skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unsafe Rust is inevitable to write in any real-world program that needs {O(log n) insertion-ordered collections instead of key-ordered like BTreeMap, intrusive collections, custom lock-free data structures, or non-tree-shaped object graphs where you cannot spare the performance, static analysis, and ergonomic penalty of RefCell and Cell doesn't work out}, and working with aliasing pointers is so difficult (a representative example is https://github.com/Storyyeller/stable_deref_trait/issues/15) that I'd rather write C++ than unsafe Rust.
the lawmakers know they don't actually have to code it up, right?
Need this for the Koran
Not an expert but here's what I found from a little research:

It's hard to quantify, but it does seem like regional predictions are less accurate than continental, and predictions about rainfall are less accurate than temperature. However, predictions of rising temperature are essentially guaranteed.

> There is considerable confidence that climate models provide
credible quantitative estimates of future climate change, particularly
at continental scales and above ...

> Confidence in model estimates is higher
for some climate variables (e.g., temperature) than for others
(e.g., precipitation).

> Over several decades of development, models
have consistently provided a robust and unambiguous picture of
significant climate warming

Sources:

[1] https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/pd/climate/factsheet...
[2] https://archive.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/faq...
This overlooks that doing things correctly tends to not be very fun.

If you're working on a side project, I'd argue the best way to completely drain your motivation is to try and write a whole lot of documentation first.
A single person being unable to use a communication service can quickly cause an entire group of people to migrate somewhere else. Doubly so if you mess with the technical people who are installing these on their grandma's phone in the first place.

Zealously banning swathes of people is a surefire way to kill your messaging product almost literally over night. People can - and will - change these incredibly quickly. The last messages you'll see on your service will be instructions on how to move to your competitor.

I wouldn't put it past Meta, but it would be really stupid.
And with all the sh*t he has to deal with, The fact that he still shows up Is pretty remarkable
if they want users they gotta fix it ;)
The shuttle was originally intended to be launchable into polar orbit from Vandenberg AFB, but it never happened [0]. I rather doubt anybody ever seriously contemplated a transition to polar orbit from a Florida launch; the shuttle couldn't carry enough fuel for that. (One cannot launch a rocket into polar orbit directly from Florida for safety reasons. That's what Vandenberg is good for; there's no inhabited land south of it.)

[0] https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/27506/vandenberg-afbs-...
Many Americans do. Cash out refinancing of homes is very popular
> Google is your friend!

This is literally what they’re talking about avoiding. Not surprised at your reaction. And not surprised that the advice they offer is generally quite good.
Why burn? Won't they die on their own?
I do from time to time if it's obvious it is not going to link to something embarrassing or malicious. For example, once in a while I get handed a business card or pamphlet for a person/service I've heard about and want to know more about. I will also occasionally scan QRs that appearing in streams with streamers I am familiar with. I guess it's mostly a question of my familiarity and trust level in the person posting it.
Desalination traditionally needs a source of water to desalinate. Then you need somewhere to put the brine.

The ocean is traditionally the answer to both these needs. Nevada is not a good candidate for a desalination plant.
It's not a surprise but it's still wrong. Also his opinion that NATO is a threat needs to have some backing otherwise I don't accept it as a valid fear
Docs should start out as a rough scaffolding that is easy to change, then filled in as the product anneals. The reason is that systems evolve as you build them, and constantly updating the docs to be consistent as the evolution occurs is an error prone chore that not everyone has the patience or diligence for.

Assuming that your systems evolve as you create them, if you "complete" your docs too soon, you end up with less accurate docs than if you complete them later. Out of date docs are often harmful and demoralizing because they break trust.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You've unfortunately been doing a lot of that, and we're trying for a different sort of forum. We want curious conversation, not (for example) ideological battle, regardless of what you're battling for or against.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
> Decreasing alfalfa production may well impact the ability to feed cattle.

A substantial portion of alfalfa is exported to China [0]. So, at the very least that portion can be eliminated without any impact on domestic US cattle feed.

[0] https://hayandforage.com/article-3388-thank-china-for-record...
Do dams provide water? Don't they use the water provided by a body of water?
I was still using one. By that time I had it well equipped and all the good software was useful.

Dialing BBSes was fun on that machine.

About the time frame, I got a DOS PC and did CAD work on it to afford a 386 and used Winsock to get on the net proper in late 90-91'ish.

I was right in the middle, 20 something and using the Apple for writing, BBS and some other basics.
The TurboGrafx and the Sega Master System were both hurt by terrible, terrible package artwork.

I was googling some examples but I see someone else has already written an interesting article on this very topic - http://timewarpgamer.com/features/tg16_box_art_disparity.htm...

Why didn't they just use the Japanese artwork? As a kid, the TG-16 looked amateurish to me because of the box art.
I'm not convinced that "increase government expenditure" and "add value to society" are correlated, at least not positively.
> here's actually a brand new book that looks interesting: The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media.

Reading and enjoying it now! The author captures what else was happening in the world when the first BBSes came online, namely the heyday of amateur and citizens band radio.
Unlike cities, farmers go where the water is. I know some HNers think farmers are growing crops in deserts. But that's just laughable. They farm where there is water: rivers, lakes, flood planes, deltas, etc. It is the cities diverting the water from these places.
> Why burn? Won't they die on their own?

"San Joaquin Valley air regulators have struggled for nearly 20 years to outlaw the practice of agricultural burning, encouraging farmers instead to grind up forsaken crops in wood chippers and spread them as mulch. But amid a third year of drought, some fear a resurgence in large-scale burning because it’s cheaper than grinding, and because so many acres are being abandoned due to drought."
Leaving dying plants in situ would probably attract pests... and in drought conditions it would probably all end up burning eventually anyway.
Hmm, it feels like Intel/AMD are ducking and just hoping that the implications of this are not large.

Here's a video from Intel chatting with the researchers: https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Products-and-Solutions/...

The questions are incredibly weak from the interviewers. They first state that it's not practical because the attack could take many hours, even days. But they don't describe why a day-long attack is not practical.

They then bring the researchers and ask them the same question. The researchers say that the attack is very practical because it only takes.. a few hours or days to execute the attack. Here's the specific part: https://youtu.be/BiRPr839dSU?t=1476

Instead of chatting more about this discrepancy they just ignore it and ask the researches how they feel about their new popularity.

From what I can tell from the advisory from Intel, it's simply that people should understand the attack and mitigate it in software. It's very vague. The specifics (i.e. a list of example popular programs that are vulnerable) seem entirely missing.
Don't forget to factor in this truly wildcard Supreme Court.
Would it not make sense to let the crops decompose into organic matter for future crops?
https://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-deve...
Pfizer Reports Additional Data from Epic-SR Study of Paxlovid
that's not really sunk cost fallacy? sunk cost fallacy in that case would be not pivoting when it's the best move looking forward, because you already spent so much time building and hiring for x (i.e. the sunk cost, which if not falling into the fallacy you should be ignoring for that decision)
Yep, read that in TFA as well. Doesn't answer the question "why" does it?
There really isn't anything for the "average person" to do here, who wouldn't understand any of your questions, either (the library? The one with all the dirty books?)
To piggy back on this a bit, there's something cost step-up cost basis and so while you pay have bought stock at 1$ and it appreciated to 100$ your estate's cost basis will be 100$ so there is 0 capital gains. Which means that the loan can be paid off without paying any capital gains tax.
Chop and mulch and compost.
Way to double down on the "not sure why this is so hard to solve, the answer is obvious!".
You’re mixing up two different categories of development. There are plenty of libraries that provide safe BtreeMaps and lock-free data structures. These can isolate all unsafe code in their own crate and only expose safe APIs.

Programs on the other hand can be written in entirely safe Rust, and the vast majority of Rust developers never need to use unsafe Rust to do this.

In Rust, we try to isolate unsafe usage and test it excessively. In C++ you have no such option.
And lay waste to entire river ecosystems.
For the same reason tech companies are allowed to sell services which later might have security vulnerabilities discovered in them.
> your partner should already have

There's an increasing number of single people and lone-livers.

> if your partner can’t figure this stuff out on their own you need to sort it out yesterday.

I don't know how common it is, but I know there are some couples who just don't think of this kind of stuff, at all, until it's too late.

Mostly I've heard of it through a sudden death - the other person now has to figure out what and how all the things are paid for and handled.

I know of another where one partner got ownership of a small business after a divorce, but had no idea how to handle personal or business taxes/paperwork/etc. Had never done much more than sign their name under tax records, or whatever - and suddenly had to figure out all of that on their own.
For anyone looking for a place to chat re: the ANSI/BBS scenes these two discords are great:

16colors: https://discord.gg/NKKZjevg

araknet: https://discord.gg/UZru7ThM
Yep, and if it got really really bad 3/4ths of the states can modify the Constitution and over-ride just about anything.

So if the southwest states piss off the rest of the country ...
It's value is to the person accepting it. £1 notes are worth more than £1, at least the last time I looked.

As mentioned in the article, these notes can be exchanged at a bank or post office. Those out of circulation can be exchanged at the BoE.
> Would it not make sense to let the crops decompose into organic matter for future crops?

Orchards don't die and decompose in one year. Presumably they want to put the land to productive use next year.
SV and tech in general too often romanticize hyper-rational-ness. It's both good and bad. Bad in situations like this.
Things "break" all the time in production, regardless of type system. The amount of instrumentation you have to have anyways makes this whole conversation almost moot.
Even {insert your favorite language here} programmers write bugs.
Segfaults can happen regardless of language/typesystem.

I haven't seen a single SRE say, "oh, you use X language, with Y type system? Ok cool, you don't need us then"
What if you discretized the allowed frequencies and linked the rate at which the cpu could switch?
That would be 614 museums in the U.S. alone

I agree though. Cap it at $1B
> VisiCalc started as a reference card.

That appears to be false. This [1] tells how if they couldn't explain the feature on the reference card, they'd change the code. So the code came first.

> The Nest thermostat started as a press release.

From what I can tell, the product was announced in a Verge article[2] where there is a demo-able product. And the secret to their success, according to the article, was that it was designed by people who'd worked on phones.

From what I can tell, actual product documentation came last in both cases, exactly as we'd expect.

So the article starts with a double-barrel blast of bullshit. In the article's favor, they did write the bullshit down, though.

[1] https://landley.net/history/mirror/apple2/implementingvisica...

[2] https://www.theverge.com/2011/11/14/2559567/tony-fadell-nest...
Anything is better than the 8% they pay now
How did 5% of the 189 participant achieve adequate scalp hair coverage on placebo?
Sounds exactly like the debate in Sweden in the 80's. They even used a very similar word.

They even went so far as implementing a system where extra profit went into a separate fund that was going to buy shares of the company. An interesting way to take over companies by the state. Thankfully the project was stopped before it was fully implemented.

Some more information. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_funds
This. Slap the golden handcuffs if possible for the most boring work and give employees extra vacation time to recover from that slog and they might not leave. Most people are willing to deal with some BS as long as they feel compensated and the comp keeps up with changes in the marketplace.
It is. rr records the trace and the Pernosco converts it into a database that can be queried.
There are vegan hunters around, too. People that hate the bio Industry yet still feel it’s allright to eat meat. Given that an animal has lived a good and free life and the death is swift.
I don't know about EU immigration, but a university degree greatly helps with US immigration; even more so if the degree was attained in the US. It's certainly possible to do well in this industry without formal education, but it would be a lot harder to immigrate. Jumping through the hoops of formal education shows the ability to jump through society's hoops, which makes you a better candidate for immigration and integration into society and the hoop jumping that's required.

> Anyway, an inevitable question arises: why haven't I enrolled earlier?

You answered that; you weren't prepared, you took the time to prepare. Easy peasy. Actually, a lot of universities are looking for the diversity that older students bring, even when older student is just 10ish years; you've probably got a lot of life experience that others don't have.
This sounds absolutely bonkers, tobacco plant will quickly be illegally cultivated. Without the nicotine it will also be harder to cultivate and make cigarettes more costly.
> if it got really really bad 3/4ths of the states can modify the Constitution and over-ride just about anything

You're describing extreme actions relative to a quotidien one. Armed revolution and Constitutional amendments are rare. Congress amending treaties is mundane.

We try to give the other side the courtesy of consultation, but that's (a) far from even common at this point and (b) sometimes impossible. The water rights in question are no different from any other private water rights. The fact that they originated from a treaty a curiosity at best.
> That'd be a good problem for the US - we don't have enough of them because we restrict immigration and licensing so strictly.

As a consequence of regulatory capture by the AMA, who don't want their pay to go down. Which furthers my point that their pay would go down, assuming that the AMA aren't total idiots ;)
We don’t need to pump the water to lake Powell. We let Powell refill itself and use the water instead on level ground in California.
I don't think I've visited the homepage of https://www.google.com/ in a decade. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button click rate probably dropped 99.99% ever since browsers started including search in the address bar.
Implementing ColumnView in Gnome Nautilus in GTK4
Seems like prioritizing the common good is in line with big aggro if we don't care about the independent farmers this could impact.
But the two languages are very similar.
I get your point though, it's not clear how much you gain by doing 20 years of PHP over 10. I think this isn't unique to programming - is a lawyer with 20 years of experience necessarily better than one with 10? An accountant? A nurse? And so on and so on. I do think looking at myself I am much better in my 10th year than I am in my 5th - not only in specific technical tools but how I approach things, how I relate to others etc. So some of the gains are in soft skills which are super important to be effective.
However will I keep improving at this pace? Probably not. Who says I have to keep improving exponentially?
This person summarizes the findings:

https://twitter.com/boulware_dr/status/1536870287509274625
I don’t know why any of this is being brought up about homelessness. All those human beings are already living there, on the streets. Do you think they stop shitting? Do you think they aren’t getting water?

People like you are the problem. Your words are just bullshit excuses, and you don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve volunteered with homelessness programs for over two decades, and literally none of what you said has anything to do with the problem. Apartments are not being built plentifully enough to be affordable enough to support people. Period.

Zoning is the biggest perpetrator to the suffocation of affordable housing and rentals. Can you dispute that?
It might be a solution but not all python packages work with WebAssembly. The next problem might be connection to external data sources. You cant keep secrets in frontend code.
> How do you know now that you were wasting your time?

For me, this is very hard advice to give, and I usually equate it to running.

When you run, it often hurts after a while. There is a kind of hurt that you just need to push through, and then there is the kind of hurt that will cause bad or long term damage.

It’s sometime hard to know the difference. You can sometimes quit when you shouldn’t have, and you’ll probably cause an injury or two figuring out the other kind.

Over time you learn what “fake pain” and “real pain” are - in my experience - only after the fact and learning from the past.

This is bad advise so don’t follow it, but I’ve found quitting first, and then feeling horrible about yourself when you find out you shouldn’t have allows you to collect more data than pushing on something that will never work for X years.
The "crops" are not wheat or corn or something that the rotted remains can be plowed into the ground next year - they're apparently orchards, trees basically, that need to be ground up or burnt (or left to rot over periods of years).
> If you set the limit much lower than my net worth, the government is going to have to support me.

Doesn't have to be much lower, just low enough to free you of the wealth you don't _need_.

> But I'd think that someone with "only" $100M of net worth could scrape by on their own.

Certainly. Someone with $10k of net worth and a minimum wage job could scrape by too. Nobody _needs_ more than that, surely?

> But most of my net worth came from taxable ordinary income that was invested into retirement accounts that are tax advantaged and untouchable until I retire.

Sounds very wealthy and privileged, to be honest. Surely you don't _need_ that it could be much better spent now helping less advantaged people who have never worked and don't have any savings or retirement. If, when you retire, you need further assistance after selling your house and other possessions, the government would be glad to step in and provide you a subsistence income and housing thanks to this wonderful redistribution scheme.
(NOT advocating for baby pain here..)

Anesthesia is dangerous. It's easy to say "solve pain", but there are trade-offs.

Mothers giving birth need to be closely monitored when they're given pain meds. It's hard to believe that infants' frail bodies can handle strong pain-killers at the levels used in surgery. There's also a long-term damage to consider. Infants' bodies are growing and changing so rapidly. Similar to smoking or drinking while pregnant, a change to the chemistry of the body is a change that can have long-lasting and hard-to-study negative effects.

This type of hyperbolic commentary is not productive discussion.
Noise helps to increase the difficulty, but with a large enough sample size you can statistically exclude it, greatly simplified but essentially by doing X-avg(all X).

Imagine you do the above bit for bit. So first you sample 1M times to find the baseline, then flip one bit and sample another 1M times to see if any deviations, and so on.

There is also the chance of your PRNG being predictable, so attacker can predict what noise will be generated if they have seen enough of it.
Rocky Mountain snowmelt? It’s not coming from rain in Nebraska, that’s for sure.
https://archive.ph/59JwY
Yeah, but on any particular day you only have a 1 in 20,000 or so chance of being right (and of course it varies with age).
For those unfamiliar, the site was once known as Gearslutz until about two years ago. The name change came as a result an attempt to appear more professional than the Internet equivalent of a watercooler that it has been for the better part of two decades.
i wish when people talk about Finasteride they always mention it that you won't be able to donnor blood after that. (FDA says you need at least 30 days Finasteride free for doing that)
Exchanges are fractional reserve banks now. They have cryptocurrency loans, savings accounts, the works. Customer funds are not simply stored at the exchange, much of it is actually tied up in their own investments which can fail, exposing customers to risk.
In silicon ICs, the silicon is actually part of the transistors.
One ton of Almonds require roughly 3.8 million gallons of water. One ton of Wheat, on the other hand, requires about 250,000 gallons of water.

Overall, almonds and grapes are cash crops - not food crops.
> 5000+ active SKUs.

You have provided evidence for the exact same point I'm making, economies of scale. You have a large ecommerce business with a variety of things to sell so you benefit from economies of scale in shipping.

Most small individual sellers have maybe like 50 SKUs which makes it prohibitively expensive to do same day delivery.
There are entire classes of bugs that cannot happen in (safe) Java/Erlang/Scheme/etc. that can still happen in a "bug free" Rust code base.