skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 3. Rotational farming with grass seed and ruminants. Roaming cattle are literally the answer to climate stability, for multiple reasons.

Source please. I've only seen Big Meat selling this point before and all info i've read on it points to it being very false.

The one guy who has famously promoted this idea also killed 40,000 elephants in Africa [0] to learn that he was wrong so i'm not going to take his slightly updated idea that cows will fix it instead...

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/2681518/this-man-shot-40000-elep...
Looked at a (non-tech-sector) job in Houston, we weren't especially bothered by the heat, and the people I would have worked with would have been great, but we just couldn't see ourselves there culturally. My wife also found hurricane season personally alarming.
Software without bugs ?
I think he means aptitude tests like the ASVAB.
Diamond prices are in free fall in one key corner of the market
You don't have to be a professional to know that cross contamination is bad. Dude owns/owned(?) a restaurant and seems to struggle with it.

That's my gripe. I enjoy his videos on the whole. I wouldn't eat at his house or restaurant but I enjoy his videos.
I wish they'd teach the charlemagne paradoxon in schools.
Aum cannot be called Christian without truly tortured reasoning. However this is the internet so I'm not surprised.

Here is the wikipedia page on their term (poa) for killing people.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9D%E3%82%A2_(%E3%82%AA%...

They weren't relying on anything related to Christianity for any important justification.

(Not Christian.)
https://archive.ph/hDBZu
Ugh. Science by press-release.

This may all sound nice, but modern farms already deal with pollination by just bringing in bees. The same applies to birds, just a few species can control pests. "Nature" has an article about that: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8414 There are certainly arguments for increased biodiversity, but food security doesn't appear to be one of them.
> We're talking incest? And the theory (or fact) is that it was a very widespread practice throughout human history?

That really depends what you're imagining when you say "incest". In literal terms, yes, we're talking about mating between two people who share common ancestors. Those do not need to be particularly recent.

In genetics there is the concept of the "coefficient of inbreeding" which tracks how much of an individual's genome is identical-by-descent across both chromosomes. (That is, if you inherit a particular stretch of DNA from your mother, and you inherit the same stretch of DNA from your father, and the reason they are the same is that your father and your mother both inherited that DNA from the same person, then that stretch of DNA contributes to your coefficient of inbreeding.)

If you're imagining brother-sister marriages, that is a much higher level of inbreeding than would be common in human history. (Expected coefficient of inbreeding in the offspring: 25% assuming zero inbreeding in the parents, perhaps because they are themselves the offspring of a cross between an African Pygmy and an Australian Aborigine.)

But it is true that different populations have more or less inbreeding than others; we can say that Arabs tend to be more inbred than the French. This is not necessarily because they tolerate incest at closer degrees of kinship than the French. It is mostly because they have a greater quantity of still-relatively-remote incest. (Not the greatest example; Western Europe hugely stigmatized cousin marriage under the influence of the Catholic Church, so in reality Arabs do tolerate closer degrees of kinship in a marriage than the French do. But the concept is sound - inbreeding will "build up" in a population over time.)
There is no information in the linked article. I would like to opinion of regular techies not some investor, not some vp or CEO or CTO or Mr Musk. Likes of Mr. Musk, lives in stratosphere. Regular techies at best live in rental apartment, paying 30-40% of his monthly income as rent, with no viable path to home ownership.
Personally I'm a fan of httrack for mirroring, although wget has some href/src translation capabilities that are occasionally a better match for particular goals.
This Article previously Posted and Discussed on HN: (11-comments - 2023-09-03) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37375822
This article isn't a shining beacon of journalism but as a "tech worker" not having lived in either city but considering it I'd be interested in "transplants" anecdotes.
One is seasoning aromatics, the second is making a more even veg coating than seasoning at the end does; stirfry vegetables at a high heat won't release water thus won't have a 'sauce' to carry seasoning across the surface, this method makes it more even.
Yes they have but it shouldn't have to mean that the vendor has more control and trust than the user.
Historically, having your first child around 27 was average except for the wealthy. The post war period was a historical aberration of young marriage.

> fathers consistently older (30.7 years) than mothers (23.2 years)

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm7047
That sounds like my Best Buy experiences.

Get in, buy a low-end GPU, or an SSD, or whatever random PC component I don't want to wait a week for, play with the XBox and Macs, check out and go home
Self hosted version supports both single tenant mode (no users/login at all) or multi tenant mode where you can configure your own auth0 account and work with all of their supported IDPs.
It’s not so well documented but I can have that documented ASAP
The fact that I'm in Houston and have grown accustomed to the threat of yearly hurricanes is personally alarming.
In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of solving the Day 5: Loops programming problem from HackerRank’s “30 Days of Code” challenge. In this article, we will understand the use of loops in programming.

Problem Statement and Explanation
In the problem statement, we will use loops to use some mathematics. Basically, we have to print the multiplication table of a given number in the following format: Suppose the given number is 5 then the output will be:
There's many explanations for this:

- SF tech companies recalling some workers for partial in-person work

- laid off tech workers going out of TX in-person interviews

- affordability pushing workers outside of TX to other states, which does not include CA

Article doesn't bother to explore any.
these kinds of articles are usually cringey but this one was pretty good. it doesn't have the usual smug subtext like of course ai isn't an existential threat
Like others have said, it's more common to use an existing game engine these days, but if you want to do it yourself, the modern version that I think comes closest is Lengyel's Foundation of Game Engine Development series [0]. To me this series looks to be a rewrite and extension of his earlier book "Mathematics for 3D Game Programming and Computer Graphics".

The first book covers the mathematics needed, the second is on Rendering and is when it starts to get into real graphics applications. Third and Fourth are slated to be Models/Materials and Physics respectively, but neither have been released yet.

[0] https://foundationsofgameenginedev.com/
The latter. It's impossible to make any generalizable statement about everyone's ancestry, you really have to look at the family tree and count them up one by one.

People whose families have been in one place for generations are much more likely to have a smaller set of ancestors than people whose families migrated many times over the last few centuries. And any given person's family tree is likely to have some subtrees that were sedentary and others that migrated, further complicating any attempt at an abstract calculation.
The police regularly have zero day tools available like pegasus and celebrite. It doesn't really protect against well funded attackers.
Most PhDs fit these category and yet they are miserable financially, physically, emotionally. At the core, we need to be doing something that is useful to a significant number of people in atleast one way be it physically, financially, cognitively or emotionally. Yet most of these expertise demonstrated in thick jacketed thesis books just collects dust with no tangible use. So, no don't become an expert in something specific and boring unless it has the potential to be useful for a significant number of people.
> I thought most people in the US were proud of their firearm handling professionalism

Well, in US so many times heavily armed police act like chump in face of serious criminals so not sure that general populace are proud of professionalism.
Non-paywalled link for that: https://archive.li/VnOk5

After reading that, it's hard to tell what Mercedes is doing. :/

Hopefully it's not just marketing bullshit, but I guess we'll all only find out over time.
Lot of poorly thought out stuff here, I suspect the author is young and lacks real world experience running a business.

> If 10x engineers truly exist, why do pay scales intra company not cover a 10x spectrum?

The value you produce presents a cap on how much you can earn, not a floor. If you want to capture that value you need leverage, high end SWEs usually don't have that leverage. The statement is wrong anyway, at companies like Google, pay ranges from 200k-10million+.

> Interviews will transition to be more real-world scenarios, perhaps within the customer's actual codebase

Many good companies already do this, it doesn't actually change the interviews that much. All interview questions my company has are taken straight from the codebase - the end result is a standard system design + leetcode style interview because we actually need to solve these problems somewhat regularly.

Other options listed that lengthen the interview process from the current 6-8 hour standard are off the table at any companies targeting top of market talent who won't put up with longer than standard interviews (makes it hard to get companies to compete for the interviewee).

Companies not targeting top of market talent will almost always ape top of market won't adapt because they are not generally tech first and thus simply want to adopt "industry best practices". The organizational incentives to do this are incredibly strong.

Small tech-first startups are usually the only ones who can muster the organization will to do something more original recruiting wise but will necessarily stay a small part of the market.

> Interview performance (at least for those hired) definitely does not correlate with on-the-job performance

Citation needed, every company I've seen try to do a large scale assessment of this has found that interview performance is positively correlated with on-the job performance[0]. (I've seen some actual data + studies, but not sure any of them are fully public). What does the author have to offer against this?

I'd encourage the author to think much more about the incentive structures of the actors involved here and try coming to some new (more interesting) conclusions.

[0] https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/hiring-use-structured-i....
Pick some landmarks. Visit. Talk to locals and formulate other plans based on that.
> That's a ridiculous thing to say without saying which restaurants (or some idea of a class thereof that) you're eating in. As if any 'dummy' armed with some articles is 'always' beating 'restauraunts'.

FWIW, I suspect your comment is getting downvoted because of the nasty tone, not because of the larger point your making.
Time-lapse of Solar Cycle 25 shows increasing activity on the Sun [video]
Because size is irrelevant. A 1 acre greenhouse can produce more calories and imcome than a 10,000 acre dryland farm.

And all real farms have at least 6 figures of revenue. They also have at least 6 figures of expenses. A small combine harvester costs $500,000, for example.
> "cheap" GPU like a T4 or an L4 it'll use about 100% of the compute,

LLM with batch_size=1 technically cannot use '100%' of GPU. Because it has to move a lot of data around and use different blocks of GPU. So, when tensor cores are used cuda cores are idle. Tensor cores are used for matrix multiplication, cuda cores for activation functions (I'm simplifying). Model has to use both at different times moving data between them. Meanwhile GPU monitor may report 100%. But it's still possible to insert another process. I think I've seen this idea in Pytorch docs.

As for 1.1B LLM, it would be nice. Interesting experiment anyway. I'm only afraid that with big and diverse dataset model will focus more on memorization and generic logic may not emerge. They aren't doing anything new in terms of architecture and training methods.
I read your book in high school. Thanks for getting me interested in my future career.
Think of it as "theft of services". Here's one example...

>ORS 164.125

>Theft of services

>(2) ... “Communication service” includes, but is not limited to, use of telephone, computer and cable television systems.

https://oregon.public.law/statutes/ors_164.125
This Article previously Posted and Discussed on HN: (7-comments - 2023-08-31) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37339452
Maybe........go to bed before 12 and see how you feel? Seems obvious.
My friend just moved back to SF from Austin.

He said Austin seemed alive when it was one of the only places open during COVID, but now it’s just another place with worse weather.
The real OP has tons of anecdotes.

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-workers-moved-to-austin...
Is there just one Chef John?

Last time I googled around, it wasn't clear to me.
That's what was tried, but Comcast still started a criminal case.
lol

yea, you’re definitely right. we should’ve mentioned something like “GitHub actions but reliable”.

actually our readme mentions datadog workflow automation as a reference though people are less familiar with it
WASM may live up to its promise when they finally fix js/dom interop. Looks like it's indefinitely postponed though. so we are stuck with ungodly glue calling between it and JavaScript (which is unavoidable if you want to do much with it), incredibly hacky.
No consumer pays $50/kWh in Texas.
NYC MetroCard is yet another Cubic transit SVC system, and so the system is largely identical to other Cubic systems like Clipper, Oyster, etc. As a rule of thumb, most transit card systems in the US and Western Europe are Cubic, but there are plenty of exceptions.
Now they're kicking themselves into irrelevance by restricting access.
It's been a while since I've seen someone wearing a diamond ornament
A country is too big. The number of 6th cousins somebody has is on the order of thousands. If you're from a small town with stable population (people haven't moved in or out much for the last couple hundred years) you might be 6th cousins with pretty much everyone.
The new Detect UB instruction is great.
Bet he was already over budget and the time to research that and get it done are huge and with many risks if you are new to it.

If you accept the look (which you did if you bought it) 3D printing seems like a no brainer for this project.
You have the freedom to chopse between 4, oops, 2, totally locked down ecosystems.
It's coreboot, plus I think tianocore/edk2 to provide UEFI
https://archive.is/36HL5
“Waterfall” doesn't mean what you think it means
https://archive.is/m80vf
Texas makes a big deal about not having income tax. What they don't tell you is how high the property taxes are.

I live in a state with income tax, and if I lived in this same house in Austin (as if I could afford such a house in Austin) my total, overall tax bill in Texas would probably be $20k per year higher than I pay now.
thanks for the feedback here, that’s really important for us and we actually just refactored the readme a couple of days ago. any concrete action item you’d suggest?
Lack of a debugger should not be a problem, as we all know printf is the best debugger. Unfortunately this system's printf implementation has numerous known and unknown output bugs, so what it tells you requires many years of training to interpret with 70% accuracy.
This just in: some very well compensated workers discover that affordability isn’t the biggest motivator in their lives.

Maybe I’m too much of a cynic but when everyone was hyping up moving to Texas (or Miami before that) the only pitched seemed to be affordability. But more or less everywhere is more affordable, the question is why move to [destination state/city] specifically. And I never saw a hugely compelling reason.

Off topic perhaps but personally I’m much more interested to know the future for things like the arts in the face of inaffordability. Like, if aspiring actors can’t afford to stay in LA long term waiting tables and going on auditions what might that mean for the film industry? Could we see other cities get some of that cultural cache?
The invisible hand of the free market has clearly worked to perfection.
Hey, Pulumi engineer here.

The engine doesn't compile to a declarative template. It's a common misconception, however because the user's program runs concurrently with the Pulumi engine, fully dynamic resource graphs are possible, including those inexpressible using templates.

This is Pulumi pseudocode:

const group = new ldap.DirectoryGroup("$saas-users);

// or any other runtime query:
for (const member of group.getMembers()) {
new saas.User(member.id, {
email: member.email,
name: member.fullName,
});

// could also do some other dynamic action, such as
// calling a webhook to complete user setup

And in ~10 lines of code you have a script or webhook you can use in situations where SCIM would normally be required.

(n.b.: this is a simplified, illustrative example that the program drives the graph using its own using loops or other control flow.)
The one with the cow spots on the box? Ah…good times!
The ArchiveTeam folks are saving it to archive.org too.
Try the awesome numberphile video "EVERY baby is a ROYAL baby"
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm0hOex4psA
thanks! happy to help your team migrate to Keep and send out a few complimentary monitors ;)
It's even in the name: wget will do everything reasonable to just get something to you, while curl will do a huge portion of things that use URLs.
It's disturbing to me that I remembered this, but the IBM Pascal Compiler for DOS (1981) had two passes.
https://winworldpc.com/product/ibm-pascal-compiler/100
The initial couple HWNDU challenges were solved through rather boring means. They tried geolocating based on stars, but what ended up giving away the solution was a tweet from a local diner waitress posting a pic with Shia. Once they narrowed it down to a small town, then it got a bit fun, with one anon driving around and honking, so they could determine the location of the flag based on the volume of the honking sound on the livestream. And the whole drone usage to "alter" the flag was pretty unexpected.

But one of the latter ones was kinda crazy. I am thinking about the one where Shia placed a flag inside some wooden cabin (in Finland iirc), and they managed to find it based on a pattern of the woodgrain[0].

0. https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/4chan-shia-labeouf-cabin/
I was thinking about this. It is crazy that a private company gets to deputize the state legal apparatus to enable their business model. They want to be able to sell something that is very difficult to restrict access to, so they use the legal system to make sure it stays restricted.

They want to be able to install a cable all the way to someone’s house, and then have the state prosecute them if they dare touch it.
We have a similar internal tool, and it's also called keep!

Besides alerts it also tracks, and displays things such as which MongoDB server is the primary, or which ElasticSearch node is the controller.
What did you do to go to jail?
I think the whole concept of "carrying guns to prevent a police state from taking over our country" is a bit outdated.

These days this is not done with bullets but with carefully planned public manipulation through media and social networks.

And if it really comes down to bullets, the government owns a lot bigger guns than you do.
this book is as thick as a brick and made for a nice monitor stand if you otherwise had no use for it
> the kinds of stones that go into the cheaper one- or two-carat solitaire bridal rings popular in the US have experienced far sharper price drops than the rest of the market
Data sharing is a great example.
Small Biz A can't share data with Small Biz B, but Biz G can share data between Product A and Product B and their thousands of employees.
>it's 110F every day

This is just ridiculous (unless intentional hyperbole that I misunderstood, in which case sorry!).

Wiki Austin climate reality check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas#Climate
“Most people need to work whatever shitty job they can get”

Even as someone who grew up well below the poverty line, this wasn’t true ime. The vast majority of adults aren’t impoverished. They’re quite clearly choosing not to work the shitty jobs that would make them impoverished, usually through skills they’ve chosen to acquire.

While I don’t have the stats on what percentage of people exercise job choice — these stats are completely unobtainable - I don’t think there’s an argument that can reasonably suggest it’s >50 (or even 20)
Since this is 2023 and we are releasing things that solve X and Y problems in YML I do want to take the opportunity to question whether solving problem for X or Y in YML is really the thing we should be building businesses around these days. I’ve spent the greater part of the last year or so undoing the pain of “reasonably complex GHA in YML” in my organization. It’s one of those things that sounds great conceptually, and works really well simplistically, but once your use case evolves beyond even remotely simple (for example, abstracting and maintaining this code in an engineering org in the tens of people, not even hundreds), it is a slow growing cancer that ends up being a huge time suck, unmaintainable, untestable mess, and technical debt for your org.
This doesn't totally respond to your line of reasoning but keep in mind that handling cash isn't free. There is time, logistics, and risk involved. In the US, consumer bank accounts typically come with free cash handling, but not business accounts. It's common for cash handling to cost around 1%, can be more depending on cash mix. Some of this is bank fees (e.g. I have a business account that charges $0.01 per note for cash deposit), some of it is expenses on the business like a drop safe (often rented) and armored transport service. There are indirect costs as well, e.g. insurers will factor in the risks of high cash volume.

The cost of cash handling is part of what has allowed card payments to proliferate, but then that created the conditions for card processors to ratchet up fees.
Thanks, I try my best not to make assumptions about tone when reading comments, because it's not well conveyed in text. I did my best to quote " 'dummy' " for example, to allude to 'for dummies' texts rather than to describe the commenter I replied to as such. On re-reading myself though, probably that was still misunderstood.

As for writing comments, it helps not to worry about internet points :).
Foolish Wishes
America is one of those places so alienated from the fulfillment and joy of providing value to society through work that almost everyone wishes on the parasitic dream of just living without doing nothing.
https://archive.is/7Hoq0
If you take this argument to its absurd conclusion, one could argue that by merely living, I'm making a conscious choice to harm other people.
Yes my mistake. Progenitors I guess would work to.
Ah, of course it has a name. Thanks for the lead:

* https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-mo...

* https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/charlemag...

And no they did not teach me that in school ;D
Except it literally worked in this case.
Property tax is much fairer than income tax imo.
I don’t think that’s why he’s making this and sharing it is just to learn stuff, but maybe I’m wrong.