skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article really just focuses on California and Arizona.

For the rest of the US, check out USDA NASS [1]. Each state has a weekly "crop progress and condition" report as well as many other reports. You can subscribe to get any combination emailed to you.

If you look at many major corn and soybean producing states, the most recent reports are indicating that the problems farmers are currently facing are cold and/or wet conditions.

Minnesota [2]:

> Another week of cold, wintry conditions limited farmers to just 0.1 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending April 17, 2022, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Topsoil moisture supplies were rated 2 percent very short, 9 percent short, 68 percent adequate, and 21 percent surplus.

Indiana [3]:

> Another cold and wet week prevented planting progress throughout most of the State, according to Nathanial Warenski, State Statistician, USDA NASS, Indiana Field Office. Soil moisture levels decreased slightly from the previous week, with 99 percent of topsoil moisture reported as adequate or surplus. ... High moisture levels and cool soil temperatures hindered planting progress throughout much of the State.

Iowa [4]:

> Snow, high winds, and continued cold conditions limited Iowa farmers to 2.8 days suitable for fieldwork during the week ending April 17, 2022, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Farmers have been applying anhydrous and fertilizer, spreading manure, tilling fields, and planting oats where possible while preparing to plant row crops. Topsoil moisture condition rated 7 percent very short, 22 percent short, 66 percent adequate and 5 percent surplus.

Illinois [5]:

> There were 1.3 days suitable for field work during the week ending April 17, 2022. Statewide, the average temperature was 49.1 degrees, 2.9 degrees below normal. Precipitation averaged 0.97 inches, 0.08 inches below normal. Topsoil moisture supply was rated 1 percent very short, 3 percent short, 40 percent adequate, and 56 percent surplus.

[1] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/

[2] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Minnesota/Publ...

[3] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Indiana/Public...

[4] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Iowa/Publicati...

[5] https://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Illinois/Publi...
Since the whole world seems to hate Russians right now,

Not true at all, friend. I really hope this will be over soon, and that we can all travel freely and visit each other again in the not-too-far future.
Twitter Alternative – Hey.Café
It's that time where everyone looks for a new alternative. This one is ad free, tracker free and privacy friendly. https://hey.cafe
Small update:

> as far as I can tell because there's twice as many people using it at the same time as ever have

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/108193107554878363
I consumed a lot of blog posts like this before becoming a manager. It feels satisfying to read vague principles like this:

> Facilitate wellbeing

> Personal safety, dignity, and wellbeing of every team member are paramount. Team success is only success if team members feel good about it.

But then you become an actual manager and realize that these are largely just feel-good aphorisms that don't really help navigate the hard work of being a manager.

Don't get me wrong: I think "facilitate wellbeing" and similar tidbits are valid advice. Likewise, a manager who chooses to not facilitate wellbeing would clearly be in the wrong. But when you get into management you realize that the hard work isn't waking up and deciding to facilitate wellbeing. The hard work often involves making unpopular decisions, or telling someone "no" when their pet request wouldn't be in the best interests of the team, or defusing interpersonal conflict among two team members who have been feuding for months.

These feel-good blog posts seem rather vacuous after being in the trenches of management for several years. Again, not because the advice is bad or wrong, but because it's just a lot of text around the basics of being a decent human being. Learning how to do the hard things about management or how to make unpopular but necessary decisions is something that you won't learn from the average blog post or LinkedIn post, largely because these function more as personal branding pieces than actual advice.

In my experience, the best management advice comes from talking to the best managers you know personally. Online, the most practical management advice comes on smaller forums where people are either anonymous (and therefore less interested in personal brand building) or older and accomplished (and therefore not worried about blowback impacting their career). The type of feel-good blog posts or LinkedIn blurbs that people associate with their personal brand don't really add much value after you've read 5-10 articles saying the exact same aphorisms.
It’s weird that no one thinks algorithms can make a big dent in this without banning people.
A black hole is black because you can't observe it, observing things falling past the region you can't observe isn't a requirement for it to be black it's actually an anti-requirement. The outside perspective still sees a black hole, as in a region of space it can't observe anything from, it just can't observe what's happening to a perspective at or beyond the event horizon.
I know a lot of people disagree but I really do think killing the ad side and killing all bots will solve 90% of the problems.

I know they need to find other revenue other than ads, Elon might be able to find a replacement once it's a private company.
I’m not sure if VR is or isn’t the future but a lot of people seem to view it as more inevitable than it really is. Just because smartphones took off doesn’t mean VR will.
Does that mean the UK doesn’t have income, outgoings and debts?
> unrelenting deluge of obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff that is constantly being pushed back on any moderately popular social media site.

I keep hearing this, and it makes no sense.

1) Add a block button.
2) Don't surface random content to users.
3) (Optional) hard restrictions on private messages.

This solves the issue entirely, with no need to moderate anything that isn't illegal.

The simple fact is that this is a really easy problem to solve. Companies just don't want to implement 2).
I have no idea why you're bucketing these two examples as if they were similar in any way whatsoever
> Maybe he’s planning to run for President?

That would be incredibly ambitious; getting 40 states to agree to that seems exceedingly unlikely.
I tried that approach but was unable to achieve what you seem to have. I would constantly get "someone who ___ follows posted x" or likes y which meant that I was exposed constantly to vitriol and general ugliness. After a few years of trying (read clicking "stop showing me this" over and over) I gave up and deleted the account.

Not sure why my experience was different but I was trying to make the site work in good faith and didn't feel politically targeted. I just was unable to keep anger and reactivity off my feed from accounts I didn't even follow.
Yeah, think its just a difference in mindset. Some teams strive to never have failed builds, while others don't care because its all part of the process. I think we were more in the mindset of you should never push a failing build initially, but have moved more towards its all part of the process.
Yeah but even with an honest profile at one, I asked Twitter for the data they had one; I’m an early 40s single dad and Twitter thought I was a late 40s married mom.

Then there’s his view of what Twitter is; de facto public square. When the user base is 300 million MAU minus bots and spam, it’s hardly pushing numbers that make me believe it’s to be taken seriously as a place for discourse.

His greater good pandering to the middle ground who just want the Clinton years back, appeals to his wealth as some sort infallible measure of his correctness, it’s all just more of the same human lizard brain going where it feels warm and fuzziest; no one has any evidence any of these efforts are helping the future and the industrial and social wasteland they create seem to indicate the opposite.
Just to play devil's advocate, he could also reverse that and threaten to promote criticism of China if they don't play ball.
It pulses multiple times a second and even tho in search mode it’s average power is 1-2% in tracking mode it can be as much as 50%.

It still lights you up like an xmas tree.

You also assume that the power delivery will be continuous instead of essentially just being used for charging a small UAV.

Every modern system we have is usually completely inefficient but the price of that efficiency allows you to do other things.

Our food production is extremely energy inefficient but it frees up the majority of the population to do other things, it improves sanitation in cities by pushing animal husbandry further out and it allows most of us to enjoy a wide selection of foods that taste good which has enormous societal benefits.

The fact that something is inefficient doesn’t make it useless or ineffective.

Heck sail ships are also far more energy efficient than airplanes but we kinda benefit greatly from being able to take off and land at any point on the planet within 24 hours or less.
I can't link for hopefully obvious reasons

In user studies it was found that beginner/novice coders (or really, users that aren't SWEs) autocompletion was the most requested feature for improvement in IDE support. It's foundational for understanding what they can write and making sure it's valid.

And that makes sense to me, if you have a lot of experience in a codebase and ecosystem it's not as important. If you don't then typing `.` and seeing a bunch of aptly named methods show up, then snippet completion for their arguments to tab through them, you are immediately productive. Autocomplete turns known unknowns into known knowns.
If Elon takes over, it is likely he will be back on Twitter.
Interesting - I'll explore! Thanks.
> But how well does SQLite fare in concurrent write/insert situations?

It's pretty well-known that concurrent writes are SQLites weak point, and that if your application requires high numbers of writes, that it's not the proper solution.

The SQLite devs even acknowledge this:

> SQLite will normally work fine as the database backend to a website. But if the website is write-intensive or is so busy that it requires multiple servers, then consider using an enterprise-class client/server database engine instead of SQLite.

> [...] client/server database systems, because they have a long-running server process at hand to coordinate access, can usually handle far more write concurrency than SQLite ever will.

(https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html)
A good VNC client should give you responsiveness on par of RDP. VNC tunnel through web socket to a client running in a browser window may push it to the annoying zone though.
>The ONLY way to solve the toxic nature of Twitter is to enforce a)a real name policy

Facebook has real names and the messages are just as bad if not often worse.

Extremely naive to think this will solve anything.
Unfortunately this may sound right but I believe you’re mistaken. Great example btw re Mars. But here’s a counter example that may prove my point:

A lecture is being had about the proper methods for dealing with runaway slaves. There is hot debate about how many slashes should be given vs how much food is withheld vs other forms of punishment. A lone protester in the back of the room has the nerve to call into question the morality of slavery to begin with. Has the nerve to derail the discussion into whether or not slavery should even exist. Questions out widely held axioms.

To me the most enlightening quote is: No social progress has ever been made that wasn’t at first widely rejected by the majority.

Think about that. It means how can ever expect to make progress if dissenting ideas (even one’s that question fundamental axioms!) are not permitted to be discussed.
Did WhatsApp have Ads? I thought all their income was from subscriptions?

If it’s only for verification they, yeah, they might be fine as long as the verification fee is optional.
https://hey.cafe
A lot of opinions and unverifiable statements (this and this company is X years ahead of everyone), and the whole piece is essentially about one person's job market. Skip
The word expert is not being used in the colloquial sense, but in the technical sense of an "Expert System": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system
I'm not surprised. I'm reaching an age where I feel like I've seen it all in terms of what can happen to me as a person (births/deaths/big life events), as well as what can happen in terms of historical events that affect people's lives (Changes of leadership, wars, stuff in the news).

But the thing that seems most important is relationships. Being able to maintain them with various people is paramount. I'm a bit younger than the people in the study, and fortunate to have a very international network, so maybe I rely more on technology to talk to people, but I've found it's key to write to people to stay in touch. In terms of day-to-day I also make an effort to do a gathering now and again. It's pretty easy, I just ping some people I know from various contexts and pick a place. Also in terms of close relations I don't find you need to be close in terms of frequent contact. Writing to someone I've known for a long time without constantly connection is as familiar as having the occasional meal with local friends.

I've also developed a kind of understanding for various relationships that are a kind of "kindred spirit" relation: people who exemplify some sort of archetype with whom I identify, but with whom I have not spent much time. It's a sort of immediate familiarity that is quite satisfying, eg when you meet another programmer and you have similar experiences, or another person who went to your university or comes from the same country. These are often useful seeds for deeper relationships, but are also good in and of themselves.
What a foul article.
The security issues in the last year were shocking to me.

You also need to do backups, try restore, you might need to announce a maintenance window.

And for what? Getting stress from mgmnt when it breaks? With a GitHub downtime that's just it. No one cares, everyone accepts it as given.
Being verified isn't going to solve the problem of shouty nutjobs and political shills. We are in a post-truth environment, where people spreading misinformation and flat-out lies don't feel an obligation to issue retractions or corrections. They just shamelessly move onto the next lie. Public opinion or consequences other than being deplatformed just don't matter to the likes of Trump and his acolytes.
Neither does Musk.

Why not tell him to let things play out?
I don't like Mr. Musk but the highly upvoted and analytical takes about how he is not serious with the offer or is just trolling did not age well at all.
I generally want to find people who have done more than just CRUD UIs..

FWIW I could describe my current role as "Building a cash management application to track $500m+ revenue for a global ethical cosmetics organisation" on my resume, which is 100% true, but really it's a React app with about a dozen pages of fairly simple CRUD actions. What the reality of the app is and how someone describes it on their resume are two very different things.
There's a similar commercial product I've used for mental warm-ups in my classrooms over the years: Rory's Story Cubes (plastic, in paper and plastic packaging).

I suggest making your own and using icons from The Noun Project (https://thenounproject.com) as stencils or inspiration for quick freehand pencil or woodburner. The barrier is higher, but the personalization potential is much greater. Not stressing about quality helps lower the barrier, and if the cubes are for personal use, all you need is good-enough representations.
Perhaps you would find most plumbers wouldn't live in a city with a rent of 1.2k/mo?

Is that really all your definitive "false" relies on? Hell I know tradesmen that make well over that and live in more rural areas.
>> let people host their own instance

Totally. Why would anyone self-host when it could be written to a blockchain and be decentralized, tamperproof and censorship resistant? Twit-coin could reward influencers for their certified engagement metrics without knowing their underlying physical identity by maintaining value flows virtually. Brave browser is 80% there already.
I had no idea about that, what an interesting fact :D
> You're confusing income and wealth.

No, no confusion. You need income to start building wealth (unless you just inherit it).

More specifically, you need enough income over and above the necessities of life, so you can start saving and investing all the extra, in order to build wealth. Time is your friend in investing, so the earlier you can get started the more wealth will grow.

If one can start with an extremely high salary out of school in your early 20s, that gives the opportunity to save a lot and invest it early in life, apply some F.I.R.E. and suddenly the idea of being able to retire before 40 is realistic.
In would love to see the Seinfeld episode where George Costanza tries this. Perhaps it exists?
Actually it's all depends of volume and if you keep warming up your inbox!
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> It's only nice if you fully share politics with the moderation team.

I'll go even farther and say it's nice if you fully share politics with the moderation team and you are too insecure about those politics to entertain other viewpoints. The sort of people about whom John Stewart Mill wrote:

> He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers, presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
It's very annoying that of all of the commonly used compression formats in use today it seems like only BZip2 parallelizes nicely. Some will use all of the cores on compression but only one for decompression and others do all of the math on a single core.

For plain old zip this is excusable since it comes from the 80s, but for modern compression utilities they really should do better.
At this point Echoes doesn't let you connect goals to actual metrics. In other words: we measures efforts invested into the goals, but not the observable impact of these efforts (yet!).

Your question is however absolutely spot on as this is where we going. But in order to measure impact we needed to start by capturing _why_ we're doing what we're doing in the first place, and what we realized is that this in itself was solving a significant pain point for engineering organizations.

I haven't read Impact Mapping, thank you for the recommendation!
Trucking is a big one.
> there are countless examples of the left-wing getting banned

Can you name some that weren't due to the poster threatening someone, doxing or otherwise something illegal? I honestly can't think of any off the top of my head where a left wing post/user was banned for something legal but I can think of tons from the other side.
Dark Reader works so well I'd actually forgotten I had it on for HN until I saw this post.
Great question, I've taken some of these books down to read later.

I was fascinated by The Pentagon Wars [0]. Arguably US Military is one of the biggest bureaucracies that spends tons of money on R&D projects. Apart from describing the issues with the projects themselves, the author describes how structuring the incentives could potentially pervert the process of developing new tech. I really loved it.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Pentagon-Wars-Reformers-Challenge-Gua...
Sorry, the "GP"?
It can happen due to various reasons, but the way laser printers work is they electrostatically charge a toner drum, the toner particles "jump" to the right spot, and are then deposited on the paper that has an opposite electric charge. Then the whole thing goes through fuser rollers that "bake" the toner into the paper. If the toner is low quality, the fusion step wasn't hot enough, or the paper and toner are incompatible, you might not get complete adherence of the toner to the paper. This can cause that flaking behavior in the future.

The trick is to do your research on the printer and toner to make sure they have a high quality finish.

For paper, a heavier than normal printer paper (like 40lb text paper instead of the normal 20 or 28 lb) that has some percentage of cotton in it can last for hundreds of years if you store it in an airtight container.
It appears this is the path the US will be adopting.

> Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in Kyiv
visit: "We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can't do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine"

> Russia “has already lost a lot of military capability, and a lot of its troops quite frankly,” Austin said. “We want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/u-s-aims-...
Not everyone can become a competent programmer, we have to let this belief die.
I think you proved their point.
> I have no idea why anyone would expect him specifically to be able to do it while no one else could

People said the exact same thing before Tesla and SpaceX.
Yes, absolutely, and for many projects.

..but like all things, it depends on your needs. Some have already pointed out the pages on SQLite's on site regarding # of writers (the main issue), etc.
You are not satisfied unless I hate the Russian people without distinction.

You're pushing buttons here, and trying to bait this person into joining a downward spiral with you. Please stop, and find something better and healthier to do with your time.
I love SQLite and use it for a lot of my harebrained ideas to see if they'll take off. They never do, so I never out grow SQLite. :P
>Text mode files? I treat everything as binary.

This is still an issue today with Windows vs everything else. I regularly filter ^M out of source files. There's all sorts of hackery in tools like gitbash, wsl and clipboard buffers, etc.
Creating Confidence Intervals for Machine Learning Classifiers
No chance. I guess maybe contractors might get away with it in some circumstances but I don't see how it works in conventional FT agile teams with regular ceremonies, meetings, etc. Plus I value my free time, which I know is weird.
So fracture the community into a bunch of moderated instances with varying rules?.... Sounds like reddit
I don't think it's common to do general anesthesia for colonoscopy (or gastroscopy). Doctors do a minor anesthesia (intoxication) so you sleep while the operation in performedbut that's not a general anesthesia.

In a general anesthesia you can't breath on your own so they stick a tube in your mouth. And it needs a special doctor (anesthesiologist) to perform the general anesthesia.
> Now you are committing extremely serious crimes instead of just spamming though, few would risk that.

Oh no, I've broken the ID forgery laws of Burkina Faso and am in big trouble now. Isn't it a rule of low-level scamming to always target jurisdictions away from your own? State-actors don't care about commiting crimes against themselves, only the mid-level, "semi-pro" threat actors care about avoiding major crimes.
Some risk of what?