skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have always wanted to allow more lawn growth to create room for insect and animals to thrive, and to replace the invasive grasses that are so common in my state with local clover and creeping thyme ground cover but I have been surprised at the level of resistance this has been met with by landlords and nosy neighbors. Keeping a "neat and tidy" yard is one of those weird cultural values in the US that was born from misguided beliefs about patriotism and is rooted in classist ideas.

Even the idea of dandelions being "weeds" is ridiculous as the dandelion is an incredibly useful plant that can be used in a variety of circumstances.
I really suggest that anyone interested in these topics check out a book called Lawn People
How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are.

https://tupress.temple.edu/book/0141
Anything can happen, but in China, you are more likely to gave your movement and access to medicine restricted than in much of the Western world.
> Seems like more of a global North vs global south divide.

Which of the countries in your list do you think are in the global north, and which are in the global south?
Yeah Americans not wanting to interact with pollinators is why they are disappearing from our environments. You could achieve the same thing with zero-scaping also, not like you need to waste water to create a pollinator-free zone.

But then it wouldn't look the certain way you want, would it? That seems to be the main concern for Americans.
This is interesting because I recently read of a theory that clinical depression is actually an altered state of consciousness, like dreaming or being under the influence of psychedelic drugs. It seems to explain a lot about depression as well as posing the question what other things might be an altered state of consciousness.

I predict if we're successful in creating general AI and/or artificial consciousness, we'll uncover a veritable zoo of different, altered states of consciousness much like how the standard model of particle physics revealed many more particles.
Cheap high resolution surveillance cameras means they essentially don’t anymore. :s even the old fogies have jumped on that train.
Separate Emacs Bytecode Stack
Real greenery. The mind boggles at the lack of imagination.

Trees, bushes, hedges.
I had Mavis Beacon but AOL Instant Messenger taught me. I later relearned using gtypist when I switched to dvorak 10 years later though.

https://www.gnu.org/software/gtypist/
Luciano Ramalho in his book "Fluent Python" mentioned that some (most?) of the GoF patterns are unneeded in a dynamic language like Python. I see [0] he is favorable to this site's author, so it is probably worth a look.

[0] https://twitter.com/ramalhoorg/status/960746929025142784?s=2...
I totally get the idea and I agree with the intent.

There are some places that allow defending a home using automation using non lethal force but even that comes with some risk of civil legal issues. This is why I suggest consulting with a lawyer. Even with non lethal means one would want to ensure it is legal in their location and that they have the proper signs with appropriate verbiage and mitigating controls in place first. Also understanding what laws are enforced and how they are enforced in your particular area is useful. My own personal solution was to move to a location that supports your idea and the Sheriff would likely high-five me if I take out the trash. There are trade-offs of course and hopefully such things are never required.

There was talk at one point of creating laws that supported counter-hacking but those never happened and it is highly unlikely they would ever pass. Proper attribution is hard enough. There are endless rabbit holes of problems such laws would create. At a minimum there would be a vastly increased requirement on everyone's part to increase audit trails and data storage alone would become a booming business, far more than it already is.
an aside, I miss old Broderbund software.

I'm no longer of 'in-education' age so my opinion may be way off , but Broderbund seemed to fill an educational niche that is no longer as explored as it was.
I would have agreed with you 20 years ago. Nowadays, I look at the planned obsolescence and continent of floating plastic garbage in every ocean, washing up on every beach, and choking every river, and I'm think "we fucked this planet up and we can only fix it if we regulate the hell of this stupid for-profit market."
"It gets harder to keep friends as you get older."

I find that curious. When I was in my 20s we all bounced around, and there were no social networks, so there was no easy way to stay in touch. A lot of people were my best friends for 2 years, and then they were gone and I never heard from them again. Adults make more of an effort to hang onto their friends. My friendships have become more stable with age, and I assume this will remain true till old age starts killing them off.
Not mentioned so far is the ClearURLs extension [1], which removes tracking elements from URLs and adds other anti-tracking functions.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/clearurls/
How often the DTS changes? It should be a very rare event.
The use-case for herbicides are large agricultural fields (several acres) where a worker can no longer deal with weeds individually.

Most herbicides require you to wear PPE. But in the residential market people ignore those instructions. Most of them are also unaware of the existence of safety data sheets, and are also unaware that the product packaging is not required to have every safety instruction for the product. The result: a proliferation of cancer lawsuits against herbicide manufacturers.

After use, herbicides still leave the dead plant behind that needs removal.

So, in practice, using herbicides for a residential yard is as stupid as declawing a cat.
Aaaand the ultimate question: if electric fields are controlling the neurons, what (or who?) contols the electric fields?
> Reading and writing both languages is 90% of the way there.

It really isn't. It's maybe 40% there. Actual good translation of something requires you to be very good in the "I'm good at writing literary essays" sense in both languages, and be able to understand and research relevant references in both languages, and be able to understand various cultural differences, and....
Hijacking this thread a bit but can someone recommend me the best book on remote work culture and how best to foster it? Perhaps the guidebook for C-suite and the book for employees is different but in either case I'd love to hear your picks!
The `Godot` folder in the repo only contains scripts. Were you referring to something different?
That's a really interesting perspective. I find it more interesting that Russia's largest ally, China, did not back them up. Heartening, actually.
> Should I judge all individuals by the country they come from?

Interesting question, but not one that my post circled about. As someone who grew up at the border between three nations/languages I can assure you that even within a 100 mile radius differing history and culture can change how a average person from that nation behaves. This is curious and one can spend a lot of time pondering about where these slight differences come from – and learn a lot about other cultures and maybe even your own on the way.

What one should – however – not do is extrapolating the character of individuals from their perceived nationality (something I never suggested would be a good idea).

> There are no countries, just beliefs.

Citation needed. I also believe that the idea of the nation is indeed a story we tell ourselves. But firstly stories we tell ourselves are incredibly powerful: They shape actual physical reality and individual actions, and secondly the difference in languages does shape our thinking and our actions and this also has been studied. Nation borders are often also language borders.
My essential Firefox fix is Brave these days.
The Swedish government made a viability study on green hydrogen a years ago, which is public as all other government papers are. The cost estimate was around 100 times that of burning natural gas, or about 10 times higher than nuclear. It has potential if it can fall in prices, but so far it has not. The study also referenced German studies with similar findings.

It is so economical nonviable that there isn't even small scale experiments to get the ball running as a storage medium. There is however some bright spots for green hydrogen when hydrogen itself can be used. Green hydrogen is only a few times more expensive than using fossil fuel in order to create hydrogen, and in that situation green hydrogen has found a place. It also reduces those industries CO2 emissions which can then be turned into profits in terms of trading existing emissions rights. As fossil fuels prices goes up, the economical viability of green hydrogen in hydrogen using industries goes up, but the price compared to nuclear remain the same.
These goofs have zero comprehension of beam divergence at anything near that distance. Anything but a perfectly parallel beam can propagate to anything near that distance. The optical cavity is a box with reflective ends, one 100% and the other ~99% of a lasing medium that goes back and forth while pumped and 1% escapes one end - this is amplified - but the beam divergence is preserved. Takes an impractically large box = impossible du to time of flight. The other path to parallelism is a long self focussing amplifying tiny fiber that is pumped to the energy needed to make the most parallel beam and this is amplified. To get something that would project a 20 light year powerful beam without divergence is beyond doable or theoretical physics.
You should consider working with an accountant. That person's fees might be a bit higher than the $250 TurboTax wants to charge you, but a good accountant can help you find (legal) ways to save on your taxes.

My situation isn't as complex as yours (income from work, some investments, and a bit of money from a side gig) but what I pay my accountant each year actually saves me more.
It is a whole different ruleset.

In earlier China lockdowns there were stories of infants starving to death after their parents were forcibly locked down.
I said "should" and I meant it.

You don't have to, no one has to.

People can use locked down hardware and be at the mercy of the manufacturers and support services.

There's a lot more money in that than everyone fixing their own shit.

Same way people who know nothing about how democracy and their country works can still vote. For some reason, they often want more authoritarianism, go figure.

And those replies of "why not know everything hehe" always lead to dismissing the whole argument.
When I see a picture like this, I wonder what everyone else is doing. This picture would be the result of extreme lawn care at my house...

I normally don't cut the grass until it's long enough that I can pick the flowers there and bring them inside (monthly?)
As other commetators have pointed out, US population is pretty much
flat (currently 0.57%).
chinese goverment already did that for you. anyone who really needs to access you site from inside china will use vpn or tor.
I work in gamedev, in 2014 when I started, the gameservers were windows.

Thanks to rent seeking by Microsoft (the cloud providers got rekt by license cost for Windows) and Googles strong push for Stadia (forcing game engines to support linux, which usually shared some amount of code with the game server) things have changed.

Now; most things being made are on Linux. (the actual development is still mostly happening on Windows Desktops though)
Maybe it's because this site knows what actually racism is, unlike you.
> If the real work is done remotely then the work done at office isn't as important.

If the real work is done, remotely or at work, then importance is irrelevant.
Veblen goods. They display that you can afford them.
Mr Kipling
Any time after 9pm, those sorts will be fast asleep.
IMVHO the main point is "circularity vs linearity" of anything: if something can be recycled ad infinitum like a glass bottle there is no much need for "repair", we can keep rebuilding at best quality, for things can't be that "circular" instead repairing is a must.

Batteries themselves are kind-of modular, in the sense that most tools batteries so far are made of standard elements soldered together, they tend to be easy to replace, that's not the case for mobile phones, laptop etc but for that electronic there are many more problems, starting from the design for planned obsolescence, IMVHO the real solution is making mandatory open hardware and free software, this way certain bad design can't simply survive because someone who know denounce defects, some propose corrections and OEM who refuse them get a bed reputation so quickly they can't recovery.

The actual norms have failed to be effective, for instance recently the EU mandate the availability of spare parts for various home appliance, BUT they mandate only for "official repair center", so OEMs decide that to be an "official repair center" someone need to pay a non marginal annual fee for training, updates etc and the resulting costs are so high that's still convenient drop a damaged appliance instead of repairing it. Being open in hw terms by design and free in software terms prevent that effectively: if you try to circumvent norms that clearly appear and you end up quickly under fire. Even competitors are pushed to act one against another.

Again to make that work we need public research, made for the sake of humanity not for profit, doing so ensure a real constant innovation that the market can't ignore and can't hijack for business reasons. And again that's not that hard to accomplish, we have had more or less in the past, at least in EU countries, with public universities and big research labs not entirely public, unfortunately, but publicly founded enough that the private part have to obey, can't lead the public one.
Nothing but pure joy from the master animators!
“Protected computer” has a specific legal definition which has nothing to do with technical protections, but legal protections.
> We could just deprecate std::regex and propose std::regex2, but the moment that proposal comes out everyone gets annoyed about the name and “why can’t we just fix regex?!” and then the ABI people pipe up and around and around the circle goes

This is the core of the issue. I continue to maintain that these issues are not insurmountable, bit we have a "people problem" that makes them effectively insurmountable. There are too many people with deep expertise in one area of C++ (compiler implementation, language design, etc.), who don't have a big-picture view, yet will let their opinions known as though they know everything. And it's not just C++, all open-source languages have this problem. Design-by-committee never did anyone any favors. It's precisely WHY we keep getting half-assed implementations like regex and nested functions approved in the standard library pr GCC extension, and it's WHY no one is ever permitted to fix them.

The only solution is for people to abandon their egos, admit that someone may know more than them (choc et horreur!), and try to do what's right for the users.
Depends on the location. Southern states in the US and many countries in Latin America have strict rules against rubble that accumulates still water, and you can even get fined if you have a pool and don't keep it clean and treated.

West Nile virus and Dengue virus are serious health hazards transmitted by mosquitoes, and many places try to contain it.
Well, this post turned out to be a gem. Loved it.
> Maintaining a long term friendship is more about mutual acceptance of the flaws, imperfections and transgressions of the people in your life

Would you accept a flaw of a friend who decided once in his life to start taking loans from each of his friends and then use those loans to pay other friends back?

Would you accept a flaw where someone suddenly decides to become a cocaine addict?

Someone who got some success and suddenly started thinking are better than you? What if they failed down the way and came back telling “they now realise what kind of person they were”.

The problem is, why are you maintaining relationships like that?
You must be in captivity to be executed.
I've appreciated many of the modern tooling but as things have matured, I'm convinced the industry has lost the plot. As days wear on, I'm increasingly disliking the complexity these tools have bought and often times see them solving problems that never existed.

With that said, I'll echo your sentiment "Everything gets SO FRICKIN' COMPLEX these days, even the very simple things."

Nomad is now perhaps my only favored tool for container deployments/some orchestration. I also long for the days for the original container ... the folder! Put everything you need in and zip it up. instantly shareable and no spaghetti tooling needed to run it. The OS told you everything you needed to know about the process. I also oppose (my personal opinion) the trend to want to scale things crazy to numbers. I wholly believe on doing more with less. The company infrastructure stack I currently harbor admiration and put them on the pedestal is StackOverflow. Last I checked in 2021 it still ran on 4 MSSQL servers and 9 IIS servers with a few satellite services. Could easily be 4 MYSQL servers and 9 HTTPD servers.
> I'm sorry but it's not that simple, people who want to work in the office tend to want everyone else to work at the office too

I think both extremes want their own way. I don't want to force people in or out of the office. I want the option to do either.

> just pay for wework

You do see the inherent problem with that, its basically subsidising the facilities budget. If you have enough money to pay for a wework, you can pay for better home accommodation.
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If I use a Twitter list, I don't get ads or recommended tweets/accounts (so far anyway). I believe there's a similar feature for Facebook, but I mostly use that for Messenger these days, not looking at a feed.
On the Rise of Immersive Art Experiences
tackling in parts / next replies
Also in "The Mote in God's Eye" by Pournelle & Niven (1974).
Easy fix: just allow it to autoplay using the icon in the address bar. And you can add this allowance permanently.

This is how it should work. It only doesn’t because autoplay is great for metrics and it’s nice for their metrics that all major browsers allow YouTube to autoplay.
Russia committed mass murder in the region (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor) and sent Russians to take the land from historically Ukrainian regions. This all happened in the last 100 years.

Slobodan Milošević was committing genocide against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, protecting them was the right thing to do. Nothing similar is happening in Donbas. In Donbas Putin funded rebellion and backed it with his soldiers to create the tension that existed prior to the invasion.

Very different situations in my opinion.
A device can tell when one end of the cable is plugged in by testing the cable's control channel, even without the other end connected yet. It sees that a cable is connected, but there's nothing on the other end, and presumes it's first and should act as the provider. A second later, you connect the other end of the cable to a consumer, and the first device will try to negotiate its role with the second. It's up to the devices to respect each other's role requests.

http://blog.teledynelecroy.com/2016/02/usb-type-c-cable-dete...

Different device types (like a powered hub or desktop monitor) can request different roles, and they'll have to sort it out during negotiation if there's a conflict. Sometimes a user-facing popup will ask you if you want to provide or take power from the other device.
Great! Have a "play next automatically" toggle with an "always do this" checkbox.
-- Google / privacy / alternative proxies --

tl;dr -- working on improving client-side privacy protection & there's couple of other options that may permit using Google with a slight bit of user config; premium version is all server-side since proxied via Bing, Gigablast &/or our index; there's an alt premium option that would basically proxy google via a cloud browser, say browserling or KASM or similar

1. The client-side will be set to no personalized ads -- just found out about a fairly hidden setting that permits that -- should be changed / live later today

2. Google's API precludes making server-side unless user configs an account which we can then drop in, since limited to 10K queries / day to do anything meaningful custom or full web; we're planning to do that as blog post as intermediate alt

3. We've started to instrument if client-side calls sidestep any privacy -- those results / protections are necessarily limited, however, we can perhaps uncover some things if anything in their client-side code that is privacy revealing & possibly mitigate some

4. premium is server-side with proxy to {ahrefs*, Bing, Gigablast, etc.} OR our Breeze index -- we scrape inventory-sensitive / time-sensitive sites, e.g., used car dealer pages

5. given enough ad or other revenue, we could alternatively give everyone a Bing proxy like DDG or other services -- bit too bootstrapped to do that out of the gate, plus Bing has more constraints on custom search, so that's a mixed bag of outcomes

6. another approach, also necessarily premium, would be to proxy through a service like browserling for Google searches, since the API doesn't permit it at scale

7. premium also includes alerts, especially for things like say car dealer pages that are more time sensitive and harder to config than what free google alerts do
Or the old Motorola Defy from 2010. IP67, removable battery, and near indestructible.
Key-value pairs could be easier to read than your definition:

Team=foo
Dev_threshold=1
Stage_threshold=2

And so on. Should be equally easy to parse but with the added benefit that one always knows what number is used for which threshold.
The electric field is generated by neurons as they fire action potentials, but it is rather the aggregate electrical activity that is used to represent memories, rather than the summative signals from individual neurons.
This “combining thing” is getting out of control. I mean, it’s okay to have xyz number of cores but it’s also important the performance of one core. Because not all the software handles more than one core (but almost all the “pro software” can do it)
Someone did: Janine LaManna

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/carmen-sandiego-found_n_578e6...
Well, that's where it comes down to who you are. It is worth it to some, but not to everyone. The problem is that blanket rules are applied to everyone, without compensation. Even those that claim the are doing it to prevent environmental damage are damaging the environment in some way unless they live off the land in a hut. So it's just a matter of where the line is drawn, and almost all cases it's unfair in some way.
I'm shocked. Under capitalism people with capital choose who will win in the market? How it's even possible? It's almost like that under capitalism people with capital make the rules.
There are a couple of scenarios where you can possibly build cheaper. Consider when the purchaser is looking for certain components or to meet a particular specification. In those situations they would have to pay someone to build a custom system or pay the vendor to customize the system (in those cases the vendor frequently charges a premium).

Of course the big question is, why aren't household devices/appliances using standardized and interchangeable components? In many cases, it could probably be done. I suspect the main differentiator is consumer expectation. A significant number of consumers of bikes and desktop computers will repair, upgrade, and accessorize their purchase. Very few people will expect to do the same with their blender or television.
The Saint Etienne version is also really lovely if you enjoy something a little more bubbly and synthy.