skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some of those tumbleweeds were likely radioactive, since this is downwind of the Hanford Site[3], a relic from the Manhattan Project and later Cold War which has been leaking radioactive waste for decades.

I can't count the number of giant piles of tumbleweeds I've seen along US-95, US-6, and NV-375 (The Extraterrestrial Highway†) — the roads which encircle the Nevada National Security Site and Area 51. God only knows what they're contaminated with.

(The name has changed several times, but the NNSS is where the U.S. carried out over 900 nuclear bomb tests from 1951 to 1994. Today the tests are simulated, so some of the most advanced and secret supercomputers in the world are there. It's the only place in North America where civilian police and firefighters can train for radioactive emergencies in actual radioactive environments.)

† https://travelnevada.com/road-trip/extraterrestrial-highway
I specifically go for long walks to have some quality time alone.
Ball games are at the park. It's a short bike ride or moderate walk away. We have a small gravel area we set up the paddling pool in, and no reason one can't wrestle in between beds (or indoors on the carpet).
HN never ceases to amaze me. Plenty of people here are great at negotiating job offers, but struggle negotiating in relationships. Different skill, set I guess maybe no surprise. Well, either way, figure it out. Go remote, long-distance, invest, build a business, or whatever else you need to do to retire around 40ish. Learn to make sacrifices.
I agree it's probably better and more fun and maybe less "work" to have a garden or wild plants than a lawn, but:

> you might just as well have concrete and paint it green

No, you would miss out on the feel of soft grass under your bare feet, and your kids and dogs would be having a whole lot less fun playing in the yard.

> Maybe they perceive running behind a mower or sitting on one not as work. Or not as lost time.

A lot of people find lawn-mowing relaxing. It's light physical labor, it has an immediate payoff, it involves motors and/or engines and/or tools depending on your preference, and the smell of fresh-cut grass is amazing.
That explains Fox news so clearly.
The URL on Daily Mail that you cite has "factcheck" in the domain name and calls itself "The Most Comprehensive Media Bias Resource". It has no about page and is exactly the sort of URL that I'd expect to get emailed from my impressionable 78-year-old mother.
They do. There are extension APIs which allows you to trivially connect to a LSP server, but last time I tried out-of-the-box support didn't exist. (Edit: it still doesn't exist)

There is some more info here: https://novadocs.panic.com

LSP support extension documentation is here: https://novadocs.panic.com/api-reference/language-client/
Well, agriculturalists before the modern era were generally more malnourished than hunter-gatherers. Mostly due to a lack of various nutrients and heightened risk of famine due to low food diversity- one drought or blight can wipe out your whole monocrop, leaving no backups or alternatives. Hunter gatherers sampled a much broader swath of the ecosystem, so one food source crashing for a year or so had a much smaller effect.
I'm a believer in everything you just said!

It takes a very healthy work environment (and attentive management) for this kind of work to be noticed and rewarded. Unfortunately it's not often the case.

I have tried to take this approach many times and a lot of companies/managers absolutely do not value it.

Broadly speaking, it only works if management is really involved in the day-to-day (more like hour to hour, really) process of what you're doing. Then it is easy for them to see that you are lifting up those around you and elevating the team as a whole. Without this involvement, a "mentor" and "leader" winds up looking simply like "a guy who doesn't ship enough" to management.

At my last job, management was very... absentee. There was a shortage of management and this was a bottleneck. They relied on metrics too heavily (stories shipped, etc) and didn't understand the actual processes... who was mentoring and elevating others, and who was "highly productive" but was also leaving an absolute trail of technical debt in their wake.
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> When that plant then dies two-three-five years later then all of that carbon gets back into the atmosphere anyway.

No. If it fully decomposes at some point, arguably. But plants are eaten by various organisms (= C becomes part of the organism), are used for building houses, become fossilized. All of these make these "cycle" claims invalid.

> The only way they don't grow back is if desertification happens or humans start using that area.

No. Plants can also become extinct (= no seeds survive) or stop growing in some places due to more aggressive competition.
All this will do is encourage development of indigenous technology. Unlike, let's say IBM360/USSR situation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_in_the_So...
I'm assuming it's only illegal as whitespace? In other words, they're allowed in string literals, right?
It’s not “manage” but “lead”. Which basically means the technical aspects. Certainly I’ve seen lots of great leadership from people with 2-5 years experience.
That's for web browsers though, which get to be early movers. In terms of the standards organisations the IETF's Best Common Practice update to deprecate TLS 1.0 (and TLS 1.1 which wasn't widely deployed before TLS 1.2 anyway) is still working its way through the bureaucracy. Currently:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-oldversions-depre...

Although I liked its original name (oldversions-die-die-die) obviously that's one of many things that couldn't survive in a publicly endorsed document.
My previous PC had the option of inserting harddisks in rubber bands instead of screwing them to the frame. It was a case specifically aimed at noise reduction (the Antec Solo).
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The stone gardens are more about reducing water use at least in the south west desert areas of the US.
and somehow you forgot about D
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We pay $100 per month for daycare which is open 6:30 to 18:30 if we need it for that long.

School costs us nothing out of pocket.

Our grand total out of pocket medical costs for our kid thus far (turns 4 in March) is around $500. Including any medication we've ever bought for him. Half of that $500 went to spending Monday through Friday at the hospital when he was born, in a hotel style room with three meals a day included for the both of us.

We didn't need private health insurance for that, nor have it provided by either employer.

We also received 480 paid parental leave days to be split between us (90 reserved for her, 90 for me, the remaining 300 at our discretion).

That's some evidence right there. I have no numbers from the countries you mentioned though. The difference there could be smaller.
yes, that's the point i'm making.

saying "if you write your kernel in rust, it will be memory safe" is a little goofy, because writing kernels in rust requires you to drop into unsafe blocks way too often.
I think this is where US culture and European culture differs a lot. For some reason, in US everyone needs to interact with anyone who stays longer than two seconds in close enough proximity. I am so thankful this is not a case in Europe (at least where I am) — for an introvert hating chit-chat it gets annoying really fast.
Says the guy who didn’t read past the title. “Hard to prove” doesn’t mean “impossible to prove.”
> We’re talking about plants specifically grown, using agricultural techniques, for biochar or food.

And you believe this can be done in a CO2-neutral way, even if we assume the CO2 is recovered quickly and never accumulates in the atmosphere? Ridiculous, modern agriculture is far from even "low emission"...
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If you took a newspaper "of record" like the NYT and judged it for what they published the last 10 years, I wonder if you could consider it a newspaper "of record" anymore
Not far outside is a very lax definition. A 500K Mortgage (affordable with aforementioned salaries) gets you a 2 bedroom in good neighborhoods in Paris, 3 in lesser ones. Sure, if you're ready to go 20 km away you can get a rather nice house at that price (say 100-150m2 with a garden of variable size), but at the cost of commuting 30min-1hr everyday.

Anyways, I wouldn't consider someone establishing outside of an european city (esp when working there) "high middle class". If you can't afford central housing of your choice, you dont qualify.
ElementaryOS's repos were hacked a while back. The trojaned images didn't stay up long, but it illustrates your point. (Not singling out ElementaryOS... any software with a repo or updater could be trojanized, including software from big companies.)
this says it all :D LOL
The rust eco system has done a pretty good job at this.

The language and standard library is always backwards compatible (minor security fixes excepted). So updating to a newer language version just works.

Major libraries at the roots of many dependency trees have upgraded in backwards incompatible ways a few times, but the community has pretty consistently come together and helped move every other library that anyone uses to the new version.
That sounds like you are operating on your own definition which you can apply and shift however you want. This is not what objective science is about. How do you know real humans are not displaying "accidental anthropomorphism"?
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Allow me to "pimp" an old contribution of mine on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17794060
I don't want to annoy people/be annoyed, either: if you want to be left alone, put up a sign. But you can't force people to participate in a virtual fantasy dragon battle- they'll just refuse and look at you weird!
yes, they are extremely flammable although likely to completely burn up within a minute or two as they don't have a lot of mass when dried out

not sure whether it is safer to exit the car and risk getting hit by another vehicle or risk being stuck under a burning pile
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I can’t find anything that suggests Ubuntu is the only officially supported distro. Can you share a reference for that?

I have seen a lot of movement for Windows but you might be right that this could be a problem. My hope is that it gets resolved before I get there. Great point though. I kind of just assumed I could ship Swift on Windows.
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I have not seen that video, but he puts a lot of engineering work into his projects and might be hard to replicate if you are a DIY'er. Great videos to watch.
Boredom / ennui
Wow, crazy. I grew up with a modest lawn (with two trees, one smack in the middle of each side of the lawn) and my best friend had a really big yard on a slope with a bunch of apple trees.

Playing in his yard was way more fun.
Ask HN: Will I have moments in my career like the one I just had in college?
I go to Rutgers - graduating in May.

There was a 5 person semester long group project for a database class. I tried to communicate and arrange meetups in the earlier stages of the project, but they quickly became distant and I wound up doing the entire thing.

General description -> ER model -> Schema -> RDS/EC2 on AWS -> JSP code and debugging -> submission.

It is the largest portion of the grade. We got an A on the project. I got a C+ in the class, the rest of my group mates got A's and B's.

Usually I don't pay much attention to final grades, but this one got to me. I am generally a poor test taker, and accepted that a long time ago. However having the rest of my group mates receive a better ~grade~ than me, might be representative of having other team mates make more ~income~ than me in the future. Especially because if the professor did a quick analysis on our group, it would appear that I was most likely the low performer on the project.

Do any of you have any similar experiences in your career? How did you handle them?

Thanks
and took over Japan.
What is your take on the show Silicon Valley? Do you think it's accurate, despite being satire?
I have long hoped Nodejs has a "standard library" of its own
Many of our raised beds have a piece of flat wood on one side that serves as a bench. In the summer we'll host garden parties and people will socialize among the flowers and veggies. The delight people have picking tomatoes, peas, berries, beans, corn, and other things for their meal is real.
AM = amplitude modulation (as opposed to frequency modulation). It has nothing to do with a specific frequency range.

In the United States for example, AM is commonly used from ~150khz all the way up into the low hundreds of megahertz.
As an example, all aircraft transmissions in the US are AM and are in the ~120-130Mhz range.
> P.S. -- there would be no need to 'keep yourself accountable' if you were genuinely interested in what you were doing.

Unless the dullness burns you out / demotivates you.
Not to mention, you have to evaluate this in context. What would MS stand to lose if they actually did this? Far far more than whatever Bitcoin they'd be able to steal that much is certain.

But in any case, if you care about security, you have a hardware wallet and store the seed somewhere secure.
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Why is it that people on this site seem to always believe that they know better than the person who took the time to do the work that is cited? The amount of "armchair expertise" here is sickening.

Do we really think that someone who is looking at this type of thing in enough detail to produce the graphs in the article wouldn't think of ambient temperature differential? REALLY?!

Something not being documented well enough for us does not mean that it wasn't considered... Some thing that we thought of going unmentioned does not indicate that said thing was not considered or tried.

This article doesn't mention power supply equivalency or anything about how many people were present in the datacenter during a given test. Here comes the patented HN 'hot take': "uh well actually they don't mention power supplies - are we sure these devices were even powered on?"
I've seen one "10x" developer in my career. The way he
worked was basically to leave a massive wake of data
corruption, technical debt and bugs that other people
would spend months fixing.

Amen. I've known one real "10x" developer in several decades. He was truly something of a savant.

I also worked with another alleged 10x developer. He was quite good, but was also given the bulk of the greenfield work and left a massive trail of technical debt in his wake.

Management will never notice, because everyone just accepts
these things as part of doing business, and doesn't ask any
questions about where it comes from or whether it was the right
tradeoff. The tech debt itself doesn't bother me that much

The tech debt absolutely bothers me. It is so destructive to productivity and morale.

We had mountains of technical debt in an overstuffed monolith app. Our test suite alone took close to an hour to run and was flaky.

Management was openly hostile and derisive about attempts to address this debt. They were not engineers so it was like a laughing matter to them. "You want to have a portion of the team focus on something other than SHIPPING? Are you mad?"

Idiots. Some of the smartest idiots in the world, but idiots.
>only the Mail did the work of getting quotes from Bloomberg reporters. That alone gives it more credibility on this story.

Which in no way indicates it has more credibility. Just that it reportedly spent more resources on this story.
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Isn't any kind of harm reduction good, though? This is still a step in the right direction for a company whose primary source of income is beef.
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We already know Windows has some pretty excessive telemetry, it is not unreasonable to assume this or other elements of the OS can be exploited to gain control of a wallet.

At least with Linux we have thousands of open source developers keeping an eye on things, chances are much higher that an issue would be caught with Linux since Windows is closed source.
Just lean into that. Start automating peoples jobs or making their jobs irrelevant. The management will take note of the concerns of the others and put you in your own group. Now that you have established that you are 5x more productive than the other employees while only making 20% more, management will not care if you slack off and only work 5 hours a week.
Honestly I've never trusted the Polish but I think you can rely on Germans.
All employer provided healthcare is subsidized not free.
Considering we have had discussions about Apple products in the past and you've browsed by comment history, then you'd know that my job requires me to use Apple products and of the 3 machines issued to me, 2 are Apple. You could also probably infer that most of my family uses Apple products and that I am tech support for them.

For you to assert that I would never seriously consider Apple products implies one of two things. Either I am making an informed decision based on my extensive knowledge of them and the company, or it's an irrational decision based on my feelings.

Why do I need to justify myself to this extent and still not have an answer to my original question about why CarPlay is such a dealbreaker?

To elaborate my original question further...

I realize the overwhelming majority of car infotainment systems are hot steaming garbage. I would even be willing to say all of them are, with the exception of Tesla's.

With that in mind, why is CarPlay a deal breaker for some consider a Tesla. To me, CarPlay being a deal breaker means either there's a problem Tesla's system or CarPlay has value beyond what Tesla is doing. So which is it and why?

Thus far the best answer I have gotten is "you would never seriously consider an Apple product".
> Also, funnily enough, China was never considered a third-world country, but a second-world one, you know, in Cold war terms.

Again you're really struggling with the grammar here.

"Mary and the boys".

Is Mary a boy? No, Mary is not a boy. We are indicating Mary is in fact, not part of "the boys". Likewise, "China and 3rd world" indicates China is not 3rd world.

> Show me the AP standard

https://twitter.com/apstylebook/status/631085111220547584?la...

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/01/04/3726844...

> I reiterate what I said before, please read Factfulness, and then get back to me.

Wonderful book, not related to our current disagreement. If we're throwing out recommendations though, then I'd recommend Strunk and White.
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The real question is: why he is not using an Hardware Wallet? A ledger wallet is cheap enough if you get worried about your BTC being in an unsafe device. Yes, then you have to trust the company selling it for you, but isn't that the whole business to not compromise their own devices?
5 acres in area where minimum lot is 5 acres is much cheaper than in area where minimum is 5k sq ft. In most areas you can’t subdivide lot - that’s the reason houses in Atherton on huge lots are so cheap (relatively).
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But shouldn't Oracle be concerned about this from the perspective of overall business strategy?

Oracle's case with Google will likely set precedent. If the side they're arguing for is going to hurt another side of their business by removing their legal argument, why are they fighting?
Just to be clear, I don't want to enter any kind of comparison between EU and US pension/medical systems here!

All I'm saying, is that contribution to e.g. a 401k will be done after the $150k (even though the employer will contribute with e.g. 1:1 ratio).

Whereas in EU the retirement contribution is already done before the 80k euro. Actually, MANY other contributions will happen before that 80k EUR.

Thus, you cannot compare _directly_ EU and US salaries, you need to adjust for a rough estimate of everything that was already deducted from the EU 80k!

This is why I mention that it is more _fair_ to compare EU super-gross against US gross, because both are expressed before the heavy medical/unemployment/retirement contributions.
> Major universities are abandoning Matlab, Labview, SPSS, Minitab etc for Python

Just to add another point of anecdata.

I helm a large data science effort in the defense industry. We are actively moving away from MATLAB and to Python. It's easier for us to find Python coders, easier to train people to use Python, more maintainable for the restrictions we have on our networks, and cheaper.
It's so aggravating going to these news sites. It's almost as bad as the days of search bars installed in your browser. I'm not on the biggest screen in the world, but I can't even see the title of the article. https://i.imgur.com/UYT7qpN.png

I've been to plenty of other sites just as bad too. It instantly kills my desire find the article and read it.
That is excellent advice. I've had machines that started out pretty quiet but got noisier as they got older. I figured it was gunk accumulating on the fans or other parts, but I guess checking the paste is a good idea too.
Not as often as you would think, Phill Oppermann has shown this: https://os.phil-opp.com/

Unsafe is definitely used, but it does not mean what I think is being implied, which is that it makes the software unsafe.
I'm not aware of any legal doctrine [in the US] of implied license based on a copyright holder failing to defend their copyright. Can you give a citation for that?

Implied license generally applies to situations where a reasonable person would believe they have a license even though one has not been explicitly granted. For example, if I pay you for the use of a photograph you took, even without a written contract granting me ownership or a license, a court would hold that I have an implied license.

Failing to defend IP can enable a laches defense, but that's quite different from an implied license.
It would’ve been a perfect onion article if it was not real
I'm not against native flowers, but I would point out that my mother's lawn in Northern California has not even smelled a pesticide since at least 1975, and while I'm sure it could be more bug-friendly it's hardly a desert. Plenty of things creep and crawl in the lawn.

Maybe there's more diversity in types of lawns than the anti-lawn crowd like to consider?
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