skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That article definitely buried the lede. A fair reading of the article is that the only reason they are switching from Go to Rust is because their dev team wants to write in Rust. Which is fine! But I think they could have been more open about that rather than inventing a strange complaint about how Go handles file permissions.
It's more complicated than that... Sen. Saldaña (quoted in the article) has been one of the main advocates for these laws because her parents were (are?) agricultural workers. The early part of her career was spent doing worker advocacy. So she sees this issue from their perspective. She's urban, female, very sharp, bilingual, and personally connected to this issue.

On the other side you've got a whole lot of Eastern Washington old white men, who have done things a particular way for decades and don't want to change anything. From their perspective, things like worker housing should count in the overall pay package to offset overtime. I don't think they are lying when they say they can't be profitable on some of these crops, but the other side of it is that they also aren't thinking real hard about ways to improve efficiency, add economic value, or increase profitability. Many of them aren't bad guys. Even though my politics are very different from theirs, I think too often they get treated like country bumpkins, which leads to resentment. Their core identity is that they like predictability. The problem here is that they need someone to give them an out - show them a business path where they can make money and give workers a better deal at the same time. Unfortunately, you've got two sides that don't quite understand how to get to that place, because in part it is a business problem not a political problem.
Another option is to use Firefox which lets you override both the page's fonts and colours.

For fonts you uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" and for colours you uncheck "Use system colours" and set the drop-down to "Always".

TBH, I usually just use Dark Reader for the colours portion though, just for the variety so it's not always the same thing.
> able to work in places other than California

They don't even work in California. I bought a new Pixel last summer and a few weeks later, was running around San Jose on a day that was around 95-100F (car doesn't have working AC). I left my phone on the front passenger seat in the sun for a few minutes and was getting warnings about the device overheating, apps were running terribly, and I had issues for some weeks after.

And that's in the Bay - most of my friends live outside of it, where highs of 110F aren't uncommon.
I respect the soft sciences. They ask questions to which we need answers. They may sometimes fall short or lack rigor but it's not like we have an alternative way to address those issues.

At the same time I am disturbed by a soft scientist recommending basement chemistry as a remedy for publication bias. YouTube has already inspired a generation of basement chemists making bromine tubes or dipping things in hydrofluoric acid.

It is difficult and expensive to safely set up a residential space for chemical experimentation.

It is also almost impossible to know everything required without already having become both an academic and having been involved in the construction of a university lab, at which point you no longer need to set up in your basement.

Where does your drain go? Where will you store chemicals you can't dump in the drain? What's the drain pipe made of? Will your air conditioning overwhelm your ventilation hood? Could your return duct spill fumes into the main living space? Is all your electrical and ventilation equipment explosion proof? Deionized water, PPE, emergency shower, cleaning protocols... the list just goes on and the requirements are written in blood.

Even in a fully equipped space with a trained staff chemistry is inherently risky. It really shouldn't be performed in a building where people have beds.

Botany, entomology, astronomy, geology, sure. All these fields just need more eyes on them. Perhaps biochemistry if you are rigorous about never using volatile reagents, sure. But we don't have much real use for basement chemists screwing around with basement chemistry.
The Psychotherapy Myth
Another saver of long-ago emails here, going back to my initial Internet use in December, 1995, with what then was gte.net. My first modem achieved 14.4Kbps at best, but only if it wasn't raining; for some reason, speeds dropped dramatically when the outside phone lines got wet. Thought I was in tall cotton when I got a 33.6Kbps modem. Even then, it still took over two hours to download each new version of whichever browser I was using at the time, and I’d have to wait until fairly late on Sunday night so neither wife nor daughter would need to use the phone.
The definition of racism is a hotly debated topic actually, it can mean many different things.

"Merriam-Webster has a new definition of “racism”"

https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/6/10/21286656/merriam-we...

There are people who believe it's impossible to be racist against white people, others believe it's simply discriminating based on race.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/04/us/anti-defamation-league-rac...

>Since 2020, the ADL had described racism as “the marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges White people.”

It's a powerful word that can be used to shut people down, so it is liberally used to do so, and its definition is changing to suit the policies and objectives of politicians and organizations.

One example: during the pandemic it was considered "racist" to suggest that the virus might have come from a lab, if you don't believe me I can find you a million reddit threads, Twitter threads, and articles saying as much. NOW it is openly talked about by government institutions and those same institutions that were writing articles decrying it as racist.

I fail to see how talking about the definitions of words and their power makes me a fascist. If anything you are the fascist for misusing the power of certain words to stifle discussion and the free exchange of ideas.
Personally as a fan of Company of Heroes, I feel conflicted about this. Just by enabling the player to play as the German (Nazi) factions, it is inevitable that one forms an attachment and curiosity of the individual men, tactics and commanders during that period of history, even while being totally cognizant of the fact that these soldiers were fighting to keep the Nazis in power. But I don't think the solution is to paint everyone from a "bad" side as monsters.
I still don’t get the phone warranty that comes by just charging the bill to my Amex card (potentially saves about $500 a year) or the close to 5000 Amex points per year (worth about $75)
Yes we tested it with Azure Stack Hub and AWS Outposts
I like NGINX, but I prefer how simple it is to set up Caddy with basic auth. Caddy is already simpler to configure (and has automatic SSL via Let's Encrypt), but it's so simple to get its basic directive working compared to NGINX that I do it by default now.
Do you really need 10 chargers at 250kW in such remote areas?

Maybe 2 chargers 50kW would be perfectly sufficient and much more economical outside of freeways?
I didn't say native speakers. I said most used.
He's suggesting something closer to Pulumi than a declarative (Cloudformation, Terraform), but with more of an inheritance model to apply blanket attributes to the targeted resources. This is possible with Pulumi but requires a lot of boilerplate and some monkeypatching.
Small Docker image or small binary size is this decade's canonical premature optimization.
Exactly. The site calls them ailerons (presumably because they are on the wing and can roll the plane) but they are quite far back from the cg and so function more like elevators when used together.

Concorde worked this way [1], and called them 'elevons'. When I used to work on Tornados these were called 'tailerons'.

[1] https://www.heritageconcorde.com/roll-pitch-and-yaw

Edit: The original site actually describes them correctly here, so I assume the text on the front-page is just a typo:
https://www.foldnfly.com/lounge/steer-aim.php#elevon
There's various positions from the other side. Essentially people on your side of the divide spent the last decade burning their goodwill, so when they're asked to sacrifice even more "but this is for real", they're not convinced. People are noticing patterns, they are noticing who is always criticizing them and blaming them and asking them to sacrifice, and they're simply fatigued and shrugging.

1. Constant crying wolf about climate change. I've been told we're "10 years away from climate catostrophe" since I was a kid in the 90s. But this time it's really about to happen, right?

2. There's people who agree with you that global warming is a serious threat, but refuse to be "economical cuckolds" by sacrificing their economical safety, while countries that pollute far more are given breaks. The argument is why should they, as members of the western middle and working class, be the ones to sacrifice and suffer while the Chinese and Indians don't have to? All because decades ago the elites of their country profited off industrialisation? The same elites that keep screwing them over?

"Oh but the Indians don't produce as much CO2 per capita" so? They would if they could. The average Indian makes almost zero conscious decisions to be environmentally-friendly compared to a westerner. As globalisation keeps making the western worker poorer and the rest of the world wealthier, so will the Indians' CO2 production rise.

And the only reason CO2 per capita is lower is because those countries left their population growth completely unchecked. You're asking western people who can't even afford to have a kid to sacrifice while those on the other end of the world don't have to.

3. RE Greta, people see Greta Thunberg as the typical propaganda mascot of the elites: privileged, pretentious, attention-seeking Twitterati nepobaby who only seems to call out westerners, even though westerners make more conscious environmental choices than any other demographic. People have seen this playbook many times before, she's just a newer model on the assemblyline of insufferable leftists that the average person changes the channel as soon as their mug is on the screen.
> The [psychotherapy] myth is that people often cannot process or work through adverse events and traumas—abuses, breakups, firings, humiliations—and sometimes even repress the memories because they are too painful for the psyche to assimilate. But repressed or poorly processed traumas do not simply subside; they fester, and they spread, causing further psychological pain and maladaptive behaviors. Time alone, it seems, does not heal psychic wounds. But if the sufferer works through the trauma, potentially recovering repressed or degraded memories, she can understand and perhaps even eradicate the sources of her misery. Thus, the talking cure is indispensable, and a stoic embrace of silent suffering, once lauded, is not only a species of misguided masculinism, but is inimical to mental health.
One of the nice things of the Garmin GPS I keep in my glovebox (older car, no Android Auto/Carplay) - it's rated for -20° to 55°C operating temperatures.
Migrating Python to Rust: Channel Groups PubNub Engineering Notes
We're moving to Rust. For web services we are using Tokio Axum web framework. For our high scale traffic, we need to ensure we cover our bases.
I don't think it was even the marketing but the product placement. I remember in the 2000s if you wanted hosting that wasn't a dedicated server, the scene was dominated almost entirely by CPanel with a one click installer for Wordpress.

Once the plugin ecosystem sprung up around it, WP was off to the races.
JSON compresses very well, fortunately
I don't think I fully agree with your reasoning. I feel it's more of a conservative vs progressive thing. Switching to EVs from fossil fuel cars needs someone to be at least slightly open to the idea. If anyone has a "They didn't do this in my pop's era, I'm not going to do it now!" attitude it's unlikely they'll be happy to switch.

(There's also some folks on the conservative side who would rather go back to older tech saying stuff like "BPA is making the x gay" "Lithium mining is bad" which is another thing altogether. Not defending or attacking either side here.)
I'm not a native English speaker. Growing up, I soon noticed that almost all of everything technical is in English.

And that's a good thing. All you have to do is learn English (easier said than done, but completely realistic and feasible for most), and you can talk to almost every nerd in the world about anything.
Keep in mind we are in a super el nino. We shouldnt expect the next several summers to be hotter.
Well, not one that has actuap slave labour, like Dubai. Among a ton of other human rights violations. Switzerland gets close enough, and my point was the fact in Germany swiss direct democracy is constantly brought up by, e.g., the AfD. Until, that is, a majority actually supports stuff like gay marriage, then all.of a sudden democracy is a lot less interesting.

That you did not see how low skilled labour in Dubai is treated, housed in ghettos, passports withheld and labor contracts sold, is a pitty. And advocating for Dubai style enforcement against "violant gangs", your point, is hardly something that is compatible with western democracy and freedom as written (in spirit it is getting erroded on a daily basis lately).

Germany is another example, e.g. Berlin, despute what media would make you believe.

Switzerland is, like most European countries, a nice place for qualified folks, preferably white. Poor non-whites, well, all.of a sudden things are less rosey. Still better then elsewhere, but place for improvement.

Mass migration from the middle east and africa so is not necessarily an unsolvable problem, Germany took loads of refugees, up to the point it anbaled the AfD and extreme right, but there were hardly any problems with it. Integration is lacking, but that is, as I said, a point for both, newcomers and those already there. If newcomers are basically marginalized, one doesn't have to wonder crime is a result. Or frustration (France shows this with their problems integrating 2-4 th generation people in their banlieues).

And power to the people, I am all for it. One has to be vigilant so that the means of handing power to the people are not abused by populists and extremists, and ultimately abolished. History has examples of how that happens, we should avoid allowing it again.
> The anti-meat take is always lacking in nuance

The pro-meat take is (as always) lacking scientific basis for their claims, and ignores the biggest problems of the field, like biodiversity loss, deforestation, eutrophication/pollution, pesticide/herbicide use, ethical concerns etc. All science points in opposite direction from yours, no science exists supporting your claims.

For scientific rebutal of your opinion see relevant part of the debate "Is livestock grazing essential to mitigating climate change?" between Alan Savory (a big proponent of rotational "regenerative" grazing) and George Monbiot.

I watched it all, but am linking directly to the most relevant part.

https://youtu.be/rhwEaCmQ2XE?t=1235

--- few links ---

If the world adopted a plant-based diet we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares

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

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/

Meat eating could lead to habitat loss for 17,000 species by 2050

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22287498/meat-wildlife-bi...

Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob...

How Compatible Are Western European Dietary Patterns to Climate Targets? Accounting for Uncertainty of Life Cycle Assessments by Applying a Probabilistic Approach

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/21/14449

Which Diet Has the Least Environmental Impact on Our Planet? A Systematic Review of Vegan, Vegetarian and Omnivorous Diets

https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/15/4110/htm

Global food system emissions could preclude achieving the 1.5° and 2°C climate change targets

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aba7357

Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...
> You can't accurately talk about these topics

To be fair, I'm talking about labeling, not the larger social structures groups inhabit.

> That is one option, but it can also be a description of the results of someone's actions

I don't believe pure actions are how humans derive intent. Actions are often used as an implication toward the state of mind. A child hitting another child is an action that does not connotate racist behavior under most conditions. Per your own statement:
"even if you think you're not being racist, you might be racist from the PoV of someone you were racist towards" - the classification is arbitrary based on observation.

> Since it's fundamentally self-identification

That's an opinion. Given the existence of homosexual behavior in animals, I think there is a biological component that is separate from conscious decisioning.

> it isn't predicated upon them

I do not subscribe to the idea that "black" is a specific differentiation in humans. It's an arbitrary label based on observation.
The drag-n-drop blocks/slices of content CMSes look cool in demos. As someone who has an in-house developed CMS editor just like this, it's a nightmare of constant updates. "Can we right align text and turn it blue?", "sure we'll add more and more props to each block". The actual content creators have a hard time using it effectively. So the results are almost always unsatisfactory. More training could possibly help but there's still a constant tradeoff between freedom and maintaining brand identity.

A headless CMS in our case would be a better approach. Simply provide the content and let a few professional folks code it up to match designs. Not everyone has that luxury I realize - so there's definitely a place for this type of CMS. I'm just pointing out how it can go horribly wrong.
> Harvesting is a job that should be paid by produce harvested or job completion instead of hourly. But, that is illegal as well.

Is it? Even if that's true for hired workers, presumably Schreiber, the guy who owns Schreiber Farms, does get paid based on production.

> If we keep making low rung jobs illegal there is no ladder for people to climb.

What ladder are you referring to in your counterfactual?
Similar to how I can add cameras to ZoneMinder and keep all my data on-prem, is there a platform that people can move their home automation to and have full control over cloud access, ideally with a hardware compatibility list and preferably without having to hack the firmware? Also ideally light-weight enough to run on a RasPi or mini-pc. I assume this platform would also need to be able to make API calls only those I configure to Amazon, Walmart, CVS, VPS providers, Utility bills, IRS, etc... to purchase my 10,000 rolls of toilet paper so it should be vendor agnostic and must not talk when not expected to. reward the most affordable, reliable and unbiased vendors and not leak data
> And then there's "open" in the Shenzhen sense where you can find the source and other data online and nobody's going to stop you building something based on those.

I believe there is a name for that: gongkai. https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?page_id=3107
Upgrading an Ancient React Application
Before-and-after comparison between a 2016 and 2023 React codebase for a fun lunch voting app. Has a list of technologies that have been "replaced", as well as a series of code diffs that explain how implementations have changed.
I find the idea that weights are not copyrightable very fascinating - appealing even. I have a hard time imagining a world where this is the case, though.

Can you summarize why weights would not be copyrightable or give me pointers to sources that support that view.
Seems like it will be underwater in a few years, when sea levels rise. $100 million dollars, underwater, in 10 years or less. Hm. Not great.
Amazing

Thank you for your work

Aside from good sleep are there any evidence based practices for mitigating these risks?
American Views of Space:US Role, NASA Priorities and Impact of Private Companies
See also: In 1961 a Gallup poll showed only 33% of Americans in favor of moon landing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36804394
Sure - the *Client would be a class or library intended for import/use by consumers of a resource exposed by a service. The exposed API should be viewed as usable independently, but it can sometimes be useful to add a layer of abstraction via a Client to would hold any logic required for interacting with a specific API.

Say you have an API that lets you bulk fetch an Item (`getItems(Collection<UUID> itemIds, int pageNumber, int pageSize)`), but the API enforces pagination and also requires authentication. A Client could require instantiation with whatever is required for authentication (`ic = new ItemClient(authToken)`), and provide a method to retrieve a huge list of Items without worrying about pagination (`ic.getItems(itemIds)`).
Curious on that. Is this based on a study intending to understand background raditation and lifespan? Or are you just asserting gulf states have lower lifespans than rocky mountain states and also they have lower background radiation. Without controls for cough cough obesity its meaningless.
I.e. "base-rate neglect" or "fallacy", etc.

The concept, and examples, of "base rate" are pretty intuitive, IMO. And yet, somehow, considering how INCREDIBLY CRUCIAL even the most basic understanding of "base rate" is to "critical thinking", they seem completely neglected in the vast majority of education.

I'd argue, now, that we'd be far better off skipping crap like "integral rules for the cotangent function" (or whatever the current equivalent is) than skipping serious discussion and repeated allusions to the ubiquitous theme of "base rates" (and even "probability" and "statistics" in general - just having SOME feel for these) in interpreting, well, just about any ... putative "information".

Further, I suspect that if we introduced kids to this kind of stuff when they were even 5, or 6, they'd pick it up far more easily than most adults, who have to wedge this often "unwelcome news" into their already rather rigid / solidified worldviews ... possibly confronting how 'wrong' of a perspective they've brought to many chains of reasoning etc... leading, often enough, to rejection of the unwelcome news / much more difficulty understanding it at all (often enough probably driven just by the 'subconscious' interfering with quite "getting it" ... but not in a way almost anyone can realize ... [i.e., why the hell they can't "get it" ... why some concept that seems simple enough is actually so slippery and like 'quicksand' in their minds ... something that might look clear enough 'on paper']).
O+F is posted to youtube, I get the auto-generated transcript from there. It's unscripted/unstructured, so if you are primarily wanting to hear discussion of the oxide hardware/software/progress it's pretty difficult to consume as an audio program.

This is not a dig on the program at all; I'm glad they are making the time to produce it, and I'd rather they spend their effort getting racks out the door instead of generating marketing hype.
I'm not sure open source applies to actual models. Models aren't human readable, so it's closer to a binary blob. It would apply to the training code and possibly data set.

Llama2 is a binary blob pre-trained model that is useful and is licensed in a fairly permissive way, and that's fine.
Digital money is not merely another natural and neutral abstraction.

I can't think of any valid reasons to pretend not to know that.
Not just in Sardinia. Anywhere it's 115F.