skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Negative. It’s pay for performance, and Blue is already pitching in more money to help fund it than the contract is worth. So negative money. That’s the advantage of commercial contracting as opposed to cost-plus contracting. A lot of idiotic takes on private spaceflight have this completely backwards.
The vital role of vegetation is often overlooked - we've significantly reduced forest cover over the past centuries.

Global forest cover loss between 1990 and 2020 was estimated to be around 178 million hectares, representing a reduction of approximately 10% in the total global forest area.

To restore water resources we should prioritize aforestation.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use#how-has-global-land-use-...

1700 ... 1 billion ha for agriculture

1800 ... 1.35 billion ha

1900 ... 2.54 billion ha

2016 ... 4.93 billion ha (=cca 50% of all habitable lands)

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use

Animal agriculture taking 75% of that.

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

"Beef is the leading driver of deforestation"

https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation

As Ernst Gotsch says: water is planted (‘Água se planta!’)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_G%C3%B6tsch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotic_pump

- Evapotranspiration: Vegetation influences the water cycle by releasing moisture into the atmosphere through transpiration, affecting cloud formation and regional rainfall patterns.

- Surface runoff and infiltration: Vegetation intercepts rainfall, slowing down surface runoff and promoting better water infiltration into the soil, which helps mitigate drought conditions.

- Shade and temperature regulation: Vegetation provides shade, lowers surface temperatures, and reduces evaporation rates, potentially alleviating drought intensity.

- Feedback loops: Healthy vegetation enhances soil moisture levels, maintains humidity, and supports water resources, while stressed or absent vegetation can worsen drought conditions.

- Forests and rainfall patterns: Forests contribute to local and regional rainfall by releasing moisture through transpiration, and their removal or degradation can disrupt precipitation, potentially contributing to drought.
This is Debian. Starting with 1.3, it has been possible and generally recommended to upgrade in place.

1. Read the install notes. Read the upgrade notes.

2. Note the things that the upgrade notes say will change and need human input.

3. Backup if, for some strange reason, you don't make backups automatically.

4. Change the sources.list and, if there are any, sources.list.d configs to point to the new stable release name.

5. If you set APT::Default-Release, set it to the new stable release name.

6. Update the package list: apt update

7. Upgrade the system: apt dist-upgrade

8. Reboot.

9. Fix items from the policy config list you made in step 2.

10. Check on anything left: apt upgrade

That should be it.
Having two suppliers for critical services has been common practice where possible for NASA and USSF for quite some time now. Commercial Resupply (SpaceX and OSC/NG), Commercial Crew (SpaceX and Boeing), National Security Space Launch (SpaceX and ULA),
It would be perhaps interesting to add a layer capable of injecting reasonable noise on top of these clean records.
Oh yes, Elon's furthering of humanity by "suggesting" Ukraine entirely surrender to Russia, let them keep everything they've seized violently, and just "carry on with their day".

Funnily enough, too, there are people who think that hey, maybe it's a better goal for humanity to y'know, fix the place we live, rather than vacuuming government billions to "colonize Mars". According to Musk he was intending to send a manned mission there next year and have established the first settlement by the end of the decade. Maybe that's what people mean when they talk about him being far more show than substance. (Also, to pre-empt the inevitable: this isn't to say "he hasn't achieved anything". Of course he has.)
It's incredible to me that people try to insist (contrary to all evidence) that a serial entrepreneur who has become the richest man on the planet somehow lucked into his success and is really just a "showman."
Reimagining Meta’s Infrastructure for the AI Age
for what it's worth as someone who uses mind mapping tools daily for brainstorming this seemed pretty intuitive to me. I was up and running mapping something out pretty quickly. I wasn't sure what the brain and detective icon were so I just clicked them and found out
To an extent, but depending on how the company is set up it can create a layer of indirection that mitigates outside meddling.

So for example in the case of SpaceX, a good chunk of their revenue comes from selling their launch services to other companies and selling Starlink, and it's an explicit goal to keep R&D cheap. This lets them start projects even without NASA's interest (as they've done with Starship+Superheavy). If NASA expresses interest somewhere down the line that's great, but the project's going to happen anyway. It's not living or dying by the whims of congressmen.

This in turn allows them to have a grander focus that they continue to work towards over the course of decades since they aren't having their direction jerked around constantly.
Well, as you say, the current world order is working great for them. So perhaps the "new world order" isn't "throw it all away and rebuild from scratch", but a careful polishing and refining of all the things that are currently working well for the elite. A min-max'ing, so to speak.
Apple Publishes First-Ever App Store Transparency Report
> Isn’t the point of Bob Ross the journey of painting

The joy of it, even.
Why are Elon Musk + Jeff Bezos + Richard Branson (billionaires) so fascinated with space?
> Everything is edible; many things only once.

That's... literally, by definition, not true. Edible specifically means, per https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/edible , "something that is suitable or safe to eat". If you could only eat it once, it wasn't edible.

(Also, what's even your point? Dandelions are actually edible.)
Velocity, cross-functional, "being Agile"

"Scalable" as a catch-all synonym for "good"

Come to think of it: anything to do with Agile

DevOps
Really nailed the 90’s aesthetic!
I'm pretty sure those results can only be compared across vehicles of the same class. As in, a bigger car can get a poor rating while still being better than a smaller car with a good rating.
> funding since then comes from other donors

Yes. The usual suspects.

Annie E. Casey Foundation, Arnold Ventures, Ford Foundation, the Heising-Simons Foundation, the Jacob and Valeria Langeloth Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Maverick Capital Foundation, Neil Barsky, Open Society Foundations, Propel, Rockefeller Family Fund, Timothy and Michele Barakett, the Tow Foundation and Trinity Wall Street [0]

And you will need to source your "2-3x more", since even sites arguing against private prisons are stating a far more modest difference:

According to the study, it costs a private prison about $45,000 a year to house a prisoner, compared to the general cost of about $50,000 annually per inmate in a public prison, resulting in roughly $5,000 in savings per year.

A 2011 study estimated a prisoner’s value of freedom for 90 days at about $1,100 — already taking a large chunk out of the advertised taxpayer and city savings from private prisons.

Moreover, there are other additional costs that are difficult to quantify.

Mukherjee listed some of them, as “the cost of injustice to society (if private prison inmates systematically serve more time), the inmate’s individual value of freedom, and impacts of the additional incarceration on future employment.”[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marshall_Project#Organizat...

[1] https://thecrimereport.org/2020/08/21/private-prisons-drive-...
I 100 agree. I would love a service that would automatically transcribe all the text spoken in the video so that I would be able to absorb the knowledge 2 orders of magnitude faster.
True, I think my phrasing/usage of terms was incorrect. I think my usage of "TTY" was incorrect.

What I was thinking of is, a user invoking a script interactively which happens to call a tool (like CURL) may not want to see curl's big progress song and dance for every HTTP call the script makes, though a user invoking `curl` literally, would likely appreciate it. But I think in both cases curl sees a TTY, right? Oops.

You imply a great point that at least doing `2>/dev/null` in those scripts is at least consistent, and I just need to make a better habit of doing so.
controlled unclassified information (CUI)

international traffic and arms regulations (ITAR)

[0] https://cybersheath.com/resources/blog/what-to-know-about-it...
I'm using Apache Jena and Java, and using TDB.

Performance? I have nothing to compare it too. I can't complain. I know whenever I saw info about triple stores in the past, they only seem to crow about was how fast it takes to import things. "Eleventy trillion triples per bleem!" I guess nobody ever actually queries the data, they just store it.

I routinely export the model to a file, and that takes seconds (<10), using the N3 format (RDF/XML takes a very long time). I export the model to make sure my changes are reflecting properly. The resulting file is 176MB. If I read that into a new TDB instance, I can load it in 25s. Since I've been importing from a SQLite master, the resulting TDB data is roughly the same size as the SQLite DB file. My import from SQLite takes longer than 25s, and that's just data shoving from the SQL data to the RDF. I'm sure I'm the bottleneck in that case, I probably commit too much for one thing.

As for queries, well, it either can find it or it can't. It's either trivially indexed (I assume each of the properties of the triple are indexed), or it table scans. Internally when you do a query from Java, you basically set the base net you want to throw (you've only got 3 values to work with) and iterate through to filter it. When I did my "select count" query to count all the triples, that took a beat or two to be sure as it hoovered the entirety of the model and cursored through it. I have not done any crazy SPARQL queries (I can barely spell SPARQL), so I don't know what kind of decisions is makes, but, in the end, there's really only a few ways you can actually query a triple store.

Now, I have a recent Intel iMac I'm running this on, so that may well impact things as well. I have no idea how much memory I'm using, it hasn't been a problem. I've done no tuning whatsoever, I honestly don't know what tuning is available.

I do not foresee my dataset growing much more, so TDB is "fast enough" for my purposes. All told I'm pretty happy with everything.
This may be the case for the subset polled but TikTok is wildly popular with teens and for good reason, it’s the most “organic” feeling social media app with an addictive algorithm. Also TikTok allowed the expression of a lot of speech and ideas that had previously been more suppressed on other social media outlets because of political reasons, for example. YouTube and instagram are far more moderated in favor of American bias compared to TikTok, and it shows by how careful YouTube creators are with what they say. Instagram was found to suppress political speech of, for example, Palestinian rights activists during the removal of Palestinians from Sheikh Jarrah by Israeli forces.
That's believable and maybe even reasonable.

There were (or still are?) SCSI drives that would not spin up until told to over the bus. I think the idea is to not do them all at once since the motor draws a lot of power.

I'm fairly sure I've run into drives that would not respond on the bus while spinning up.

And if it happens with SCSI drives, it may happen with other types.
We did scale back. Military spending was cut back in real (inflation adjusted) terms at the end of the Cold War, and bottomed out as a percentage of GDP in 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_dividend

https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/mili...

After 2001, military spending went way up of to fund the Global War on Terror. Most of that was a total waste and failure. Now the GWOT is essentially over and funding priorities have shifted to containing expansionist regimes in China and Russia (and to a lesser degree Iran) as part of Cold War 2. It is certainly an option to adopt an isolationist stance and cut the military-industrial complex down to the minimum size necessary to defend the homeland, but you might not enjoy the results of letting hostile foreign powers dominate the rest of the globe.
AmazonBasics Lander, overnight delivery
Don't airlines do this all the time to prevent new entrants? How is this not provable?
Just call Sam Altmann, he sure will be happy to spend money to rent all the available space, now that he just called remote work to be over...
> What was so terrible about the 1960's mission architecture?

They knew in the 60's that the Apollo architecture was sub-optimal. The reason they chose the one giant stack architecture of Apollo was because it had a better chance of making Kennedy's 1969 deadline than a refueling deadline than a multi-launch structure which would have been both cheaper and more useful for non-lunar missions.
> Do you go to work to accomplish your assigned goals or do you go there to socialize? These things seem contradictory.

I mean if you can get 8 hours of solid uninterrupted coding, good job, but otherwise social interactions gonna happen.

And while some also happen over remote chat, it is nicer in person. Of course that flips if you hate your coworkers or don't share any common interests.

But yes, trading for 2h commute is definitely not worth it. 15 min commute to work ? Why not. Especially if you can do some shopping along the way.

Honestly, hybrid 1 day-at-work currently work well for me. The on-site day is mostly planning, some gossip and whatever requires some bigger coordination, then rest of the week nobody bothers me.
The “standard library” often isn’t available in early boot scenarios.
Lmao OK so looking something up without ChatGPT means I'm unemployed. Sure bud.
They're not intentionally avoiding it, they just get caught up in the mathematical angle and only mention its (dis)connection to real execution time in a passing comment if at all. Or they might even mention that there are constants in play... and then say that of course since they're constants we can ignore them for the purposes of O() notation. It's the difference between learning from PHDs and engineers, I suppose.
I have a set of 2nd Gen Pros right here with me.

Under Find My for the device I am offered "Play Sound" and "Directions". "Directions" offers route me to my home on Apple Maps.

Under Find My for the Airtag I am given a big green arrow that points directly at the tag and says it's two feet away.

The app doesn't treat the U1 chip in the Airpod Pros the same way it treats a tag.
That's two slightly different things...

Not showing you the price actually makes it more profitable for the end user, not directly for Abnb. By showing price in this way Abnb attracts you, then the end user scams you for a higher price.

But this is different from the 'legal grey zone' OP was talking about. The Abnb hosts should likely be paying local taxes/fees for operating as a short term rental, in which if they were doing so the final costs to rent an Abnb would be higher in most jurisdictions.
There's such an incredible gap between corporate levels of money & human levels. To hire & pay people takes sooo much money. A couple $20/mo services per employee don't really make a huge dent. But man, to people the costs just keep adding up & are definitely real. Corporate world is so decoupled from the rest of the planet.
Lawyers aren’t always as boring as people think. The classic example, of course, is https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/very-truly-yours
Online newspapers do mix editorial and community content in the articles and comments. The difference between them is pretty clear as is the moderation.

Also, there are sites like Forbes that have editorial articles but also have blogs posted by users. These do get confused on Forbes.
Oh weird. Well, no biggie. Im sure SF will figure something out and it will all be fine
How can you tell if a third party is actually doing what they are claiming they are doing? You can't. You can only observe their overt and visible behavior, not their covert behavior.
This isn't a consumer mission though. All for competition when it makes sense, but you also risk diluting your limited budget and quality control at the cost of the project's success.
I think weight is the wrong thing to target for gauging health, but it is the thing that is in everyone's face and easy to see. Undernourishment is just a big of a problem as over-nourishment. Targeting the four horsemen(t2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, heart disease, cancer) is a better use of time and money, but they are relatively much harder to identify early.
On a VMware virtualized infra, when you migrate a virtual machine from one (ssd, very fast) datastore to another (mecha, much slower) datastore over a very fast link, sometimes you get a corrupted VM on the target.
Offices are built to different standards than residential use. The amount of effort to add new plumbing and wiring, to separate out utilities, etc is very seriously underestimated.

There's an old office building near where my parents live that got converted to residential units. The contractor who did the conversion said it would have been cheaper to tear the building down and rebuild, but the owner felt there was some historic value to the building. Either way, the only way to make the transition feasible was to price the units at a luxury level.

Mind you, this isn't even California, but the Midwest, where zoning, regulations and construction costs are more sane. I don't know how viable the same project would have been out there.
FWIW, qsort (despite its name) does not specify a quicksort be used.

IIRC qsort will use a merge-sort on glibc when it can do so without growing the heap.
The only thing I know about prisons in the US is from what I’ve seen in movies so I’m shocked to read that inmates need to pay, per page, to access and send content like blog posts, newspapers, books, music and movies.

Questions going through my mind: Is it known what are the software and hardware capabilities of these JPay / kiosks? If I have an app that’s already in the App Store and Google Play, how can I make it more compatible / reliable for this environment?
>quite some time

not exactly an endorsement for NASA considering how little they've accomplished in recent decades. To me it makes sense to focus on funding the R/D "primitives" for space technology rather than funding essentially duplicate projects reinventing the wheel. That's what worked for Apollo, the new strategy has been a colossal failure and SpaceX alone has hiding a lot of NASA's flaws
Custom memory allocation is pretty optional and a lot of the time could be handled with a single buffer.

Outside of that you don't need to deal with exceptions in a sorting library, and you can happily make it a single .c and .h
That reminds me of that great docudrama From Earth to the Moon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLQeqMaHVYs
I also vehemently hate those but I'm not talking about them.

I meant the bigger ones driving on roads (small motorcycles), not the small e-scooters. No mixing up passenger and scooter traffic.

My language have separate word for those types but english for some reason don't...
Github pages is excellent and should be the dev’s go to of choice IMO.
Is wheat the most impactful-per-area crop? Would other crops yield sufficient quantities in smaller areas compared to wheat?

As others mentioned, the original idea is to supplement, and not replace. If every household strove to grow at least some of its food, we could probably reduce our need to transport, store, and distribute edibles by a non-insignificant amount. And the GP's point especially revolves around the lack of effort involved. While some crops require a lot of preparation and attention, in the case of "weeds" like dandelion, the effort can be no greater than walking outside and pulling them from the ground.
Manhattan is at 22% now.
Unless we're talking about Fast & Furious, family is an instant red flag.
For software devs some company will release a popular app and announce it was made most entirely via AI. Then the startup dev jobs will start vanishing. Transition for big corps may look a little different, relying on AI integration to be set up.
Context...
why not get forward to trains, cycling and busses?
This is rather like having two companies build competing bridges and then deciding which one to use after both are built, or am I missing something?

If the bridges have a high chance of multi-year delays (ahem Starliner), that's exactly what you should do.
All that sounds like it adds much more complexity than swapping out bubble sort for qsort, and the other various optimizations that have been going in to reduce boot time. Plus optimizing common code improves boot time for everyone running FreeBSD - routers, firewalls, etc, whereas pooling just helps that one use case. If you can make it startup up fast enough that you don't need any of that extra machinery, why wouldn't you?
Why not? Can you articulate what could go wrong?
16:10 is the widely available sweet spot. That small bit of extra height makes a world of difference.

The 3:2 displays available on Surface tablet devices are also great, although my Surface Go is a tad small for more than one window at a time.
Also, outside of Opera, all browsers (that I know of) have been free for over two decades.
I can see the next "disrupting" startup now. Sublease a bunch of office space, skirt regulations and convert it into "apartments" that are more like hostels, and finally lease it out at a loss. Maybe that is why adam neumann raised 300m for a housing startup.
AI upscaling with diffusion models will probably solve that problem.
They should treat youtube as another marketing channel (as a showcase on the street is), but not as their main source of income or backup for example.

- They can run a website with their own personal brand and collect emails there.
- They can backup their videos in other services in case youtube close their account
...
If you're having to screw with defaults right out-of-the-box, with Ubuntu, you may as well just use Debian. Basically its whole value-prop was originally "Debian, but with obviously-correct defaults for most desktop users".
The decision reached the right outcome (overall, the use was not fair) for really the wrong reason. What the decision probably should have done was to rule that what Andy Warhol did was transformative, and therefore the first factor favors fair use, but wasn't transformative enough to be overall fair use, as the other factors (in particular, the fourth factor) weighed against fair use far more strongly than the first factor weighed in favor.

However, the court essentially boxed itself into weighing in only one the meaning of factor one, so it tries to reach the decision by half-importing factor four (the degree to which it substitutes the original) into factor one analysis. Furthermore, it ties itself into a knot to argue why Andy Warhol's use in the original prints was transformative and overall fair use, but the use in the newspaper article wasn't transformative.

The dissent manages to be even worse by, as you point out, essentially arguing that everything Andy Warhol does deserves to be fair use because it's Andy Warhol. Oh, and taking as many potshots at the majority opinion as is possible. As bad as the majority opinion was, the dissent is even worse.
Walking sucks arse. Slow and sweaty. Cycling sure, cities are too small for walking.
Healthier in what sense? There is little knowledge of long term side effects and it isn't even approved for weight loss, it is specifically for people with diabetes.