skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for sharing that info.

I do think we're talking past each other though. Perhaps I should have said "practical" instead of "possible". Certainly just about anything is possible with enough money and manpower thrown at it.

I still maintain that forest management alone is insufficient to address the situation. After all, there is little need for forest management if the forest has burnt to a crisp, has become a desert, and no longer exists.

Let's say we devised a perfect management plan, used machine learning to slice the forests up into optimally manageable sections with nearly no chance of spreading uncontrollably. Hell, even throw in robots that automatically "rake" the land.

What happens when the climate becomes such that any segment will burn totally if ignited and all segments will inevitably burn? What happens when the climate becomes so hot that all foliage withers and dies? Problem solved I suppose.

Unfortunately, after decades of lies, propaganda, and lobbying, people (in the U.S. at least) still perceive climate change to be, as you say, a "debate". On that I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree, since IMO it is not a debate and has instead become one of those uniquely American ideological battlegrounds where one "side" has been convinced that being stubbornly contrarian is a sign of intellectual independence and superiority, despite all facts and data to the contrary.
The problem is people can't do this in a office. Nobody has admin rights on there computers. Everybody know how yo use Excel. We all know, if you have to make a ticket to your office IT for such things, you mostly have to wait a long long time and it never, never works the first time. I guess that is one of the main reasons, why the world runs on Excel (and MS Access). It just works, it's just there, no dealing with IT.
Life’s Small-Molecule Problem
The thing is that your comments are just vague incoherent rambling, you're just not adding any new information or asking any thoughtful questions.
If you start contributing to Open-Source, the guilt of using FOSS software changes into pride!

And there's many ways to pay for free software, without using money...

- || Honest Feedback || Leaving a respectfully honest review, or emailing with constructive criticism makes maintainers feel like they've actually reached someone.

- || Reporting Bugs || Politely reporting a bug you find is a useful way to contribute back to the project as it can help.

- || Testing New Features || Beta testing features is a good way to help the developer reduce bugs in new releases.

- || Spreading the Word || Writing a blog about a piece of software or sharing it with friends is a great way to grow the community and generally appreciated by maintainers.

- || Helping With Support || Watching forums and bug trackers and helping diagnose issues is a great way to give your time instead of money to a project.

All of these require zero programming experience or money, but can be much more valuable than a $2 one time donation.
That's because data oriented programming has already succeed on a large scale, you just might not recognize it.

SQL is about as data-oriented as it gets, you have a programming model that's constrained and focused on data layout, structure and performance over being a general purpose language. There's a good article a while back about ECS that I can't find which talks about how most performant ECS start to mirror SQL and other row based data engines.
On the one hand, I would really appreciate it if the judge had good technical knowledge of the field such as this judge. On the other hand, he’s invested in a system that many of us aren’t very happy with. Patent litigation is a game for corporate elephants, and when the elephants fight the grass gets trampled.
Thanks a lot for these! I don't know if I'm going to use real time collaboration precisely, but porting Draw.io to VSCode allowed me to have a much better experience in personal projects. I've always used Draw.io to draw workflows and graphical to-do lists when bootstrapping these type of repositories, and now I don't have to leave my editor to do all of this work.
Windows 7 support is also dropped in this release.
https://bugs.python.org/issue32592
This will not be Excel, but a external export library.

I doubt the current Excel which MS spends billions on would not be opening data if the XLS is over the 'size' limit but a valid format.

I guess MS hate is easier than thinking about software and logic and being a better programmer and stuff.
Whenever you try to do something properly, some person in your organization condescendingly says "perfect is the enemy of the good".

And because Excel is "good" for a vast number of use-cases then people use it for everything.
No, negative externalities aren’t ok when you do it, or when cities do it, or when businesses do it, or when anyone does it. You don’t get to harm other’s welfare. Take your construction project to a public park or outdoors somewhere
Except it's not your apartment, it's the landlord's apartment, and they probably have rules against being so loud that people in adjacent units want to move out.
How can I pass whatever I want into that function at runtime, while still satisfying the type checker?
This is incredible work! It looks snazzy and yet is very light - the frontpage only took 300kb to load (compare that to new reddit, lol). I really love the alt text for NSFW posts: https://i.imgur.com/2tcHsGY.png

How are you planning to do moderation? You seem to be going with a reddit-style "the creator of the subreddit moderates" system - how are you planning to deal with the pitfalls of that, like power users moderating thousands of communities, mod abuse and accusations thereof, etc.?
Yah, I definitely miss the days of providing your own user style sheet without plugins or other addons. These days I don't hardly bother, although I will pop open the dev tools to "fix" something once in a while if it's really bad.
What's even more broken is that impact factors and h-indices -- all that data analytics we use to measure science is fundamentally broken. They are worse than useless
It’s funny that you call it law school 101 stuff, because your analysis (and tone) is indeed about what I’d expect from a 1L.

Judge Albright’s record does not show him to be patent-troll-friendly, or even patentee-friendly. It shows him to be smart, knowledgeable, and principled. His is exactly the kind of court a plaintiff or a defendant should be happy to be in. Efficiency in disposing of cases cuts both ways, you know.
I've thought of some things with "complications" that end up connecting you with them.

1) Linux. some assembly required.

2) ikea. (see #1)

3) pistachios. I love those salt and pepper pistachios. unshelling them slows down your eating and somehow I think they taste better. Shelled pistachios - you can shove a handful in your mouth and be satisfied immediately (like just about any snack nut) - not as good.
Here's the .NET 5 announcement which wraps up everything: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-net-5/

.NET windows/desktop framework stopped at version 4.8 and .NET Core has spent 4 years incrementing to version 3, so .NET 5 is a merger of everything into a single framework again. Mono will still exist since it's used by Xamarin for mobile and Unity for games.

AOT is mentioned in the article and comments, and there's also this big thread in the CoreRT repo if you want to see more discussions: https://github.com/dotnet/corert/issues/7200
Use Terraform Input Variables to Parameterize Infrastructure Deployments
Yeah, it might have embiggened their presentation
I think similar to “code smells” in software engineering, using excel for critical data pipeline work can be considered a “data smell”. It’s not bad in and of itself, but it’s a signal that something may have gone seriously wrong with the data engineering process.
I don't believe you.

Open Pilot can't use your blindspot cameras or any other additional sensors in your car. If I try to merge into another lane, and someone is in my blind spot, Open Pilot will try (and will crash my car).

Super Cruise and Smart Eye don't have this problem.

And yes, I have an Open Pilot for my Lexus RX 450h.
Inventing virtual meetings of tomorrow with Nvidia AI research
> Why do managers spend 70% of their time on mysterious external meetings? What are they actually doing?

usually they're either trying to get there team politically important work or to get out of politically unimportant work. If things have gone really wrong in some it's time spent not getting stuck with whatever giant sack of shit is rolling downhill at that moment.
The login button doesn't work when using subdomains (raw.gurlic.com), just thought I'd let you know. It should be a static https://gurlic.com/login rather than using a relative path.
Windows 7 still has 25% market share, apparently, at least according to https://netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.asp... (no clue if that's a reasonable source or not, but probably not TOO ring). Seems a little premature to drop support?
This effect is called hormesis [1] and is quite established for various kinds of stressors. For example also in the context of oxygen depriving breathing exercises and cold baths [2] (which is how I came across the term only this week).

On the topic of bloodletting and blood donations, I found these interesting considerations [3]. There is a correlation of less cardiovascular disease among people who donate blood. Of course there are lots of confounding factors here. The article summarizes them nicely.

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

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24676116

[3] https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2015/11/09/does-donat...
you misspelled dogs.
My students' effort in Haskell and Rust
I encouraged and mentored a bunch of my students to learn Haskell and Rust by re-implementing csvkit (https://csvkit.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.2/). They started in late February 2020 and amidst all the lock down, college academic work, they have made decent progress.

Here is the link to their work:
https://gitlab.com/russell27

My aim in posting is to encourage all others to try and stretch themselves, by undertaking something reasonably large.
A bit of my background: I am a programming trainer who focuses on helping students to learn core programming principles and practices. I have been coding professionally since mid-80's and teaching/training/mentoring, from 90's. I prefer to teach using multiple languages. My usual choices are Python/C++/Haskell. (I have no development experience in Haskell; just love its spartan elegance). So my help to these students was mostly encouraging them, doing code reviews to help themselves to clarify the code and to identify the odd built-in function they were replicating in their code.
This basically reads "I'm a massive piece of shit"
Not for donuts. Guaranteed minimum viable coffee. Starbucks and McDonalds are undrinkable (opposite ends of the spectrum).
Korean BBQ restaurants and Sushi restaurants do this very well.
Ask Ethan #75: How can we still see the Big Bang? – by Ethan Siegel
Hm. Wired #1 probably predates psdoom by a few years. Psdoom was developed later AFAIK. 1999 or so? At least after 1997 when Id released the Doom source code.
i have seen authors asking people not to do this, because it increases the chance that their publisher will see the book as a failure and not pick up another one of theirs.
Yeah, that’s how US Americans can get dual citizenship in Germany. If the fee for renouncing is an "unreasonable burden" for you.
You know there are some ATMs that don't take your card at all. You put them in enough to read them and pull them out.

but many ATMs were designed with a business goal of confiscating cards.
Known viable option for coffee for someone from out of town, whereas a local brand is an unknown quantity and McDonalds and Starbucks are undrinkable.
Thanks!

I'm not completely sure yet, and haven't given it much thought. But I suppose there will be a limit on the number of communities/publications one can own. There definitely ought to be a mechanism to cut down on power user abuse.

I'm happy to hear thoughts/ideas/advice on this!
I have mixed feelings about this. It's always good to teach people things they don't know, and compression is a worthy subject.

But the author seems to lament that not much of interest is happening in lossless compression. That's true, but there's a good reason for it: Lossless compression is just about as good as it's ever going to get, and it's easy to prove that. Seeking dramatic improvements in general lossless compression is like seeking faster-than-light travel: Ain't gonna happen. Except for specialized niches, any improvements to lossless compression are going to be tiny and incremental. Tiny and incremental might well matter for petabyte data stores like Google manages, but it won't matter for most people.

Lossy compression is a different story. There's still lots of unexplored territory in finding an optimum bit rate that matches the information processing capabilities of human eyes and ears.
In 2018 a story about Anthony Mancinelli, the oldest living barber, made the rounds. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/nyregion/worlds-oldest-ba... When he first began barbering he had to learn how to apply leeches and (AFAICT) cupping. (Mancinelli died last year: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/nyregion/anthony-mancinel...) The use of leeches seems very fringe today, but here in California Kaiser Permanente insurance covers cupping. In my neighborhood there's a local acupuncturist that does Hijama, aka "wet cupping"[1], which is literally bloodletting. Though advertised as an Islamic technique such bloodletting was (is?) widely practiced the world over and his clientele seem to be similarly diverse. (Many Chinese and Russians in my neighborhood, among others.)

As far as I understand, insurers are slowly embracing acupuncture, cupping, etc as a cheaper alternative to patients using valuable physician time. Also, AFAICT there's a subset of chiropractors that basically apply modern physical therapy techniques (providing a reverse placebo effect?), and so medical doctors seem to be increasingly comfortable referring patients to chiropractors. Though, the distinctions among different types of chiropractors aren't distinguished in the medical literature so the quack chiropractors (i.e. the ones who diagnose everything as a spinal disorder, do regular x-ray imaging, and charge hundreds of dollars for tapping a couple of vertebrae) seem to be benefiting from the improved legitimacy.

[1] As opposed to regular cupping, which uses suction to break capillaries, bruising the skin.
GitHub: Third party code scanning tools static analysis
The problem is that humans come in a lot of varieties, all assembled slightly differently, and without a service manual.

Diseases also come in unpredictable variants, and tend to develop in unique enough ways.

So no, surgeons don't polish a single canonical scalpel dance that works for everyone; they have to custom-tailor the surgery to every incoming patient, often under pretty severe deadlines (literally).
I know what I’d add: a link to the project from the article. :)
No it doesn't.

Apple is going further and further into it's own navel.

I think, and this may be a strange thought, that apple might do better to sell competitors stuff to keep itself strong and healthy.
Blazor is currenlty hobbled by having to haul its runtime across the wire and is thus not in a position to compete with React or Vue.
> they generally explore, learn, and exercise

Not anymore. Now they watch YouTube and play games. 100% passive brain rot. Source: have a 16 year old son.
Blue Law
Maybe I'm an idealist, but I believe freedom also comes with responsibility and accountability.

The NSA Act protects those working on the shadow from every being held accountable for potentially illegal acts, therefore the whole nation is slowly losing its freedom.
I mean the answer to all of these and more is having lots of cash needing investment vehicles that do better than just passively investing it in the market. None of these companies are menacingly laughing in board rooms, they’re just seeing other companies prove markets for them and betting that they can compete.

If you want to get that first party integration/advantage these companies are happy to partner with you, but you have to have a product that can’t be replicated with 5 devs, a PM, and a Domino’s gift card. And don’t expect to charge a premium, if you try to ask for any more than a sliver above cost the numbers work out in favor of building it in-house.
Not everyone would agree that active cameras pointed at you and phoning home in otherwise semi private situations is progress.
1. Blow up your TV.
2. Throw away your smartphone.
3. Go to the country.
4. Build you a home.
5. Plant a little garden.
6. Eat a lot of peaches.
7. Try and find Jesus on your own.

I think this was discovered in the boot sector of an old haunted PC or something...
In my case each subsequent paragraph, heading, or object is it's own grid row, which act like table rows where margins cannot collapse. Thus things like headings having a certain whitespace above them aren't possible without margin-top, among other small annoyances. Hence the reason I want to switch :)
Yeah I have the same feeling. I was struggling for hours the other week to make two columns the same height, but the need for an overflow on one kept on killing everything.

Coming from a mechanical engineering background, I'm very used to being able to define spatial properties with respect to other elements in CAD, and it just seems lacking in CSS.
Ask HN: Is it OK for my company to sponsor a POC NBA Finals viewing party?
Hi, HN.

My company is sponsoring a "POC: NBA Finals Watch Party" this Friday. The event is promoted through official channels (an all-hands meeting), is on our company calendar, and has food paid for by the company. AFAIK, only people-of-color are invited--the guest list is hidden.

I have moral concerns about this event in that it makes white people feel excluded and considered "other". I'm sure there is more nuance to the situation, but I feel uncomfortable raising the issue given the current political climate.

Some additional context: my company has a black CEO and employs people-of-color at a rate above the US population averages.

What would you do if you were in my situation?
One reason it is hard is that the effect of CSS rules depends on their order. Imagine if in your JavaScript you write 5 functions, and depending on the order you write them in causes them to have a different effect.

https://medium.com/@panuviljamaa/why-css-is-difficult-a2cdf0...
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JointJS documentation makes me wanna cry.
Hey come now... we both need each other /s
Yeah, I don't get why it bugs some people so much but I find it to be really intuitive.
There's a video game (maybe more of a tech demo?) called A Slower Speed of Light that is set in a universe where the speed of light is just a smidge faster than walking pace. It's fun seeing the redshift and lorentz transformation from a 1st person viewpoint
If you want to do the lite version of this there is a book called “From NAND to Tetris” that is an instructional book for a similar class and walks through doing much of the same thing. It helped me connect the dots between “I know how a transistor works” and “I know how assembly language works” that I have never learned otherwise. Even if you just skim the book without doing the project you will likely learn some things.

The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262640686/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_yH...
But Apple Beats are poor quality to begin with, it's just got Dre's name associated to it to make them expensive.

Most major brands are better than beats by a long shot.

However, most brands are beginning to cheap out IMO. I had a pair of sennheiser headphones back in like ~2005, they lasted like 11 years before the cups started to fall apart. I replaced them with a new pair of sennheiser which lasted ~12 months before they began to fall apart... Not only that, the old sennheiser was SUPER comfy, the new ones hurt my ears after a while... Replaced the new sennheiser with another model, fall apart in ~12 months...

Now I'm just using some Asus gaming headphones, quality is not Bose level but its good enough, and the cups have lasted longer than the last 2 pair of sennheiser I've had.
That's a good way to utterly ruin your back. Muscles atrophy if you don't use them. If you don't get up all day, absent supplemental exercise you'll screw up your back in a few months.
I was fortunate enough to read Native Son in my high school sophomore English class. While I appreciated it then, a few years ago I revisited it and read Baldwin’s response essay “Everyone’s Protest Novel” and other meta-literature around those works. I don’t have much commentary to say about either work, but I think everyone should read them - especially in today’s world.
Sure, I'll just teach tell my wife to learn SQL and some devops while she's at it. After that I'll coach her on how to get buy in from management on this new system while she neglects her primary duties.

Throwing up a database and integrating it into a workflow/system isn't something anyone can just get up and do. I have to imagein you know that.
Eh, it is yet another reason for me not to own a Tesla. There seriously needs to be a bigger outcry against this. There is no benefit to the user. Your ( supposedly ) car actively works against you and your interests ( even if that interest is to be a stupid person who applies make up during driving ). Seriously, why is there a need to be cameras everywhere? And why do they need to watch me blink?
Matrix, not array.

>>> import numpy as np
>>> np.mat(((1,0),(0,1)))**2
matrix([[1, 0],
[0, 1]])
Odd, when I click the play icon on the video, it just disappears.
>And if Oracle wins on interfaces being copyrightable

They already did. Fair use is an argument made #after# copyright infringement occurs. Winning on fair use means API is copyrightable.

The jury decided that it is fair use to take someone else's code and change the license on it. The Federal Circuit overturned the jury as a matter of law. The law doesn't say you can do that as part of fair use. The power to make law belongs to the legislature, not the judicial.
I hope people finally understand ( At least I hope Microsoft Understand ) Their biggest asset isn't actually Windows. But Excel.

Some on HN will definitely comes in with (x)Office Support MS Excel file as well etc.

There are trillion dollar worth of revenue relying on Excel. In the best case scenario, no one wants to work, rework, or even touch that Spreadsheet. Having 99% compatibility is not good enough.
Not sure what you mean by different platforms. Did you mean languages as React and Node are separate entities? Personally, if I had to hire a developer the minimum requirement would be competence in JS/React and a statically-compiled server-side language. JS-only developers are to be avoided.