skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Issues like this and micro-plastics in our bloodstreams will be causing so many issues in our lifetimes. Future generations (if there are any) will be appalled that we used to be so unaware of the impact of our own existence.

It's akin to people relieving themselves in their own water supply.
It is a great teaching tool (and very usable if you need to get something simple done quickly).
I'd second that unless you really just want to make a PCB from a simple breadboard design with simple parts once and never do it again. But the few hours learning Kicad will be much more rewarding.

Here's one of many tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaCVh2SAZY4&list=PL3bNyZYHcR...
And I can add additional information next to the todo:

// todo: todo
"Sorry, but I think we're overcomplicating this, what do we think about the following idea..."

"Oh, fuck...i messed up real big. This is not a fucking 'we' situation, at all".

Thank goodness I told my boss to stop the bullshit. And, regarding myself, they stopped. When they do it with others, and I am present, they realise...and then stop.
Because anything better would be SOCIALISM!! /s

In America, our government and media are all controlled by corporations, so there's a massive propaganda machine that tells the population they need to be workaholics if they want a chance to be wealthy.

Also, employees have no leverage. You can't decline a job because they only offer 2 weeks PTO when everyone else also only offers 2 weeks.

People that push for a culture shift for more PTO are shouted down as being lazy, and the propaganda machine screams about how bad small businesses would be hurt. The machine LOVES to talk about small businesses, and people fall for it.
Same experience with regard to losing friends of my youth, with the bonus of having virtually no social skills with which to make new friends.

For some of us, hitting one's forties marks a somewhat lonely life. Wife, children, coworkers, but no actual friends.
All user data needs a chain of consent attached to it, that is auditable.

You can still try to monetize and infinitely sublicense it, but it can be revoked at any time. The consequences for using currently nonconsent data should be steep.

Would make better markets of data and monetization paths for individuals.
Democracy is only "failing" when the people vote in politicians that create barriers for certain investment bankers.
I was curious about this, and I found this explanation of the Intel Alder Lake series:

https://superuser.com/questions/1677692/what-are-performance...
Increasingly feeling that Rust is like Elm: a language with novel ideas, teaching valuable lessons (a vocabulary for teaching and checking thread safety, documenting exclusive vs. shared mutability in the type system, arguably a vocabulary for teaching and checking memory safety, though that comes at a steep cost), yet so stubborn the community treats its values (avoiding shared mutability) as moral judgments of code, and the language and deliberately obstructs writing code outside of approved patterns (single ownership tree, exclusive mutability). struct{Cell...}& doesn't need to be harder to use than C++ struct{T...}*, but Rust keeps it difficult because the community views it as bad code design and wants to keep it hard. And *mut T lacks RAII unlike C++'s unique_ptr, and requires unsafe blocks in every dereference. As a result, people turn to unsound patterns like https://github.com/kimundi/owning-ref-rs, https://github.com/mcoblenz/Bronze/, and https://github.com/emu-rs/snes-apu/blob/master/src/smp.rs#L5... (and https://gist.github.com/Darksonn/1567538f56af1a8038ecc3c664a... raises questions about what exactly is sound or will be redefined as sound).

It's a good language to learn. I hesitate to consider it a replacement for asm/C/C++. Writing rust is hoping that the code you're porting to rust can adapt well to the restrictions, and if not, searching for esoteric and needlessly unsafe/verbose workarounds.
Unclear if anything would go extinct but most of that water drains into Humboldt Bay. There are several robust salmon and trout fisheries which would almost certainly take a beating. These steams support river otters whose numbers have never really recovered from Russian and American fur trappers and those streams support an enormous number of migratory and local bird, fish and amphibian species. Unclear what might go extinct and what would merely take a beating but it is pretty clear from similar projects in the PNW that the ecological consequences would be significant.
A visit to Humboldt might change your thoughts on the topic. It is one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Not only does it boast the tallest trees on the planet but it is one of the few places in America that I would describe as wild and free. The scars of clear cutting from the 60s are still visible but the land is still alive in a way that it just isn’t in a lot of the State.
Characterizing the issue as one between two extremes is a straw man. The rivers of Northern California are already heavily engineered. The current levels were established after the environmental consequences of that engineering was deemed unsuitable for the communities in the region. The Central Valley has effectively engineered its rivers out of existence and it is still not enough. It will never be enough. There is only one extreme in question here.
The military is not deployed based on needs. There have been plenty of cases where the military wanted to close a base that they didn’t need or decommission a weapons system and a powerful senator in a Red state wouldn’t allow them to do it because of the job loss in their district.

So the Red States should be okay with

The “Military Times” for what’s it’s worth, is not a left leaning site by any means

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2016/04/19/...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/14/base-closings-hot-potato-iss...

And it doesn’t matter as far as the child tax credit. It still means that the federal government is spending more in the state than it gets in. Which state would be better off if it didn’t have to pay federal tax for anything except the military -California or Mississippi?

The same argument as far as tax credits could be used for welfare benefits. They are just taking advantage of money that they are legally entitled to. Would conservatives agree with that argument?
It's just such a shame to see in practice. It's not like these company's workforces are doing something extremely innovative to warrant 1000s of engineers from elite schools; it's always the same web app, written in the same libraries, interacting with the same type of backends.

I don't know who said the quote but it went like "The best minds of my generation are working to get people to click ads." The same idea plays out here as well. You want all the prestige candidates to work on your CRUD apps.

I kind of understand the political backlash against tech now...
The reuters article is a little light on content but I found those remarks : https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech...

The complaint is about Apple not allowing 3rd party usage of their NFC chip for other wallets (or anything else for that matter. From my understanding, the access is very limited) :

Quoting :

As a result, users of Apple devices can only pay with the ‘tap and go' function using Apple Pay and not with other wallets. This is because competing wallet developpers need access to the NFC on Apple devices to reach Apple users.

Interestingly they also say that the Digital Market Acts will regulate this :

When it enters into the force, the Digital Markets Act will have a direct effect on digital payments. It will require companies designated as gatekeepers to ensure effective interoperability with hardware and software features they use themselves in their ecosystems. This includes access to NFC for mobile payments.

(IANAL but I find it interesting that they mention specific upcoming regulation tailored to curtail this, while still sending to Apple what they call a Statement of Objection)

My vague (and possibly completely wrong) understanding from the situation here in France is that banks have to individually sign up for this, but on the backend the payment processing is piggybacking on Mastercard/Visa payment network, as from day one, Apple Pay worked on everything (with some caveats) that accepted NFC payment (which most terminals did). Transactions show up on your receipt as (in my case) a "classic" Mastercard transaction.

This doesn't seem to be the way Apple Pay is implemented everywhere though (particularly in the US) ? This may be anecdotal but I had this discussion with a restaurant owner who mentioned that Apple Pay payments from some US customers didn't work (while in my case I've noticed eu/fr variant of Apple Pay worked pretty much everywhere). This could be some random other issue though.

It would be interesting to know if in other EU countries this is always the same, piggybacking on your bank/card network.

While I broadly understand the idea of opening up the NFC to 3rd party wallets, it's unclear to me how much of a practical idea that would be. As someone who uses Apple Pay daily, I don't see how having to open a 3rd party wallet app would be comparatively effective, it's all about the convenience of being able to triggering it instantly.

A better solution would be mandating/allowing those 3rd party wallets not only NFC integration but having their payment options showing up in Apple's Wallet so they can be triggered the same way (double tap on your iPhone/Apple Watch, which already lets you pick between various Apple Pay cards/QR codes you may have entered).
> ...As a hiring manager, I looked for exactly the type of thing this person did. They would have definitely been someone I would have hired...

As did I when i was a hiring manager (I'm taking a several year break from leading people)...but, wow, those individuals are difficult to find...at least it was for me. In my own life i have been given a couple of chances by bosses who might otherwise not hire me (based on my resume at the time)...and i was always able to keep them happy. So thank you for whatever you do/have done by giving people that chance! Kudos to you!
If you charged for water and also let farmers sell excess there would be incentive to improve efficiency. But politically this is untenable.
It's not a good teaching tool if it tells people to do stuff entirely the wrong way against every bit of engineering experience out there, which is exactly what it does.
How did you make the jump from "Residents use 3-5% of the water supply" to "any expectation of having enough water to reside in this place is absurd"?

Do you think the water table is not enough to support 5% of current usage levels?
I worked for a while at a place that did 9/80 scheduling, essentially every other Friday off and it was quite nice. Of you did have things that took you away from work normally you just made it up by working a bit on the off Friday.
When was the last time it had it's software updated? 2006?
Based on the downvotes and replies, I'd say this is not true.
Start by not calling it the boring stuff.

Atonse's comment is excellent. You can get excellent CFO and government finance help via contractors.

But in the end you will want to at the least understand it: what marketing, fundraising, sales, and financial commitments you make in your company are your responsibility.
If California agriculture is already untenable at 1c a gallon (as per this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31235312) then its probably not going to be very viable to support agriculture with desalination plants.
I don't believe any of that "hiring is impossible in the US" BS. What these companies are really saying is they don't want to reduce the workload that results in needing so many extra hires. And of course, once you introduce foreign workers who now make a majority of the workforce, you also break down the ability for workers to collectively bargain.
It's nice living where there aren't any mosquitoes or humidity.
Hum... Configure routinely doesn't work for me either, on even more trivial scenarios than cross-compilation.

When I care to look how to fix it, it's almost always some error on the autotools configuration and I can edit the Makefile to run things correctly. Also, when it breaks, there are normally more broken things on the project. But autotools are always among the first things to break.
It might be open source, but it’s not free. Tried to download once for doing documentation of other printed circuit boards. Compiled from GitHub, but the user interface wasn’t convincing. Ended using 3D model from KiCad in documentation and it was great!
Show HN: Listen to your PDFs, e-books and documents as an interactive audio book
That's nice in theory, but in practice you get things like GDPR, where you need to submit written requests and provide even more personal identification data (passport photo, ...) to remove your data. And you need to do it one company at a time. And you don't even know the list of companies which have your data.
Thank you for the helpful sarcasm.

Yes, I am implying farmers markets. There is not currently an effective way for these small farms to network their production in aggregate to sell at a level commensurate to an industrial farm. This is the reason big ag can sell for cheaper.

If farmers markets could achieve cost-parity with big grocery (by competing at-scale) then distributed small-scale farming could contribute to solving many issues in climate, environment, nutrition, etc
what kind of company do you wax about starting?

you'll need some type of COO who will fill in other positions to find clients keep you all busy.

what types of projects have you done before? dealing with clients & getting paid while accurately estimating the time required to complete a task is an art.
“We’re facing a looming environmental disaster. Why not try to fix it by causing another environmental disaster?”
This is my real gripe. Let's not pretend "TODO" is the end of the comment.
Yeah I always laugh when tech companies say data collected is "anonymous", but don't tell you if you combine several datasets it's possible to know exactly who these users are with a high degree of certainty. These engineers know better, but the general public does not.
Lists actually links at bearblog.
So if I understand you right, Namibia lacks the "trappings of what present-day humans think of as civilization" because many San live as hunter-gatherers?

The link you gave describes people who live on the margin; "peripheral members of the Puebloan culture". Not "most of the native groups", which is the phrase yous used earlier.

Yes, many modern people don't have a sense of the pre-Spanish history of the Southwest. How is their ignorance relevant?

> Artifacts are not history

PaulDavisThe1st wrote "I suspect that the Tewa/Pueblo people in general would be a little troubled by the idea that they "left almost no history" behind."

The current buildings of Taos Pueblo, as an example, started about 1,000 years ago. And they have a detailed oral history.

This history helps understand the physical evidence. I'll quote from https://orias.berkeley.edu/resources-teachers/societies-amer... :

] Consultation and collaboration with Pueblo people and scholars has changed the way that archaeologists think about migration away from Mesa Verde. Now, based on Tewa oral history, researchers understand that Mesa Verde people simply moved farther east, towards the Rio Grande region of northern New Mexico, where many of their descendants still live today. Using oral history, archaeology, and soil science, archaeologists have been able to come up with new ideas about the end of Mesa Verde. Even though there was a drought at the end of the time that people lived at the site, we can see that the environment was only one of the things that led people to move. The conditions when people moved weren’t much worse than they had been before.

(Emphasis mine.)

> everything died so we traveled through the hellish lands of death until we reached a place with water

What are you talking about? Here are stores from the Cochiti - https://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/sw/tci/index.htm . I couldn't find something like what what you described.

Or, "The oldest tradition of the people of Acoma and Laguna indicates that they lived on some island; that their homes were destroyed by tidal waves, earthquakes, and red-hot stones from the sky. They fled and landed on a low, swampy coast. From here they migrated to the northwest, and wherever they made a long stay they built a "White City" (Kush-kut-ret)" - http://www.legendsofnativeamerica.com/region_southwest/legen... .

In that story, things died because it was too cold, until Summer and Winter came to an agreement.

And as I quoted earlier, "The conditions when people moved weren’t much worse than they had been before."
Low flush toilets are absurd. You need the water to clear your sewer line so keep flushing. Utter stupidity.
Unless you're using some encryption mechanism on the body of the email itself email is inherently unsecure due to how it's transferred from server to server. You cannot make any guarantees that mail relays will use tls when transferring messages. You cannot be assured that when the message is in a mail spool that it is encrypted and not viewable by the administrator. When that message is waiting in your local mailbox you cannot be sure that the administrator does not have access to that mailbox.

The only way to know that email is safe and secure is to use some sort of encryption on the message body itself to ensure eyeballs to eyeballs security. Without that there is a massive number of places in the chain that forms email delivery or messages can be viewed and altered with no record of it happening.

So placing two-factor authentication upon your access to the account only provides a layer of security to protect against accessing the account. It does not provide any security or guarantee that the message itself has not been altered or tampered or viewed in some other way.
Submissioner here. I don't even know why it got in #1 position. I just found it in Flathub and thought "This looks interesting", so I submitted it.
Abstractions always leak somehow. For example at work we had specific OS related python issues (dependent libraries to vizualize and save plotly graphics) despite everyone using conda to set up the python environment.
>> Don't use Grub or any bootloader if you can avoid it. I haven't used Grub in 10 years. Load Linux directly as an EFI executable via the EFISTUB approach.

> I run Windows dual boot, since I need (native) Windows for certain work related tasks.

The windows/efi boot menu can handle dual boot.

But, assuming you want/need secure boot and bitlocker - I'm not sure if there is an easy way to avoid having to type in recovery key on kernel updates :/

Perhaps efi > direct windows and efi > grub > Linux might work? Probably still needs recovery key for bitlocker after grub update? Maybe this is solved now - I don't dual boot any machines w bitlocker right now.
You're still expected to get a certain amount of work done.
Comments like this show how out of touch the average person is with how much waste is involved in animal products - particularly beef.

We can so easily grow enough food to feed everyone.

Livestock takes up >80% of land, yet produces <20% of calories.

The <20% of land that is used to grow food - only ~55% goes to feed people. The rest goes to animals and ethanol.

The apocalypse is nowhere near close.

The Earth's crust is ~2.5% potassium. A lower supply of Potash is not going to cause the end of the world.
Are you disputing the numbers I gave above or just choosing to concentrate on a particular subset of cattle? I don’t believe what you’re describing is representative of livestock in general.
A Postgres (or other SQL) add-on that would let you filter out country specific public holidays from queries. We do it now, but through a join on a pretty expansive date dimensional table. Would love to see something like this possible,

SELECT DATE, SUM(DAILY_REVENUE)
FROM TABLE_X WHERE DATE <> PUBLIC_HOLIDAY(USA,GB,MX,DE) GROUP BY DATE;
I thought they would, considering they introduced the Goddess of Death in Thor: Ragnarok, but...NOPE. Cate Blanchett delightfully hamming it up as a supervillian only lasted one film.
My pet peeve is `XXX:`, which I see with distressing regularity in the codebase I work in. It’s non-specific, but vaguely ominous. Is it a TODO? A warning? A bug? An incantation to ward off evil spirits? Tell me!
No I won't. TODO is much easier to remember than DOCME or TESTME.
Small farmer here. Most of my fertilizer comes from the rear end of my animals. They choose where to apply it, and my free range birds spread it around a bit. I would not try to spread it any other way. I try to avoid man made inputs, but the land is still far less productive than the few times I have applied synthetic fertilizers.

Big Ag invests in machines that each cost hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. Those machines are tuned to spread powdered/pelletized fertilizer that comes from a factory. It would be prohibitively expensive to pivot to machines that can collect and spread manure, and the results would be suboptimal compared to their usual inputs. It is simply not worth the cost, as it would put them at a disadvantage to those who do not switch over. The shortage will pass long before they could pay off the investment.
Get yourself in the position of being able to say no to interviews. I have declined plenty that were unashamed to ask me to do 8-20 hours of work for their tests.

At this point if a company is asking me to do more than an hour more effort than they’re willing to spend with their own employees, it’s an automatic no.
That's partisan nonsense.

China was pressuring the manufacturers, i.e. "Taiwan is part of China, so you should sell to us and we will give them to Taiwan." Then they tried to pressure Taiwan for concessions to get the vaccines to save their lives. Taiwan ordered vaccines, only to have them not show up. They had to trade chips from TSMC for access to vaccines.

This is the same as China using political influence and corruption to keep Taiwan out of the WHO.
I'm a lesbian who despises dating online. I've just accepted I'm going to be single.
I use TODOs liberally while I'm working on a feature branch. When I've figured out a partial solution to the problem at hand, I'll implement that and leave descriptive TODOs wherever necessary. My IDE will warn me about them if I skip them before pushing and simple notImplemented()s will go unnoticed.

Sometimes I leave a TODO because a feature/fix must land before a certain date and I don't have the extra time to optimise the code before that. Customers prefer a slow feature over a nonexistent feature. Known bugs can be annotated with a FIXME and an issue number so that nobody will waste time on that part of the code if the bug isn't important enough to be fixed in the current sprint.

That said, "TODO: implement" should never ever reach merge requests or code review. Suboptimal implementations may be acceptable, but missing implementations are just bugs or incomplete code.
then put the tasks in your project management tool so you can prioritize them. How do you prioritize your todos in your code base? O(n) search?