skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a rural community where within the county and neighboring counties, cattle is a big deal. That said, the cows up here are fat and happy and have space to roam. Compare to the cattle pastures in the central valley where the cows are skinny and kept in small areas with limited space to roam.

One thing that surprised me moving up here, and this is something I didn't realize re: laws around food, availabiliyt of game meat (dear/elk/etc) really is something you have to hunt on your own.

Another interesting tidbit about cattle grazing and national parks - If you ever do the Mohave Road, there used to be a number of ranches that grazed in/along parts of that route. Old water troughs visible, etc. Most of them shut down, one of the few that was allowed to continue had connections to Diane Feinstein and her husband. Water, grazing rights, and land use politics can get pretty damn ugly out west.
You should let the reporters know you can't see the image. I'm sure they would appreciate the feedback and fix it right away.
There are tens of millions of bison that would be grazing that land had they not been wiped out.
Given the colossal and uneven levels of subsidies in US agriculture, I'd be reluctant to draw any conclusions about what the market is willing to bear.
The motivational quotes are told to people because for every ex-paratrooper or person with naturally bad knees, there are hundreds of people with perfectly fine health that they're neglecting or abusing. Being a paratrooper is almost as uncommon as being lazy is common. People with chronic health problem just end up caught in the crossfire between lazy people telling each other to work harder.
Yeah, but they continually die in a cycle such that the overall CO2 levels never really get stored long term as it is all temporarily stored in the trees.
Whoa, America has lot of golf courses!
Might not be the worst case and I may have missed a small logging road but if you were to head roughly south parallel to the John Muir Trail from around Tuolumne meadows it would be about 130-140 miles before you reach a road or US-395 around the Kennedy Meadows store. I think you can just miss the roads around Mammoth and Devil's postpile and then the Road's end trail head in SEKI.
I guess I’ve just never had to deal with, or see anyone else have to deal with repeated repairs. And yes, I agree that this isn’t a great look for Apple. But it’s better that everything’s fixed for free than the alternative.
FYI: All caps on the internet is generally considered to be yelling and is a violation of HN guidelines.
I love your blog, stumbled across it a while ago.

But I do need to mention that there are multiple McD's in Morocco, having been to them myself when I visited :)

http://www.mcdonalds.ma/nos-restaurants/r%C3%A9seau-maroc
I guess I’ve just never experienced the kind of hardware failures that everyone else is mentioning, so I don’t have a lot of experience with how they actually occur. I’m not saying that they don’t happen, but I have no idea if these are early failures or the middle of the bathtub curve.
You may not care about tracking individual people but in order to realize your business advantages you end up doing it anyway. They always put their business needs above those of the users. Increasing conversion rates always trumps user privacy and peace of mind. Claiming businesses care about happy users is just dishonest. They care about bottom line.

Business just shouldn't be able to freely collect mountains of information. They can't be trusted to do it responsibly. Collecting data is a privilege and it can be revoked. If they insist on doing it, we'll find a way to avoid sending the data. If they lock us out for not sending data, we'll send fake data.
> general concensus

This is a weasel word (as per e.g. Wikipedia:WEASEL). You need to accompany that with a quote at the very least for "two different realities (...) somehow got into superposition". And even then I wouldn't buy it if the quote was from popular science or by-the-way opinions. Simply because that's a contradiction.

The two slit open phase is described in a wave model and the other phase in a particle. model. But neither is correct at the same time. That's been good enough for me so far. You might as well say both models were correct and somehow get into super position. But how is somehow important. I have never calculated a wave collapse or even began to understand the PSI operator.

I don't think it would lead me anywhere unless taking the slit, or rather the barrier into the equation. But no, you skip ahead and entangle the whole human brain. Excuse me: What?
If you get your news from websites, rather than apps, then there's nothing to uninstall unless you want to uninstall the internet.

Personally, I mapped addictive sites like reddit to 0.0.0.0 in the hostfile, so I could have just the right amount of internet.
Agreed, somehow people consider 4G as a requirement for normal life. Being in a low-tech phase I find that a waste but alas.
I remember seeing a banned medical glossary with incorrect information, first good use of banning information I had ever seen.
Why would they continue this after moviepass is dead.
Which aren't in laptops anywhere so it's pretty irrelevant in this instance. It's also the case that the T2 chip is running real time encryption/decryption on reads and writes.
Transcriptic Selected to Oversee Robotic Cloud Lab Platform for Lilly
Very true. But all the same, when I see an article with about 25 comments, click on it, and see that the text has poor contrast, I know exactly what all those comments are going to be saying. Probably nothing about the article at all. The first comment will be about how the site is hard to read - which is a very legitimate complaint. And then the next 24 will be complaining about the design of every other random website under the sun.
They publicly stated they plan to launch this year (https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/waymo-self-driving-car-se...)
As crazy as it sounds, I believe this; but seems like a very hard-to-prove hypothesis.
> ...the cost of going from Berkeley to Walnut Creek via Bart is around $4 for 16 miles.

That's just what they charge the customer and does not in any way reflect the true cost of the ride.

Plus, you can stuff 6 people in a robocar @ $0.35/mile vs 6 * $4 to take bart.
Solar City was founded by Elon's cousin. They got a much better deal than was warranted by the numbers, and Musk is being sued by investors over it.
I just really needed a string library written in C, and it didn't seem as though there were many options. The first thing I found was the Simple Dynamic Strings library, but it wasn't maintained and depended on GCC extensions, so I decided to write my own. After getting a basic functional concatenation, I benchmarked it against std::string to see how slow it was, and to my great surprise, it was actually faster. From that point, I realized I can actually write some pretty fast code, and I decided to make the library centered around that.
There's supposed to be some sort of Arabic proverb that's something along the lines of "Me against my brothers, me and my brothers against my cousins, me and my brother and my cousins against the world".

It feels like a lot of attempted global social policy of the past 50 or so years has been trying to create a stronger consciousness of "humanity" as a thing, with our new enemies being abstract issues like poverty, hunger, climate change, drugs, inequality, etc. The "War on [...]" branding is part of that. Doesn't seem like it really gets the blood going as much. We'll probably have to have conquering aliens to fight against before that happens.
I love Org-mode for organizing to-do lists for complicated projects. This is great for completing short-term tasks.
When it's getting repaired, you don't have access to that same laptop. For professionals, it's a waste of time and an interruption to our ability to output.

Some people won't care about that. Some do.
The one third being used for cows is misleading. Pasture is basically the Bureau of Land Management’s default use for the vast swaths of federal land. It’s like “here is this land, you’re allowed to graze on it with a permit.” That doesn’t produce that many cows—it’s more about politics and the fact that much of the land is good for little else besides growing grass.

The real land use from growing meat comes from the land used to grow the corn that feeds the cows. In the article, that’s counted as agricultural land, not pasture.
agreed, I'm inclined to think that "electing" your police force also subverts it.

Douglas Adams was bang on the nail when he said something to the tune of "that the only beings that can and should be trusted with power is those that dont want it, or aren't aware they have it"
"you can always run the latest Windows on it. And Windows generally runs faster in Boot Camp on Macbook Pros than OSX does natively."

When did this happen? The last time I used Bootcamp, it seemed almost specifically designed to make Windows feel like a sub-par experience compared to OS X

Using a then-brand-new 2012 MBP with the latest version of OS X at the time (I believe Lion?) with Bootcamp. Some of the bizarre omissions I witnessed were

- A buggy BIOS implementation instead of EFI (rEFInd at least let me try and boot Linux under EFI)

- SSD set to run in IDE mode, instead of AHCI, resulting in utterly crippled performance (required issuing dd commands to the disk from within OS X to fix)

- No GPU switching. Only the Radeon card was enabled, leaving the system running insanely hot and guzzling battery

The final straw was when I ran some test VM's on it, and under a sustained load, had the CPU hit an eye watering 117 degrees celsius. Shutting it down almost immediately and then asking on tech oriented IRC channels I was in if this was a bug simply yielded dismissal from Apple acolytes at the time

"Oh it's DESIGNED to do that, the whole system is a huge heatsink!"

"Just make sure it's getting plenty of airflow, it's fine"
Ive long been thinking that the way to "fix" journalism in the US(and possibly rest of the world) is to have apple music/spotify like channels that the major publishers broadcast through. It solves the problem of having 50 different 1 dollar per month subscriptions, and aggregates content in a way that I would never have trouble paying for if it were done correctly. This model is already in place for things like Satellite Radio, Cable TV, the aforementioned apple music spotify, netflix, etc.

Am I the person that needs to build this??!!
Alaska would be similar to northern parts of Canada where herds of nearly one million caribou roam.
I live just north of Truckee. One day my GF had to go do some surveying over towards Nevada City. The easy way would have been out to 80, down to NC, and survey. Probably 2-2.5 hours of driving. I had the day free and said, "hey, lets try the back way -- via Downieville, Forest, Alleghany, etc. She said sure. That didn't work out so well.

Everything was going great, narrow roads crossing part of the Yuba River, gorgeous country, tight switchbacks and dangerous drops. Ended up on Foote Crossing Road, crossed the Yuba, climbed up a ways on a road maybe 2-3 wider than my Tacoma. Come around a corner, a chunk of slate had slid down covering the road days before. The options were backup 2+ miles or try and move the rock. Having a tow rope, we tried to move the large rock -- it moved, just not enough. After about 2.5 hours, a group came from the other direction and helped us out.

You have to be careful when out there. Before I do something like that again, despite thinking I was prepared, I'll do a bit more research and probably add a high lift jack and some other toys.
philg wrote this about 10 years ago. https://philip.greenspun.com/writing/changed-by-web-and-webl...

But, yeah, the economics of publishing (even in digital) still basically require you to pad a book out to about 200 pages or so even if the topic could fit more into 100 and be more focused as a result.

You do see shorter books coming out from the likes of O'Reilly but a lot of those are sponsored by companies as giveaways. And, if you self-publish, you can do anything you like. But there still seems to be a general attitude that it's not a "real" book unless it's 200 pages.
Modern Photography Is Changing How We Remember Our Lives
> It's a bit hard to pin down what "total cost" means in this context, though.

I realise looking back that comparing a company to a project/program isn't really correct. One kind ends, the other tries very hard not to end.
The TL;DR is that the point where some kind of tax or fee is collected (in this case it is charged to businesses) does not have that much influence on who ends up really "paying" for it.

That's going to depend on market dynamics between buyers and sellers.

The long version is, read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence and replace "government" and "tax" with "VISA" and "transaction fees".

To be honest I don't know who "really" pays but I'm certain that "I don't see any fees on my bill and I paid the cash price" is not the right way to read the situation.
It's an almost nonsensical question, that's why you're having trouble getting people to answer it.

People are saying "a small number of people might die and no one wants that, but it's impractical-to-impossible to guarantee that zero people will die." And you are asking, "but why? But why?"

Now and then there at washing machine deaths. Society accepts these because they're so rare and because it would be impractical to completely prevent them.

Compared to the number of road deaths most experts believe will be prevented over time, the few deaths we may encounter from training deaths seems completely inconsequential.
On one hand, my xps at work goes through to a dock that uses usb-c/tb3, everything goes through to the dock and nothing except the connector to my laptop. I get why they only had so little usb-c ports. I hope it wasn't as a decision to look "minimal" and thus less practical, meaning they took little is more a bit too literally.

Thing is, to take my work laptop home, I don't want to have to shell out for a dock just to use it at home too so on that hand, I'm happy the xps gives me options to not have to be reliant on a dock, as much as I love the use of a dock at work.
I'd also like to understand the reason for this restriction on whole house power when the grid is down but the sun is shining. Does anyone know why that might be the case?
Janusec Application Gateway, Provides WAF, CC Attack Defense, and Load Balance
But, muh rights!
Hello, from Paradise Valley, MT!

For more information on this issue with the Emigrant mine: http://greateryellowstone.org/yellowstone-gateway
Curious about SPS + A/C. Due to a medical condition in my household, having A/C even during an extended power outage would make life a lot easier.
Think steem.io was designed to do just this.
Mostly an easy and performant HA story that can scale to a huge number of queries per second for an app that is largely CRUD and vanilla webapp saas queries. Cockroach seems perfect but the performance seems pretty scary in certain scenarios.

Being able to just drop the DB into a k8s cluster and not worry too much about failover gotchas and leader election has a lot of value. As does being able to throw more nodes on for more performance. Complicated OLAP queries aren't in scope.
Visa likes their 3% which is auto deducted from your purchase, so I guess many “real people” will be cheering for Visa.
The "reason" for QE was not for the banks to lend out all of their new funds. That would have caused inflationary pressures immediately. They did lend a fraction. That it was not a bigger fraction should tell you something about the perceived risks and risk appetite at the time. Recall the opening complaint was that the banks made easy money by lending cheaply obtained funds. If they could do that then there should have been no excess reserves. Both cannot be true.

As for QE, increasing lending from reserves didn't turn out to be the only or even main channel of effect. Driving down yields was the main channel. In that sense it was indirect and inefficient for the amount of reserves injected, but not ineffective. In the end the spreads collapsed and money filtered out (not only from banks but from every holder of capital) from less risky investments to more risky investments, increasing the supply of capital to everyone. If you had to complain, it was that money took the longest time to reach the riskiest borrowers and that we're all on the hook for being front-run on Fed news (Fed paid more than they should to buy those bonds) [1]. That was unfair, not the rates that borrowers had to pay.

[1] On the other hand, by pre-announcing, they probably needed to buy fewer bonds over all as the market moved itself on the Fed's credibility.
People hate using real buses because they are so expensive in all the non-financial ways. Robot buses won't be much different: https://ideas.4brad.com/sharing-ride-less-sharing-better-tra...
It just seems wasteful if we were to use more than 5% of all land, much of which is "badlands" and marginal lands. True arable land, which is where our sustenance comes from is much less at around 16% currently.
I published https://makersatwork.com/ It's a great book, but not because I'm a talented writer. It had moderate success, but I didn't tell my story. I took other people's stories and compiled them using a model proven by Jessica Livingston's Founders at Work. It's a book of interviews of interesting people and industry experts. You don't have to be a fiction writer to be a published author. You don't even have to be the story teller.
Meet the Guy Responsible for Google Street View's Stunning Thailand Imagery
I think that, if properly executed, you could definitely get huge traction with proper marketing and I have some ideas there. You can integrate and partner with airlines, selling fear-specific software via app stores, etc.

Another major marketing platform is becoming a sponsor of height-based sports, such as rock-climbing and paragliding competitions, or their respective national organizations (such as USHPA).

Hell, some organizations like USHPA may even want to partner with you instead of necessarily you becoming a sponsor. A lot of these organizations could bolster their memberships using new methods of outreach with your help. USHPA is one of the many organizations that I can think of that has a hard time getting peoples' new interest because people think of hang gliding and paragliding as "crazy". Most people, when asked why they don't want to do it, have fear of flight or heights as the main reason.

In short, look to the industries that would benefit from people overcoming their fears. Partner with them, sponsor them, whatever. Create outreach material with them, such as brochures or videos about their sport or niche, and have a plug for your software. Offer a free x-month subscription to your VR app with all new organization memberships. Or do it the other way around: getting a subscription or purchase to your VR app automatically gets you X% discount with partnered trainers in multiple sports: paragliding, hang gliding, sky-diving, GA, etc. Have partnerships with trainers where you send referrals to each other. Use marketing terms like "Always wanted to try X but were always too afraid? Start living life!" I could see that being a successful Facebook or Instagram ad.

I just recalled I wrote an article[0] about my vision of the future in which I mentioned using VR for overcoming fears. If you ever want to chat feel free to reach out to me via the contact details there. Good luck!

[0] https://medium.com/@eblanshey/the-world-is-undergoing-massiv...
Only for rotating spend categories. Sometimes you have to jump through hoops to activate those categories.
as others pointed out, it cant be really used for anything else.

I'll also add to that, look how much of the rocky mountains was listed as 'pasture / range'
I have https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nostrademons bookmarked and I regularly check to see if he has made any new comments. I've done this for years.
If you keep posting unsubstantive and/or uncivil comments to HN we will ban you. We've already warned you several times.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
browse in w3m. problem solved.
after the second or third trip, they should have just given a new replacement one. 5 replacements (if I read that right) would be classified as a 'lemon' under car laws in many cases.
Woops... I skimmed the article and watched the 30MB GIF
> Waymo at least is signalling responsible deployment, they announced today a partnership with the Phoenix Valley transit authority to help encourage greater transit use.

Meh, my guess is they're just trying to get their grubby mitts on some Dial-a-Ride dollars...
> Having highly trained autonomous vehicles will keep us out of car crashes

I hate to be the guy who says, "Citation please," but yours is an assumption without evidence.

For all we know, autonomous driving safety might plateau at a rate that's lower than that of human drivers.
On the eve of beta invites going out, I thought I would compile a list. +1 for effort if you want
That depends on perspective. Certainly any building that banned women would not sound very "public" today, but within the ancient context would fit the model. It may have been open to citizens, men, non-slaves, who could read. That would have been a very small group. Setting aside our modern notions of equality, that sounds like a public library to me.
well... sprite wants it and I want it. and some colleagues want it too. So... "people" - yeah - "people" want it. Not just sprite.

There's not a lot I can do to register dissatisfaction with Apple's direction. I bought a 2016 mbp, then returned it (for a variety of reasons) - many of which have been beaten to death here in the last 18 months.
No, having different character types (I believe you are referring to C11's `char16_t` and `char32_t`?) is not a requirement for Unicode support. At the very least you need to have a single function or two that...

* Receives a string expected to be encoded in UTF-8, and an offset to it expected to be a UTF-8 sequence boundary.

* Scans forward or backward for the next or previous UTF-8 sequence boundary.

* Optionally returns the code point for the scanned UTF-8 sequence.

* Has proper error handling for every imaginable cases: out of boundary, not a boundary, not a valid UTF-8 sequence. (OOB case needs to be handled because it will be the end condition of the iteration. Preferably should be distinct from other error conditions.)

Every other functionality can build upon this little function, in particular the iteration and UTF-8 validation will be trivial. The full Unicode support including case mapping, folding, normalization and property lookup will of course require a not-so-small table but is not strictly necessary anyway.

Björn Höhrmann's Flexible and Economical UTF-8 Decoder [1] will be handy for a concise implementation.

[1] https://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/
The link is wrong... make a PR!
Acting like my question is dumb because the first however many replies to my comment made no real effort to actually answer it isn't a good faith argument and veers rather close to a personal attack.
My Asus UX31A is six years old and still going strong. It's a pity the RAM is soldered in at 4GB but certainly not worth replacing the entire laptop for it. And it wasn't top of the line - about $1300 as I remember.

Perhaps you just haven't really used a windows laptop recently and only remember the old days when Windows laptops really did only have a life span of about 3 years.
I think Susan Lammers did the original in the tech/computer field, "Programmers at Work." (Not sure if Lammers based it on something else that was also titled similarly):

https://www.amazon.com/Programmers-Work-Interviews-Computer-...
Pretty much every business book ever written (hyperbole alert) would have been improved by being an HBR article augmented with some detail and case studies that ended up in the 75-100 page range. But the economics of publishing apparently demand 200-250 pages.