skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This ted talk drew my interest: "Allan Savory: How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change" https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_fight_desertif...

> Allan Savory works to promote holistic management in the grasslands of the world.

The note says "Statements in this talk have been challenged by scientists working in this field", but all I could find is that "any gains from greening after grazing are more than offset by methane emitted by the grazing animals". It seems that the method is well known, and that the criticism is on the carbon capture capacities, not the greening power. It may not reverse climate change all by itself, but all the benefits of de-multiplying the biomass, bringing back water, feeding local populations, might work (as illustrated by his works during decades).

Other names I came across are Richard Perkins and Joel Salatin. I found an article that says that 15 million hectares on the five continents are successfully doing holistic management, but it was not sourced.

I'd welcome books or documentaries suggestions on the topic.
> Give the government a key to sign / certify parts.

Bad idea. Very bad idea. We've already seen malware campaigns where governments actually stole signing credentials such as Stuxnet, where the creators managed to get their malware signed by Realtek and JMicron certificates [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17101171
Fascinating to hear that, as someone who a) doesn't remember having a serious wifi problem on Linux for probably 15 years and b) has never used a wifi dongle on a non-laptop.

Wifi is a complete non-problem for me. I remember fiddling in 2004 and then using FreeBSD on a non-Lenovo, but that's it for bad experiences.

Literally no snark intended, it's just so far out of the way of what I consider normal usage. (As someone with Linux laptops, Linux servers, Windows workstations, Windows laptops in the house.)
There's probably much more complexity to it, but I wonder if a tidally locked planet could have a habitable ring of mild weather along the terminator.
they obviously didn't, choosing a person with extraordinary jumping ability implies they achieve it in one jump
But it brings another questions with it: Do we need to provide Welfare to everyone at any cost?
Wow! TIL - thanks for the information - I had no idea!
> act as a dungeon master

I've been trying to get it to act as a dungeon master unsuccesfully. Do you have any other leads apart from GPT (ChatGPT or AIDungeon)?
Sure, but my point is that mitigating the higher difficulty of finding the answer (as compared to "search the internet"), the possibilities were fewer too. "What had she read recently? Check her library records, magazine subscriptions and viewing habits. Did she spend time in a doctor's waiting room?" Not many more possibilities outside of those. One of your respondents said that finding the answer would have been "almost impossible". On the contrary, it might have been as easy as calling a research librarian with a time range and the relatively small list of possible resources she would have had access to, e.g. "Cosmopolitan, Psychology Today, Reader's Digest, Stephen King's The Stand, W Magazine and The Springfield Local Tattler"
https://www.cfainstitute.org/en/programs/investment-foundati...
documentation is an ongoing process. You document your code before, during, and after you write it.

I don't understand how one can maintain a piece of code without it for more than a few months, even as a single person. One always forget things.

i also don't understand how one can design a piece of architecture without diagrams and maps and all kind of design documents. They are used both for clarity, as well as to discuss between team members. Then keeping them somewhere is also part of documenting the code.
Not only that, but it would have been 20 minutes of a programme on the history channel with speculation about demons, aliens, the sensitivity of cats to witchcraft, and messages from the beyond.
I am missing: "How could we make the world a better place while doing good business?"

Probably too extreme a question.
"If you can use Excel spreadsheet or Google form to build your product. Do it for your first 100 users." I did, what's next?

You need to have a MVP in the target market. You need to demonstrate that it can scale. Therefore, if your business model works for 100 customers on the web, it does not necessarily mean that it will be successful on a larger scale on mobile.
> the reddit result card shows '2 days ago', whereas the link it points to is 7 months old.

This happens on Google too, all of the time. I think this is a reddit issue, with how they have their meta configured...
I wonder how effective the extractor is above the stove, if you always put it on its max fan setting when cooking, would it improve the VOC and other gases detected?

Which air quality monitor did you get?
Look at https://kidscancode.org/blog/2017/02/godot_101_01/
"We originally planned to let people rename the rows and columns with labels and implemented the feature. Eventually we decided that we needed to assure stable reference names so prevented people form moving into the zeroth row or column. Instead we implemented the ability to split the screen vertically or horizontally.
"

All the oposite from today's design in which they let people rename everything.
Any Belarusian data centers we in the west can rent compute in?
The organ as a wind instrument
The chapter on Indian clubs is very interesting. I didn't know they had been adopted by the British Army at one point.
Imu they are still a nonprofit parent structure over a “capped profit” company. I haven’t been able to find details about their structure, and it’s weird this article doesn’t verify these details.
zzg doesn't do anything differently than just zz (the g needs an argument). Care to share an example of what you meant?
Same. Digital nomads, leave, go away. They have a negative impact on the economy.
I have tried it and it's great. But, because it's so effective, it's easy to over extrapolate and anthropomorphise it. I think it's useful to keep in perspective (as the article and referenced paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.03551 - talk about) that ChatGPT/LLMs are, ultimately, "just" extremely powerful statistical next-token prediction systems.

That doesn't at all invalidate the achievement or belittle the impact such systems will have on society but, keeping this in mind does help to avoid blowing everything out of proportion (which is easy to do because, yep, ChatGPT is genuinely very cool and exciting tech).
> how can we enlist the customer to work for us for free?

That idea is kind of covered in the "No tech support" section, where they talk about the benefits of customer self-service.
ahhhh, that is disingenuous. While I 100 % agree with right to repair, the world allow is not correct in this context.
Harvest season is 15-16 hour days for months, all hands on deck. The upside is that the pay is wildly better than any other time.

I’ve known a few farmhands and they claimed to not mind harvest season because of the pay.
What do you think about utopia?
It's almost certainly what is going to happen. They're just buying time (a LOT OF time) in order to regroup and come back in force and once again take away our right to repair or own our things, this time in a new, more permanent method, which is now also protected legislatively.
If it were an absolute right, you wouldn't need to maintain 8 feet of distance, the police would need to maintain 8 feet. Don't forget, even if you are in a courtroom and aren't interfering, you can't record there either. So there are limits, it's not absolute.
That’s the thing, there was no beginning, for all intent and purposes. You can go back to the point where all mammals’ ancestors were what we would recognise now as mice, or even before when they were therapsids, and you would have a hard time recognising a bison in that. Everything you can see in an animal is the result of evolution.
DCG Silent as Winklevoss Demands Commitment from CEO Silbert
Legally, I believe the only time you actually need a model release is if you are going to use the image in advertising. I am not a lawyer, and if you want the real answer you should probably ask one. But the answers to that quora question look wrong to me. Note that I am talking about the US, the rules may be different elsewhere.
AirThings air quality monitors! If you're worried about indoor air quality, I enthusiastically recommend them. They provide a no-subscription app that displays various sensor readings, charts over time, etc. Plus a web dashboard with the same kind of information, and an API with pretty good instructions on grabbing info: https://developer.airthings.com/docs/api-postman-insomnia

I was worried about air quality and wasn't having much luck making my own sensors, so I bought a couple of AirThings air sensors.

Lucky I did. Our furnace air intake pipe had been blocked by multiple birds nests, and the secondary pipe for the water heater was incorrectly connected. Our indoor CO2 levels were higher than 4,000ppm! The levels would also jump when the furnace kicked on, even with windows open.

Thankfully apartment complex maintenance was able to fix it immediately and levels are much lower now, especially when the furnace is running. (About 500ppm with windows open, 700 with them closed and furnace running, 1,100ppm if the windows haven't been open and the furnace hasn't run for a while.) It's possible our health has improved because of the sensors.

I got 2 AirThings View Plus. I'm not affiliated with the company other than having bought their products.
Bubbles are definitely an issue, but the original point is pretty far off from reality as they said.

You'd have to respond to every second comment if people held to the 2:1 ratio on the internet.
Is anyone aware of any projects to do auto-zoom on a fisheye lens? (ie, the camera is set up to see the whole room, and then software crops that to just show the area with a person in it, and then re-export that video as a new source so that other software can use it without needing to be fisheye-aware)
> A semicolon is what a writer uses to connect two poorly formed ideas to affect a single good one.

I know that your use of "affect" (feign, pretend) is technically correct but even as a ridiculous over-user of sesquipedalian words, it made me double-take.
Fully agree. I will add two things.

First, most "digital nomads" who interact with the public administration and institutions (e.g., banks) are not standard customers. Employees often have no clue how to deal with them and many processes contain manual steps that require someone's validation or approval, and often target a very small group of individuals (those tasked with "dealing with" foreigners). It can slow down things.

Second, Portugal is particularly well known for having great ideas and conferences about digital transformation but completely lacks the ability to deliver within its own ranks. To its defense, most citizens cannot easily purchase services online, either because lack of money, or because lack of computer literacy/equipment, or because they don't even have an online payment mechanism. These factors greatly limit incentives for a rapid digital transformation, which incidentally, is precisely what digital nomads crave for.

The comparison with Switzerland was made earlier, it matches my argument: 1) widespread computer literacy and modern endpoint equipment 2) widespread access to online payment solutions 3) the population is used to pay-as-you-go public service (vs. all-inclusive taxpayer service expected by citizens in most EU countries). These combined greatly encourage the deployment of efficient online interfaces.
Not yet, at least. But we're working on that :-).
Probably also has birthday and an option for an avatar and various other personal attributes; what of it?

(I mean, yes, in the last few years this has been politicised, primarily in the US, by a right wing desperate for a new wedge issue, but you'd have to be fairly gullible to fall for that...)
I'm glad I've never heard of them. What do they offer?
Computer for eg high-frequency trading are still 'reading'/interpreting the news, so even computers have this issue.
There's a camera connector on the board: https://www.pishop.us/raspberry-pi-4-information/

A variety of cases either provide access to the connector, or have a camera mount. You can find them by searching.
I'm interested to hear if you ever compared with Sweden, just for the sake of curiosity. As an immigrant here coming originally from a very bureaucratic country (Portuguese + Italian levels of dysfunctional bureaucracy, with a Latin American cherry on top) I found bureaucracy here a complete breeze. I basically only need the internet to do 90%+ of my bureaucratic needs with the odd visit to an agency's office for getting documents expedited (national ID, driver's licence, etc.).

As far as I can compare with some immigrant friends in the Netherlands I feel Swedish bureaucracy is on the same level or even less burdensome than the Dutch one.
The digital nomads are going to soak up a good 3 to 5% of the total housing on a permanent basis, that's a pretty good dent in the reservoir. Tourists predominantly stay in hotels or other short-stay places. Though AirBNB and so on also result in the conversion of some of that available housing into short stay 'hotels' which will put more pressure on that reservoir. Typically in any city the vast bulk of the housing is spoken for, and only a relatively small part is available for newcomers or people that move out of their parents place when they come of age.

So I would not underestimate the impact even if it is only 10 to 20K individuals. Finally: tourists spend a lot, typical budgets are many 100's of euros / day for a family. Digital nomads comparatively little.
C-f, C-e, C-b, C-a only require one hand. But I see your point.

The best part of evil-mode in Emacs is that I get to use Emacs bindings in insert mode, and then vim keys in normal mode. For instance when writing function signatures, I can hit C-f to easily jump over the closing parenthesis, or C-e to easily jump to the end of line, usually also to skip the closing parenthesis. I'm not sure how you would do that in vim without exiting back into normal mode and using for instance S-a to append at the end of the line.
Ask HN: Could you build a personal server from the ground up?
So HN loves posts about self hosting and home servers, this much is clear. That and the holy grail of self hosted email services. I keep coming back to this, I continue to contemplate it and as much as I'm seeing DIY solutions in the market it's not clear to me any of these are an ideal solution. The conclusion I'm coming to is we need support for the protocols but maybe not the current software suite of tools e.g Umbrel [1] packs tons of open source stuff onto a box but it all feels a bit fragmented like there's no unified experience there. The thing about adopting cloud services or an ecosystem like Apple or Google is that it's a very unified experience. It's very singular and that drives a great end user experience. I'm just wondering if the personal server needs that same initiative from the ground up starting with protocols. We need SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, XMPP, etc but that doesn't necessarily mean we need to install some existing open source software that's all bespoke. Maybe it's possible to implement something leveraging libraries to create a singular server?

Mostly thinking out loud but looking for the people who might have the most interest in something like this.

I started mocking something up here https://github.com/asim/aslam

[1] https://umbrel.com/
24 year old level 11, seems like level 11 is the sweet-spot for HNers.
Ok, so a slightly less extreme version:

"What would you do if you discovered that your company's core product or service has a net negative influence on the world?". This is a hypothetical, so assume the evidence you have is clear and the conclusion correct.
incessant obsolescence
That last picture of a climbing frame from 1942 wasn't much different from ones I played on as a kid in the 1970's: https://www.alamy.com/stock-image-1970s-historical-young-chi...

(Not that exact one, but a similar model in my part of Hampshire).
On the other hand programming also involves writing a lot of prose: documentation, comments, github issues, slack etc.
Sorry, this was my mistake - I ought to have said that pip doesn't cache/symlink installed packages (unless I am wrong about this also!). You are, of course, correct that the python binaries are symlinked.
There is a link to the scientist page:

https://ethan-pickering.github.io/

where there is a link to a PDF:

https://rdcu.be/c1TPe

that for whatever reasons doesn't load properly here, it remains stuck to "Loading Enhanced PDF ...", likely it is my outdated browser.
Apple too, with OpenDoc (that His Steveness killed on his return)
Agreed. Google processes about 8.5 billion search queries daily. Conversational voice assistants process about 120 million queries daily.
Expected value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value
Ask HN: Lead developer but I just don't enjoy management
Throwaway for obvious reasons. I work for a company doing interactive media work (think conferences touch screens, cool-ish 3D websites, museum-like installations and such). The company specializes in short films / adverts but we have a small interactive department (~6 people) that I am the head of.

It's a small company which grew very quickly - I became the head of the department because I was one of the first developers at the company and basically created and sold our first interactive projects. With time, we pitched more and more of those, and here we are today. As a result of this the company lacks a lot of structure and "middleware" positions - e.g. I do all the hiring myself, and while we do have marketing / project managers, their knowledge is tailored towards films / adverts and don't have a strong knowledge about projects with a programming-heavy background.

The thing is, I've tried and tried to do the best job I can but I just don't enjoy management. I can deal with clients fine, but I don't like having to check on others to ensure they're working as they should. I don't like hiring people and doing interviews. I don't like having to worry about "capacity" when getting a new project. I don't like doing performance reviews and making sure that people's "efficiency" is as high as. I don't like having to supervise every proposal going out to make sure our marketing department didn't promise some technical heresy. I don't like giving people "shitty" tasks to do (because there will always be some). I don't like sitting with someone for a couple hours to explains how I'd like things done, or having to fix something they've done wrong. And of course I don't like being in endless meetings.

I like sitting down and solving problems with code, getting a brief and build something cool. but as of recently I'm lucky if I can allocate 25% of my time to this, while the rest is all these tasks I don't really enjoy.

I tried telling myself that it's a childish and idealistic way of thinking and that it's all a part of career progression regardless of where you work at, giving myself time to try and mature into the position, and trying my best to address all the pipeline issues and technical shortcomings of the company. but it's been a long time now, the way I think about this hasn't changed at all and I feel it's really eating into my mental health now - I find myself procrastinating on tasks like hiring, putting off one-on-ones, and other destructive behaviour.

I've been in the company for a long time and I love the people in it, the culture, and the fact that because of my position I have a lot of freedom to do things the way I want. I'm also quite invested financially as I have some vested shares which should hopefully mature in 4/5 years. But I'm not lying if I say that I haven't woken up with a passion or spring in my step to go to work in a long time and I don't know if I can subject myself to 5 more years of this.

Any advice from people who have been in similar positions?
Digital nomads are probably not working for local wages. So those bad things are irrelevant for them.
That gets repeated a lot, but I've never seen a confirmation. There may be a perception like that because non-classic TLD are usually cheaper, which leads to easier spam. But that's still a problem with the specific domain, not the TLD.

The only confirmed thing I heard is manual email filtering where some people don't understand the bias above and ban all non-com/net/gov emails and think they're clever.
I hope your ideas are never implemented and I'd rather that these ideas burn in hell.

OpenAI is already a misnomer, don't make them comically evil.

AI needs more democratization ala huggingface. Not more """""Open"""""AI
Law is a human endeavour and should be applied with nuance and compassion.

But yeah let's just autoban via AI in real life. Sounds great.
The building was in the news again last week because it was leased as a sort of “WeWork for crypto” and had to shut down given the market downturn. https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/01/03/web3-co-working-hub...
Expected Value as in poker lingo, but I first read it as electric vehicle myself.
Right. On top of that I just ordered a technical book - new and for quite a price.

Only to then find someone else‘s notes starting on page 13.

Seems dark patterns are not enough anymore, and they opt now for outright fraud.
I'm building an audio library with Internet Archive and Hugo
Both 3DSMax and Maya eventually ended up being bought by the same company (Autodesk), but they have very long separate histories and entirely different roots (Maya is coming out of the highend Silicon Graphics world and was mostly used in the movie industry, while 3DSMax was the "PC underdog" at the end of the 90's but has always been very popular for PC game development).
Bias Against Creativity (2017)
My mother can "kinda" drive.
An easier solution is to simply not work for a shitty company that requires this Orwellian monitoring to prove you're doing work...
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This is an old narrative focused on the foibles of supervised learning. The data acquired by chatGPT and Tesla is extremely valuable even while unlabeled. It can be used for pretraining, both self and unsupervised. I guarantee you that having larger and more diverse datasets for pretraining provides a lot of advantages.
Most states have laws that prevent specific plain view recording. That includes if the wind blew up a skirt, if you were sitting on the floor and could see, etc. They also prevent taking nude or partial nude photos in public as well.

But how does the right of publicity apply to these videos? Because they fall in the entertainment or reporting category, it doesn't really apply here. Same with paparazzi taking pictures of celebrities.
Update.

They mentioned this

> It would be nice if you let people know to please not share it for the moment

> The way I understand it, we'd rather make sure it's used as little as possible for now, it's still in testing
Hah, I thought I was the only one who lifts shift too late and gets :Wq.