skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dams work well in regions with limited rainfall. The indian subcontinent receives most of its annual rainfall during the monsoon. Periods of 100 mm/hour of rainfall are not uncommon. Annual rainfall numbers in southern asia are often 1000 mm. North america's closest regions with that level of rainfall are all west of the rocky mountains.

Dams are unlikely to help here and pose a serious risk if they break - which they can in a region prone to earthquakes.
Nope, I bailed in 2005 after 10 years. Healthcare tech now, and I hope to never need to do the kind of low level coding I did back then, ever again :D
I keep getting `No module named 'ldm'` after I run `python scripts/dream.py --full_precision`. I've confirmed 'ldm' is activate in conda. Any idea?
Same with me. I'm very strict about what goes into my feed. Thankfully I'm away from mainstream Twitter.
Get natural gas from Canada and the US. North America can supply Europe. Frack in Germany, supply yourself.

You have to choose, is Ukraine worth short term financial pain? The choice is to surrender Ukraine to Russia and take the gas, or suffer for a year financially while you ramp up other energy sources.
Once we have sophisticated enough humanoid robots, these would be teachable by ai
Are you saying that Mexican immigrants and descendants in the US would be loyal to the Mexican government?
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Hacker News is amazing because there are so many confidently wrong people.

Ever hear of contentful? https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/contentful

Or the entire category of headless CMS (A $600m/yr market growing at 20%+/year), for which eng is a primary stakeholder in the buying decision?
Yes. Mostly in digital form (O'Reilly Safari or whatever it's called now, though I don't know if I can heartily recommend, quality of titles has seemed to diminish in the offerings).

Occasionally will spring for a hardcopy book form.

True, most are outdated fairly quickly and few have long lasting value beyond 1-2 years. But when done right, nothing is better than a good text to guide you from beginner to intermediate, or intermediate to advanced. I've tried watching video but it just doesn't seem like an efficient mode (for most video courses, there are exceptions and wonderful video courses).
Because the hardware is very rarely the most expensive part of a business, especially in tech. Software developers are paid 50-100x what a laptop costs per year. And if the employee leaves, the laptop goes to a new one. In the meantime, those 2yo laptops the devs had often get passed on to HR, sales, etc. It's not like they get tossed out with the trash.

If getting new hardware makes an employee happy and/or allows them to get a job done even slightly faster, it's basically free to the company, so why not?

A personal machine is a very different cost/benefit calculation to a work box.
Here's what I'll point out: the generation that grew up to be astronauts didn't have astronauts to look up to. They looked up to silent movie stars, army generals, and Depression-era daredevils. Neil Armstrong was born in 1930 and flew in a "Tin Goose" as a child; he probably admired barnstormers a lot more than the rocket scientists who eventually paved the road for his flight to the Moon.

It's of course good to have good role models. But I don't think those role models need to be technical experts or "heroic" in some socially beneficial way to be good. They can also be good public speakers, or educators, or just plain entertaining.
Mostly fir or spruce in the US as well, but those are often informally referred to as "pine"
> How often do you leave the city?

Effectively never. When I do it's usually with someone who has a car so we go in theirs.
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Going to push back on this a little. I've been at multiple startups, and of course there is eventually people who take paternity leave.

As someone who did have to "step up", I think I did a fine job, but I wasn't exactly thrilled about needing to do 2 jobs now: my old job and the job of the person out on leave. For no additional pay.

I absolutely believe parents should take leave, and while the exact amount may be up for debate, I think that, generally, paid leave in the US is woefully short. But I think it's really shitty to just pretend the extra burden on your colleagues doesn't exist when someone takes leave, or that they'll necessarily see it as a great "opportunity".
Huh, looks like you are correct: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/benefits-leave/fmla

This is good info, thank you for sharing.

Edit: Wikipedia has clarification on eligibility https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_and_Medical_Leave_Act_o...

> “Highly compensated employees” have limited rights to return to their jobs. They are defined as “a salaried eligible employee who is among the highest paid 10 percent of the employees employed by the employer within 75 miles of the facility at which the employee is employed”.

I guess I should clarify my 6 weeks is paid time off.
Why is this something you think AI cannot do ever? What is too difficult about plumbing?
The kettle switches itself off automatically once the water is near boiling point. At that point I start the timer, and leave the eggs where they are. When the timer stops, I replace the hot water inside the kettle with cold water for a minute or so, then drain, peel, and eat.
Can we please just have high quality public transit, including high-speed inter-city rail?
Why not just draw heat from the person and convert it to electricity?
Can you comment on how difficult this was? and how much time it took?

I've thought about doing something similar with some open source games but have just never had the time.

The work is fantastic! I hope you enjoyed making it!
I so frequently see this tone with accessibility discussions: "X is not accessible, so don't use it, stop what you're doing, this is bad." I don't think that kind of scolding - which is what it comes off as - is productive for solving the problem of "X is not accessible", because it presumes the problem is unfixable. I believe you wrote your comment in good faith, and I agree accessibility is important. But I think you should consider focusing on this:

> I'm sure there are ways to add accessibility to a web port of WX

and not

> Just uttering my careful warning that you should please, please, please think 3, 4, 5 times before deciding to actually use this UI library for serious projects.

because, as you acknowledge, this is a hobby project. The goal is to do something cool and fun and push boundaries of what's possible. So if pushing accessibility for all web apps is your goal, why not seize this moment to say "hey let's find ways to make WASM apps more accessible" rather than saying "nobody should use this for serious projects"? Why not try to fix it rather than shutting it down? Doesn't it benefit people more if we find a way to make accessibility easy, rather than discouraging people because it's hard?

There are lots of cool and interesting technical problems in there that somebody who takes the time to make something like this could have interest in: How do OCR or other accessibility tools understand canvasses? How can we communicate with them? What addons to WASM or wxWidgets would achieve this goal?
It's would actually be really easy to completely close the border if there was the political will for it. The US spends way more money on frivolous things every year than it would take to fully militarily fortify the entire border.
The theme/presentation of this site is top tier. Nice work.
Ask HN: How do Glassdoor type websites verify employee status?
I have a neat idea in this space that came about due to my own needs and I would like to implement it as a project.

My question is: how do I verify employee status, especially being careful to protect identity and without demanding too much information from users? What is the usual modus operandi in this niche?

EDIT: Since you folk are the target demographic, you might also tell me what kind of verification you would prefer. In this particular application I do not need to collect any sensitive information, but I would need to verify employee status.
I love technology and have to keep telling my friends that it's possible there won't be a computer industry in 30 years. I'm not joking. Our technology requires a highly complex and organized society to continue to function and develop. Complex and highly organized societies developed under a stable climate. We created societies built on cities that don't move.

If you love technology. If you love computers. Then global warming is your biggest threat and something you should care about deeply.
> But the corollary there is that if your teams can handle just as well without you as with you, then the rational decision would be for your company to just fire you if you aren't raising the output or success probabilities of your team.

IMO, anyone who deprecates themselves from an important role within a team has successfully scaled themselves in a very interesting way (same output, but person is free to do other things). Such a person would seem very valuable and destined to scale in even more interesting ways.
I faced the same dilemma. I despise snap. I wanted something Debian based too, but I ended up biting the bullet and crossing over to Fedora Silverblue - it's different than the normal Fedora builds, in it's intentional design for Flatpaks + Podman being the core and minimizing system wide installations.

It worked really well for me, and somehow even better system support* than I had with Ubuntu, something I didn't think was possible.

* Better system support: as in 0 issues sleeping/waking from sleep, reading from fingerprint reader, connecting to bluetooth, switching sound output, connecting controllers, and switching between different multi monitor setups. I mean Ubuntu was great, miles better than my work provided Macbook Pro (that is a study in frustration), but the Fedora Silverblue installation ups the ante, pure gnome is also slightly better than Ubuntu's tweaks.
somewhat unrelated but I recently looked for a pi and it was sold out or the price tag was 10x the regular price everywhere, mostly because of the chip shortage. Am I looking in the wrong places?
> In Universe Pro®™ the laws of physics
remain unchanged under time reversal,
to maintain backward compatibility.
Yes, but this data is held by the cell phone companies. Based on the article, this is using "data from apps in accordance with their legal agreements" so that doesn't seem to be the source.

I hope cell phone companies require warrants for the data (they should per Carpenter v. United States) although I don't really trust them.
When Gabe Brown switched from conventional agriculture to regenerative agriculture, he increased water infiltration in his soil from 0.5 inches (1.25cm) per hour to 30 inches (75cm) per hour. So imagine if he and all his neighbors had the same beautiful soil -- flooding just couldn't happen.

I haven't seen a list of such measurements from permaculture, but I know it can be used to regreen deserts (as shown in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Arizona and elsewhere). And I assume permaculture vastly increases water infiltration. Geoff Lawton has videos showing Zaytuna Farm happily surviving drought and flood alike.

If farmers switched from conventional agriculture to some combination of regenerative agriculture and permaculture, most flooding would be prevented. Their own fields would easily infiltrate rain, eliminating runoff that builds up into flooding.

The article mentions that in addition to Pakistan getting double the normal amount of rain, increased glacier melt is filling the Indus river. I assume that in the theoretical situation of all farmers in Pakistan practicing regenerative ag or permaculture, that land on the Indus would flood. But not 1/3 of the country as we're seeing now, and the flooded areas would recover faster.
Why would it be hard to implement? Remember that unregistered satellite phone and internet terminals is illegal in India. The Starlink dish is not small nor easily hide-able if you want to access the Internet.

They don't need to visit everyone's home. As I said drone and UAV photos, then you know which home has it. Then re-education for those owners.
Apple ranks higher than Tesla in new-vehicle consideration survey
It's not a foregone conclusion that we're doomed to a life of accelerating climate change. We could deploy solar geoengineering to see us through the transition to renewables. Then, as fossil sources are retired and direct air capture comes online, gradually draw down our geoengineering efforts.

It may seem like a non-starter right now, but what about five years from now? What if our best climate models agree that it will do less damage to the planet than allowing the permafrost to thaw?
I've been using this on/off for sometime. I've realised must of my editing is very basic and this has been overkill for little tasks as adding text overlay and cropping.
In the words of Bartleby the Scrivener... "I'd prefer not to..."

I've spent years fighting through many small cuts, many of which are focused around the opinionation of GNOME developers. Plenty of issues around the screenshot tools, the dumbing down of settings around wireless and/or networking configuration.
Their marketing dept probably wanted to add "the punisher" logo to it
Last time I booked plane tickets there was an option to pay to offset the CO2 emitted by the flight. Looking at their programs, one was to plant trees, the other one was to plant less trees but give people in Africa and India more efficient wood burning stoves. Are any of these making a dent in the carbon emissions or is it just feel-good?

I would be willing to pay double the plane ticket price if it meant actually making a difference (sleeping better at night would also be a bonus).
There have been many attempts with the 13B. One I saw it all worked, except the exhaust system. Builder went through everything, built 3 or 4 of them. The last was made out of titanium welded by guys who worked for a defense contractor.

Failed in flight like the rest of them. He ended up with a lycoming.
Sorry haven't heard about it but thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Fragment: web development environment for creative coding
We have a bunch of Surface Laptops and Surface Books (looove the books) where I work (auto parts factory) that have survived better than they have any right to. I dunno wtf the previous IT was thinking getting them. They have 8 million magnets and are constantly covered in weld dust. But they keep right on working... shorting out power bricks and docks as they go though. In the process of retiring all of them but I have already cleaned up and let several people take their units home as they still get 5-10 hours of battery out of them and have no other issues. It is kind of wild how durable they have been.
I build fictional worlds as a hobby, and sometimes I need to make a map of a globe and find myself in need of a program that can draw vector shapes onto a globe and project it onto a 2D map afterwards. The simplest way I've found to do that which fits my workflow is a program called GPlates. A program that simulates plate tectonics. I've never touched the simulation part, although it might be useful in my worldbuilding at some point. All I use it for is drawing colored shapes.
I can think of one specific case. At some point, it all of a sudden wasn't possibly to disable cursor blinking in gnome-terminal anymore.

It's fixed now, but it took years and absolutely no admission that perhaps they didn't handle it very well.

The entire story is outlined here. https://geoff.greer.fm/2016/08/26/gnome-terminal-cursor-blin...
> If you're manager of a lean team or startup, how have you effectively handled your or an employee's mat/pat leave when in reality, your biz is already short-staffed? Temporary promotions? Contractors? Spreading the work across the team?

I usually make a replacement hire and ask the person returning from leave if they want to keep doing what they were doing (this is a legal obligation) and if the returnee says yes, I offer to move the replacement to a different role (if the replacement is redundant and productive). In a small startup, leaves are a great way to expand the team - you get a great person back, and have a no risk way to try out a new person. You just have to remember that people on leave... be it National Guard, maternity or any other contractual or legally mandated leave absolutely have to get their old job back, and excuses for not doing so will result in painful, often losing litigation.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-022-2034-1

Unlikely. At least a single volcanic eruption is not enough to change the long-term climate trend, you need a clusters of eruptions to persist through centuries for that. HTHH will likely decrease the global mean surface temperatures by 0.004°C in the first year.

Compared to that human activity is a thousand times more significant, everything else is statistical noise next to it, which at least means that it is easy to spot.
FDA RDIs (https://www.fda.gov/media/99069/download):

- Vitamin B6: 1.7mg

- Vitamin B12: 2.4mcg

The study uses 100mg Vitamin B6 (~60x RDI) and 1000mcg Vitamin B12 (~417x RDI) for a month. High doses have been previously associated with toxicity symptoms:

- Vitamin B6 (> 100mg/day): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18060778/, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15473987/.

- Vitamin B12 (1000mcg/day for 2 weeks): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31018715/

Personally, I would try to get Vitamin B6/B12 from diet as much as possible. B6 is available from a variety of foods (https://www.famnom.com/nutrient/1175/). Interestingly, Vitamin B12 is available from dairy and milk (https://www.famnom.com/nutrient/1178/), not just meat.
> There are already cameras monitoring humans inside rental cars and nobody seems to mind

While i'm fully aware my rental can often have GPS tracking etc for the rental company, I have never, ever seen a rental with a camera filming the occupants, and I've rented a lot of cars around the world. I cant find any evidence of this online either.

The one example I can find where a lens was present in the cabin from Hertz appears to be part of a navigation system feature that was never used, and Hertz even then had to handle public backlash for the disabled camera. The public backlash/reputation damage of filming private occupants in the cabin solely for the security benefit of the rental agency would be pretty significant too, to the extent I can't imagine this happening in most Western nations.
> this story says that this program is in historically Black and Latino neighborhoods. Kind of a difference if it's open to all people or not.

Even if open to all people, this is a clear case of disparate impact [1], which runs afoul of the Civil Rights act. But I wouldn't hold my breath for an even application of the law.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact
I just read it and the requirement for computers applies to hardware and operating systems. Ecommerce sites are covered but website and mobile app requirements beyond that apply to communication, transportation and public sector systems. The vast majority of private sector systems will still not have a legal accessibility requirement.
Just a clarification about "fb presto", there isn't a "fb presto", its Linux Foundation Presto, which has its own unique innovations and used reliably at all scales, including places like Meta, Uber, Alibaba, and more recently ByteDance. Linux Foundation Presto isn't controlled by one vendor, it has 10 member orgs overseeing the project, following Linux project practices, and doing community outreach like PrestoCon. See for yourself @ prestodb.io (Disclaimer: I'm Ahana CEO, providing a Cloud Managed Service for Presto-based SQL Lakehouses, and member of Linux Foundation's Presto Foundation)
Because they are afraid?
Why the West should have more kids
Net metering is causing big problems for electric generators because tons of houses now use 0 net electricity, but still pull from the grid at night. The state is effectively turning the grid into a free unlimited battery for everyone and they haven't figured out the economics of that.
Great, thanks for the last-word offer. I'll take it. And by the way, ad hominem attacks just make you look like an idiot.

Maybe try admitting that Ehrlich WAS one of the Malthusians of that period, as evidenced by scholarly articles like [1] and [2], which mention him in the same breath.

You are correct that he's not one of the authors. However, [2] says:

This movement, which was a new
chapter in the long running dispute between Malthusians and Cornucopians (Desrochers and Hoffbauer,
this issue) can be construed as having commenced with
the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962)
and Paul Ehrlich’s Population Bomb (1968), and, by
many accounts, reached maturity with the publication
of The Limits to Growth (1972) and its success and huge
circulation.

[1] https://www.condition.org/as95-6.htm

[2] https://ppe.mercatus.org/system/files/JULIAN_AND_THE_LIMITS_...
Distributed systems are a necessary evil. They fucking suck. They aren't a good solution. They are just the best solution.

I wonder if there will be a paradigm shift that almost completely wipes them out. Such as quantum computing. It stands to reason that something 158 million times faster than current super computers will allow us to just scale things vertically and remove parallelization.

https://www.livescience.com/quantum-computing#:~:text=Quantu....

Of course, as technology increases so do our expectations. So we may still utilize these complicated strategies to solve problems that are utterly unfathomable today. But you might be able to run all your microservices in 1 process.
The latest iphones even can be tracked while off through apples find my network (Bluetooth based). It can be switched off. But it poses some interesting questions.
Building an NFC-enabled Raspberry Pi powered jukebox to control my Sonos
Alternatively in a scarcity system with anxiety over one's own future, absolute authority becomes more desirable, not less. The only law that could be removed to prevent this would be the law of nature, since the only greater driving force than one's legacy is to promote the future of one's own children (the least mentioned failing of socialist societies).

The existence of a warlord tendency isn't totally abolished with capitalism, it is only mitigated by pressures to conform which is problematic for modern society versus Victorian or 50s society because various brands or artists wish precisely to stand out.

There is no way for anything to ultimately be a benefit to society without any understanding that one is part of a greater whole, which will be an interesting argument to present to anyone involved in designing curriculums.
View it as an opportunity for your promising team members to step and develop. It will give them space to flourish. Sell it that way as a win-win. When you come back, you will hopefully have a stronger team and can build on it as you grow.

If you are short-staff try to hire ASAP.
At first I thought Julia could fill role, but it has many problems with correctness (bugs), proper documentation, tooling…
Yes, I didn’t mean to imply that he discovered it. He demonstrated that it’s a low-cost and high-yield process, and not too difficult to do (I don’t think he’s a trained chemist). Bringing that to many people’s attention is the significant contribution.

I might be overstating its significance relative to the rest of his journalism. 5-MEO-DMT is a niche drug, though once the draconian laws preventing research are loosened it may, like other psychedelics, prove to be medically important.
You gotta take out that fade out effect. It’s terrible for usability.

Otherwise great work!
Tax rate for income > 60K Euro is 45%. On top of that VAT (IVA) current standard rate is 21% in Spain. Add on some other taxes (property tax, municipal taxes, IVTM, etc) and seems pretty high to me.