skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The farm we purchased 6+ years ago is just starting to see fireflies and bats come back. We look at dusk visible bats to gauge our bug population. We stopped spraying and are allowing fields to go back to a mixture of natives and grasses. Also started mowing strips instead of bush hogging the whole field during the summer to give shelter to animals and insects. The biggest impact we have seen is that we have more of a "bug balance". The first two years we were here the garden plants were destroyed by pests. Now we have about a 20% reduction in garden production. We do not spray or fertilize. We have also discontinued the previous owner's habit of putting chicken litter (from commercial poultry facilities) on our hay and grazing fields. We have not been able to measure that effect yet.
What is even funnier is that Intel has plenty money and is profitable and dividend paying even though nearly all of Intel's fabs are in the US (and thus suffering from the high cost level compared to Asia is a part justification for these subsidies).
...especially since you don't want someone to bootstrap things again, you want someone to work on something that other people already bootstrapped - and lots of "top talent" don't find this kind of job very appealing...
I really like what USB-C has done for peripherals and non-iphone devices, but I agree with you.

I'd be fine with a new USB-D that fixed all these issues. USB-C is just mostly better than the other alternatives for Android and charging laptops. Its far from perfect.
July was renamed away from Quintilis ( the fifth month of the Roman calendar )

So yes, a bit much.
This should probably be a Show HN?
I totally respect the earned media game. A+ marketing.

The actual business (so far) is pretty straight-forward:
1. Call an API to TruePill pharmacy
2. They fill it under the Costplus label and mail it.
3. Cost of drug is acquisition + a small markup that Costplus and Truepill share
4. Display the Truepill API fields in a NEXT.js website

I totally respect Truepill operational chops too. Pharmacy is a very tough business.

I am waiting for someone to figure out how to break the PBMs pricing-power (monoply-like) control over that business. That would be the true breakthrough. Maybe it would be costplus in a pivot. Or a regulatory change.

Also - I deal with CivicaRX in a daily basis. It is a valiant attempt, but they have major shortcomings.

FYI:
If someone wants an API that really tells how much drug costs. (trust, but verify!)

https://data.medicaid.gov/dataset/dfa2ab14-06c2-457a-9e36-5c...
They show 2 base models, with upgradable ram. I'm not sure where they're lying.
The rule of three is not about juxtaposing any three random elements, it's about taking three things which are related to each other. It's not any three things producing harmony, it's a human selecting three things which produce some effect. This is true for rhetoric because the rhetorician has a purpose he wants to achieve.

And another nitpick: It seems perfectly possible to pick three colors which don't work well together. If two of the colors clash with each other, it won't matter what the third one is. With a chord, I suppose (without confidence) that it works because you're hearing all three notes together, but that's not how colors work: if you see the two clashing colors side by side, it's not visually pleasing, even if the third color works with each of those clashing colors individually.
The target never is to just "build" bigger LHC.

The important part is "building" which pumps billions into research programs for improving materials/electronics etc.

Sure we can defund all expensive science and maintain the status quo, last time we did this dark ages happened.
Faster computing results without fear of errors
No, I tried to read the article.
Most of Intel's fabs are in the US.
dot.tk will take away your domains if they get popular and redirect them to ads. Also, their website is a pain to use. I haven't heard of afraid.org doing any nefarious things. I used to use a domain from them (https://easrng.us.to/) before I got https://easrng.net and never had any problems.
Writing requires enormous amounts of discipline—turning up and sitting down and working every day, and doing so generally without fail. This much is obvious - but how do you manage conflicting feelings of daily failing with expectations of long-run success?
A more interdependent world is a friendlier and more secure world. When countries are completely independent of each other they will be able to more easily shrug off economic consequences of their aggression.

Economic ties also foster greater cultural exchange and understanding, so the less of those there are the insular and navel-gazing the inhabitants of such countries will tend to be, which will also increase the likelihood of conflict as people tend to fear those who they aren't in close contact with and don't understand.

As bad as the world is today, it'll get much worse as countries isolate.
I didn't know what an Octagon Networks was prior to their (six month old!) company announcing their intention to exchange their liquid assets for a highly volatile (has lost 50% of its value since November) speculative asset.

Perhaps, their motivating reason was to ensure that I would know what an Octagon Networks was?

How many liquid assets did they have anyway?
You are supposed to have an offsite backup that you can decrypt with only a password you remember, precisely in case this happens.
Clarification: (had been stated publicly before) we speak irc as one protocol option at the edge. We are definitely not running IRC at the edge or infernally.

Source: have worked there for over 5 years.
It's also often said that science advances one funeral at a time. It's entirely possible for an entire field to be stuck in a local maximum and refuse to admit that they are not advancing, especially when huge money depends on it. A recent example is the amyloid hypothesis for Alzheimers, which has failed every single time it was tested in clinical trials, but is still being pushed again and again, mostly by a cabal of academics that refuse to accept that were wrong, and industry bureaucrats that are afraid to challenge the orthodoxy (no one was ever fired for approving research proposed by the foremost expert in their field!).
Next time I want to go to a manifestation, I have a bitcoin backup plan, cash to survive for some months. Could be useful if the government decides to freeze or close my bank account due to my political views, as happened in Canada this year (which should freak you out, coming from a western, relatively rich, established democracy!!!1) [1]

I am anti-authoritarianism. I would, at the same time, vote democrat if I were in the US.

[1]: https://vaccineimpact.com/2022/after-trudeau-freezes-protest...
Okay? He's not saying secondary effects don't exist. He's saying you don't get more secondary effects from projects whose primary purpose is highly speculative.
Do you want your kids to be German or do you want your kids to be American? Do you want your kids to have the experience of a close, extended family? Or do you want them to see family as people who are distant and aloof and doing their own thing? Do you want your kids to have autonomy - to be able to play outside with their friends unsupervised? Ride their bikes to wherever they need to go?

These are the questions you need to be thinking about. Notice I never once mentioned money. You're a software engineer, you'll always have money. Oh sure, it'd be nice to have more money, but at what cost? And "career" is just a two syllable word for "job."

I think you know what you need to do.
Yes, it says so on the page zamalek helpfully linked.

But it doesn't say so on the page you get to if you select "Pricing" from github's homepage. Nor, as far as I can tell, does it say so on any page linked to from that page.
This is a management hiring issue.

A manager gets put into place (usually an inside hire) who is either outside of their competence or too set in their ways and it impacts morale, hiring, communication, and eventually software quality and compensation.

These managers are often at the mercy of their team. They usually report to a nontechnical VP or director who isn't hip to the resume building, lack of velocity, and implicitly lowered expectations.

I have interviewed at, consulted with, and worked for some of these orgs. It's basically a 50/50 shot on whether the situation is salvageable, and that's after management has made the wise decision to bring in an outside eye.

My favorite anecdote on this was a local company related to insurance of some sort. I pitched my services but was passed up on for someone else who I knew would only further the problems. A very short while later, I received a stack of resumes, including for the person they brought in to right the ship, all on the same day. Management got so frustrated with the development team they blanket fired everyone in IT below Director level and outsourced development to Romania.
Make them love you, an introduction to building in public
The very first line in the post is "Imagine ...". Was it not clear that what followed what hypothetical, or was the post edited after you commented?
570 ps is 0.57 ns.
To be fair, these are all excerpts from a Twitter thread where the tweet author was just trying to informally drop some knowledge to people who were asking about the types in question and therefore probably know where to go for the documentation.

Those links would be a great addition to the article, though.
They say it in the press release:

> We believe Bitcoin will lead the world toward a better future. Bitcoin will help accelerate our other goals to bring high-quality cybersecurity solutions to the masses and help tackle the complicated bureaucracy involved with acquiring international customers and talent. Our inspirations for these ideas are many, but our implementation of this specific model was inspired by MicroStrategy Inc.

You don't get to a Bitcoin dominated world by waiting for everyone else to make it happen, you do it yourself. They're just a first mover.
I just started soldering again. It’s been 20 years.

I hope to use these skills to save some retro game systems otherwise destined for a landfill.
It's so transparent, but folks fall for it every time.
It's an acronym used by right-wing extremists to describe anyone who disagreed with Trump on his nationalist agenda. Trump Derangement Syndrome.
You ok? It’s just a code library.

If you want someone to talk to, you can DM me on Twitter. I hope you have a nice week.
Well, this kind of threat was just a matter of time, if did not exist already, and public knowledge is for a greater good.
I simply want to appear offline permanently.

And my 'last seen' to be whatever I set it to.

Gimme these two and I'll pay $1 per year.
by some authors, this decline is 3 orders of magnitude faster than what is inferred from fossil records of the last extinction event. global warming might increase that by an additional 2 orders of magnitude.

the good news is that it can still be partially reversed, if humanity acts quickly.
Arduino raises Series B funding round of $32M
I don't think you realize the difference.

You interview for a job -- the offer is €X @ 40hrs/wk; you tell the HR that you'd like to only work for 80% of the time since you have childcare responsibilities. HR either writes back that the job requires you to work 40hrs or they revise their offer to €0.8X.

When 80% is the new 100%

You interview, get an offer for €X @ 32hrs/wk; you tell HR that you'd like to work extra since you're really passionate. HR either writes back that you could take extra time off or they revise their offer to €X + conditional bonus of €Y.

Like you said, working more doesn't mean more productivity, and so if a company is paying more just for you sitting in front of your computer more, we're not talking about the same jobs.

And if all of this normalizes, sure, salaries would be rebased, but the negotiation changes, as described above.
True, and tbh, the adapters don't have to be particularly clunky. The CCS1 -> Tesla connector adapter is generally pretty elegant. Its not as nice as the Tesla connector itself, of course.

Sadly, the US standard (CCS1) was heavily influenced by a desire for backward compatibility with J1772. Its not a great standard in itself.
I agree, it reads like a variation of 'there's nothing left to discover so lets all go home and not bother'
Could?
Is that a joke?

(a very cruel and bad taste joke)
Tell HN: 50 Years of Text Games
A $10 billion pipe sitting empty is good strategy?
Hi HN,

I built Recall as I wanted a tool that could help me remember things (people, places, movies, products, etc.) that interest me which come up in daily life. Recall does this by allowing you to quickly create summarized notes with information from Wikipedia, Wikidata, IMDB, Goodreads, etc. The notes are automatically categorized and linked with related content you have already added.

I am keen to hear what you think of the tool.
How ‘Trustless’ Is Bitcoin, Really?
They're still very prevalent in the southeast
Instagram Update Could Impact Reach for Some Accounts
Thanks. I wouldn't have bothered had you not made the suggestion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zOHSysMmH0

I've updated by opinion (judgement) of Zuckerberg.

Previously, I believe he's a moral cripple, quite skilled at discombobulation. Like giving long-winded non-answers to critical question to thwart deeper inquiry.

Now I think he's primarily a philosophical cripple, incapable of deep introspection. From this interview, Zuck was unable (or unwilling) to rise to Lex's challenge to steelman the arguments made in The Social Dilemma. That's just sad.

You're probably right that Zuck does not completely lack empathy. I now think it's more that he's just oblivious. Painfully, willfully, happily oblivious.

This is closer to Kara Swisher's position, which I hadn't really given much weight. (She knows all these unicorn neurodivergent wunderkind personally.) Like when talking about freedom of speech, Zuck blathers Just So platitudes, completely divorced from humanity's entire history wrestling with these kinds of problems. No nuance. No acknowlegement of paradox. No calculus for balancing mutually exclusive outcomes.

This interview does reinforce my view that having someones like Zuck, Dorsey, and others in full control over medias central to our culture and discourse is like giving flamethrowers to a bunch of young boys going thru their firebug stage.

At least Zuck's not (apparently) purposefully malicious, trying to burn down the whole world, like Murdoch. If intentions matter more than outcomes.
Agreed with other commenters' advice to err towards good documentation. Don't just go for cheap.

Another consideration is community: I think the Adafruit guides (https://learn.adafruit.com/) are really great, especially for folks just starting out / who are more project-focused. Poke through there with your kid and see if anything sparks interest.

Shameless self-promo, if he's into music: I make an Arduino-compatible "synth" electronics kit. It does require soldering (so maybe isn't the best choice just yet) but is a nice step towards making something that looks like a real, finished product. https://www.oskitone.com/product/scout-synth-diy-electronics...
Also, 0.1ns would be a single clock cycle at 10GHz
GitHub is far, far more than just a git repo. Issue tracking, project boards, commit status systems/check systems, deployment tracking and monitoring, fully fledged CI and deployment pipelines (actions/workflows) written in their own flavor, etc. All sorts of webhooks, complex arrangements of teams and access controls, cross repo, cross,-org and cross enterprise account linkages. Large object storages, container registries, and package repositories. And of course, the existing context of all this stuff; setting up an alternative != completely migrating and validating everything from the original.

Replacing all that with something as scalable, flexible and agreeable with potentially thousands of global developers is far more than '15 minutes' of work. Several orders of magnitude more.

Even on the git repo question alone, if you're an enterprise of some size, you'll have hundreds or maybe thousands of repos that could be potentially gigabytes in size (for any one repo) for code alone. Moving to a self hosted solution requires far more than just throwing some threadrippers and enterprise drives at the problem. And that's assuming the best outcomes.

A competent UNIX sysadmin would be the one yelling not to throw the baby out with the bathwater here, because they would know just how hard this stuff is at scale.
Sitting empty due to American meddling.
I haven't used eu.org but for my afraid.org subdomain IIRC I had to point it at an existing server for Cloudflare to recognize it as a real site and give me the NS records.
We can't answer the question of their reliability, you would have to gauge that from your experience with the company thus far. I feel like if you liked the interaction with the team so far, and the package is desirable it's worth it. But depending on the type of role you're interviewing for, I would consider the length of the process a pretty negative signal.
I don't think such a person would live the full term.

Look how stressful it was for Trump after folks like myself declared we don't kill him or go to his casino, but go right ahead and keep him the hell away from me.
> We believe Bitcoin will lead the world toward a better future.

I believe Bitcoin is obsolete and will destroy our planet if we let it proceed. Bitcoin was revolutionary but it's time for it to step aside and let the 3rd gen decentralized technology (if you consider Ethereum to be 2nd gen) take over.
"You don't have to write any software to build and manage that production system."

It depends on the scale and complexity of your application. At some scale/complexity, it absolutely requires writing software because your IAAS provider doesn't provide you with automation that covers 100% of your operational needs and even they recommend using infrastructure as code tools to manage your infra.

If your production system is a CRUD service with 3 application nodes and a managed PostgreSQL instance then you do not need to write software to manage it. But if your application is that simple, then I'd suggest you probably don't need a software developer to build it (Wordpress, Wix).

Construction vs custodian is not a fair analogy because their training and evaluation doesn't really overlap. The training and eval for both "dev" vs "systems" engineers is very similar; most have CS degrees and have to do some leet coding to get the job. Devs generally need to be better at algos, systems engineers need better understanding of networking, os, system design.
ASML is not a leaf in the dependency tree of the global semiconductor fab supply chain. It does in turn rely on several other highly specialized partners to supply them with custom-developed components for lithography machines, well-known ones are for example Zeiss and Trumpf (both based in Germany). These partners probably duplicate a significant amount of knowledge necessary to build EUV machines, considering that their components were developed in tight partnership with ASML.
For example:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/fmt/struct.Formatter.html#meth...

The entire Rust standard library documentation (like most documentation for Rust software, it's built with the same tools) has a Search UI at the top.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/
You may disagree with my post (and I would completely respect that), but please don't go ahead and just label as an ad someone's opinion just because he's passionate about the company where he works.
Funny, the last two summers here at my rural place in southern Ontario (basically the midwest) there's been so many fireflies. We used to have them here and there, but never like this.

Anecdota, but.
Random question from someone who is is self-taught and doesn't know better: is there a significant difference in this saying about learning interpreters vs learning to write your own _compiler_? Or are the two functionally equivalent for learning purposes?
Epic's PC store will start distributing its first blockchain game
I mean why use anything for anything, since another thing already exists.

Look I like common lisp just fine and have used it for serious professional work and value it for its practical strength and longevity.

It is gnarly though, and a pain in the ass sometimes, and really pretty hard to onboard people into. It's huge, and the intense focus on backwards compatibility means there are huge swathes of the language you won't use, some that possible no one should use. If you've already put the time in to learn all that then yeah sure why would you use this. But most people interested in lisps haven't spent hundreds of hours trudging through common lisp already, so maybe this is more for them.
Indeed, so why doesn’t it exist yet?
I hope they treat the workers well.

Maybe their chips will end up in my next laptop.

(I think I can keep repairing this one for a while, sorry I'm a bad capitalist or whatever.)
There's no red flag. The seller doesn't demand anything. In a hot market they simply sell to the person who waived inspection.

For example, a house goes up for sale, three people bid within three days of the listing. Two of them for $300,000 with inspection waived, one for $300,000 with inspection not waived. The bid with inspection not waived is never even considered. It would be irrational for the seller to take the risk associated with the weaker bid.
San Francisco could vote out progressive DA in heated recall
He's probably just buying them wholesale and setting a fixed profit margin.

Color me shocked if it ends up harming independent pharmacists, though... and I say that as someone who thinks universal healthcare is the way to go in the US. Wonder how long before he decides to sell this company to Walmart.
> Tesla's connector is nicer (you can call that subjective but it isn't)

I like the Tesla connector in the US, but in Europe, I'd argue that CCS2 is objectively superior. They need 3-phase power support and the Tesla connector doesn't support that. They also use a different CCS connector from the US. The CCS2 connector uses a latching mechanism that is similar to the proprietary Tesla one. Its simple and very reliable.

The US CCS1 system uses a dual latching mechanism. The cable and the car each have moving parts that are somewhat complicated. The cable side latch is a common failure point. It makes sense, given the desire to retain backward compatiblity with J1772 L1/L2 chargers, but I don't really think that was worth the tradeoff, tbh.
If a (mis)feature gets disabled by many users, it gets removed from the app. With time, apps accumulate features and get bloated. This actually is a mechanism to allow cleaning up features users so not want.
tired enough of it to make your own?
But it's all worth it as the War on Drugs has made America safe! /s
The pay is not the same
This is absolutely a technique they use at branches and for customer support calls. The majority of people respond very positively when they think their problem is being handled by a Senior Vice President.
> Einstein and the quantum pioneers

Einstein wasn't a 'quantum pioneer'. Einstein was a proponent of classical physics and against quantum physics.
So is driving with a broken headlight. Yet we don’t demand headlights to be infallible.
???

Why intel??? Why not ASML???
Yes. Tesla has a simple passthrough adapter for CCS1. Other adapters are also possible.
Wow, thanks. I will give it a try!!
I'd say talking is best at straightening out misunderstandings. In those cases there's not necessarily any extra information generated. It's kind of like attaching a debugger to your communication stream.
They can always take the Tesla approach: charge the full price on BTC up front, and reserve the right to give the 50% rebate in either BTC or cash, depending on which is more advantageous