skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've designed similar structures locally. Earthen, steel, and RC.

There isn't a single reason for RC, but the biggest reason is that our local soil sucks and good soil to make 'well-engineered' earth structures is a limited resource.

Additionally, there's differences in engineering philosophy between public-works and the oil field (I do both), and it's probably the opposite of what most think. Especially wrt capitalization/ finance. Almost nothing is done cheapest, let alone cheap in the coastal oil field.

Oil wants it done for a known cost, even if higher up front, to have higher certainty in long-term risk/ or lower maintenance costs. (Also soil takes months longer to settle, and time might be big money, depending on the project.)

If that higher cost tanks the project numbers, fine; they have 100 other projects lined up to make that IRR without resorting cost/corner-cutting.

Other thoughts:

Stone that is suitable for armoring earthen structures isn't sourced locally. No mountains. Has to all be barged in.

And still wouldn't survive the constant battering of wind/waves (in both a long-term seasonal sense, as well as during an acute storm event) as well as concrete.

Subsidence of a pile supported concrete structure will match the adjacent pile supported facilities, and be minimal compared to an earthen structure, which will also have expected settling on top of subsidence.

Floodwalls can double as containment berms, and that adds many design considerations not typical for stand-alone flood structures, including chemical resistance and fire suppression.

But even something as simple as grass cutting might tip the scales. Lots of heli- or boat-only access facilities, and grass needs to be cut at least once per week during summer here. Maintaining grass/earth isn't necessarily cheaper when your yard guy needs a stack of govt twic/osha cards, a private ferry ride out, and probably transport to a private dock a few hours from town.

All of which just barely gets into the logistics involved in the industry.

>more likely to fail catastrophically

Maybe catastrophically, depending on how you want to define it, but less likely to fail overall. Concrete is more likely to fail in a predictable manor.

Even the Katrina concrete/steel 'floodwall' failures were actually soil failures, not RC or steel ones.
> it looks really unfamiliar

Swahili looks unfamiliar to me. Because I didn't grow up in southern Africa. Don't conflate subjective familiarity with objective simplicity - any "unfamiliar" concept only reflects on you, not your subject.
The scoping in Python... my goodness.
A big issue with the internet is the commercialization aspect of it. Any time you get an organic community of actual users, that's just chumming the water. That's a good quality population of users for the marketer unlike a lot of others out there. They are going to try all they can to get into that community and use it for advertising, to make some use out of it versus to leave it be on the table. Entropy favors enshittification. The race to the bottom never ends, the bottom just keeps moving as low as it possibly can be.

Individual incentives have also shifted substantially. Having a post go viral or be of some help to someone else used to be enough of an incentive to post on the internet. Now people want to make a job out of it, which shifts the nature of the posts due to different incentives requiring different optimizations. Also people aren't hosting their own websites that they support out of their own pocket that often anymore. People would rather post their content on other people's websites that are ad supported and therefore have incentives that bias what is posted there or gets traction on that platform.
> force bloggers to stop using GitHub Gist embeds

Or maybe just let people do what they want on their own site, even though you or I might not like it?

"Forcing" people to change their sites to suit your preferences is ridiculous.
... elaborate...
So if the local citizens ban minorities from living there, that's OK with you?
I only left them off because we’re talking about size here, and I don’t know how much code that actually is. I am a Windows user, so I’m quite excited to have Rust in my kernel! But as far as I know it’s just one small bit, with more to come!
This is not one of those things where a long tail dominates. You could transfer a megabyte of data over Wi-Fi to a portable device 20 million times with the same energy that you need to charge a standard range Tesla once. Furthermore, I can assure you that there is a person whose full-time job is to consider the energy usage of YouTube in all its aspects.
> Per Amazon's emails, the company is still keen to release the home version of Astro

Maybe they find it easier to convince consumers to let amazon spy on them and their homes than it is to convince businesses to let amazon spy on what happens in the office, or maybe the data they were collecting from businesses doesn't seem like it's be as valuable to them as the data they'll collect by putting a mobile camera and microphone in households.
This is not a good faith argument, minorities are not a type of housing. Someone’s holiday is not a protected class.
My experience has been that users like to include a lot of information that's not relevant to the application I'm working on.

My application couldn't really care less about customer names, for example. But the people who buy my software naturally do care - and what's worse, each of my potential customers has some legacy system which stores their customer names in a different way. So one problem I want to address is, how do I maintain fidelity with the old system, for example during the data migration, while enabling me to move forward quickly?

My solution has been to keep non-functional data such as customer names in JSON, and extract only the two or three fields that are relevant to my application, and put them into a regular SQL database table.

So far this has given me the best of both worlds: a simple and highly customisable JSON API for these user-facing objects with mutable shapes, but a compact SQL backend for the actual work.
> It’s not really a problem, you just adjust the size of your assumed storm.

Adjusting how you call the storm doesn't make the wall bigger: that's the problem. (It also makes their statement untrue in the present day, regardless of if it was true when the wall was designed.)
Why not? This is just the whole high art/low art nonsense in another context. Plenty of people enjoy their cola of choice more than they do a fancy wine and consider it to be an essential part of their day. Why is it less worthy of inclusion in culinary culture?
Not uninformed, the majority of 'gender-confused' youth outgrow their confusion and are content in their sex:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-024-02817-5

If you don't want to read the whole study - I think you should given your reproach on me being 'uninformed' and 'anti-trans'- just take the following to heed, from the conclusion:

The results of the current study might help adolescents to realize that it is normal to have some doubts about one’s identity and one’s gender identity during this age period and that this is also relatively common. Furthermore, the insight that gender non-contentedness is relatively common during early adolescence in a general population and youth psychiatric care sample, might provide some perspective to clinicians primarily seeing individuals with intense gender dysphoric feelings and give them a more comprehensive view on the range of developmental patterns of gender identity in the general population and in children receiving youth psychiatric care.

[Read the study and] realise the implications of the fact that the majority of adolescents outgrow their 'gender' confusion when seen in the light of early and aggressive 'gender-affirming treatment'. For those who have been put on Lupron ('puberty blockers') and those who have gone under the knife the later realisation that they were in fact simply homosexual instead of 'born in the wrong body' comes too late as they have been maimed for life. That is what I mean with medical malpractice.
I live in a neighborhood right on the river - one of my favorite things is watching these massive boats go by; especially the Chiquita and Dole container ships filled with bananas.

Fun fact, a ships captain is not the one piloting the boat, they instead must relinquish all control to specialized Mississippi River pilots at the mouth of the river.

https://www.crescentpilots.com/
Thanks for the info, so you're talking about adjusting or replacing the UX based on user feedback. It makes sense now, but I guess I was imagining something different when you mentioned reinforcing inaccurate mental models.
If it is "about life as well" you may benefit from counseling.

Also, maintaining healthy lifestyle will also help.
> So instead of losing 5% or so of their revenue in the EU they’d rather lose > 80-90%

They would directly lose ~40% of profit. Additionally, there’s no reason to buy an iPhone if it just works like an Android, so Apple would be competing with Samsung hardware on price instead of on having a superior customer experience. So there go the other ~60% of profits.

So, yes, pulling out of the market completely starts to look like a rational business decision.
Why would you not use YoutubeLite for this? Just thumbnail loading then embed / play on click. You are reinventing the wheel for no reason.
I really hate the "tab width = 8" though.
Looks interesting- good luck with the launch!
I noticed that some keywords that I tried out in the overview page returned results, but the high level overview stated `search results : 0` - just wanted you to know :-)
what's the bricking part here?

will the robots receive a self-destruct command (real bricking), or will required external APIs be shut down (effectively bricking, but with a possibility of third-party service resurrection) ?
> Germany is part of one of the biggest most diverse synchronised electricity grids in the world

Germany needs about 300GW in winter once it switches to electric heating and EVs. In winter, renewables regularly drop to about 10% of their average production for weeks at a time. So Germany will need to import about 250GW of power from its neighbors. That also need power for their own use.

This is just not feasible.

So the plan right now is to replace the coal generation with natural gas generation, and color the pipes in green paint. Oh, and make the companies to pinky-promise that they are "hydrogen ready".
https://github.com/samuelmtimbo/unit/
Let’s say it’s 7 cars a quarter, that is 28 cars in a year. To cover a $185,000 fee, they would need to be generating $6,607 profit per car. Seems doable?
It's been interesting to see companies try to adapt to the wave -- If you previously produced addictive but ultimately bad-for-you products...

I wonder how you can adapt to a world where peoples' addictive desires themselves are greatly reduced.
Seekability, bitrate adaptability, and subtitles are all built in to properly crafted video files. Codec support is handled with multiple source elements inside the video element.

The YouTube player is, at its core, a video tag.
It might be better to instead say, what does a discord server offer to you that a mailing list does not for your technical user group? I think most people are on discord because its fashionable and they are unfamiliar with older technology like mailing lists, which were more common place when they were only children perhaps.
A plain text format-less (bullet points only) list like this lot easier to maintain.
The concept of an "ordinary job seeker" sounds like a cog in a machine where employers are desperate to hire any warm-bodied adult.

One of the reasons "What color is your parachute" is promoted is that it discusses determining your skills and what you enjoy doing. It also promotes the idea that talking to people (information interviewing) is an effective way to find out deeply about jobs outside of the classifieds, the job boards, etc., when there are more job seekers than openings.
Ecuador court rules pollution violates rights of a river running through capital
Have you looked at versions in the last couple years to see if they've made progress?
Bullshit. SCOTUS ruled the President has broad immunity from legal jeopardy. The President is no longer a simple Citizen of the United States of America but a sovereign entity free from the confines of Law. This precept is not stated in the Constitution. It may, or may not be a current former President that capitalizes on this ruling, but this Executive legal position will occur sometime in the future. The Decline of the Great American Experiment has been written into law. The decline of the Republic of America is now imagined and conjured out of thin air. The Founders of the Republic of the United States could not have imagined such a position; the current SCOTUS has provided the legal steps to reach such conclusion. A Slave state will remain a Slave State. Originalists have codified their position that will lead to the decline of the United States of America, the worlds last great hope for a free and just world for humanity. The Path to Save our Freedom has been narrowed to a razors edge. Lincoln would be dismayed. We do not have a fierce warrior for democracy such as Washington to save our Republic.
The carbon footprint of streaming video: fact-checking the headlines

https://www.iea.org/commentaries/the-carbon-footprint-of-str...

Another recent claim [..] estimated that 7bn YouTube views of “Despacito” [..] had consumed 900 gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity, or 1.66 kWh per viewing hour.

At this rate, YouTube – with over 1 billion viewing hours a day – would consume over 600 TWh a year (2.5% of global electricity use), which would be more than the electricity used globally by all data centres (~200 TWh) and data transmission networks (~250 TWh).

It is clear that these figures are too high – but by how much?
I assume you mean experienced -- what did you do to recover? Sounds like it was temporary?
I enjoyed Player of Games and it was a good second book for me after Consider Phlebas. I’ve heard a lot of good things about Use of Weapons, but I haven’t been able to get into it after starting and restarting a couple times.
I agree with you on the very flawed way that the media covers the revisions. But revisions are nothing new and you’ll need a lot more than that to support an accusation of intentionally reporting wrong numbers.
Hyper-Focus on Amyloid Hypothesis for Alzheimer's May Have Slowed Progress
Sure, but that isn’t the assertion I was replying to!

My personal opinion is the wealthy gravitating to a spot are as much about it being a useful ‘nutrient gradient’ on the monetary policy front, after the primary places are exhausted (like the big US cities) or because those places were less accessible now.

But the original assertion I was replying to was that those places never had the rich foreign investor thing happen - when they absolutely did!
> This code is incorrect though, as it doesn't account for ...

Isn't this the fundamental problem with code generated by a statistical text generation algorithm?

In other words, "code" is short for encoding a solution. And to have a solution to encode is to understand the problem to solve.

Without understanding, statistical code generation is little more than a popularity contest.
It should be perfectly clear that the client-side impact of this transfer is not important, since a mobile device still loads YouTube embeds instantly, but does not burst into flames while doing so, as it necessarily would if the energy cost was as high as the other person is suggesting.
There must be some sort of cultural virus attached to Firefox that it has to make money as a commercial entity. Firefox was born from Netscape, a for-profit closed-source project, and while they lost the closed-source aspect of it, the executive class at Mozilla don't want to give up the for-profit segment.
All these technologies have something in common however. They get coopted for misinformation. I think a lot of fear about "new media" whatever form it might be is simply reactionary from a media literacy perspective. The adult of the radio age might understand that one can have some media literacy with the radio, not believe everything they say, waste their time on it, etc. But their kids who are watching TV all day didn't get that lesson in school, clearly the case from watching TV all day and not playing like a normal kid over the last millenia, and since they are kids they don't understand nuance so its simpler to put the foot down, and say "shut that damn TV off."

I think better lessons in media literacy would help a lot of situations like this, however there is very strong incentive in our world to prevent a high degree of media literacy from taking root, as it would obviate a lot of methods used for controlling subsets of the population.
I can - it's well documented by the project itself [1].

Very nearly all of the work is done by the test-release.sh script.

[1] https://llvm.org/docs/HowToReleaseLLVM.html
Dropbox was launched here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
Valve bodies had some sort of subconscious loose association with ICs. This comment makes the link for me as to why!
This is awesome, thanks for doing it -- the data looks high quality, and the layout is fantastic!

I think it might be a bit early to accurately attribute a negative correlation between clinics and obesity rates at a state level but.

It also might have been good to spell out exactly what the research means by by "Semaglutide clinic".
Never heard of it so looked it up:

https://github.com/psf/black

> Black is the uncompromising Python code formatter. By using it, you agree to cede control over minutiae of hand-formatting. In return, Black gives you speed, determinism, and freedom from pycodestyle nagging about formatting. You will save time and mental energy for more important matters.
The First Self-Proclaimed Drag Queen Was a Formerly Enslaved Man
The dash button was sadly bricked. It was replaced by a widget in the app that was better at upselling.
Ian Goldberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Goldberg)
Would using an iframe (with/without this lib) prevent the fetch issue or is that still a problem there?
We were using a CPU core vendor's compiler with flexlm licensing(well, Edison Design Group frontend and proprietary backend). We kept using it for ages because it regularly beat GCC due to some issues in GCC with register allocation and instruction reordering that only microchip seems to have ever fixed.

A traditional makefile like setup would only build one compilation unit per compiler invocation.

Each compiler invocation requires a license checkout over TCP. This was badly impacted by Nagling and delayed ACK. The license server was not managed by engineering rather the IT department so we were unable to get them to enable TCP_NODELAY.

Multiprocess scaling was challenging - you could give the compiler multiple compilation units, but sometimes doing so would effect the order of things in the object file, now you lose reproducible builds. These seemed to always be minor things that didn't significantly effect the executable, but rarely you'd crash the compiler and all its jobs would need restarted on the next rebuild.

For those of us batching our compiler invocations for local development builds, the last straw came when an ops team unfamiliar with the tools was put in charge of license management. They started kicking out license checkouts beyond a few seconds in the name of fairness. Build times increased further, but license checkouts per second went up so they thought they were helping.

Eventually I realized it wasn't the 1970s anymore and since I no longer smoke I was bored out of my skull just waiting for timesharing computer to compute again.

Several teams did move to GCC when it got bad enough - hand tuning loops and such when needed.

Probably shouldn't've had so much code in headers - APIs had a lot of dependencies and when I needed to change CompanyName.h, I was in for a few 90%+ rebuilds.

It was a combination of: not my problem, nobody's problem, I got mine, codebase is already like that, death by a thousand cuts, we've never better so how can you say this is bad, network latency.
Good luck with the launch!
I wonder why the company I input comes up in the list of competitors :-)
Despite the title, iPhones do this too as noted, and importantly it was a change made after removing the fingerprint reader. And of course in perfect Apple fashion you don't get a choice. I hate it. I still fail to turn my phone off sometimes. But also I will probably eventually get used to it, and people who started using iPhones after the change won't experience it as a change.
FWIW, the latest stable release is 7.0.12, released a week or so ago: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/upcoming/release-notes/7.0/. (I'm not sure why the URL has /upcoming/ in it, actually: 7.0 is definitely the stable release.)
Note that Rybelsus is a pill version of Semaglutide, developed by Novo Nordisk

Wrote a little about it here:

https://glp1.guide/content/a-glp1-ra-drug-without-a-needle-r...
> notion of promoting different "grades" of CI worker (i.e. an incremental versus a pristine) and none have any support for doing something nice like "lightweight test on push".

Which ones don't support that? Anything with a Docker cache, for example, can build layers efficiently, reusing previously built layers. Build triggers let you choose when to start a job, so GH actions, for example, can trigger a full test on any PR and a light test on any commit to a branch.
I'm genuinely impressed by this. It doesn't surprise me that it took 10 years to make.
> I can see that happening easily if Putin loses his war

Putin lost the war a long time ago when the attack on Kyiv failed, Ukraine managed to maintain unified government and military command, and found allies. Countries representing the majority of the world economy are now behind Ukraine and that seals the deal for Russia as much as it did for Nazi Germany. Putin has no path to victory and cannot retreat for domestic reasons. The plan was apparently "3 days to Kyiv" and Plan B does not seem to exist. He is stuck as Ukraine is grinding away the huge inheritance of USSR's weapons that make up the bulk of Russian army to this day. Again, great irony - in the end, it's Russia who is demilitarizing. Ukraine has destroyed over 8000 tanks. By most estimates, only 1100-1500 of old stock remain for refurbishment from graveyards. New production is 120-150 tanks per year. I guess that's why we didn't see a trace of the famous Brezhnev-era armadas on May 9th parade anymore. All the new tanks are gone and patched up rustbuckets from the 1960s would be nothing less than another humiliation.

> I don't see any utility in a border which separates them from the rest of Russia, or any excuse for it to be where it is.

I don't see any utility in a border which separates Finno-Ugric people in Russia from the rest of them in Europe, especially considering the abysmal state of human rights there. When can I expect the return of Karelia to Finland?
Electricity, the printing press, etc were all privately owned.
Why don’t we have quad copters for humans yet?
It seems that I’m the minority in this thread, but Talent Development has always gotten me much further than search. It’s also the Moneyball approach. People are remarkable when they are put in the right situations in which they can learn. It sets up a win-win situation helping people grow and teams get stronger. It also builds much more loyalty.
ah, I def need remote for my current use case - the web interface just isn't that nice to use!
for whatever reason I always thought a11y was ally. but, is c14n c(i)yan? and, what is l18n?