skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Smoke from the west is affecting the weather in Montreal, Quebec right now.
Let me ask you: is Stallman talking about schools or businesses?

Just to be a little realistic: is there some "school activity" that makes using closed-software mandatory because there isn't an open-source alternative?
A lot (most?) legislation is written by industry (or other) lobby groups. This has been the case for a while. I guess an executive order is a little different. But it's the same principle really...
That isn’t the statistic I would expect to be pulled out here. Not all land area has any chance of catching/spreading a fire. Fires don’t really spread through rainforest; they definitely don’t spread through rocky areas; nor, really, through swampland; nor across mountain ranges; nor through irrigated cropland. (Nor through modern concrete cities, but city land-area is negligible.)

There’s definitely some portion of the US land mass that’s covered in either dry brush, dry underbrush, or dry grass. But that portion is pretty small, I would think. It could actually be that a fairly large portion of “potentially burnable” land-area catches fire each year. (That doesn’t imply anything about there being any less of it for next year, though; it recovers!)
As somebody that just got into Zig and loves the language, it makes me super sad that the developers on this project have to spend their valuable time stressing about BS like this.

Also, the ideas the Zen people list on their website for forking Zig are terrible ideas- They were pushing to turn Zig into a hard-to-reason-about vanilla object-oriented programming language.
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Educational software isn't my field, but there is training available for free software in other fields.

Occasionally, it's a way to fund development.
Apple's Xcode is a free download, the Swift compiler is open source. However, to become an "official" developer on the Apple platforms and publish apps you do need a paid developer account.
What are winters normally like? You seem to be about as far from the equator as places like Miami, so I'm not sure what to expect.
in fact open-hardware and open-ISA are a fact.
If you think that's bad, I once had someone privately write to me an angry rant about how I was being too helpful to users on a mailing list.

They felt there must be something wrong with me if I had so much time to help, surely I had a job to do, that it was not good for other programmers when some of us give so much of our time for free, etc.

I'm not exaggerating, that really was the theme of the complaint.
Mills cut 2x4 to whatever size close to that then machined it to dimension. Some did a final dimension of 2x4 exactly (within tolerance), others did other sizes. Once you started building something you had to buy everything from the same mill. In some areas this wasn't possible as the yard you bought from changed suppliers.

Eventually they decided enough and standardized on the current size. The standard is more important than the actual size.
Sulfur is a big one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal

Leading to, for example, acid rain.

Also just a guess, coal is a finer particulate matter than wood, I think that might give more particles off. Wood dust, nope, coal dust? Hell no. Also radioactive!
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I want to like repl.it, and it's obviously great for many use cases, but compared to, say, CIDER for Clojure, it's like typing with cement gloves.

Even if it weren't so slow, there are some features I'd need before considering it for even quick/casual coding tasks:

Library loading, Paredit (or parinfer), Flexible eval (sexp, form, selection), Easy help/reference and function signature help (like Eldoc).
In the words of neil stephenson:

"If your tank breaks down, we'll send engineers to your house to fix it for you while you sleep!"

Proprietary software support is a lie. Arlo is so incompetent, they can't even bill me. Seriously. I go to buy something in their app, and it gives me an error. I file a support ticket, say I have money and I want to buy something. Tell multiple people via web and phone that I want to buy something but the interface is broken. It's been about a month now. I just checked. It's still broken. They really dont give a shit their billing system is broken. These people are clowns.
Yeah, even Microsoft has Visual Studio Community Edition which is Free!
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/
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I'm not sure I follow your logic. "fake" seems like a completely wrong word to use to describe actual extremists (but I completely agree they should do more to police extremist content).

Coordinated inauthentic behavior describes exactly what it says on the tin. They try to limit coordinated inauthentic behavior even if the content is true and even if the users are "real" people (e.g. workers who are paid to click/promote/create content).
I also think it's not a showstopper for Node.js apps. For bundling in a front-end app it's waaaay too big.
To address the various questions about the origin of 2x4 sizing, Here’s a brief article on the topic (TL;DR: incremental reductions over decades until standardization was imposed in 1964): http://www.harvarddesignmagazine.org/issues/45/nominal-versu...

I had been told it had something to do with WWII but could find no actual evidence.

When we remodeled our house (built in California in 1920j We found all the 2x4s were 2x4, all the 4x6 were really 4x6 and all had been cut from the center of old growth trees (no knots and no warping after 80 years. We reused them all of course.
There's a few but those are quite prominent. Most notably I remember when I took Physics 1 we used some very specific software which name I do not remember but it was proprietary and only on Windows. Other than that almost every class can be done entirely with free software, at least in HS.
>90% of trash in the ocean that comes from people dumping it (in rivers) comes from just 10 rivers, all in China/Asia

So you're saying with bubble barriers in just 10 places (as opposed to all around the world), we can clean up 90% of ocean trash from dumping? That's amazing. A lot easier than trying to get China et al. to implement more "actual municipal trash pickup and urban trashcans etc." The first world could crowdfund the barriers. I'll help.
Not OP, but I agree with you that we need different words. Because what OP is doing is not starvation (till their body is actually wasting away). Having done a few 3 days fasts myself, I can attest to feeling a euphoric energy around day 2 where I felt lighter, and sharper. I have been told it isn't universal, but from the content I have been consuming it has something to do with brain switching to consuming ketones.

Which actually brings me to another point; the brain does not run exclusively on carbs (glucose) - it absolutely has the ability to (and does) functions well on ketones. This is why ketogenic diets can work for many people.

But yes, there's lots of bio-chemical mechanisms that get kicked off when you're fasting for an extended period, so it could be something else that's unique to the people who experience the euphoria.

I am not sure if you've come across this concept, but "Metabolic Flexibility" seems to be trying to explain some of the "after burner" affects of switching around my dieting habits. Where I am no longer exercising strict caloric restrictions, or fasting on a regimen, but I am still observing some of the benefits of when I switched over. (Less bloating, more energetic even after a large meal, less voracious appetite on normal days).
I thought writing that might be too hard for some of the softer users of HN. ;-)
You might find this interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/ir9cv2/slabolo...
Thanks. I appreciate the advice--makes good sense.
The less forest that there is left after the fire, the easier it is to clear the rest and replant with tree species that are better at holding onto water in drought conditions, and/or species that are hardier in the face of heat exposure.
And I can just call the vendor without looking for someone on github.

I am a bit bitter here, because I grew up in make-believe idealogically driven society (USSR), so things reminding me that give me the mental allergy.
Seems like legit? https://zen-lang.org/zig/
This is a good piece.

They also take a similar approach to regulation - the age verification strategy was going to be "world leading" and fell apart before it launched. The new Online Harms bill will also be "world leading" but is now supposed to solve so many complex cross societal problems it will also inevitably implode.

It's not really tech specific I think, just that the current government in particular is obsessed with thinking they are super naturally gifted because they own a lot of flags, and like to repeat slogans over any nuanced thinking.
This is an interesting observation, thank you! I wonder if there's value in creating open source training as well. This sounds like a great way that non-programmers could contribute.
> So that project maintainers didn’t need to write two page apologies

They don't need to write me an apology, but just a notice like this one is very nice so I can be sure what is up.
After more thinking the solution I'm looking for is some hybrid between PJON/Yggdrasil
Here's is an interesting article on the relationship between Bill Gates and the media recently published by CJR:

Journalism’s Gates keepers: https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-fu...

If you are wondering why someone like Michael Levitt [1] doesn't get wall to wall coverage by media (including outfits like RT) [as an 'expert voice on pandemic response'], the above article has a few clues.

[1]: He's just one example. There are many others.

https://twitter.com/mlevitt_np2013?lang=en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Levitt

-- p.s. relevant pull quote asking the timely question --

During the pandemic, news outlets have widely looked to Bill Gates as a public health expert on covid—even though Gates has no medical training and is not a public official. PolitiFact and USA Today (run by the Poynter Institute and Gannett, respectively—both of which have received funds from the Gates Foundation) have even used their fact-checking platforms to defend Gates from “false conspiracy theories” and “misinformation,” like the idea that the foundation has financial investments in companies developing covid vaccines and therapies. In fact, the foundation’s website and most recent tax forms clearly show investments in such companies, including Gilead and CureVac.
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Anyone willing to get $1 million.
Having built stuff with it before I assume weight. If you buy decent tools aluminum is about as easy to work as wood. Maybe easier, because it warps less.
Autodesk is most certainly used by a huge variety of businesses for a multitude of purposes. Is it the only solution? No. But the school also likely got the software at a steep discount or free, exposing you, as a student, to CAD software in general. What tools you use following that are up to you, but the school did its job in teaching you a general skill that can be applied in a variety of other programs at will.
Wow, I was just thinking I couldn't remember if I took my ADHD meds today. Strange how I can remember exactly how long I ended up meditating yesterday but I can't remember something I did five minutes ago.
I have the letters from the CBP. It's all "trademark", no mention of safety, testing, etc. Tons of products are sold with no testing, and no mark, by the way.

I do understand the issues, and would not have sold products using those adapters knowing the UL mark was fake. The cost to get "real" adapters was a trivial portion of the overall cost.

However, that was NOT at all what the CBP was complaining about.
We haven't yet seen Facebook attempt to strangle a competitor that it cannot buy. If Facebook faces an existential threat, there is a lot of capital available to fund its defensive campaign. Buying is just cheaper.

A direct threat to Facebook is unlikely to succeed. More likely is a competitor based in a niche where Facebook cannot enter for structural reasons that slowly out-competes Facebook on Facebook's turf.

One possible niche is the privacy-focused community. Facebook can't flip all of those users, ever. If something privacy-focused emerges that has low-maintenance utility for the broader world, Facebook's days are numbered.
Most competing founders have a price. I would be morally torn myself if I had the choice between defending my ideals vs securing my family's financial future forever.
Hence commercial.
Wait do you mean autocad by autodesk? It is literally the software 99% of engineering companies use. That being said I agree with you on using free CAD software to teach such stuff.
This is the wrong perspective. The perspective should be on governments taking that role and use educational funds to generate commons. There are several issues around making all this work, but the key issue is scale: an individual school has no capacity to decide or handle that, they can only choose what works. It's at regional or national level that there's sufficient scale.

At the same time can an education system set up software etc that rivals the effectiveness of professional and smooth software? Sometimes easier than contract than to try and create/adapt aomehtknf yourself
I appreciate a lot of Gates' statements here, since they are substantive and not just posturing. The issue is that the US medical system is rotten to the core. There are hundreds of thousands of wonderful individual practitioners and even thousands of excellent teams, but the system as a whole is broken.

His idea that no one should be paid for a test result if it takes more than 24 hours to result is not bad, but the existing system is not set up for it. Decades of regulation of all aspects of the US medical system, from billing codes even to electronic health records, would prevent that kind of change from being adopted overnight. If we adopted this change, you'd very likely see almost no one running any COVID tests at all - the risk and infrastructure investment would be too high, for too little payout. (Recouping the cost of lab tests is generally hard as is, since the costs of running a medical lab are almost entirely fixed, both in terms of labor and capital. Routine maintenance must be performed, the lab must have a certain contingent on duty to handle stat tests, etc.)

I'm not sure the US system can be improved unless we have some practitioners who want to make a clean break from the existing regime, and they get some cover from the government to actually innovate. I'm not holding my breath.
My campus switched to Canvas while I was a student there. Training was provided to the professors. Whether the school developed the training themselves or purchased it as part of a service, I can’t really say although I suspect the latter. It seemed to have been largely effective because nearly all of my classes used Canvas for grades and many of them used additional features.
It’s a mix. Current ERP solutions for higher ed are offered self-hosted or SaaS. Ancillary solutions are moving quickly towards SaaS only. Larger R1 schools are more likely to have solutions they built entirely in-house. Most schools have highly customized versions of COTS products.

Source: I work for a leading supplier of those solutions.
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I made an app a few years back that aggregated content from /r/youtubehaiku (a subreddit devoted to short, typically comedic youtube videos) fairly trivially.
Did not expect this.
If there is an way to plug and play a netlify / heroku deployment flow on my own server I would. I'm a developer to build websites, not a sys admin or dev ops.
I don't use Prelude, preferring instead to build up my own minimal config, but other Emacs packages by Bozhidar – CIDER and Projectile – are my daily drivers.

When it dawned on me how much I rely on these tools generously provided to me at no cost, and how much value they bring, I finally bit the bullet and started sponsoring @bbatsov on Github Sponsors.

If you're in the same position, be it with Prelude, CIDER, Projectile, or Rubocop, please do the same!

In general, if you have some other free/open-source packages that you rely on in your work, I urge you to contribute financially to their development. Software needs manpower to thrive, and manpower needs financial support to be sustainable.

(Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with these packages in any way, other than being a happy user.)
After Theranos and Wirecard, I'm surprised how much benefit of the doubt Nikola is being given
Wish fasting was a part of our culture more regularly.

With almost half of America now obese, we are seeing the downside of ignoring good diet as COVID devastates those suffering from obesity and diabetes.
Don't comment your code. Refactor it.
"If you are not an enterprise (defined below), then up to 5 of your individual users can use visual studio community concurrently to develop and test your applications.

An “enterprise” is any organization and its affiliates who collectively have either (a) more than 250 PCs or users or (b) one million U.S. dollars (or the equivalent in other currencies) in annual revenues, and “affiliates” means those entities that control (via majority ownership), are controlled by, or are under common control with an organization."
I have no problem consistently getting older TikTokkers. I like their content and the algos oblige.
Simply because:

- they cannot formally prove there has been human manipulation of the virus, just like the proponents of natural selection cannot formally prove this is what happened. So as scientists, why argue publicly about that.

- as your politically inclined comment suggests, they would be at the center of a political battle. Today every western lab is dependent on China for reagents. There's a big risk getting short on them.

But the fact that only papers in favor of natural selection are being published in well-known scientific journals does not mean there is consensus.

Maybe the scientific journals also suffer from "the Disney bias".
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Maybe
https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Training/tkb-p/Training
How appropriate, a blog post about weather forecasts being inaccurate is itself inaccurate. Same down here in the Willamette Valley, I'd like to be able to breathe again.
I’m not sure about most, perhaps some do but the ones I’m aware of are using Office365 or similar.
The key takeaway for me is that a third party is able to use thousands of manhours of someone else’s labor as a basis for their closed source product without having to share their enhancements or pay a dime.

If zig were licensed GPL, the zig foundation would be able to sell permissive licenses to companies that don’t want to share source as a way to fundraise.
"We'll get in touch with their administration on your behalf, and let them know that a global community of activists and everyday people alike have signed a statement in support of free software in education."

Sure, but how does this solve the problems that schools have? The problems that are currently being solved well enough now by the likes of Google and Microsoft? If the FSF wants this to succeed, they need to demonstrate and convince school districts that Free Software can meet their needs with costs they can afford. It would help their position if they could show a school district that has successfully gone in this direction.
I study biochemistry, so “phosphoenolpyruvate” was the first thing to come to mind, ha.
Literally got investors because their name sounds like Tesla lol
True, but they don’t keep the air clean nearly as fast as putting room air purifiers near people (closer to source) unless you have an HVAC that is so powerful you feel wind inside..
The difference is monopoly versus free market of programmers.
Uh? This is exactly what I am saying. You should be free to buy a Mercedes in Canada and sell in the US or to anyone else you want peacefully.

Your original post seemed to be a criticism of free trade.

It's not that the "free trade stuff never applies to consumers". Everything that the state does in the name of free trade is baloney and only works to give power to politicians or lobbyists. As I said in my comment before: free trade is really free when it is unilateral. When there is no politics involved.
>> Advertising can only burnish your product, not change the story entirely

With respect, it is completely the opposite. Advertising IS storytelling and adtech has created the opportunity to tell, retell and invent new stories at a rate and with an impact that has no precedent.

Any set of facts (or non-facts), and any storyline- especially false ones which "spread" much more quickly- are promulgated by digital ad campaigns of infinite variety and infinite precision, and create the social disintegration the US especially is experiencing.

Advertising is asymmetric, and all it takes is one quip, one framing, and the mind of one person is changed. The cost of finding that one effective personalized message has never been so low. Products- physical, digital, and "people"- have their stories- in the minds of specific target individuals- changed (nudged) in a moment. One thinks they are immune to this insidious storytelling, but just observe the nudging over time, and in months see how far the view has shifted.

The Russian story is an extremely useful case study of an extremely successful operation, operating at the tectonic plate level.

Similarly, Bloomberg's spend should not be evaluated on what it failed to do, but on what it succeeded at.

And I agree (implied) that banning advertising is implausible.

Best wishes.
They acknowledge that piping to bash is controversial in their install guide and they provide other options for installation. I think they were intending for it to be as accessible as possible to non-technical users and piping to bash was the easiest way to make installation a one-line command that requires zero additional knowledge and still works on the tiny raspberry pi zero w. I can't say I agree with it as a general practice but it wasn't enough to turn me off since their software takes like 15 minutes to set up, provides a nice monitoring dashboard, and runs on the raspberry pi I'd relegated to my junk drawer. Your route may be saner to you but it certainly isn't for a lot of people who tinker with raspberry pi and want something like pi-hole but don't have extensive technical knowledge (I am not one of those people I am just a lazy engineer so it works for me too).

https://docs.pi-hole.net/main/basic-install/
It has references for each claim, in the very end. Lot's of completely neutral scientists (such as inhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/340924249_Is_consid...) have voiced concerns about the dominant hypothesis of natural origin.
And Microsoft just keeps using that money to constantly rewrite their own software for no apparent reason these days. It's like the worst of bazaar development (cascade of attention deficit teenagers in full glory) and propietary software (you can't no longer support it when the teenagers abandon it).

We are still waiting for Teams to support features that Lync/SFB supported on day 1. But that does not prevent them from trying to force Teams onto O365 users (by all but abandoning SFB).
That doesn’t get you very far. Maybe a small team of developers for a year. But, maintenance and hosting cost more.
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