skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Independent of Jane Street, this is absolutely not true of investment or finance as a whole: there are dozens of large firms where entire management layers are made up of the corporate equivalent of "legacy" admissions.

Finance isn't a purely deductive field: you can't purely compete and reason your way past dumb luck and overwhelming access to liquidity. Institutional players have both, and are more than happy to hire their top performers' mediocre sons and nephews to keep them happy.
Sure, but none of this is free. That's all extra work that has to happen. The fact that I'm doing it in "down time" doesn't make it free, I have a million other things I could theoretically do at any given down time.

Not to say this work is necessarily not worth the cost, but it absolutely costs something.
You need it for OS or RTOS design
It might if it prevents buying an extra €6100 worth of batteries for the house.
And not only the apps. The branding and lack of focus. And now they bundle YT music with YouTube. Talk about missed revenue. The entire thing is such a disaster. The fact this was given as an example is hilarious.
Why do you say that?

Come to think of it, most major religions don't treat the earth as something special for humans. In the Abrahamic faiths it's specifically not our natural home, which is why we have so many issues. In the Hindu faith, from what I understand, it's also a place of suffering we are ultimately trying to escape. Buddhism also has much the same view.
For the most part ethereum doesn't suffer from this issue.
Another use case aside from the typical "high perf" ones: if you're building a cross-platform library with bindings in various language (eg. Swift bindings, Kotlin, C#, etc.), I'd imagine you'd benefit in the long run from having manual memory management and a thin runtime that doesn't clash with the host runtime. But personally I'd choose C/C++ for this, for the sake of existing support in writing bindings and C interoperability.
I believe that random forests are still the primary way data scientists work with tabular data. Deep learning hasn't cracked tabular data like it has other areas.
They aren't readily available in the U.S. and even if you could buy it online or something no local place tends to service them. This is a generalization, so I am sure there are exceptions but it seems to be the case in most places I've seen.

As far as ground sourced those are significantly more expensive. The cost/benefit is not there unless the only factor in your purchase is climate change.
Exactly. Code is OSS, but assets are still copyrighted.
Almost all banks are required to comply with tracking and sharing tax information due to OECD agreement at country level for tax reporting standardization.

It's the default regardless of the country unless you are sanctioned.

It's a factor but only a single one among multiple others.
Are you serious??!? This feels like an abuse of trust.
> Trees only have a finite lifespan. Even "wild" forests reach end of life stage and that's when responsible logging and forestry management can promote healthier forests.

I absolutely agree with you.

In the book "A Landowner's Guide to Managing Your Woods" the authors point out that the fragmentation of contiguous forest parcels into small private holdings is problematic when it comes to managing healthy forests in the US, especially in the Eastern part of the United States.

The book points out that in 2006 the United States grew 26.7B+ cubic feet of new timber, but has only harvested 7.6B cubic feet. The reason being that much of that acreage is not accessible to harvest.

Many small land owners of forest properties are reluctant to harvest mature trees due to conservation messaging in earlier decades. They often also manage the mature stands of forest in their small parcel for their pleasure, not for 'forest health' or optimal carbon sequestration. Imagine anyone buying a shoreline cabin property and then electively cutting down all of the mature trees on the property.

Secondly, and more importantly, many foresters can not economically harvest from small acreage/parcels. Unless many nearby land owners band together to have their forests managed at the same time, it doesn't happen.

I'm guessing that most dead-stand is going up in smoke (literally turned into firewood) because it has no utility as lumber once it has started to rot or is attacked by parasites.

For larger contiguous tracts, some counties in the US States will tax-incentivize property owners for adopting a forest management plan (that includes timed harvests of mature trees).

Some US states are also purposely expanding public forests to increase contiguous holding and close gaps (of private ownership). The goal is not necessarily to expand the boundary, but rather the consolidate the holding within the existing boundary to incentivize large tract harvest (among other reasons).

Land owners who are managing habitat for hunting are often proactively, positively harvesting (by bringing in logging companies to make clearings). Cervidae (deer, moose, elk) need contiguous stands of immature trees for habitat.

> Leaving them to stand and die in the forest releases that captured carbon.

I own a stand of mature oaks that are quickly succumbing to oak wilt. They are being naturally replaced by aggressively spreading sugar maple, which can propagate quickly in a shaded understory and then bolt up when the dominating oaks die off due to disease.

I've been turning the dying mature oaks into lumber and firewood. If they're too far gone, they have no utility other than as firewood. I'm considering pre-emptive salvage in the areas that the oak wilt is prevalent so they're not completely relegated to firewood.
You have to do something with your time, right?

Some people build hot rods or fix old tractors, some people collect all 7,341 achievements in some game, some people catch up on the complete available catalog of Doctor Who, some people go out and bag peaks or train for better times on their marathon, some people grind on their karaoke performance of Tainted Love, some people devote themselves to being close with and available to their kids.

This is a beautiful project, but what makes you feel like the motivation is somehow different here than it is for those?
Disturbingly dog-whistley with:

> And their recent communist path ensures against any socialist/woke revolution for at least the next 20 years.

Comparing the current political climate in Estonia when they actively have a Soviet past is a ridiculous statement; there's no valid comparison
I created revoldiv.com. It's privacy focused and login is not required to transcribe. You can record your meeting and upload the video or audio to transcribe it
Deploying FreeBSD on Oracle Cloud
i think the problem is that wood self-propagates fire.
When Freud Meets fMRI (2015)
> free-will choices

Obesity is not a choice, it's a result of food insecurity[0] and a common response to child sexual abuse.[1]

0. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4584410/

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/12/sexual-ab...
what proof do we have beyond your claims here?
That's interesting as the ISS (née Freedom) did in fact go with rad hard 386s for the MDMs (multiplexer-demultiplexer). These are the general purpose computers that connect dumb devices on the station like sensors or actuators to the station's main data bus.

As for why Freedom/ISS went with 386s for the MDMs, I don't personally know. I'd guess that of the rad hard chips various defense companies shipped, a 386 was one of the more powerful. AFAIK the likes of the hardened RCA 1802 and some other 8-bit CPUs were pretty popular in the defense space. The RCA 1802 was used on a lot of the NASA's New Frontiers program probes.

The MDM design on Freedom/ISS was meant to have a standardized component that was easily replaceable and use software to define the role of the device. An MDM plugged into a pump actuator today could have its EEPROM flashed and be plugged into a pressure sensor tomorrow. A useful feature in a system humans live in.

That doesn't change the fact NASA's been RISC-y with their probes for the past three decades. The added power of the CPU (whatever the architecture) in today's probes means fewer specialized chips like were needed in older probes. That means more of the mass budget can go to science instruments and software can do the jobs that used to require dedicated chips.

For anyone interested you can get the paper from NASA here[0]. It's pretty interesting. Thanks for pointing it out.

[0] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19910016373
Same here. Problems have started around 12:15pm EST.
There are many reasons for using other databases like PostgreSQL or MySQL in production - feature set, (managed) hosting, backup and replication, etc.

SQLite is primarily embedded/local database and cannot be easily separated and shared over network [1] between multiple disposable backend/worker instances.

[1] https://12factor.net/backing-services
Rickover was near the top echelons of US navy for ~60 years, as far as I know. Definitely, he knows a thing or two about burnout and turnover. He executed many, many sophisticated projects throughout his life. That's why he had such a long & successful career. I'd recommend reading his book - The never-ending challenge of Engineering. In my readings, this has been the best book on Engineering management.

Secondly, about burnout and turnover. Let's discuss from an empirical standpoint. The number one proximal cause of turnover is lack of "commitment". There are longitudinal empircal studies which demonstrate this. Job satisfaction is important as well; however commitment dominates every other factor.

Hence, it is important for managers to generate commitment, one way or another. I believe from these aspects, Rickover truly understood engineers and technical folks... In fact, he went against the US military books, and emphasised Individual initiative and judgement, regardless of what the rulebooks said. In a way, Rickover was able to work around the navy rules to create sufficient commitment to get complicated jobs done.
"never hurt"
IME, The managers who believe this tend to hide too much information from their team. The team doesn't have enough context as a result, and is in the dark re. what's really expected of them by higher-ups.
We've had Source-Available licenses for years (MS-PL for instance, as well as many various ones from Sun/Oracle, etc.)

There's basically been a resounding "Meh" about them and the people who work on software that adopts them generally move to an open fork or the project perishes (see also the fate of Solaris, Illumos, and Oracle.)
consider that dang gets paid for that ,while reddit moderators are not (outside some politics subs)
Let's get the usual HN comments out of the way:

* Android has had this for N years

* My {cheap phone} is indistinguishable from the new iPhone

* ${X}?

* Walled garden

* iPhones wouldn't be popular without the iMessage lock-in

* Throttling was literally 1984
I haven’t worked at sendgrid in years but when I was there they took spam reports very seriously and even a few reports would negatively affect the senders reputation.
But it is not absurd. Facebook doesn't target ads at you, Bob Jones.

It takes all of Bob's activities and pushes them into bins based on how they characterize Bob; Male, lives in Iowa, 18-25, etc. a bin (Moves to LA, for example), his data will contribute to different bins. This activity is disconnected from Bob at this point; and the data is aggregated away from single interaction events. "Bob visited foo.com" as a single event is gone at this point.

The models grind on these aggregate data bins.

Then when ads are targeted at Males who live in Iowa, aged 18-25 -- those ads get shown to Bob, because he is tagged with those tags.

They don't "keep track of which webpages you visit", not for more than a day. Those events get pushed in large aggregate stores of activities pretty fast. These aggregate stores are vastly smaller than if you kept all the individual data, hence much cheaper.
Burning of Wood (2013)
I’m an engineer, and even I know that the technical solution is only like the 7th most important thing for a successful business endeavor.

We shouldn’t think too highly of ourselves.
Just want to say: wat een leuk idee!
Plasticity without genetic change bioelectric embryos, synthetic protoorganisms
> We already know it's not exactly calories in, calories out.

It literally is though. If you burn more calories than you eat you will lose weight. It's tautological. Now some people are genetically disposed to having different calorie spends all else equal, but that doesn't change the calories in, calories out equation.
Cineworld files for bankruptcy protection in the US
how is this "abuse" and not the same as any other company using your email for marketing?
Yep. Merchants with even one of them are able to profitably transport unexpected bulk goods.
What is the appeal of small languages?

If it's simplicity, it seems like complex programs would be supported by complex libraries instead of complex language features, leading to the same level of complexity but with less consistency.

"Smallness" seems to be a sought after feature but I'm not sure why.
Yes, that's what Rails (and Django) say about it.
I don't know Zig, but aren't we missing a return here?

fn count_nonzero(a: []const i32) i32 {
var count: i32 = 0;
for (items) |value| { // "for" works only on arrays and slices, use >"while" for generic loops.
if (value == 0) {
continue;
}
count += 1; // there is no increment operator, but there are shortcuts for +=, \*=, >>= etc.
}
}
> If a house is pre-planned, you can use a machine that cuts each board to length, and join the ends of each board using basic joinery processes that aren't practical when building a site-built home. You can pre-fabricate things like trusses and wall segments

aren't prefab trusses readily available these days? i feel like i've seen plenty of trailers hauling stacks of 10 timber trusses down the road.

we've also got prefab homes (not mobile/trailer/whatever homes), with modules assembled in factories and brought together at the site. unfortunately they seem to carry class connotations here in the US.
standardizing plugs is more important than sockets. the schuko plug works in a lot of countries across different socket systems.
Sperm lose their motility and vitality when ambient temperatures reach average human body temperature, 98.6°F. When the Earth gets hot enough, this should have some measurable effect on human birth rates, but I fear it is going to devastate terrestrial animal populations. We should be less concerned about all the people and more concerned about permanently losing Earth's precious diversity.
It's not a major flaw in the system, it is a primary function and characteristic of the system and its inherent logic
What do you see in SecureCRT over something like MobaXTerm or Putty?
I meant this for dependency not the package I am installing.
Many (most?) companies do. They make the tradeoff that the false negatives (those from non-targets who would be hired) are worth losing out on in favour of the smaller amount of applications to process because among that smaller pool they have a higher true positive (those from targets who do get hired). In stats/ML speak, they favour high precision [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall
> Why deprive all the non-white people of their agency? If a non-white culture wants content that better communicates their lived experience, they should produce it themselves

Historically, in the US, they were not allowed to produce it themselves. So many decades went by where they were in fact deprived of their agency.

Not only that, but they were deprived of political, financial and economic agency as well, which means today, they are generally less wealthy, since they missed on decades of opportunities for wealth accumulation.

So in order to produce it themselves today, capital is required, especially if we're talking about big budget production.

The woke argument is that, it seems that some effort from white investors should be made to invest some of their capital to non-white artists, as retribution for all those years where they had their agency taken away.

That's different than the corporatist take, which is simply to appear progressive by checking some diversity boxes in order to get more sales, or protect their brand from backlash or bad press. I reckon that, and it's possible LOTR is of this kind of attempt.

So my question is, do you feel this retribution maybe actually comes with a hidden price? White capital somehow can compromise the work and have clauses that hurt the creative output and maybe ends up making the content worse. Do you feel it isn't necessary? Or do you feel it's a good thing that should help support and kickstart better quality non-white content?

By the way, as I understand, this capital doesn't need to come straight up as budget for a movie production, though it can, but I think it can also be as scholarship, financial aid, talent programs, etc. which can all focus more on non-white artists. It can also be done simply by opening up more roles for non-white artists, which does imply that some characters which maybe were meant to be white or which had non-specified gender/race needs to be made non-white, in order to create more job opportunities for non-white actors for example.

> And this is where a TON of the current-generation BIPOC/LGBT/whatever content falls flat on its face: it fucking sucks.

Does it suck any more/less than similar non BIPOC/LGBT content though? I personally don't feel like it does. I feel there's a similar likelihood of content sucking, no matter if it's trying for diversity, is promoting or made by BIPOC/LGBT or if it isn't. The only difference is there's simply more non-BIPOC/LGBT content being made, so it ends up there's more good content that make it past all the crap.

If for any 10 movies, only 1 is actually good, you'd need a lot more attempt at BIPOC/LGPT movies to get some good ones no?
The shift isn't in SQLite being taken seriously behind the scenes, or as a better file format. It's in SQLite being taken seriously as an alternative to n-tier database in full stack applications.
It doesn't matter which government was in power in Iran when they signed the NPT. They remain legally bound to it until they formally withdraw.

The NPT doesn't state anything about Israel. You should read the actual treaty instead of posting misinformation. Israel isn't a signatory and is thus not prohibited from developing nuclear weapons.
Someone has been the subject of a SOC audit.
Looks ,neat i also started with a simple setup ,now it's evolving into a web app ,and markdown as files .
AFAIK iTunSMPB just tells you where playback should start/end, which is also all the Ogg metadata does for you. MP3s can have iTunSMPB too, it's just a matter of if a player supports it. Is there any specific feature of AAC that makes gapless playback possible?
Engine Trouble – Robert Krulwich and Nate Milton [video]
This. We either use the little bit of abusing the ocean we have left to flatten out population curves, or the population crashes to a much lower level later on.

We wouldn't need such dramatic changes to combat global warming if the population didn't continually exponentially expand.
Wow, this is great. I built my own synthetic time series data generator for benchmarking, could have saved myself a bunch of trouble with this.
I didn't take the survey because I've never packaged anything for PyPI, but I wish all of the package managers would have an option for domain validated namespaces.

If I own example.com, I should be able to have 'pypi.org/example.com/package'. The domain can be tied back to my (domain verified) GitHub profile and it opens up the possibility of using something like 'example.com/.well-known/pypi/' for self-managed signing keys, etc..

I could be using the same namespace for every package manager in existence if domain validated namespaces were common.

Then, in my perfect world, something like Sigstore could support code signing with domain validated identities. Domain validated signatures make a lot of sense. Domains are relatively inexpensive, inexhaustible, and globally unique.

For code signing, I recognize a lot of project names and developer handles while knowing zero real names for the companies / developers involved. If those were sitting under a recognizable organizational domain name (example.com/ryan29) I can do a significantly better job of judging something's trustworthiness than if it's attributed to 'Ryan Smith Inc.', right?
I’ve been tinkering with stable diffusion lately and this has been a rude introduction to python. Coming from .net (nuget) and JavaScript (npm), it’s baffling that there isn’t an established solution for python. It looks to me like people are trying, but different libraries use different techniques. To a newcomer this is confusing.
D initially wasn't going to do operator overloading, mainly because C++ iostreams was a disaster (in my not-so-humble opinion) as well as the awfulness of overloading operators to create a DSL.

But I wound up being convinced that on balance it was a good thing. But I was able to inculcate a culture that operator overloading should be restricted to the creation of user arithmetic types.

Not allowing the overloading of unary *, &, and dot also help discourage non-arithmetic overloading.
> Startups with managers 33% more likely to develop product innovations

If the upside of managers is only 33%, they're probably not worth the added complexity/friction/expense !
Because they employ humans and humans are flawed.
Years ago, when PBS fundraising was less pushy than today, they had a segment where a KQED station manager said they understood many could not afford to donate and they were pleased to be able to bring their programming to everyone for free.

That's the way to phrase things.
I know I'm not the only one, but I sometimes get a bit distracted on SE/SO from the "hot network questions" sidebar and go down rabbit holes of reading answers to questions from different fields. People come up with a lot of interesting, thoughtful answers, especially in worldbuilding.
> good customer service is the best marketing, and it's often very nearly free

Free may apply less to CFA. One thing they don't get enough credit for is that they a decent amount more than their competitors who pay barely above minimum wage. It's clearly an investment that's payed off, but there is definitely a cost to it.

And Popeyes would be my go-to for chicken if it weren't so far away.
i'm not asking for operator _overloading_, i am asking for having operators for my math types
Related recent thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32552134

I respect the effort to call this out. It's frustrating that people think their "growth hacking" is worth abusing systems and spamming others.
Thank you, I didnt know that.

How about other invasive species? How about zebra muscles: https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/what-are-zebra-mussels-and-why-sho...