skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an atmospheric scientist who has written/contributed to papers on cloud microphysics, albeit in the Arctic. I have not directly researched cloud seeding but do have the background to understand the dynamics at play.

The answer is, at agricultural scales, absolutely not. What I think is interesting though is that your comment on "hydrological warfare/competition" is extremely relevant. Geo-engineering is almost always a hack with "no free lunch" impacts. For cloud seeding specifically, there is only ever so much water vapor available in the atmosphere and the efficacy of seeding depends on the dynamics/microphysics at play in the region of interest. If there is a lack of the specific aerosols necessary for condensation and precipitation, cloud seeding has shown to be effective to the tune of 5-15% increase in precip in certain regions. Water vapor doesn't like to hang out available in the atmosphere in large quantities so squeezing it out by forcing precipitation via "seeding" isn't really a reasonable concept.
But to the degree that you do succeed, you are extracting water vapor that would have been transported by the atmosphere to other neighboring regions.

While there is little evidence that cloud seeding can be done at-scale, in a world where someone comes up with a novel+clever idea this would mean that the impacts on precipitation in other regions would be significant. Again, no free lunch. It's not a stretch to imagine turning that into a competitive advantage or using it as a warfare tactic.

If there were large bands of moisture just waiting to fall out of the sky we would be living in a very different climate. Aerosols are far too common on earth. In fact, the Arctic is one of the only places seeding makes a lot of sense with supercooled water and a distinct lack of aerosols in the clean environment. But in my research I have yet to come across much agriculture up there much less agrarian societies ;)
Maybe and yes. It violates the Geneva Convention. But I’m sure there would be ways to ‘justify it’ if a country wanted to do so.

I had expected that it was not economically viable for agriculture, but the article has one source claiming it is actually quite affordable, given current water prices in the west.

A large portion of the article tries to give both sides a voice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_warfare
There isn't a feasible plan, we're at the "sounding the alarm part." Unfortunately, we're still there because most people don't even acknowledge the possible danger. We can't get to a feasible plan until people actually agree there's a danger. Climate change is 1 step past, that there is a danger, but not a feasible plan.

However, your solution is first day naivety for the problems machine intelligence poses to us. It's akin to saying everybody should have powerful mini-nukes so that they can defend themselves.
Wait till you try to find out the price!
Agreed. It’s the enshittification of products.

Any future release from Moog will now have budget components and mass production build.
I don't think it's a trust thing, but yes - I think leadership not knowing what they want is a big part of it.
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AKA an EPIRB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_position-indicating_...

You can buy one for a few hundred bucks, but based on everything I've read about this outfit so far, I'd be surprised if they even had that.
Same question for Uber with 36k employees. It's an app that connects taxis to clients. I guess I'm showing a lot of ignorance here - but why does this need 36k people?

I guess this was Elon's thoughts when he laid off most of twitter.

Edit: Found a good answer for Uber on quora: https://qr.ae/py4zBU
I feel like that might be an organizational problem. At my company the designers will present their figma designs to engineering and we'll have a meeting to go through them and bring up concerns with exactly those sorts of issues e.g. "This list may actually have hundreds of entries in practice, are bullet points still right?". Then we iterate.
The only advantage of this is optimizing the food supply chain

The marketing around this type of product is very bad, they should not call it meat and they should stop trying to shame their potential customers for eating meat (from animals)
Ubuntu LTS all the way... Dumped CentOS/RHEL long ago and never regretted it.
I've been using Red Hat and Fedora since the early RH4 days when the video driver only supported monochrome for my GPU. I'm now going to start switching to something not controlled by a corporation. Yes, I'm not happy about it but it's necessary. The days of being naive about Linux are over.

I still consider Fedora one of the best distros out there (bleeding edge and polished as much as possible) and I prefer to use the same-ish distro on my personal computers and on the servers but this is another nail in the RH-based distro coffin for me.
Yeah this decision had to have been in discussion for 6 months or more, maybe even 2 years back to the CentOS Stream decision. It didn't happen because a few days ago NASA bought support for 3 Rocky licenses
As a parent with a child in public grade school, the whole rote memorization of facts vs trying to help him understand and think isn't the real problem.

The thing that makes him an A/B student (and sometimes almost C) instead of a straight A student is that my ability to help him is virtually nil because all his tests, classwork and even homework are done electronically. I never get to see an actual graded copy of anything that would tell me exactly where he is struggling. Instead, I'm supposed to trust that he is getting adequate guidance from his teacher when they review classwork but given a classroom size of 20+ students I have serious doubts that that is actually happening.

I hate to say it - but I really am coming around to the idea that having computers in classrooms and digitization of tests, classwork and homework is actually a hindrance to learning because of the missing feedback loop. :-/
I've never forgiven dropbox for deleting all my data on an old free account. After a couple years I went to login and it was gone.

It's my own fault. I'm sure they sent emails saying "You have x days until we delete it forever" and so on.

But it was like a couple gigs of data and now it's gone. Apple (and even Google) don't do that. I won't go back to Dropbox.
"Large" wasn't a very big standard at the time.

Linux's multiprocessor support was ...lackluster at best... prior to IBM contributing all the Sequent (Dynix) derived multiprocessing stuff. Hyperthreading/Multicore started to get "normal" even in consumer systems only a couple years later, so that injection was pretty critical.

Likewise, a lot of Linux's development inertia and cultural acceptance came from being a cheap and consistent alternative to screwing around with the profusion of expensive and mutually incompatible proprietary Unixes in the Server and (as clusters co-evolved) HPC market.

On the broader issue, the tension here is that IBM thinks the value proposition of RHEL is "Supported" and (I suspect) almost everyone else regards the value proposition of RHEL as "standard base." I think it's more likely that the "standard base" for srs bsns Linux in the markets where RHEL is the standard would rebase than IBM having any success trying to squeeze customers, and if that happens the value of "Owning RHEL" suddenly shrinks dramatically. Honestly, all it would take is the RHEL-likes like Alma and Rocky to agree on a coordination mechanism that isn't matching RHEL - could be through a major public interest like CERN, could be through an existing commercial interest like coordinating with Oracle (ew), could be via one of the several entities that does commercial support for RHEL-likes ... there are options.

Oracle being a gigantic litigious parasite on society is a broader issue, and I understand regarding commercial RHEL-likes as more of a problem, but even they have been funding a lot of backport-to-LTS type work.
There is also an open-source Rust implementation called rink-rs.

[0] https://github.com/tiffany352/rink-rs/
[1] https://github.com/tiffany352/rink-rs/blob/master/core/defin...
[2] https://rinkcalc.app/
From the article:

> The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, argued that Amazon had “duped millions of consumers” into enrolling in Prime by using “manipulative, coercive or deceptive” design tactics on its website known as “dark patterns.” And when consumers wanted to cancel, Amazon “knowingly complicated” the process with byzantine procedures.

...

> On Wednesday, the F.T.C. said that Amazon had made it particularly difficult to purchase a product in its store without also subscribing to Prime while checking out. In one example, it said the company had used “repetition and color” to push customers’ focus to Prime’s promise of free shipping and away from the service’s price, leading some to subscribe to Prime without “informed consent.”

> The agency also said Amazon made it hard to find the page that allowed consumers to cancel the service. Once they found it, the company bombarded them with offers intended to change their mind. The lawsuit said that Amazon had named the process for canceling Prime after the Iliad, the lengthy Greek epic poem that recounts the Trojan War.
Here's what's balancing: I've traded assets worth X dollars for a company with Y dollars of tangible assets plus G, the fudge factor that makes both sides equal. I've traded X dollars of assets for X dollars of assets, where Y dollars is like real estate and cash in the bank and financial instruments and tools and stuff, and G = X - Y is some intangible/uncertain/something that caused me to pay $X for $Y of stuff.

Before the purchase, I had some pile of assets worth $A. After the purchase, I still have some pile of assets worth $A. The purchase balances.
I had a master's level class that did things w/ MS Access.

The prof even had an appendix for "if you want to do this on a CLI or with MariaDB..." and had links to other DBMS alternatives. I used DBeaver with Maria and got an A in the class.

But to the parent poster's point -- as someone who has done a lot of hiring on the entry-to-mid level there is a NOTABLE difference in quality from the brick-and-mortar schools vs. online, even if they didn't have a STEM degree (e.g. an English major who turned Network Engineer). I suspect it's more about selection bias and some limited competing with peers.
Chart: U.S. Loses Ground in World Competitiveness Ranking – Statista
This looks great. I will check this out. Thank you!
Google seems still upset about the “bluebubbles”.. and I don’t think using AI to post process the photos is a good thing, like Samsung and the famous moon shot.. I’ve seen videos of people taking pics of a white circle in their bedroom and Samsung suddenly make it a moon in the sky, totally fake, not just some color correction and enhancements.
To say nothing of Nixon's support of environmental conservation (eg, the EPA), school integration, affirmative action, and the Equal Rights Amendment.
Well, it's a duopoly; both Intel and AMD make modern x86 processors.
I think “school choice” in most places is perceived to be just a front for a movement to shut down public schools or at least kill funding for them.

But if you're a parent who wants decent schools for your kids, and your current schools are lousy, and you aren't a big enough fish to move the school board, and you can't afford private school... what else are you going to try to do other than push for school choice? (You could homeschool, I guess, but not everybody feels like they're cut out for that.)
Also a click-by-click guide! It's a funny world of ours, where the best UI documentation available is found in a government legal action.
> your after-work time pays 0$/hr.

I'm sure no economist would agree with the kind of perspective. I mean, yeah, it pays 0$/hr... but it doesn't mean it's worth just 0$/hr.

> Prepared food is not going to be cheaper than unprepared food

Only if you believe after-work time worths 0$. (I don't think anyone seriously believes this)
I believe NASA does use RHEL, I remember a story last year where they were moving some systems from SUSE to RHEL.

My guess is that IBM was so difficult to deal with that they decided to move away from RHEL wherever they could. Perhaps getting the actual support they purchased was too much of a challenge.

If IBM is pissed, they should take a good hard look in the mirror before they malign other distributions.

https://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/support/kb/news/transition-to-...
You're right. I could've been kinder. Apologies.
> Let's be serious, Reddit making a profit will decrease the likelihood of massive layoffs.

I feel like this implies a couple of things:

1) A business is ever satisfied with their current profit margin. I'm not sure that's the reality.

2) Company profits going one way or the other affect a company's decision to perform layoff rounds. While maybe partially true, I think all the major tech companies performing layoff rounds has proven this to be mostly untrue.
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The Impossibility of Knowledge of Retrocognitive Knowledge
Show HN: I made a curated job board
Hi HN!

I built a job board that aggregates openings from interesting (and growing) companies that are backed by great investors. The goal is to solve a problem I and some friends face during job hunts; We all start with a spreadsheet hunting down companies we'd be excited to work for, but the process is time-consuming! The goal is to have a place that's done the time consuming research for you.

I'm eager for feedback. What is your process when you search for a job? Are some pain points/problems you face?
I have no knowledge of reddit, but I have been in companies that have IPOed, as well as companies that just say they are going to in order to appease investors wanting their money back and to keep the employees strung along on a sinking ship.

And the difference is that people truly going for an IPO are trimming costs and getting their ducks in a row on bureaucracy and legal fronts, including confidentiality. Those just using it to dangle as a carrot are... just talking about IPOs without changing internal business processes.

Only someone inside could tell us which one reddit is doing.
One of the rumors for Apple's increased visible attempts to, among other things, rewrite Foundation libraries themselves in Swift is to better unify their own internal cross-platform efforts (because they get to maintain Apple TV and Music apps on nearly every platform, if no other reason).

I don't know how much Apple is incentivized to make any steps they take towards SwiftUI cross-platform support available to third party developers, but it is an interesting rumor to watch.
base64 is a helluva drug.
I have fond memories of my calculus teacher being confused when she realized everybody had been made to memorize basic trig identities in the previous grade but were never taught their very basic and intuitive relationship and derivation from the Pythagorean theorem.

A great shocked pikachu moment for the class to realize, collectively, that they were all being dumbasses in their empty understanding of things.
Elena Kagan received a ton of money from her book, and sat on a case involving the publisher.

You could argue that that's legitimate income (in contrast to a gift), but it's at least in the same direction.
Disagree, you can easily add validation to handle access with generations. The classic example in games is reusing pooled game elements where their lifetimes are very dependent on gameplay. For example reusing enemies from a pool of them where their lifetime is dependent on when they get spawned and destroyed which can be chaotic. Here handles with generations preserve memory safety by preventing access to stale data.
*fortnight*
A trained musician can hear a pitch difference much smaller than 5 cents. I think designers and artists can also likely see a difference in wavelength of 1-2 nm, and probably a lot smaller.
Escaped the dupe detector because four months ago there was an extra slash in the url.
Obligatory xkcd, with on-topic alt-text: https://xkcd.com/977/

For a more distorted way to see the world, try: http://andersk.mit.edu/euler-spiral-projection/
As a U.S. user of Apple Maps on iOS, I can say that they do indeed offer directions with a public transportation option.
To date I've seen no logic that shows how any of reddit/spezs actions will actually increase profit.

Making a wild claim about how much 3rd party apps "cost them", is not the same as actually seeing revenue once those 3rd party apps are closed.

As most people have been saying, the majority of 3rd party app users are the more advanced technical savvy ones.

There may be SOME percentage of the 3rd party app users who transition, but if the 3rd party traffic is as trivially small as Reddit has claimed, not sure how that will overnight magically transform them into being profitable.

I've never seen an Ad on reddit with use of old.reddit.com , RES, and adblockers. I was a primary user of Apollo, and I certainly won't be using the reddit mobile app. I deleted the app off my phone once the writing is on the wall (rip the bandaid off now and detox vs in 9 days), my phone reported my usage is down 19% this week, so that is a plus.

Absent any business plan on how those actions will actually drive profit, everything they've done has had sole effect of alienating their power user, mods, etc. and I don't see how that helps profit.
You may be interested in having a look at this relevant and interesting article "Nanoscopic origin of cracks in carbon fibre-reinforced plastic composites":

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55904-2
In some sense, can virtue signal all I want, because I have no children. It's very much in my interest that education be distributed evenly, rather than hoarded by a minority of monied families.
Stanford is the centre of the AI hype. They are a profoundly mendacious VC-seeking institution, in this matter.

None involved know what emergence means; they're engineers chasing and creating hype.
>Those people are genetically almost identical.

I'm assuming (and hoping) you mean culturally identical because all humans are nearly genetically identical.

>Those people are genetically almost identical. What’s the difference? Ideas.

And trade sanctions, and the support of super powers.

>Why did Europe suddenly become the worlds powerhouse right after the enlightenment when before it was poorer than many places in Asia and the Middle East? The ideas changed.

I guess it was a 'change in ideas', it also might have had to do with colonization of the practice of exploiting poorer countries and repatriating their wealth.
Maybe that is the just penalty is such egregious cases. The ownership of the business should be forfeited to the employees.
I can't think of a single project I've worked on that did not need dynamic where clauses almost immediately.
Apple maps UX kinda sucks. Map preferences are under the Settings app and not the app itself (there are at least two clicks to get here from the Maps app, and it's under your Apple ID, wtf?). You cannot configure it to maintain cardinal directions when driving (I want "north" to always be "top"). The 3D view while driving in a city with skyscrapers is downright dangerous, let alone confusing. It does a terrible job of keeping track of your recent queries (search for "food", select one place and see its location, step away and search the name of that place, if its a chain or there are similar things close by good luck finding again!)

Like Maps is fine but it's like using an off-brand google maps from 10 years ago with a pretty display. Unfortunately I don't really care how pretty the display is, I care about being able to find things and get there.
> Why burden the healthcare system when you have a simple infection and all you need is a round of Amoxicillin?

Human: "I have a runny nose, congestion, and a cough. Can I have some antibiotics so I can feel better?"

AI: "It sounds like you have a common cold. Unfortunately, antibiotics won't help; there's no known cure. Luckily, it should clear up in a few days."

Human: "Ok. What are some common illnesses that do need antibiotics?"

AI: "Ear infections and strep throat are the most common illnesses which are treated with antibiotics."

Human: "What are the symptoms of an ear infection?"

AI: "Symptoms include pain in the ear, difficulty hearing, and fluid draining from the ear."

Human: "I forgot to mention before, I have had a hard time hearing lately and my ear is very painful."

AI: "It sounds like you have an ear infection. Here's a scrip for amoxicillin."
Lab-grown meat is cleared for sale in the United States
It's 2,000 employees, but the point and question still stand.
I agree with these points. Someone mentioned the PPT method - and I like it for your reasons! It's like a wireframe.
Well, it's not. And they're not paid for it.
Yeah... had it not been for CentOS, I would've never touched anything in the RHEL-side of things after I discovered Ubuntu in the 10/12 era.

Because CentOS existed, I made sure most of my open source work would run just as well on all RHEL derivatives as it does on Debian.

If Rocky didn't exist, I would quickly drop all my RHEL support because operating thousands of test machines and containers based on UBI and having to keep up with their licensing game would cost too much of my time.

Rocky and Alma are the only reason devs like me still build anything for RHEL.
Interesting post with eye opening stats (even after reading many posts like this I'm still amazed at how big Brazil is!)

Another interesting effect maps have on worldview that was not mentioned is the placement of North at the top (https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/7960/why-is...). The fact that in the South of Egypt was referred to as "Upper Egypt" has confused me to no end, since "clearly" it's the bottom part (roughly corresponding to middle part of the current country). This is an interesting example where an important geological feature trumps the maps.

See these interesting answers to get more information about the terms Upper/Lower Egypt: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/47165/did-egypti...
We're working on it! We won a contract with the CIA to supply their blacksites with the first LEEDS certified energy efficient sliding glass doors embedded with Genuine People Personality, programmed to maximize the joy the patrons experience every time they enter the facilities.
> (2) incentivizes schools to improve

The largest factor in good v bad schools is already selection bias. Turning up the temperature on that (if you will) is not gonna help a thing, except the people itching like a goddamn meth addict at the prospect of getting a piece of those sweet, sweet public dollars. They'll benefit.
Any vendors of toner replacement chem you could pass along?
Well maybe not technically couldn’t but preferably not have to.
I believe the GPL - which redhat must agree to when redistributing binaries - prevents redhat from creating that sort of restriction.
This feels like good advice. Thanks for it.

I am actively looking for another position, but haven't yet gotten a single interview call. I don't know if its my resume, inexperience or just the state of the job market.

I think the root of my current problems just lies in the poor time management. I need to figure out a way to do it better.