skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indiana’s deforestation has been pretty incredible. Historically about 90% of land-cover in IN was forest, that fell to something like 10% by 1900, but has since crawled upwards. Today, something like a quarter of IN is forested.

Elsewhere in the Midwest, ecological destruction has had a rather different tune. Tallgrass prairies used to stretch from Northern Texas, to Chicago, to Minneapolis, all the way up into Manitoba. Tallgrass prairie doesn’t really exist anymore, except for a fairly narrow strip running through eastern Kansas into the very corner of NE Oklahoma. This area is home to the Flint Hills, which happened to be too rocky to till & convert into farmland. About 4% of the original extent of Tallgrass Prairie remains. Even this portion is under threat. Tallgrass prairie is maintained by the vast wildfires that used to sweep across the Great Plains— there’s few barriers out here, so a lightning strike during a windy storm could easily trigger a wildfire that swept across hundreds of miles of prairie. Native Americans in the region would also periodically burn swathes of prairie to improve visibility (bison hunting) and renew the lands. Without regular burns, prairie quickly will be overtaken by shrubs and primary successional trees (mostly Red Cedar where I’m at). Within only a few years, the land will no longer resemble Tallgrass prairie, but rather a shrubby wasteland. Regular grazing is also essential for triggering the flowering of the full range of native wildflowers. Cows have replaced buffalo in this region, although their hooves do a fine job of approximating the topsoil-disrupting effects of buffalo grazing, a buffalo’s hooves are more acutely scooped and are needed to unlock the full majesty of Tallgrass prairie floral diversity.

Although I’ve spent most of my life splitting time between the Appalachians and the Rockies, the infinite expanse of undulating green earth that one can see in the mid-summer Flint Hills is probably the most special landscape I have ever witnessed. No other place feels are unfamiliar, or alien, or verdant, or melodic, or uncomplicated. I would recommend to all a drive through Chase County, KS, where you will stare into the horizon and see nothing but a azure amphitheater atop a boundless emerald sheet, and the silhouettes of a few distant cattle peppered at their margin.
I found it bizarre, because it was like a twitter fact check in real life ordered by judge. Couldn't believe a judge would order something like that.
Seemed more than a little absurd and dystopian.

In a sort of artistic, foreshadowing in a book kind of way; I find the parallel of having to wear a mask and your speech being muffled by it, and being muted to a degree, a symbol of the current situation. Others are noticing this parallel too.

Maybe in some dark, comedic future our phones will sound out disclaimers when they hear us contravene the official narrative in some way.
> No, it wasn't

I said "for Delta". If you read the rest of my comment I mentioned the upcoming Omicron vaccine too.
The Pooh Shelf
> If code is blocking for long periods of time, it shouldn't be running on the async worker thread in the first place. Marking such a function `async` would be wrong.

Right, you need to go right down and e.g. use a non-blocking I/O primitive instead of a blocking I/O primitive. Rust gives you no way to polymorphically do one or the other.
Fallen out of favor in what sense?
I want to know how this happens :)
Efficacy trials are quick for a disease with 100k infections a day. It's much slower for something that has that many cases a year. It's much harder to tell a statistical difference from noise when you're talking minuscule cases in trial groups.
Exactly. I have a friend who was a directional drill operator, and then moved to white collar work, and was super slow with writing letters. I think it was a him problem more than a blue collar work problem though.
yeah, straight up piracy
It is this generation's flappy bird
The compiler will normally spot spelling mistakes.

My monitors brightness is turned down so the white sections on a monitor with a lux meter held 5cm away is reading 33 and the room in general is about 100-130lux (I have a lux meter).

I program in a blacked out air conditioned room with a warm white light bulb behind me, so alot like what you might find in a casino lighting levels. Edit:This also helps you lose track of time and become totally absorbed in the code. In the past I even looked into buying an underground military shelter to work in so I can remove all external stimuli in order to focus on the code because the internet is a big enough distraction as it is.

The white colour on the monitor is like the Financial Times "pink" which is more orange but in time you get used to this and dont notice the orangeness.

I program with the MS night light on 50%, have used F.lux (https://justgetflux.com/) before MS introduced it.

This removes the eyestrain enormously so you can spend hours in front of the monitor and ignore the "take regular breaks to avoid eye strain".

I prefer windows ClearType to be off so I can see every pixel in the font like windows 2000/XP, not these new ones which are all smoothed.

Have the "show location of mouse pointer when CTRL is pressed" switched on as its easy to loss the mouse on multiple big monitors.

OS 120dpi font size
System Font size 18, but this depends on the size and resolution of your monitors, so you'll need to experiment with your fonts.

Basic text editor a little better than notepad but not as good as notepad++.
No code autocomplete or anything.
>was extra cause

Is this a typo?
Stuff like this happens on IELTS exams which is why they started asking for ID, taking photographs and fingerprints in some cases.
It was the emergency line. However, to me it was an emergency as they had 2 baseball bats and were in a group that I deemed as threatening. I began filming them at which point they became more aggressive. This was to have evidence in case they were damaging cars (including my own which was 3 feet away).
And hire who?

Its not like the job is very appealing in current environment. The risk of either dying on job or getting imprisoned due to domestic disturbance calls gone wrong is very high. Not to mention, a lot of cops not showing up situation seem to be in line with the demands of general public who instead want to mental health workers to show up for handling a variety of scenarios.
> We haven’t changed much in the last 50,000 years

Genetically, not too much. In terms of population density and technology, we absolutely have changed, and both are relevant to our ability to clear a continent of dozens of species of animals at a rapid rate.
How did the original author manage to get "low 7 figures" for something that could so easily be cloned?
Recently I went to my office for the first time since the pandemic started. The Diet Coke in the office fridge tasted HORRIBLE.
Are Play-to-Earn (P2E) Games Pyramid Schemes?
That and tab complete, I tab complete prose, I tab complete commands, I'll tab complete the last letter of the command to make sure it's a command.

I'll tab complete while I code to keep those small errors out of the picture.
A complete waste of reader's time, and if you're the author posting here to self-promote, shame on you.

At best, it's a click-bait title, with no substance whatsoever in the article, and at worst, it's a testament to the hubris and the ignorance of the author.
believe it or not not every country has the same regulatory system setup as the United States

(thank god)

the data protection regulators have no ability to create rules... their job is (supposedly) to enforce it
Huh, I dark mode everything too. Maybe it's a thing?
It is just not a good time to be a cop. The right says you aren't doing enough, the left says you are doing too much. It is demoralizing and the pay just isn't there while the job market for doing other things is really hot. Cities, their governments, and the people who live in them (who elect the people who run the cities) will have to figure out how to re-build their police departments, but don't expect the police officers themselves to come up with their own solutions.

The USA lost in Vietnam, went on to have a very mixed record in the 1980s, got their confidence back in the early 90s, lost some of it in the mid to late 90s...and...well, the 00s taught the USA military again to be humble. Not a good template for municipal police departments.
Innocent until proven without reasonable doubt otherwise. If others cannot prove your guilt, you are within your right.
I think it is just difficult enough for people not feel frustrated by it, yet easy enough to have wins on regular basis. The fact that there is only one word per day is big part of its appeal too. It's almost like being back in an arcade, and you only have 1 coin.
hard not to upvote this post whenever it comes up
That’s more like statistical inference, applying insights from known languages to it. It’s not really ML. Also, it can give you some broad clues, but decipherment is still a massive leap.
To be fair a CRT is possibly the most lethal piece of consumer electronics ever made. It can kill you even after sitting unplugged for months.
> If they won't do their jobs then they should be fired.

No need: they are just quitting and getting other/better jobs. Civil servants (teachers and police, among others) aren't slaves after all, they have plenty of options.
> The CDC still has not performed or directed any large-scale experiments of any kind. They are a political institution, not practitioners of science.

> Saying something definitive like 'Masks are NOT effective in preventing #Coronavirus' before the evidence is in is quite anti-scientific.

1. The statement you quote came from the Surgeon General, not the CDC. The Surgeon General is a political appointment, and as far as I know, the CDC does not report through him.

2. IMHO, the CDC's problem was actually the opposite of what you are complaining about. It was too scientific. Science is slooooooow, so if you rely on it too heavily then your problem will get "inside your OODA loop" and you won't be able to act quickly enough to tackle it effectively. The CDC has multiple hats, and it needed to push its science hat back in order to wear its crisis leadership hat in front.

Science is not the right tool for every job. It works great for things that change or move slowly (like physical laws) and very poorly for things that change or move quickly. It's an error to expect/demand every problem be solved with science
I would expect freezing a plastic bottle would be okay. We do it all the time with water. Which isn't exactly the same, I know.
> kick up dust over police encounters that aren't worth getting bent out of shape about.

When every major BLM-esque protest in the last several years was triggered by the death of a black person at the hands of the police, that characterization is "grossly offensive"

Not saying you should be put on trial for it (like in the article's case). Just stating a fact.

We could debate their tactics or the value of property damage to a social cause in terms of convincing moderates. But your presentation is pretty gross.
Node red?
Stopping emissions stops climate change. If you aren't willing to admit that, why are you even talking about climate change.
Luck, absolutely! I got a 3/6 based on one yellow letter and it made my day!
I think the scary/unfortunate thing is that the lack of enforcement is causing some really perverse incentives. You hear stories of hit-and-runs caught on dashcams, with full view of license plates and a good view of the driver, and police still won't really do anything if there isn't a major injury. Makes it seem like the best thing to do is actually to run if the consequences are worse for sticking around.
I used to be eager to point this out, and often wrote to site owners with a list of notes. Some thanked and corrected, others ignored.

But now I don't have the strength for it anymore, sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who cares about quality.

Now I've even limited the use of the Internet as much as possible, because practically every website is badly made, and it's unpleasant to use them [example from an earlier comment: if I want to open a link in a new tab, I'll do it myself. You don't have to force it (of course I know that exactly this problem is the fault of marketers and attempts to falsify statistics)].
Poll after poll shows that the military is the most respected institution in American life. Crucially for this conversation, it has an excellent esprit de corp. The kind of self-pity that we now see among the police is something that would not be tolerated for even 5 minutes in the military. So it is an excellent model when we consider how to reform the police.
Sorry, that was me. Had a Zoom meeting and couldn't leave the kitchen where the meeting's start found me for like 3 hours.
Slander is civil law not criminal.

You should be able to cause offense so long as your intent is not only to cause offense. If your words match your belief it should be protected speech. What I am saying is for when people say offensive things for the sake of causing harm to others.
Nobody is speaking out against free speech in this situation. Saying "I do not want to be associated with that person" is not speaking out against free speech.
Any noticed that “Share” is sharing garbage characters?
You can get unsweetened carbonated soda water that's "Dr." flavored. I've never tried adding a nutrasweet packet to one, but I wonder how close it would come to a "Dr." soda of the same brand.
I remember when our company signed a contract with TCS. Our execs were very excited to get access to their “Center of Excellence” experts on some vendor products we were struggling with: LifeRay, AEM etc.

Anyway once the contract was signed they didn’t send anyone and we had to hire other contractors who were also not very good.
I found this really creepy website on the third page of the Google results for my wife's name. It claims to be "bringing the power of big data to the public."
I noticed a similar thing with regular Coca Cola years ago. Some PET 2 l bottles went stale and tasted terribly, like mold. Other people thought that it wasn't so bad, but did detect the bad taste after being told about it.

I suspected it was an effect of sunlight on sugar, but had no way to know for sure. Nobody would admit that the bottles were transported or stored in inadequate conditions either.

Then I quit regular coke and later diet coke too, so no idea if it's still a problem.
One of the most gifted programmers I've ever worked with is dyslexic. His ability to conceive a total system is spooky great.

He never graduated high school, was lacking a lot of formal training and had an understandable hostility to orthodox approaches. Our boss paired us together because I was able to find ways to make certain computer science fundamentals palatable to him. It was a wonderful, humbling opportunity to help make someone incredibly valuable even better.

People used to give this guy crap because he made lots of typos in his comments and misspelled variables. It really pissed me off because it was such a superficial critique and as far as I was concerned embarrassed the critic by exposing their inability to recognize other much more pertinent qualities. But to his credit he was also very personable and was able to defuse their foolishness, just laughing it off and preserving productive working relationships.

I would caution that this fellow's dyslexia was not an asset — it was a hindrance that he was able to swamp through immense talent in other areas and strong dedication. Not everyone brings such outrageous gifts to bear. But we all have our own gifts, and when placed in a suitable environment we can all become much better that we would otherwise.
Those account for first time buyers only with the min down payment.
But those same proxies/firewalls probably won't understand QUERY either, right? And if they are updated to add support, why can't they be updated to add support for GET with request bodies?
At least where I am cops really can't come out for this type of thing - especially if some of the kids are minorities.

There are just too many cases where a quality of life type call like this (you haven't yet been actually beaten) or a white person feeling "threatened" turns into a major issue -> police respond, end up needing to use force, the thing escalates.
Me less than 10 years ago. Police harassed and stalked me walking miles home from my job at Walmart in the early morning hours dressed in khakis and a dress shirt looking like an obvious member of the criminal element. I was stopped repeatedly each time made to wait while they "run my ID" to discover that I still don't have a warrant out.

On the last occasion where this happened after they brought back my ID I asked if I was good to leave. They said yes. As I walked away I said "fuck off then" from 20 ft away walking away at a normal pace. Arrested for I shit you not using a swear word on a public highway with the pretext for the stop being that they were "looking for someone who looked like me". When I didn't show up at home and they didn't let me call my wife my wife first called hospitals then organized a search fearing that I had gotten hit by a car and was dead in some ditch.

At trial I pointed out what the law is. Judge basically said he could do what he pleased but I could appeal if he didn't like it. I got the form for the appeal wherein it gave 3 lines I said "see attached" and stapled a substantial document describing why their statute which made it a crime to swear on the road and its application was unconstitutional.

They dropped it for lack of activity. I declared victory. Moved out of state over a year later. They basically chose to deny my appeal after I left despite the clear and obvious nature of the law. This is in a state that didn't require a judge to have a high school diploma as recently as the late 90s.

It's difficult to raise a legal issue when you can't afford to spend thousands of dollars to hire a lawyer or travel back and forth because your . In America there are no unalianable rights just however many rights are actually in your price range. This is exactly the moment when I realized I hate this country.
The scrap metal isn't really worth all that much. Maybe the cat is worth something.
I do agree though that it'd be great to be able to buy new high-performance conversion motors for a reasonable price. (I'm working on an RX-8 conversion with a Netgain Hyper9. It's a decent motor, but 120 horsepower isn't a lot compared to the ~230 hp engine it originally had, or the motors that come in mid-range modern EVs.)

On the other hand, a smaller, more powerful motor would probably need a lot of cooling. The Hyper9 is air cooled, and is supposedly about 96% efficient when it's in its optimal range. Sometimes it's nice to have things be simple. (The motor controller generally does need water cooling. It's not technically mandatory, but highly recommended.)
> Crucially for this conversation, it has an excellent esprit de corp.

There have been plenty of scandals in the USA military that have sullied its reputation. "Poll after poll" is just anecdotal, and not born out in practice.

> So it is an excellent model when we consider how to reform the police.

Militarizing the police is not the answer. Imagine if the police acted like those MPs at Abu Ghraib.
Given that most of the diff between this page and the real Wordle site is the removal of the copyright notices from the author and the Microsoft code he was using .. it's not licensed.

Also, the encoding is screwed up, so the little emoji share text when you win is broken.
Yup, it is crazy how much optimization these "narrow waist" formats get, and it goes even further with simdjson and so forth [1].

The Python protobuf implementation has a somewhat checkered history (I used protobuf v1 and v2 for a long time, and reviewed v3 a tiny bit).

The type system issue is that protobufs to a large extent "replace" your language's types. It's essentially language-independent type. So that means you are limited to a lowest common denominator, and you have the issues of "winners" and "losers"... I would call Python somewhat of a "loser" in the protobuf world, i.e. it feels more second class and is more of a compromise.

This doesn't mean that anybody did a bad job; it's just a fundamental issue with such IDLs. In contrast, JSON/XML/CSV are "data-first" and there are multiple ways of using them and parsing them. You can lazily parse all of them, DOM and SAX, for example, and you have push and pull parsers, etc. Protobufs have grown some of that but it wasn't the primary usage, and many people don't know about it.

[1] https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson
cracking the case in 30 seconds!
Of course science is about discussing stances. Conclusions and hypotheses are stances taken on an interpretation of data. The authors present data and demonstrate why a particular stance would be a misinterpretation.

> I thought it was about conducting specific methodical experiments in an unbiased way to reach an unknown conclusion.

How could you specify an experiment to conduct to test whether a conclusion is valid without an apriori examination of said conclusion (stance) and determining what evidence would support or refute it?
says it uses the accessibility APIs but it must be like regex matching on your PS1 or something to try and figure out what your command is?
> I think we need less bullshit and more environments where people can openly admit to and discuss mistakes

Are we talking about mistakes?

Suppose that I build a system that has capacity 1M when the usage is 100 and growing at 10% a month. That system will be inadequate eventually, but it won't be for some time.

Should I have built a system with capacity 10M instead? Would it have been horrible if I'd only built for 100k. (It's unclear why those 10xs are different.) Should I have built a system with "infinite" capacity? Does the answer depend on how much each alternative costs?
Citizen data scientists are real in big enterprise, and now comes citizen “developers”. Low-code / no-code is big for a reason
I had a friend who's wife worked in tech and even had a patent but she could barely code and could barely make her way through real world, on the job, tech problems. Her husband (my friend who worked in a major tech company) every night helped her do her work and she happily told us about it.
You might not get a notification when you get into the beta. That's what happened to me and someone else who told me about it. Check the DuckDuckGo app every once in a while to see if you're in.
No, because I'm not the one speaking in absolutes about hypotheticals?

I'm trying to keep my mind open to possibility?
You said the reason for your call was that they were playing baseball, not that they were threatening anyone. There isn't anything about that that strikes me as an emergency and the 911 operator was correct in telling you off IMO. Police have a non-emergency line for a reason.
It's a Kingslim DL12 and is powered through the cigarette lighter or directly connected.