skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer: I am a chdb maintainer! duckdb is currently thinner and has lots of active contributors and mature integrations, while chdb is still in its early stages BUT if you already love ClickHouse (like we do) chdb is a great choice as it inherits all the ClickHouse stability, performance and more importantly, all the 70+ supported formats for the embedded use case without any of the server/client requirements, making it perfect for fast in-process and serverless OLAP executions.

Note chdb is based on ClickHouse codebase but completely community powered so there's no feud with DuckDB (I'm a quackhead, too!) which actually offers lots of great inspiration and many integration opportunities with ClickHouse/chdb for combined compute and processing of datasets. I personally love both and use them together all the time in my colab "OLAPps"
Too soon to know. Could be another undiagnosed mental issue.
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of everyday routine, the security of the familiar, the tranquillity of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, are celebrated with a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the fifth, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are, of course, those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well, certainly, there are those who are more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable. But again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. They were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic, you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night, I sought to end that silence. Last night, I destroyed the Old Bailey to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago, a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words; they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest that you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me, one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.

V's Speech To England
> once your equity becomes to large you have to start selling shares?

Yes. If you own over $1B of corporations, you have too much power.
> I only need a vehicle like once a month. My feet get me to anything else I would need on a day to day basis.

I don't have anything beyond anecdata here, but this is wildly out of sync with my perception of how most people who live in rural areas live. That is, what you're describing, I think, goes beyond what most people consider "rural". Yes, it's possible to live a relatively low-carbon rural existence if you're in a nearly entirely self-sustaining compound, but lots of (most?) people who aren't "urbanites" don't do that - they instead, routinely, drive vast distances on a near-daily basis to go to the store, secure healthcare, visit friends, head to the bar, go hiking/hunting/fishing, just for fun, etc.
That's not just external facing problem. Even when internally you want to figure out something - e.g. get a quota for something it's very hard to locate who could get things done for you.

There is this attitude that humans shouldn't ever talk to other humans, but to systems. So if your use case is not handled by how the system was designed, talking to humans would take many months, so better just give up.

The problem may be even worse internally tbh. You want to use some project, there's old teams page, one email, you email person there and after 3 pings weeks later they reply they work now on a different team.
During the Roman Empire, taxes collected by the regime were as high as 1%, soaring to a dizzying 3% in times of war. Tax collectors were so detested for gathering these kinds of sums that they were often murdered.
Would their kids inherit the thank you notes or would the kids have to start getting thank you notes on their own based on what they provide to the world??
I recommend watching the Blancolirio channel on YouTube, Juan is a 777 pilot and has I think hundreds of episodes on crashes and near crashes that have occurred. Third pilots have saved countless lives.

The insane thing about the Lion Air Flight 610 crash is in the same plane a day before it was avoided because the 3rd pilot who didn't have to follow any particular checklist realized there was a trim stabilizer issue and had the pilots turn it off.

Now, I have no idea why that plane flew again the next day at all. But it did with two pilots and all 189 aboard were killed.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/20/asia/lion-air-third-pilot-int...
No, they show you stock footage of what should be in there, but isn't because it hasn't been stocked.
> I've never heard of "credentialism", but why doesn't it work in this instance, when it does for doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.?

There are loads of bad doctors though, and bad lawyers, and bad engineers.

"Credentialism" refers to over-reliance on credentials, rather than just looking at what someone can do. I'm not against education, but education is not the same as credentials. People that can hack the interview process can also hack the credentials.

I've seen people with college degrees in IT employed as programmers that literally cannot program. I'm not talking "bad programmers" or "brain fart moment", I'm talking "consistently being unable to grasp even basic control flow over a period of months or years". Also some good programmers can be hard to work with for reasons other than their programming ability.[1] Plus not every programmer is suitable for every position or every type of programming or "jibes" with every other programmer in their sensibilities and approach.[2] The hiring process is just as much about that as testing basic skills.

No one thinks credentials are a guarantee of quality (people will always slip through the cracks no matter what), but I'm not sure they're even a strong indicator of quality either, certainly not for programming. This is hard to quantify of course, and just based on my own observations over my career.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21585958

[2] Simple example: I'm firmly in team "short names", but I know some people really hate it, but I'm pragmatic if nothing else and don't mind doing whatever works well for the entire team. On one extreme end I've worked in a team that insisted on the longest possible name for everything: every variable had to spell out the full name of the class where it came from, often >20 chars, otherwise people considered it "unclear what anything refers to!" I once added a mkdir() function, this was considered "obscure" so it had to be "CreateDir()", then someone said it may not be clear what "dir" is so "CreateDirectory()", and then another remarked it actually makes all intermediate directories too, so we ended up with "CreateRecusiveDirectoryTree()" – I'm not saying this is "wrong", but it does not jibe well with my sensibilities. Several other things also didn't, so I didn't last too long).
I'm on a very lean Linux on a fast machine. It boots near instantly: I think one second between entering the encrypted disk's password and then the login screen.

... $ time emacs -Q -eval '(kill-emacs)'

Takes 86 milliseconds I think. That's launching graphical Emacs on a 4K display (well nearly: 3840x1600) ("-nw" / "no window" would be even faster), running elisp code, and exiting back to the terminal.

I'm running the very small "Awesome WM" tiling WM with 12 virtual workspaces and switching between them is ultra snappy.

Now, sure, countless websites using way too much unnecessary monothreaded JavaScript and calling way too many microservices have insufferable network
and redraw latency (even though I've got a fat and low-latency fiber pipe to the home), but my computer is still incredibly snappy.

My Ryzen 7000 series CPU is so quick I actually set it to always be in "eco mode" (in the BIOS/UEFI) and don't bother to run it at its max speed.

I'd say hardware is amazing compared to what we had in the past and software, if you're careful, can be very snappy.

That thing will reach months of uptime if I want: not just the OS but the software as well. I'll reboot for critical security updates mandating a reboot (extremely rare) and when I go on vacation but that's about it.

I know, I know, I should turn it off: but the thing is so stable I don't even bother. At night I switch to a virtual workspace that puts the CPU in "powersave" mode (actually of my 12 virtual workspaces, only the one where I "dev" turns the CPU to performance mode and as soon as I switch to another workspace, I put the CPU back to powersave: hence broken JavaScript pages won't make my fans runs loud).
>although it does not violate his privacy

Can you please elaborate what's your definition of privacy?
"sweep dev"
I liked the first season because the relationship between Joe and Gordon was realistic -- it was basically the relationship between Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Joe, like Jobs, was a slick charismatic character with little technical skill who piggybacks on the work of Gordon, as Jobs did Wozniak. The later seasons about Mutiny seemed to happen in a fantasy world that didn't really reflect the reality of the 1980s tech world despite the superficial resemblance of Mutiny to Habitat.
Engine fires.
For hear I'd say treating people the way you would hope to be treated is good enough?
Back in the days when you could go into the cockpit for a chat, the pilots turned the engines of our 747 off (well, idle) over the middle of the Atlantic to show my brother and I how the autopilot worked.
it is critical for national security and public order to monitor the activity of subversive elements. These 'teaching assistants' may well be spies for foreign governments or unwitting pawns manipulated by those governments. As a democracy, UK government represents the will of the people. The government and the people are one
Without motive, this is just speculation. But, mental health / stability of pilots is not an easy thing to track, as the GermanWings crash taught us[0].

[0] https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/the-madness-in-our-metho...
Do billionaires make income? Don't most of them just have absurd quantities of stock in a valuable company that grows to an absurd value, and instead of selling it they just borrow against it? Stock (at least in the US) has traditionally not been taxed until sold.

EDIT:

Ah, I just saw that HumblyTossed made the same point I did; I should have read the other comments.
Thank you. I wonder if, with the name Decolonize Palestine, it could really be considered balanced?
your comment made me think that despite the main thrust of my comment, this trajectory is not completely money driven [1]. the incredible journey of the hardware side of technology (cpu speed, memory size, network bandwidth etc) has also played a role in this profligacy because it can cover for a lot of less optimal design

this is something that happens more widely in the use of resources: you build more highways and instead of relieving congestion you get more people commuting

[1] my open source and volunteer-built linux distribution (will not name names) routinely (like almost daily) prompts for GB sized system updates.
It's sad that "1 year battery life" is an advertised thing for a clock.

I just replaced the batteries for the first time on an LCD clock I got decades ago.
It’s nice that a large chunk of web traffic (this plus safari’s private relay) can obfuscate so much traffic off of telcos who have been notorious in the past for collecting and selling traffic data. Guess they have to limit their businesses to just selling internet service like they’ve pretended to only do all along!

I now only wish Apple would allow private relay for third party apps, and allow the ability to switch it on/off for specific apps so that unsavory ones (like temu) can collect even less info on users
The roman empire also relied heavily on slave labor from captured territories and gifts from the wealthy.
Who's Harry Potter? Approximate Unlearning in LLMs [pdf]
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And which books would help me understand that?
Aqara makes a HKSV doorbell. The camera is sub-par but it's cheap and works!
Yeah, no need to patient zero in a zombie apocalypse.
In this context, I think "and" could be reasonably argued to mean either "and" or "or". And given that the purpose of the contact information is "Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party" and not for identity verification, I'd guess that no company is willing to go to court to test this.
The point being made is that he could've just crashed his next own flight.
> On the contrary, by being the only one who cares, I got promotions and salary raises.

Then management cared.

> In the few situations in which I didn't get more than my peers (who didn't give a damn), I resigned.

Yeah, that's a legitimate response to nobody caring if you can.
It'll be interesting to see if they can do this better than previous attempts. I remember in 2009 when OneCommunity tried[1], 2014 when OneCommunity launched everstream, their for-profit arm (and didn't change much)[2], or the 2018 Old Brooklyn/Ward 13 project[3].

Somewhere in there, there was an initiative (probably 2009 or so?) that included public wifi in Cleveland Heights along much of Cedar Road, where One Community had a wifi SSID "OneCommunityPublic" (or something similar). That got shut down quickly.

[1] https://www.cleveland.com/business/2009/07/onecommunity_seek...

[2] https://everstream.net/press-releases/onecommunity-launches-...

[3] https://connectyourcommunity.org/cdjc-program-four-points/fr...
Sandstorm, Tempest, and the Future
Yes, agree. Specially with pipx.
> Right now we are trying to figure out what to do with a camera which is only designed to operate in environments under 50c where we keep having hardware failures.

Have you tried putting them in a cooler?
What 'killed' the tech market in Europe is having 27 countries with different languages and laws. It is extremely difficult to scale a software company in that environment. The regulations unify the market and is the only way out. Note that the tech market in Europe is far from dead, it's one of the best ones after the US. The other successful one being China, who isn't exactly a deregulated libertarian paradise either.
What issues did you have with Dependabot and Yarn? We use it and it checks & updates lock files for both v1 and v2 Yarns
World Glacier Monitoring Service
There literally isn't time for it. 1% vacancy leaves less than 4 days to turn a unit over when someone leaves. That's not enough time to repair units.
I like what Bernie Sanders says: income over $1 billion should be taxed at 100%.
If you shut off the car, it's pretty low on the safety issue scale if it doesn't restart.
How much does a Raspberry Pi 4/5 use with some sort of external storage running? How much does one cost once you factor in a case, cooling, storage, and a power supply?

I paid $195 NEW for a Beelink S12 Mini with 16GB RAM, 500GB NVMe, and an Intel N95 CPU

I believe it is said to idle at about 8W. It's a powerful enough machine you could run a bunch of small VMs on it, assuming your workload didn't involve GPIO or other hardware things.

I rolled a handful of RPis into VMs on one Orange Pi 5 because it has memory to do so and I wasn't using anything Pi specific.
Meanwhile, when groups of activists surveil dissenters/wrongthinkers on social media, actively make lists of them and try to get them fired or worse for their speech/thoughts, many still defend that as 'perfectly reasonable consequences of unacceptable speech'
There isn't lead in the fumes. The risk of lead exposure is all about touching the solder.
they are taxed already is just the rules are too lax and they are too good at avoiding so you need unescapable rules. Example, taxing based on NW increases. which reminds me how difficult it is to create a good rule because taxing based on networth increases could be a purposeful way a country is trying to stifle their own economy and allowing other countries that doesn’t have these rules let their companies grow bigger and faster.
How much sea level rise?
Are you truly going to proclaim that we have explored all options for how to structure a global economy? We arrived where we are via a mix of self-interest and local optimization and it seems unlikely we have arrived at even a local maxima.

I'm not going to claim I have the solution. Anyone who tells you they do is either deluded or has something to sell you. And that definitely includes those who want you to believe that modern capitalism is the end-all be-all of society.

What I want is to stop the self-imposed helplessness. What are some things that might work? How can we validate them? How can we roll them out?
> Furthermore, if one of Google's proxy servers is compromised, the threat actor can see and manipulate the traffic going through it.

Wait what? They are planning to proxy the cleartext, not https?
this is my website, not a war, lol. i appreciate the feedback but people are way too serious in this here comment section.

i recently rewrote the backend, i didn't realize there was a zoom & scroll issue. happy to fix it when i find the time.
Muslims believe that same book of nonsense too... Half of these Jews lived in Arab states and were chased out of these lands (losing their homes too).

The Jews started coming in the 19th century and purchased lands. Many areas were bought during those years. During that time the land wasn't "owned" by any country so there was never a Palestinian country. It was controlled by the Ottoman empire and then by the English.

When the English left they divided the land between both factions giving the Jews a piece after the horrors of the Holocaust. Arabs started a war and lost.

I have empathy to the plight of the Palestinians. They shouldn't pay for the sins of their and our forefathers. But it's been multiple generations by now. It's fair to have a grievance, it's stupid to pick up arms when that hasn't worked well in the past.
Drought-hit Thailand turns to cloud seeding to offset El Nino
It's almost like events from hundreds of years ago adhered to norms that are not the same as today's, trippy.
I would pay a hefty sum for AR glasses that enabled real-life adblock.
How will this add to "censorship"?
Even master of carpentry cut himself from time to time. Fails happen, Yom Kippur 50 years ago was a shock as well. It does not seem likely that this was intentional failure because there are many independent people with integrity even in a hierarchical government structure. What seems more likely is that somebody high enough fucked up and did not sound alarm loud enough. Some Israeli state representatives already admitted guilt.

I think you're partially right that policies of the right-wing governments in Israel (apartheid, normalizing relations with Arab countries while ignoring Palestinians) likely helped the Palestinian crazies grow and thus in effect those people in power are partially responsible for this attack on Israel people, whether they realize it or not. I'm not condoning the attack in any way. But responsibility for the atrocities can be shared between actors on many sides.
That's a fun coincidence, but I'd be surprised...It's a little odd the "E" is in there at all, we wouldn't normally use the "T" from "The" in an acronym.
That post was flagged away from the front page for some odd reason. The comments from that post would ideally be merged into this post.
Thank you.

So. Science Paper (SP) uses data from 2 spaceborne sensors, MODIS and AVHRR.

Nature Paper (NP) uses data from AVHRR alongside 3 other metrics: GLASS, GLOBMAP, and TCDR, all of which claim to be fusions of the same data from MODIS and AVHRR. (https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/3/263 ... https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/201... ... https://zenodo.org/records/4700264 )

NP supplementals show the data from AVHRR does trend upwards to the present data (agreeing with SP), but the other 3 metrics are trending flat (GLASS, TCDR) or downward (GLOBMAP).

I have neither the expertise nor inclination to delve further into the various methodologies of creating these various Leaf Area Indices.
This is fun! I was curious about pulling something like this off in Golang, and wipped together a dirty PoC using Traefik's yaegi here [0]

[0] https://gist.github.com/leonjza/9d53b30a6b85ff837a27170a185a...
56%, apparently. But how many are able to make use of it? what percentage of the population can just take off for two weeks to go visit India or Bali or Estonia or Switzerland or somewhere else, just to see how things can be different?

https://www.americancommunities.org/who-owns-a-passport-in-a....
>degenerates and wicked people are most often the fringes where free speech should be defended

Horse shit.

In the 60s, black people weren't pushing hate, they weren't coordinating to harass people, they weren't laughing at other's suffering, they WERE sitting silently in diners as white people spit on them and squirted condiments on them and shouted obscenities. They WERE coming together in the streets to shout for equal rights, where they were met with high power fire hoses to shut them up. They WERE trying to go to the exact same school as white people, where literal children had death threats and hate spewed at them by people who should know better.

KiwiFarms isn't some bastion of free speech that exists to empower the little guy. Kiwifarms is explicitly a meeting ground and coordination center for bullies. They are the same people as the ones from the 1960s, trying to shout down ACTUAL valuable fringe speech with literal hate.

These sites are not freedom of speech. They are the heckler's veto