skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure you'll see great results in every environment. I am not an expert but I can walk in the forests of the northeast and see things don't look super great and we won't ever see old growth like we had here. My neighbor is a 90 year old tree farmer, he's got an ag PHD and we sometimes talk about how the land has changed here (he's been living the same place for around 85 years).

On my desk in front of me sits one of the two viable American chestnut nuts I've found this year from a (barely) surviving tree of the blight. 100 years ago there were over 4 billion of these trees, now it's assumed that maybe 100 or so large examples exist inside the original range ravaged by the blight. There's no point in planting it, the nut I have has likely hybridized with the Chinese chestnuts we have nearby and it's almost certain it would also die from the blight before it reached maturity. Right now there's plans to introduce an engineered variant with a gene from wheat to stop the effects of chestnut blight, but it needs approval: https://www.acf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Newhouse-f201...

The undergrowth of the forests here are covered by tearthumb (mile-a-minute) and stiltgrass, and I can see dozens of dead ash trees covered in the zigzag scars caused by the emerald ash borer. The large elms were all wiped out before I was born, but many of the dead ones were still standing. We have fast growing tress in the form of things like tree of heaven (aka ghetto palm, which lives maybe 70 years at most), but that's now attracted the latest imported hell: the spotted lanternfly. Not far from me there's huge numbers of eastern hemlock dying off from woolly adelgid, which is manageable but at great expense and effort. What we could plant and have regrow 100 years ago just wouldn't work now for these and many other reasons that much better qualified people should write about.
> the triad worships Guan Yu with black shoes while the police worships him with red shoes.

That's a detail that I did not know!
Thanks for this, I hope you are right.

I have seen California's H2 station map and have caught glimpse of a few Mirai in the Bay Area.

However only a tiny fraction of the hydrogen stations were for electrolysis derived hydrogen.

Any money going to steam reformation or other fossil fuel based hydrogen is absolutely wasted investment. We need commitment to electrolyzers, and can't let the money go to dead technologies. I look forward to reading more about how this program operates.
That's unfortunate, but hindsight is 20/20. If you wish to build a tool that will be used by the world, it's best to bet on a boring language like Java, Go, Python or you will eventually run into something like this. For pure tools attacking a specific domain, exotic languages like Ocaml, Lisp, and Haskell might shine.
12000 years ago that land was bare mud and rock devoid of topsoil. Huge tracts of today's forests stand on what was stripped, clearcut land 100 years ago when wood was a primary heating fuel.
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It clearly depends on the workload. If you have tons of 3d articles or polygons on a screen, one of the most repeated operations are the calculation of norms (x/sqrt(sum(x)). John carmack came to the fast inverse sqrt root explicitly for this speed advantage
My understanding is that many countries, like some in Europe, have a law saying you must be able to cancel using the same medium you used to subscribe. So if you signed up online, you can cancel online. Same with phone, etc.

I think I've heard of similar proposals in the US Congress...but nothing that looks close to passing.
It was first found in quake 3, which I believed used software rendering. Given that inverse square root is heavily used for lighting functions, and it was all done in CPU, it's reasonable to believe that this provided a non-negligible speedup overall.
3 of you already strawmanning that user. He didn't say they were the only reason, nor anything about Europe's unions. They are making the same point the article you 3 clicked at the top of this page:

>Although the material and equipment costs are similar (within 10%) for projects in the United States and in Europe, labor costs are substantially higher in the United States as outlined above. For example, in California the average billing labor rates for qualified tunnel workers is about $70/hr and the average New York labor rate of qualified tunnel workers is at over $100/hr, whereas in Germany (one of the high labor rates countries in Europe) the comparable labor rate is about $30/hr."

You add up all these inefficiencies, including Union labor, and it starts to bloat infrastructure projects. Unions can do wonderful things, but they no incentive to fix things when they're benefit. Or in the words or Upton Sinclair:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
500GB/mo. presumably per IP address for anonymous pulls. Amazon have absolutely no problem revealing the true cost of egress when it suits them. Also, "500GB/mo.", at launch. Let's not forget those generous free limits can be slashed whenever it suits, and why they might be so generous for launch at all.

Don't be mistaken, actually using this for public images is falling for another "data gravity" marketing gimmick. So they attract enough public images that some folk find one or more of their services absolutely must pull from AWS, pushing their corporate NAT address over the 41GB/day limit. Now your "free" hosting has become a reason for that company to start paying ~$45/month to AWS in egress fees just to use your images, and perhaps with a new ticket in the backlog to consider simply moving the cluster to AWS.

"But it'll always be like that regardless of provider", not necessarily. The reason that Docker registry consumes a ridiculous amount of bandwidth is largely an architectural issue, both in the software and the design of the client's network. Perhaps a better direction is addressing this immense waste of networking rather than turning it into another free marketing opportunity for a near-monopolistic cloud
They were submitted by multiple accounts that have since been deleted by the admins.

If there is a way to see HN submissions that have been deleted it's very, very easy to see.

EDIT: LOL it has since been changed to both Flagged and Dead since I have commented. It was not that way 3 minutes ago. C'mon guys...Dead can only be set by admins. Comments @dang ?
Currency is already digital, so it’s not clear what you mean by digital currency. When people say the Fed “prints dollars” it’s not literally printed, it’s a number in a computer representing the reserve account of member banks. When you use a bank card, it’s just changing numbers in bank databases.

No country has a gold-backed currency. The USD is not backed by gold, or anything. It was historically backed by gold until the US defaulted in 1971 (The Nixon Shock), because they didn’t have enough gold to service foreign debt obligations. The US had increasingly issued more dollars than it had gold backing it (fractional reserve banking). When they defaulted, the US abandoned the gold standard altogether and let the dollar float freely. The US can create as many dollars as it wants.
Trust is earned, and unfortunately, hard to come by these days when privacy is concerned.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I know scraps as the small bits of batter which are left in the deep fryer after cooking battered fish. After a while there is a fair amount in there and you can ask to have them fished out (pun intended) and served with whatever you were ordering.
The attraction of hydrogen is precisely that, as a fuel source, specifically because it's produced by fossil fuel companies cracking fossil fuels, and it lets them largely maintain their business models. It was also pushed heavily by car manufacturers as a stall to get around clean air mandates while avoiding developing electric vehicles (with their inherent threats to after-sales service revenues). Now individual, corporate and national egos are on the line and sunk costs are so huge that many players are politically incapable of backing out.

As an energy storage medium it's terrible. It's inefficient to produce, relatively inefficient to use, very difficult to store, and inconvenient to transport. There's no reason to prefer it over lithium batteries except that it perpetuates the refinery -> distributor -> truck -> fuel station-> consumer model.
I don't see how your comment is at odds with what you're replying to.

> cities are becoming visibly less safe

Hm, I do not think this is true.
We choose which hospital to go to (barring an emergency) but aren't able to know what the cost of services will be; most human nature in that case will prefer to go to the one that looks better, as a proxy for more likely to get the right outcome.

A recent executive order by the president will force hospitals to reveal their pricing, but I'm not sure if that applies to actual negotiated prices for various insurance plans, or only to the phoney prices that they use for negotiating and noone actually pays.

Either way, a small ray of hope that things will change for the better soon.
"If anything ever happens to you, someone owes you money" -- genuinely curious what happens in Europe. There must be malpractice laws that would make someone liable for something if they mess up big time, no? Is it simply that the payouts are smaller?
I was originally sceptical of Brave but now it is my main browser
Nassim Taleb vs. Nate Silver: who is right about election forecasting?
Nice, i was looking at this, but for sqrt (basically the same integer trick)
Very acidic soils are not ideal for tree growth, yes it does mean that other species can't growth there but that is not the same thing as being ideal for tree growth.
> Within weeks, AWS will deliver a new public container registry that will allow developers to share and deploy container images publicly. This new registry will allow developers to store, manage, share, and deploy container images for anyone to discover and download.

> ...

> A new website will allow anyone to browse and search for public container images, view developer provided details, and see pull commands — all without needing to sign in to AWS. AWS-provided public images such as the ECS agent, Amazon CloudWatch agent, and AWS Deep Learning Container images will also be available.

Vacuums get filled quick.
San Antonio is the second fattest major city.* Add in tons of other health preexisting conditions and it's going to have tons of poor outcomes.

* https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Report-San-A...
Python creator Guido works at Microsoft
Can anyone confirm this?
There are Bluetooth "DACs" that have tube-based amplifiers so you can really go nuts with a DAC that costs like 5 times the cost of the RPi 400.
Mature in what way? In terms of features/completeness, or just...age and battle testing? I'm not really in the Rust world any, but I feel like https://www.arewewebyet.org/topics/frameworks/ is a fair amount of choice to start with? A couple of those are post 1.0.0, but to be honest, I wrote an Erlang web service using Cowboy, before it hit 1.0, back in the day, and it was fine.
The original article has the same error in the title. x^(-1/2) is the reciprocal square root. The fault is with math notation where rasing x to a negative power, i.e. x^-a means 1/(x^a); while inverse function F(x) is written F^-1(x). The inverse square root would be just square. Edit: I saw it called multiplicative inverse of the square root
I'm not so sure. People like to be around other people, and like minded people. Sure, some will go to really out of the way places, but I'm not so sure about how many will stay, long term.
>"You're still having all the analytics captured, it just goes to somebody with far less scrutiny than Google."

I could care less what some abstract country has on me. My own country - different story.
Free speech website is usually just dog whistle for invitations to racists and other internet nazi's. What is the plan for moderation? I'm not that interested in unmoderated forums.
New fad: build existing tools in Rust
https://primes.utm.edu/curios/page.php?number_id=953
Eh.. I think most of the top tech talent in America lives on the West coast or NYC. Sure, might open up to more people - but not "blown wide open."
Spent 12 years in Toon and I'll definitely second that! Geordies are crazy:-)
Yeh, it aint totally your fault, congress should be subsidizing you on our behalf, imo.
I mistook the screenshots in the README for screenshots of [Doom Emacs][0]. The default theme looks similar.

[0]: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs
These are fully remote even post covid. Please feel free to send me your resume directly to my email listed above.
Is 30% of what you install or pay for fraudulent?
I find those pull requests absolutely hilarious, but my sense of humor is lowbrow childish.

https://github.com/github/dmca/pull/8210

https://github.com/github/dmca/pull/8207

https://github.com/github/dmca/pull/8203

https://github.com/github/dmca/pull/8202

DMCAs would be much better served OwO'ified.
Last I heard, California was working on a law similar to that
Purely from an engineering perspective, in a setting where we care about privacy --- ostensibly, email is one of the settings where we care most about privacy --- the ability of a stranger to authenticate any particular historical email is a fairly grave vulnerability. Privacy-preserving systems go out of their way not to have it.

You may have some kind of public policy or archaeological argument in favor of the vulnerability, but then it's hard to see how the same argument doesn't suggest we should compromise the entire confidentiality of every email; after all, that would make research a lot easier.
Do you get the benefits of separation by using separate data stores as well, or are most fed from a common database?
> I could care less what some abstract country has on me. My own country - different story.

What some other country has on your country’s citizens (whether friend or for) is a target for your country's security services, by exchange or espionage, so you can't ignore one if you are concerned about the other.
Thank heavens, it's about time the power exercised during the pandemic is bounded somehow.
In my experience, it's easy enough to have services which have a large blast radius themselves and can become points of failure for your entire ecosystem. I don't find this to be a huge point of difference from a monolith, although of course it depends a lot on what you're working on. To pick on the OP a bit here (sorry!), they said that their entire legacy system "could go down because of issues to do with completely unrelated, non critical things like eg internal staff vacation hours." To me that sounds like poorly written software regardless of architecture. I can't imagine a scenario in any of the recent codebases I've worked on (microservices and monoliths both) where errors in what sounds like an internal CRUD tool would cause an entire production application to crash. I find it even harder to imagine if the application has a halfway decent test suite.

To add to that, when you have hundreds of services running around and something goes wrong, it ends up being a lot harder to track down exactly what's happening. So when you do get that critical error, oftentimes the downtime is worsened.

As for dev velocity, I find the claims of the microservice gospel a little bit exaggerated. Your layers of nested services all talk to each other, and any of them could be a point of failure. This isn't really all that different from calling another function in your monolithic app - you've just distributed that function call across a network boundary. You still need to know the callee's API, and you'll still spend a decent amount of time trying to understand the ways that the callee might fail. But you've also created a huge amount of additional developer work whenever you need to do something that spans the boundaries of existing services.

I think microservices certainly have their advantages but a lot of the simplistic claims made by their biggest proponents only hold up prima facie.
Wow this definitely deserves a downvote. Fucking pathetic.
Seed stage CEOs: less dilution, more equity upside
'but with discipline in your own codebase'

If I had that (and, more importantly, trusted every other developer I work with to also have that) I wouldn't value immutability enough to look for it in my language choice.
It's simply Conway's law more explicitly materialised.

Essentially the organisation wants to hire more engineers because that makes it all go faster, right? But then you can't have all those engineers in one team so you create lots of small teams. This means you'll get lots of small systems. You then want to make them "autonomous" so they all get their own repo and cicd. And then before you know it you're in micro service "nirvana".

There is also that org were one guy read a blog post about Netflix once and then...
> Ox took the idea for the customization and extensibility of Emacs and made a configuration system where you can change the colours and appearance of the editor.

Thanks but no thanks. Almost all editors let you customize the color and appearance. Few allow you to customize to such a deep extent as Emacs.
Any links about the court case? I tried googling but it only came up with technical info about how it works.
> GitHub does not have a monopoly.

Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.
Building existing tools in a language you are learning has been a thing forever. I would argue it's one of the best ways to learn a language in fact. The README also compares it to existing tools and explains why it's different from them.
For commercial use, $45/month is a low enough cost to be noise for many businesses (even though the bandwidth transfer markup is eye watering). If it’s breaking your budget, you can always pull and then push to another registry (it’s just tarballs after all) or build new images from scratch with your Dockerfiles. Open source projects and similar cost sensitive use cases might consider https://github.com/miguelmota/ipdr

Docker Hub is similar to Youtube in the sense that it’s a whole lot of bandwidth and storage used and someone has to pay for it. Could you run your own? Time is expensive. Don’t unless you absolutely have to.
The study you linked to was citation 2 in my original rebuttal. The study about brain changes during pregnancy has been widely misinterpreted.

> I am likely not going to spend hours to try and discredit myself.

That's what I do every day. It's how I learn new things. :)

Also, the poster you were replying to last wasn't me, for the record.

Since I didn't make it clear in my original comment, this is the part I was attempting to disprove:

> Pregnancy and post partum, women’s IQ falls
I never claimed anyone was incapable of walking and chewing gum at the same time, merely that a political party acts with political motives.

That the Republican Party has sought the repeal of Roe V. Wade since the decision was made, and that the primary impetus behind that is religious, rather than legalistic, is so obvious that it should be banal. They literally campaign on getting justices in to repeal Roe V. Wade. Yet you've suddenly turned defensive and accused me of moralizing and condescending simply by mentioning it.

It probably is best to table this. It's futile to even try to have a decent political conversation here anyway.
The readme is confusing: it says it wants to take the best of all text editors, calling out Vim first (note that the editors are not listed alphabetically), and specifically mentioning modal editing. But the rest of the readme looks like vanilla `PageUp` and `Ctrl+C` instead of `GG` and `yy` to me. So...is it modal or not?
Terminal editing in 2020!?

So c o n fused I(c) am
Any two commits that conflict in a semantic sense (either change individually is okay, but both together don't work), but don't conflict in a syntactic sense (the changes are not textually near enough to each other to cause git to consider them conflicts, so an automatic merge can & will still happen; alternatively, they make the exact same change, and so don't conflict).

We see this often with lockfiles (someone updates a dep, someone else adds a new dependency; the merge is a new dependency to a version of the dependency that no longer exists), or version numbers that get incremented (each author increments once; the second merge, git will consider it the same add on both sides, and not a conflict, so the result it original_version+1, when it should be original_version+2).
> ... charge you a cancellation fee that is more than 2x your per month membership fee.

Isn't the cancellation fee "just" (!) the balance of your 12 month membership fees (in one lump sum)?
Exclusionary zoning is basically what they came up with when the Supreme Court decided that you couldn't straight up exclude non-white people.
> Brave allows me to easily donate money to creators. I currently fund the internet to the tune of $10/month using Brave. Someday that will be $100/month.

Isn't this only for sites "signed up" with BAT with Brave keeping the BAT if the site isn't enabled?

NB: It has been a long time since I've checked out Brave so my info may be out of date.
At my farmers market this past weekend 1 farmers had 9 different varietals of potato including some I would have guessed were radishes. The stall next had another 7 with only 1 overlap.

Is it possible you are in an environment where potatoes aren’t very profitable crops? Because I see lots of variety in potatoes routinely and “North America” is a very big place to be saying anything about the food ways.
Poor Docker. They created an ecosystem and tooling that is now critical to a large majority of software teams. Many cloud providers built large lucrative services on top of it using their existing networks to get market share (e.g EKS/Kube over say Swarm). Now Amazon can simply cut their last few legs (monetizing the registry) under them because it’s just a small cost leader to them.

As consumers if we just keep taking the freest lunch without any care or love for the general OSS ecosystem there will be a ton of adverse effects. This is a pretty F’ed up way to do business. This is how you get people to stop doing nice things like writing open software. It’s even more frustrating and reprehensible that they’re doing this under the guise of supporting the community.
Who gets hurt? Docker Hub?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology)