skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The gum tree or Eucalyptus tree of Australia is an example of a plant that needs bushfires to propagate. The seeds are normally sealed by a resin that must be melted by fire to allow them to sprout. Eucalyptus trees make up most of Australia's forests [1].

Other examples of Australian plants that are adapted to bushfires to the degree that they require them to propagate are found in the genus Banksia [2]. Together with the genus Eucalyptus they comprise hundreds of plant species[3]. These aren't the only pyrophytic plants[3] that require fires. For example, Melaleuca quinquenervia is another pyrophytic plant of Australia [4].

Wikipedia says this of the Eucalyptus:

> Most species of Eucalyptus are native to Australia, and every state and territory has representative species. About three-quarters of Australian forests are eucalypt forests. Wildfire is a feature of the Australian landscape and many eucalypt species are adapted to fire, and resprout after fire or have seeds which survive fire.

Eucalyptus trees survive fire so they can be classified as a pyrophytic plant; they benefit from fires that destroy competitive plants. The Giant Sequoia trees of the US also survive fires and are are considered pyrophytes. However some plants are considered to be active pyrophtes because they encourage fires or the spread of fires. The Eucalyptus is an active pyrophyte because it produces inflammable oils.

The carniverous Byblis genus of plants and cogongrass are other examples of fire adapted plants found in Australia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksia

[3] https://www.britannica.com/list/5-amazing-adaptations-of-pyr...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melaleuca_quinquenervia
Or we could control our population and bring it carrying capacity by procreating at the rate of 1/2 surviving child/person.

We could also set aside half the all land mass to be rewilded and untouched. Same with oceans.

And we could all live well and still keep the species going. Who knows..space travel might make our lives more interesting.

Excessive procreation is a function of the virus called religion. Religion is important but not if it’s a public good and tied to politics and money instead of a private spiritual practice.

Evangelizing religions need more followers. Evangelizing religions emerged out of need to control the state. It is politics, not spirituality. Hence they actively encourage procreation without limits for the masses.

If human life was precious and sacred to the god of the religions, then there would have been no religious wars. So it goes to prove that religion is the cause of the war against this planet by humans. So yea..there’s that.
Depending on what you're doing there can also be significant value to being perceived as both an expert and an authority in your field.
To be fair, pronouns in English are considered a "closed class", while adjectives (like "antifragile") are considered an "open class". This has been true for centuries.
60k is on the low-end of visits only from HN where I've normally seen 100k+. I saw around 60k once of 4-5 of my projects hitting the front-page.

Also I know I make mistakes, both at coding and at setting things up, which can easily trash things around and make a 10x-100x multiplier for the cost. The risk is small, but the consequences are horrible so I prefer to avoid this risk.

Edit: also note that even a $10k would be horrifying to spend in most personal projects, and $1500 is more than what most programmers are saving monthly in most of the world.
So, Looking at the readme I can say the following:

- cool concept

- UI projects quickly get so complex as to necessitate a wiki or similar instead of documentation. The page's readme has good info but it's a lot to scroll through. and for UI projects docs is everything.

- That said the docs look really good to help someone get started. That's awesome.

- I want to poke at it more, but there's no license, so I don't know what terms I can or can't use it under. If I knew it was Apache/MIT/similar I'd be able to use it and look at the source.
That sounds really cool :).
The "hey guys" issue bothers me. "Guys" is gender inclusive already. Defined as "people of either sex." [1]

I don't mind saying "ya'll", but policing the vernacular of an individual based on their sexual organs is fairly concerning.

[1] https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/guy
The Gig Economy Is Coming for Your Job
Hmm...the 'socialism' of Warren/Sanders is the social democracy of such hellholes as <checks notes> most of Western Europe, including Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy
Trickle down economics was coined in a depression era joke by Will Rogers.

You might want to start your reading with this very widely reported 2015 IMF report: https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/sdn/2015/sdn1513.pdf

First article about this report search brought up, in case you want a slightly lighter introduction is, though you should find dozens of other media articles on the report: https://psmag.com/economics/trickle-down-economics-is-indeed...
Never encountered this site before so know nothing of their editorial stance, though I can conclude they are not pushing the boundaries of the laissez-faire right. :)
> I imagine that the later generations will just adopt an "I don't care, let people do what they want" attitude.

I guess that's possible, and in fact seems like it's accelerating. But then again, what constitutes a vice is also changing.

Take a different example. Surely climate change presents a significant social challenge, both immediate and downstream. Inasmuch as climate change is exacerbated by the vice of over-consumption, there's a great deal of social approbation in some circles against it and a number of proposals to regulate it.

One wonders, of course, if a successful campaign against over consumption won't result in a future sometime where people forget the dangers of over-consumption and argue for a more libertarian approach.

The idea that some vices aren't really immoral is not a new one; it's just that we have short memories and forget their very real dangers.
N=1 anecdata, I'm 26, net worth of ~$10M, barely finished high school. Avoided University on purpose because spending 4 years not working in tech seemed really expensive opportunity cost wise. Was the right choice. Can't be a doctor without going to college, but you can get rich.
Using spaced repetition to learn a language
You probably meant to link to the shell section of POSIX?

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...
You absolutely don't have to be a history geek to appreciate Hardcore History. I'm not, but I absolutely love it. You don't have to be a history geek to be able to love a good war movie, and this is very similar.
That's not at all what the article says. Naturally, it is good that the stock market goes up, i.e., the values of the companies goes up, if it's because of improved performance. The author argues the stock market is increasing more than it should based on increased inequality between the economy participants (stock holders, customers and employees), where one class of participant seem to be taking the biggest share of the pie. The author argues this creates a bubble situation that can lead to depressions.
The Impeachment Papers
> Is Bayesian Deep Learning worth looking into if I don't have much interest in statistical applications but much more just using deep learning as general purpose functions?

If you manage to build a model with a high accuracy and a sensible uncertainty on the output, you can use that information to do a lot of great things such as :

- obviously apply the method to domains that require uncertainty for legal or technical reasons (simulation)
- adding sample to improve you knowledge around uncertain input (active learning)
- use an optimized betting strategy that takes risks into account (bayesian optimization)

Gaussian process are a prime example of that but I am not aware of a deep learning approach that realises this (yet).
> No way of limiting the expenses

This pattern seems common among business people: things working in the common case vs things working in corner cases, it’s how you end up with consumer windows running critical machines. I’m always shocked and moderately disturbed when I see it but I guess we all need to accept the reality that most people are very pragmatic. It makes sense, most people’s intuition comes from “the real material world” where you have to pragmatic, I think many of them fail to realize that on a computer you don’t have to give up certainty the way you do in “the real world.”
Historically we've had the opposite problem. Countries tend to move toward austerity at the wrong moment in time, due to political pressures or pressure from debtors. (Though this is much more difficult to navigate when the country's debt is denominated in a foreign currency e.g. Japan with 200%+ debt to gdp which is having a hard time meeting inflation targets vs Argentina).

Even today, the European Central Bank is signaling that it has effectively done all it can do (without permanently harming the banking sector with negative rates), and that it is time to open the doors to fiscal stimulus; but, Germany, which is going through a manufacturing recession, is loath to update their constitution to facilitate fiscal stimulus.
> Every time I wrote a piece of code, I wondered how long it would be there for, I understand that code evolves, but seeing your code being rewritten after a week is no fun, and it's a huge blow to your confidence as well.

Here's some tough love. If people frequently rewrite code that you write it is because they are stronger developers than you are. You, the junior developer, can either sulk about it and feel miserable or realize what an amazing opportunity you have to improve.

Swallow your pride and approach the person who rewrote your code: "Hey, I noticed that you rewrote the code I wrote last week. Mind telling me what was wrong with it so that I can learn from you?" If the person answers "No" or "I don't have time" that person is an asshole and you are in the wrong place. But if the person answers "Sure! Let's schedule a meeting in a conference room with a whiteboard this afternoon and I'll explain what was wrong with it!" then you are in a great spot!

> Just rewriting code on your own is a big no for me, and to me, breaks the trust that we had.

Not for me. I trust my teammates judgement. They know when it's a good idea to rewrite my code and when it's not. No point wasting time holding meetings and bikeshedding over minutiae over work that can be done in a few hours. 9 times out of 10 they will do the right call. 1 time out of 10 they won't and we revert - no damage done.
It’s there:

> Chemical effects are especially problematic at the decomposition stage. Additives such as phthalates and Bisphenol A (widely known as BPA) leach out of plastic particles. These additives are known for their hormonal effects and can disrupt the hormone system of vertebrates and invertebrates alike. In addition, nano-sized particles may cause inflammation, traverse cellular barriers, and even cross highly selective membranes such as the blood-brain barrier or the placenta. Within the cell, they can trigger changes in gene expression and biochemical reactions, among other things.
Do discarded fishing nets really cause more harm to fish than actively used ones? The whole job of fishermen is to kill fish. How can you say they're environmentally responsible for not losing their nets? The environmental problems caused by fishing already exist and are far more severe than those caused by plastic which so far are mostly only theoretical or imaginary. The UN says that "half the world's fishing fleet could be scrapped with no change in catch." That's how much overfishing they're doing. It's not environmentally responsible.
This is a strategy that I've found to work really well for me. Curious to hear other people's tips / experiences as well.
Sounds like it would be content with `-sbash`.
We already eat too much fish as it is and stocks all over the world in dire state, plastic or no plastic. Millions depend on them for their survival, but many of us don't and could eat less.
I wanted to clear my Gmail inbox but there's too much history, specifically conversations with my late father. I still tear up seeing old messages. I often wish I had voicemail and SMS stored like with email.

I'd definitely pay for something like that.
The book "Bullshit Jobs" by David Graeber defines five types of jobs, two of which are "goons" and "box tickers".
Goons include hired people who lobby aggressively on behalf of their employer: lobbyists, corporate lawyers, PR specialists.
Box tickers are those who use paperwork and process to appear to be busy, even though the real useful work would continue without their intervention.

It's no secret that the top-5 tech firms hire large numbers of lobbyists and corporate lawyers [1].

And I don't think it is a stretch to say that some well-paid engineering positions include work such as maintaining built-in-house duplicates of open source software, or enforcing arbitrary coding standards, that could be considered "box ticking". Present company excluded, of course.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/us/politics/amazon-apple-...
Startups For the Rest of Us #449: Let's talk about Bluetick [0]

Co-host Mike Taber is asked hard questions by Rob Walling about his startup Bluetick, which is not performing as hoped. (First in a series)

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JRE #1330: Bernie Sanders [1]

Someone else mentioned Tulsi and Yang. But there is also Bernie! Did not know much about him and definitely found the episode interesting.

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[0]: https://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-448-...

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O-iLk1G_ng
A lot of things you learn when you have kids aren't necessarily useful to know in advance.

My kid doesn't sleep well, and we (parents) consequently don't sleep so well. Not much we could have done about that except try not to worry about it.

Your personalised autonomously will reduce. You may have to Shelve some hobbies and activities for a while. That can be tough, even if you expect it.

Try to be easy on yourself and your partner. Try and socialise when you can. Take turns getting naps and rest when you can.

If you can get help from friends or relatives do, but sometimes you need a break from helpful advice too.
You can't disprove the idea of "make work jobs are not necessary" by citing that a lot of people have jobs
Good point.

Honestly I seriously doubt Flutter will ever be popular for web. It recreates everything already included in browsers like DOM, CSS, text editing, etc. There is already too much bloat with modern JS apps.
Easily the first visual programming language I used that actually sold me on the idea. Most of my experiences have been with systems that claim visual programming, but then require you to jump top code almost immediately. UE4 blueprints are sufficient to create the majority of a game.
Counter-evidence: the P/E ratio of AAPL has remained pretty steady as the stock has gone up by leaps and bounds:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAPL/apple/pe-rati...
Working for BigCo definitely throws a lot of things off balance. Making a million dollars over 5 years in tech is very possible. Lots of companies are throwing around that kind of money in RSUs/options that vest over 5 years. It’s quite a bit crazy.
The calculation: Prices will skyrocket from lack of supply more quickly than the taxes paid on the units.

Development and renting it out locks you into contracts where you can't flip as quickly (low liquidity). So you don't develop or use the land, just wait for your investment to accrue.
I hope GCP/AWS add a max spend ability. Until then it's complexity of pricing model vs time spent on OS and database management. To each their own.
Oh I know, thus the indignation (maybe.) One way or another you seem to have touched a nerve, eh? :-)
The one war america fought but never bothered winning. The war on Poverty.
Agreed, Lex Fridmin was a standout podcast for me this year. I didn't have any idea who he was before the podcast but he has been getting some insanely famous guests on his show in what seems like the very year it was becoming popular.

My favourite episode of the podcast was his interview with Geohot I think because I just like hearing Geohot speak and when he's speaking to someone that's not asking easy questions you end up with George giving some very interesting answers to questions about AGI and self driving.

https://pca.st/0773
How to escape * multiply symbol in bash after compiling kotlin program to Java?
There is quite a bit of gap between Grover Norquist style economic policy and central planning. Neither Sanders or Warren are advocating for central planning. George H.W. Bush famously called trickle down economics “voodoo economics”. Prior to the great shift rightward with Reagan most Republicans did not advocate for trickle down and Reagan himself thought the tax on capital ought to be greater than the tax on labor.
This article I think comes very close but never answers the central question here: how to find the price that generates maximum revenue.

I have a hypothesis that price tolerance follows Pareto distribution, i.e. the function of the number of people willing to pay any given price for the same product must have the same shape as the overall wealth distribution among your customers. Therefore it should be theoretically possible to find your peak price that yields maximum revenue in the following three steps: (1) take measurements at several different price points (A/B test) (2) find the Pareto parameters for your customers (3) solve the differential and find the peak.

The same in a bit more detail:

https://medium.com/@hovm/finding-the-max-revenue-price-mark-...
Ask HN: What are some profitable blogging niches?
I second the AGI podcast. Listen to it on my commute. Very interesting since it’s just not about computer science but all sorts of fields and a diverse array of experts that he interviews.
This line of reasoning just seems weird an unnecessary to me.

An AI is just a computer program. It’s an intangible asset. Any IP it generates was the work of the AI programmer, or perhaps also the operator who provides it with input and instructions on how to process it.
Wrong thread :-p
If - in America - we stopped bringing in millions of poor and uneducated young working age people every year - legally and illegally - wages would rise. This is common sense and supported by research [0].

[0]: https://cis.org/Report/Wages-Immigration
> collect a few thousand pounds

In a mission to clean up trash floating in the ocean, environmentalists pulled 40 tons (36 metric tons) of abandoned fishing nets this month from an area known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

https://www.voanews.com/science-health/40-tons-fishing-nets-...

40 tons in a month by an NGO funded by donations and sponsors.
I had the same thoughts: even if I like Google Cloud a lot (I use it extensively at work), I don’t feel it’s safe for me to use it at home, since I don’t want to risk having my entire google account locked due to “suspicious activity”, whatever that might mean.

In fact, I recently shut down a personal App Engine service I had been using for myself for a few years just because of this paranoia. The service was not doing anything illegal, just crawling a few websites (forums, ...) I like and sending me emails when there are interesting updates. But you never know if they might determine my outbound traffic is suspicious. I also started the long process of moving my main email from a @gmail.com to a @custom.domain that currently forwards to gmail, just in case I get locked out.

It is quite bizzarre that this is the reputation google gained for themselves.
Technological breakthroughs mean that goods become more affordable, not that the inventors must be punished by making them support people who aren't productive.
I so hate the phrase "war on poverty." It tends to de facto turn poor people into The Enemy in the mind's of far too many people.
I'm not saying Ocean Cleanup is good at what they're doing. I'm just saying we have no choice but to get good at cleaning up the plastic that is there, because it's not going away on it's own and no amount of prevention will reverse time.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I also have no confidence that all nations involved in polluting will stop and I suspect we'll still be putting plastic into the ocean for decades to come. Being better at cleaning the ocean may actually be the low-hanging fruit.
Then again, if nobody has kids then who are we saving the planet for ecactly?
This is an interesting, if contradictory stance to take. I should probably downvote it, but I see an opportunity for a philosophical discussion, so here we go anyway.

I am a gay man. I grew up Christian, but ended up rejecting the Christian faith initially due to incompatibilities with my church and my sexuality. Over time it became more ideological (I dislike binary moral systems) but that's irrelevant.

In my experience, my original church (certainly not all of Christianity) chose to reject people of my orientation. They express intolerance to the highest degree. So, as a gay man, should I respond in turn and completely cut all Christians out of my life, declaring them all intolerant?

Of course not.

You see, Christianity actually preaches tolerance. Not all Christians follow this to the same degree, but Christians are taught to love their neighbors, even the gentiles, and especially the tax collectors, prostitutes, and folks that the rest of society would choose to reject on principal. Even if I disagree with the teaching as a whole, there's a ton of good moral lessons to be had within that book. It is generally useful as a means of teaching a system of right and wrong, through parables and stories, even if some of its teachings disagree with my personal world view.

I think it's dangerous to reject other people entirely just because you choose to reject one of their beliefs. We may find it easy to label people and sort them into boxes, but it's easy to lose track of the humanity underneath those labels. So, yes, I will choose to tolerate people whose beliefs I strongly disagree with, because that one belief does not solely define them as a person. Even if we fundamentally disagree on something as core to my being as who I choose to love, we can still have an interesting discussion and gain perspective through that discourse. I value that discourse far too much to reject any person on the misguided notion that they are somehow "wrong" or "flawed." They are simply different. And if I want them to tolerate me, the very least I can do is agree to tolerate them in return, whether we like each other or not.
I meant anonymized can easily become de-anonymized.
Look around and you may notice your work supports the elderly, the sick, the hungry, and so forth. Sure, we're not a "collectivist utopia", but we're diverting a ton of money to the non-productive without our economies collapsing, or turning to "atrocity".

Ultimately, it's likely that if specialization and automation continue there will be more and more people who can't contribute much of significance to the economy. Unless you plan to execute them, we'll probably have to support them with taxes, because no one will want to hire them at a livable wage.
Well its good that you are doing the things you think its correct but please stop with the gratuitous generalization. We don't love pollution as much as you think here in Brazil.
Drawing infinite series with recursive react components
If you want to frame it in terms of efficiency, they're actually pretty efficient: A podcast allows you to take in information in situations where you otherwise wouldn't. Digesting something heavy like a textbook while doing household chores requires too much attention, but you can hear about some interesting person's views...