skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was a hidden savior that helped some of the publishing industry delay what was already a precipitous decline. As soon as I became aware of recurring billing through Recurly, I switched all of the products of my employer at the time to a subscription based model. Yes, it takes a bit more work on the part of the customer service agents who deal with angry customers who do not want to be billed anymore, but on the flip side, it's usually many months before people who are not using the service realize that they have continued to be billed.
Unless you're Rockstar North:

https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26296339
Every school in my town recently got massive solar in the parking lots. So it's definitely happening some places.

It actually annoyed me a bit because my childhood elementary school is in my neighborhood of houses. And they constructed large metal structures in the parking lot and installed the solar. It's basically massive metal commercial metalwork, in a residential neighborhood. A bit weird.
We bought a Stickley, and it is worth every penny.
When I first started down this path my first red flag appeared when I started asking poly people how long they'd been poly. The first 30 people I asked over a period of about 4 months, the longest anyone had been poly was 14 months. It wasn't until I got involved in a smaller alt-art community that I found a few old timers with more than 5 years under their belts, and all of them were solo poly (they live alone, unmarried, but date multiple people).
Why would we want to do that? Low fertility is a solution for many of our other problems, related to ecological overshoot. It will be vastly easier to reduce energy consumption and pollution output (including of course CO2) in a world where the population is no longer rising.
Important line from the article: "...but it is not yet clear how much can be exploited commercially".

This likely doesn't mean a straightforward +15M tons to the world's supply.
I completely agree! I think it's generally related to the ai alignment problem, fwiw

The trick is that we need to ban fraud aggressively and then reduce the profits from endeavors we want to discourage (not sure if there are good general mechanisms. I mean we use taxes for this sometimes. Imagine if one wanted to reduce the collection of user data if instead of gdpr you created a data tax!)

I'm also very interested to hear what projects you think might be good candidates to do this with!
I interviewed with Wise and was definitely inspired after reading about the company and their founders. It helped that Wise had saved me more than once as an American living in Europe. Amazing UI on their site and apps, too.

Interview experience was great too :)
Other commenters posted good responses IMHO. My statement wasn’t due to any particular incident or axe to grind. It’s my observation of groupthink among experts in both sciences and public policy.

Specifically recently I was affected by shortages of stimulant medications for treatment of ADHD. These shortages appeared to be due to secret DEA limits. Generally Americans getting these medications are treated like suspects first and foremost, in part due to the DEAs pressure on pharmacies.

Here’s one of the experts describing it:

> The exact limit for each
> pharmacy is kept secret in
> order to prevent pharmacists
> from gaming the system,
> according to Krista Tongring,
> leader of the DEA compliance
> practice at Guidepost
> Solutions and a former agency
> attorney.

Note the original problem to be solved was opioid overprescribing. Instead of solving that issue directly the DEA experts decided to restrict all controlled substances with murky limits for unclear reasons. Certainly not to help Americans with ADHD, narcolepsy, anxiety, or a host of other genuine and often debilitating conditions.

The DEA’s only concern is “suspicious orders” and limiting the drugs. Hence a case of one set of experts being myopic in the face of the broader health care system in the US.

https://fortune.com/2023/04/03/xanax-adderall-rules-patients...
You can develop and improve your appreciation for cheese, you don't need to be born in France or Switzerland for that.

I'm not from one of the big cheese nations of Europe, when I grew up we had one kind of cheese for everything, but a couple of years ago I tried to broaden my palette, buy everything I could in local shops and supermarkets, and remembering twenty different kinds of cheese is not difficult.

What also helps is that these cheeses are significantly different, so Emmentaler, Camembert, Parmigiano Reggiano, Mozzarella, Bavarian Blu, Manchego, Pecorino, Gouda, Feta, etc, they all are very different, and most supermarkets in Europe have them all, so you can try out things easily.
this reminds me of guys trying to out-shout each other about who wants to fight the most, in front of a lot of (Ynews) onlookers
He doesn't have a criminal record though. He has an arrest record.

Granted the way the article explained it is pretty poor. I'm not totally clear what it was trying to say in that regard.

As an aside, Canada has a robust pardon system[0] that the US doesn't have. At least aside from the truly bizarre (at least to me) system of presidential pardons.

A pardon wipes your record of the specific crime completely FWIW.

[0] https://www.pardons.org/pardons/faqs/
That doesn't address the cooling effect on the ground, where water could still pool up, does it? Also, a lot of plants and animals live there.
I had to run a bunch of benchmarks to compare speeds of not just AWS instance types, but actual individual instances in each type, as some NVME SSDs have been more used than others in order to lube up some Aerospike response times. Crazy.
I never fail to be amazed by the shameless business culture in China.

> “Too many people want to buy it, it’s not a good thing for us,”

> “We are afraid that Alibaba platform will be frozen if Alibaba knows that it’s a weapon.”

> “This item is customized for one big client in UKR [Ukraine],”

> “Our government don’t allow us to sell to countries involved in war,”

What do they possibly think they're gaining by volunteering this information?
Just a rotary encoder.
Our public API uses Notion.com: https://developers.notion.com/

Switching the product and marketing sites would take a lot of work for unclear/low benefit since at this point we’ve learned the .so lessons and have a good reputation.

Given the choice of projects like “scale infra so we stay online and fast-ish”, “improve search”, or “notion dot com”, Notion dot com ends up below the cut line.
I don't want to ram through anything and everything, but why not have the BLM conduct studies now? They can pick the most promising, lowest environment footprint corridors. If a pre-approved corridor works, use it, if not go through the normal process.
The 63 kg number is lithium carbonate equivalent, not elemental lithium.

It originated from a Goldman report and they used it because lithium carbonate is what's traded.
Probably dramatically less, but it's not an apples to apples comparison. You can be opportunistic with locating solar panels, siting them on land and surfaces that are not otherwise usable. So it's not necessarily in "competition" with other energy/infrastructure/etc projects when it comes to land usage.
On a related note, we bought an LG wall oven, and, after the cabinets to fit it were built, inside the oven door, we found a “by using this oven you agree to binding arbitration and worse” sticker. Of course, it was too late to switch out the model, and the distributor wouldn’t have accepted the return if we’d tried.

At what point will the courts decide that post purchase contracts are unenforceable?
The EU is not exactly the place where tech unicorns come from. Could it be France's gamble on becoming an independent AI power, just like they did with advanced weapons and nuclear energy?
IMHO, we also need to bring more focus on 2nd and 3rd order effects of solar panels.

They've been found to:

- improve soil conditions under them

- reduce water evaporation when installed over canals etc.

- provide habitat for certain kinds of farm and wild animals (much like sunken ships provide habitat for certain marine animals)

- provide insulation for structures that have them installed on the roofs
Thanks for your help and sorry for the trouble!
I think everyone is hoping that. Non-invasive glucose monitoring is a major holy-grail piece of medical technology that would help people almost immediately.

If they did develop this, they'd likely make as much money selling the IP to medical technology partners (e.g. hospital equipment) as they would adding it to the Apple Watch.
It depends not just on absolute level of ease but relative. Suppose having and raising a child takes some normalized 100 units of work and some basket of luxuries takes the same 100 units. Even if having a child drops to 50 units of work, if that same basket of luxuries drops to 25 units, you'll still see a decrease in fertility.
Because the reality is murky.
In practice, the <environmental stuff> has mostly been used by non-environmentalists to delay development they simply don't like. (This one has to do specifically with CA, but it's not the first time I've seen this complaint.)

"Projects designed to advance California’s environmental policy objectives are the most frequent targets of CEQA lawsuits: transit is the most frequently challenged type of infrastructure project (edging out challenges to both highways and local roadways); renewable energy is the most frequently challenged type of industrial/utility project; and housing (especially higher-density housing) is the most frequently challenged type of private-sector project."

"Our study found repeated examples of intentional efforts to cloak the identity of CEQA litigants behind environmental-sounding names of fake and even unlawful “associations.”"

https://www.planningreport.com/2015/12/21/new-ceqa-study-rev...
I went to look up the CEO's compensation package in order to post a low-effort snarky HN comment but instead found[1][2] very weird compensation data for Wayfair execs. The co-founders (including the CEO) make comparatively modest money, while the generic CxO suits make huge gobs of it (mostly equity). Is this usual?

I'd still trade places with the CEO any day, though, of course.

1: https://www1.salary.com/WAYFAIR-INC-Executive-Salaries.html

2: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1616707/000104746915...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/no-lyme-diease-is-not-...
Every suggested cause of low fertility has problematic exceptions.

Religiosity generally increases fertility, but countries like Poland have both high religiosity and low fertility.

Urbanisation generally decreases fertility, but Israel has a high population density and high fertility.

Economic growth tends to decrease fertility, but periods of recession also decrease it. Moreover, Western Europe has both more wealth & fertility than Eastern Europe.

Social programs like benefits & maternity leave intuitively make it easier to have children - but many European & Asian countries have these with less fertility than the US & Australia (for whom social support is generally lower).
The worst problems I've had with in-cluster dynamic storage were never strictly IO related, and were more the storage controller software in kubernetes having problems with real-world problems like pods dying and the PVCs not attaching until after very long timeouts expired, with the pod sitting in ContainerCreating until the PVC lock was freed.

This has happened in multiple clusters, using rook/ceph as well as Longhorn.
> Not sure which discussions you call "petulant" but banks high-to-low ordering payments is predatory against people who lack liquidity.

Indeed, and as the article also mentions, banks will intentionally maximize the number of overdraft fees by reordering transactions in a way that causes most pain. This should not be legal.
Apache CloudStack.

It supports multiple hypervisors including VMWare, KVM, XCP-ng, etc. I haven't tried but it has some features to allow users to migrate from VMWare to Apache CloudStack with KVM and/or XCP-ng.
The state of Maine is just over 22 million acres (22.6). Rhode Island is only about 988,000 according to this link: https://beef2live.com/story-ranking-states-total-acres-0-108...
Similarly, I was tasked with counting every file in a folder and its subdirectories as a punishment at a job on campus as an undergrad.

I plonked out a Bash oneliner in a couple minutes and gave the result. My disgruntled superior had me do it again by hand.
I think there is a very strong argument that the effects on the local ecosystems and habitat from putting down solar energy is significantly less than the effects that will occur from climate change. This is a straw man argument and I'm pretty tired of seeing it (similar vein - "wind turbines kill birds", yeah but not as much as climate change will!)
Can’t wait till they fire each other and make nice and build our AI overlords
Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Group Hacked Some Employee Emails
On the contrary, most big banks provide year end summaries that can be download ed as csv to analyze them in Excel.
Resisting Silicon Valley's cult of "more"
My summary understanding of this write-up is that a weak password was guessed and allowed entry into an old system that had access to stuff it shouldn't have had access to.
It's not exactly what I meant. If you have the traits, you may not wish to describe yourself as autistic. Some of that comes down to the stigma. If you don't have autistic traits and you claim to be autistic, that's just being dishonest.

The 'cultural aspect' is that every society develops tacit rules around conversation, dress, eye contact, politeness, taboos, how to move and touch etc. and penalizes people who can't divine and follow them. However, some cultures are more aligned with autistic traits. Like in Russia it's considered strange (even false) to smile without reason. Some countries have avoidance of eye contact as a feature.

Edit: Interesting aside is Sabine Hossenfelder's video on autism. She takes a self-assessment at the end which yields a positive result, and then concludes, "I don't think I'm autistic, I'm just rude and German", which I think isn't some confirmation that autistic traits don't exist in the context of Germany (Hans Asperger was a Nazi instrument and from nearby Austria after all) but that some countries don't exclude people with autistic traits. And that kind of tolerance is really the ideal end goal.
Could this not completely reshape the local ecology?
Interesting that they seem to suggest that applying security is now more important than avoiding service disruptions. This may be the hopeful dawn of a new era.
Clearly, there must have been systemic issues at Fujitsu which allowed the accounting software to fail so spectacularly.
"The coverup is worse than the crime" is a terrible effect.

But it can happen from:

* smaller-fry butt-covering (e.g., lower-level function trying to cover their own butt, putting larger org at risk of much higher cost to the org);

* arrogance (e.g., individual/org thinks they are in the right and justified in escalating countermeasures);

* bully-like confidence (e.g., individual/org thinks they are powerful enough to get away with escalating the offense, to escape cost from the original offense).

It's not unusual, especially on smaller scales (e.g., in companies without genuine cultures of trust and integrity, many people will try to internally suppress info about failures, committing worse and/or more harmful acts in the process).
I did not know heart disease was instantaneous.
You can have:

1) An “ethical” system in which a bunch of people are losing money and are surprised by this, unaware of it, or intend to stop it, haven’t yet, but absolutely would if it were as easy as thinking “stop that”. But they said yes somewhere along the line, so it’s all “ethical”.

2) A just-as-ethical system that… simply doesn’t do that bad stuff in 1, or at least does way less of it.

It’s weird to me that people defend situations akin to 1 when 2 is totally achievable, on the grounds that “well 1 isn’t technically unethical (as I define it)”. Ok? So what? 2 is better and isn’t less ethical. What is going through someone’s head when they defend 1 and dismiss or put down the notion of 2? If you could flip a switch to toggle between the two, would you really leave it on 1? I do not get it. Why not pick the version with better outcomes?

[edit] and, separately, I think it’s plainly unethical—to put it mildly—to add terms to a contract or steps to a process that you know with great certainty your counterparty will later regret or dislike, relying on their overlooking it or not having better options, purely for your own benefit at their expense. I don’t think their saying “yes” makes that ethically an ok thing to do—it’s straight-up predatory. But even if it does make it Ok, why prefer that over… not-that?
CPython UOps Optimization
I think another important factor is that what's a viable business to one party isn't worth it to Google simply because they can use that engineering talent more effectively in a monetary sense elsewhere. Even spinning them out doesn't make sense from a numbers perspective. The big problem with that is that they utterly ruin the landscape for everybody who isn't Google and who would operate just fine if it weren't for the size 20 boots giant that tramples all over the space before giving up on it.
More articles hosted on Medium means more time I save by never reading them.
Because its not illegal?
I think their is a catagory field in the launch options of each program.
Caretaker is not well-established where I am. A caretaker takes care of grounds of schools and other similar large buildings.
Curious what separates a military drone vs a drone used in war. Surely most of the improved flight capabilities would also be useful to consumers who just want to tool around on the weekends.

How long before these military specs filter into the consumer market?
Minecraft snapshot 24w03a pre-release protocol documentation
Really excited for this work.

I'm curious about what the author means by "Avoiding Custom Widgets".

> On the other end of the spectrum, the web has shown that you can implement complex custom UIs given a rigid but rich set of primitives.

Does this statement include things like the canvas API and SVG? How restrictive are we talking here?

I don't want to go off on a rant with my interpretation of what the author means, but I feel like having extensible widgets is a huge selling point for a framework written in and for Rust. If you're just going to bake in a bunch of standard widgets without extension points, I feel like developers aren't looking to write that in Rust. They'll use a native GUI framework, or make a webpage, because those are just so much easier to make in Swift/Kotlin/Dart/JavaScript. If someone is making a Rust UI, they very likely care about performance and they probably want to make a "hot-rod" app that is going to do some crazy-fast shit. If they're just looking for a comfy daily driver, they might as well pick a slower but softer language/framework.

I could be totally misinterpreting things here so please forgive me if I am, I just hope my feedback might be helpful.
Could this be leveraged to mitigate climate change?
Almost every person that has told me about the perils of overpopulation...more people, has also told me that its in my best interest have open borders e.g. more people. Why the hypocrisy in message? The unbelievable immigration in my country is causing a reduction in quality of living not unlike what I would expect with overpopulation because.... it is overpopulation.
Deere Announces Strategic Partnership with SpaceX to Expand Rural Connectivity
I have long thought there must be a reason why vast, empty plots of sun drenched land were not covered in solar panels. Half of Nevada could become the nation's power plant.
Sure- I don't mean to imply that it isn't. I can absolutely see how that's inexpensive for 100gbe equipment.

That was more for the benefit of others like myself, who were wondering if "bargain" was comparative, or inexpensive enough that it might be worth buying one next time they upgraded switches. For me personally it's still an order of magnitude away from that.
Your summary is also ambiguous. Were they hacked by the Russian CIA equivalent? Were they hacked by people funded by the Russian government? Were they hacked by people funded by senior government officials?

I think it's possible that the truth is a little murky, and capturing that ambiguity is actually clearer than trying to wave it away
Not only not working there, but distinctly said he left because he complained that too much money was being sent down the money hole and productivity per capita was abysmal
I realize that I'm late to this party, but I learned about the phenomenon of CapEx vs OpEx when the small company I worked for came under new ownership in the early 90's. We made relatively inexpensive light-industrial electronic controls and the new owner, a former CFO from a public utility, came up with the "brilliant" idea to allow customers to lease hardware from us vs buying it outright since they might have more money in their Operations budget as opposed to Capital.

In theory, not a bad idea. In practice, the only business likely to want to lease a $200 item is probably close to bankruptcy.
The site loads like I'm on a dial-up connection but I'm actually on a 300Mbps fiber line. Pass.
Troubleshoot with Confidence: Building a Source of Truth for Customer Activity
That's ridiculous. Those people can't get even get to the neighborhood because the residents have gone out of their way to eliminate public transit (which is for poors).
Programming isn't hard if you exclude debugging as being a different activity.
Yep, this is my intention. Good product is made via collaboration between the people writing the stories and determining the overall experience and the engineers that make it happen.
Nothing but desktop computers were intended to display these, and so they could take advantage of the screen width. No desire to have them be an app either.
Yeah, even if it's great my interest has waned.
My grid right now is 144x144, so about 20,000 tiles. Things were working OK in iOS Safari when just using colors to draw the tiles, but the browser started crashing when I tried upgrading to image sprites.

Turns out the trick is to not submit each individual tile to the GPU. You have to roll them up into larger, chunked meshes and submit those meshes to lessen the impact.

I'm sure this is game dev 101, but I've never been close enough to the GPU to have to actually care about this sort of stuff. I cut my teeth learning the performance characteristics of the DOM not the GPU.

I wasn't trying to imply that I was making an AAA game. Just that, from the outside, it seemed like the difficulty would be in designing game mechanics, making something actually fun, marketing, etc., but in reality there's an ever-steepening technical learning curve when you want to deliver nicer looking stuff. When I look at how many days I've spent working on my game, and how terrible it looks, and then I look at something like Cyberpunk 2077... I struggle to conceive how we as humans were able to create those levels of graphics in a timeframe that allows for the game to be profitable.

https://github.com/MeoMix/symbiants btw. Feel free to browse the code (or come volunteer! I've got a few other HNers tinkering alongside me these days)