skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally agree, woody biomass is being under utilizes these days. Gasification produces syngas which can be used to produce heat and electricity when wind and solar aren't producing. The biochar that is left over can be introduced into the soil to improve it's nutrient and bio-activity (terrapreta). This is essentially reverse mining of carbon and is stable for thousands of years in the soil. It also keeps the biomass from producing greenhouse gases from decomposition.

Beyond trees, we should also be growing algae and other plant mater to sequester more carbon and produce oils, sugars and other useful ingredients for our lives. This can be done at sea or in areas where water is scarce and normal vegetation grows poorly.
> The whole transformative experience is the "trip" itself.

IMHE, it's not, at least in regards to (racemic) ketamine and depression. The benefit doesn't appear until ~24 hours later, and the effect scales with dosage, but not trip intensity or outcome.

I found taking it almost unpleasant at times, but the subsequent effects uniformly profound. Unfortunately, I developed a rare health issue, or I'd still be taking it.
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Yeah... Dividing your work into microservices while your data is in an interdependent database doesn't lead to great results.

If you are creating microservices, you must segment them all the way through.
If this was similar to my similar reaction when using them, they make you switch to an enterprise plan after you exceed 10K monthly users.
> With 10 or 20 languages behind you, code becomes separate and 'above' languages

This one is so true

I don't understand why younger programmers are so obsessed with which language is "best"

To me the algorithm/logic in the abstract is the interesting part

I would much rather work on an interesting project/problem in a "bad" language than work on a boring project in a "good" language
This is not correct. First, process node names were the same as the minimum transistor gate length, not 2X. Second, at least down to 28nm, this relationship held true. It may have also been the case for 22nm. It all went out the window with finfet processes.
The lifespan issue is significant. The suburb I grew up in is doomed because of this. 14 thousand people live in it but they don't generate enough tax revenue to retrofit the entire storm sewer system much less square the budget very well as it is. The storm sewer system is increasingly overcapacity and in need of more maintenance with these larger storms dumping more water at once. You can't exactly add more apartments to generate more tax revenue in an area where no one wants to invest in since there isn't any job growth to speak of either. This is the rust belt. The city has several huge lots and ample commercial and industrial property that they've been trying to have developed for decades now, and about the only interest they've gotten is an amazon warehouse and a carvana. The walmart actually left town already.
Really? Even with all the data showing how biased Human judges are?

At my day job, I automate everything because humans can't reliably perform basic tasks.

I'm not a believer in web3 or crypto but believe computers to be more impartial and would rather see them eventually take over certain aspects of legal work.
My experience is that you get seen quickly at the E-Room in the US in a rural area or a small town but the waits can get extreme even in a small city.

I saw somebody wait 10 hours to get admitted to the hospital with (very) terminal cancer, for instance.

Broken bones are a bad case for going to the E-room because the facilities of the hospital are overkill.
> But part of it is that FAANG compensation is just far more than anybody else could ever afford.

I don't think this is true. I've had friends getting comparable comp offers at HBO and NatGeo, for example. And of course it's been known for some time that successful startups like Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Dropbox, etc. were doing comparable offers.

Once a company decides to really compete digitally, and that they can leverage economies of scale properly there, it suddenly makes sense to compete for the same class of engineer that can work at Google, Meta, etc.
This was a fun read, but it seemed to just stop.

I'm curious to hear what the total impact of crop rotation and other items are on modern farming. I know we are always taught that that is the correct way, and yet we also hear how there is a single banana in main use. We even learn wines by the name of the grape that is used. Is there more crop rotation in place than I give credit for?

I feel that this goes to a lot of produce, honestly. There are only two main lines of coffee. Tea is a single plant, if I'm not mistaken. Avocado is rather homogeneous.
I believe that role would require relocation to the Netherlands where we have a large office. The role could still be primarily remote, but NL residence is required.
What opinion? You just demonstrated an example of subverting government authority, which is exactly what I said it can be useful for.

I didn't make any judgment about doing so.
They are learning "best practices" from the best (Google and others), I imagine.
As a customer I’m much more likely to cancel a service if I get Vague! Happy! Pointless! customer service interactions rather than honest responses.

But yes - I imagine too many MBAs is the problem most of the time…
You can learn a ton of OOP without having to dive into a mountain of different concepts too.
I interviewed at age 42 with an early-stage startup composed of a handful of twentysomethings. They asked me on three separate calls if I was concerned about how young they all were—which in retrospect seems like a veiled form of ageism. They ultimately told me that their company was not yet ready for someone with my "level of experience". I wonder if I should have sued them.
Just because it hit the news last week doesn't mean the window has closed. You jsut have to be willing to get in arguments/break up with people who dislike hearing their assumptions questioned.
>Use One Big Database.

It may be reasonable to have two databases e.g. a class a and class b for pci compliance. So context still deeply matters.

Also having a dev DB with mock data and a live DB with real data is a common setup in many companies.
> Meanwhile, everybody pays taxes so we have the data we need to not use racial discrimination.

Actually, the very wealthy _don't_ pay a ton in taxes, depending on how their wealth is invested and distributed.

What wealthy folks often do is to take lending against their assets, giving them liquidity. This is not taxable income.
> Mind explaining why the black boy is more diverse?

Because of the US History of subjugation of African Americans that includes the horrors of slavery.

> Is race the only thing that makes somebody diverse?

Nope, but is this context of elite US university, race is the only factor for diversity to undo past crimes on black people and their exclusion form only only these elite universities but all universities.
You just described, almost without discrepancy, X.25.

That does not necessarily mean anything or diminish the value of what you're suggesting; it is simply worth noting that this has been done before (and fell by the wayside decades ago).
Reach out to a friend and explain your situation, I'm sure you can find what you're looking for. These substances are ubiquitous. You might benefit from having a friend around while you're tripping, anyway.
Timezones and IP and labor laws mostly.

Having a team completely unavailable during the USA working day is a real pain for collaboration and it's hard to sue people in other countries that "borrow" your source code to make their own version. Also, knowing exactly how to pay (say) a German developer and how taxes work and what the labor laws are is always an issue.

Aside:
The very best contractors I ever hired were Ukranian. So many absolutely fantastic talents at around $30 an hour. Then Russia invaded (the first time) and annexed Sevastopol and the USA made it illegal to pay them any more.
Like for instance, this one is bad, and your new one is doing much better ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32320466
A relative worked for a hedge fund that used this idea. They were a C#/MSSQL shop, so they just bought whatever was the biggest MSSQL server at the time, updating frequently. They said it was a huge advantage, where the limit in scale was more than offset by productivity.

I think it's an underrated idea. There's a lot of people out there building a lot of complexity for datasets that in the end are less than 100 TB.

But it also has limits. Infamously Twitter delayed going to a sharded architecture a bit too long, making it more of an ugly migration.
Interesting! I had a similar idea too, but I really like the classic one. So I probably stay with it for now.
The United States is not, strictly speaking, a democracy. The people don't make decisions. They elect people who make decisions, thus it is a republic.
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I'm a fan of boiled peanuts. Definitely recommend them if you can get some. Just remember that it is like edamame, where you don't eat the shells. :D
> With all respect possible, you generated something that a professional will create for 20 minutes on a napkin (in the context of logo idea).

I feel like I understand where you're coming from, but often the phrase I hear by experts (I even use this myself in my space) is, "Sure, it only took 20 minutes to do this wiring/write this code/draw this logo, but it took 5 years to know what to make." Sure, the results aren't what you'd get if you paid a professional logo designer, but if you can get close enough, it's really cutting out the X years training necessary to get to that point.
The problem with programming paradigms is that people tend to follow them obsessively, to the point where breaking from the paradigm seems automatically bad. For example, the four "pillars" of OOP are kind of arbitrary in my opinion, so I don't see an issue with breaking them, but sometimes writing a class is a better way to handle a collection of inter-related variables & functions. I don't think that makes me an OOP "adherent". It's not really possible to determine a priori if one theory will always be better than another when it comes to writing programs.
There isn’t enough wood used, by several orders of magnitude.
I publicly, to my peer group at least, state I have enjoyed benefits of psychedelic drugs every five or ten years, I am pretty sure I have my shit together compared to most people. That being said i know the people you are talking about, but they in my experience use drugs much more frequently. Multiple times a year, and regularly also smoke weed etc.

Obviously biased when talking about myself, but I think you can split your judgement into a frequency argument rather than a binary yes or no.
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The thing that confuses me is, isn't every publicly accessible service bursty on a long timescale? Everything looks seasonal and predictable until you hit the front page of Reddit, and you don't know what day that will be. You don't decide how much traffic you get, the world does.
That is interesting
This kind of a take is ready for flames.
As a junior congresswoman, she walked right into Tiananmen Square and held up a banner that memorialized those that died. Right in front of the Beijing police! She's never stopped poking at China. The fact that she keeps getting re-elected, over and over again, is pretty good proof that she has indeed been elected to engage in foreign policy ;)
> No Linux download :-(

They discussed it, but no one has taken it on yet. I think Wojtek Mach(the desktop initial author) is a mac user, and they actively wanted to provide a way for windows users to easily try it.
There's a lot of localized flooding happening too with these summer rainstorms. You have these 100 year old storm sewer systems that need to be replaced. You end up with flooded out roads nowhere near rivers, and flooded basements. It's not "row a boat through it" flooding, but its a significant cost for the municipalities and the people who have to deal with flooded basements.
There must be more to the story...

If true, I'd check all configured email addresses. They let you configure different addresses for support/bills etc. and will send warnings only to certain addresses.

Hetzner is usually good at revolving issues.

If you don't pay a bill, they eventually will block incoming traffic from the web. They are still reachable from inside hetzner network and they will unblock traffic as soon it's paid.

If the BSI finds Ports that shouldn't be open to the public, they will forward the mail to you and won't take actions.

If you disturb their network due to misconfiguration, they will block you, demand an explanation within 24 or 48 hours and unblock you, if they find it plausible.

If you call them with technical issues - in my experience - you typically want to prepare logs, traceroutes etc. because they will know enough to provide guidance on how to resolve it.
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will likely improve massively given the generational leaps made in this area. The "good enough" threshold is very low for majority of enterprises.
I don't get the love for this particular video. It does a very poor job of explaining GM's 1930s sliding cone synchronizer. Here's a shorter modern video doing a much better job explaining how modern dog tooth synchros operate:

https://youtu.be/nM4CuWlnJY0
I had no idea that could you do the variations or the brush stuff. Maybe I’m just glossing right over it? But that seems to give the tool more utility. I just try a phrase and I either like it or I don’t.

The fact that you can integrate on it seems to make it much more useful.
I guess this was the change?

[–]snuffaloposeidon 4 points 21 hours ago
previously, MFA was a feature in their "Essentials" plan, which was $23/month per tenant for 1000 monthly users. Now, to get the same MFA features, we need to upgrade to their "Enterprise" plan, which is $27k/yr for 1000 monthly users. Hope that helps.
@dang need the link fixed to this: https://backtohumanity.substack.com/p/getting-laid-off
Disagree. Just allow one or two more iterations and it will supersede human abilities. Think ahead. Tech progress won't stop.
> Of those that do, most are able to manage their OS.

I just explained why it doesn’t matter that “most” people can manage their OS, that’s because Google has thousands of Linux users. If 1% of Google developers make a critical mistake that could be a hundred workstations or more.

On top of that, I still disagree. Many developers I’ve met are not that good at using the OS.

Remember that writing applications is a completely separate skill. You can learn to code completely separate from learning anything else about the computer. I had a college professor that taught C on a chalkboard, in this millennium.

Google’s own developer interviews are very CS and algorithm heavy and to my knowledge never test your abilities with OS management.

When you say “really just needed for mobile devices including laptops” that’s basically all devices isn’t it? You’d have to be incredibly specialized to need or prefer a desktop workstation.

I haven’t even brought up compliance controls and certifications yet, either. If you’re SOC 2 or HIPAA compliant you have to manage workstations to disable functionality and restrict system preferences. For example, there are typically restrictions on USB port data transmission and idle screen lock delay time.
> I have this exact gripe with anything and everything that compares the US with other countries, some states are huge, bigger than multiple European countries

And a lot of those huge states are filled with a whole lot of nobody. The US population is fairly concentrated: one-third lives in a county on a coastline:

* https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2019/07/millions-of-a...

And two-thirds live with-in 100 miles (160 km) of the border:

* https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

80% lives in urban areas:

* https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...

Yes, the US and particular states are big, but where people actually live is in a much smaller area. Concentrate infrastructure spending there.
The way the author specifically calls out the plural of octopus makes me think they might be trolling (Hanlon's Razor notwithstanding).
Heh, and you don’t think we won’t train AIs specifically for drawing logos where not only can you specify features that you want but even the demographics you want it to appeal to based on mass collection of data.
There is often some "redefinition of terms" going on with dedicated functional programming folks in order to assert their claims as you just demonstrated. There was some benchmark where mutable Java was shown to be around 30x faster than immutable OCaml and the discussion went to something like "no, no, that's a wrong comparison, compare it with immutable vs mutable OCaml, that is then just 2x slower! And the next compiler revision will remove it! 100% sure about it!" etc.

Why can't other modes of thinking coexist with your view? FP is OK, so is OOP, so is imperative, low-level machine code, "loop programs" (see Dennis Ritchie dissertation), logic programming etc. I like them all but hate it when somebody tries to push me one way telling me all other ways are wrong.
It's quite unlikely to see such a liberal use of numbers from an English native speaker, but this is a somewhat popular way of describing similar situations in Russian (and probably some other languages).

Using numbers in this fashion is a way of specifying the perfect condition while simultaneously letting the listener/reader know that the situation is either less or more than ideal.

Plus, it adds a subtle comical effect. Puts some supererogatory emphasis on things, so to speak :)

Combo x3!
> As a TL, I don't want to waste my precious approved headcount on people who just want to rest and vest, or people who believe in the crazy talk of only needing to work 30 minutes each day.

And yet these people exist and get hired, even at Google. Perhaps not on your team, but they’re definitely there.
I once had a company discount from BMW, and they just refused to honor it. I hate dealerships.
Sure if the Ukrainians had quietly made a backroom deal to be annexed by Russia then there would not be a war now. And then next year it would be Estonia, and so on. Would that be preferable?

The Europeans (mainly Germans) wouldn't have to buy so much LPG from the US if they had invested in other energy sources and avoided becoming dependent on Russian fossil fuels. Presidents Obama and Trump specifically warned them about this strategic risk but they didn't listen.
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It’s not even an unusual thing. Do my kids identify as white, like their mom, or “brown,” like me? It shouldn’t matter, but in the progressive world view it does.

The problem is that progressives, like racist conservatives, don’t see race as only skin deep and attach a bunch of other social and political stuff to it. So whole “identifying as a different race” makes no sense from a traditional liberal view, it is almost a necessary concept within the progressive worldview.
Its definitely not an unreasonable expectation. In fact, its usually a crucial aspect of the design decisions made in the planning of that infrastructure.

Texas' grid failure was absolutely a planning/operations failure and should have had the capacity to operate during a blizzard.

(And extended heat waves, too. But still a hypothetical for now)
By then I will have moved far beyond hands on keyboard type work and will be managing teams.
This is much better than I thought. Nice!
It's a little sloppy to use the language "make up for it" which makes it sound like they are compensating. The hypothesis they present is that perhaps the bees don't learn how not to react to other bees with the suggestion that this might make them more "distractable" (my word) from the task at hand, so ADHB

and as a small point, suggesting that they "blossomed into social butterflies"...?
ASCE has a dog in this hunt
Council tax bracket is how we do it in the UK. Is there an American equivalent? Some kind of proxy for land value?
There are definitely issues with Google's comp system, but the fact that pay depends on location is IMO not unreasonable.

Especially so given that there's often a lot of flexibility with regards to location.

For example, I chose to relocate from London to Zürich (without changing teams/project). I did it for quality-of-life reasons but the comp also increased quite significantly, even adjusted for cost of living.

And I am not some special snowflake: everybody around me who wanted to be based somewhere else had their relocation requests approved.
Was excited for this. However on my M1 mac, it launched once, and now it won't open. Tried killing all processes and now nothing.