skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Despite liking this article and wanting more burns, that last parenthetical is misleading/incorrect. Giant sequoia need fire to reproduce. Coast redwood, which is more common, taller, and what most mean by just "redwood" very much do not need fire and reproduce mostly by stump sprouting. Which they do an awful lot of (source: live in redwood forest, have to cut sprouts back constantly).

Coast redwoods are designed for periodic fire and fire suppression does cause problems, like build up of ladder fuel allowing fires to reach the canopy, but reproduction is not an issue.
Desert Life Conjures Organic Carbon from Thin Air
Steel would work on Earth.
And we’ll send you a car free sticker for free here

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVzmWiEIoNsJiV7aPn...
> I was planning to host a simple website on my RasberryPi using Dynamic DNS - which I think requires me to expose port 80 to the internet. Is that safe?

See if ngrok can do what you want to do
The article sort of mentions it, but then doesn't fully conclude, the majority of the fires in north eastern CA are on federal land. CA policy, outside of law suits, doesn't impact Federal Landuse policy. Nearly all of the public land of the Camp, Beckwourth, and Dixie fires are BLM or USFS land. California can only do so much there.

There needs to be a comprehensive policy of the feds working with state and private interests.
That solar panel on the top seems awfully small to me. If you look at the solar panel on the helicopter that's already on mars, its almost 3 times bigger than the body. This just looks tiny in comparison.
> These days the medical schools try very hard to make the population of graduating doctors look like the population they are going to treat.

I recall reading about some researchers that studied patients at a large walk-in clinic in a low income area. Both the set of patients and the set of doctors were diverse. Patients were randomly assigned to doctors.

What they found was that patients were significantly more likely to follow the doctor's instructions after the visit (such as getting prescriptions filled, following the doctor's home care instructions, or coming back for follow ups) if the doctor was the same race/ethnic group as the patient.
You voted for the government hell-bent on safetyism, so that's a consequence.
I think the point is that there was extensive discrimination against Jews, but now it’s stopped, and the data show this.
Offtopic, but since you brought it up and outed yourself as a user, what's the appeal of weather.com vs weather.gov? The .com collects and sells your data with 3rd parties and I'm guessing they get much of their data from the national weather service anyway. Is there some service/feature that draws you to them?
> The results are not achieved by different standards for graduation, but by different standards for admission.

This is the key callout I think. It allows you to address representation problems while sidestepping opposing arguments about graduate quality.

Do it in rounds, unfilled spots open up to anyone.

If your child really wants to be a doctor but can’t get a spot, well, I’m sure that increased demand for medical spots means you’re willing to pay more, and the University can use that to expand their medical program. Or you can send them to another university.

This seems like a reasonable approach to improving systemic inequalities without causing systemic harm.
Nobody's mentioned that you can hail a taxi by walking out into the street and waving your hand in the air.

It's a fundamentally different service.
Ask HN: Advice for an exhausted inexperienced engineering manager?
Earlier this year I switched from being a junior engineer with about 2 years of experience to a new role as an engineering manager and I think it's killing me. Since taking on this role I've inherited the full responsibility of making all the architectural decisions regarding our application, making many of the product decisions, managing a team of 3 extremely inexperienced engineers/interns, growing that team, planning sprints and being the main contact point for how all our projects are going.

This is all on top of the fact that I'm still expected to be coding, and because my team is so inexperienced (literally no one other than me has more than a year) nearly all the significantly complicated technical work falls on my plate. I've tried my best to delegate it but any time I've attempted to do that I've ended up spending nearly 3 times as long unblocking and mentoring my team. I love to teach and do my best to really help them figure things out on their own rather than just giving them answers, but it's gotten to a point where I simply don't have the time and am not sure if they'll ever get to a point where they will be able to take things off my plate.

I'm not sure what to do. I've received little to no guidance on how to navigate this role and the workload is exhausting me. I think I want to go back to being an individual contributor. I think I was pretty competent as an IC for my level of experience when I started this role (at least in my area of the stack) and I think that's how I even got here in the first place. But I'm very worried that I've been so badly burnt out by the crazy work load that if I move to a new company I just won't able able to perform the same way I used to.

I've managed to just barely keep things together here because prior to taking on this role I had written pretty much the entire application my team works on and I know it like the back of my hand. I know that's not a great thing to build your career on, but I'm worried that if I move onto something totally new that my brain just isn't in a place where it would be able to digest it. Even now I see myself starting to slip up more and more in increasingly dumb ways in a codebase I built from the ground up because I can't keep up with this workload. I'm so worried for when this really catches up with me and I fail in some serious way.

I just wanted to get some advice from others who have gone through similar things. How did you handle this? How did you heal your brain from the constant overwork? How can you make sure any new situation you land yourself in is actually better than the one you're currently in?

Thank you to anyone who takes the time to read all this and lend their thoughts
There are currently four separate posters who have been flagged out of existence, as well as a couple others in that thread who have been downvoted to oblivion. One of the posters kept re-posting the same comment after it got flagged, although it seems that has been removed. At the time of my post that thread was the largest discussion thread on this article (it still is, although it's at least been downvoted enough to stop appearing near the top).
I was being hyperbolic to make a point, but you have at best proven that some suits do seem get overturned and some logging does happen. I will say that I think more logging, under regulation, should be allowed as the current 2.5b BF doesn’t seem to be enough considering the vast acreages that the federal government controls in the west. And given fire load of dead and down trees that I’ve seen over the years in our National Forests. To quote the article I posted.

“Frivolous lawsuits over the past 20-30 years have nearly eliminated logging from forest management, and our forests have suffered and much of the current wildfires around us are the results. What once were healthy, diverse ecosystems with early successional and mature forests are now too often monocultures of insect and disease-ridden dead and dying trees primed for catastrophic wildfire.”
I’m no expert on hardware. However, is it possible in the future that our progress towards faster and faster chips slows to the point where a 30 yr old chip is actually not that slow compared to a modern chip?
I think I missed a couple things in my initial calculations, like the reduced gravity of Mars, so the number is ~5%. Idk if that brings it back into the realm of possibility though.

Even given the ability to make it you'd likely have issues with the process of getting it there if we're not assembling it in situ.
Swamp coolers do not work in high humidity. Running cool water from underground over oneself works, but is unsustainable and impractical. Going underground to someplace cool is also sometimes an option that does not require electricity, but is often impractical and highly situational.

Ultimately all that really works in our modern world at scale in such a heat wave is powered air conditioning, so ensuring that electrical power is not interrupted during such an event is of paramount importance if we are to avoid this new sort of natural disaster.
Well that depends upon who they're claiming are terrorists, and more importantly to what extent they're capable of pursuading others.
81 million out of ~950 million attempted, then 18 of the 81 later recovered.

So it was originally about the same scale as this one.
Neat! I'm having fun so far.

Seems like some sort of student project with IBM research? From the bottom of their website:

"Stories are generated using a fine-tuned GPT-2 Medium model provided by huggingface. The stories may contain inaccurate, inappropriate language. MIT and IBM make no warranties or guarantees, expressed or implied, assume no responsibility or liability of any kind and specifically disclaim all responsibility for any liability incurred as a direct or indirect result of using this website.
This site may be taken down at any point without further notice."
as pointed out in the reply, this is incomplete. there are actually three versions of inline in common use in C-like languages: gnu89, c99, and c++, which are all different.
I couldn't see any real density from the satellite and streetview pictures. Looks like every typical housing development in Australia but with the laneway access for cars and more uniformity in terms of building design and fencing rules. No contemporary housing design that I could find. Walking anywhere (outside of strolling the neighbourhood) would be a longer undertaking, I'm guessing? Hard to see businesses or restaurants amongst the housing?

As a suburb, should look good once the street trees grow up though.

This is a masterplan of a typical Australian development:
https://brookmont.com.au/masterplan - in this case, has gardens and community spaces, but not walking distance to anything useful. There's a big hardware store nearby, but no one would walk to it.
And I think you arefalling for the "true scotsman" fallacy. Tether backs 70%+ of daily BTC trading volumne, saying criticism against Tether is invalid because Tether isn't real crypto is a cop-out given how important it is in the ecosystem.
I wonder if you could use a forum post of someone saying what's wrong on their page as a source to edit the page though.

Forum posts aren't outside the realm of valid sources, so where exactly is the line drawn?
Congratulations to parsec team!. The remote desktop experience on Parsec is smooth and close to 60fps. I can even play games from my PC over 4G network. This is a killer solution for remote desktop.
Probably you would use strontium-90, instead, if weight was important. Strontium is 7.5 times less dense than plutonium.

Strontium-90 produces 0.95W/g, where Pu-238 produces only 0.57 W/g. So, it takes only 3/5 as much, by weight, to produce the same heat as a Pu-238 RTG, although it takes 4.5x as much room. Room is relatively cheap on spacecraft, vs. mass.

This makes me wonder why they use Pu-238 RTGs in spacecraft at all. Maybe because it lasts a bit longer?
What is the “1982 Exxon prediction” ?
Here you go; just don't ask what it costs. https://www.linleygroup.com/newsletters/newsletter_detail.ph... https://fuse.wikichip.org/news/2893/ibm-adds-power9-aio-push...
Public services don't need to make money. What we spend on those services isn't "losing money", it's spending tax money on a service that benefits all of us. Train (and bus) lines reduce traffic, cost less, and fuel commerce along their routes. Your estimate of what's being "lost" doesn't account for the economic gains that come along with public transport, which is estimated at 4x the cost of investment: https://www.apta.com/research-technical-resources/economic-i...

Spending that by funneling it into a private service (privatization) usually results in worse service at a higher cost. Specifically funding Uber reenforces building the city out for cars, rather than for people, making it more expensive to properly fund public transportation.
Is this pure vaporware?
It seems scammy to me.

Initially when I first saw the page, I figure it was some
virtual community. All the computer-generated graphics looked like some version of Second Life.
(If that is stilla thing).

It says "Coming to Tempe, Arizona in 2022"
"Located at 2025 E Apache Blvd, Tempe, AZ 85281"

In Google maps it looks like it has a long way to go before it is finished.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/2025+E+Apache+Blvd,+Tempe,...

The Google images can be years out of date, so it might not be a fair assessment.

Still to develop something like that has to require enormous amounts of money and resources.

The area such as pictured in Google Maps does not look like a foundation it is easy to build this neighborhood on.

The link to their "capital partner" does not load for me
but that may be a local glitch.

The link to "resize your home on demand" goes to a blog with no relevant information.

They want people to send them $100 to reserve a spot.

What is the timeline?
What has been achieved?
How much of it is funded?
What permits have been obtained?
Rezoning?

To me this looks like a quickly and poorly cobbled together
website with at best somebodies' vision for what could one day in the far future be built, but at present consist of this website and nothing else.
Related paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.04324

Online demo: https://fairytailor.org/
Danelaw had some _significant_ impacts on English as a language: the third person pronouns (they/them/theirs, etc.) come from Old Norse and supplanted the existing Old English pronouns. To borrow many words is one thing (including common items like "egg", cognate with Swedish ägg), but to borrow pronouns shows some pretty profound shifts in the language. Regardless, this—combined with the loss of inflection, which is typically attributed to the Norse influence—shows how extensive the influence of Old Norse was.

There's definitely some similarity between the two Germanic languages, but the North and West Germanic languages had started to diverge by the point of Danelaw, though the Battle of Maldon does record the languages as being mutually comprehensible at that point.
Aren't there already lowered standards for graduation for many Ivy leagues?

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/ivy-leagues-grade-inflation...

I guess the other possibilities are that the students have gotten better or have optimized for the system?

This author says that the students were complaining and not because they were getting better.

https://qz.com/157579/confession-of-an-ivy-league-teaching-a...

This article says that the students haven't gotten better either.

https://uvachemistry.com/2014/12/13/the-causes-and-consequen...
For what it's worth, Apple is a very deliberate company with immense control over their supply chain. Surveillance could very well be their internal MO, we have no way to hold them accountable in that regard. Considering how they want to generate low-resolution hashes of your content on-device before it's shipped off to their servers... yeah, I can see the two aligning. It's part of a larger, internal push to increase liability and weed out "bad actors"
> Right, I'm sometimes puzzled by how people approach their personal "deal-breakers" that prevent Mac->Lin (or Win->Lin) switch. Many of the issues are presented as though they are bugs or clear-cut missing features, but are in fact subjective preference statements.

Since preference is pretty important, does it really matter? If they have a workflow they like and no significant pressure to change, why would they? You speak as though it is everyone's most pressing goal to transition to Linux Desktop for some reason.

> The worst cases of this is when some insist that not only is their particular preference the The One Way, but that stubborn Linux DE developers are somehow at fault for not implementing The One Way, and that's why Linux will never be popular.

There's a lot of reasons Linux will never be popular, developers ignoring the workflows and use cases of potential users is just one of them. The condescending attitude of many of its supposed proponents is another. Why would I want to switch to a Desktop that's as clunky and haphazard as Windows 10, just in different ways that I have to relearn?
I've been all Linux on desktop and mobile for a few years now after decades of primarily Mac use, due to accidentally giving my MacBook swimming lessons that it absolutely didn't pass. After trying every DE under the sun, I eventually found KDE Plasma 5.x to be featureful and configurable enough to mostly work for me.

The problem that persists is related to what you mention. Nearly every application seems like it was making it a point of pride to be a maverick about application menus and shortcuts. I think a lot of it stems from decades of trying to be like Windows in some attempt to lure Windows users over to Linux. The result instead was still a persistent lack of commercially popular/essential software that gives Windows its value and a user experience in terms of consistency and execution that's no better than Windows. It ends up being the worst of both worlds, but... it is free, and basically a miracle that any of it exists and works at all considering the arduous and meandering way it tends to all come together.

So, on the one hand I'm in bewildered awe of it and on the other I'm constantly frustrated by it thinking, "Ugh. What? Why? It doesn't have to be like this." If I were ever in a position to do so, I'd gladly drop $10+ Million on creating a Linux Distro that was little more than KDE Neon or Kubuntu, plus popular applications, all patched and built with menu organization and keyboard shortcuts that follow Apple's HIG from ~2005.
Would it be sufficient if we got an iOS version of Stingle?

https://stingle.org/

Or is it too late and we need to drop the iPhone altogether?

https://calyxos.org/

https://e.foundation/
I spent some hours looking at SeaweedFS, and walked away with the impression that most of the code outside of the happy paths wasn't exercised much.

For example, if you batch upload data, and the default 8 volumes happen to fill at the same time, you get transient errors until it has managed to create new volumes.
Stalking because people die or get severely injured as opposed to losing a material item. I reckon Apple would side on that side of things.
> I wonder if you could use a forum post of someone saying what's wrong on their page as a source to edit the page though.

You could. The person themselves couldn't. (There are guidelines about the risk of bias from primary sources, which apply very much to someone talking about themselves or their own company, so you shouldn't just blindly copy what they say into Wikipedia, but you absolutely can use them as a source)
Show HN: Checkbio.me
As a genxer with an addictive streak, TikTok is undoubtedly as addictive as crack. Do not pick up the pipe. If you do prepare to lose hours of yiur life.
There is a great personal account of facing these problems in the New Criterion:

https://newcriterion.com/issues/2012/10/the-fifth-problem-ma...

Unfortunately the current paywall looks pretty insurmountable, any mirrors would be appreciated.
iOS 15 “safe surveillance” can't exist as reporters get remotely hacked by NSO
I don't know exactly what's in the safety token, but we do know that it's grayscale and low resolution.

Allow me to be hypothetical for a moment; let's assume for a moment that the image has all chroma data stripped, it's downsampled to 1 megapixel, and then compressed to around 100 kilobytes using JPEG or HEIC. That would be sufficient for performing careful human review but would completely demolish any steganography.
It's hard to understand the scale of this until you compare it on a map to California's:

Siberia: https://www.windy.com/-PM2-5-pm2p5?cams,pm2p5,62.895,94.307,...

California: https://www.windy.com/-PM2-5-pm2p5?cams,pm2p5,41.870,-93.164...

It's basically an area the size of France, all burning at once. And it's siberia, so it's very very dense coniferous forest. Absolutely terrifying.
This is the article I'd had in mind. It's sort of about Judaism during Soviet times, though it's also about other things (and one core metaphor is backwards, IMO). But still, it's interesting:

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/the...
Not sure why this is getting so many upvotes - the title would be good news to hear, but perhaps not many have been able to review the paper thoroughly.

This is a relatively low quality paper that presents very tenuous supporting evidence of it's claims & conclusions.

There is no randomization, placebo-control, or blinding - nor any serious consideration or analysis of confounding factors such as natural immunity, comorbidities, and other demographic biases. Evidence that doesn't fit their hypothesis (eg Australia) is dismissed with barely a hand wave. The P-values & correlation coefficients are borderline statistically insignificant, the citations are comically sparse, and the conclusions lack a critical & balanced evaluation with respect to the existing literature.

We shall see if the paper passes any legitimate peer review - I'd bet against it.

Quoting from OP:

> we first analyzed the correlation between the rates of full vaccination and the point mutation frequency (Mf) of COVID-19 delta variants’ genome in 20 countries

> Complete SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences with high coverage from June 20 to July 3 2021 in 20 countries were collected from the Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID)

> We found that Mf was logarithmically reduced as the full vaccination rate increased in 16 of the 20 countries (R2=0.878, Figure 1A)

> With 10.8% vaccinated rate, Mf was exceptionally low in Australia, likely as a result of the national lockdown restrictions.

> In contrast, Mf is higher in Japan, Switzerland, and United States, suggesting that their mitigation strategies have been less successful

> We chronologically analyzed SARS-CoV-2 delta variant sequences in the UK (N=27,344), India (N=4,451) and Australia (N=305) from 13 February to 3 July 2021, respectively in the GISAID

> Genome alignments and analysis using the Tajima D test, a neutrality statistic widely used in population genetics, were carried out

> The Tajima D test (D’) compares pairwise nucleotide diversity (π, the average number of nucleotide differences per site between two sequences) and total polymorphism to infer selection and demographic events

> We observed that π was significantly lower in the UK (π< 1.5 × 10−4) than others which emerged after April 24, 2021 (π> 2.0 × 10−4; p<0.01)

> we recommend that: 1) universal vaccination should be administered as soon as possible to suppress the generation of deadly mutations
Author here: I decided to alter the title to satisfy character limit constraints.
Sony's new curved image sensors could shake up the whole camera industry
Brazilian court concludes that electronic voting is secure
My approach to cooking steel-cut oats overnight which takes about one minute in the evening and one minute in the morning:

1. Put oats and water in rice cooker shortly before going to bed. Turn on rice cooker.
2. Remove perfectly cooked oats in the morning and add desired seasonings.

Since I don't have a dishwasher, washing the bowl I ate out of is the most time-consuming step other than actually eating, and when I need to eat breakfast immediately in the morning to leave ASAP I can be sitting down eating under 5 minutes after my alarm goes off.