skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure there's a few drivers really want to stay independent, but have you considered that the majority only "want tob stay independent" because the current situation? That doing this full time won't be enough income to feed the family, so they want to stay independent in order to have another job? If doing this full time is enough income, maybe they no longer need to be independent?
How about AWS Lightsail instead of EC2?
That still requires the actual sender (Google in this case) to possess the key material necessary to sign on behalf of the domain, which means you still have a "confused deputy" risk.
If they were employees they would be required to be reimbursed for business expenses including commercial insurance, and mileage to cover gas and depreciation.
True, but I think there are more situations where minimizing the chance of programmer error, now or in the future, is more important than a micro-optimization that will never matter. All depends on context.
That's all well and good, but as an industry our backup mechanisms are a horror show. You have to go way out of your way to back things up, and if you make a mistake about what is getting backed up you are unlikely to find out until restoration fails.

My sympathies lie with all the unlucky souls who are statistically all but guaranteed to experience data loss because it is so hard to do the right thing. Reminders which shunt people towards backup best practice are fine, but they are not a substitute for systems engineered to prevent data loss in the first place.
If I wanted to preserve software, I would just upload it to the Debian archive. Then it and all of its dependencies down to the bootloader will be preserved in both source form and binaries for multiple architectures for as long as the Debian snapshot archive is around. Also, Software Heritage would archive the source code of it.

https://snapshot.debian.org/
https://softwareheritage.org/
No more disgusting than the then rotten white fluid extracted from hairy animals mammary gland, called cheese in america. Even without eating anything, each of us drink several litters of his own saliva every day.
On a side note, I think that will make the Intel Macs still valuable for years to come.

Audio production software is notoriously conservative when it comes to updates.
In reality, most voters are ignorant and irrational while the state govt is especially dysfunctional, unrepresentative, and full of graft. That's why there are so many problems here in the first place. When CA gives more rights to illegal immigrants than tax-paying citizens, there's clearly something wrong.
IMO, nowadays top-tier conference paper tends to focus too much on telling an interesting story. This makes researchers only show the surprising result in the paper. The unsurprising one is hardly mentioned.

However, the uninteresting part would definitely help others to not make the same mistake. The uninteresting result is still result (and contribution), isn't it?
California per capita budget is around the middle of all states in the USA - somewhere around 20th highest. The state has high income and sales tax to compensate for reduced property taxes due to prop 13.

This is why many people think California has high taxes. Because they move here, get hit with a high income tax rate, then get hit with a standard property tax rate if they buy a home.

Meanwhile, my parents pay around 1k/year in property taxes on their million dollar home.
https://twitter.com/ethanbaron appears to be in the park right now and is photojournaling some of the destruction.

As he says in one of the tweets, "More redwoods near Big Basin park, appear to have made it but as Mercury News environment reporter @PaulRogersSJMN points out, fire prevention for years means lots of fuel that could threaten even fire-resistant redwoods including ancient ones in park interior" [1].

Clearly a number of the larger trees aren't going to survive this [2][3][4][5].

I see statements about "wildfire being a part of the natural cycle" pretty often but it seems to stem from a misunderstanding about the different scales of wildfire. Smaller, cooler, more frequent brush fires were a part of California ecology in some areas; modern wildfires are far hotter and more destructive and are killing vast swaths of forests that have previously survived for hundreds or thousands of years.

There's an arboretum just outside Eugene, Oregon that does a nice job of talking about fire's historical role in the local ecology, and the Oregon Garden just outside Silverton also has a section dedicated to walking through different kinds of forest ecologies and explaining which plant species flourish as a result of different management strategies. The unmanaged, fire-suppressed forests are terribly vulnerable to wildfire as well as stress from pests and competition.

I also took a few photos just a couple of weeks ago of a once-forested area that had burned over 20 years ago. It's still dead.

My first visits to Big Basin were at least 35 years ago and I don't know how to express how saddened I am by this news.

[1]: https://twitter.com/ethanbaron/status/1296547748259360768

[2]: https://twitter.com/ethanbaron/status/1296640252279312384/ph...

[3]: https://twitter.com/ethanbaron/status/1296640967299063809/ph...

[4]: https://twitter.com/ethanbaron/status/1296641416802656256/ph...

[5]: https://twitter.com/ethanbaron/status/1296643324275593216/ph...
> is there anyone who believes there are ethical issues around eggs produced in the decidedly non-factory conditions of my backyard?

Yes. Hens in a natural setting (a backyard human controlled setting is not natural) would lay about 25 eggs in a whole year. If you do not collect the eggs from your birds, this should be what you observe, unless these are selectively bred birds who may lay more eggs. If you calculate your three dozens a week as a per-bird number (which you haven’t mentioned), it would likely be many multiples larger.

Egg laying is a physically taxing activity for the birds. Not being able to brood over the laid eggs is another issue if you agree that these birds are also capable of feeling emotionally (even if not directly comparable to humans).
Mode is a preposterous and arbitrary measurement to use. Median is what you’re looking for, but it doesn’t support your narrative as well.
This is colloquially referred to as the "Madau plot": https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March14/Madau/Figures/fi...
I’ve been shooting for a very long time. And I shoot several sessions per month, and roughly 60gb per session. Sometimes much more, sometimes less. There is no possible way, nor reason, to have all those images in the cloud.

I split up my catalogs aggressively, so I don’t really know how many images I have saved. But it’s in the hundreds of thousands.

New Lightroom might be OK for the casual photographer. But for the pro or even advanced amateur, the new Lightroom is completely useless.
No one really knows how probable abiogenesis is. The fact that we are complex, sentient life forms within 13.8 billion years of the beginning of the universe seems improbable, especially considering that life on earth spent 2.5 billion years of its 4 billion year history as single-cell organisms. However the complexity of life appears to be accelerating. The earth is only 4.5 billion years old, so it only took 500 million years for life to form on earth, even less when you consider that the cooling of the crust was necessary.
It’s also important to remember that not everything worth doing or every “success” state you set can have KPIs defined (either actually impossible or the science may not be there yet).
The obvious answer is to keep the cost low.
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Yes, but we still subsidize it by allowing those earnings to be tax-free.
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Still thinking the universe only exists within its own fluid dynamic propagation; meh...
Not in my experience. I never bothered enabling notifications from Slack. I can only tell if I received a message if I actually see the red mark on the pinned tab's favicon. Sometimes I don't get back to people for 10 to 15 minutes and they've never complained about it.
How’s its catalog? One thing I like about Lightroom is the catalog is just files on disk vs a giant database in say Aperture. I like having my own file layout and would hate to give that up.
I feel the risk from prions may put a swift end to any 'ethical cannibalism' ideas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
No one is shocked by bad behavior, but just because something isn't surprising doesn't mean it's not worthy of discussion.
Seconded! I've had to do a lot of weird stuff in django to get around this for our user templates.
Yes, but it’s not going to be the reason why anyone here uses your particular rhetoric of “living beings.”

If Silicon Valley Buddhism (SVB, where this rhetoric comes from) was so effective it would have broader appeal. It’s useful to dissect why it works for HN people though.

SVB works because (1) Steve Jobs - it’s compatible with rich people crazy for whom limousine liberal is an insufficiently contrarian moral framework, and (2) it is a lot less partisan than all the other good reasons to not eat meat products, like your health and the environment.

Indeed the bigger story here is that anti-intellectualism has made it hard to be a vegan for health or environmental reasons around your Republican venture capitalists. However “minimizing harm to as many beings as possible” (as one Silicon Valley billionaire supervillain once put it to me) doesn’t sound like something couched in science. It sounds almost like pseudoscience, much like the bulletproof coffee or blue light avoidance crazes, something which specifically appeals to Republican finance types and therefore is an acceptable moral framework for SV’s only real god, the almighty dollar.

Fortunately the chickens could give less of a fuck why you stop eating them. So go “Buddhism.”
My issue is simply that I want an extension mechanism which I can use to do anything to my browser. For me, 'extension security' means 'I must write C++ to add the functionality I want,' and I never, never want to write C++.
Can’t wait until cuda support is available!
I also suggest Matt Risinger’s YouTube channel. Lately he’s been talking about Passive House construction, which supposedly uses only 10% of the energy of a standard built house.
Things like this is part of why for example Mozilla collect TLS telemetry in the first place. I think when they disabled TLS 1.0 and 1.1 they look for very low numbers as well. There is a Reddit thread where I mentioned this that used to have NSA conspiracy theories on this exact topic: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/fmdlzp/tls_1011_su...
> If you employ people for more than 40 hours, you should owe healthcare and benefits, period

Why? Why should personal healthcare be coupled to employment? You are responsible for your health, not someone else.
This sounds approximately right, though I would love to see a real explanation from the creators.

It signals another example of changing practices in this century due to new ideas around materials accompanied by precision machine crafting. Cross-laminated timber, for example, is very hyped now since it can withstand huge loads and charring while still being a cheap and familiar "wood, glue, preservatives and pressure" composite, capable of being shaped into panels, arches and doorframes out of the factory with a CNC machine for reduced build times. Yesterday I saw a video of a CLT passive house built in Australia: The build, while not aiming for cost, was made simpler in design by having the load bearing parts of the structure also handle most of the insulation, and it put up impressive test numbers.
In the arid west (Colorado) my building permit cost more than the land - and I was in town (30k permit, 20k land). Why? Because the city has to use that money to buy a water right.
'Vasile', which I think is the Romanian variant.
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SAAS is also the easiest to maintain, because at any one time there's (usually) only one version of the software running on one OS & hardware version. And the vendor is running it, so access to logs and core dumps is effortless. It's a big problem getting logs, etc. from customers running on-prem software.
Sure! Here you go for the RAW file : http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=04290873673274490201

Here is the SOOC JPG for the same image : http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=88911356095628235668

Google Chrome might warn you of the risk for malware, but it seems to do for every good, free filehost :/

For reference, here is the screenshot : https://imgur.com/a/6RkiGyH

It doesn't do this for every photo either, which is even more baffling.

I hope you'll excuse the poor composition, but I didn't want to publish a photo I might put on an account with my name on it :)
Yeah, maybe the main evolutionary advantage Redwoods have is their ability to survive fires.

When other trees are burned away is when the Redwoods multiply and take over abandoned land.

"One very important adaptation for the coast redwood is its thick bark with deep grooves running vertically along the tree. It is this bark that gives the redwoods their fire-resistant characteristic. Older trees are able to survive fires because their bark is so thick and acts as a fireproof shell."

From: http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2009/hemmeric_nata/Adaptatio....
DRM is unnecessary - what you're describing sounds like a variation on FreeNet, MUTE, WASTE etc. Contributory liability would still be present if movie companies could prove you were distributing encrypted copies of their films. The main problem I would foresee is swarm security. If you're sharing your videos out to a wide audience, then the encryption isn't going to help. Your adversary isn't a passive deep packet inspection filter, it's copyright owners joining a swarm through normal means in order to IP addresses of people who are distributing content.

The no-sharing-keys property isn't useful either. Presumably someone is going to want to archive PeerTube content (P2P swarms tend to archive poorly), which means modifying PeerTube or a browser to scrape keys. If an archivist can do this, so can a copyright enforcement bot.

What you would really want is something more akin to Tor, where both ends of each peer connection don't know who each other are. The way this works is by using multiple layers of encryption, so each link in the chain just knows where to send which packets of nonsense. You can do this today, actually, but BitTorrent-over-Tor is heavily discouraged as speeds are slow even at low hop counts. There's also the problem of accidentally leaking your own IP address over Tor. This is why, for example, most VPNs ship browser extensions that disable P2P features such as WebRTC.
That really bums me out. I found out while living in the Bay Area that 5 days of smoky skies a year really bother me despite the outdoors being so enjoyable the other 360 days of the year and that's part of why I moved from SF to Miami in 2018. Part of it is that when I reflected on it I just felt worse about it because I thought about the cumulative effect of all the fires. I miss the Bay Area and might move back but I'm glad to not have to deal with smoke in the meantime.
Happy with that cloud based software yet? There is nothing more frustrating than to see all these software packages that have been turned into eternal cashcows by forcibly grafting on a service that absolutely nobody needs.

Then to top it off they lose your data. Fantastic.
You could still have good production by using permaculture or other natural methods (or at least methods that are not energy-intensive).
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

- Asimov
There are a few more hobbyist implementations out there, at various stages of completion:

- https://github.com/ajlopez/beljs
- https://github.com/erdos/carillon
- https://github.com/luksamuk/believe

I also have an implementation: https://github.com/masak/bel -- you can see the stage of completion in the SVG diagram in the README.

Due to how Bel is specified, all the mentioned implementations have "speed issues". I believe I can fix most of these, and the path forward is fairly clear (faster internal data representations, compiling to efficient bytecode). But I want to hold off announcing/releasing the project until most of the egregious performance problems are fixed. I'm biting my tongue so I don't make any promises/deadlines... but it's coming along. Help appreciated.

The good news is that it seems to be possible to make Bel run fast. I just need to put in the work to get there. Really looking forward to having a fast Bel at my fingertips.

Along the way, I've also discovered a few (minor) bugs in the Bel specification, as well as some things that are underspecified and don't really have answers. I'm also actively thinking about how to build a static type system around Bel's runtime typechecking, analogously to how TypeScript extends JavaScript with static types.
"Temperature" is a slippery word that has many different definitions depending on what area of physics you're working in.

In this case it is perfectly fine to refer to "the temperature of space" since you're explicitly using it as a cold sink.

As evidence, see the paper (published in Nature no less!) that MengerSponge posted. The authors say "On the other hand, outer space, at a temperature of 3 K, provides a much colder heat sink."
For those with 3D printers, there’s some good designs on thingiverse.

My favorite is this hexagonal design, which can be easily taken apart, cleaned, and stored at the end of the season. I just printed it and placed it inside the cheap (ineffective) one from Costco

I use strips of printer paper to line the tubes.

1. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3457603
Hello Matt.

I am saying, and I will elaborate:

1. Focusing on growth instead of retention in the early stages and certainly before PMF or at least strong indications of PMF, is a bad decision.

2. Focusing on automation and attempts at operational efficiencies when it comes to marketing and sales, again before PMF or at least strong indications of PMF is a bad decision.

When it comes to growth, automation and attempts at operational efficiencies, you do that when there are strong signals. You don't cut out selling in person, till you have an acceptable closing rate. Even then, I would still recommend frequent selling in person to learn more until there are diminishing returns.

Instead, you'll find an inordinate number of founders attempting to attain double-digit growth while there is triple digit churn. Automation of certain things like scraping lead lists, when the lists are nothing more than dump lists.

Hacking things out, when what they should learn is discarded because the process towards the end-goal cuts out what they need to learn, take on-board and become intrinsic.

Throwing up websites that are clones of well established competitors. Parroting without any deep understanding of why those things are on the site, of why those things need to be said. Oblivious to why they themselves are not in a position to say those things.

I would really like to say more on this. I would call it a pet-peeve, but I got a zoo full of them. If you want to carry on the discussion in private, happy to do so, but for now, I got work to do.

Cheers, Ace.
The total efficiency of an air conditioner will never be more than 100% based on design; you will never be able to remove more heat than what the system produces in net cooling effect based off of the energy consumption created from compression - this is what would lead you to the eventual path of the theory of the heat death of the universe. You may be able to remove heat from one place to another but never more than what the system produces. Heating systems are completely different regarding efficiency.
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Are you assuming that Uber will pay you for time and yet let you just turn on the app and sit in a parking lot wherever you want?

What do you call it when Uber tells an employee where, when and how long to work?
I rarely purchase meat, maybe once every two years, but when I do I buy directly from a local farmer whose farm I can visit. I've bought whole beef this way, and the quality to price ratio was amazing. Grass fed, organically raised, humanely treated beef for ~$5.50/lb.

Granted, I had to buy hundreds of pounds of it, but I got all sorts of cuts, bones for broth, organs (tongue, heart, liver, etc.)

The process was surprisingly simple, and I wish more people knew it was an option. I'd be happy to outline what was involved for anyone curious.

I don't object to killing animals, but the way we raise them industrially is truly one of the horrors of our time.

After committing to only eating animals I could trace the provenance of, I rarely eat meat these days, perhaps once or twice a month I'll pull something from the freezer. The variety of vegetarian and vegan options has really exploded.
In a vacuum, yes. But when the controls that Uber exercises over their marketplace inch closer and closer to the control exercised by an employer over and employee, it becomes dicey.

More so, not accepting to sell your item (labour) at the first price offered becoming a cause for delisting in a marketplace is very shady and stretches the definition of "marketplace" really hard.
People who know a lot more about forest management than I do seem to believe that the solution is more hands-on management and controlled burns (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/08/26/a-trailblazing...). Unfortunately, the biggest barrier to this right now is the California Air Resources Board, which idiotically allows for so few burn days that the agencies involved can't get the controlled burns done. The net result of this is an entire month or more each year where major portions of the state have some of the worst air in the world.

I generally think California manages things pretty well, all things considered, but if there's a sensible explanation for this policy I haven't seen it.
Or the bug fix can be hard to implement, test, and release in 3 months. I’m not saying it’s the majority of bugs but these could qualify
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The narrative of big tech CEOs during July 2020 US antitrust hearing analysed https://storytellingcorp.com/the-importance-of-leadership-na.... With the new suit against Apple, there is going to be more scrutiny of the CEOs narrative and their actions.
Not all ec2 instances are k8s nodes though. My thought is using this to manage all ec2 instances via k8s. Instead of the aws console
> If we're going to subsidize unprofitable activities

I must be missing something, how is Uber,Lyft being subsidized?
So he's still around eh? Funny, last I heard (a few years ago) he was in Laos. Well, whatever.
I’ve looked into this. It’s indeed a crime, but heavily criticized one. Most legal systems have abolished or narrowed it. It’s under (very light) fire from legal scholars.

It’s not archaic - US federal prosecutors still use it. But they insist that the accused actively participated in covering up the crime. Or, at least, had a special obligation to report.

So this isn’t obvious or well known, and probably is a good candidate for reform.