skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For reference, Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington State and Wyoming are participating.
I'm curious about what you mean by outdoor plant guilds? Sounds fun!

For cataloguing both plants and wildlife, inaturalist.org may be closer to what you're looking for (depending on what you want to do with that information).
Well, if a mommy and a daddy like each other very much..
Ah, makes sense, thanks for the explanation.

I’ll have to create an alias for my use!
It’s often better than sinking.

They do say it can propel itself at 3km/hr and also turn in the water by spinning the wheels.
I used to work at https://www.local.ch/en and know Vasile, the guy that built this map.

The situation with trains (and data) in Switzerland is complicated as each Kanton has it's own rail network. In 2016 the SBB _finally_ started making it's train timetable officially available (some info on that here - https://www.itmagazine.ch/artikel/64746/Open-Data-Plattform_... ) which is I believe what this map uses, after shutting down people scraping the data.

That said, what has always irked me is they gave the data to Google as far back as 2007, while refusing to make anything available for sites like local.ch and map.search.ch (who's map was partly basis for the original Google maps). Refusing may be a leading term but certainly there was no help given to local Swiss companies, while Google already had the train times in maps.
This is a good first step.
Ideally it turns into a "verify this all looks correct & add anything we're missing" kinda thing.
It’s interesting to me that these criticisms come mostly from the right when they’re essentially the result of a corporate attitude towards universities, where rather than being so heavily subsidized that they are essentially free for the populace, and sheltered from popular opinion, universities are constantly competing for student attention, investment resources, prestige, and cooperation from industry. As a result the complained-about behaviors are essentially things we see in competitive industry — insincere lip service to diversity as advertisement, cutthroat behavior and outright cheating to attain status, self-congratulation for unremarkable or fake accomplishments, fiefdom-building, and general focus on profits above any semblance of a mission. But an effort to restore an academic environment would probably be rejected as leaving academics unaccountable to the market as they instruct the next generation.
Usenet has been dead in the mainstream forever, just as much as Google Groups is.
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> compensation is amazing

STAY where you are. Money is freedom, accumulate until you reach escape velocity.

You can sharpen your programming sword on your own time. It's nice when job and personal interests align, but if your workplace is non-toxic and paying well, consider very carefully before letting it go.

You may be able to find ways to learn and grow on company time as well. Make your own tooling to help analyze that data, whatever.
Sortition would fix all of the problems with modern "representative" democracy and mass disinformation. Its how we select juries and I see no reason to not select representatives the same way. Democracy in the age of AI and mass media manipulation leads to totalitarianism.
Can confirm, I consider visidata to be the gold standard for data exploration.

I have largely given up on spreadsheets, replacing them with relational databases. And on top of being a world class tool for understanding the data for import, visidata makes for a pretty great query pager.
The Editorial Board.

If you don't believe me, ask the journalists who work there, who pled with then to stop trading off their hard won reputation for accuracy with their lies:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/24/wall-street...
some context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Cellular_auto...
> All for 1/5th of the price of my old diesel per mile.

How many years before you pay off the premium that you paid when you purchased the electric vehicle? Will the battery still be in good shape by then?
Why would anyone outside of Russia be worried about Russian law? Europe is certainly not going to extradite to a country they’re in a proxy war with.
Yeah especially given the public trust the FAA needs to rebuild after it came out how Boeing got the 737 certified in the first place. It’s an unmitigated shit show top to bottom.
The API to buy Treasuries directly
You have BI. It’s not UBI until the rest of us have it, too.
When did they ground it? I'm looking at the tail number on FlightAware and it's on a scheduled flight to SEA since 9am.
a lot of the more remote Swiss bus services are "PostAuto" and got started exactly like this -- giving passengers a ride on existing mail carriages. Now they run actual buses along the same routes (which are still bright yellow like the mail trucks).
You might want to look at https://www.irealpro.com/ and Band in a Box ( https://www.pgmusic.com/ ).
Maybe “positive externalities” instead of “elastic”.
An old Fritz Leiber novel, You're All Alone, aka The Sinful Ones, is about a man who discovers that most of the people in the world are automata, and he has been functioning as one for some time.
Of course it should. This is a manufacturing defect that could easily have sucked someone out the plane or dropped debris on someone’s head. Should it happen during cruise over water the consequences could be much worse.
I feel like this article almost makes some good points, but instead of completing any good points, it just keeps jumping to other unrelated points.

This gives the distinct impression that it's not trying to identify any single problem, but to stoke a vague sense of bitterness at academia.

Like there is a replication crisis in academia. That's a scientific problem that requires a scientific or engineering solution (perhaps requiring independent labs with 0 affiliation to execute experiments on your behalf and interpret data on your behalf).

There was also some college president who lacked integrity and was fired, yay.

The article fails to show what the common thread is in cause and solution between these two issues (and if there's no connection, then it shouldn't bring them up one after the other).

If I go a step further, this might even be interpreted as a bad-faith attempt to comingle completely non-political problems with academia (replication crisis, cost increases, a dishonest college president) with politics.
I surrender. A major economic and social crisis in the US seems inevitable
Yes I feel this needs to hit the shareholders hard. But they'll just continue to cut costs to get the value back up and we'll be back here in a couple of years. It needs deep institutional changes and I can't see that happening.
Well good luck to them then.

If I'm tracking comparable values correctly Harvard has around 50 Billion while Blackrock alone has over 9 Trillion.
Does it have the same manufacturing process? It wasn't anything specific to the plane's model, it was the fact that it was a manufacturing defect that caused the door to blow out.
That’s what I was looking for. Thank you.
https://archive.is/2024.01.02-113314/https://www.washingtonp...
This is asked in good faith of course, but that question really gets to the heart of what's been corrupting science.

Statistical techniques can be very useful (ChatGPT!) but they aren't by themselves science. Science is about building a theoretical understanding of the natural world, where that theory can be expressed in precise language and used to produce new and novel hypotheses.

A big part of why so much science doesn't replicate is that parts of academia have lost sight of that. Downloading government datasets and regressing them against each other isn't actually science even though it's an easy way to get published papers, because it doesn't yield a theoretical understanding of the domain. It often doesn't even let you show causality, let alone the mechanisms behind that causality.

If you look at epidemiology, part of why it's lost its way is that it's become dominated by what the media calls "mathematicians"; on HN we'd call them data scientists. Their papers are essentially devoid of theorizing beyond trivial everyday understandings of disease (people get sick and infect each other). Thousands of papers propose new models which are just a simple equation overfitted to a tiny dataset, often just a single city or country. The model's predictions never work but this doesn't invalidate any hypothesis because there weren't any to begin with.

How do you even make progress in a field if there's nothing to be refuted or refined? You can fit curves forever and get nowhere.

In psychology this problem has at least been recognized. "A problem in theory" discusses it:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-018-0522-1
That does not sound like an MVP. Then it’s up to random chance that they create the right API format and then someone makes an app to use said API and doesn’t also use it to steal data from gullible people. You’ve multiplied the number of ways this can go wrong and reduced the chance that anyone would use it.
Yeah it's really not. Age is the only thing that will do that.
Essentially, a blog about metrics visualization. The hdd led is one artifact of a point in time of Moore's law, but long gone.

The embarrassment of riches of gigahertz quad core cpus available for 20 bucks or less... So much excess labor that can sneak by.

With some approximation of AI, those scifi stories of the distributed rogue AI living on ample excess cycles gets slightly more plausible every day
Great way to look at it. It is a significantly smaller jump once the Federal system is in place and already handling returns for millions/years.
Why would you say that? If a taxpayer can copy the fields from their w-2 and have it provide a straightforward and correct filing without trying to divert them to dark patterns trying to steal money from them, that is a huge benefit.
> However, anti-cheat software tries to counter many cases that can be solved by better implementations (e.g. servers that send very limited information to the client).

And now you can't provide client-side prediction between packets, so you get movement stutter all over the place instead of occasional updates and you get somebody popping into existence because they were behind a wall occlusion on your last packet and you've now strafed into line-of-sight. And they got theirs before you did, so you're dead.

Winning, winning result.

Consider perhaps that the people making this stuff aren't stupid and would try such obvious things if they were practical.
The first time I have seen AI generated images being used by a big brand like BYD. The cars are still CGI but the backgrounds are AI generated.
Boeing is late stage MBA.

Intel is mid-stage MBA.

Google/Alphabet is early stage MBA.
Even if we had it politicians would rush to protect Boeing. It’s too critical a partner for many large national defense projects.
Some corporate history https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21304277
> You are not blocking traffic though because you are driving. That's the point.

Then if you’re not blocking traffic, there’s no DOS, and there’s no problem.

> If driving can be considered blocking traffic then the police can also stop you for driving on a straight road because you also taking 'capacity' out

They can and they will. If you’re impeding traffic in any way and it’s causing a problem, they will stop you.

This isn’t code. There aren’t loopholes. There have the power to stop you and they will if you’re causing trouble. Even if it’s “technically legal” they’ll still probably arrest you just to stop you and let you go later.
> I'm guessing that Musk's unwillingness to work with the rules and norms in the markets Tesla is trying to enter, will be Tesla's downfall.

Musk is perfectly willing to play by the rules and norms of the Chinese market. They opened up a factory there and everything, they are even selling lots of cars in the PRC while exporting some outside.

I’m not sure how BYD would fair in Norway/Sweden; where unions are granted blanket monopolies on economic control. Is it even much of a player there yet?
I understand your point, but Josh Barro's actually pretty liberal. He's not right-wing at all. So in the context of this article, maybe there's a different framing.
Probably nothing you haven't heard of unless you'd be happy compiling and using an incomplete "project" browser, like Ladybird. The list with pre-built binaries includes: Mozilla Firefox (or Waterfox), Google Chromium (or Brave), and Apple WebKit via Safari (so, open source engine, closed-source chrome) or other browsers that use WebKit (e.g. DuckDuckGo's Orion).
what are your worries?
Ouch. Out of curiosity could you link to the Nature article in question?
I wish I had enough complete projects to actually put up on SC or Bandcamp or whatever.

I have close to a thousand uncompleted Live projects sitting on my current laptop and old laptop, some are just little melodic loops, some are fully built out EDM/house/techno/electronic loops, some are just whatever happened when opening Ableton after a night of substance abuse (read: completely unorganized, unmixed, heavily distorted sonic chaos).

I can't arrange for shit, even though it's easy and straightforward. This is the one part of Live I don't like - you can just noodle around in clip view if you'd like, and unlike FL, Logic, Pro Tools, you aren't arranging from the start.

What I really enjoy doing is just being unfamiliar with a new plugin or piece of equipment and just noodling around with it creating happy accidents. Presets are cool if you want to just make music and not learn the plugin.

I would love if it there was a HN thread for DAW geeks with regular meetups or Zoom chats so we could all show off what little nuggets of production we've learned. There are so many things in Live that I don't use or even know exists (or how to use) that I wish someone could just show me, or vice versa.
I've heard that when they merged with McDonnell Douglas their new (McDonnell) management pushed out the good engineering culture and dropped their quality standards in a chase for more profit, leading to engineering experiencing the dead sea effect.
OOP madness? XML? Web scale databases?

Perhaps not superstition but certainly fundamentalist/hype-based thinking.
Juan Browne's YouTube channel posts about basically every aviation accident, and as usual he somehow already has a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9EvHpf8jZg
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The capitalization stripped out by the title mangler is significant: Knuth's creation is called TeX, not Tex (and actually the X is a capital chi, Χ).
Cue idiots that think they can drive across a river in spate because they can float.
I gathered LLM prompts people used most in 2023
Goal: Crowdsource repeated LLM prompts for well-defined tasks at work, side projects, research, etc.

Questions: Are LLMs useful to you personally (repeatedly)? How?

What is your verdict: Are LLMs more hype or promise?
Courtesy of the apple marketing team.
I just file my taxes by hand and mail it in. Somewhat less concern with 3rd parties holding my information and losing it to leaks/hacks.

It is free.

A little obnoxious but the forms do have instructions/directions.
I mean, of course it is better that the seats were not occupied, but there is no reason to treat it as if those people for sure would have died if they were on the plane.

It sounds like if they were on board and wearing seat belts they would have been fine. Possibly very shaken, but fine.
Yeah, well gnome 2 also doesn't compile or run on my machine. It ran once at some point, but one is considered a "worse" class of software.
This might have to do with Columbian import tariffs, it might also not be exactly the same car.
Docker could be an alternative if virtual environments aren't your thing. I'd imagine they would provide a greater degree of isolation, too.
American drivers disregard those electronic signals almost as readily as they disregard unlit signs, stop signs and red lights; especially in rural farmland regions such as Gilroy. (Less so when it’s due to a train track, more so when it’s due to impaired visibility.)

Red light cameras are a somewhat effective solution for attentive drivers, so long as their car has a license plate (which is also not reliably enforced in the US). However, the inherent flaws of the scissor intersection, and the risks posed by inattentive drivers, are only addressed by replacing the scissor intersection with something else.
I worked at a government "lab" (MITRE) that maintained the IRS system. The system was allegedly so complicated that if the tax code and the software conflicted, the software won. The stack is legacy and intentionally on minimal life support.
A 4 ton thing doing this on the trails I go on would destroy them.

I hope people don't actually do it.
No, simple roundabouts are worse in both throughput and wait times than normal intersections with traffic lights. They are however safer, and that safety is precisely thanks to slowing traffic town, which means that collisions are less frequent because drivers have more time to react and if a collision happens it happens at lower speed. Just think about it: how can wait time be smaller and throughput higher when cars approaching a roundabout from _any_ direction need to slow down compared to normal intersection where cars on one road can wizz through with full speed?
The problem here is the company and its management, not a specific plane.

The management trying to weasel out of yet another regulation is entirely showing what’s going on here.
Do you have any benchmarks etc. that compare performance of HPC workloads on glibc vs musl?
There is a book recommendation in the other thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38894227

The McDonnell Douglas merger is also worth mentioning in this context.
Fair enough!

I've expanded it by default on bigger screens now. :)
Will unfortunately probably have to use ID.me because an IRS decision-maker's cousin owns it.
A death penalty for grossly negligent execs is also necessary.

They'd get their shit together so fast if they faced meaningful consequences to their fuckups.
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This comment is like saying that all Unreal Engine 5 games are the same game just with different names. This is not the case. The engine is what powers and helps you build the product you want. 2 different companies can use the same engine and have their end products compete against each other.
Yes, this is not environmentally friendly
Mayhaps get an account with ImportYeti (yes I promote them here a lot - no affiliation, but its the only supplychain insight I have yet found. While they are great - I am not pushing them if has other resource)

Anyway, the point of me speaking on Import Yeti - is if you have a company shipping physical goods (like the Avacado matress advertised on your site - see who their back-end suppliers are - and then you can see to whom such suppliers are providing goods... and then you can see what other vendors of products from that supplier either claim, refute, etc -- you can extrapolate....)

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>>>Rigorous Research: We dive deep into brand ingredient/material lists, certifications, and production processes to ensure zero microplastic presence.

A law should be required for all shipping bills https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_lading

- (this is also for those who just dont know about shipping )

But find a way where the bills of lading must require from each a document of material constituents for a given shipment by %....

Look at the rubber ducky, or the ships sinking carrying thousands of cars (made of thousands of plastics) etc....

So one could ostensibly track shipments based on an updated digital bill of lading claiming how much plastic is coming from who to whom...

However - You will always lose these battles due to human trafficking of everything

So - track the sources distributors of plastics and who THEIR largest customers are.

Lets explore for a second:

https://wits.worldbank.org/CountryProfile/en/Country/CHN/Yea...

So we have china exproting to these countries, which are the
Why is it that when private institutions make software they’re suppose to “iterate fast” and quickly get an MVP out

But when a government agency is working in software, suddenly all the best practices are a “waste of tax payer money”

Seems silly
> I’m not sure how BYD would fair in Norway/Sweden

Pretty sure BWD is the top selling EV manufacturer in Sweden, I recall reading that before the Tesla union shenanigans happened.

No idea about Norway
It would be much more effective to separate out testing & certification, from education & training. It's a conflict of interest, and it allows universities to lose focus from just making sure their students learn the required material.
That would be great news. Last time I checked it did not come with JS support.
I watched a documentary on Netflix recently that alleged that a lot of this change came from importing McDonnell Douglas management into Boeing after the acquisition. I wonder if the book concurs on that, I don't have time to read it right now.

If this is the case I wonder if it could be reversible.
Assuming I did proofs in highschool algebra and geometry courses, is there any tutorial that would make lean4 accessible? I think computer assisted theorem proving could be great educationally, but this post would be complete gobligook to most students despite the title.
Electric vehicles are more heavily subsidized in China than America. 22% of new car sales in China are electric vs 1% in America. China also has a lot of tariffs and regulations preventing foreign competition.
That was slightly irritating; what is more irritating (notwithstanding the obvious best intentions of the project!) is the seemingly widespread notion that typography has much to do with Wirth's work.

It would be as if the people in Plato's cave, instead of contrasting the outside and inside, were to obsess over which section of cave wall had the most pleasing texture over which the shadows might play...
> "bringing your authentic self to work"

Except only certain views are allowed to be expressed.

And of course, dating among coworkers is heavily discouraged and risks your career, but isn't that part of your "authentic self" too?
Buddhism is derivated from Christian heresy called Manicheism.

Created and spread in Asia from Pakistan by third generation after apostle, called Mani.

There isn’t any evidence of any existing trace of Buddhism before 4th century AC, most Buddhism art are based on grec, and Syrian Christian artists who followed St Thomas the apostle into the east.

Mani predated those early Christian with his fake teaching which founded Buddhism.

Time to learn history.

In short: Buddhism is just a Christian heresy (manicheism)
Too funny. So it's a solution in search of a problem... that they also try to solve?
> 737

You mean 737MAX. The 737 and 737NG have been around for decades (almost 60 years for the 737, almost 30 for the 737NG). IIRC the 737NG has a reasonable case for being the safest airliner ever built. There are some designs that have no fatalities, but they also have very low production numbers to go with it.
A LOT better!
Isn’t this more like a Huawei vs Apple thing? BYD sells more cars, Tesla makes more money (revenue and profit). It will be more interesting to see what happens as BYD moves more into model 3 territory.
Have you realized that you are talking about comments made by two different people?