skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is saying that the obvious idea of planting some trees is not the panacea that one might naively think it is. As a consumer, it is hard to even know where to start on that.

I was responding to your point “But we need to stop releasing greenhouse gases now”. i agree. Any links to well thought out resources that actually properly estimate the greenhouse gas impact of my choices? I would expect international holidays and buying petrol to be obvious poor choices, but I really struggle to guess what are true low impact choices, because there is so much misinformation out there and everything has an impact.

> And maybe the easiest way to do as little damage as possible is to not spend so much money

So you invest it instead, and those investments create CO2.

Perhaps the right way is to actively put money into CO2 reduction investments - but even that is difficult due to greenwashing misdirection. Is an investment in a tree planting a net benefit? The article says don’t be so sure. An investment in Nikola would have surely been a serious mistake for the environment. It is not clear that Tesla is currently a net benefit to the planet.
yea? And I have some swampland in Florida to sell, you buying?
> But how is that an issue? I guess when you are casting random integer to the enum-type without any checks?

Any caller can send any garbage (if you're publishing a package / API), likewise a dependency can return any garbage, etc... C#'s enums are entirely indicative.
The latest EU plan to outlaw encryption and introduce communication surveillance
At most, they could charge reasonable shipping costs for shipping it back.
Just read his introduction to generating pseudo-random numbers or his sketch of a proof of Benfords law in Seminumerical Algorithms. Excellent stuff.

For moderately impractical, look at tape sorting in Sorting and Searching.
Why does a programming language need a 'Mod Team'?
This is what happens when redditors leave the house.
shit...^^
I have a blank WASD V2 without a numpad, and what has been the most surprising to me is how poor I am at typing numerals. The special characters I all have memorized in terms of position, which makes it especially odd that whenever I have to type out my phone number it takes me a solid five seconds, and I mess it up frequently. If I mapped my phone number to symbols and memorized it, I think I'd be much faster!
>they believe it will instead be a cataclysm greater than any previous mass extinction event in Earth's history.

It is already broadly accepted that we are already experiencing a massive mass extinction event - the Anthropocene Extinction.

I think critics don't really understand the scale or scope of the changes humans have made to the planet and the negative results for all other species. Global warming is just one issue, perhaps one of the most pressing, but it also blinds people to the devastation of deforestation, coral reef loss and a multiple of other man made disasters.
> And well, I don’t think anyone’s arguing that a “length” function needs to be exposed by the standard library of any language

that's literally the core premise of the original post
TrueVault (YC W14) Is Hiring a VP of Engineering
>I'm pretty sure you can resign with a lot less "drama"

I am not sure you can, unless you play the politician bit and lie about "wanting to spend more time with family" or "health reasons".

If they resigned without any statement, people would have noticed as well, and speculation and gossiping would be still rampant, if not more rampant, because it's not every day that the entire Rust moderation team resigns.

They are between a rock and a hard place, if their objective really was to avoid public drama. Give too little detail and you're entirely at the mercy of speculation and maybe whatever the opposing party puts out (without other people even knowing who that opposing party is). Give too much information and you may irrevocably hurt people (like victims, or even the accused when a mob comes for them) or the community as a whole.
I mean they certainly have a partisan stance re: prisons and incarceration. Not to say whether it's a good stance or not, but it's certainly partisan. Partisan doesn't mean "I disagree with this."

But whatever it is and whatever your opinion of it, it's hard to make a cogent argument that it belongs as a banner on the front page of a programming language website.
> Docker, lxc, VMs, and now NixOS?

NixOS came out in 2003. For context, that's when Xen came out.

LXC came out in 2008; KVM (Linux's built-in VM support) came out in 2007; Docker came out in 2014.
The New Monarchy a.k.a. Why Hawaiians Hate Mark Zuckerberg
"I don't know the story, nor any of the events leading up to this point, but I am convinced that one side is handling it wrong!"
San Francisco Retailer: ‘The Mayor and Her Entire Team Should Resign’
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Very annoying and confusing typo there in first paragraph --- CSRG when the author meant CSRC. CSRC was the Bell Labs group name, CSRG was the UCB group name.
In my experience Tabnine isn’t even near to Copilot. Tabnine is glorified autocomplete, where as copilot somehow takes the entire file into context including comments and I could many times just hit tab several times to almost build what I need. I had very good results in Java, Scala and python.
The office
How can you have a zero latency load?
I don't know anything about this, but I was surprised to read about the light sails proposal for heating Mars.

> Mere dozens of such Starship launches would be needed to substantially increase net insolation on Mars and begin raising the temperature, without the emplacement of any surface infrastructure.

Heating sounds like a good step, but aren't the major challenges a lack of atmosphere and magnetosphere? Having one without the others seems a bit useless to me. What am I missing?
Visualising the Hello World binaries of 13 different languages
You may find this interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity_priority_di...
> One disadvantage of k3s, is that it does not have HA control plane out of box

This hasn't been true for a while, since these days K3s ships with etcd embedded: https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/installation/ha-embed...
I also rate Gandi. I'm also surprised to hear of shenanigans.

But the GP's story is about identity verification; I don't see that as a particularly egregious "shenanigan".
I use Gnome Calendar. Its simplicity is nice for most tasks, and it shares its data store with Evolution so anything that it can't do can be done in Evolution's bulkier interface.
Right but exactly like hashing you can set the difficulty of breaking it to your risk tolerance.

Your phone should probably be a little loose but the retina scanner at the datacenter of the dod will be a lot stricter.
The comment I replied to was about people with wealth and power "escaping" there.
No it doesn’t. At least not the free version.

YARP got me interested, because I thought I could write some complex caching rules in C#. But you can’t, so every other proxy that doesn’t cache is as good as YARP ;)
Can you explain what it is?
The A15 shows that M2 should be scaring AMD/Intel.

A15 performance cores had significant gains and really improved integer performance all while reducing power consumption slightly.

A15 efficiency cores are even more amazing. They got something like 30-40% faster. They are now roughly as fast per clock as the big cores in x86 systems while still using only a fraction of the power of the big cores. This roughly translates into 8 full-size x86 cores, but with 4 of those being even faster.

Then there's the massive cache (32mb on mobile and probably 48/64 on M2) to further push down power consumption. They'll also be bumping the GPU by 30% (more if it doesn't throttle).

AMD really needs to either pick back up their ARM designs or start heavy investment into RISC-V designs.
> I actively avoid projects that spend a lot of time talking about "inclusivity" because to me it's a symptom of a (ironically) toxic environment full of people looking for drama

100%. I do the exact same thing, for the exact same reasons.

If you see a code of conduct that reads like a political manifesto, that's a red flag, regardless of the particulars of the politics expressed.
https://archive.md/QnegF

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeshir_Zahedi
To add on, I think there’s a lot of value to be had in the various science that can only be done with boots on the ground on Mars. The rovers have been great don’t get me wrong, but a team of scientists with a Starship full of equipment can do volumes more research in a couple of weeks than a rover can during its entire mission, including things that weren’t originally planned.

What we learn there can be helpful for understanding the history of the solar system as well as planetary dynamics (remember that in terms of well-studied planets, we’re currently at sample size = 1).
Back in the day, Linux (and other FOSS projects) where for geeks only. You invested your free time on it because you liked it. People could be aggressive against you, you would leave and nobody gave a shit.

Modern FOSS projects such as Linux or Rust are more than something for geeks. Lot of people gets paid to work on it. For many, being an expert in an important project is a career, not just a job. People are "forced" to spend a lot of time working with the community. And modern open source projects just have far more people than they used to. I guess that the standards have been raised.

That said, I think you are completely right on this point:

> some snowflakes like to believe that everyone contributes equally

This is absolutely right. The people who are being accused of being nasty are the _core_ team. Rust just can not exist without them. Unfortunately, they seem to be abusing their power.
The "raises the question" use far outstrips the "laying claim to the principle" use. In general it's wrong to call either use incorrect.

I'd avoid it entirely. The original phrase is a bad translation and the modern use triggers prescriptivists.
So do you also visit threads about Tesla to promote Ford?
Toit like a toiger!
If you own a domain you have as many as you want. But GitHub did some sort of check which caught me out. Not sure what that involves?
I live in the area, go with the hammock. You can struggle to find places to put a tent down in the deep forest.
That model's phase space is about 2000 bits, realistically speaking its behavior never repeats. It can't be searched either, our computational limit today is about 70 bits.
It's going to be a problem hard to resolved. It can be seen as a perk for a company to offer the possibility of remote work like bonuses or free coffee. The thing is, some people actually hate telework and would rather impose everyone to be present because this is how they feel the most efficient or because it is just how they like to work.

So contrary to the traditional employer/employees balance of power, there is also a employees/employees thing going on here.

Considering those who can telework full time without any limitations (say software engineer for example) what is the ratio of those who want to telework fulltime, part-time or not at all. It's hard to trust polls on this because they are usually driven by employers who have an agenda anyway.
The S&P 500 Twitter Sentiment Index YourVoiceYourIndex
Is HR on the employees side? No. Same thing here, the moderation team didn't realize that their job was to protect the core team from the rest, holding the core team accountable wasn't a part of their job even if it was warranted.
The people insisting on this just want to use HN as their megaphone. There is no debate. They have already made up their minds.

It comes off about as well as an insufferable teenager at Thanksgiving dinner. Some feature.
We should expect to see a bunch of alternative configurations for Starship. A big fairing is just one possibility.

On Falcon, and in the future with conventional Starship, Starlink launches are volume-limited, not mass-limited. Thus, a Starship with more interior space would allow them to send up many more satellites per launch.

When they get their production line up, we might see them launch Starlink in disposable second stages, dispensing with heat shielding and landing engines, and with substantially smaller fuel tanks, leaving room for more Starlink cargo. They could park the carriers in orbit, and gather up the Raptor engines to bring home once enough have piled up there; and maybe turn the empty hulls into a fuel depot.

Launching, say, 150 satellites at a time, that's more than a hundred launches to fill out the constellation. It should not be hard to find a use for some fraction of those hulls given they have already been boosted to orbit.
In fairness to climate protestors/activists, which developed nation has really taken any significant strides in the past 10-20 years?

I think there's some valid frustration when lip service is paid and then all that comes of it is some token stuff like boutique tax credits for EVs and residential solar installs, but the money trunks get rolled right out when it's the financial crisis, major wars, COVID response, etc. I'm not saying those aren't valid things to have mobilized for, but it's clear that western society as a whole still thinks of climate solutions as catering to a special interest group rather than as something that is a priority.

And maybe that's fine if it's reflective of public sentiment. But the perception of never-ending angry protestors is not just because they're unsatisfiable. It's also because very little has actually happened.
Have you ever tried learning PHP? Even the people that don’t actively work with it are toxic :P
What would you say determines correct usage of a word of phrase?
If this wasn't about power, they wouldn't be airing their dirty laundry in public. The only reason you do that is because you're hoping to stir up some sort of shitstorm to (threaten to) damage the public perception of the project. It's juvenile he-said-she-said behavior that's barely above storming to your bedroom shouting "screw you, mom!" and slamming the door so hard a few shingles fall off the roof.

Of course what you inevitably get isn't an internet shitstorm at all, but a bunch of rubberneckers gleefully gawking at the high school drama publicly unfolding in your organization.
I've followed the company for years and sometimes observing a company's behavior with costumers will tell you a lot more about them than pretty blog posts. I mean, let's not forget how they lied about the phone being able to make calls for months while it couldn't. All I'm saying is I invite others do dig deeper into the company, I don't think they are as transparent as they claim.
At the place I currently work I have to map our data format to company apis. we have about 70 connectors. I've been thinking about a tool to take a path(xapth or json) and see if it can suggest a list of fields it might map too on another hierarchy.

/RateRequest/Origin/Address1

/RequestRateData/Consignee/StreetAddress/Line[0]

would need to break a part camel case and other common programing format and then use the words to rank a semantically similar fields.
How the Pandemic Brought Campbell’s Soup Back from the Brink
This is a real shame. From the early days of Rust (pre-2018?) I built up this mental picture of it having a considerably better run and governed community, with people putting time into thinking about how a community should work rather than it being something that's ignored because "we're here to write code and managing a product is a waste of time".

I lost touch (the last video I watched which might be the one that give me the feels for it was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9OFQm8Qf1I, I do recall Ashley Williams & her ideas were a big part of why the community looked so good from outside; contrasted with the "do-ocracy" one I'm in) so I don't know what happened - but it's sad it's become like other projects now.
I don't think it was overly dramatic, but otherwise I agree with your point about pointing out another group with whom it has been shared, specifically a neutral party, if public muck-raking must be avoided at all costs. I made a similar point below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29308197
> Why does a programming language need a 'Mod Team'? This is what happens when redditors leave the house.

Exactly. CoC's have become back doors to insert a specific brand of politics into the development world.
But you could have a dozen name aliases for a specific type. So you can name the type, but the name is no longer unique, as two names for the same structure are two names assigned to the same type.
Well, they definitely can be hacked off
It's really interesting to see, on the one hand, the claim from the former Alexa engineer that they're not doing this and take privacy seriously, and on the other hand, the claim that they're government surveillance devices.

Because it's possible that they could both be true. The engineers take privacy seriously, think they're preserving it well, and then the man from the government comes in and PRISMs their servers and only he and one other person at the whole company knows about it.

But obviously privacy legislation isn't going to fix that.
Yes that's what I meant, someone could construct the necessary biometrics from a video and some ML.
I quit my job at a FAANG back in the fall of 2020 without anything else lined up. I had been suffering from burnout and an existential crisis for over a year. I initially expected to take 3 months off before looking for a new job, but ended up taking over 12 months off. I received an offer for a new job after looking in a fairly niche space and being very picky after searching for 2-3 months.

I didn't set any goals for myself. I just woke up and did what made me happy every day, which was exactly what I needed. After 6 months off, I also put nearly all of my belongings in a storage unit and traveled around the US in my car.

Had a blast. Would do again.
I have talked to a few people (yes, friends) that said it would solve some of their problems but nothing like selling up front or contacting random people.

I am a programmer and have a hard time "inverting" the process. This feels like a fraud or maybe is just a part of the imposter syndrome. I want to start with something that is at least a bit "interactive" to see how people behave using it. I think this may show a truer response, especially that this is directed to normal people (mostly nontechnical).

I read a lot about getting sales first but I really struggle with that concept especially when there's nothing to show other than screenshots and diagrams.
Hopefully Safari will support this on one day.
I believe this predates the internet.

I can't remember the study now -- perhaps fellow HNers can -- but there is a study where they asked a group of people to take a side in a debate. The debate was structured so that it sounded like A was the intuitively better choice, and when polled almost everyone agreed the group would support A. One plant was armed with excellent arguments for B, and when presented with these arguments, the group switched to supporting B. When asked later, they thought they had supported B the whole time.
We have an extremely similar house in our local area built in the early 90's. I'm always happy to see it when I go back home to visit family.
Agreed, the worst part was the fact that I had actually just purchased that macbook a few days before getting on the plane and I moved all my data to it without having it backed anywhere (Rookie mistake).

I could have:

- Picked a better hostel to stay at

- Backed up my data properly to minimize damage if it eventually happens

- Been more wary of other guests (99% of them were cool people but you still need to be aware of who's there with you)

- I used filevault, but forgot to enable find my device
My 5-year getting paid for doing nothing is over. I'm heartbroken
> ...and what makes you think AMD and others are not going to try the same thing?

Overwhelming competitive pressure? AMD and Intel may be a duopoly on x86 parts, but Apple Silicon has proved, and AWS Graviton has a strong argument, that consumer and cloud compute workloads can transition to ARM. Any attempt by Intel to leverage its market position just accelerates that transition to substitutes.
The easy access of facts on line is a good thing. This kind of “knowledge” is shallow, assembling the parts together to synthesize new knowledge is the important step. That part isn’t easily found online.

This reminds me of leaning math. At one point “doing math” meant calculating numbers, like memorizing multiplication tables or performing long division. I was always relieved when the teacher said we could use a calculator on a test. But at some point I came to realize that math is not calculating. Math is about relationships between numbers and their general properties.

Googling facts is akin to using a calculator. Extracting meaning from that jumbled pile of facts is knowledge.
Rust's community is composed of the following types of people:

* SJWs like Bryan Cantrill

* Commies like Steve Klabnik

* Furries

* Straight up Pedos
Curious, why did a project of programming language hire a multi-person moderation team in the first place? That's the OSS version of HR? Or is it equivalent to a team of diversity and inclusion?
How about we regulate AND make it easy for startups to compete. Living in world where the big corps can all responsibly handle your data (what ever that actually means) and competition stagnates. Our brand of capitalism pretends in runs on competition.

*edit and from the article, if Amazon is quietly curtailing and preventing privacy laws on a state basis, what effort are they using ton unify those laws on a federal basis?

> No major federal privacy legislation has passed Congress in years because members have been deadlocked on the issue.

I assume Amazon is assisting here as well.

All large corporations have a lot of folks at the edges actually doing the work. The internal controls for privacy are strong, but those are nearly orthogonal to the larger corporate goals. If you leak or improperly use customer data, that could have huge ramifications from the political and legal fall out. The amoral or immoral use of customer data at the whole org level are what people are generally talking about when it comes to data privacy from corporations.
In the US at least FMRI should fall under fifth amendment, right? Otherwise the fifth amendment would be useless. A right to remain silent wouldn’t exist if you can’t silence your brain. If one day there are stargate replicators that can reach into your mind, would that be legal?
Shortage Signs vs. Facing: Cheap Talk in Supply Chains
I feel like there is always drama or issues surrounding the governance of Rust. It has definitely made me wary to adopt it as a long-term language. Maybe I have recency bias or something.
The problem wasn't saying too much, it's saying too little. A resignation is supposed to be a message. The appropriate thing is to make that message clear and professional. It can be discrete without innuendo.
Awesome project! I hope in the near future, small to mid size dev teams can use architecture like this to run ephemeral dev environments locally and save tons of money by moving off the cloud. At the end of the day, EKS and GKE require too much ops experience when they scale. Raspberry pi based local solutions have the potential to democratize solutions architecture within organisations.
Even crashing back to pre-industrial civilization doesn't make sense. Climate change is fast on a geological scale, but its not that fast on a human scale. It might be shocking if Phoenix is uninhabitable in 100 years, but it barely even existed 100 years ago. Famines and water shortages will be localized. So while individual nations might collapse for a while and some areas might even depopulate, it won't happen all at once.