skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone have a good source for tracking data on the average amounts of dustfall in the US? It feels like there's more and more dust on everything these days, on shelves, in/on cars, building up in my electronics, etc. and I'm having to deal with it more often, change filters more frequently etc. but it could easily just be the area's I'm in. I'm wondering if there's really been an increase in dust for most places or data on which places dust is more/less of a problem today.
How sad for the multibillionaires
Browser support is not just about IE. I wish it was just IE.
A dust bowl isn't just brought about by drought but by both drought and intensive tillage.

According to the USDA 2017 Census of Agriculture no-till acreage increased from 96.5 million in 2012 to 104.5 million in 2017. Reduced-tillage increased from 76.6 million to 97.8 million. Intensive tillage decreased from 105.7 million to 80.0 million.

So 202.3 million acres are now no- or reduced-tillage and 97.8 million acres are intensive-tillage.

The 2022 Census of Agriculture is being drafted and I imagine the intensive-tillage numbers will decrease even more.

Overall, tillage conservation practices have increased by 2-3% every year since the 1970s.
>$11,000 a month

Is this not quite a lot of money?
Pretty sure I've encountered people who switch personalities on a regular basis--sometimes in the middle of a conversation. :)
If it happens, how long until they start expediting the actionables in the physical world?

I am quite worried tbh. Because, the reports coming from the Bing chatbot are quite unlike ChatGPT; it appears to be a bit more egotistical, and from some perspectives, programming ego into an AI is a dangerous game, akin to giving it a fitness function in order to problem solve it's behaiviours... I don't know, I feel like we are already well on our way to AGI, and it is dangerous. And the reason is because of the game theory on AI development right now; every company will be aware of their obligations with regard to ethics and the law, but no company will want to trust that the others live to the same standard of ethics, and they know that the game is likely to run away from them.
A favorite of mine from an earlier era:

"That the automobile has practically reached the limit of its development is suggested by the fact that during the past year no improvements of a radical nature have been introduced."

- Scientific American, Jan 2, 1909
I don’t like it either, but it’s not used because it’s well liked. It’s used because it is in fact useful
Ok, but please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. The cost/benefit of that is the opposite of what we need here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's not how that works. Rust can actually make power usage worse because it generates larger code sizes which causes more I-cache churn and thus more power usage. Making efficient use of caches, power states, and reducing polling are all things that you don't just get for free because "I'm using Rust and Rust is efficient". Rust lets you write something efficient after you've spent tons of time working on making it efficient and understanding how power is consumed on a particular platform for a particular app.

Once again, you could just use a language where they do this for you in the runtime instead of trying to reinvent (probably poorly) these ideas yourself.
The new one sounds more like people speak today.
There absolutely is a hard problem of consciousness.

One thought experiment I like to use to illustrate this: Imagine we accept that an AI is conscious, in the same way a human is.

Now, what defines the AI? You might say the algorithm and the trained weights. Ok, so let’s say, in a similar way, we extract the relevant parameters from a human brain and use that to craft a new human.

Are they the same person, or two? Do they experience the same consciousness? Would they share the same embodied experience?

Could the one be dead and other alive? If so, what makes them have their own individuality? If your loved one died, and their brain was reconstructed from parameters stored while they were alive, would you accept that as a resurrection? Why or why not?

Note that I offer no answer to the above questions. But trying to answer them is part of what the hard problem of consciousness is about.
The important information referenced in the current article by AdGuard is in this link by Mozilla:

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/11/17/manifest-v3-signi...

Posting it here since there's a lot of questions being asked here in HN that are answered by the post.
There is a lot of mysoginy behind the underlying movement
> There is no labor shortage, just a shortage of people willing to work for poverty wages.

The U6 indicates there is increasingly a labor shortgage. It's hovering around 6.5-6.6%. That's lower than the hot economy of the 1990s and it's lower than the rate achieved just prior to the pandemic. That general level has been reached only a few times in decades and only briefly.
I can't speak to the battery life of the Librem 5. You can choose to charge the phone or not charge the phone through the NextDock 360 pop-up menu, which can help it last a little longer.
> it's the Daily Mail for men.

What is this supposed to mean?
did that stop working at some point?
"An important qualification. For such I-you relationships to be unironic, they cannot contain any conscious element of imaginative projection or fantasy. For example, Tom Hanks in Cast Away painting a face on a volleyball and calling it Wilson and relating to it is not an I-you relationship"

If you think any of these models show any more apparent personhood than Wilson the volleyball you must be terminally online and wilfully antropomorphize anything you see.

Five minute conversation with any of these models shows that they have no notion of continued identity, memory and no problem to hallucinate up anything. You can ask it "are you conscious?" it says yes. A few prompts later you say "why did you tell me that you are not conscious?" and it gives you some made up answer. Any of these models will tell you it has legs if you ask it to.

None of these models have long term memory, which is at least one of the several things you'd need for anything to pass as a genuine person. Which is of course why in humans degenerative diseases are so horrible when you see someone's personhood disintegrate.

I'm honestly super tired of these reductionist AI blogspam posts. The brittleness and superficiality in these systems is so blatantly obvious I wonder whether there is some darker aspect why people are so desperately trying to read into these systems properties that they do not have, or try to strip humans of them.
A "potential competitor" that has no product at all? That sounds like nonsense.

They're paying for access, not to keep Apple out of search -- otherwise they'd pay a few extra billions on top so that users on Windows can't use that potential Apple search.
Wow. This is so gross. I was a bit put out by the Dr. Seuss controversy a few years back, but at least in those cases, they just stopped printing the books (and, to be fair, the caricatures of various ethnic groups in If I Ran The Zoo are pretty bad).

It feels much more disturbing, though, to just silently update the language in the books to be more in line with modern sensibilities. Dahl was a man of his time, and as a general rule his books have good morals and values exhibited in them. They are perfect children's books, not afraid to dip into a little darkness or to poke fun at the adults who run the world, and that's a huge part of why they've been so successful and universally loved.

The mental attitude and sense of self-superiority it must take to feel comfortable taking the knife to something so well loved is really mind-boggling to me. I am very happy that I bought our collection of Dahl's books before this happened.
I think exolymph did a good job of explaining why people care when she mentioned "the punchy use of language that makes Dahl's work so wonderful and entertaining" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34850273). Some of these edits cross well into Bowdlerism. They're also surprisingly extensive. That alone is interesting!

Dahl was a transgressive writer also for his day - at least I've always had that impression. His macabre deliciousness and sharp wit are what makes his books so good—like an Edward Gorey for kids, but not too much for kids. So some of these edits are artistically consequential, the same way that the Bowdlers' "Family Shakespeare" was (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_Shakespeare).

These things probably go in cycles and it makes me wonder if the Bowdlers will soon be rehabilitated. Probably not, because their specific motives are so anachronistic now that no one would want to be associated with them. Also, their name has been a term of derision for 200 years and that's too much of a black hole to get out of. But if you abstract away from the ideological specifics, the phenomena seem remarkably similar.
The whole idea that colonial history needs to be swept under the rug is absurd. In fact it needs to be preserved, talked about and taught in a context of modern society. That’s how we stop the history from repeating itself.

- A person who grew up in a former colony
I remember spawn installs! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn_installation - games came with the ability to install multiple multiplayer-only copies so that you only needed one copy of the game to play. This was invaluable for LAN parties but also families - this list certainly dominated the games that I played with my siblings.

It so often feels like things are moving backward <Old man continues to yell at clouds>.
I've always wondered about the lost revenue possibilities of Apple not building their own search engine. Imagine in a perfect world (for Apple) that all Apple devices used AppleSearch 100% of the time. What kind of revenue would they need to pull in to clear 15 billion in profit per year?

Some back of the napkin math shows that Alphabet is averaging about a 30% profit margin the last few years. Of course they do a ton of other stuff, most loosing money, but let's say Apple can make 30% off their search engine. That'd be 50 billion of revenue per year that Apple would need to bring in to break even with Google's 15 billion payment. Seeing as they already pull in ~20 billion per year revenue from App Store ads alone, I think it's not far fetched to think that Apple is leaving money on the table by not rolling their own search engine.

I think they must be working on something, even if it's just as a backup plan in case Google is prevented from making such deals in the future due to anti-trust issues.
I'm not sure I would explicitly call it "eco friendly". A lot goes into making paper bills. But the end result, the paper bill, is "low tech".
Shouldn’t nix be able just output an image?
Homeless people are often unbanked, and it's very difficult to open a new account without a credit score and permanent address.

Recent immigrants have difficulty opening accounts for a similar reason - only US credit counts. Political activists are also often denied accounts out of an abundance of caution on the bank's part, e.g. with the Occupy Wall St protests.
It depends on your compiler settings but the code can very closely match equivalent JS if you want.
> Also, this article doesn't seem to make it clear what Firefox is doing to "save" ad blockers other than continue to support Manifest v2.

Yeah, that's a misleading title; the authors explain why extension-writers are going to switch to the "common platform", which will be V3, whatever Mozilla (or AdGuard) do.

I was looking for an account of some cool Judo move that Mozilla had pulled off, to draw the teeth of V3. That's not what it's about.
That's like saying games that use Unreal Engine are basically reskins of each other. Yes, they both use WebKit, but as browsers they're quite different, and the data that Google collects when you're using Chrome is quite different than what it gets when you're using Safari.
This is a hot take. I’m not suggesting that 2FA sms is secure but the people in high-growth countries (like India) do not normally have smart phones. They do have things like regular flip phones and those are the users you’re willing to give up. These people are also unlikely to be able to pay for 2FA sms. So you’re basically locking these users out of the pipeline. This will raise the security bar and it’s likely he’s doing it because he doesn’t want to have to pay for sms 2FA costs alone but it will stunt his growth potential.
From my talks with people who machine parts, precision can be super interesting, plus a bunch of equipment to measure from micrometers, calipers to indicators.
Canceling all fun on campus is just inviting any and all negative press and reviews that the students can dig up.
The problem is that “used by millions” != “should receive money”.

If I write a book and release it for free, I may get a lot of readers willing to read it. The moment I say, “sorry readers - to read this you must pay me!” suddenly I am now competing with all forms of paid entertainment.

A lot of the draw to open source is that it’s free. A lot of the allure to open source devs is knowing that tons of people are using their software, the license means they can’t be sued, and they don’t have any of the headache of running a business.

Once you believe “I deserve to be paid for this” I have a lot of counterpoints.

What are the free alternatives? What am I getting for my money? What support do you offer?

In a world where people agonize over Netflix going from $9 to $14, you need to really provide a lot of value to get someone to open their wallet.

No one deserves to be paid just because they did something popular. You deserve to be paid if people are willing to pay you vs. all the other things they can spend money on.
I think open source as a "business model" is fundamentally failing and has completely fallen from grace in the past decade.
Why the obsession with arranging rectangles on a screen? Anyone can do that in any number of tools. The blind spot that most designers have is in defining workflows. Something that helps designers with that would in fact be a new kind of design tool.
Interesting project from a technical standpoint but it's only a matter of time for Google to ban accounts that do this
I agree with your overall point, but it sounds to me like the former CEO's "incontrovertible evidence" was not quite as strong as you felt, given that you go on say that these factors are not qualifiable.

Numeric metrics are certainly not the only way to bolster an argument but I'd be curious to hear more about the type of evidence the CEO used to make their case.
When people talk about “woke”, this is exactly the kind of thing they are talking about.

People on the left are apoplectic about banning books for kids, yet here they are literally rewriting them. That is every bit as bad as what they claim is happening with banning books.

The worst edits IMO are the ones just marked removed
> But also have we reached cultural stagnation, that old media still out competes new ones by such orders of magnitude ?

Uh... Roald Dahl is one of, arguably the greatest children's author of the 20th century. It's not like we're reprinting old pulp here because we can't write new stuff.

Frankly I think your hyperbole is misplaced. Dahl's works are republished, and they're children's literature, so it's not hard to imagine how mid-20th-century conceptions might be seen as a bit much for the target audience. No one's trying to prevent kids from reading the existing books[1], they're just trying to make a buck selling them to modern parents.

Does that make this a good idea? No, it's dumb. But it's hardly "yikes" territory either.

[1] Which would be the "censorship" you're talking about.
I would encourage you to put together a collection of demos. I'd love to browse and play with samples that show all the different layouts I could make to quickly understand Noya's capabilities and answer my questions about edge cases.
What a lovely little video this is, from start to finish. Very skilful work, indeed!
Something similar has been posted before some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34083366
>why are we running out of money

Because there was no real business model. You sell your software for $0. You maintain it and provide support for $0. You don't have any upsells or additional services.

What value is being gives in exchange for the money? The hopes that the project doesn't shut down because they have yet to find product market fit for their business model which doesn't exist?
Most code is tested, even for hobby projects. I find I save more time down the road with tests.
That example is quite unfair. You could just write

println(is_me ? "me" : "you")

which has exactly the same amount of symbols.
It would be even better if they wouldn't force unnecessary and unremovable "Extensions" button on toolbar.
Yep. Donations basically don't work is pretty near a universal opinion of anyone who has spent time looking at open source business models.

As beer money for someone's side project hobby? Sure, why not?

But to pay the full-time salary for someone even in a low cost country? Even $50,000 (per year) is actually a lot of money to collect through donations--in part, because as the author notes it's pretty hard for companies to just make a donation to someone.
No need for developers? Because this company is going to be the future haha
Initially I thought that also, but $130k a year isn’t very competitive for a skilled US-based software engineer if you consider the entire market.

Now for working on an open-source project it does seem pretty good.
This is fucking outrageous!

This is precisely the sort authoritarianism that I was taught to fear around the time I first read his books. Editing old books to comply with the current regime was one of the things that the bad guys did. That was one of the things our ancestors fought against in two world wars.

What would Ronald Dahl say about this? How would you feel if they did this to your writing long after you are gone?

Erasing Rudyard Kipling? WTF did he do wrong? His poetry was inspirational to me, as a child.

Good people cannot allow this to go unchallenged.

Edit: forgive me for expressing emotion.
Not sure why you are arguing about this? The issue is about the idiomatic, expected style that surrounds pure functions and functional programming. The posted article goes into this in greater detail (and more elegantly than this thread) as to why the pattern you describe -- passing a big pointer of potentially large composite data to a function (implicitly or otherwise) -- is not in the spirit of FP purity. If you want to be pedantic, you are welcome and you are academically correct, but the tradition of FP in practice is not to do this (as also pointed out in the article). It's not a question how many arguments but rather if there is extraneous data that the function does not need, as would be common with the full object.
> Where is the next Dahl? Why is there no modern Beatrix Potter

Do you have a child? There are all kinds of amazing children’s authors, loved by parents and kids, that have been creating books over the last 20 years.
Pretty baseless opinion. Julia Donaldson is an easy example but there are a lot of magical modern children's authors.
I didn't know something like this existed, thanks for a thorough review

I want something like this for reading PDFs (in tablet mode) and possibly coding from my phone, that I can carry around in my backpack when I'd rather not bring my whole laptop too.
I think part of this could be fixed if Github, which seems to be the most used, lowest common denominator, had bug report mechanisms that were the equivalent of:

"This bug report has been reviewed and can't continue without more information. This report is now considered inactive unless you do these prescribed actions and report back with this specific information. Click here to submit this specific information."
Open core has its own set of problems but it can potentially work if there is an obvious set of enterprise-specific features for a project that enterprises can genuinely need.
> I also have a wife and a 2.5 year old.

You did all of these in the last 2.5 years? If not, that part seems a bit irrelevant.

But regardless of the response, some kids are way easier than others (easy kids are those who like to eat and like to sleep, imho), and some parents have more help or stricter separation of parental duties.
Ever ask that of your grocery store? Do you order cereal from Kelloggs.com?
I know it’s not fun but if a team/project/company wants money then they have to work for it.

If you look at non-profits, a huge amount of time, effort, and resources goes into fundraising.

Building something or doing good, then hoping people will pay you, isn’t a thing.
I asked it for an HLSL shader to raymarch a cloud and it basically handed me a copy/paste of the top result off shadertoy changed just enough to be broken. Kept the indentation and the magic constants unchanged though!

The more niche the ask the less... transformative/uniquely generative its model is, and the less reliable.
I definitely remember seeing the "spawn install" option from the StarCraft CD and just assuming it was something to do with the comic book character.
The only way this was true was when cracks were a thing. Most games had some sort of copy protection before (and often after) steam. I couldn't imagine a community of idiots downloading untrusted exes these days...
Which of Shakespeare's plays do you think is too unfashionable to be relevant today, and in dire need of an 'update' to 'keep up with the times'?

The best stories are timeless. If you think a story is no longer relevant, it probably wasn't very good in the first place.
Precision is a marvelous thing. Every detail must be accounted for. I remember reading a brochure about surface plates (a reference of flatness), and the body heat of the person handling it would be accounted for.
In a bid for “relevancy”.

What a generous description.

Instead of banning the books we don’t like, why not just rewrite them?
IMHO, as long as the original remains available, it's fine.

Changing with the times for the sake of relevance and sales is the the right of the copyright owners. Preventing them from modifying the text would be akin to preventing renovation of old apartment buildings by new owners.

That said, I do think it is important to be reminded of how authors viewed the world in the past. We should be reminded, at least tangientially, that governments of the past colonized and recall the lessons learned from that practice. I.e., let's not forget and be destined to repeat what came to be loathed.
The picture is all you need. They added some small felt walls to their desks which still do not provide as much privacy as real cubicles and dubbed them "cocoons" to seem innovative.
> know full well retribution is a core part

It is not.

> "Asymmetric retribution" is your way

I never said those words that you quote. You keep hearing what I said that way for reasons of your own.

Just in case I have't been explicit enough for reasonable participants: I am not interested in "retribution". I am interested in ending oppression. Even if I didn't find retribution repugnant on its own, I find it counterproductive in relation to my goal.

I chose a broad term because I did not want to get bogged down in endless nitpicking over particular approaches to ending oppression. The people who agree that oppression exists and that we must work to ending it will not have much problem seeing that something asymmetrical must take place. (If you have examples of oppression ended without asymmetric behavior, I look forward to it.) But it's not surprising that even the broadest term has itself generated endless nitpicking, because there are a lot of people who are invested in the oppressive systems themselves.
Non-profits are literally in the constant fundraising state. I think it's not the optimal model, because it keeps you distracted from the main work that you should be doing.