve that water but some water still moves down the locks both for raising and lowering.

The British locks depend on a source of water at the top of the canal. I watched a video recently about Canal Trust rebuilding lock reservoir. The water levels definitely can limit if locks and canals are usable.

The Panama Canal has a reservoir at the top, Gatan Lake, but the water is low. Sea level is never the high side, it is always the low side.
The province of British Columbia (BC) seems to be considering it:

* https://morehousing.substack.com/p/bc-single-stair

* https://morehousing.substack.com/p/single-stair

See also:

> Number of storeys permissible with single exit stair around the world.

* https://www.coolearth.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/image-1....

* https://www.coolearth.ca/2022/03/16/building-code-change-to-...

The diagram illustrates that the longest aerial ladder firetruck available in North America is 137' / 41m, which should be able to reach about fourteen storeys high. A 'typical' aerial ladder is about 75' / 22m, which is about seven storeys.
Your description of ads is my description of cryptocurrency.
Watching HTTP 203 was a great way to stay up to date on web technologies! Plus I loved the dynamic between Jake and Surma
The major issue, IMO, is that the DOM is just markup with an API grafted on, and so any framework attempting to add the slightest bit of composability or state management has to twist and turn itself to be compatible in all browsers.

And that's how we got here, because everyone wants to make their applications available on as many platforms as possible, without having to maintain five or six separate teams that have to coordinate a roadmap, and the browser is the only somewhat consistent way to do this.
I don't think this is a deficiency, but an inherent property of powerful type systems. If you make them very expressive, then you can not have full type checking at compile time. On the other hand, if you restrict them so that you do full static type checking, than they are very limited.
Concur- I’d love to have the book I’m reading — and anything before/after it in the series — available to an LLM for quick reference.
The real solution is in the last section "Beyond tech". Don't hold your breath though.

The only viable solutions today are true self host or what they call self hosting as a service, by selecting a trusted provider. However all the big names in tech were trusted providers at some point of their history, so good luck with that.
M2 TDP is 20 watt as per https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M2-Processor-Benchmarks-...

I only was interested in comparison of M series with new snapdragon chips. I don't think this is clickbaity, I just stayed facts from Geekbench benchmark.

If this is against rules please change title
> Then the harm would be limited to the disruption of an evening, not a life.

It's not just an evening, because even if your charges are immediately thrown out, your arrest remains public record forever.
> That sentence is a guiding principle of software design that I cannot often quote

Just rephrase it. It is not like you need to bring him up to discuss the idea, or as if this is the only form the idea can be expressed.

In fact I would say the quote as it is is confusingly written.
> Do you really want to check someone 8 hours a day, 5 days per week to make sure they do what they are supposed to do?

I had to do something like this. Not every hour, but several times a day was needed to keep this person on track and productive. And no, I did not want to check on an otherwise-functional adult that frequently. Nor did anyone else, but circumstances led to them working on my team.

> I think in such cases it might be better to get rid of such staff, for your own sake and theirs.

Yes, that was the best option and is ultimately what happened. Going through the required HR hoops was just as much effort as micromanaging, which is why no one bothered to do it for several years. It was easier to shuffle them off to another project and tell the lead "they're alright, they just need to work on communication".
> isn't available in the Chrome Extension Store for some reason

Obviously it's because “An extension should have a single purpose that is clear to users…”[0]. Given how "questionable" the reason is, I can't really think of a better endorsement.

0: https://adnauseam.io/free-adnauseam.html
Meta: the missing comma compared to the original makes it very hard to parse at least for me as a non-native speaker.

I suggest just "Hans Reiser speaks from prison" or something.
The way locks work you can save some by using extra storage ponds but you can’t save it all. You have to move some water into the ocean, because that’s the cost for the physics that move giant ships up and down as easily as this.
That already exists and has for years. Surface Pro X launched in 2019 with Windows 10 on ARM, Windows 11 on ARM is a thing. x86/x64 apps work through a compatibility layer. You can get an ARM Surface Pro 9 today or something like a Thinkpad X13s Snapdragon.

Really all that's needed is a fast enough, efficient enough CPU that makes it make sense for the price/performance ratio. I bought a refurb'd Surface Pro X for $400 CAD, for that price it's amazing. For the full MSRP? I don't think so...
Non-technical people overwhelmingly buy Windows PCs.

Windows PCs don't come with Chrome or Firefox or Brave. Non-technical people use the default IE preset to Bing.

Windows makes it a pain for non-technical people to switch browsers or search engines.

Even on a slanted playing field, Bing relevance is so bad that even non-technical people manage to climb over the hurdles Microsoft places in front of them to escape their defaults.
My take on it: It doesn't really matter at that level tbh. I used to chase that level of connectivity until covid happened. I was working from home on am ADSL with 37mbps download, 10mbps upload. I didn't use much internet at home before 2023 so I always had the cheapest broadband plan. Then I started WFH and the same for my partner and I had a homelab. My ISP offered me 150mbps for just £3 more per month, and then I realised... I don't really need it? I was just fine with the same broadband plan from 2015. I changed my location a few times, taking my homelab with me, I moved cities and countries, I'm still using the same DDNS service and as long as my 80 and 443 ports are open, I can transfer anything at any time to and from my network. It's 2023 and I'm still using the cheapest plan my ISP offers, the same hardware since ~2018 and I'm just fine with that. I run k3s, a few docker services, network-wide adblocker, monitoring in grafana and many more etc. Everything works just fine.

Don't fall into the meme that you need IBM or HP server class hardware and 5Gbps fibre to run a homelab. I used to have IBM 3650x with +200Gb of RAM that I sold and bought 3x RPi4. I'm currently backing up 600Gib from my other servers, and it's completely fine that it will take a few days and nights ¯\(ツ)/¯ It's a hobby, I'm not paid for it, I'm not paid to maintain 99.999%, it's OK if it's not the best shit on /r/homelab
It's really nice to not have to worry about charging so often. I have a MBA I use as a "work laptop", and it's very freeing being able to leave it in my backpack, charge every few days, and be able to work from wherever I want without even bringing the charger with. I never use it >8hrs unplugged in one sitting.
I figure it was because he thought he was so intelligent that he could run circles around the court.
> You realize the volunteer soldiers that enter a battle to kill other humans also fall under this scope?

Yes. And I strongly believe there's something wrong with their brains. Not so wrong as with the brains of murderers. But to let someone's words override your innate blocks against killing is some weaknes of the brain, easily exploitable with disastrous consequences for humanity.

It makes wars feasible.
I hadn't heard of this, thank you! I'm giving it a shot now.
Tata Steel to close furnaces, with 3k jobs expected to go this year
I had one of those, a Logitech MX1000.

It needed to charge multiple times per week in a cradle and always indicated the battery life when it was moved around.

It would die in the middle of playing DotA, so I had two and would pause the game with the admin commands on my host bot for just long enough to pull the waiting one out of the dock and press the pairing buttons. Fun times lol.
I thought there was at one time an issue with the fluorite elements in those huge many-kilobuck lenses absorbing moisture from the air and cracking or having other sorts of failures. Canon for a while stayed with fluorite while Nikon worked out ED glass that avoided the problem. I don't know if today's Canon L lenses use fluorite.
lets take this at face value and assume productivity is equal no matter if in-office or remotely.

now thinking in business terms. you can run a (remote compatible) company without having an office at all, which may reduce cost very significantly, giving you an economic advantage. being a remote company also forces everyone to exchange thoughts/data/documents digitally one way or the other, making automation ideas with AI tools more feasible, which would then be another economic advantage that still needs to be realized in the future but its there.

now add ontop that people don't waste their time and pollute the environment by commuting, that employees can live wherever they want (probably: way cheaper and with higher QoL) than in commute distance, so they have more money left each month to spend (instead of it going to insane rent/...), which stimulates the economy in theory.

not going into the discussion that some people actually like to be in the office with others, basically forcing everyone else to do the same indirectly or directly. just the pure economic advantages. did I miss something that counters my points?
Surprisingly using bbb.org has worked for dealing with terrible customer service.
You can get the details from the contemporary coverage linked in the sibling comments but it seemed like he felt he'd go to trial and be acquitted. If I had to guess, having to admit he'd been lying to everyone through the whole process was probably also a factor - the deal was something like plead to a manslaughter charge and reveal the location of the victim's body.
What Makes Redis Fast?
I do agree with you on principles, but given those gauntlets being a pinnacle of human achievement for that time, our current pinnacles doesn't seem to last that long and the means are lost as well. Probably for the better, but quite can't tell also.

Maybe it is a creeping anxiety about losing knowledge as we stride forward and forgetting the means of recreating the things we end up with. Kind of like the Dark age of technology in WH40K.
Meta will have more than 350.000 Nvidia H100s this year
I swear there's a patent incentive company that's selling into these programs. everybody was doing patent cubes for a while. I've got a patent light (from Facebook), which I'm guessing must have been a thing too.

About the only thing my patent was useful for was when a PM came around asking about a new vendor with a creative way of doing something, I could defer with "I have a patent on that, it didn't really work when we tried it"
I think it means that N people with sufficient karma (I think N=4) thought your post violated the guidelines of the site.
Same here :/ Saw the writing on the wall when the previous purchase/sale happened to some investment company or whatever it was, but thought I could hold off my migration for a while longer...
I mean sure, so for those people WG21 does them a great service, in most cases they can say "Oh that's IFNDR" [Ill-formed; No Diagnostic Required] or "That's UB" and so it's not the compiler's fault your program doesn't work and they can close your ticket as NOTABUG if they want.

My guess is that all or almost-all non-trivial C++ projects trigger IFNDR and thus have no actual meaning per the ISO standard language. They do work, more or less, but that's just convention and can be taken away at any time or for any reason. Header files, use of concepts, unfortunate algorithmic goofs, careless naming, there are a billion† ways to trigger IFNDR in C++ and by definition that's fatal to your correctness.

† A billion is likely an overestimate, but WG21 has no formal inventory of IFNDR in the sprawling ISO document so, who knows.
We are designed to think (and communicate!) with a feedback loop of generated and perceived body movement, touch, visual exploration and object manipulation.

I suspect that watching how children move their bodies and eyes while learning on paper vs. screen would highlight some significant differences in processing.

Similarly with electronic and physical books.

A physical book and its pages are part fidget spinner.

We all have some degree of physical-intellectual synesthesia.
There has been proposed canal in Nicaragua. It would be 170 miles long and have locks to reach Lake Nicaragua.

Chinese company got concession to build decade ago, but didn't do anything and then went out of business.
I have yet to understand why people have made land value tax a thing.

As I understand it, land value and improvements are already taxed but a land value tax would only tax land value.

Can someone make this make sense? Why would this promote development?
For now Windows and linux
100% agree. Somerville (city outside of Boston) is 19th on this list of densest cities in the US and I attribute it mostly to 2 and 3-family homes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Fluorite is an obsolete term in the optical engineering community. The term used today is simply “calcium fluoride.”
Calcium fluoride windows are used extensively as the expendable windows of the 308nm XeCl laser, which anneals every thin film display made.
> I've used https://adnauseam.io/ for years. It's great.

No it isn't great. It's stupid and dangerous. It does nothing to make your data "worthless". You're only giving data brokers and the people who use them more highly valuable data to use against you. Please see my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043547#39044239
I worked for a large company where a patent had no chance of being filled if it didn't contain the manager's and director's name.
Might be a tangential question, but does trying to escape surveillance matter? I somehow made myself believe that even if I self-host everything, avoid all the tracking, yada yada, unless everyone I hang out with does the same, the data brokers technically will get some information about me.

Realistically, you have to be very tech-savvy to properly avoid tracking, and pretty much avoid any modern social life. That already excludes most of the people in this world. And I, for sure, don't want to live a bunker-basement family life, with no outside fun. In the end, I'm not sure how to solve it, and probably making it worse with my pessimism. But is this actually a winnable battle?
Still reading it But I think this is a pretty good idea. Too often the devs don't really want to take a stance, which on the one hand is understandable, you don't want to be telling people how to run their databases. However on the other hand this can be very hard for a beginner. It can be invaluable to be able to start with a known good config, a checklist of "best" practices, and some cautionary war stories on edge cases to avoid.
I was impressed by this quote from TFA:

> Through force of will, and hard work, he made himself into a programmer of extraordinary skill ...
Based on the numbers from the article: 40 kW * 80 s / 500 m is 650 kgf.

So maybe it will work. Still I feel like as soon as you get a moment of calm it will all break. The wind may be very reliable in places but is it ever so reliable that you don't get moments of calm for hours at a time?
Thank you for such a vulnerable description of your terrible journey right now.
> I'd love to see some kind of system where I could partner up with other Umbrel users for backups/the ability to restore connectivity. If I knew that in an emergency, I could call my friend in town or my brother out of state and there was some procedure that would allow me to connect to an encrypted backup of what I'm needing, I would feel a lot better about taking responsibility for my own system.

I'm working on self-hosting my own "personal cloud" (NextCloud with a few other services), and I strongly debated just getting an Umbrel, but this is what kept me from doing so. Instead, I'm going the DIY route with two machines, one in my house and one at my parents', and we're each going to have data replicated across both machines and encrypted at rest.

If Umbrel offered this out of the box, I would probably just use that to save me the time.
Your first patent is like "Ohhhhh!" but subsequent ones are like "meh!" If you take away the financial incentive to do patents then I won't even try filing them. If you don't pay me enough to file one then I won't bother. Filing patents is a hassle and dealing with the lawyers and crawling through legalese is a pain in the bum. Once you have a couple then it's all about the $$$ IMO.

iBM must be cutting their throat to save a few bucks. They used to be a massive patent harvesting machine.
fairphone? The last one will have 8y + it's repairable. In terms of performance/camera quality it's far from apple/top snapdragon but still
Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice
Windows 10 and 11 support Arm64, but their Server counterparts don't. Microsoft has also been reaching out to application developers, asking them to add Arm64 support. I think we're going to see a major shift to Arm64 in the Windows world in the near future.
Earth Simulator
Self-employed, business registered in another country where you don't live, your business bank accounts and personal bank accounts in countries where neither you nor the business live, declare no taxes or declare zero revenue.

This means you and your business will have to be self-sufficient. You're not going to have access to loans or investors. But you'll be out of the claws of the system and as free as can be.
It is run by those people but cost matters in a capitalist society, so you have to consider it alongside the actual engineering numbers. If you want socialism for energy, we can have that, but I’ll tell you now that the government will spend way more to operate a nuclear plant than it’s going to be worth. Look at navy nuclear stuff, it’s so dang expensive.
Curious, why do you think Rust does not look like a better C++ (in the sense of not making the mistakes of it)? Is there something you find impractical?
I don’t see how generic programming (a la polymorphic types as presented) is the only or even the best solution to this problem.
And it's a very different situation for different income brackets. Celebrity or wealthy person is on drugs and manages to get to rehab - because they have the means to dip in and out of rehab - and they're a heart warming story, if you're poor you're not a person, you're just a drug addict.

Nothing drove that home for me more than hearing someone, during the George Floyd trial, cut someone off who referred to him as a man with "He was a drug addict"
I used to belong to a medieval recreation society and made an articulated vambrace (covers forearm, elbow, and connects to the gauntlet). We had modern steel, modern tools (scissors, modern ball peen hammer) but still pounded out all the shapes and cut holes for rivets and pounded the rivets it.

It was tremendously satisfying (I'm a Maker, although I don't think I realized it at the time). Actually much more interesting than swordmaking to me, or even running around hitting people on the (simulated) field of battle or attending the festival meals and talking like a viking.

It also helped me appreciate that blacksmiths and shoe cobblers were absolutely critical in a growing town.
That sounds lovely Why don’t you put coding and all the complicated stuff aside and try to build it in an interactive way? For example, there is a game on PlayStation called Dreams; check it out.

It allows you to create 3D games in a more casual and interactive way, without getting too complicated, although it also allows things to be made complicated if you want to.

Good luck
Minutes is a big stretch if it’s your first time.
> if only they could make a small donation to every website they liked - but that doesn't work because people are fundamentally too selfish.

Hear hear, this is exactly why bittorrent trackers is just a fad that will disappear as quickly as it appeared. What, are people supposed to just share data freely without getting paid for it? Good luck I tell them, it's impossible because every single person is just too selfish.
This is a very hard subject and mountains of paper have been produced debating it without any clear resolution in sight. I don't think a HN discussion is going to resolve it one way or the other.
Promotional to the number of _edges_. Edges are proportional to the square of the number of nodes, so the value of the network overall is proportional to the square of the nodes.

Think of it this way, for every new user added to the network:
* the new user is enriched proportional to the number of existing users
* every existing user is enriched by the 1 new user

This double-counting is what gives it the quadratic growth.
There is no real "connection" being made with remote work. That is something I miss.
You know what they mean.
Slack already has, but it's not stellar to be honest
> unless you already have a collection it's hard to legally get your hands on DRM-free digital media.

Sneakernet meets the fediverse: https://funkwhale.audio
BYD. Tesla overated. Just BYD Seal battery is the dealmaker over ANY Tesla top off with cheaper pricing as well plus cheaper maintenance.
I have a great idea how to solve housing shortage in US: ban single family houses inside and near the city borders. Make 25-mile zone where new construction could be multi family only.
The Milei speech in English, rendered using HeyGen
How's that meaningful? (just interested in your line of thought).
No mention of the ADA in the entire article - I guess people with mobility issues should go fly a kite.
Amid a national shortage, the US Adderall black market is booming
European here.

I can't even put to words my embafflement upon having learnt that you US folks need two staircases.
years ago I went to the local fete in a town of some 200 people about an hour from the main city in our state (Australia) and I bought what I think is the best toaster I have ever seen, no moving parts.

It was sort of like a little metal toast cave with a single rod like element running along the back. It used reflectance from that heating element to toast - you put the toast in horizontally and it was like a very small toaster oven with no door, but more stylish.

And I wish I could fully remember but there may have been some kind of auto off device and some nuances for toasting one side more than the other, but because it was like a frog mouth opening you could fit fat bread, buns, rolls, you could do toasted cheese and so on.

I could see why maybe some safety factors could be a problem in a modern world, but there were grills and guards to protect against accidental contact, it was double skinned to prevent external temps getting to hot to touch or ignite things, and it was about 50 years old when I got it and still working perfectly.

If I ever see another one I am buying it regardless of price.

I feel that success would only be likely if you presented a new (or old) paradigm on what a toaster is.

I mean, you can always just break out the heat gun, it's loud, inefficient, maybe a little dangerous, but you can get your toast exactly how you want it.

Second last toaster I bought I decided to lash out on a fancy $150 one - it lasted no longer than the $20 and toasted no better, so now I just go with low end ones.\