skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Theater owners often price tickets such that the "vacancy" rates (empty seats) are quite high. However, a law that required pricing tickets low enough to fill all seats would reduce the return on equity in the industry so much that investment in the theater industry would plummet, vastly reducing the number of theater seats available available to fill consumer demand in the medium to long term.

This sounds like a nonsensical economic argument. Do you have a mathematical model that supports this argument?
The Miyawaki method [1], which I'm sure has been on HN before, is a very different approach to these projects. When I first read about it, it seemed like a kind of too-good-to-be-true miracle approach, but reading further it's really just a lot of hard work.

Site preparation is a huge part of it. This photo gallery [2] gives some sense. It starts with soil testing and soil amendment, I doubt they ever consider the soil "good enough" at the outset. I'm not sure if they also do any hydrological changes? Then they plant a dense and diverse set of trees. I'm not clear how many trees ultimately survive. There's theories about the set of trees you'd use, but I can only imagine some of the process is just natural selection, and a belief that early density is positive to later growth.

Bringing it back to technology, I do wonder what tools could support this kind of higher-effort higher-impact forestation. It seems like there's work to be done performing soil tests and understand the results and recommended amendments, including some decision trees around tests and results. There's general guidance on the choice of trees, but it requires matching that guidance against local conditions and local plants.

In some ways the process is simpler than landscaping a house: you aren't trying to get a perfect set of plants, and you aren't imposing other requirements. You're really trying to build a mini ecosystem, and the ecosystem is there to do a lot of the work on its own.

I am less sure how this approach translates to more marginal locations. It's a bit easier to rapidly create a lush and vibrant forest in India than at the edge of a desert. Most of the examples are in tropical locations.

[1] https://www.crowdforesting.org/miyawaki-model/forest-kerala

[2] https://www.greenyatra.org/miyawaki.php
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33248210 (110 comments)
Speaking in broad generalities (heh) Category Theory is what you would use for that (AFAIK.)
> Technical progress takes precedence over pitiful intelectual property discussions.

Let's pretend for a moment that your value judgement is reasonable and the advancement of technology should reign supreme over minor things like rule of law. Do you really think that letting people ignore copyright is always good for technical progress? Say, letting people use GPL code in proprietary code that they then refuse to share with others? Because that sounds questionable even if we agree with your casual disregard for the law.

> If you don't believe that, I am not sure what you are doing in a community like this.

Being interested in tech without being a fan of breaking the law and running roughshod over other people's work.
I'm sure you can imagine any kind of alien, but that doesn't make your imagined alien logically coherent or physically realizable and consistent with the theory of evolution by natural selection. Do you agree that these are real, physical constraints that any imagined alien species must satisfy?

If not, then you have to explain how an alien species might develop that is not subject to physical constraints and evolution by natural selection.

If so, then you must agree that any alien must be able to distinguish two scenarios, "I sense some food here" and "I sense no food here". The basic binary distinction is inescapable, and this is the foundation of true/false, 0 and 1, etc.
Today's banana exists because its predecessor was wiped out.

That "banana" flavored novocaine is what that banana used to taste like.

There is apparently a disease stalking the current Cavendish strain, which is why finding a new commercial strain is becoming more urgent for the industry.
If the idea is to ban inherently energy-wasting things, then turn off all the streetlights.
To me, it looks like the end of the pipe are bending outward. Meaning that the explosion must have come from inside the pipe. But, it's not a very good video and is pretty hard to tell.
Is it possible to use iPad with Safari and VSCode? I'm thinking about something like GitHub Codespaces. Like development in browser.
> The fact that Firefox got backdrop-blur support in mid 2022 speaks volumes about Firefox's priorities.

Perhaps it speaks more to your priorities? I can't see anyone outside of a web developer who needed that feature 1 time or even caring that backdrop-blur wasn't implemented.

The fact that you're salty about a specific CSS property and that it's reason enough to boycott a browser speaks volumes.
> Xi Jingping is a tyrannical insane dictator

His people like him. Who are we to decide whether he is “tyrannical” or “insane”?

The west has this constant undercurrent of “we know what’s best for you” when talking about other countries and their leaders.

Its neither warranted nor welcome by the locals.
Take a look at buildpack layer model and caching options: https://buildpacks.io/docs/buildpack-author-guide/caching-st...
I have to admit, food is a good exception to the rule.
> The barracks are sometimes raided for off-hours extra duty. This downside doesn't really exist in the same way for civilians.

Yet. "Ron, according to the security system there was movement inside of your company dorm room last night at 8PM when we emailed you. Since you were just at home anyway why did you decide to not be a team player?"
The property owner almost certainly has debt that needs to be refinanced every few years. Willingness of a lender to finance is based on projected rental income. If the asking rents are high, the projected income is high. This apparently works for a while even if the property is not actually leased. It would seem to me that at some point the lenders would start saying "yeah the projected income looks great but we notice that the building has actually been vacant for two years..." but I don't operate in this world so it's something of a mystery to me.
Everything uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USN_Journal for fast NTFS monitoring.
Two quick questions if anyone has the time:

- Are there any large companies that have adopted this?

- How does this compare to istio/envoy?

The HMAC support and python plugin support is really interesting to me.
My brother does, his just broke and has been waiting for the new release. He's a teacher and just uses it for email, grading papers, etc.
If you want to become rich, take advantage of what comes for free and sell it. For this guy, it was welfare and free electricity. For others, it is healthy soil, or rich natural resources.
I know this will get downvoted but, I say Throw the building codes out the window. Housing people is more important than regulations.

If it made a difference to your ability to get shelter, which would you rather choose: have shelter or live in a illegal tent under a bridge resting assured with the knowledge that there's a big book of rules in place.
Django (Anti)Patterns
All of our truths are based on biology.

Without our body we cannot see, feel and experience.
Something is true when it is useful, predictive to us, to our body, when it allow us to move away from pain and toward pleasure.

If there is no observer and no sensations(feedback) I don’t think we can ever come to any truth.
But if you're someone who values nature along with a solid food scene and a strong white collar job base (Software, Hardware, Biotech/Pharma, Healthcare, Accounting, West Coast IB) your only real option is the Bay Area (not just SF, San Jose is also a great city - especially as an Asian American). That's not to say NYC or London are bad, but if you value being able to bike in the mountains in 20 minutes or trail run at a 4,000 ft elevation in 30 minutes, it's hard to beat the Bay Area.
IPFS in the Metaverse
The best time to develop a Strategic GIF Stockpile would have been 20 years ago; the second best time is now. Horrors would await if our geopolitical adversaries gained the upper hand and had the ability to restrict our access to memetic weaponry during a time of crisis.
Its not stealing to use a resource paid for by a friend
The genetic legacy of the Manila galleon trade in Mexico
That was unique to American (and to some extent Canadian) cities due to urban planning policies that prioritized suburban commuters over city residents.
I'm not advocating for getting the government involved in forcing Twitter to allow all speech. I'm saying people need to stop continuing to use platforms that actively and publicly censor things on a daily basis, as if it's okay and normal now.

Fighting corporate-enacted censorship with government intervention is fighting fire with fire.
macOS Ventura will be available on October 24th
Kinda related, but I remember a girl was able to lobby her English teacher to round up her 92.5 grade to a 93, since, you know 92.5 rounds to 93, and the range for an A was 93-100. Then something similar happened in the math class, and teacher rolled his eyes, and drew a number line on the board and drew a point of the 92.5 outside the 93-100 range.
A lot of sophisticated weapons systems are being tested in the field against each other at the moment. Leaving the human tragedy for other sites, it seems like HN would be interested in how these technologies are stacking up. Also, ideas for disabling loitering drones might be a good discussion.
Cannot is a strong term. Telling me there may be consequences would be more accurate.
The iPad Pro is an amazing piece of hardware! But the last iterations make zero difference for most consumers. The hardware improved rapidly over a couple of years. Both the 2017 model (move from 9.7 to 10.5 screen) and the 2018 model (new design without home bottom, USB-C, Gen 2 Pencil) were huge steps. Magic Keyboard from 2020 was a great addition as well and works with the 2018 model. For my own usage, the 2018 model is pretty much feature complete from a hardware perspective. Software makes the big difference now.

I am still amazed by my 2018 iPad pro four years later!
You will have to explain how this property might be selected for by evolution by natural selection before I can even understand what you're suggesting.
Targeted layoffs might be the best thing long-term.

From my limited perspective of having recently worked at Intel, they had a lot of dead weight. There was a lot of talent, but it was also diluted by a lot of management and bureaucracy.

I honestly don't know if layoffs are an effective solution to this, but IMHO they could definitely benefit from lower headcount and greater urgency.
Is China stuck in second place?
So Mozilla is chasing Nike shoe trends to advocate for their browser via colorschemes. I'm not even saying you're wrong, and I guess I'm not even sure that's an absolutely bad idea but Christ if that's "our" play for the future of browsers and privacy, I need to start building that shed ASAP!
That's what I don't really understand, though. Even the artists and video editors who use these devices aren't actually leveraging all of the power in the machine. Photo editors and artists are mostly still constrained by single-core performance, and video editors are mostly just leveraging the GPU's video accelerators. The "full power" of the M1 or M2 doesn't even make sense for these pro customers.

That's why I still think an "iPad Max" makes much more sense. Even to professionals, the iPad is ultimately a content consumption device. So, Apple ought to lean into that. Make an iPad you can love with a big screen and punchy OLED panel, while cutting back on the CPU cores to optimize for battery life and thermals. Even if they never put Stage Manager on it and ditched the LIDAR camera, I think these things would sell like hotcakes at the right price.
Depending on what you mean by "for a while now". It appears that abortions in the US peaked over thirty years ago and have been falling since.
That's pretty unlikely, given their thirty year history of "this kind of thing".
Yah great point, the US culturally seems to really struggle with the idea that the business is just an arbitrary conception, what is important is the workers. We really have a disturbing sense that arbitraries collections of capital and legalese are more important than humans with passions and skills and it honestly scares me.
This story is just bizarre.

First and foremost, the time for objecting to an acquisition should be before it closes, not after.

Second, forcing a company to "unbundle" like this is really an antritrust action and the bar for that should be pretty high. Objections to acquisitions can be done on potential issues. De-merging a company should pretty much be based on actual not potential violations (IMHO).

Third, all of this is over Giphy. There are alternatives (eg Tenor). This is not a market any company (other than maybe Apple and Google by virtue of owning the platform) can dominate. There's no network effect like there is with WhatsApp or Instagram. This was not a large company. Giphy was miniscule.

Fourth, creating a GIF keyboard and support in your apps is pretty easy. I imagine this is what Meta is going to do instead. So what's been achieved exactly?

Lastl, government power and attention is limited. Please let's use it for something useful. This doesn't affect anyone. This doesn't help anyone. Let's do things that do.
Yep, I never quit a job without a new one lined up. Because sometimes it takes several months to find something decent.

Sometimes you don't have a choice. If you've been laid off, you may have to jump on the first thing that comes along (will usually be a suck job with high turnover - those always seem to hire quickly) and keep looking for something good.
Procreate is an approximate subset of Photoshop.

Photoshop has an old, strong brand, allthe name is a bit anachronistic, but it has grown to be a product for all 2D visual art.
Uber provides far less value than it used to since they stopped burning through VC funds as much to keep their prices artificially low. One advantage was you got a single price without needing to tip. Now tipping is similar to a cab. Another was that you can use an app to get one. Now you can use the Curb app to hire a cab. Another was that you could always pay with a card saved on your phone. Now you can use the Curb app to do this whether you hail with Curb or hail on the street. You type in the pairing code in the Curb app and you're set.

Curb is a bit more expensive than a street hail but generally less than Uber due to a lack of surge pricing. When it's raining, Uber is about 2x the price of a cab. When it's busy after an event at Madison Square Garden, Uber is about 3x the price of a cab. On a recent Friday evening, Uber was showing $105 for a 25 minute ride with a relatively long wait. I hailed a cab and it was $28 for the same ride. Both prices exclude tip.

Note, of course, that this is my own personal experience in NYC over the last year and will not apply to all cities or even all locations in NYC.
So the Russians used their equivalent of navy seals to lay bombs and blow out a huge section so it would be ruined? I assume all that saltwater will destroy it in short order?
If my boss wants to pay me a SWE salary and then insists I clean out the break room fridge on Friday that is his perogrative not mine.

I mean... I can buy this to a point. But for me personally, there are lines. And there are things I'm just not going to do. Period.

I know it's un-trendy to talk about anything being "beneath you", and I'm not sure that's the wording I would use, but there are simply things that I don't consider being in my wheelhouse and that if you ask me to do, I'm going to say "no". Then you can decide if you want to fire me or not.

Case in point: I used to be a parts counter clerk at Advance Auto Parts. We got a new manager and one day he comes in and asks me to go outside and sweep the parking lot. I said "no" and he tells me to do it or I'm fired. So I rip off my Advance Auto Parts shirt, throw it in his face, say "fuck you" and walk out. 30+ years later I feel absolutely no regret about that. I didn't apologize then and I won't now.

There's more to my life than a job and I can find another way to pay the bills. I don't have to take their bullshit.
Electricity in France is more expensive on the market. It’s just cheaper for households because of subsidies.
If you have not yet seen this site, please free a couple of hours and browse through archives, it's the best educational material I have ever seen!

https://ciechanow.ski/archives/
I often encounter this problem in command line programs that seem to assume a dark background (e.g. ls, tmux, vim, git log, silver-searcher, grep). Their yellow fonts are impossible to read on my light background. Every time I reinstall Linux or MacOS on one of my laptops, I have to reconfigure the "yellow" palette in the terminal programs to something resembling dark-orange or brown. Then the problem is navigating the rat's nest of options in the various terminal programs to find the color palette configuration.
NIST AI Risk Management Framework
Why does Apple need to provide the plan as well? I mean, given Apple's controlling nature, they may well wish to - but most laptops with mobile internet simply provide a SIM slot hooked up to a standard mobile baseband. Customers find their own plan, and many carriers offer plans which are tablet-oriented, with no calls/texts and sharing the data from a 'master' mobile plan.
It does not at all. I agree with you.
I lose my terminal, file tabs, project navigation.

For presenting, it is very specific on how it is meant to be used, which is not how I would present during a screen sharing exercise.
The loss of mass is insignificant and we are talking 0,5B years.

Sun will be loosing a lot of mass later, but that will be way after Earth has been baked to a crisp.
Okay. Can you please describe a theoretical attack?
How to make lots of money selling stuff that runs off a 30-60 watt power brick.
On the ARM versions? My M2 air uses very little battery for zoom (1+ hr about 10% or less, don't remember).
What sort of evergreens are you planting? Are they native? I replanted a clearcut a year or so ago and even with an abnormally hot summer and a dry fall I'm looking at 30%, tops.
The only one who would do this are the Russians. The risk vs. reward for the other nations (getting caught) is simply too high.
Not sure how this is much different from an iPad Pro, either.
The apps probably run in XWayland just like any other X apps. The Window Manager is trickier but apparently XWayland has recently gained support for running a full X root so technically yes:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-Rootfull-Desktop
Thats sick their friend paid the electric bill for their whole university dormitory - nice person.
>How did we dedicate money and resources to this thing of national importance and end up with fewer experts working on it?

How do you even know whos going to be fired?
Any reason for making delay_ms a template parameter? A compiler should be able to optimize passing a constant as a regular function argument. And if it’s not optimized I assume a variable delay wouldn’t affect much?
Underwater drones would be a rather easy way, no deep sea divers needed. Just have a drone pull a mine-clearing charge (a long flexible hose filled with high explosives) and drop it next to the pipe and detonate it.

These pipes lay at ~70 m depth so the drones can be wire-controlled. A small fishing vessel would be enough to deliver them.
At first I thought it was a cheeky reference to Star Trek IV, but transparent aluminum is somewhat real: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride
That is extremely low. A $600k condo usually has an hoa that high.
I use Arch docs all the time, even for non-Arch distros. What really makes the wiki stand out is its focus on practical problems with examples, more than man-pages style docs. Is there anything similar for FreeBSD? I know the man pages are supposed to be amazing, but it's just a different problem to solve IMO.

I also seriously dislike the BSD's tendency towards making --help useless, forcing you to bring up the man page. This is just for practical reasons. It's easier to hit up arrow, dash dash help pipe less than up arrow, ctrl+a, man, alt+f, ctrl+k to kill the arguments you've already written :)
There is a really key quote towards the end of this piece that really captures the spirit of this post, and that's from Satya Nadella. I'm including it in its entirety because I think it does a really good job at summarizing what Ben is writing about here:

"Sometimes I think the new OS is not going to start from the hardware, because the classic OS definition, that Tanenbaum, one of the guys who wrote the book on Operating Systems that I read when I went to school was: “It does two things, it abstracts hardware, and it creates an app model”. Right now the abstraction of hardware has to start by abstracting all of the hardware in your life, so the notion that this is one device is interesting and important, it doesn’t mean the kernel that boots your device just goes away, it still exists, but the point of real relevance I think in our lives is “hey, what’s that abstraction of all the hardware in my life that I use?” – some of it is shared, some of it is personal. And then, what’s the app model for it? How do I write an experience that transcends all of that hardware? And that’s really what our pursuit of Microsoft 365 is all about."

The key part is "abstracting all of the hardware in your life". I use a Windows laptop, a Mac laptop, and an iPhone interchangeably in my life. When I switch between them pretty much nothing changes - I have access to the same core apps: Office, Obsidian, 1Password, web browser. If there were a new device, say some kind of headset, I suspect that would plug right into my existing ecosystem of hardware and software. There needs to be an "OS" that manages all of that, and right now the frontrunner here is Microsoft. That could change of course, but there are so many interesting problems to solve along the way.

Disclosure: I work at Microsoft.
I think in the US, very few people would make that distinction. I think amber is probably broadly considered a shade of yellow.
Is this 11 or 13" one? I found smaller keyboard is too painful to use. Maybe you can get used to as a daily, but will be upgrading to larger one.
An Overview of Generic Programming: Writing Code with Arbitrary Types
If you're talking low-income housing, it could be closer to a dormitory setup. Common bathrooms and kitchens, etc. This used to be common in low-income urban rental property, and still is in some parts of the world.

Building Codes are words on paper. They can be changed more easily than physical buildings.
There are developers tools for iPadOS, they're just not anything you can do professional work with.

The main problem, I think, is most development tools require a relatively low-level of operating system access that Apple has not figured out a way to do given what they want iOS/iPadOS to "be".

My suspicion is they'll eventually find a way to do containers in a manner that's relatively "safe", and they'll lean on Cloud-based build tools that move the hard work off device.
I don't think we should force people to come into offices, but I am a strong advocate for having offices. I cannot work at home. I need a minimum number of people around, preferably people with whom I am doing some work, to get anything done. If I'm at home by myself, even for a day, I sit in a depressed pit and do no work. I understand that many, many people do not feel this way, but the idea that people would want to work from home is utterly bananas to me.