skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too late this year but would they want me to mail catkins from a chestnut producing survivor up in NJ? I also have chestnuts collected from prior years and 2 seedlings growing from some of the prior collected ones that were planted.

The survivor has 2 branches coming out of trunk each roughly 42" in circumference, it is not as tall as the one in the article but it's probably got similar girth. The tree is at least 70 years old, I'll confirm with the landlord whether he planted it or if it survived from before his time (he's been here approx 90 years, and I know one red oak and an eastern red cedar is older than he is). We do have Chinese/Japanese chestnuts on the grounds here that are more prolific and it's likely the seedlings I have are hybrids, but who knows?

One interesting thing I noted from the American vs. Chinese/Japanese chestnuts is the chestnut weevil does not appear to infect the nuts.
He's alluded before to

> I'd call for all the chemists who've ever worked with a hexanitro compound to raise their hands, but that might be assuming too much about the limb-to-chemist ratio.
Because, as already explained elo measures relative strength not absolute one. If he's a better player he's going to beat them more often than not while not losing all the points he does now for drawing.
> "Where's the proof that a universe can't cause itself"

What we observe in nature. Everything in nature that begins to exist was caused by something else. (Some have suggested quantum exceptions to this rule, but even those claims are tenuous at best.)

The best observable evidence we have is that everything that begins to exist must be caused.

While atheist philosophers like Bertrand Russel once believed the universe was eternal -- and therefore didn't need to be caused -- it was the Big Bang theory that proved otherwise. The universe had a beginning, therefore it has a cause. My conviction, then, is that God really does exist, and the he caused the universe to exist.

> "Clearly he could prevent that...clearly he can't be [good] with all the shit going on"

You're entering territory that philosophers and theologians have been discussing for millenia. I won't pretend to have the real answer for you, but one answer I've found reasonable is that if God prevents evil, He also prevents free choice; free will. It is better to exist in a world with free will -- even if it means some people abuse that for evil -- than to exist in a world where free will doesn't exist.

On the same theme of evil and suffering, what is more problematic is if God doesn't exist, then evil is subjective. Only if God exists and right from wrong are legislated by God do we have a grounded morality, one where we can definitely say what is good and what is evil.
Building Haskell for Omni OS
* many rivers have some kind of migratory fish integral to ecosystems in both the river and whatever the outlet is, so you can’t just mark rivers as discrete segments and say the effect is isolated

* the oceans haven’t warmed by all that much and we are already seeing the impacts, it’s not really that much of a stretch to say rivers would see similar effects

* given humanity’s track record with the question “how bad could this be?” and unintended consequences, erring on the side of caution seems warranted. In particular, humanity has a bad track record with river management
There have been plenty of dictators that have been able to be ruthless efficient with their suppression of their people that had nothing akin to free markets (Russian tsars, Genghis Khan, certain dynasties in Japan, etc)

An effective government isn't evidence of anything. You forget that the most productive economy the US has ever had was during WW2. When the government basically took complete control over almost every aspect of production to make sure everything went to the war effort. Does it work? Yes. Does it mean it's a "good economy"? I don't think I'd wanna live in such an economy personally
Go hang out with some monkeys (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSm7BcQHWXk).
Ignore the haters. Spend a few thousand bucks on some used PV panels on ebay, get a bunch of used batteries, and teach yourself enough electronics to DIY build everything else. That'll take you a bit of time, but you'll learn a TON and it's fun.

It'll be a while before you get to the point where you can safely hook up to the grid "DIY", so don't do that. As other posts have mentioned, how the national grid works is fascinating and non-trivial. (I love knowing that stuff, just because I'm a dork)
What does homogeneity have to do with it?
I have this IBM PS two mechanical keyboard and I don’t know why but… I don’t really care much for the mechanical keyboards. My first laptop was made by micron, and the keys were very soft and sponge and quiet. The Macbooks from 2012 have a great keyboard.
On small, focused code bases, yes. Anything built in the last 5 years or so can probably be made to work with .NET core and on a non-windows machine.

On large monolithic .NET codebases originally built from the 2000s era, absolutely not. You need to either rewrite or stick to Windows. Porting doesn't seem to be worth the effort.
I learned a lot in CS50.
Well, the theory mentioned above is that this is not a coincident, but a causual relationship (perhaps through a self-reinforcing feedback mechanism): that humans got "intelligent enough to do so" (and further progressed way above that level) by being prone enough to do so
Quick Video about the rocket mass heater. I'm guessing the cost to heat with wood, would be even lower if your house was built around this. https://youtu.be/fwCz8Ris79g
I was walking through a local bird sanctuary this morning. The various species of woodpeckers are doing very well, because of all the dead and dying ash trees (Emerald Ash Borer.)
Indeed participating in a power market whatsoever (even paper trading) usually has regulatory and collateral requirements to get in the door. For example, on MISO in the US: https://cdn.misoenergy.org/Minimum%20Participation%20Require...
I'm not sure either, but considering the size of the ozone hole, I don't think it's unreasonable to believe it's possible.

That said, we're both just guessing.
I don't think it's an intentional scam. I what actually happened is that the ~2 people who made Zas released the software then a) immediately burned out or b) had family/financial/health issues. So they stopped updating. Then once people started getting angry, they got even more overwhelmed and just dropped off the face of the Earth.

Pretty sure that kind of thing happens with a lot of games and Kickstarters. Think No Man's Sky, but Hello Games just disappears instead going back and actually redeeming the game with free updates.

Still a half-finished product, still unfortunate, still a waste of money, and it's something you should not do if you release a paid half-finished product. But I can't imagine anyone saying "let's spend 12 months making a half-decent IDE, then release it to grift out people who actually buy paid IDEs". There are way better ways, legitimate and illegitimate, to make money.
I believe Orange County Choppers even poked a little fun at them.
To be commenting on HN is to be in an open-minded, experimental subculture. I would not describe the average American as exceptionally open-minded and experimental. The average person is by definition not exceptional in any ways. The proof is in the pudding: If psychedelic drugs were seen as safe, effective and fun by most Americans we wouldn't continue to have prohibition because Congress would have overturned those laws.
It won’t happen overnight, it will start out as a poor alternative, but slowly growing to become the robust and cheap ... solution that everyone uses.

That's the perfect definition for "The Innovator's Dilemma", the 1997 book by Clayton M. Christensen: what happened in the hard-drive industry, and other industries, as cheaper alternatives arrived and put the previous 'top-dogs' out of business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
I learned about the inotify limit last week in a similar way...
Your way is the best way. Even if you did have natural, since you’d now not be using it 9ish months of the year instead of 6, the standby/connection charges make it increasingly uneconomical.

I know a fellow who was on oil heat and the nat gas grid was going to extend to them, but they’re going to install mini splits and keep oil as their deep freeze protection.
Manitoba Canada is $0.093 CDN a kWh, that’s about $0.071 USD.

It’s mostly hydro electric here, so much so that it’s not called your ‘electric bill’, it’s the ‘hydro bill’.
I mean from the UI point of view. The new taskbar, or at least the one on the version I tried, is much more MacOS than Windows10. And the hate is because after so much work, half of the OS works in a new way, and the other half in the old way. That the new taskbar breaks all the flow from Windows 95 to today (I cannot have multiple icons for the same program), does not help.

That said, I don't get the hate on Windows. In my case, I have used many variants of Linux: Debian, Mandrake, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Mint, LFS, Suse, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, and I currently have the latest Redhat on my ThinkPad T460s. And while incredibly what the community has done, in the end I always felt that either I was missing something (Adobe, Autocad, WinRAR, hibernate, etc), or that everything was more complicated than using Windows which just works on all on my machines.

Again, I can use Linux if needed, and I am not afraid of other OSes (used DOS, BSD, OS/2, AIX, BeOS), but for my use case, Windows is much more stable, has the apps I need to use, and just works out of the box.

Maybe one day I will migrate to Linux if Microsoft continues f*cking up with it.
They tend to occur in sunny areas, provide shade, and provide a habitat for insects and birds. Citrus trees are not always pleasant to be near. Tangentially, the wood of many fruit trees is highly valued in carving and woodblock printing.
Go away cucurbitaceous troll. Gorbaciov himself said there was no such promise.
Render seems to be carrying the torch at this point. I haven’t used much of it, but it seems like a very capable replacement.
Hard to do AI or 3D graphics without an O/S.
Central banks will fail to tame inflation without better fiscal policy
Religion equals faith, is very much a Christian idea. There are other religions that are based on ritual and tradition which don't expect such an epistemology from their adherents.
Upgrade to Monterey. Not supported on my hardware.
Does it support docker running on MacOS M1, or Raspberry Pi? I need both of those. What about the dozens of features supported by Dockerfile? If you need even one of those features (for example, VOLUME), then you're back to writing Dockerfiles. And there's nothing wrong with writing Dockerfiles to begin with. You really don't need something coming in between, it's only going to get in the way.
This was an old tax loophole - employees would request a leased vehicle from the employer in lieu of actual cash wages, lowering their taxable income.

It hasn't been a loophole for years (fringe benefits tax took care of that), but many older people still do it anyway.
Yep, too little too late. Nuclear is going to miss this party. By the time any of this would feasibly be ready this crisis will be ancient history.

The smart move is to completely ignore nuclear and go straight to renewables. Proven technology that is being deployed orders of magnitude faster and at an orders of magnitude larger scale already.
I was going to say that well-known is only for stable paths, where you want to avoid collisions, not for paths with random keys... but you're right:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8615#section-3

Registrations MAY also contain additional information, such as the
syntax of additional path components, query strings, and/or fragment
identifiers to be appended to the well-known URI, or protocol-
specific details (e.g., HTTP [RFC7231] method handling).

So it could be: /.well-known/index-now/<key>

IndexNow would need to change the semantics of how they handle directories, as a key authorises only subdirectories.

I also notice there is an option for changing the filename of the IndexNow key file, but there is less flexibility about the directory it's hosted:

https://<searchengine>/indexnow?url=http://www.example.com/product.html&key=af4c4e043c7d42afad6bdeeda948527d&keyLocation=http://www.example.com/myIndexNowKey63638.txt

This seems like a potential vulnerability as if an attacker knows a text file path that contains a known (hex?) string it looks they could use it as a key?
that's a good point, although it wouldn't make a difference from the outside perspective.

it is however much easier to serve static content than evaluating headers.
the benefit of significantly increased compatibility in how you can serve the content probably outweighs the risk of logging the secret in many cases, as static content serving is compatible with virtually anything, adding additional logic to be evaluated at runtime through other means than URL contents is not as widely supported.
No, the virulence and mortality of the disease determines the percentage.
> The trace length has a negligible impact on latency.

Uhm, that is not true. If that was true, then your typical motherboard kept slots where they were 10 years ago, but they're getting closer to combat the increase in latency in other places. This is why HEDT motherboards have such layouts.

But just getting it close is not enough: M1 has higher memory latency than AMD and Intel SKUs.
Im not bullying anyone :) My Mac prefers IPV6 it seems, and if i press login on HN I get blank page. It is just annoying. If I set IPV6 in Network Prefs to Link local only, login works.
Beach day is more important than 1TB and some chars that are auto-completed by the IDE.
Never saw it before.
Why Do Covid Variants Keep Getting More Infectious?
I had to buy this book back in 1985 when working on my CS degree. Like just a handful of other books, it has survived decades of going through my collection of physical books and weeding out ones that are no longer relevant.
How does Rancher have any money left?
In other words it is just defective by design Digital Restrictions Management.
If there was a time were doubting string theory was career suicide, its wasn't in 2000 and certainly not 2010, those where the years when Woit was riding high on his book and "crisis in physics" was a popular phrase.

Honestly I think the biggest problem is that you have the timeline wrong, string theory reached its zenith in the 90's, but already by 2002 Woit could give it a good public kicking and mostly get praise for it (if you trust his own account here: http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/arxiv-trackbacks.html I find it deeply funny that of the two of the people he reports as being angry with his beat down, one is the infamous Lubos Motl! ).

As an aside, from the tone with which Woit recounts how people wrote possibly mean things about him in the comments of a blog, I suspect he might simply not be a very nice person to interact with which explains why he might have had trouble in his career.

For example, when reporting that he complained to the arxiv admins, he's careful to note he was polite, which I think sounds like someone who unprompted confirms they were wearing pants to an interview...
Sure, but so do natural forest fires. Aren't trees growing and burning down a natural full cycle with zero overall greenhouse emissions impact?
Astounding. Crazy to think about

It also makes me wonder. There was an estimated 30-60 million buffalo before colonialism in the Americas. However, those numbers were probably only possible to reach because of human activity driving out other apex predators and becoming themselves the apex predator. Similar story with paw-paws. Though they're not necessarily being threatened by anything currently, their range is decreasing. It turns out humans were essential for its distribution (likely due to other megafauna going extinct). Another example that comes to mind is the "prairie turnip" which as a staple food of many peoples that lived in the grasslands. Despite harvesting being a destructive process, the action actually ended up helping to spread their seeds. Without human harvest we've again seen a decrease in their range. I can also go on about how essential California cultural burns are for most of the "native" ecology, but I'm sure you get the point

Anyways I guess what I'm getting at is: I wonder how much humans played a role in it achieving such a widespread distribution.

There was a recent book called Dark Emu about aboriginal Australian's role in the native landscapes. Early colonists often remarked that the place looked like a giant, well-managed park. Well it turns out they actually did play a huge role in purposeful management of it. They even grew grains in massive monocultural fields that were often even larger than modern agricultural plots. Similarly there's been a ton of recent research into Amazonia and looking at it as a "manufactured landscape" because of how important the purposeful management of it by native peoples was to the ecosystem as a whole
Look, you’re not wrong about anything. In 2022, I agree with every point you’ve made. But I’m not convinced these same points hold in 1966. Hindsight is 20/20, but there’s also the values and zeitgeist of the time that might not align with what we think now. Two million men were drafted to fight a meaningless war for a corrupt political class, contrary to reports from military analysts who told them the war was unwinable and should be stopped. The most loved president in US history had been assassinated. The most educated youth ever had just entered or was leaving college. Free speech movements and civil rights protests were omnipresent. LSD was a catalyst for changing minds that had been hardened by a 1950s, post-war ennui. The mind was restless and wanted change. This endeavor entailed risk and reward. Leary was a man out of his time. People are still arguing about the results of the Concord Prison Experiment. Leary’s biggest mistake is that he stayed in the US. He should have left the country /before/ he ran into legal problems, and he should have did all his research elsewhere. I’m convinced this was his biggest mistake.
Not so arbitrary really as there are 7 planets visible to the naked eye. Well, 5 planets and 2 "lights" to be precise but each day is named after one of these. The reason we don't get all this is that we're so out of touch with planetary cycles. We obsess over micro-measurements on terminals with ever more powerful technology yet can't see what is right under our noses.
Contemporary stoves are pretty clean.
They definitely have authority at 30 feet above the surface, but the wright bros aircraft likely would operate under part 103 which governs ultralights and is fairly lax on regulation as long as you aren't operating near restricted airspace.

For example, with an ultralight you do not need any sort of pilot's license or medical certificate.

EDIT: Actually the wright bros aircraft would be too heavy to qualify as ultralight nowadays. But with today's materials I'd bet if they did it again they could get it under the weight limit.
Right up till the moment they aren’t free any more.
Intel is way behind, but at least they know it and are doing something about it. They just need to ship more 10nm processors to float them for a while so they can develop chiplets.
I mean, they actually are saved by the government. The government has forgiven billions in student loan debt from shady for-profit institutions.
Hmm, I think I used the authy enrollment via Coinbase... Should I be worried?
If you're comfortable sharing: Which countries was this? What was your power source(s)?
The old rule of thumb is a cord of wood can be harvested per acre per year.

You can either spot clear cut or selectively thin to get that cord.
If memory serves D.A.R.E. was framed as harm reduction, identical era to M.A.D.D. which in my opinion was focused on harm reduction.
If it was widely used it's win-win. More timely updates and less traffic crawling pages which haven't changed. That's if it ever becomes a reliable signal of page changes.
I'm in New Hampshire. I get about half my heat from wood. I use two cords per year.
This made me have feelings, I wrote them up on my blog: https://xeiaso.net/blog/rip-heroku

I wish that things were better such that we could have nice things.
Why does there have to be a meaning? Maybe we are just chemical reactions and nearly zero entropy self propagating whorls. Does that change anything at all for you as a thinking, living, feeling being? My point was you find meaning all the time in the things you find meaningful. I suspect that’s all there is, but if you stop and think about it that’s all there needs to be or frankly can be. Any other extrinsic meaning would be at odds with your meaning at the moment.
It's great but it just... isn't there yet. It's missing some core features from the desktop website. Seek is a better-made app that strips most of iNaturalist features to basically just make it a species identification app. Not sure if your observations even end up going towards citizen science initiatives like the main app does

The team behind iNaturalist is like 6 people (though they're hiring! I wanted to apply but it seems like they mostly need help with DevOps)
The genetic modification the ACF is doing is actually very controversial among the community of people commuted to restoring fruit and nut biodiversity.

I just saw Eliza Greenman speak on this subject, never expected that to circle back to HN.
Look, the entire problem is that wherever people start, their modifications lead to entirely wrong predictions.

To be very clear this also happens when you start with a theory that describes the local universe well, indeed the fact that when general relativity extrapolated backwards gives blatantly unphysical results is the entire issue we are trying to solve!
>A proper religion with strong scholarly underpinnings like Islam has this issue figured out.

Wow, I'm surprised you went there. To this day many denominations of Islam are still killing each other over the "correct" interpretation.

You call out developed worlds as if they're immoral yet the most religious countries [0] also have a big overlap in having the most militant conflict [1]. Oh but they're happy, right? I wouldn't think so. Many of the least religious countries, such as the Scandinavian countries, often rank higher on happiness as well. Also in the developed world we can criticize our own countries more, generally, and so we have lots of free press that loves to prop up the negatives. Are Islamic countries generally free to criticize themselves so easily? Sorry to speak negatively of those countries but you invite such generalizations when you make such generalizations.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religiosity#/media/File:Import...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflict...
Yeah this is an option. There is a fee and and exit tax audit. But I travel to the US frequently for visiting family and business and I worry renouncing would lead to border crossing troubles. Im not living outside the US because Im anti US. It’s just where my career took me and then I met my spouse, bought a house, had kids, etc. I don’t want to give up the citizenship of my birth country. So I will complain about the draconian US tax laws but I will probably just endure them for the rest of my life.
Or he wanted "largely", because all there was to be said about the topic has already been said in that other thread.
I imagine there is a lot more than just publishing costs, such as advances to obtain a particular author (and audience), marketing costs, etc.