skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t care for issue tracking, but I do like the usability of diffs and merging in web ui apps - my primary job is to look at code not write it (meaning I’d fail basic git merge questions) but I’ve also found out the hard way that just because I know my way around a shell doesn’t mean I can force my views on the people my company hires, and I own the company.
So now you're deflecting by "both sides"-ing the issue. Do you not hold the police to a higher standard? It's pretty telling you have to assume the political leanings of the person you're responding to rather than engaging with the argument or quantifying your position.

It's completely unacceptable for any police force to use "crowd control" devices that are explicitly disallowed in warfare under the Geneva Accords. Full stop.
" 2+ liters of soda each and everyday."

That's just deadly.
Old Bay is great, yes! I also like nutritional yeast on popcorn.

But plain old butter is still my favorite.
What's the contract between you and the company exactly? Yes, they have no obligation towards you whatsoever and they simply are pushing the border by probing how servile are you. Make a favour to the community and refuse to do take home assignments.
I have never heard an "inner voice" when sleeping or dreaming so I have on idea what you're referring too ?

I'd say that inner voices are mostly stupid idiots :)
But you don't pay for the cost. Our continual struggle with environmental issues are substantially that (a) very meaningful externalities mean that costs are foisted onto others, either the public at large or specific unlucky communities and (b) industrial lobbyists get public policy to actively subsidize their behavior, so again, everyone pays to support destructive behavior.

In the case of meat production, apart from the direct agriculture subsidies, and the large carbon footprint, feedlots are a source of pollution that communities have to deal with, antibiotic resistance contributes to (costly) health risks for everyone, the Gulf of Mexico has that giant dead-zone, etc, etc.
> How would a smaller shared object lead to faster startup? The kernel isn't loading pages to memory unless they're actually used.

IDK on linux but on windows opening a 600mb exe (e.g. release with debug info) and a 15mb one (same but stripped) have a VERY OBVIOUS startup time difference. I assume the OS is scanning the whole binary through some antivirus for instance, and I'd assume the same to be true for DLLs used by the app, so all these kernel loading pages optimizations go through the trash.
This drives me crazy, especially because it breaks finding within a page. Eg. if you order food and you already know what you want.

Old days: Cmd + f, type what you want.

New days: first scroll to the end of the page so that all the contents are actually loaded. Cmd + f, type what you want.

Is just a list of dishes, some with small thumbnails, some without any images at all. If you can't load a page with 30 dishes fast enough, you have a serious problem (you could always lazily load the thumbnails if you want to cheat).
Solar works when it’s cloudy.
>I don't think saying "natives did it" is a justification for bringing it back

That's not the justification. The author is bringing up traditional burning practices because suppression of those practices is a cause of our current mega fires.

"Thanks to centuries of overzealous fire protection and the suppression of Indigenous cultural burns — which Europeans found “primitive” — forests have become overgrown, accumulating piles of underbrush and fallen trees. In trying to prevent wildfires altogether, we’ve been essentially storing up bigger and bigger piles of fuel. And with that extra fuel comes fires that burn more ferociously, exacerbated by drought and drier conditions from climate change.

“When you talk to different native people from the Yosemite area, they talk about how it used to look when fire was used as a management tool,” UC Davis professor of Native American Studies Beth Rose Middleton Manning said in a University of California article. Areas that were once open valleys are now choked with conifers and other fuel sources that were not there when cultural burns helped groom the land."

The justification for controlled burns is written here

"Setting fires intentionally may sound like a paradoxical approach to fire control, but if they are done correctly, controlled burns reduce the fuel available for wildfires, helping to prevent the catastrophically large, hot fires that overwhelm firefighting resources. They also are beneficial for a healthy ecosystem."

It sounds like you'd like to know more about wildfire and how indigenous burning practices suppress mega fires. I encourage you to read the linked materials, as this little article isn't going to go deep enough to answer your questions.
So this sets aside money to cover claims against controlled burns that ultimately cause unintended damages.

Instead of $20M, the budget should be whatever the total damages were on average per year for the past ten years.
Depends on what you're doing. If your content is just headings, bold/italic, and links, I think it's eminently readable. Code snippets are obviously niche but are a solved problem.

People have mentioned tables here, and...yeah, they're messy, but I wonder how common of a use case that is for your average WYSIWYG user?
Ten years ago I worked at a very large cloud company and I spent a lot of time wrestling with the various login flows. I remember seeing a flowchart that documented over 100 service calls that happen in the course of the 4 redirects that took place during a login.
How does that battery/production distinction work? How is it a battery if it is consuming/burning a fuel? More as a stable fallback or something?
Ask HN: Who wears the architect hat in your company?
From job titles, it is very heard to identify who wears the technical architect hat in an organization?

In your company, who is the person who decides the stack and the technologies you will be using to build your software.

Please also give some background on your company: size of eng team, industry, etc.

Thank you.
In the tweet right below there's a video of them running Windows 2000 on the same hardware and it's just as responsive.
> We were able to reduce smoking with propaganda we can do the same with obesity.

Well, that, and taxing it massively, and banning its sale to children, and banning it in most spaces outside the home...
>Prescribed burns are generally focused mainly on acreage and reducing the amount of fuel available for wildfires; cultural burns are focused on what needs burned to revitalize woodlands and promote biodiversity.

I wish they'd elaborate on how this is done. Focuses on what needs to be burned? Meaning a type of tree? Just the undergrowth? Curious how fire can be controlled to just specific elements in the landscape.
> We need more government propaganda against obesity.

What do you think this "government propaganda" would look like in a way that would be effective? We've been shaming people for decades about being fat and it obviously hasn't reduced obesity rates. I remember a survey from the late 90s or early 00s I think where it asked kids about different disabilities, and the majority said they'd rather lose a limb than be fat.

It's only going to get worse as with the rise of smartphones and other tech in the past 15 years there is ample evidence that kids get much less physical activity then they used to.
To add onto this - the lawyers failed to verify their resources! This is something that every lawyer carefully pays attention to before submitting anything.

The fact that they did no research on ChatGPT, and they didn't verify the output from ChatGPT, is pretty bad.

They're being punished more so on how they used their resources, not for using ChatGPT.
Yes but you can never sell this to the right. You have to package it up into something like "fight the war" or "build a wall" (another useless project that's only meant as a job creation program to boost support in areas where the president needs it). Conservatives and liberals alike agree on job creation programs
Yeah, I blogged about that 4 years ago and classified that under “stupid ideas”

Have we made any progress on the coal problem?

https://h4labs.org/ive-got-another-stupid-idea-to-deal-with-...

Nope.

Maybe we can limit these silly discussions to one day a year to avoid these “Groundhog Day” discussions.

In other news, 1.5C is guaranteed within a decade. To keep it interesting, Let’s come up with a few more miracles that won’t work.
> the value is stored as BTC

What value? Where did any value originate in this process?
Internet may be awful overall but that measurement is strictly download speed to Cloudflare's speed.cloudflare.com test site. Since they have a local data center those speed can be great even while performance to the rest of the world is bad.
> So they got exposure to the upside of the bank's risk, but were bailed out of the downside.

This is a huge flaw in the current way things are operating, but it benefits those people making the decisions and their friends so I don't see it changing.

Facing consequences for bad investments is apparently something only poor people have to worry about. Which is insane.
That one ALWAYS foils me and I hate it and whoever created it.
The particular case of SVB is rather illuminating. They weren't risking money on some high risk mortgage bonds or memecoins for that matter (illegal).

They were literally buying US government bonds based on outlook given by THE government agency which gives OUTLOOKS & sets POLICIES on these matters.

They literally did the you are "supposed" to do and they were called "greedy capitalists" or chumps for not doing sophisticated active player stuff like hedging.
> Aren’t all those things binary? The cop either (calls/doesn’t call) for backup. He says x or doesn’t say x (and says y or doesn’t say y). The whole spectrum is just a superposition of binary decisions.

We can label these actions in many ways, such as analog or discrete.

To revisit my earlier question: Does it matter to your philosophy how we label them? Why?
The client-server API in Matrix doesn't really allow for the nested "server with channels" paradigm that something like Discord follows.

There's the Spaces [0] API but it's not really meant for creating "servers" (servers as Discord labels it, meaning a top-level room or thing that contains children voice or text rooms) and as such there's no easy way to have any type of per-"server" RBAC or other permissions that Discord's model provides because of the Room + Power Level paradigm Matrix follows.

There's also difficulty with enforcing recursive operations, e.g. in Discord you can just kick/ban somebody and they are removed from the top-level (Server) and all child channels- but there is not really a way to perform any such operations with Matrix without a lot of hacking around and writing custom app services.

[0] https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#spaces
> ... rest of the world just expect things to work like Word

While having absolutely no idea how to actually use Word.
Confusing chemistry with fusion there.
Efficient allocation of capital, very simple, and arguing hedge funds arent needed literally makes no sense. The efficient market hypothesis is obviously false, its just that most hedge funds are scams
Me, the "lead" engineer, at a company with one employee (me) and two founders, building a SaaS platform.
That hardware is a few generations ahead of even high-end server hardware when Windows NT 3.51 dropped. Of course, any OS is going to be snappy when running on much faster hardware with much more RAM than it was designed for.

Put Windows 2000 on that thing and see if it runs just as well.
Pay a cleaning service to clean your house. A gardener to take care of your yard if you don’t love gardening. The first investments should be to buy time back at a discounted rate. Eventually you will run out of cheap time then it becomes much harder
An open-source mouse and trackpad utility for Mac
I've long looked for a good mouse utility for Mac that can disable mouse acceleration, modify scroll wheel behavior, etc. This one even saves preferences per-device which I find very useful.
Not just that, the transition from spinners to SSD brought a dramatic speed in the OSs of that day but the speed gain has since been rolled back by the garbage layers in the OS. A prime example is macOS which gets slower with each release and it's a tragic level of neglect that there are no mandatory equivalent tests to the last OS release.
Do you think you might be onto a slippery slope here?

Eating animals is not a cornerstone of modern society, and none of the experience/ benefits of eating animals cannot be reproduced. Just like using lead in the gas, at some point as a society we might decide that the costs overweight the benefits.

I think we're waaaaaaay past the discussion - it's self evident that animal exploitation is a blight on the earth and on the animals, and the benefits are unclear (for 95% of the world).

So why keep going? Because "i want to"?

What would you think if people wanted to use leaded gas, or use DDT on their lawn? See the similarity?
Strong Agree!
Explain Monads in JavaScript
And yet, things like the Patriot missile system get built. It's pretty wild what an 800 billion dollar budget will paper over.
This is standard-faire, weaponized pedantry.

Yes, R&D is inefficient, but all of us know this is not the point (unless of course, the research is focused on improving efficiency). Once a process and result is identified, it’s performance requirements and characteristics can be identified, measured, and standardized. This where industrial engineering comes in. Given that everything mentioned in this report is based upon simple measurements as a result of the R&D and this single identified process, we should file this under “pessimistic sensationalism.”
I wish sites only wanted email. Mostly they want to integrate with Google, Facebook and require a phone number.
Supplements are a battle you automatically lose. The politics around them are such that they are unregulated.

Best avoided imo.
Not having the bad stuff at home is the most effective fix for me.

I am capable of exercising enough discipline while I'm shopping at the grocery store.

But I will eat sweets if there's anything at home.
Fasting is a great way to break habits around necessity of food at certain times, or around what kind of food tastes "good".
> To make things work at society scale you need incentives, let the free market work for you.

The free market created and continues the problem.
Yeah, that stat is based on performance tested by speed.cloudflare.com, so it's actually a mix of overall capability and local speed to Cloudflare data centers. It may also be skewed by relative unpopularity of Cloudflare's speed test site compared to more well known alternatives.
as a non-member of the "primary race" it absolutely is racism.
Yeah, I see where you're going here. I guess I'd be skeptical until I see it in action for awhile and am confident that it's not generating nonsense under the hood, which is a top complaint about WYSIWYG editors.
Handling iron particulate is well-established technology:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZHpeBubb_M

Note that this is about when it goes wrong, but also that it is usually due to cost-cutting measures.
What I never understand about the soda thing is why people don't just switch to the zero calorie versions of them. I drink tons of the stuff myself (Sprite Zero being among my favorites), and while I suppose the science is still a bit out on whether non-nutritive sweeteners are a good replacement, they just have to be better than all that sugar.
I think you're right in general but I'll note that Windows 2000 does support PAE (very limited >4GB support on 32-bit) and SMP.
You can now import your existing infrastructure into Terraform. Now what?
That's ridiculous. It's frequent for a process to map large amounts of data from the disk. Requiring that this data be eagerly loaded and be present in memory at all times would be disastrous for performance, if even possible.

Even Windows wouldn't do something so silly.
Null in SQL: Indicating the Absence of Data
Sensors on shop trolleys that detect irregular heartbeat ‘could save lives’
Windows is a behemoth of legacy protocols, abandoned projects, and software support that ranges from bleeding edge gaming hardware to obscure ancient machines required by long term support partners and investors.

Devs at MS have to make everything right in an universe where everything else is dead or crap. And the fact that Windows 11 can even run without crashing daily is an engineering marvel.

PD: Not to defend MS, but I'm sure their current devs are very capable and doing their best.
I've been trying to find a specific ~5-minute clip I was somewhere in 2005 for years. I was shown on the BBC's "Homegrown Hollywood", which was a fairly obscure anthology of British-made short films about a variety of topics, mostly by small independent film-makers, from "art films" to short documentaries. It had quite a bit of good stuff (and also quite a bit of not so good stuff, it was very mixed).

The specific clip is about two old women reminiscing about their husbands, both of whom died during the battle of Britain decades ago, ending with both in tears and "you never quite let go, do you?" I felt it was a very powerful statement about the long-lasting effects of war that go well beyond the immediate casualties and victims, at the time probably directed towards the Iraq war, but it really applies to all wars.

There is almost zero information about this, including at the BBC Archives as far as I can determine, probably because the clip itself wasn't actually produced by the BBC. I suspect I will never find it again, and that it was seen by relatively few people in the first place since the programme aired at 2am (I found some other clips they aired, such as Toothpaste[1] and a few others, but not this one).

To this day, in spite of being very short, it's still one of the best and most impactful things I've seen on TV.

One can't help but wonder how much fantastic material is out there, seen by only a small audience, only to be lost and never seen again.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSAsn9u3e8U
> This isn't remotely what I said.

It was just my case that some liberties might be universal.

> Freedom is a word the definition of which can be, and very much is, twisted to most people's agenda.

That is true, but it is a positive definition. When in doubt make the case for freedom. This is different when we talk about hatred or expressions of it.

I do think the US makes some wrong decisions when it comes to social responsibility, out of the question. But I have even less doubt that hatred will an umbrella term to restrict speech. We already see instances of such cases today.
moreover people have been calling for controlled burns for decades (if anything, typically republicans). It's hard to believe at this point what's holding it back is racism.
Stars cant use Fe's chemical energy because they're too hot and the entropy of not being bound to O2 is too high. (And Fe is a trace element).

No one is talking about using Fe as fuel in a nuclear reactor, or (even though the article muddles this) as a primary source of chemical energy.

Its a battery. A heavy, big battery.
Well said. The people advocating against this research have to be completely in denial about what modern meat factories actually are like (can't really call them anything else considering how the animals exist there).
I want to eat meat from chickens and cows that had good, happy lives, eating the healthiest most natural form of their diet possible.

I don't want lab grown meat, the concept is disgusting. As it is our food is too processed and industrial.

Maybe we can focus on mixed farming instead https://www.earth.com/news/mixed-farming-could-increase-food...
I thought that when the Intel Management Engine implementation details (hidden Minix!) were released that it would only be a matter of time for a "Full FOSS" movement within enthusiast communities.

I was wrong, it seems.

There hasn't even been a push for an affordable 802.3ab gigabit ethernet card with an FPGA.
> If factory farms are a solution for providing reducing the impact of traditional farms

You've misread their comment:

> Factory farming is a real problem to solve.
Maybe offtopic: are take home projects or whiteboard excersises still needed for senior and staff positions? I had the impression that for anything below senior, yes these things were required, but for anything equal or above senior, the focus was mainly: systems design and communication skills.
> My SIL said that kids need to “live a little”

he will in fact live (only) a little if they keep feeding him like that
On the flip-side I'd like to see some numbers on winter usage as heat pumps rise. I live in an area where most people use wood to heat. A lot heat pumps are being installed, to the point where they had to upgrade the power lines.

Seems to me like we might be using more electricity year round.
The reason is they don't want to do business with someone that shittalks them. Amazon has its faults, but this is a reasonable business practice.
Why so eager to end someone's career? He did a lazy/stupid thing. People do far worse things.

The client may want to sue them and seek damages or something and that'd be fair but I don't think their career should end. That's harsh.
Abstraction is maybe the incidental reason start up is slow but the real reason is because no one cares.

You don't toggle apps open and closed so an initial wait to load up more features just isn't a priority.
>200k to keep four highly specialized military planes in the air is, as stupid as it sounds, almost a no brainer.

That implies that the trashcan designed for less would cause failures.

Also the cost of the program was 1.3M or something.
I feel like other states could equally inform California of techniques for controlled burns because the techniques weren’t lost?

UC Davis didn’t empower ancient indigenous community practices uncovering mystical oral history, they went to people that just googled it like everyone else because there has been perpetual cross drift in how to do controlled burns in even more optimal ways. Gullible af wow. This is like the Blazing Saddles of fire control.

The only reason California wasn't doing controlled burns, according to the article, is because they didnt have hush money for when they inevitably burn your house down and lose the lawsuit, and now they topped it up with a paltry $20 million.

The rest of this article is quite a bit of deflection.
> It keeps people employed, which generates other positive economic effects, like buying houses and groceries.

Let's be honest here. With that $50,000 trashcan we're paying mid-level managers $30, downstream suppliers $1, and $49,967 in stock buybacks that drive income inequality just so we can pay a factory worker $2 of that $50k. We are literally just shoveling tax dollars into the pockets of the already wealthy.
Yeah Amazon is good for popular well known items and long tail stuff.

The things in the middle are the problem.
Absolute BULLSHIT!

Greed is what screws up the market. Ask Alan Greenspan re 2008 Banking Crisis.
>"The solutions of "everyone just needs to do <x>" are a dime a dozen. We could solve war if everyone just stopped fighting."

As evident from your (absurd) comparison you're responding to the parent from the perspective of another completely different problem. Consuming less meat and more plant-based foods, including going fully vegetarian, is absolutely within grasp for a substantial amount of people in the west.