skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those extra millions aren't evenly distributed across the parks system, though. Some parks are seeing way more growth than others. Breakdown here (annual view, aggregate by park, filter by National Park designation): https://www.nps.gov/subjects/socialscience/visitor-use-stati...

For example, Smoky Mountains NP went from 8M in 1980 to 10M in 2000 to 14M in 2022.

Zion went from 1M in 1980 to 2.4M in 2000 to 4.7 M in 2022.

Yosemite went from 2.5M to 5M+, much of that concentrated in the Valley.

For the impacted parks, it is very difficult to keep up with that sort of growth. It's not like those parks grow bigger to keep up with visitation, or hire staff at the same rate, or are able to build more parking lots.

Edit: And also, for Wilderness-designated areas -- whose purpose is to provide a "wilderness feel" for current and future generations, as distinct from the "crowded Yosemite lodge feel" -- it's an even tougher ask. There are only so many trails you can build through a glacier or a meadow or a ridgetop before you erode the wilderness feel completely, and it's hard to spread groups out enough on those few trails so that they're not swarming past each other.
How much law do we take with us?
Mars Colony Legal Code

https://www.amazon.com/Mars-Colony-Legal-Code-Much-ebook/dp/...
I always wrote off RMS as some sort of pedantic policy wonk in the argument of "free software" vs "open source".

But now I realize he was right the whole time.
Maybe we need a Kotlin for XML. I mean a JSON-like, simple syntax without some of the verbosity of XML.
By rightmost lane, do you mean the on/offramp? Otherwise, it's legally required in much the country to stay in the right lane except when passing.
> The wars in the Congo were fought over Nickel and Diamonds

That's why I said the wars were over Congo's resources. Which by the way included its people and rubber.

> blaming Cobalt (and in turn Lithium Ion batteries)

I'm not blaming anyone.

I just reported the truth that there have been wars in the Congo over its resources and that there are armed groups that control its resources like cobalt today. The conditions of which are often horrific. Correcting the original who said cobalt mining is benign.

Cobalt can't be blamed, it's not alive.

If we're assigning blame, we should be blaming the Western corporate governance where it's trivial to whitewash where resources were extracted and how they were processed. If we insisted that our governments passed laws keeping corporations, and their executives, directly accountable, and requiring that they maintain a full chain of custody, then conditions on the ground in Congo would improve dramatically.

It's not nickel's fault, or the fault of diamonds, or that if electric cars or batteries. The fault is and has always been our own.
Fully managed end-to-end LLM platform
The answer is competition. Most of markets nowadays are dominated by 2-5 big players with the CEOs going to the same golf club. Wink-wink, nudge-nudge, prices go up, nobody can do nothing.

If we had 50 competing players, there would be enough incentive for a hungry challenger to lower prices and undercut the competition. Except, over a decade of leveraged acquisitions and antitrust regulators being asleep at the wheel killed the most remote chances of this happening in our lifetime.
They explicitly point out all of the code is still available.
Cheapest motel in Soledad (near Pinnacles) looks like $110 a night right now. Plus there is a lot more demand for a campsite in Pinnacles than for a hotel room along the 101. I think the real value of that Pinnacles campsite is more like $200 a night. Depending on the time of year, of course.

Pinnacles is not too bad a divergence, though - worse is Point Reyes, where a campsite costs $30 a night, but it's very close to San Francisco, and a hotel room would certainly cost hundreds of dollars a night. And Point Reyes is terrible for people reserving spots that they don't end up using.
"thank you for your button order. We expect to ship this order about 1 week after the heat death of the universe."
There's nothing special about my use case. It's just that I avoid relying on anything that is only available as SaaS, because it can vanish or change at any time without notice.
Yes this was the social phenomenon to which I was referring.
Let it crash is anti-fragile. Either you understand that, or you try to make super robust and super expensive applications.
I don't think people need to fully boycott every company -- but we can deliberately attempt to decrease companies' pricing power by:

- voluntarily reduce discretionary spending across categories

- within each product category, try to spend most on the company with the thinnest margins (which may not be the cheapest)
Corporate veil cannot absolve anyone from criminal liability.
Argos pioneered a new form of catalogue retail where customers made their order in one of the company’s high-street shops before waiting for their items to be brought out from the warehouse at the rear.

Sounds a lot like the British version of the U. S.'s Service Merchandise[0]. Write down your order on a little sheet of paper, hand it to store personnel, wait for your items to come rolling down the roller ramp.

On an unrelated note, but from TFA:

In 1979, 42% of British citizens lived in council housing

Wait a minute, wut? Explain to this former colonist what cultural cue he's missing, because how is it possible that 42% of a country's population lives in public housing? Or is it not "public housing", as in U. S.-style subsidized housing? Or were times just that bad in Great Britain in the 70s? EDIT: thanks for the context, responders. Apologies if I worded it poorly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Merchandise
https://www.hotspotenergy.com/DC-air-conditioner/ for example
I took spaceship, then virus, under the idea that what I was keeping "alive" was some sort of soul - at least potentially - and that I could be sure of the soul's continuity as long as I took the ship, and then that the virus wouldn't change me as much as I'd changed from being an infant.

then, with the existence of the soul seemingly confirmed, there's no way I'd let myself be frozen - I'd become a philosophical zombie.

but it takes me to task for my inconsistency, since I made previous choices to preserve bodily integrity over mental integrity. and I don't quite understand that.
> My partner and I ride our bikes to most parks or we visit parks off-peak and we almost never bother with any of this.

No doubt this is sometimes true, but all the permits & reservations I'm aware of in parks are for the hikes themselves, it doesn't matter how you arrived there.
It's pretty much 1/3 the depth which is suspiciously close to a 3x safety factor which is what I've always heard engineers use. They certainly seemed cavalier with safety, so it wouldn't surprise me if they reasoned about it in that way.
The author is doing a lot of heavy lifting with the word "suggesting". I can't find any quote that suggests he is actually saying workers shouldn't ask for raises. Here's the closest I could find:

"To do that I have to be clear – and we expect inflation to come down this year – to do that we cannot continue to have the current level of wage increases ... And we can't have companies seeking to rebuild profit margins which mean prices continue to go up at their current rates...But what I would say to people is we expect inflation to come down, and it is important then that price setting and wage setting reflects that."

Again, nothing "suggests" that he thinks workers are supposed to be blamed for wage increases being unsustainable. If anything he is blaming corporations!
So they take stuff other people wrote... and they take it for free... and it's ok... then they might do a patch here or there... and if someone takes that, it's somehow bad, because they don't get the money for that?

What if they don't patch anything, aren't they just "rebuilders" too?
Great advice. Thank you!
Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....
There's a group who're trying to get Mayan orthography into Unicode. Mayan has some challenges; the two I like best are:

1. Rendering is in pairs-of-columns, with a "Z" layout; and,

2. Glyphs have a concept of depth, and you must render subglyphs with the correct depth and occlusion to maintain meaning.

Mayan also has the same feature as Egyptian Hieroglpyhs (but not the same extent) of multiple glyphs per word/logograph/letter.

Here's a 2018 proposal, that covers all of this in more detail:

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18038-mayan.pdf
It is weird that the sidewalks are built right next to the road, with no green space between them. That makes it much more stressful and unsafe to walk in North America. The older communities still have the divider.
Can you explain how does the user's text get converted to one of those questions?
Surely nothing happened in the past couple years that demonstrated people can absorb some extra costs?
Surely it’s a question of which tax payers. Is it the tax payers using national parks (and entering lotteries or making reservations) or all tax payers? Charging for service also allows non-tax payers to contribute too.

I’m not saying I’m for either approach but I still the cost efficiency is orthogonal to how it’s funded.

If it were more transparent how much Booz were making, and how much web traffic, reservations, lottery entries, etc they were dealing with then the reasonable profit overhead for their work could be more easily be understood by the public.
I’m not convinced companies actually keep these records so much as they retain access to inbox and outbox data And call that good enough. I think in many environments if you delete an email from your outbox it would become largely irrecoverable.

I’m curious if any IT folks can comment on what they have seen? Do you actually have log records of all messages? Or do you have something like a snapshot of all accounts at a given time?
Why the quotes? Apps bundling their own outdated web views using old versions of Chromium or WebKit are a legitimate security threat. By forcing every web view to use the fully up to date system bundled one, you automatically eliminate dozens of security vulnerabilities.

Nothing forces anyone to buy an iPhone. They don’t even have a majority of market share. In the late 90s-2000s, Microsoft actually held a monopoly on PCs. Smartphones on the other hand are a very healthy duopoly with diversity and cross pollination of ideas.
If any one curious about modern portfolio theory here it is https://www.guidedchoice.com/video/dr-harry-markowitz-father...
Does this work in Azure?

Does this work in AWS Gov, Azure Gov, Google Cloud Gov?
The sad part is the short nearsightedness. I know tons of RHEL engineers who only got into RHEL because they could essentially learn large parts of RHEL for free on CentOS and then go on to work professionally on RHEL. I also understand that a lot of courses to become official RHEL engineers/sysadmins use CentOS for the classes.
Since reddit also appears to keep edits I would suggest a revolt where everone edits a comment of theirs every minute.
The Great Filter – Are We Almost Past It?
> An “efficient market” does not mean it is at its optimal efficiency all the time, but that there is an efficient equilibrium it is capable of tending towards

This is a word salad of nonsense. Please familiarize yourself with the definitions of market efficiency and market equilibrium. Its premise may even be flawed: I also recommend looking up resources which show evidence that concept of market equilibria is itself nonsensical.
It's nice that they are clear, now:

No Red Hat unless you pay them for it. If you pay them for it, you can't redistribute it.
> I feel that much of the anger from our recent decision around the downstream sources comes from either those who do not want to pay for the time, effort and resources going into RHEL or those who want to repackage it for their own profit. This demand for RHEL code is disingenuous.

> ....

> There was a time, not too long ago, that Red Hat found value in the work done by rebuilders like CentOS. We pushed our SRPMs out to git.centos.org in a neat package that made them easy to rebuild; we even de-branded it for them. More recently, we have determined that there isn’t value in having a downstream rebuilder.

All in all, this line of commentary really shows to me that FLOSS software and community is at diametric odds with commercialism and capitalism.

One side (FLOSS) is about building and working together, even if there's bumps and bruises. In the end, everyone benefits because everyone is helping each other. FLOSS is obvious area, but so is the fediverse like Mastodon, Matrix, Lemmy, and others.

The commercial/capitalist way is to erect walls and gates, initially set them low/no barriers, and then over time extract money for access to the arbitrarily gated areas. We see this in reddit, discord, github, gitlab, redhat, etc. And then those companies will start out open, and slowly close each avenue until people are either forced to pay up, or leave. Cory Doctorow talks about this with "enshittification". "Internet of Shit", for IoT goods, is a similar anti-feature-fest where you pay more and get less over time.
this looks awesome, can't wait to try it out.
Ask HN: How much compensation do the early employees of a startup make?
How much equity do say the first 30 employees of a startup make? Let us say the company reaches a market cap of 1 billion dollars, is it likely that 100 million goes to the employees (10%) or even lower or higher?

Asking for mainly software/ AI startups and would love to hear from people with first hand experience or knowledge and less speculation.
General distaste for writing `if err := nil { return err }` over and over and over
>Remember: profits are a direct measure of the inefficiency of a given market.

Marginal profits are, not absolute profits..
Perhaps the above comment means that the secondary factors affect the denominator - i.e more people go hiking on Saturday, so entering the Saturday lottery is worse than entering the Wednesday one
And yet the Beatles stood the test of time much better than the alternative hits of the ‘90s (Radiohead included). (IMO of course, but I think its supported by alternative still being an alternative, while Beatles are still THE Beatles after all this year. BTW I’m not a great fan of either, but appreciate both)

It is easy to create a supercomlex composition, that’s what classical music have been doing way before 1970s. But to capture the minds and hearts of many people with simple things, now that’s the real mastery.
I didn't even know it was a song by a real band when I was a kid. I only knew it from a cartoon. Depending on how old your kids are, they might like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqJXxHi6RwQ
You’re saying that Bitcoin is “crypto crap”, or just talking in general?
And regarding the “free speech” topic, you’re saying that’s ok not finding new censorship resistant solution because essentially censorship is ok?

Just asking to better understand the underlying knowledge on the topic before putting myself into this valley of tears.
I think I made my point in the post you're replying to.

If you want quantified numbers I suppose you could view charts like

https://the-federation.info/platform/184 <--- Bunch of tabs at this site

https://the-federation.info/platform/73

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/graphs/commit-activity

https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/activity/daily <-- Not sure how to generate nice charts from this one

But frankly, if you need me to tell you this, you aren't remotely qualified to write that article.
It doesn't abide by the law (the plaintiffs case).

It's not free enterprise: the govt is granting them a monopoly on ticket sales for those events.

It's economically inefficient. The operators are making insane profit margins (likely 75%+ ) with no competition.

These are public resources funded by tax payers. The operator is making illegal and unreasonable profit on the taxpayers property
Getting Covid-19 causes long-term drop in semen quality: study
You can use Datomic for instance (mentioned already in your article IIRC!?) or SirixDB[1] on sich I'm working in my spare time.

The idea is an indexed append-only log-structure and to use a functional tree structure (sharing unchanged nodes between revisions) plus a novel algorithm to balance incremental and full dumps of database pages using a sliding window instead.

[1] https://sirix.io | https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix
That little LED grid is super nice! I can imagine that will simplify a ton of projects - instead of having to attach an external display, or your own LED grid, you can provide basic feedback about what's going on in your device thru the built-in LED grid.
I'd love to see the actual metrics behind this decision making, but it seems like confirmation of my suspicion that most RHEL customers think they are paying for the software rather than the support, and many would prefer not to pay for the support or get it cheaper elsewhere. When you go to redhat.com and start getting funneled towards buying a license, the average user would not be able to tell. Also the number of users that care about 10+ year old backports may be shrinking in the era of VMs/Containers with hermetic build systems and elastic compute.
But the entry for Java doesn't mention that it doesn't have Lambdas. I assume that the Java that is mentioned has them?
>Red Hat uses and will always use an open source development model

Yes, I do not mean to sound harsh but I do not know how say this in a nice way. To me, this means we will still happily take work from our volunteers, but we will restrict other people from using this work so we can get more $. But thank you volunteers for keeping our payroll low and helping out our stockholders.

I really think this is another small step to what I believe is the corporate take over of Linux.
I'm a "second generation refugee from XIV". XIV was a storage company started by Moshe Yanai, it pioneered many things in storage world. It was the catalyst that created many talented storage programmers that created their own successful companies: Infinidat, XtremIO, Weka, Elastifile, and many more.

IBM acquired XIV... and ran it into the ground. To anyone who had this kind of experience with IBM the possibility of RHEL dying under the guidance of IBM was almost as good as certainty.

My guess is that RHEL in not such a long time will take it's proud place somewhere between zLinux and AIX, and most will never hear from it again.
the spec sheet for that says "Panasonic BLDC" which is just an induction motor with an inverter making AC from DC power
> can generally be chalked up to belief in conspiracy-theory nonsense.

Or worse, watching a few "economics" youtube videos and thinking you understand how the world works.

Surely we should just go back to the gold standard! That didn't have regular destructive and unavoidable problems all the damn time!
We have been told that RH's business model is selling support for a complex and constantly improving platform which is given away for free. Redhat is supposed to represent having someone to call when you don't want to bring in a consultant or hire a Debian expert, not a "seat license for Linux." Part of the difficulty that RH is facing is in trying to undo the expectations set by years and years of marketing - we were all told their business model was really in support.
The BoE has been banging the wage restraint drum for a while. Bailey on the Today Program in February:

“I’m not saying nobody gets a pay rise, don’t get me wrong. But what I am saying is, we do need to see restraint in pay bargaining, otherwise it will get out of control.”

Back in May, his Chief Economist Huw Pill got in trouble for expressing the sentiment thusly:

“Somehow in the UK, someone needs to accept that they're worse off and stop trying to maintain their real spending power by bidding up prices, whether higher wages or passing energy costs through on to customers,” which Bailey had to walk back.

Last week on Sky News, he was pitching a version of that same position, though, that balanced calls for wage restraint with calls for companies to exercises restraint on profit margins also:

“We've got to get and we will get inflation back to its target. To do that … we cannot continue to have the current level of wage increases, and we can't have companies seeking to rebuild profit margins which mean prices continue to go up at their current rates.”
> But the precision required to apply enough tension to pull the electrons of every single atom into that state is absurd

Easier with individiually-tensioned monofilaments? Graphene monofilaments are interesting because they're very strong; but other materials can be monofilaments, too; just usually they're useless in that form.
> I wonder why it is necessary to have all these limits and reservation slots in the first place?

For one thing it generates a lot of profits for both recreation.gov and (somewhat less) the parks. That's unavoidably going to be a motivation for ever more limits and lotteries.

For me that's really soured the idea of going to these places. In the 90s I'd go to any park, show up and hike wherever without any limits, it was great. Now it's hard to be able to ever go, let alone luck into the limited slots.
(1998)

Sadly in this year of 2023 it's clear that no, we're running headlong into it. Personally though I suspect there is no one filter, just a series of them.

Nuclear weapons are a filter.

Climate change is a filter.

Future biotech is a filter.

Probably future nanotech is a filter.

There's always going to be some new tech we create long before our human nature has adapted us to its responsible use, and each one carries a risk of setting our civilization back so far it never recovers. That's the filter, the nature of organisms which reach the point we do is the filter itself.
Neat, I was just looking for something like this today, I think I'll give it a spin.

Does anybody here have experience with metadata extraction using LLMs? I've been thinking about it recently. and wonder if just making a big prompt and putting that into OpenGPT or even ChatGPT is really the way to go, or if there is a "cleverer" way. Maybe you could train specifically for certain fields, or use the LLM in a different way (like you can use the embeddings directly to do simularity search)?

Another idea was, if you have a lot of similar HTML documents, to not ask the LLM for the metadata, but to ask it for CSS selectors that contain the metadata fields - assuming it can deal with HTML and the data is verbatim in there. Then you should be able to get much more consistent results.
I'm actually less concerned about the government tracking me than I am about corporations or other private entities tracking me.
"We can't have police, this will lead to a slippery slope that will lead to a 1984 police state."

Have you looked at the state of the bloody world? I measure outputs not methods.
the fan in an AC unit doesn't consume any reasonable fraction of the power. It's the compressor that takes power.