skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> California is a fire hazard because of anti-logging policies.

What anti-logging policies? The Federal government owns 57% of the forests. State and local governments own a mere 4%. 39% is in private hands. Of that 39%, 60% (~23% of the total) is owned by timber companies. The remainder (~15% of the total) is held by small landowners. Source: https://lhc.ca.gov/sites/lhc.ca.gov/files/Reports/242/Report...

The Federal government can do whatever it wants. The state has no land to log. And most of the private land is owned by... logging companies, who are definitely not anti-logging.

As with so many things in this state, the problem seems to come down to California's peculiar environmental review laws, which make it easy for outside interests to challenge and delay private projects, including, apparently, forest management projects. See https://www.redding.com/story/news/2019/01/30/california-cal..., which discusses plans to allow aggregation of review approval--not because reviews are costly, per se, but because each nominally independent review multiples the disruptive power of third-party challengers; and https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-12-31/californ... reporting on the enactment of those plans.

California really just needs to overhaul its environmental review laws; specifically, by removing or at least substantially diminishing the power to independently challenge reviews and review approval through protracted litigation. But that's politically difficult because it's what empowers NIMBYs and activist organizations of all stripes and across the political spectrum. Everybody hates NIMBYs up until the point they're asked to relinquish powers that would allow them (or their favorite organization) to block stuff they don't like. Note that for most challenges concern about the natural environment is just a pretense, which is why when it comes down to real support for reform you can't find any votes, either in the legislature or through referendums. Republicans in Orange County abuse the review process just as much as tree-huggers in Marin County. Any kind of reform is easily spun into a narrative about removing local control--relinquishment of a veto power each and every Californian possesses over the land management practices of every other Californian.
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I just want to put out a viable option: ship your stuff via usps. You could probably hire help to pack stuff under your supervision, and get movers you can work with to take them to usps and ship. I’m darn sure it’ll cost less than moving. Also gives you a chance to consolidate!
Subaru Eyesight cameras look different though, they’re further apart. See https://images.app.goo.gl/vAJJ7JuV1cmTaymA8
There's another fascinating page on that site with some modern recreations of what 30-line TV at 12.5 frames per second can look like - surprisingly good!

http://www.tvdawn.com/other-projects/tvtests/
Burn It All – A Review of “Your Computer Is on Fire”
And emacs certainly is just a rubbish lisp implimentation. (joking)
If you want performance benchmarks vs Fortran, https://benchmarks.sciml.ai/html/MultiLanguage/wrapper_packa... has benchmarks with Julia out-performing highly optimized Fortran DiffEq solvers, and https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/Octavian.jl shows that pure Julia BLAS implementations can compete with MKL and openBLAS, which are among the most heavily optimized pieces of code ever written. Furthermore, Julia has been used on some of the world's fastest super-computers (in the performance critical bits), which as far as I know isn't true of Swift/Kotlin/C#.

Expressiveness is hard to judge objectively, but in my opinion at least, Multiple Dispatch is a massive win for writing composable, re-usable code, and there really isn't anything that compares on that front to Julia.
This is a very interesting comment for future historians, as it shows how people convince themselves that they have absorbed substance when in fact there is no such substance.

Virtually no aspect of your statement extends beyond press headlines, where the content and follow-on of each of these stories entirely defused the substance of the respective headline. That is why the whole thing that you believe is very important amounted to a pile of dust.
If the world was just warming, it wouldn't be nearly so much of an issue, I don't think. We could just put a big mylar sheet and block part of the sun.

We could do that, I think, in about 20 years, if we really wanted to just get rid of this 1.5degC rise. But we can't, we have the ocean acidification, the desertification, the pollution, the acid rain, the plastic pollution. My point is that it's not really the temperature I'm worried about, it's the everything else.
Free trade principle was invented by British to fight against Dutch monopoly in spices…

And then wars in order to enforce free trade with Asian nations…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run_(island)
I moved from the US to Hong Kong last year and I used a company called Santa Fe Relocation https://www.santaferelo.com/en/ They had positive reviews on a number of expat forums. I can attest that all my stuff got here, in the expected time frame, no hassles with customs. It was pretty painless. I recommend them. They do moves within the US as well. I paid a little over $3k USD, but I was not moving a lot of stuff (just boxes, mostly books, no big furniture).
> With that attitude, only the most elite and large companies would even consider it

And that is usually the case in reality. Most small, custom built websites are unusable for the impaired. Doing a11y well requires effort.
They are a great predictor of actual job environment though (the test, not its results)
Sometimes a simple question and answer tailored to your site is enough to stop them. They never bother with individual sites... so once you break the bot code they never bother to fix it.

Something somtimes as simple as: red, green, orange and chair. How many colors are in the previous statement?
Us china trade wars are still in full swing. Biden has largely kept trump policy toward china.
The beauty of the mutually beneficial contract. If your stuff doesn't arrive they don't get paid, or perhaps even keep their job. That's their incentive to not steal your stuff.
It was once a KKK stronghold. Last year BLM came to town
There used to be a lot of media, with a lot of different motivations. Now there are only a couple of major companies running most of it, and a small number of sources that everyone else rewrites.
Fast and Accurate Sparse Networks
I can program and am very familiar with web technologies. For my own project https://rpgplayground.com, I decided to go with WordPress, and I haven't regretted it for a single day.

It started out as a landing page and a blog. But then I needed a forum for my users -> install BBPress and done!

Was getting some spam comments and posts, so installed some anti spam plugin and captcha plugin.

Seemed my users want to post their own games on my platform, so installed the BuddyPress community plugin.

Wrote my own plugin to integrate my game builder with the website.

I run a Discord server and wanted to notify Discord when a new game is published on my platform, so installed the Discord plugin to push posts to Discord. Plus, I can show Discord activity on my website.

Wanted to send out a newsletter for user retention. Very expensive options out there, so I installed a pay-once solution to run this from a wordpress plugin (50k subs and counting).

Soon I'm going to implement a marketplace where my users can sell and buy resources. And guess what, you have a WooCommerce plugin and some other one that enables this.

Oh yeah, I want to do this with virtual credits, and of course there is a plugin for that.

Absolutly awesome! And in the meantime, I can focus my developments on my RPG making tool.

I also sometimes hire a cheap developer to implement some custom things, and it works great.

Edit: plus, it's really fast to run experiments without losing development time. Just install or enable something, and if it doesn't add value, remove it again.
Oh the van is packed to the gills. USPS will be somewhat more expensive than a moving company.
It is a free speech matter. Not First Amendment style, and yes because we are discussing private entities.

And in this case, a private entity formed post fact. Arguably, an entity without a solid basis, but I digress...

The people makin things work built trust, culture and in those things, high value. Use value, not dollar value. (Another point against the private entity basis)

Of major importance is the idea of this work being done because it is necessary. That trust matters and so does the speech being carried along side.

The trust was broken, and what was before a place where all parties could speak freely is now a place where speech is regulated and said regulation is not to the mutual benefit, consideration and respect of everyone involved.

Consideration due is consideration given.

Freenode understands how all that works. Leenode does not.

And the lack of consideration and respect at times is a direct function of consideration and respect not given.

And here we are watching it all play out terribly.

The only one forcing is Leenode. Remember that.
I have a French partner (am German myself) and was surprised how old-fashioned many French children's literature is (only changed with very recent books). The same goes for translations of other work.

When we had children I was absolutely amazed that my partner didn't know Pippi Longstockings. Well turned out that the French translation was tamed/censored significantly, because Pippi was too rebellious (I know the irony in France), and because of that was never successful. They only made a new, more accurate translation in the late 1990s. Hence my partner who is born significantly before didn't know it.
So, I’m not going to claim if it’s a monopoly or not directly, but just provide new angles on this debate…

Twitter may have an x% of market valuations of other companies… but that doesn’t have to be the only metric we base decisions off of. Amazon is more than twitch, so has a bigger evaluation. But obviously that other business doesn’t compete with Twitter.

Twitter might account for (eg) 25% of phone use time (and say fb accounts for another x%). So maybe we define the market as user attention. That might make more sense than a strictly financial approach.

Or maybe, like the OP said, Twitter has 90% of all political actors on it, when the next platform has only 25%. Or maybe it has 75% of all public political discourse. Maybe defining the market as saturation of politicians. After all, it’s way harder to compete if you have to convince all existing politicians to move.

These metrics are harder to gather, but might be more useful to gauge how dominant Twitter is in the political sphere. When people discuss monopoly, they often don’t care about the (vague and interpreted) laws per se, they actually care about how a company has somehow come to be dominant and influential in a negative way.

Throughout American history, antitrust rules has been used against mostly large businesses that were unpopular (politically and colloquially). Business and society had changed a lot, especially with the internet, so if there is a political push, defining monopoly policies against another target and definition is inevitable.
Ironic that despite predictions from Elon, truck drivers are in fact more in demand than ever before.
"Imperfect" is unnecessarily moralistic here.

A clone is nothing more, and nothing less, than a time-shifted identical twin.

I probably wouldn't clone my dog for that reason: it's not "getting my dog back" it's having his identical twin.

But I grant that identical twins are very similar to one another, so if you like your dog's look and personality, the clone would probably be a lot like his twin. So I don't judge people who would rather do that than find a new dog; why not?

I do think it would be weird to give the clone the same name though. That said, a few pet owners give all of their dogs or cats the same name. Just because I don't understand it doesn't make it bad.
For a non-numerical benchmark where Julia does really well, you should also check out https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/. There's a bunch of work to be done to improve DataFrames.jl more, but it's already one of the fastest tools for what it does (despite having only reached version 1.0 a few weeks ago).
WordPress is like Craigslist in that software engineers hate it, but everyone else happily uses it, and both are thriving businesses providing a sustainable livelihood to their employees and owners instead of trying to take over the world. You should be so lucky to invent something as well-loved and as useful as WordPress, and to stick to your principles for as long as Matt has.
It seems that VCs are either following the herd or buying the vision. The latter is a safe risk to take because the timescales of some projects are 10+ years which means the VC can delay the inevitable (firm goes to zero) with a slim chance that the returns will be huge. Personally I have tried and failed to raise VC money, as a result I have some sour grapes when I see firms raise $20mn+ for moon shot ideas that make no sense to me. Having said that I would rather be beholden to my firm's customers, customers who pay for an unsubsidized product that meets a market need, today.
Everyone in this thread complaining about the $10 cost is going to smoothly transition over to the thread about Facebook selling your data without batting an eyelash.

You want free without paying the cost of free. Grow up.
As someone who loves whitespace in python and for whom coffeescript is as close to perfection as as typeless JS can be, I can't oblige.

For me brackets should mostly serve a decorative function and rarely ever be nested or span multiple lines or screens.

In the spirit of compromise I'd like to see text ediors where bracekts or no brackets is just a visual toggle you can switch back and forth on a whim.
Could also rent a van. But it sounds like they want a van anyway, so a win all round.
That too was and still is legitimate speculation. Josh Rogin of the Washington Post has written about this previously (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/03/08/josh-rogin...):

> A little-noticed study was released in early July 2020 by a group of Chinese researchers in Beijing, including several affiliated with the Academy of Military Medical Science. These scientists said they had created a new model for studying SARS-CoV-2 by creating mice with human-like lung characteristics by using the CRISPR gene-editing technology to give the mice lung cells with the human ACE2 receptor — the cell receptor that allowed coronaviruses to so easily infect human lungs.

The fact remains that this type of speculation about bioweapons should never have been banned. Doing so granted the CCP a huge relief from accountability and transparency, one we may never be able to correct for with all the time that has passed.
All politicians tell obvious lies. It's part of their career. Biden tells obvious lies. Trump told obvious lies. So did Obama. So did bush. Part of critical thinking is determining which statements are lies and which are not.
There’s a fellow on youtube who makes dishes from antiquity, including garum. Worth a watch if you’re into cooking, or history, or both. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5S7Bb0Qg-oE
Monopoly is mostly a political definition throughout American history. The policies and laws have been shaped to target businesses not always strictly based on actual market definition in a textbook sense.
An excellent language that keeps being rebooted with endless discussions on memory models, incomplete features, DIPs that were half implemented without documentation.

While they don't know where it should go, C#, C++, Swift keep adopting D like features, with their rich ecosystem.

D could have been C# on Unity, given Remedy experience with the language, instead not.

D's Metaprogramming was great 10 years ago, not when placed against C++20 metaprogramming, or the features arriving in C++23.
> Just because you have an incorrect assumption about what the informal names imply doesn't mean others do as well.

All kinds of names are given by people to reflect the essence of the entity being named. The name I give to something reflects what I think of it or something about that thing. The use of the word "dark" here is being used to reflect (as you said) our inability to yet explain the described phenomena which, to me, sounds like medieval people talking of witches. These phenomena could have easily be named "Analog24's energy" or "gtsop's matter" like a thousand other forces, particles, laws. Hence, what we have to "accept" is a term that reflects the inability of the human intellect to discover something. It is just silly and I think it shows something about the mentality of contemporary physics

I hope my point is clearer now
that's a very naive view that fails to realize this information can serve humans do evil things - scammers, "cancel culture", revenges, genocide, stalking kids, kidnappers, burglers, telemarketing, and so on.
A platform secure in its dealings, that has garnered solid mutual respect and consideration has few worries about critics and thus no real reason to worry about critique.

Solid criticism can be acted on and that adds use value for everyone. Not solid, or unjust criticism will be judged collectively and just is not a major concern.
Ask HN: Did preparing for LeetCode type of interviews improve your skills?
I'm not new to the field and I have nearly a decade years of experience under my belt. I'm currently job hunting and decided I'm not gonna shy away from LeetCode type of interviews as before (I used to refuse to proceed with any company that had this as part of their interview process) and actually give it a shot.

As I'm doing some Hackerrank/LeetCode exercises, I'm actually enjoying solving these puzzles. I'm wondering if anyone who went through this prepping for an interview ended up being technically better overall. I know that I rarely needed this kind of skill in my career, but also I'm wondering if there were cases where I did need them and I didn't know.

Cheers!
It doesn't. Aether was supposed to be an element, substance that filled the emptiness of space, not the emptiness itself.
There is a yc startup opportunity somewhere in there.
Yes, though this and electric cars both required a single man with combination of wealth, charisma and ability to think beyond their own wallet - which is a very rare set of characteristics to coincide in a single person - who then could drag the market kicking and screaming into accepting EVs and reusable rockets. Unfortunately, depending on such happenstance doesn't scale, so it's not a reliable way of creating a better future.
“Parsers are easy!” - sorry, couldn’t resist. ;)

Have a nice day folks!
More like, affirmative action actually secretly benefits rich people versus poor boat people.

“ I’m supposed to understand that a first generation kid whose parents started their flight from Laos on a raft made from tires are the beneficiaries of the cultural biases of a bunch of ETS employees?”

Which he doesn’t cite statistics showing these folks are the ones disadvantaged by the policy (though I agree lumping all Asians together doesn’t make sense).
(I use mostly Clojure)

It's not even only about the syntax. The Python environment, as far as I understand (and please correct me if I'm wrong), does not support re-definitions very well. Some things can be re-defined, but some cannot. So that's a problem in itself which makes REPL-driven development not very useful in Python.
Actually the story about the Dr. Suess books is that they were deliberately written with only some limited number of words. IIRC there is a range of his books with fewer and fewer words, because he was getting challenged by his editor.
Which "we" are you speaking for here - since you're saying you won the war I guess you must be Soviet? You were having major debates about who the good guys were at the time - you had a non-aggression pact with Japan right up until the final weeks, and that very much affected the course of the war.

The same goes for everyone else. France had major internal debates about who the good guys were. So did the UK. So did the USA. So did Ireland. Everyone took took particular actions on particular timelines, made particular compromises, and they were right to do so.
Ah awesome!

Well I don't know what kind of project you're working on, but I like over engineering my pet projects for learning purposes and found it quite fun!
So the first step is to have worked as a VC for two years. Gotcha.
The “ossification” that QUIC deals with is primarily about internet routers who decide to dig into their IP packets. https://http3-explained.haxx.se/en/why-quic/why-ossification Many have optimisations around TCP and long-standing TCP characteristics, which they are able to do because the TCP headers are unencrypted. This led to TCP being difficult to improve, because of all the implementations out there making assumptions and doing these optimisations that weren’t compatible with new developments, or worse, dropping traffic with new, unrecognised TCP options.

In comparison QUIC is almost 100% encrypted, and exposes comparatively little data for routers to ossify on. So even if network cards start optimising, they can only do so much damage because they are given very little information. For example, there is no way for them to do their own special per-stream flow control, because the stream identifier is encrypted. The only things visible are the UDP src/dest port, the QUIC connection ID, and a minimal set of flags. Most important is that the flow control information is encrypted, which is one of the main things TCP couldn’t improve on due to ossification.

That’s not to say the number of implementations stops being a problem — just means that you can actually use QUIC version numbers and negotiate features at the endpoints and ignore anybody along the routes. So you can get adoption of new ideas much more quickly.

Quick illustration of the things no longer visible to network operators: https://blog.apnic.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/quic-fig2...., from https://blog.apnic.net/2019/03/04/a-quick-look-at-quic/
I mean accidents happen.

The Chinese government has recently adopted a science policy that based quantity over quality.

Think the genetically engineered babies. Illegally genetically engineering babies is about as far out there as it gets.

But it happeneded.
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Branching out: is communication possible between trees and people?
The headaches are simply not worth it. No designer should be using WordPress for client websites in the age of squarespace/wix. It is just irresponsible to build something for a client that is going to break itself within 1-2 years max.
Do people get offended when people say america invaded Iraq? Do we blame an Eskimo because the federal government invaded the middle east? Of course not. Nobody blames random citizens of countries for their government misdeeds. Man this shifting of standards is ridiculous.

I've just started calling covid West Taiwan virus to piss everyone off.
Gamedev (w/o big engine) or terminal apps in your favorite language! Lots of freedom to be had in those environments.
Seems like spam. He posted this link earlier, for example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_base

Not sure what I'm missing but that doesn't seem interesting at all. Almost something a bot would pick randomly.
> Now this should probably be taught in schools.

It should. Under the name "media literacy".
I didn't know about QuickJS, last time I checked Duktape was most suitable for these cases. I see QuickJS was made by Fabrice Bellard himself. While linked benchmark is impressive for QuickJS, in case of Neovim they chose to embed LuaJIT which is ~10x faster than "official" PUC Lua. I see your point though, QuickJS would still be a good choice. JS and Lua are not that different once you set aside syntax differences.

http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html