skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I have a BS. I can't speak for people with graduate degrees, but I would say there's not that much difference except the grad degree people spent more time on a campus. The people with a BS/BA still have a proper education and understand the value of education and have been through the college experience. Arguably, someone who went to community college falls short of this.

In my experience, people who never went to college just have a very different outlook on life. There's a very good reason the political polarization in America today has a large component of being aligned along educational attainment.
I thought his deafness was attributed to his lead poisoning
So I read the article having never heard of this before and then looked it up on YouTube.

Having not watched it the right way round. It does kind of change the narrative.

It kind of felt like society was disassembling itself, regressing which is sad in itself, but it was for a good reason?

Also as an aside it was the clearest look I've seen into what everyday like was like in the 80s having not been alive at the time in a way that hasn't been glossed over like the media we consume.
I have a gopher hole. So do a few hundred other people on this planet. The Gopher-sphere's a slow, thoughtful place.
vmd(8) moves to a multi-process model
Can't believe many people will wanna die on that boring, conformist, monocultured hill.
> customers being forced to be unpaid employees

Do you consider yourself a forced unpaid employee when you go through the checkout screen on Amazon?
Unless you live in an arid area... if it's not grass ... something else is growing there. Something usually far more labour-intensive to maintain.

If humans displace natural grazing animals, something has to replace them. A lawnmower.

I live on 6 acres. Half of it I leave wooded. I have a small hobby vineyard. And the house and garage. The rest, well, it has to be mowed. Because I don't have sheep or goats to do it for me.

Even when I lived in Toronto on a 25'x100' property, I had to mow almost weekly to keep weeds down.

Yes, the lawn thing is a bit silly. But people who act like a native plant or whatever garden or landscaping is less labour intensive are fooling themselves. I've tried both. Around here, it'll fill with burrs and dandelions and pigweed and ticks and whatever in no time at all.
I'm surprised they're still around, tbh.

I was an early user, but then I ditched them for the plain old mac/iphone notes app when I was asked to pay to keep syncing multiple devices. I wasn't a power user, so notes worked just fine.

When I wanted more of a knowlege base app, I went with Notion as it was less free for my uses & less painful, and then I found ObsidianMD, and migrated from Notion. I just use iCloud Sync between devices.

Notion now has their built in LLM/AI thingy to help out.

It's a crowded scene now, with competition from the bottom, with Google Keep or Apple Notes/Reminders, and from the top, with Notion. They don't even mention the price on their compare plans page, it's in a blog post. Because evernote personal is $15/mo vs $8/mo for Notion, with another $8/mo for Notion AI addon. Apple Notes, Google Keep, Obsidian are all free.

Am happy for them, and for the competition, but they don't seem to have a unique selling point? I'm curious how they are trying to win new customers.
As someone who has been doing this for a few years in Virginia, which is plenty wet, it's not really bad. I minimize mowing until May (a little earlier this year because its been so warm so early), and the first go of it is tough, but I put the setting on the highest; then I keep it relatively short by June or July. Meaning, its really no big deal.

The real issue, as far as I'm concerned, is what are you letting grow. If you just let it all out, it's not likely that you just have commercial grass growing, but a bunch of weeds. Now I like weeds, myself, but some are less desirable than others, particularly some invasive ones, and neighbors can complain (mine don't). My approach is to selectively weed the lawn (yes, by hand, and it's a half-acre) to try to rid it of the weeds I don't want, and selectively encourage those I do (e.g. in my case, the native fleabane which flowers in May). I do see a difference in the number of insects visiting fleabane compared to non-native weeds. Now, I'm in a rural enclave of an urban area in an environmentally sensitive part of Virginia, so my approach is different than it might be if I were in a California suburb, for example.
Would this document be enough to be able to create an AAA Amiga in FPGA?
It's not usually needed, but if I'm really sweaty and sticky the first washing removs dirt, and the second washing adds "squeak" is the best way I can put it.

It just feels cleaner. I assume it's because the additives in the shampoo become overloaded on the first use, and are active on the second.
There should be no consequences. They should simply carry insurance for to make investors whole.
I use a chrome extension called Imagus that will load any linked image on mouseover (either instantly or after a configurable delay). The image can be shown as large as your current browser window and it will even load links to albums in such a way where scrolling while mouse-overed or pressing left and right on the keyboard will advance between images.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imagus/immpkjjlgap...
Sure would be funny if you were tossed under the bus for blatantly reducing the security of your org by using a previously compromised password. Bug bounty integrity isn’t the only issue that could land you in legal trouble.
I think having property standards is an important part of ensuring that people keep up their properties and by extension, maintain (and ideally beautify) their neighbourhoods. I can see how someone who puts the time and effort into creating an alternative to a lawn (such as a garden featuring wild species) may take issue with an ordnance that doesn't take into account alternatives to a traditional lawn, but when people don't maintain their properties and their yards are full of tall grass and weeds, or worse, tall grass, weeds, trash and dog shit (it all kind of goes together), it's unsightly.
I just give out the real code
Yeah let’s not look at farmers, politicians, or Aggie corporations. Let’s make you feel bad about bees while we give more water to those using majority of the limited resources to begin with.
The internet is a mechanism that has had a catalytic effect on the viscosity of information.

Animus against that catalyst is so much hormonal groaning.

Human nature is constant.
Given how simple Reddit's API is to replicate, I'd love to see somebody build their own federated version of Reddit that the reader apps could consume alongside or in lieu of the main API.
I don't understand why they don't just serve up ads that are indistinguishable from the normal content? I get a lot of ads it seems in facebook even with an adblocker. not that i use facebook much anymore but still... there are ways around it
The dog (a german shepherd) uses the backyard to run literally all day long. She'd go crazy cooped up in the house. We both use it for fetch all the time. I use it to smoke since I can't do so in the house. The shade from the big tree in the center is nice for reading. Pulling weeds (they got really thick and stalky this year) and leveling the ground around the holes the dog digs helps keep me in shape. It's a nice background for a twitch show I've been thinking of doing. It's a nice space for parties.

But yeah fuck off with the judging. I like space and I like living in the city.
I've been looking at less portable remote working.

I gradually moved away from larger and larger battery banks to a more DIY flavor, using lifepo4 batteries and inverters:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098QL2VBZ

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09DQ35JV7

So this is AC -> battery -> AC but your DC setup should work too, skipping charging. The lifepo4 batteries have enormous capacity for not too much money.
Agreed. All these articles are one sided. My backyard lawn is a soft play space that is self repairing, zero carbon (it's not watered or fertilized barring home made compost) and mowed with solar power. We picnic on it and play on it. It also is great at absorbing rainwater runoff, dog byproducts and carbon. Being mown also reduces snakes etc and allows a rich variety of birdlife to eat insects off my lawn. It also reduces ambient temperature in the summer compared with a hard surface and is cool to the touch all year round.
Hardly.

You assume that the current condition is not due to everyone already doing what you’re describing as best as they can.

The issue is that they are, but the inherent corrupting influences of wealth, power, and human nature counteracting them to produce the current outcome.

At the end of the day, this is the wheel. And the wheel will keep turning, regardless.

Not understanding that just makes proposed reforms naive or ineffective, and usually the end result is worse.

The end problem is not one that can be actually solved. But the borders can be moved
one way or another, a bit at a time.
> During the call they said that third party apps like RedReader represent something like an "opportunity cost" for them, as they are unable to gather revenue directly from these users. They say that usage of third party apps is increasing over time, and this is a threat to them. They raised the question of what would happen if such apps became the majority

Wow, an amazing example of "missing the point." If the use of 3rd party apps is increasing over time versus the official app, there is something wrong with the official app and the proper thing to do is fix that.

Restricting 3rd party access is just delaying the inevitable.
> Reddit will limit access to mature content via our Data API as part of an ongoing effort to provide guardrails to how sexually explicit content and communities on Reddit are discovered and viewed. (Note: This change should not impact any current moderator bots or extensions.)

This seems to be a common theme. Tumblr, Imgur, Onlyfans (tried and walked it back). I am betting this has to do with their credit card processors. They tend to enforce their values/morals on others. It is unfortunate sites just immediately obey and do not fight it.
I'm scratching my head at most of it and there's large portions that are incomplete or trivial. bash is ubiquitous. If you're trying to develop an entire web framework to run on a Bourne shell from busybox, dash, or FreeBSD 4, there's probably a better way to do it. Use the tool you have, not a hypothetical one compatible with 1983. YAGNI.

Here's a common pattern for appending to PATH system-wide once:

# /etc/profile.d/foo.sh

DIR=/opt/foo/bin

case ":$PATH:" in
*":$DIR:"*) ;;
*) PATH="$PATH:$DIR"; export PATH ;;
esac

unset DIR

If zsh or bash is available:

# $1 var
# $2 prepend this string to var
# $3 separator (: default if omitted)
# doesn't remove or prevent duplicates
prepend() {
eval "export $1=$2\${$1:+${3-:}\$$1}"
}

# $1 var
# $2 append this string to var
# $3 separator (: default if omitted)
# doesn't remove or prevent duplicates
append() {
eval "export $1=\${$1:+\$$1${3-:}}$2"
}
each person gets an invite for every 2 weeks they are on the website
100% discount for Fly.io bills under $5
Nacelles are part of the airframe, so yes.
Maybe, but isn't it an intrinsically hard problem to model? How close are we to growing organ tissues at scale? Can we dose these things and correctly ascertain an expected outcome?
> no-one ever sits on them.

Doing stuff on your lawn is only part of its function. Much of the value it provides, arguably most of the value is a combination of:

1. More distance and acoustic isolation from neighbors. A larger property with a house in the middle of it separated from others by space means you hear your neighbors less and they hear you less. It makes your home a little more of a sanctuary.

2. A better view out the window. Windows and the views they afford are a critical part of the indoor experience. They provide a connection to a larger space so that the house doesn't feel claustrophobic or too artificial. A window that opens onto a calm expanse of green can make the house feel more spacious and tranquil.

Now, of course, those benefits have to be weighed against the trade-offs. But, in general, people are not completely stupid and if millions of them have lawns, it's probably at least somewhat because they actually like having lawns and aren't mindless sheep manipulated by culture and nefarious HOA laws into having them.
Yep. You would almost always know before the deletion is even committed or the change proposed whether it would cause a build or test breakage. And if the automated safety checks and manual review didn’t catch such a breakage, you’d easily rollback. The deleted code is always “still there”, you have to jump through a ton of justified hoops to do a true deletion, which Sensenmann won’t be doing.
I don't think that Brooks was talking about tables (relations) in the RDBMS sense. Still, you point stands: you can have really mangy data structures, too.
Counterplan: accept the $2.5 billion. Spend $10 million to fund the development of an equivalent or better open source voxel game engine. Everyone wins.
> What I don't understand is, is the need for huge front lawns. It's all the work with none of the benefits. Just a waste of space really. People don't use them the same way at all.

Have you considered that some people just like looking at it and that's enough? It's their private property after all.
Very good article! I've been working on similar stuff, nice to see such a detailed explanation of different approaches.
VSCode-WASM: Implement a first version of a WebShell
Author is a well known art theorist, and she's critiquing a type of contemporary art. If you're detached from contemporary art this essay is not really for you.
>> the concern i would have here is that if you don't know SQL then you have no way of knowing whether or not the results are correct and if the results are wrong you have no way to debug the query.

> Correct, you probably should know SQL.

If your customers need to know SQL, presumably they also need to know the data architecture in order to verify correctness and/or fitness of purpose.

Assuming both of these preconditions are true, why would someone not just write the requisite SQL themself?

> Even if you have to do that, you can still save time and more importantly mental effort by letting AI help you, compared to writing all the SQL yourself.

Not really, at least in my experience. Staying "in the flow" is easier when writing SQL queries instead of having to:

1. Take time to think of a "good" ChatGPT request.

2. Review/test what was generated.

3. Take more time to refine the ChatGPT request to make it "better."

4. Goto 2 until a satisfactory SQL query is generated.

Contrast the above steps with:

1. Take time to determine what SQL query is needed.

2. Write the query.

3. Test the query.
The first example that comes to mind is the textile industry starting in the northeast US where unions are strongest, then moving south where they still had some unions but were much weaker, and eventually going overseas. Could argue the same thing for the US steel industry but I don't know. Or you can also find plenty of companies keeping their legacy business with unions as they are but only expanding forward to places not so friendly to unions - e.g. Boeing opening its latest plant in South Carolina without a union unlike its original counterpart in Seattle. Of course there's already differences in labor costs regardless of unions and other factors at play.

I'm for unions in principle and I have family members that have certainly benefited from unions on the one hand but I've known plenty of people in private sector unions that feel like their union dues are only getting someone else richer while they're stuck in dead-end jobs just to make ends meet.
> Warn about any use of stack-allocated variable length arrays.

Unfortunately, it warns about all VLA, not only stack allocated ones.

What you might want is rather:

-Wvla-larger-than=0

This flag will indeed report only automatic VLA (but for some reason only if optimizations are turned on [1]).

[1]: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109395
It's sad about my baseline expectations, but I was really positively surprised by the article basically saying "gov is doing long term planning, aims to simplify the system and tackles issues that apply to both citizens and arriving migrants". I'm happy this still happens.
If we create a VR world with intelligent beings then we are the creator for the beings, and both we and the beings are material. Right?
Different neighborhoods work differently. I played baseball in my front yard. First (and only base, besides home) was the mailbox across the street.

But it's true that a lot of people don't use their front yards for much, except perhaps as a noise buffer from the road. If you go a non-lawn route, you'll need to be careful to maintain it in a way that doesn't encourage intervention by neighbors, municipalities, etc. On the other hand, I'm rewilding a bit of my back, and nobody says anything.
That DC/DC converter is quite large and expensive for the rated power, no? If you’ve got a stable low-impedance DC source, I imagine you could do a lot better following a TI application note :)

I picked up a very tiny 65W GaNFET usbC brick recently, I’ve been curious to see DIY projects put that technology to use. Marginally higher part cost but significantly better efficiency.
When I worked in a large-ish organization in the late 1990's, there were some "interesting" hiring practices and office dynamics, to say the least. Our organization had a phone hotline and an email address to raise concerns. I decided to send a short, objective message after observing the negative effects of these practices on the workplace morale.

My message was then promptly sent to the very same hiring manager running the show, and the local director who was equally involved. Obviously, nothing positive came out of it, and there was a fair amount of unpleasantness afterwards.

Back then I was younger and somewhat naïve, but fortunately that mindset changed quickly. None of these hotlines or whistleblower mailboxes work as intended. More often than not, you just end up creating trouble for yourself and for others with a net negative outcome while the original problem remains unaddressed.

The people in the positions of power have everything going for them, it's in their interests to maintain status-quo and expand their spheres of influence. The last thing they want is for an upstart whistleblower to try and make a change.
End of 2025 doesn't seem like too big an issue.
Netflix Video Test Patterns
What, that BYD is a formidable competitor to Tesla and that it's good for EV companies to be succeeding? Of course, the mission of Tesla is to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy - it's good for other EV manufacturers to succeed. BYD is the top contender. But it’s not Tesla that needs to worry, BYD and other Chinese EV companies are going to do to the US market what Japanese automakers did in the 80s. It’s going to be ICE vehicle market share that will be taken.

My whole point is that the headline is misleading. It leaves out important details and has wording to insinuate Tesla is losing in some way. "Tesla rival..." "profit soars more than 400%". The opposite is more truthful, BYD sales have suffered due to Tesla price cuts. The headline could have been written: "Tesla rival BYD sales plummet over 20% in 2023"

See what I mean?
I released https://bigwav.app/ a few months ago, it does this.
Me over here just raw-dogging a Ryobi 18v pack directly into my thinkpad. It's flawless.
Well we’re dealing with a country where the king owns all the swans no matter where they are or how they came to be. There’s no logic here. So round up to a billion and it would make as much sense.
Giu: Cross platform rapid GUI framework for Golang based on Dear ImGui
I released https://bigwav.app, a web app that uses Whisper.cpp via WASM a few months ago.
So where did the creator come from? Why does the creator of our universe have to be bound by our universe? Being creator suggests there is more which materialism does not rule out, just says that the more is not supernatural and that we come from the same stuff as it, that we were created in its image as the Christians would say.
Nice idea and interesting space. I tried 'show counts by type_1 ordered by occurrences' and it showed a bar chart, as expected. But 'show statistical distributions' or 'show something surprising about the data' gave the response 'Vizly does not yet support this chart type.' Note that some of the standard tools like Tableau or Observable show basic charts over columns out-of-box after loading a dataset, so the default tabular view could be augmented. I'm aware of at least one mature-looking tool in this space [1] and an interesting thesis [2]. Best wishes with building it out!

[1] https://datachat.ai/
[2] Iris Agent - https://youtu.be/3VZZbKoXDVM
> VLAs do not have extra bounds checking.

Actually, they allow for some limited size checking in function parameters [0], but GCC added this feature only very recently

[0]: [link redacted]
How would one go about exploring the gopher-sphere?
Aside from the massive and overwhelming evidence that people have been selectively breeding plants since the Stone Age, Gwern needs to read Carolyn Willekes on ancient horses. One of her observations is that the ancients seemed to have valued horses which were well adapted to specific environments, whereas modern horse and dog breeding often leads to animals which are poor as animals but good on one attribute which the breeders are optimizing for. The Hacker News crowd will say "oh, Goodhart's Law!" and they may have a point.
> You're asking why they didn't round to the nearest £722.74

No, the question is dumber than that. The proposed "rounded" fine is well over double the original fine; rounding to the nearest four pounds would result in a fine of zero.
Yes, but the point is Tesla reduced margins so they can continue growth (which they did), at the direct cost of competitors losing sales (which byd did).
It absolutely is more labor intensive. Partly because its a regularly disturbed area without a buffer zone to protect it from new weed intrusions. I get weeds I've never seen before each year on my lawn.

It's not just grazing animals btw. It's fire. Large parts of the US Southeast, for example, used to be savanna, basically grasslands interspersed by trees. Fire is necessary to maintain that, to beat back woody growth.
I mow just a few times a year, mostly just cutting paths and leaving big sections of taller grasses. Some examples:

https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1629638819954786305

https://twitter.com/simonsarris/status/1651949172931674112

The fields naturally have lots of clover, black eyed susans, milkweed, and daisies. I've also planted a lot of my own flowers.

You can still have parts cut low, and if you leave the rest taller even the low part seems to resist drought better.

I used to mow ~3 acres with just a gas push (self-propelled) mower. Now I have the "modest" X330. You don't need a big machine to do this. Though you do have to go slow when you cut at the end of the year around October.
Why would trash and dog feces go together with a meadow?

The trash is obviously a problem, which can be addressed directly.
> "The existence of, and participation in, FVEY is espionage against the people of the United States." If so, then presumably all the arguments against it are still valid, no?

No, because again, these crimes have meanings defined by law which you can't simply replace with a meaning derived from the layperson understanding of the word. To argue that Five Eyes is the illegal kind of espionage, you'd have to argue that it actually violates the Espionage Act. Merely fitting it to the colloquial meaning of 'espionage' isn't sufficient.