skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a $10k fine to cut down any tree over 6" in diameter without a permit in our city.

We have many cherry trees that form a pink-petal snow every year, that were planted after hostilities ceased with Japan in WWII:

Accolade, Afterglow, Akebono, Ama-no-gawa, Atsumori, Autumnalis Rosea, Avium Plena, Beni-shidare, Birch Bark Cherry, Choshu-hizakura, Fudan-zakura, Gyoiko, Hosokawa-nioi, Ichihara-tora-no-o, Ichiyo, Ito-kukuri, Ito-zakura, Jo-nioi, Jugatsu-zakura, Kanzan, Kiku-shidare-zakura, Kiku-zakura, Korean Hill Cherry, Mikuruma-gaeshi, O-yama-zakura, Ojochin, Okame, Oshima-zakura, Pandora, Pink Perfection, Rancho, Sargent Hybrid Cherry, Schmitt Cherry, Sendai-shidare, Shiro-fugen, Shirotae, Shogetsu, Shosar, Shujaku, Snofozam, Snow Goose, Somei-yoshino, Spire, Star Cherry, Tai-haku, Takasago, Taki-nioi, Ukon, Umineko, Washi-no-o, Whitcomb, Yae-beni-shidare, Yama-zakura, Yokihi

Fruit trees consume a lot of water, thus many cities should consider drought resistant options to reduce sun baked roads.

Some don't like the trees due to superstitions, but most enjoy the reminder Spring has arrived. =3
The fact that you cannot defend McConnell's position is telling.
What I found incredibly uncomfortable when moving from Eastern to Western Europe is a lack of shade in residential areas. Yes, there’re parks, but the buildings often don’t have enough shade (anecdotal evidence). With the rising temperatures, many homes are exposed to sun whole day. I live in a city that’s been growing really fast and none of the newer residential houses have any trees around them. Mind you it takes many many years to grow a proper tree.
>So you want to blame a Prime Minister who came to power in 1979

She was the opposition leader from 1975 and was using monetarist arguments to "fix" a problem that was purely geopolitical (Oil crisis). Would you be fine with extremist parties today suggesting the inflation due to the War in Ukraine being due to bad management(and not the war)? That's what Thatcher did.

>You can also see that during the Blair years, house building declines at an even more rapid rate than during the previous Conservative government.

The entire point of Blair is that he was a Thatcherite through and through on economics. The "Third Way" is Thatcher economics with "social justice" slapped on top.
DINOv2: Computer vision models with self-supervised learning
Where I live, Sheffield in the UK, the council was nearly toppled because they chopped down some street trees. They still haven't fully recovered from it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_tree_felling_protest...
There's definitely politics involved, but also the prices of solar, wind and batteries are and have been steadily falling.

One mental blindspot when comparing storage is to assume you need X amount of stored energy, but of course no-one wants stored energy, they just want energy.

Storing it only makes sense if you can't generate it for less so you need to compare against a portfolio of generation and short term storage. If you can't beat that on economics then you're useless, even if no other tech can beat you at your specific task of long duration storage.
Hmmm, I have no idea how to get or make the placebo pills, I don't have any tools to make them myself, I wonder if my pharmacy or a local lab would accept to do it for me. I might actually do that but I would need to try two cures instead of a random pill every day because I currently start "feeling better" after a few weeks of taking it.

I am actually curious enough to try it but I would need to do it next semester or next year because I would need to also buy or secure enough multivitamins for the year (two cures a year, it would not be a double blind anymore if I get them just before the cure) and since some of them are prescription I'll have to talk about it with my doctor, see if he would prescribe enough and if yes, how long is their shelf life and how I would go to get placebos.
I've been at a company that really decided to go all in on Agile and actually let teams change things to work more efficiently, and it's one of the best experiences I've had, it really had all the components that make things work.

One issue I've seen since then regarding retros is that they'll fall into two extremes. The rare one is that retros are just fun recess times that nobody gets anything out of besides doing doodles and ice breakers. The other one is that teams will try and be very action oriented and find concrete solutions to concrete problems, but will not have the emotional maturity to address difficult topics, so they're either avoid them or turn into screaming matches.

You need to feel somewhat close to your coworkers to be able to bring difficult topics with the certainty that others will know you do it for the right reasons and that you're all trying to work towards the same goal of making work more effective, pleasant and satisfying. Teams that never work on the closeness of their members cannot address important issues. You need the doodles, the inside jokes, the team spirit to be able to do that.

But you also need to have a mastermind to spot issues and then figure out ways to role play and brainstorm around those in a way that feels like playing, but ends up providing the team with actionnable solutions.

At the company i've worked at, I've had to sometimes do tasks that were really not my duties (data entry, QA work) because it was the most important thing that I could do for the team. I happily did it because I felt like it really was our project, that I'd be bringing value to customers and the company in doing it, and that our product would be better with that work done by me. I'd stay late if there was a problem I could possibly assist my coworkers with, even if I stayed for nothing or could only contribute through naive questions to try and get neurons firing... But we were a close team, despite having different roles and seniority levels, and we were all very happy to do what the project needed.

In my current company the sense of ownership isn't as important, people don't know each other as well (the team also is larger and with more turnover) so it's made of smaller groups of kinda close people.

In a perfect world everyone in all teams would be a trustable high performing dev and there would be no need for any lubricant to make the machine work smoother, but the reality is that the majority of us have pet peeves, quirks and shortcomings, the group can be a good way to mitigate those, as much as processes and methodologies, but having both is what will get you the best results, and I think this is something that is overlooked by many teams.
Looks great but why dependency and lock in to a specific cloud provider?
Almost everything anyone ever wants to do with production is put files on a server and start a process. The rest comes down to your tolerance for baroque scaffolding and someone else’s janky shell scripts
OpenSSH Race condition resulting in potential remote code execution
Don't worry, newer developments in eastern europe suck at tree coverage too.
The Limitations of GPT-4o in Generating Detailed CSV Files
None of them for long term. Both are amongst the most expensive European towns, and not really attractive enough to live in long term.

Most other European towns would qualify much more favorable.
Could anyone suggest a more in-depth reading on this subject?
Eternal Golden Braid, that is. Quite a bit of it's outdated at this point, but the explanation of uncomputability is probably still the best.
The more interesting story here IMO is the seemingly extreme prevalence of NIH syndrome at Google, and whether or not that was a smart investment for Google compared to, say, contributing to GitLab or something.

I would love to hear the reasoning behind going custom, and if that ended up truly being worth the investment.

Or maybe I'm misremembering the timeline on when certain things became available. shrug
One of my biggest complains for American cities is the risk adversity with respect to trees.

In SF, the city went in a rampage to prune and tear down trees (mostly ficus) because of the risk of the branches falling. There are lots of rules for where you can and can't plant trees based on road visibility, signage, electric cables etc. Result is that you have a lot of tree-less spaces in a city where basically anything grows.

In contrast, Mexico City has an almost anarchist version of urban greenery. Trees overflow streets and side walks. Yes, there are issues from dealing with the urban greenery, but the city is incredibly pleasant to walk in. Also, despite being an incredibly noisy city, trees and buildings mute out a lot of the noise.
How much theanine in a cup of tea? (2011)
This is such a long-standing difference that Sydney newspapers will use the word 'leafy' to describe a suburb as having significant social capital. The local governments in the 'leafy' areas are extremely protective of their trees, for example, have a look at Hornsby Shire Council's regulations on trees[0]. They will fine you significant amounts of money if you kill or significantly prune a tree on your own property without permission.

[0] https://www.hornsby.nsw.gov.au/environment/flora-and-fauna/t...
Even for the US, I think the worst part is that they're not an obstacle to traffic, but they're an extra expense plus they block those huge ads from roadside businesses.

Americans are making many of their roads and towns/cities hell just to penny pinch.
> and the general public has the right to roam on it

There's no right to freely roam in the UK unlike Finland and other countries [1], although there are public footpaths/rights of way that cross private land [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam

[2] https://www.gov.uk/right-of-way-open-access-land/use-public-...
With a million requests per month (~1k a minute average, non uniform distribution ofc), why not just use something like sqlite? I wouldn't want to work with csv files, and development time is the same.

It's a more standard setup, and enables better logging and later changes.
Seems to be substack. But should be easily done with pandoc and some shell scripting
> I could ban all social media / phones but how is that going to prepare them for life in a world where social media is all encompassing?

This is not the future that I expect. Rather, in my observation/bubble, "radical privacy advocates" are more and more spreading. So, I would expect that you rather prepare the children for a wrong (and worse) world.

> Plus they likely would be ostracized by their peers.

In my school time, the "nerds" (who were also privacy advocates, keywords: Diffie-Hellman key exchange, RSA, war against cryptography) found friends among each others. So, I wouldn't fear that your child becomes ostracized - it very likely will find (better) friends.
Nu, so who came up with the brilliant idea of having the surface area/volume ratio of a bunch of individual houses (and outbuildings!) separated by yards in that environment? It'd seem like if there's anywhere one would want to have a Brezhnevka with central heating, that'd be it?
This reminds me of what happened in Sydney, Australia. Sydney has this freeway (the M4, formerly the F4) which starts in the foothills of the Blue Mountains, the western edge of the Sydney metro area, around 55 km west of the city centre. And it heads due east, towards the centre of the city. And they built the western portions of the freeway first, since the land acquisition costs were cheap. By the late 1970s, it finished 15 km short of the city centre. And the government had acquired the land to continue it to the edge of the city centre, another 13 km or so. But a lot of local residents didn't want the freeway built. So in 1977, the recently elected centre-left Neville Wran government decided not just to cancel its construction, but also sell the land reservation to property developers to ensure it never could be built.

Did that actually stop its construction? No. The state government ended up building the eastern section anyway, starting in 2019, and it opened in 2023. But the surface reservation had been lost, and reacquiring it through eminent domain would have been prohibitively expensive due to high property prices, and politically too controversial too, so it had to go through a tunnel. A surface freeway would have cost AU$1–3 billion, with underground tunnelling the cost was well over AU$15 billion (around US$10 billion)

Wran's 1977 decision to sell the freeway land reservation was arguably one of the most expensive decisions ever made in Australian history. In the long-run it had made life worse for local residents, as the freeway dumped commuter traffic 15 km short of its primary destination, and they had to put up with that traffic traversing their local roads–which made the eventual completion of the freeway almost inevitable
Generally, only undeveloped land is covered by freedom to roam. Forests, cultivated land and gardens aren't necessarily freely accessible by law, if they are privately owned they can be fenced.

There is much more expansive freedom to roam in Scotland, but then most of the land there is undeveloped anyway.
Can a law make cigarettes less addictive? What about alcoholic beverages? Soda? Sugar? Sweet stuff in general? Gambling? Drugs?

Possibly so, to a certain extent, but in the end it's our personal responsibility to stay as much away as possible from the above things.
You have no idea. Since the revolution, Korean movies were at the forefront of international movies. The blast lasted from 1999 to about 2013 with some occasional masterpieces thereafter. https://koreanfilm.org/
Show HN: AI assisted image editing with audio instructions
Excited to launch AAIELA, an AI-powered tool that understands your spoken commands and edits images accordingly. By leveraging open-source AI models for computer vision, speech-to-text, large language models (LLMs), and text-to-image inpainting, we have created a seamless editing experience that bridges the gap between spoken language and visual transformation.

Imagine the possibilities if Google Photos integrated voice assisted editing like AAIELA! Alongside Magic Eraser and other AI tools, editing with audio instruction could revolutionize how we interact with our photos.
It's not legally mandated, but the dynamics of the regulation and the risk-averse nature of companies mean that it's effectively become a requirement to compete: if you don't have it, you're only going to sell to the rare company that is willing to stick their neck out and deal with novel arguments in the paperwork themselves. For commercial aerospace that is none of the manufacturers.

(someone else might come along and certify it themselves, effectively acting as a middleman, but then they're going to get most of the money)
> I'm old, I benefit from this .. not that I want to.

Are you planning on selling and downsizing to a vastly overpriced apartment? One that would probably end up costing as much as a house because the bottom end has been squeezed?

Because that's the only way you'll realise the price increase, and you'll mostly lose it due to everything else being overpriced. Unless you don't actually mean "not that I want to".
> In our experiments, it takes ~10,000 tries on average to win this race
condition, so ~3-4 hours with 100 connections (MaxStartups) accepted
per 120 seconds (LoginGraceTime). Ultimately, it takes ~6-8 hours on
average to obtain a remote root shell, because we can only guess the
glibc's address correctly half of the time (because of ASLR).

Mitigate by using fail2ban?

Nice to see that Ubuntu isn't affected at all
From the report:

> Finally, if sshd cannot be updated or recompiled, this signal handler
race condition can be fixed by simply setting LoginGraceTime to 0 in the
configuration file. This makes sshd vulnerable to a denial of service
(the exhaustion of all MaxStartups connections), but it makes it safe
from the remote code execution presented in this advisory.

Setting 'LoginGraceTime 0' in sshd_config file seems to mitigate the issue.
A little less than a AA battery. AAA rarely breaks past 1000mAh
Sorry, duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40843778
JetBrains Qodana now analyses VSCode
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Thank you for this link.

I just dabbled in webgl/threejs and tried creating a small movement engine and was confused from beginning to end. Quaternions as a black box is pretty accurate.
Both companies produce around 550 commercial units a year.

From the 2023 Airbus annual report[1]: ...deliveries rise 11% to 735 aircraft. So in 2022 it would've been 660. Quite a bit more than 550.

[1] https://www.airbus.com/en/investors/financial-results-annual...
Isn't message ordering a fundamental property / guarantee of the underlying messaging system protocol?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_broadcast

Chalk me up to believing a falsehood, what's the failure case where such a protocol breaks down? Is this a "More than 50% of nodes in byzantine fault failure mode" situation, or a realistic scenario?
The context of my answer is that you cannot include Abrahamic religions in your comments without separating the root, which is Judaism, to your claim.

You said: "It worked out well as a diverse society with one identity until monotheistic Abrahamic faiths and their adherents came as invaders and colonizers.".
I don't think I've seen this suspected correlation receive a lot of credit. A lot of deadly health issues are not correlated to your nutriments intake. Cancer for exemple, thyroid issues, and many others. You would need to take lifestyle into account to even start assessing how multivitamins could potentially increase life expectancy.

Take two groups of people who live active lifestyles in non polluted areas, who don't smoke and don't have any other health issues (including mental health issues because a lot of them are correlated with a shortened lifetime). Give placebos for one of these groups.

This study would help a bit, but would be impossible : we don't have enough people who live this lifestyle and are available for long testings on multivitamins. They may also change their lifestyle, get into an accident, develop mental health issues, travel...Which would poison the results.

I think no one should take multivitamins expecting to live longer. Take them for the other proven benefits - they counteract deficiencies, that's all. My blood tests already show this, I take a blood test before an Iron Supplementation Cure and after, the benefit is clearly visible on the test.
I think is kinds of "Need for cognitive closure".
It is diffrent with "Never trust anyone" and "Everyone can be wrong".
the NTA is make us can not to move forward. But allow the Everyone can be wrong makes we can move forward.
There are several concepts here :

- Orders can be executed either immediately

(you select a unit, tell it to move to another tile, it moves immediately, which also changes the state of your fog of war, or even starts combat),

or during turn processing on the server/host

(you select a unit, give it an order, but it will only execute it during turn processing).

- Play can be either sequential turns (one player after another), or simultaneous turns (everyone at the same time).

- Play can be either in real time, or in hotseat / by transferring saves (either to the next player, or the server/host).

All of the 6 combinations are in theory possible, though of course some are more common and make more sense than others, and will be more supported than others. For instance various Civilizations support both sequential or simultaneous turns (Later Heroes of Might and Magic even support simultaneous until players meet, then sequential !), and Space Empires 4/5 supports both immediate or delayed orders.

Then it gets even more complicated depending on whether the tactical combat happens directly on the strategic map, or is instanced on separate, tactical maps. Some games even have instanced combat where the game becomes an RTS when unit groups meet ! (Like Total War or Sword of the Stars or Space Empires 5.)

I have played PBEM with sequential turns and 1 turn per day, though of course these games then tend to limit the number of players.
Another example of 'control flow' is the new behavior graph from Khronos (glTF Interactivity Specification). They did a survey of existing visual programming langauges and are trying to making a standard. It's just been released for public comment: https://www.khronos.org/blog/gltf-interactivity-specificatio...
It’s also worth reading the release notes https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html

This is actually an interesting variant of a signal race bug. The vulnerability report says, “OpenBSD is notably not vulnerable, because its SIGALRM handler calls syslog_r(), an async-signal-safer version of syslog() that was invented by OpenBSD in 2001.” So a signal-safety mitigation encouraged OpenBSD developers to put non-trivial code inside signal handlers, which becomes unsafe when ported to other systems. They would have avoided this bug if they had done one of their refactoring sweeps to minimize the amount of code in signal handlers, according to the usual wisdom and common unix code guidelines.
What I was replying to said:

> ARM holdings annoys me. I wish they hadn't stopped doing fab.

~~I thought ARM was always fabless?~~ Edit: I guess I'm somewhat mistaken after reading up on VLSI Technology.
For servers you have control over, as an emergency bandaid, sure. Assumes you are not on an embedded system though like a router.
can i say "the internet is dead" anyway? sorry, it just seems like there are so many problems with the internet of today - top down authoritarian management may just be what we deserve for a while anyway.