skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for all this info. I'd never heard of permaculture, it's fascinating. Lots of food for thought here. I found a link on the Million Trees website to an org called Landcare in Australia - was that the one that went dormant in your area? Their approach was very thought-provoking.

I've been a casual botanist for around 25 years, mostly slow observation and trial-and-error IDs. You learn a lot, just looking at stuff. It was around 2008 when I first started noticing the native-is-best, alien-is-bad drumbeat. At first it was just disturbing, feeling this value judgment of good-plant bad-plant, creeping into my observational process. It took some of the pleasure out of it TBH.

Now it just seems out of control, the wholesale scapegoating, ripping-out, and poisoning of acres of benign species, without a clear plan of what to replace them with. And the absence of context, not weighing the huge ecological disturbance of things like highways and dams, plus feral pigs and aggressive weeds as you mentioned, just seems, I dunno, simplistic.

I love native plants as much as the the next person. I've got a huge native garden. And I'm all for eradicating aggressive bullies like English ivy and kudzu.

But the ecosystem's complicated. We're in a looming extinction event. Gazing backward into a mythical native-plant Eden just seems ... wishful?

Thanks for sharing your perspective, it's validating.
The idea of relying on the government for your retirement is insane to me, for exactly this reason. You're willing to bet your life that the government is always going to do right by you?

Save your own money. If Social Security exists by the time I retire, great. I'm planning as if it won't.
I feel many objections to Apple’s products behavior are responded with “a suggestion “ to just follow Apple way.
One big challenge I see with the whole business about pension reform (and government spending in fact) as a public debate is that two sides are talking on totally different planes. In France, and someday very soon, here in the US. And the public in a certain sense, will problematically have to end up voting a simple yes/no on extremely complex topics which are incentivized to push buttons on single issues. cf. Brexit.

On the one side (hopefully meaningful to this crowd) is a group that when confronted with the sheer numbers involved and tradeoffs that would make any dent in the coming demographic-driven bankruptcy (shorthand name for it), have to keep things running and try to come up with the actually mathematically workable or "implement this decision" plans with the resources they have. Not aspirations.

Take a look at this for example:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/03/06/upshot/balanc...

See those numbers/scenarios, there is no getting around the severity of the situation.

Then on the other plane, there are people (politicians, and people in general in the country) who deal in "symbols" and qualitative statements about what they think who is entitled to, what was promised, etc. "Eat the rich!" etc.

And lately it seems, rarely the twain shall meet. Or at least, it's quite rare to find leaders who are equally incentivized or capable of handling both sides of this adeptly. Also, the people who don't understand the numbers generally tend to shout and insist they're right. On the other hand, numbers people don't usually shout (and underplay the severity of coming problems; the type that analyzes is usually civil about it). Also, and this is an evolving thought -- I don't think democracies are very well suited to allocating the pain of a country's long-term downturn very well, or having people understand when your country's resources are actually decreasing.

One thing is for sure -- there is a massive unpleasant reckoning coming in terms of what benefits and tax rates people believed they would experience. There is no magic getting out of this hole, it will be one of / combination of:

-- taxes will rise (for whom?)

-- benefits will decrease (for whom?)

-- retirement age will increase

-- borrowing will increase (from whom?)

And undoubtedly it will largely fall on the next generations. Or just in time for my retirement.
Looks like the concerns about Elon littering the sky were well-founded.
The problem with ubiquitous apps (or almost anything) having "personality" is that a large number of users may not like that particular "personality" and, from a UX standpoint, it may not serve a large number of particular use cases. Instagram is no longer a niche project.

I would argue the death of personality is more attributable to growth and optimizing for mass market dominance. There's a reason mom and pop business can be quirky and Citi and McDonalds can't.
All of this is anecdotal, so discard if you wish. I've never tasted it on its own, but you can get sodas sweetened with sugar or HFCS or many fake sugars. For me, the fake sugars have distinct aftertastes that I find unpleasant; sugar vs HFCS is more subtle, but I get more satiation from sugar sweetened than HFCS sweetened so I'm less likely to drink large quantities of sugar sweetened beverages vs HFCS sweetened. I don't know if any are still sold, but beverages sweetened with a mix of sugar/HFCS and sucralose were harder for me to detect the sucralose aftertaste. I also find sucralose to have a less offensive aftertaste than aspartame.
Extra steps i.e. install pkg-config and said library on your system
I wonder if most companies will endorse their IP going through this kind of thing. Probably going to happen at any rate.
There's no total order on complex numbers, so what would smallest mean there? The numbers z=x+iy (x,y in Z) with smallest positive |z|? Fair enough.
Aren’t the numbers that appear most often in the OIES also boring? I think a number that doesn’t appear in any sequences automatically promotes it to interesting; it’s some kind of sequence prime without being an actual prime.

Also, there is a catalog of interesting numbers: the Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting numbers. A college prof of mine would read an entry before each class. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-penguin-dictionary-of-curi...
https://www.energy.gov/eere/buildings/zero-energy-ready-home... seems to be the main landing page, and it's a bit handwaving...

> A DOE Zero Energy Ready Home is a high-performance home that is so energy efficient that a renewable energy system could offset most or all the home's annual energy use.

"Most or all" and "annual energy use" allow for some massive wiggle room. Annual energy use by who? A family with a couple teenage girls is going to likely use a lot more hot water than a family with a three year old boy.

I can't find any actual concrete details on it, annoyingly. So I have to agree that it's more of a feel-good listing until proven otherwise.
> Every single pension system has the working population pay for the retirees.

Which is just a socialized form of the previous social security system which had children or grandchildren look after their parents. Of course, the glaring difference is that social security schemes have motivated many millions, who otherwise might have, to not have children at all or an inadequate number and so contribute very little to nothing towards the future maintenance of the system while still cashing the checks once they retire. Of course this system does help the minority who can't have children for whatever reason but it does look like we've swapped looking after that cohort for a few decades for effectively no social security system for anyone once this ponzi scheme collapses.
You're absolutely correct on emphasizing the text medium. Neurolinguistic programming isn't just an arcane meme for academics. The most important part of it, it only works if the user cannot separate reality from words.

Marshall McLuhan is really the techno-prophet of our era.
Sure, but that does answer your original ask. There are options, especially if you're willing to work for just slightly less (or in some cases you can still get a raise by switching) to work at a company that pays well and makes a more positive impact on the world.
No, that is not normal.

Regen doesn't completely turn off your traditional braking system in a Prius.

My wife has driven the same Prius for the past 12 years and if that model of car was prone to having its most important safety system seize up, there'd have been a massive recall for that specific issue. I've replaced the brake pads twice myself in those 12 years, and have had a mechanic do it once. The wear and tear have looked like any other old brake pad I've replaced in other cars. The discs have never looked worn beyond what's normal for a 12 year old car.

Looking through my records turned up a single brake related recall specific to our model year, except it was for the parking brake. The issue they were fixing could occur if: "the driver exits the vehicle with the transmission in a gear other than ‘Park’ while the ignition is on," and required having a tiny clip installed.

There was another brake related recall that was more severe, but didn't impact our model year. It did however apply to other model year Prius', and several other Toyota/Lexus models, most of which are traditional ICE vehicles without regenerative braking.

Nothing to do with brakes seizing.

Also, rusty rotors wouldn't cause brake calipers to seize. That'd be an issue with the calipers themselves. I'll concede that having brake pads degrade or fail could contribute to calipers seizing, and that a severely rusted disc could contribute to pad failure, but that's still a long shot. Again, the disc would have to be so severely rusted that it'd damage the pads.

You'd be more at risk of pad damage from road grit than you would from the typical surface rust one gets from not using the vehicle at all.
This lie is promulgated by the oil industry.
You don't need the tamper protections to apply to the whole SoC, you just need the trusted element (TPM, SE, whatever you call it) to be physically isolated from the rest of the system and include tamper protections.
Idk how you live without silence unknown callers. I get an upwards of 20 spam calls a day interrupting me otherwise while using the phone.
Famicom Party – Making NES Games in Assembly
You could use revanced!
Aren’t larger, opulent home designs far more difficult to make energy efficient?
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but I don't think it's hard to guess in this case; it's a rage thread about a frequent rage topic.

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35060935
Basically, but it looks like this certification is protected and carries benchmarks, similar to the Energy Star program.
Not where I live (some EU member), not so obvious. For example all Fanta has some artificial sweetener. Diet fanta has no sugar at all.
Because while the math is simple, the politics are very complicated. Which fills these hours of passionate TV debates.
Yes, I think for the moment ChatGPT or a similar model being used by Microsoft Bing which is supposedly somewhat better is about as close as we have.

Eleven Labs has a very realistic British voice that can be relatively easily connected to ChatGPT output. Sometimes the latency isn't great at the moment for the inexpensive plans but I think they are working on it.

But we should expect better models and techniques within the next couple of years and potentially much, much better if you are talking about several years.

The most obvious (in my opinion) upcoming improvements are multimodal large models and further down the line new compute-in-memory substrates with much better efficiency/performance potential.

But also more sophisticated cognitive architectures are being developed and are likely to become more widespread in the next several years.
They are not good at being suicidal given that they have a blooming second/third-market and many people happily use them for years-on-end.
> There are more books, movies, video games, music, entertainment in general than I could ever consume in a lifetime. And I don't just mean the sum total, including the all the crap; I mean, stuff I would like, even love.

This is why doom & gloom reactions about anything that might slow media publishing don't make any sense to me. I'd have to be insanely dedicated to make it through the backlog of very-likely-to-be-good stuff I want to experience for basically any medium, just of what's already been published/recorded/whatever. Like, tens-of-hours-per-week dedicated, for decades, just to make a single pass over all of it. "We can't reform copyright, what if novels stop being written and movies stop being made!" Well... it'd harm my quality of life basically not at all, so, that just doesn't seem like a huge problem to me (putting aside that a huge amount of writing is free anyway, and has a large audience—see: fan fiction).

Maybe I'd finally get through my list of pre-WWII films I want to watch, at least, before kicking the bucket. Catch up on the titles from the first few thousand years of the written word that are still on my to-read list. Big deal if very little more is published, it'd be impossible to run out of great material as it is.

It's even true for the young medium of video games! I'm still likely gonna have probably-good games on my to-play pile that were already published by today in 2023 if I live until 2070, even if zero more games are published starting this second. "What if this reform means less stuff gets published?" God, I just do not care. Hell, if a reform stops most new publishing but makes older stuff cheaper and more widely available, it might be a win for me, overall. Running out of content to "consume" is a complete non-issue regardless of what happens to those industries in the future. There are several lifetimes worth of good-to-great content already.
Can they force you to give up the post-it on which you wrote down your password? If yes, are there any real limits to how much pressure they can apply before they give up? If no, what's stopping them from giving you a pencil and a stack of post-its, and letting you know they'll keep applying pressure until you produce a post-it with the password on it, which they "know" you have "somewhere"?

Point being, I feel this is getting into xkcd://538 territory.
People even ignore the rest of a sentence. A few bad apples spoil the bunch.
The opposite is also true. You can’t officially use a Macbook in clamshell mode (eg, as a headless media server) even when connected to power. When you close the lid without a connected display, the official MacOS behaviour is to put the computer to sleep. You need a third-party tool to prevent it from sleeping.

Yet when my Macbook is asleep in my bag with no peripherals attached, my headphones will connect and wake the Mac.

The left hand does not know what the right hand is doing. It literally makes no sense.
>it’s only three words long:
Parse, don’t validate.

My own English parser is telling me it's actually four words, however.

Your mileage may validate that differently. ;)
The sentiment of it being an extortion ring is correct. However, it's not as simple as placing the highest bidders' product at the top-K spots, because it's not a true auction system; not anywhere close. Amazon runs an ML algo that attempts to determine the actual cost benefit of serving an ad, and does everything in its power to maximize the value of the underlying ecosystem. It applies weights to warehousing fees, shipping fees, CVR, CTR, referral fees, customer retention & satisfaction, LCV, LSV, loan interest, etc. It's not that relevance isn't a focus, but the considerations are complex and somewhat reliant on sellers' data inputs.

You could bid $100 on your own brand KWs and get charged $0.37/click while a competitor in the adjacent slot will get charged $25. You could bid $100 on a competitor's brand KW and never get an impression because the algo has determined your product is a complete waste of that virtual shelf space.
I've never seen a Wacatac detection that wasn't a false positive, but who knows.
I understand you can just check the pressure during a blower test to see if there are leaks, but how do they actually identify where the leaks are? Go around all over the house with a smoke gun?
I dunno, "Publicly fired by Elon!™" is a strong resume flex.
Theoretically plausible for an American developer, but it’s worth pointing out that in that era (and maybe still today) video game rental was illegal in Japan.
Companies that want to claw back some of the wage gains over the last decade are going to love this, at least for a while.
I just remember being glad it was only $29.
No, because those actually work. But they're also tricky to operate properly.

This seems more like "I want you to feel good about your purchase while you're still dependent on external energy inputs."

If you can find details on what it actually requires, please, share, because I've spent the past 15 minutes snoofing around and I sure can't find it.
Most studios are moving to digital. A ethernet stagebox (normally Dante, but there are other options) where each performer is, connect to your network. Just run an ethernet jack and power to various locations where you might want something and plug in what you want. You can get in-wall versions of the above to use in places where you will always have a lot of stuff connected.

You still have the mic cables on the floor, but they are going to be there all the time and the ones that change most often.
Show HN: Provide granular access to your Tesla (or anything else really)
Colocation, and avoiding the ceremony of standing up all the extern types (and integrating a separate C compiler, etc)
Could you please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments? We're trying for something else here. Even when the topic is this flammable, such a comment stands out as low-value, and is the kind of thing we rate-limit accounts for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
When "human interest" means "keep scrolling to find the content while you look over our ads" then that angle gets less and less meaningful.
There are very few if any institutions that sophisticated investors trust to pay back money more than the U.S. government.

Banks go bankrupt, gold changes value, cash gets stolen. Seems like the U.S. government is the best option.
The government issuing the money can reduce the purchasing power of “your” money anytime it wants, and most governments do every year.
If there's a good thermal difference between interior temperature and exterior temperature, a thermal imager will help catch an awful lot of the leaks.
And he has since corrected that it will still be based on Unity. Check his community tab on Youtube.
This comment made my day! I'm going to give it a try and will convince my wife to test it to see if it helps :)
I've found that this convention can depend on the organization. I've managed multiple products as a PM, and in some cases people who do this will be called "Product Line Managers". I've also worked for companies that (for sufficiently complex products) have PMs for a particular capability/subsystem of a product, with another PM managing the product as a whole.
I do use it, not sure how that was unclear.
It's all theater. Most of Florida's laws are getting struck down in the federal courts but that's not the point - the point is for Desantis to score political points in his bid for the 2024 presidential run. All that matters is he took the appropriate steps to "own" the libs. That's what passes for Republican governance these days. I'm old enough to remember when TV cameras were called idiot magnets. Now the idiots are TV camera magnets. Such is the way of the modern world.
if you enjoy functional programming and are looking for a utility library, ramda has been a joy. very very well thought out. being able to compose functions together and treat data as a stream of information being transformed is incredibly easy. it is also compatible with libraries which implement algebraic structures like fantasy land. coupled with the other r libs its quite fun to program with. just be careful as it gets hairy to read pretty fast if one doesn't understand all the functions that come into play...

// pull traits dictionary out of tokens
const extractTraits = R.pipe(
R.map(R.pipe(
R.last,
R.prop('attributes'))),
R.reject(R.isNil),
R.reduce(R.mergeWith(concatValues), {}),
R.map(R.pipe(
R.unless(R.is(Array), R.of),
R.groupBy(R.identity),
R.map(R.count(R.identity)),
R.toPairs,
R.sortBy(R.prop(0)),
R.map(R.zipObj(['name', 'count'])))));
You forgot something. For small documents, the fd was the king. Burning a CD for small data was a waste, and damn slow.
Alexa is specifically designed to interact with services, whereas ChatGPT is a large language model which predicts the next lexical token(it's cool with me if you call industrial-grade autocomplete "smart", but some might hold the view that there's little intelligence in this process), rather than perform an API call itself.
Apple reported $65.78Bn in revenue from iPhone sales in Q4 2022. Their entire “wearable / home / accessories” revenue was $13.5Bn. That includes the wildly successful Apple Watch as well as the HomePod and Apple TV. All of which sell for hundreds of dollars. That’s to say nothing of first-party accessories like cables that Apple sells directly and makes 100% of the revenue on.

Third parties would have to sell ~200 MFi-licensed cables for every single disgruntled iPhone user who jumps ship for Android or decides to sit out an upgrade cycle. It’s even worse if you factor in the halo of other purchases people make after buying a new phone.

You are absolutely out of your mind if you think Apple has any desire to cannibalize iPhone sales for $4 of licensing revenue on third-party cables. This isn’t even a rounding error in Apple’s quarterly financials.
Without commenting on the French government specifically (which I haven't followed closely):

Consider the fact that politicians can be elected and then break the promises they made during the campaign. The electoralist response to this is 'well you can vote them out next time,.' But that ignores the cost of the damage that can occur during the interval, plus it's not clear how the populace is supposed to hold other politicians to account - to the point that there is a general expectation of politicians being dishonest and mendacious.

Really, in what other job are you only subject to review every few years and if people don't like what you're doing in the meantime you can reply with complete BS, often overtly?

Democratic elections are a good thing, but they are not the be-all and end-all of politics. Strikes and boycotts are absolutely a legitimate form of political expression, in which labor or consumer market participants coordinate their economic activity to obtain political leverage. If you won't tolerate anything other than elections, North Korea has those.
What is code, though, but a syntactically precise and logical way of expressing ideas?
How exactly does the same amount of labor need doing when there will fewer people who need anything in the near future? You seem to be saying more labor per person is necessary to satisfy this “need.”

That doesn’t seem beneficial to workers as a whole. I thought innovation was supposed to benefit everyone? Where’s the hole in this logic?
Hello, Again, World
All logic is clientside in the downloaded JS and HTML. After the initial page load, it should send nothing to the backend of the website, only API calls to chatGPT API itself. There is no actual backend with logic, it only serves static HTML+JS+assets.

Theoretically, you should be able to block any outgoing connections to the website domain (after it loads all necessary HTML and JS), and it should still work fine. Saying "theoretically" because it might attempt delay-loading some static assets, but you get the idea. No idea how this specific website functions, as I haven't looked deep into it yet, but that's the principle behind "static websites" like this one.