skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A redwood tree can live for more than 2000 years. That seems plenty long for carbon sequestration.

We should pay the logging companies to save a certain number of trees instead of cutting them every 30 or so years.
Yes, that's why I consider it not only okay to block ads, but unethical not to.

If you look at ads, you are funding advertisers' mission to create hell on earth.
frequency of appearance != favorite.
Converting a Verizon Wireless SIM → ESIM
I am confused. the situation is exactly as you describe, modulo the word "default": zinc oxide sunscreens are available, chemical sunscreens are also available. And I'm not sure what "default" means in this context.

Anyway, if you spend a lot of time in the sun or at the beach the functional problem with zinc oxide is pretty clear: it's harder to spread and put on. This might not seem like an issue but if you spend a lot of time dealing with it, the annoyance adds up.
There’s the nreal air glasses that you can buy today for £400 and some Lenovo glasses that were posted on hn recently that are coming next year. The future is already here:

https://youtu.be/bj8hMtWeTUg
Wouldn't also need to change the function name to `isEven`?
A lot of the particles emitted are neutrons (which have no charge)
Makes me wonder if there could be a market segment addressable here. If somebody wanted to burn their own CDs nowadays it’s never been cheaper, for instance. Perpetual hosting not so much. But buying a NUC and hosting locally is pretty affordable.
The issue with unikernels and things like Firecracker are that you can't run them on already-virtualized platforms

I researched Firecracker when I was looking for an alternative to Docker for deploying FaaS functions on an OpenFaaS-like clone I was building

It would have worked great if the target deployment was bare metal but if you're asking a user to deploy on IE an EC2 or Fargate or whatnot, you can't use these things so all points are moot

This is relevant if you're self-hosting or you ARE a service provider I guess.

(Yes, I know about Firecracker-in-Docker, but I mean real production use)
> I followed the whole thing and I barely understand it.

What don't you understand?
See Sowell's Basic Economics (the chapter on rent control) for why this doesn't work. It's not because of bad implementations, it's because it's a bad idea. There won't be a good implementation.
What Is The eBPF Foundation?
You could always fixup all of your scripts so they point to the correct point in PATH. this also has the benefit of notifying you if a program doesn't exist. Do note that env is unportable (freebsd has -P I think), which makes parsing it a PITA, identifying where the program actually is, is slightly challenging. If you ask me its better to throw the program to sh and let it eval to whatever. sh is the true portable launcher.

I wrote [0] in lua a while back (mind the comments), didn't destroy anything I think, I wrote [1] just now in gawk, so not as recommended.

[0]: https://termbin.com/ijsu

[1]: https://termbin.com/rx0e

FWIW the correct solution, is the plan9 one, just union mount/bind all paths to /bin.
Is that like Feel-O-Rama?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-79Mb_uE9Fk
You will be out of there anyway, so:
- Cold blood

- Enjoy this chapter of your life, as who watches a horror movie.

- Take it as a personal growth opportunity, see what is in there for you to learn.

- Respond with kindness all the time, even if they provoke you. That will way they will regret anything they do, also others colleagues might resent what your managers are doing to you.

- learn as much as you can

- look for a new job.
Very true. One of the most effective approaches for learning math is reviewing the same material multiple times, at different levels of depth. This is what is usually done for math competition training and it's night and day compared to the usual "multiplication tables => polynomials => precalc => calc..."

A similar approach to teaching CS isn't too far fetched.
Two quibbles:

One, saying that he was important to the success of the company is not the same thing as saying he's a particularly good technical innovator on his own. Take Steve Jobs as an example: important to the success of the Mac, but as a visionary who was also enough of an asshole that he got fired.

Two, what people will say about an egotistical, litigious billionaire is limited. Even more so when he controls their income and/or they still hold a lot of illiquid stock. Note, for example, that Musk fired 5 people just for internal criticism: https://www.reuters.com/technology/spacex-fires-employees-in...

I saw a lot more negative accounts about Steve Jobs starting a few years after his death than I did in the years leading up to it. I expect to see something similar with Musk.
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There used to be a bunch of different RAM compressors. They were very popular. I think one was called "Stacker."
Wouldn't this case apply here too, making it ineligible for copyright protection? https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-copyright-offic...
Is "Code" a good Christmas present for a technically/scientifically minded friend who is novice in computing or are there other better books that are more in pop-science style?
This begs to mention the beloved ft.com 404 page: https://www.ft.com/errors/page/404
This article comes with a complementary postgres extension which we wrote to benchmark various UUIDs: https://github.com/t3hmrman/pg_idkit

In case you don't read the article, my favourite idea is using the `ksuid` type as both an ID and a *created_at* field:

> One interesting feature would be using at least partially time-based UUIDs for created_at columns -- we could save space by virtualizing our created_at columns:

CREATE TABLE users (
id text PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT idkit_ksuid_generate(),
name text,
);

SELECT *, idkit_ksuid_extract_timestamptz(id)
FROM users;
It's not clear to me that VMs actually do offer better isolation than well-designed containers (i.e. not docker).

It's basically a question of: do you trust the safety of kernel-mode drivers (for e.g. PV network devices or emulated hardware) for VMs, or do you trust the safety of userland APIs + the limited set of kernel APIs available to containers.

On my FreeBSD server, I kind of trust jails with strict device rules (i.e. there are only like 5 things in /dev/) over a VM with virtualized graphics, networking, etc.
> It's like you're saying we should learn about how the immune system works from an interview with an anti-vaxxer.

I think a more relevant comparison is learning how the economy works from a goldbug.

Also, what is it with economics that makes people so susceptible to these contrarian views that have been proven to be bullshit?

I'm not an expert in the field, but I've had an interest in it since I was a teenager. I've read books, I listen to podcasts, I've watched videos, I read the economist. I have an ok understanding of how things work. But I don't delude myself into thinking that I have anywhere near the required knowledge to actually hold a strong opinion on these matters. Yet, so many of these people are convinced that their opinions made up of fringe ideas from YouTube videos are the definitive truth.
The main interesting thing about GPT-3 is that prompt engineering turns it into an incredibly general tool. This summary was likely generated with a prompt something like:

Here's an article about x:
<text of sample article>

A quick summary of the article, focusing on the main relevant points and keeping critical detail:
<sample summary>

as an example, then duplicating that with the real article and text.

That's the "few shot learning" from the original paper. It could also be that it's good enough at summarizing specifically that you don't need an example, just the right framing prompt around the article text. Either way, that kind of prompt engineering is how you get "text completion" to perform basically any text processing task, generate code or play tic tac toe, so on
Yes and no.

Certain categories seem like they would be impossible to astroturf, or at least the brands in those categories wouldn't know the ROI on doing an astroturfing campaign.

Two randomly cherry picked categories:

https://looria.com/search?category.subcategory=TVs - this is pretty consistent with rtings.com. Samsung is very likely astroturfing, but LG's OLED are still consistently rated high no matter how much astroturfing and is consistent with my personal experience.

https://looria.com/search?category.subcategory=&category.cat... - do you honestly think a company like Tojiro is astroturfing Reddit or their S&M team even knows what Reddit is?
I have a similar approach but I use Instapaper
You don't see anything dubious about campaigners selling a wide range of policy options based on reheated monetarism as economic panacea with a progressive slant because banks bad?

You can have New Deal type infrastructure and public works projects in the existing system, or the government pumping asset prices by far more directly transferring money to the rich in a full-reserve banking "Positive Money" system. The only thing guaranteed by "positive money" is that it makes the supply of money a centralised political decision rather than a decentralised supply and demand based one, and makes retail banking even less friendly to the average person.
The track isn't an inconvenience to be removed, track is the major source of the efficiency. Rubber-wheeled train cosplay would not achieve the same levels of efficiency.
Not people who live in dense cities with good subway systems and a walkable infrastructure. Driving is one of the most dangerous things humans do. The argument that all health care should be private– the perspective this comment addressed– would not make such a consolation simply because it's common.
Im all for declaring this a terrible dystopian idea but I do think there is sufficient market demand. My points are:

* There is a demand for point and click jobs at extremely low pay rates, whether in developing countries or for aging populations that want employment but are barred from many physical jobs. This provides the supply of workers.

* Games print money, so much so that studios and publishers have become investment vehicles and popular acquisition targets. There's a lot of available capital and interest from adjacent industries.

* Building successful social games is really hard. Companies are chucking billions between mobile, VR, MMO, and other gaming markets. And IMO for the most part they are completely failing outside of standouts like Rockstar and a handful of others. Seriously I've seen nothing out of the Metaverse for all the investment and backing Facebook has put into it - they could really use SOMETHING to standout with.

* Also the activity itself reminds me of renaissance fairs or other re-enactor activities, including Disneyland.

So I think its really possible for a startup to kick this idea around, and its possible its implemented in a game where it is successful and sustainable.

I think the world becomes a worse place if this is normalized, but that really describes most startups these days.
Quite frankly if your PATH isn't set up correctly you have bigger problems than #!
Don't worry about making it "look like windows". Just use the default KDE Plasma desktop.

Will LibreOffice suffice as a stand in for MS Office for her? (It should if her spreadsheets aren't full of macros). LibreOffice has a ribbon; learn how to enable it.

Does she currently use OneDrive?

Obviously web browsing won't be an issue (just use Firefox+uBlock Origin).

Does she watch Peacock streaming on the laptop? It blocks Linux for no good reason (DRM shills please stay quiet).

She can get used to the new interface just like when would have to if she got a new version of Windows -- if she feels like it.
The title is wrong, should be `More recursive definitions`.

The title simply engages my pedantic self and makes me want to point out that tail recursion == looping and, really, that recursion is looping.
Britain lurched to the right after Margaret Thatcher but that didn't keep Labor from being in power for a few years (by co-opting the Tory program the same way Clinton co-opted Reagan) Germany, Israel, France, and numerous countries with parliamentary systems have power alternate between parties.

As for "opposition to conservatives everywhere is often much more fractured" that makes me think of an observation I've had which is that conservatives in the US are united by the idea that there is a way that things are "spozed" to be whereas what passes for the left in the US are a groups of people who perceive themselves to either be outgroups or be supportive of outgroups. The problem is that racial/ethnic groups such as blacks or latinos don't automatically support, say, transsexual maximalism. Environmentalism is still perceived as a "white thing" even though blacks are worse off when it comes to exposure to toxics. "Environmental racism" as an issue just hasn't sold.
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yeah no worries it’s a very common superficial reaction! we just spend a lot of time explaining it:

https://twitter.com/rich_harris/status/1420214295242199041?s...

https://twitter.com/rich_harris/status/1147902393293688834?s...

https://www.swyx.io/svelte-why#two-way-binding
6 times: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=taichi-lang.org
A classic article on this: In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell

https://harpers.org/archive/1932/10/in-praise-of-idleness/
It's just as easy for a machine to throw away and not count your vote. Most machines actually print out encoded paper ballots that have all the same vulnerabilities but are usually harder to verify on the voter's side that they recorded your votes correctly.
I tried something similar but I failed after a couple of months
I'm pretty excited as well. This is another big step away from legacy hardware that implemented the OpenGL 1.0 API in the hardware. In case that sounds judgmental, it was awesome back in the 3dfx Voodoo days to have this kind of hardware.

What's really great here is that DirectX 12 (and now Vulkan too) allow the engine to access the underlying GPU hardware without this legacy baggage.

Apple Metal 3.0 will also support mesh shaders.
Pursuing happiness equals perpetual discontent. Learn to be content with what you have, and harness it as a power.
Maybe we could use a massively scalable set of machinery that uses sunlight to produce energy and sequester carbon. Seems like the machinery could be nature inspired… or maybe just natural. Plants could just be the answer we are all reaching for here.
Defending Privacy in Crypto
Why do you care about the forest supporting other life? Isn't the goal just to take carbon out of the atmosphere?
But the internet before AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve was pretty awesome. And free (aside from connection costs -- but that's no different than today).
Discussion from 6 days ago on LiveView Native: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32694668
hm not sure but I think at high growth rates the majority of soil N does come from decomposition even when nitrogen fixation is present.
Seems very weird to me. Where's the difference between me using a Photoshop plugin that generates some parts of the image and me using Stable Diffusion that generates some parts of the image? How do you know how much of the image was generated and how much was created by my own hand in Photoshop? What if I have Stable Diffusion as Photoshop plugin?
> "It’s quite funny to grow up in a country where, throughout your adult life, you are simultaneously infantilised at every turn while also called emotionally weak because you can’t handle real life problems like speaking on the phone or the abuse of vulnerable minorities."

I don't know where vice find their "journalist" freelancers. But I assume it involves fetal alcohol syndrome and endemic single parenting.

These tedious attempts at edgy articles are feeling more hackneyed by the week.
Also the conclusion for those who skip to the comments:

* integers and serial have obvious benefits for simplicity, storage, and sortability. You might not want to expose them to the world though.

* If you want the ultimate in collision avoidance UUIDv4 is OK

* UUIDv1 could have been great, but it doesn't lexicographically sort.

* The best time-based ID seems to be xid, with good performance and sort friendliness

* If you want to be a little more standards-oriented, UUID v6/v7
What is difficult?

I find them very refreshing compared to other dep mgmt systems. They also have a lot of secondary benefits most are not aware of.

https://verdverm.com/go-mods
That's the equivalent of ~$240k in today's dollars!
> standard upgrade method on most deployed desktop/laptop linux

Deployed desktop Linux has /bin and /lib, so it's somehow working.
The indentation is broken, so one possible way to interpret it is:

def is_prime(n: int):
result = True
for k in range(2, int(n ** 0.5) + 1):
if n % k == 0:
result = False
break
return result

Which is just a more complicated (n % 2 != 0). Obviously the break should be in the if block.
I agree, I wish they were more common, but you don't need torrents to solve any issues with resuming downloads. HTTP supports sufficient functionality to accomplish this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Range_requ...
Looks pretty interesting to be honest
This seems like a good idea:

> "Walidie sees himself as an envoy of Bedouin traditions, including tracking. He aspires to educate new generations of “desert children,” to “wean them off iPhones, acquaint them with the natural environment of the desert, and teach them how to preserve it.”"
The Weakness of Xi Jinping: How Hubris and Paranoia Threaten China’s Future
Isn't that what the author was saying though? These "affordable" private jets were really not providing the perks of a private jet; they were essentially just chartering a standard plane.
New chip in 2nd gen AirPods Pro improves noise cancellation and spatial audio
I still think Vue (especially Vue 2) is the greatest of them all. I've worked professionally with Angular, React, and Vue. Each for several years. Vue is easily the winner for me with the syntax that closely matches native HTML and JS/TS and how it encourages clean separation of concerns and clean code. JSX/TSX is absolutely the worst for the latter, it's like the wild west. "But you don't have to write it that way" - yeah ok, but when you work in a large organization it's going to get written that way by your peers; good luck trying to stop it. Angular is just a clusterfuck of pipes and observables that require higher cognitive load to unravel when trying to understand a semi-complex block of code. Contrast with Vue where I can near instantly understand what it's trying to accomplish.

This shit right here - {#if <condition>} {:else} {/if} - is why Svelte is deterring me. For the love of god, can we stop coming up with weird custom syntax for templating code? This is one area where Angular also pisses me off: *ngIf for example is just as hideous. With Vue: v-if, v-else. You add it as an attribute to native html, it's dead simple. No weird symbols, no braces or other oddball shit I have to look up when I step away from it for a few months and come back. It just makes sense right away.
Nah, I'm not "this thing sucks" kind of guy. More like urghh it's too late now to speak out about "this is unhealthy, don't you see, it needs fixing, shall we?".

Simplifying issues into kids' fistfight isn't even so welcome anywhere.
> It's also especially important for bstr, because folks want to use it as a public dependency.

Worth highlighting this part. If a crate exposes types that are likely to be exposed from the public APIs of other crates, then that changes the calculus of how disruptive a breaking change will be.
Yes these are great. I have one from VAVA, and got a special screen to display it on that also helps prevent other light from affecting the lasers from the UST lens. It’s great for TV. Sure, black levels aren’t perfect, but I’ll give that up for a 10 foot screen. Not sure I’d use it for my office. I feel like an array of monitors or a really nice 8k would be better.
Ask HN: Easing husband onto proper computer, How To?

My husband uses some weird sort of computer which doesn't run any proper
software and he keeps trying to persuade me to do the same, even though he
knows I have work to do ...

How would you like it? Leave the poor woman alone!
> I am a loyal C++/Fortran user but would like to try out Python as it is gaining increasing popularity. However, rewriting code in Python is a nightmare - I feel the performance must be more than 100x slower than before!

I think I found your problem. TBH you might like Julia more than Python and you won't have to invent a new DSL in the process.
"Glorious streaming future!"

Just wait until some network nits get it trough their heads to try and improve their image, protect their brand or some stupidity and suddenly the R rated versions of movies new and old go poof out of existence. We just begun our moronic plowing on ahead with a digital streaming only future and we are already seeing cases of companies being less than intent on keeping even their own media available. (which is literally the EASIEST and CHEAPEST part of the whole streaming concept.. data storage.. literal pennies on the dollar costs)

You will own nothing and like it.. in the most literal sense.
Not OP but I've used GPT-3 quite extensively and can imagine that's exactly what they did.

You can give it anything - or nothing - and ask for any kind of output.

The relevance and accuracy of what it gives you can vary lots. You can give it examples of the types of things you want back etc. You don't necessarily have to give it examples either, just ask it a question. It normally performs better on semi-complex tasks when you give it examples though.
Yes and no. It is odd only in the sense that the actions contradict the rhetoric. But both parties are still achieving their own goals and the cooperation does not cancel out that goal.

We often think of nationalism purely as the dark side of in-group/out-group dynamics scaled up to the size of an entire country. They are, but there's a dark, darker, yet darker side to this. The driving force behind those dynamics is a desire to purge the in-group of perceived weakness. There are plenty of reasons for a Korean person to hate Japanese people, or vice versa, but the reason that nationalists will consistently pick is that the out-group is "inferior". War crimes, national insults, and so on are all just window-dressing to that core claim.

This same dynamic also applies to things you would not consider to be even in the same postal code as right-wing nationalism. Think about how much self-policing and internal policing happens in niche subcultures online to purge them of perceived weakness, and how many of the perpetrators of those purges are not much different from their targets. Nationalists care more about punishing their own citizens than fighting the enemy.
Or said another way, economists are making a rational decision and choosing the highest paying industry, technology, which happens to be HQ'd in Silicon Valley.
Does the App Store prohibit the use of a custom torrent client for downloading game data? This is a legitimate use-case for torrenting, but also one that does not warrant general-purpose torrent clients in the App Store.