skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I beg of you to investigate real-world cattle raising practices in 2021, this idea of sustainable grazing is not a thing that's happening in the real world. Much of water consumption in order to sustain meat production is not happening locally, other states are farming excess crops expressly for the purpose of contributing to feed.

And the Wisconsin parallel doesn't work -- it is barely a blip when it comes to U.S. beef production. California and Florida both produce more, for example.

EDIT: The Wisconsin factoid is incorrect, it only holds true for cattle raised for beef production, not dairy. Here's the USDA data: https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/...
I feel like the shell itself would be a much more lucrative target.
I see a lot of smack talking and not much in numbers. Let's change that:
https://ourworldindata.org/covid-cases#weekly-and-biweekly-c...
My understanding is that no contract can prevent you from doing what you want with stuff you buy, including disassemble, study, repair, modify, or any use in a non-intended way. IP still apply so it doesn't give you the right to share any information you may find, except for "interoperability purposes".
> a mass of mediocre quality scans

I challenge you to pick a random piece of paper, put it on the kitchen table, take a shot with your phone, and look at the result. Tell me it's not easily readable.

I also have an app on my phone that will OCR the jpg.
- Non-tech-savvy users might not instantly recognize example.xyz as a domain name. When you discuss your site in person, you might have to explain the TLD, whereas with .com, .net, .org, this isn't an issue.

- If the same domain name but with a more popular TLD exists, people might accidentally go there instead.

- Some outdated validation code (such as a regex to match valid email addresses) might not recognize the TLD, especially if it's one of the long ones. I'm not sure if this problem actually exists, but it could.
Once you are a {something} dev, it is hard to leave.

That {something} can be web, embedded, ML, etc... it doesn't matter.

The problem is twofold.

First, your skills in {something} are appreciating more than the other skills. If you're a web dev trying to transition to embedded, the skills as a web dev will let you get a more senior spot than going back to a lower experience embedded.

As a $150k/y web dev, would you rather go to $175k/y sr web dev or $125k/y embedded?

It's not that its hard - just that the skills that you've invested time into don't have value and you're going to need to go back to being "just" a competent programmer who needs to learn the domain for anything you switch to.

Secondly, there's the "why are you switching" problem.

If you are switching from web to embedded, the question will come up "why are you switching to a different domain." When that question gets asked, many candidates exhibit a more whimsical or capricious nature of just wanting to do something different. At which point the interviewer is looking at "competent, but likely to leave in a year or two because they got bored" vs "less experienced, but interested in the domain." The second candidate is probably a better choice.

The way to solve that is the personal project and demonstrate that you're interested in the domain at more than a "I'm bored with what I currently do."
Or fridges, or vacuum cleaners you usually keep one per household. One of my friends was being haunted by vacuum cleaners for months.
Those who want someone removed are usually not the people empowered to remove someone.
Even complaining to their manager (which is often a bad move) usually wont result in the removal of that person
Scale, I suspect.

Cattle production in the US is something like 20% greater than Brazil, the next highest producer according to the first source[1] I found, producing literally 1/5 of the world's total beef.

There's piles more data out there, and probably a lot more to say, but this is probably the answer to a first approximation.

1: https://beef2live.com/story-world-beef-production-ranking-co...
The universe is obviously not tuned for space faring intelligent life. What the Anthropic Principle or Self-Sampling Assumption actually says is the universe is tuned to include our form of intelligent life, maybe others too, but not necessarily all forms of intelligent life. I haven't read the book, but basically we could not observe a universe that was not tuned for us, so it should not surprise us to see that it is.
Oat milk was what got me to drop whole milk (and now ice cream with oat based deserts). That was pretty much the remaining bit in terms of being full vegan. I still eat local eggs and fish maybe once a year. But as a latte drinker, milk had been one of the high carbon impact foods I was still consuming and oat milk made it easy to drop. I was never a big fan of almond milk in my coffee — too rancid when steamed for my taste.
I imagine that amazon would still grill you in an interview even if you have one of their advance AWS certificates. I know those certificates are not the same, but I don't think it's about certifications.
My point was that if someone says the stated reason and real reason for something are different, citing the stated reason is not a valid rebuttal to that claim.
It varies. In Germany each land and city (as far as I recall from my trip to Munich) can have different rules, in Poland there's only central government which does it.
Ok, I think I just understood the problem.
The following would cause a problem:

s0 := append([]string{}, "zoo")
sa := append(s0, "foo")
sb := append(s0, "bar") // overwrites sa[1]

Go is truly unique in this sense, and you could not actually treat go slices as immutable structures. Point taken.
I don't have an deep source on this, but it looks like this is not something new. https://www.etymonline.com/word/milk says:

> Of milk-like plant juices or saps from c. 1200.
ESG Accounting Requires Accountants
I didn't find it really that big of a hassle. Sure - it added maybe a few hours of complication to my two week vacation but it wasn't that bad. Definitely would go through that rather than not have the option at all.
I think it’s currently understood that crime rates in aggregate are down because people stayed home during the pandemic. So, burglary/mugging/drug dealing and other crimes that mostly take place when people are out have fallen. On the flip side, crimes driven by annoyances (for lack of a better term) or “fun” have gone up: murders, domestic violence, car jackings, commercial theft below the local prosecution limit, etc.

While drug related crimes have gone down, it’s likely that criminalized drug behavior has actually gone up but just moved off the streets into homes. Along with decreased enforcement in light of the current cop hatred, this all means that reported crimes are down but criminal behavior may actually be up.
For some games sure, but those games now make up a subset.

Look at the 'casual' games which are optimized via AI to hold attention and trigger repeat use. It may not be much of a stretch to consider these drugs for the human visual/rewards system rather than videogames. And these attention-grabbing tools are only getting better as we collect more data and develop better algos.
So, better for California to compete with cattle raising in Brazil, and then Iowan soybean would be marginally more preferable for cattle feed over Amazonian soybean? I realize it's a more complex system than that, but I would indeed guess that a bigger US cattle industry could result in less total export of Brazilian beef to central American nations, for instance.
https://www.wect.com/2021/08/29/unmasked-elementary-school-t...
Got any links? I've been deep diving into NVIS lately and would love to have more reading material.
This isn't the case where the actions of the group are harmless to me. Unvaccinated people and antimaskers are creating a more dangerous environment for me through their actions and inactions.
Use a Passphrase
> Side note, it seems like anything COVID related on HN attracts a lot of green accounts.

(waves hand) Those are not the paid trolls you are looking for, it is well known those are only found in Russia.

That's one explanation.

Maybe people also use green accounts because they don't wanna end up on the white houses "disinformation lists", particularly when reading on such an article as this.

Another of my answers under this news article got flagged in less than 2 minutes, even though it was only a sarcastic couple of sentences about first accusing the wrong people then ignoring the lessons of history.

Ironic...
I play piano too, and also find it deeply satisfying but I also have friends who find playing video games deeply satisfying and I don't think one is worse than the other. As I am not a professional musician at the end of the day I only do it for my own enjoyment and if viewed through the lens of "productivity" it is a complete waste of time, anyone could just find the songs I play on spotify, played by someone far better than me.
Technology has progressed, obviously, but I don't see any reason to assume video game addiction has had any real impact.
If you're looking for a good 3D engine that is open source there's https://o3de.org/ which is now part of the Linux Foundation and based off of Amazon's Lumberyard game engine
Have you ever thought, how ‘nodemon’ works internally?
Seems like statistics would help figure out if it was coincidence. What are the odds that ~6 months worth of daily crossword answers will contain 6-7 specific commonly used words?
hmm, I guess I can say a reasonably good one and the worst one ever that almost made me quit programming came about this way. The same guy recruited me in both places.
If you're fine with overwriting the partition table, you can go up to 510 bytes of code, followed by 2 bytes for the mandatory MBR boot signature
I'm not in favor at all - but it doesn't seem like a massive overstep.

I honestly don't see what the big difference is between online games and weed.

It doesn't really seem off-brand for governments these days to be making these kinds of decisions.

I mean, if they decided to make coffee illegal for kids - yeah, that seems dumb, right? But is that REALLY that big of a difference than making tobacco illegal?

I just don't see a huge difference with online gaming.
There's a lot of different problems in play here and they all stem from slightly different places. There's a lot of worker exploitation going on. People are paid less than they are worth and work more than they are paid for.

What are the circumstances that allow this behaviour from companies? It's a more complicated question than just "Why are companies behaving this way", that's easy. Greed, mostly, and because they can get away with it. I'm more interested in why they can get away with it. Too few, or unenforceable regulations? Too many available workers? Too many qualified or overqualified people fighting for too few jobs?

Honestly it's fine to not want a career, but you can't do nothing. We rely on people's work to get materials, build and heat homes, grow and distribute food. Society is built upon contribution. A UBI is not the answer because that's still just other people's labour. You cannot have both an opt-in working class and an opt-in nonworking class and have a healthy society.
My condolences. It’s so upsetting and sad.
"enemy"? What the fuck HN.

edit: Xenophobic mods flagging my comment lol
So control your child, or are you saying you want a central government to do that for you?
No real argument about that. I certainly feel it is a bit misleading that the main number only applies to sequential access bursts, and that there is a fairly short burst length limit too, making sustained throughput at the quoted rate infeasible, even for sequential access. And actual random access frequently requires row changes which slows the effective rate even more.

I'm not sure if more complex command sequences like scatter gather is really the solution but is certainly seems worth investigating.
The remote work argument has already been won by startups
Please, stop being emotional about policies and try to offer data if you are so sure about it being a "convenient excuse", don't engage in baseless speculation.
I'm sorry for your loss, kingsloi.
I'm glad I have certain inalienable rights, but I'm also happy to see the authoritarian government experiment continue.

There is a chance that liberal government is the most effective government, ever - the so-called end of history argument, but let's not forget the shot heard around the world was fired less than 250 years ago. Benevolent dictatorship could still work - especially today. Look at Singapore, look at China - lifting millions and billions of people out of poverty is an achievement that shouldn't be denied because they're an authoritarian government.
That's only an assertion that you haven't credibly supported, as far as I can tell. Which is the same as not very helpful.
It's so hard to find good data on this in one place. On one hand there's a pandemic, on the other hand there's police protests, etc. Year by year numbers will be so lumpy that you could support tons of narratives, I bet.

I couldn't find month-by-month numbers quickly for some of the cities in that article like Chicago or NYC, but Baltimore has some: https://homicides.news.baltimoresun.com/?range=2020

Interestingly there, the biggest spike during 2020 happened in May 2020, so generally before the George Floyd killing and protests and "defund the police" movement.
I travelled last week (from Ireland to Spain and back again); I had to fill in a couple of forms ahead of time and show slightly more barcodes/qr codes than usual (vaccine cert and each country's travel locator thingy), but really it wasn't too bad.

The locator forms are weirdly _inconsistent_, though; the Spanish one asks for seat number and incorporates the vaccine cert; the Irish one isn't interested in seat number and you have to show the vaccine cert separately. I'm somewhat surprised this hasn't all been standardised.
For most uses, I'll use my password manager to generate and remember long, complex passwords. But for things I need to remember and type in, I'll generally use a passphrase.
No worries and likewise. I appreciate the discussion.

One of the things I noted from your comments is how little room there is for earnest political positions these days (i.e. actual policy-preferences vs identity-based).

I know that's part of the general point you were making, and you're essentially suggesting that folks just not take the bait of splitting themselves along this binary axis.

I completely agree that engaging in that way is part of the problem, but I'm frankly not sure how to manage down the real harm being done by those practicing the "other kind of politics" without addressing the harm they're causing or the pernicious ideas they're spreading. But addressing it runs the risk of promulgating it. Therein lies the trap.

Anyway, thanks again.
Interviewing is hard.

It takes a lot of practice to know what level of assistance to provide at what time. A coworker once showed me a technique of keeping a google doc with the problems, as well as a step-by-step of the solution and the times at which they should be at that step. It always seemed to work out well for the candidates, as even a poor candidate would finish the problem at like 55 minutes into a 60 min interview.

Even with that, getting a person to see what they should be doing next, without telling them explicitly, is definitely a skill you develop with practice. I think you're right in erring on the side of too much assistance. You get to see much more of how the candidate works if you can skip over the part where they are getting stuck on something.
Realistically, I think I'd not be allowed to practice with that kind of system. I suspect there's an entire class of programmer (maybe this is the dev vs eng distinction the article refers to) which would be excluded by a system like this.

Fundamentally though I think that system of high priests and laypeople who are barely allowed to code at all can't be sustained. I strongly suspect all professions will eventually require a little programming, and certification will be hard for those cases.
It's definitely the exception and not the rule, but Taiwan is a counterexample.

We've had less than 16,000 total cases here, most of which stemmed from an outbreak in May that is now under control.

The border is basically only open to citizens and residents, and everybody has to quarantine for 14 days at an approved quarantine hotel or government facility regardless of vaccination status. PCR test no earlier than 3 days before your flight, PCR test upon arrival, rapid test 10 days into quarantine, and PCR test right before your quarantine ends.

Inconvenient? Yes. Expensive? Yes. But you can't argue with the results. Life is pretty damn good here and at least for the time being, Delta has not found its way into the community.
It sounds like the opposing arguments are: (1) if you want something to exist, you'll be biased in your observations, (2) we might simply be unaware of a bunch of Kuiper objects, and those unknown objects might be exerting their influence, and (3) we haven't actually seen P9 yet, visually, so skepticism is healthy until then.
Why would they buy the service just to kill it off for at least four months?

Copyright is probably not that big of a deal, given that it's classical music, and the userbase will probably dissolve in these months. So why spend the money?
If he provided the data you think he lacks, you could still complain about architects who didn’t apply “critical sense” to see whether their project’s data matched his projects’.
... Every serious trauma is unique and challenging in its own way.
10%-40% is a pretty wide range.
We need to be CRYSTAL clear here.

Developers are the ones contributing to these open source projects.

Developers are the ones picking which licenses to use (and which software to develop with).

Developers or their employers etc are setting the terms of sale with their user or regulatory agencies around product sales (which duty cycle limits, thermal cutoffs, RPM governors on engines, speed limits on vehicles like scooters and the list goes on and on).

Historically, open source didn't not have a restriction on use. In other words, even if Linus doesn't like military stuff, some govt contractor could use linux in a submarine. Similarly, if Linus things Trump was an idiot, he couldn't block trump from using Linux. Similarly, if a developer needed to set power emission limits on a device they shipped, or a governor or anything else they could lock the device so that user couldn't change power limits or duty cycles or other parameters. This is in many cases critical to these product sales.

Especially in industrial applications (but even automotive), the mfg and their developers often DOES NOT want users messing with the duty cycles, temp limit cutouts or other issues.

GPLv3 changes the calculation hugely here. Mfg's used to be basically free to use the software how they wanted, they just had to give back to other developers.

Under GPLv3 all this changes. GPLv3 requires folks to unlock devices, give up encryption keys. Because it is developers deciding on the licenses being used, GPLv3 is MUCH less acceptable to a lot of developers who don't want to be blocked from using projects they contribute to in the ways they or their employer wants.

So this is a very real limit on developers freedoms here. We keep on hearing from GPLv3 folks how much better the GPLv3 is - I and others disagree -it's a fundamental change to the GPL historic intent and function.
That is a good point, the EU has a lower average but a truly fair policy would have a matrix of state-country combinations.
I recommend anyone interested in Godot watch and preferably follow along with this one - I went through it over a week and so many things in Godot made much more sense at the end.

Plus the pattern for referencing child nodes as NodePath exports and just setting them from the editor, rather than hard-coding (and recoding) resource paths, makes UI design much much easier:

export(NodePath) onready var Header = get_node(Header) as RichTextLabel

Also HeartBeast's action rpg tutorial is a must[0]

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAbG8Oi-SvQ&list=PL9FzW-m48f...
Pfizer director says Covid vaccine for kids 5 to 11 could come by winter
I'm sure you've heard it many times before, and words simply don't do it justice. But I am so terribly sorry to hear you had to go through (are going through) that.
That's only valid in rich countries with good test regimes though, poor countries can have way less cases yet more infections.
What a horrible thing to happen to you and your family. </3
Yeah it bans only Shengen area of Europe, excluding some EU countries (Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria), the rest of the Balkans, and non-EU Eastern European countries (like Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova).

It makes zero sense and it's not nearly as flexible as the EU, which adds and removes countries from the ban list frequently.
Not really. Look at cases and deaths state by state in the us and there is huge disparity. Same with country by country. Travel restrictions slow spread which increase the number of vaccinated people.
Here's some data from Chicago: https://home.chicagopolice.org/wp-content/uploads/1_PDFsam_D...
Murder in particular is way up.
This should be titled "Confessions of a submarine, a hype piece for Humankind <game>"
Doom Eternal would be excluded, unless you're connected all the time.

Point taken for all of the others. The law will force them to provide a true single player mode, which is good.

As far as single player games, it's technically infeasible. People will just pirate games and nothing can be done about that.
AWS – Forced MariaDB 10.2 Upgrade
We had multiple different accounts today (a few minutes ago) just spawn an automatic RDS upgrade from MariaDB 10.2.x -> MariaDB 10.3.x

This does not match what I was expecting, since only 10.1 was EOLed.

Did I miss something? Did anyone see this?
This is the one I'm really curious about. With many esports the competition has been West vs China. Esports are on the rise as well, and now China has crippled their presence in the scene. It'd be akin to restricting athletes to training for only 3 hours before their 18 for the olympics. China's representation in the competitive scene, especially among the new generation, is heavily damaged with this.
I’m so sorry.
I would likely take issue with whatever criteria people chose for judging someone's software engineering ability. Creating the best performing system is rarely anyone's goal (not that performance should be discounted,) they want to make something with the hard to quantify qualities of robustness, scalability, maintainability and expandability, to different degrees. They also often want to use languages or frameworks (or supporting software like databases) based on what boils down to fashion. Often the most desirable quality for candidates is an ability to learn and leverage new tools, given varied and shifting standards of good design, which again is hard to quantify.