skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWC, the Universities, and the Water Management districts are testing out a lot of methods --- including drones armed with an AI-based imaging system to identify the snakes & eventually eliminate. Given they're cold blooded you need to have visual confirmation - finding heat signatures isn't easy. FWC also has a truck outfitted with LIDAR to detect them. My family and I drove around in their trucks with FWC and WM earlier this year hunting them and learning what can be done to try and help solve this issue.

The snakes are captured & bagged, then they are humanely eliminated using a bolt gun to the brain. The brain is then completely destroyed using a metal rod to ensure there's no more activity.
Studies have found that Kaiser Permanente (an integrated health insurance/care provider—basically a non-governmental equivalent of the NHS in comprehensiveness—that is available in many US states) is more efficient and effective than the NHS for about the same cost.

Examples:

* <https://www.bmj.com/content/324/7330/135>

* <https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7426/1257>
Yah that's horrible. You're like a dead man walking on death row at that point.
I would say in physics, lisp is like the formulation of physical laws in terms of lagrangians and hamiltonians - ie it is the least action principle
thanks. I'll update it with something like "Bugsink: is an Error Tracking solution, Built to Self-Host, Get notified about errors in your applications in real-time. Have full control over your data by running Bugsink on servers that you own or rent yourself. "
Well, public policy is not as hard as physics. At least the homes exist. But you have to make it attractive to fill the homes and deter vacancies.
The Environmental Disaster No One Knows About
Totally. I couldn't care less if the LINQ syntax had gone tomorrow, but functional composition is so powerful, and easier to maintain too.
friendly reminder that rent control causes vacancies like this. because its better to wait for a better market than let someone sit on your discounted property forever.
Absolutely a great addition!
But it's different than object notation in JS, and considering JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, I think dot notation would have been more appropriate for JSON Pointer (and by extension JSON Path). As a bit of a rebel myself, I use dot notation when describing a location in a JSON document, unless I'm forced to use the slash for something like JSON Pointer.
I used to be like that sometimes. Then I started realizing I'd get the function 90% complete and discover an edge case and have to start over in a way that could handle the edge case. Sometimes this could happen twice.

Documenting your requirements by writing the tests in advance is of course painful because it forces you to think more upfront about the edge cases in advance. But that's precisely why it saves time in the long run, because then it makes it a lot more likely you can write the function correctly from the start.
In my experience there are two mistakes people sometimes make that leads to the fisheye lens look. The first, as parent mentioned, when calculating the ray directions you should linearly sample a line rather than interpolating view angles. Second, when doing per-column perspective division, you should divide by dot product of the forward vector and the difference between the ray intersection and the camera location. Often if someone is making the first mistake they are also making the second.

Following this will give you the normal pinhole camera 3d projection that we all expect to see from a 3D game.

Rule of thumb I found as a beginner in 3D graphics: any time polar coordinates seem like the obvious solution, there's usually a better way.
previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41848861
Most of these homes are in regions with declining populations and scarce opportunity for employment.
For folks who are skeptical about OpenAI's potential, I think Brad Gerstner does a really good job representing the bull case for them (his firm Altimeter was a major investor in their recent round).

- They reached their current revenue of ~$5B about 2.5 years faster than Google and about 4.5 years faster than Facebook

- Their valuation to forward revenue (based on current growth) is inline with where Google and Facebook IPO'd

He explains it all much better than I could type - https://youtu.be/ePfNAKopT20?si=kX4I-uE0xDeAaWXN&t=80
>Is medical bankruptcy common in Switzerland?

Only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills <https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0...>. A tipoff that [insert large percentage here] of bankruptcies aren't actually because of medical costs is that only 6% of bankruptcies by those without health insurance are because of that cause. The biggest cause of bankruptcies is lack of income, which health insurance doesn't affect in any country.
I wonder if there's a way to attract them.
After I read a bit about axum [1], it says it's a relatively thin wrapper on top of hyper [2], a fast and correct HTTP library.

In other words, what can be done with NGINX, it can be achieved with axum (assuming you know Rust).

It looks interesting, I'm not going to lie!

[1] https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum

[2] https://crates.io/crates/hyper
It’s simple. Don’t hire non technical people in highly technical roles then.
In general, imo, if somebody contributes usefully to a project they should get paid in line with their contribution.

The flat rate makes sense from an era when tracking that sort of stuff was difficult, but I dunno, it seems like it ought to be possible to track this sort of stuff automatically nowadays.
Largest arthropod lived 300M years ago. What it looked like
Subtraction is the very case where relative error might matter most, and error relative to magnitude of the original unsubtracted numbers causes the most surprises.

Absolute error has useful applications, without any doubt, and regardless of arithmetic operation, but it probably doesn’t make sense to say it’s “better” without a specific problem in front of us, and without specific goals and priorities. Error tolerance is always up to the user.
Desalination system adjusts itself to work with renewable power
New catalog charts familial ties from autism to 90 other conditions
It would ideal to price in end of life costs. Oh, it takes $100 to return that $50 item to usable materials? It is now a $150 item.

Of course, you should also price in the environmental costs of manufacturing, shipping, and using the thing.

So many challenges with this.

How do you quantify the environmental cost for an object over its entire life cycle?

How do you efficiently route the new funds to actually mitigate the damage?

How do you handle the inevitable black markets?

How do you avoid regressive effects?

I don’t have answers for all these. I just think “The Biome” is the scarce resource we should be using money to allocate.
The investigation is going on since 2021, the filing was made public on Thursday.

Only a filthy redneck conspiracy theorist would conjecture that this is populist election influence!

Prepare for the comments that "Lina Khan is on a tear" and this is all not influenced by the election at all.
Where did you get this stereotype of farmers?

I’ve always though of them as business owners with special skills in growing things, auto mechanics, and logistics.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41874973
Why would anyone want to make parenting mandatory?
Ahh, I used to queue this up on another screen when I needed things to look "busy":

cat /dev/random | hexdump -C | grep 'ca fe'

Note that it runs a lot faster now than it used to in the 90s.
I always assumed trackpads were made of something special, but it appears that it's just a 3d printed surface?
> you would have to explain how the image on it was produced

It was produced by Jesus Christ at His resurrection. He left it for us to see and ensured that its being set aside was recorded in Scripture (not with the others but rolled up in a separate place - https://biblehub.com/john/20-7.htm).

If you mean "how did Jesus create the image"? Well, I don't know, we can look at the image (as some have) and come up with some theories. My favorite one is the one that says it was in the moment that the angel rolled the stone away from the tomb Jesus briefly shone with light, imprinting on the shroud the image of His suffering. That's certainly not the only way it could have happened, of course, but I think it's a very fitting image.
> The merchants of complexity thrive when they can scare you into believing that even the simplest things are too dangerous to even attempt by yourself these days.

Awesome first sentence! I know I'm going to agree with the article just by that. This applies to so many things in life, too. We're been taught that so many things people routinely did in the past are now scary and impossible.
> traditionally thought of as less technical people

You've never met a farmer. Admittedly no one in my family is a farmer, but half of them are loggers, diesel mechanics, or heavy equipment operators. Most of them are ridiculously intelligent and able to fix anything that moves.
This would be a good argument for remote work -- let more worker WFH and they can buy those houses in the sticks.
The moment you mention Israeli crimes on this platform, you get downvoted until your post / comment is dead. Sad.
If you can drag a 9-dan grandmaster up and down the Go ban, you can write a computer program or run a company.
>kill billions of native birds every year.

what is wrong with killing billions of ill and old birds? That is how Nature works, and the other predators do it in the non-developed areas where humans didn't push out those predators from. In the developed areas the other predators are gone, so thanks to the cats who do the necessary job of all those missing predators.

>They're an invasive species in most states

Do you see many native predators around humans? If anything the humans is the invasive species doing pretty much all the damage.
> SCOTUS should have differentiated between different categories of corporation (using existing tax code distinctions), and prevented (at least) regular for-profit corporations (of any tax status) from political spending.

It's not obvious how that would have made any difference when a for-profit corporation could just give the money it wants to spend to an aligned non-profit to spend it in the same way. Unless you mean to prevent them from donating money to the non-profit, but then where is a non-profit supposed to derive funding? "All political speech can be funded only by government grants" has a pretty clear conflict of interest, and you would then somehow have to deal with for-profit entities that inherently engage in political speech like newspapers and cable news networks. Why should Comcast/MSNBC or Fox be able to dedicate unlimited airtime to political advocacy but not Intel or Ford?
Personally, I prefer VimWiki for taking notes during my work. So it is a place to mix ideas, small documentations and snippets of things I found on the web.

Since I most of the time like to store articles, tutorial or nifty tricks, I like to store the entire website. For this task, my favorite Tool is SingleFile[1].
With SingleFile you can save a Website with embedded images. Also, you can add annotations, and cut away annoying Ads etc. Besides, it supports a distraction free copy of the website. I can highly recommend taking a look.

[1]https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile
Enter WFH
One of the six characteristics of consciousness as formulated by Julian Jaynes in his work The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is that of narratization: a story that we tell ourselves of how we got here, where we are going, and why towards that end. In addition, his notion of consciousness is that it is essentially lexical, linguistic, and metaphorical in character; our self-concept, our ideas of who we are, are in fact linguistic models we use to analogize the body physical into a mental metaphor, and it is language that facilitates this process through its ability to represent physical concretions with mental, symbolic abstractions.

Identity then is a narrative subroutine written in natural language, and in this way it becomes possible to speak forth identity and program a persona out of whole cloth through the force of the Word alone; this is the sense of the Logos and the famous declaration, "In the beginning was the Word," where all of reality was spoken forth through the utterance of language. This is the Western, Greek, and Abrahamic view of the primacy of language and of symbolic realism.

> As a result of embodying the waiter-narrative, he lives inauthentically because he can only act in a way that fits with the role. The narrative he follows gives him a limited understanding of himself [...]

This is why it is of paramount importance that one minds the language and narratives they use to describe one's self, for every utterance ascribed to one's persona circumscribes and limits it, setting it off on a fixed trajectory instead of maximizing optionality (see also pg's Keep Your Identity Small: "the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible" [0]). You are neither a waiter, nor a parent, a child, an athlete nor a hobbyist [1]:

The principal disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with
reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth, and our names
about ourselves, our ideas of ourselves, with ourselves.

... and this Eastern non-identification with symbolic content is the rejection of narrative identity espoused by TFA.

The advent of postmodern social media has given rise to a new form of "hyperreal identity" now, where it becomes possible to publish language that literally creates personas and identities with no basis in physical reality. Confusing symbols of self with the actual self is not only easier than ever, it is the default mode of existence in the digital era, and one's avatar or social media profile takes precedence over the person themselves - a "simulacrum of the fourth order." One must be careful of the media they use to carry the language and narrative of their identity, because all messages are constrained by the medium they inhabit, and if the language of one's narrative is constrained, so too is their self-concept and their identity; we have progresses from "the medium is the message" to "the medium is your identity."

[0] https://www.paulgraham.com/identity.html

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJYp-mWqB1w
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1slOZ

Vacancy rates peaked around the subprime crisis and are back down close to norms. 2022 was about the lowest it's been in decades. Vacancy doesn't mean lying fallow, they can be between owners/tenants. There is also likely a huge mismatch between available inventory and location.
There is nothing on the fibers that is visible under a high powered microscope. Paint (even spray-paint) is quite visibly distinct from the fiber it covers.
Certainly, but when the average org becomes corrupted, you just stop buying its project and let it die. This thing endeavors not to sell you a product, but to sell your product. If it's going to get buy-in from artists, I think it's going to need to make significant promises about not making them regret it. I'd love to see it succeed, but building enough social capital to back long term promises like that is a difficult thing.
I'm not especially thrilled by the article. I won't really go into why.

However, one thing that I'll say, is that stories; especially the stories of other people (i.e. "not me"), make my life much more interesting.
It is, but it also takes a very long time during which production data integrity can be severely affected.
I mean...

Consider this school of thought: My school burned down last week. The one where I went to elementary school.

A strawberry is not botanically a berry. A peanut is not a nut. A tomato is either a fruit or a vegetable. Nobody thinks this is a problem.

This is just language. Perhaps it's not actually a big deal that "Theoretical Computer Science" does not cleanly fall into your usual "Science" label?
Is the IDF dropping bombs on apartment buildings in Beirut "terrorism"?
But then the expensive city commercial spaces will give the businesses more losses. Can't have that.
> Or you can assume something has a sidewalk if many people have walked there?

There's still a quality difference between a well-worn path and sidewalk. It can be a great way to find places to build new sidewalks. (There's the classic story of the University that didn't pave sidewalks in its quad until well worn paths in the grass were visible, using essentially crowd judgement/"ant hill optimization".)
You don’t backup why you think this is the case. You only say that to think otherwise makes for a sad view of the world.

I’d argue that you can find examples of companies that were untrustworthy and still won. Oracle stands out as one with a pretty poor reputation that nevertheless has sustained success.

The problem for OpenAI here is that they need the support of tech giants and they broke the trust of their biggest investor. In that sense, I’d agree that they bit the hand that was feeding them. But it’s not because in general all untrustworthy companies/leaders lose in the end. OpenAI’s dependence on others for success is key.
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For the former, Timewarp is used at an OS level to perturb the visibly rendered quad to match the display time orientation. There’s no extrapolation: the rendered frame is simply adjusted to account for the change in headset orientation.

For the latter, as I mentioned, the extrapolation is not on velocity: you still compute regular game ticks but by holding the input constant. This is quite different from extrapolating velocities.
Discoverability of anything outside of the main stream is always difficult.

I listen to a sub-sub-genre of an already niche sub-genre (raw black metal) where it takes A LOT of work to pick out the small amount of good from the large amount of bad. Many of these bands are NOT on any major platforms except for bandcamp.

There are a few review blogs that highlight some of the top stuff (although, most of the reviews are at the black metal level, not the sub-sub-genre), but I find my main source of discovery is bandcamp.

What I do is: 1) Follow LABELS on bandcamp that specialize solely in the music from bands I like, 2) follow other users that have a similar purchase history, 3) and of course follow your favorite bands for updates.

My biggest issue with bandcamp is that I find their notification system and wishlist to be quite lacking.

For notifications and discoverability, I take all the notification emails I get, filter them based on type (new release, new items [gear,stickers,vinyl], and general message updates) and move them into my RSS system (FreshRSS)[0]. I get new music updates every day of things I probably want to at least check out.

For wishlist management, I wrote a simple desktop app[1] that lets me rate, tag, comment, and listen to my albums from my bandcamp wishlist quickly. Anything I _might_ be interested in, I put in my wishlist, then use my app to keep track of if I like it or not. Stuff I don't like stays in my wishlist, but gets a low rating and filters to the bottom while stuff I want to purchase filters up to the top.

Don't get me wrong, you are still going to need to spend time exploring, as you aren't getting your weekly curated playlists.

[0] https://blog.line72.net/2021/12/23/converting-bandcamp-email-updates-to-an-rss-feed/
[1] https://line72.net/software/camp-counselor/
No, it‘s not complicated. It’s straight and clear. Every human rights org says so, the UN says so, HR scholars say so. It is apartheid.
If rent is controlled, then waiting doesn't do anything does it? Also, rent control barely exists anywhere in the country.
>A therapist would never be lacking of work in that town.

If a therapist could fix them, they wouldn't need to move to this town in the first place. These aren't serious people operating in the realm of reality.
Why would I want to work from home in a terrible location?
A narrative about the inadequacy of narratives. Choice!
I still have one of the HP-UX systems that ran it in the data center; I could start it up if I wanted.
Maybe there is a single space at the end. No way to know. Well done, GP.
Why Live Streamers Go Insane
It is very demanding and that needs to be said, but I don't like positioning it as more demanding than other careers. People do a lot more for a lot less money. And people do a lot more for the same amount of money. Every individual should decide what trade off is best for them, but if someone enjoys programming and are good at it, it could potentially be better that they find a way to balance it in their lives rather than writing it off completely.
Yes, it looks like it has been removed.

A good edit, IMO.
so maybe just lower the price some more?
> friendly reminder that rent control causes vacancies like this

This is simply an american myth. I'm not sure where it comes from.
Yes - the housing crisis is a chicken and egg problem. How do we get people to create opportunities in places where there are few workers? How do we get workers to move into places where there are few opportunities? I am not educated on this, and it's not a problem intrinsic to modernity, so how has this problem been solved historically? Does it really just boil down to "it happened slowly"?
The original article's graphic of top-affected metro areas (https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/cities-with-most-vacant-..., "Metros with the highest vacancy rates") doesn't look like it has many areas subject to rent control.
The most common bug in that type of code is mixing up x and y, or width and height somewhere in your loops, or maybe handling partial blocks. It's not really what Rust aims to protect against, though bounds checking is intended to be helpful here.

I don't get the argumentshere. In practice, Rust lowers the risk of most of your codebase. Yeah, it doesn't handle every logic bug, but mostly you can code with confidence, and only pay extra attention when you're coding something intricate.

A language which catches even these bugs would be incredible, and I would definitely try it out. Rust ain't that language, but it still does give you more robust programs.
Not true. Those scripts only cover problems caused by PostgreSQL itself, not, for example, a change in collations that will silently break your indexes, such as the one in Debian 12.
It’s the modern Wilhelm Scream
Most questions from this user are, sometimes multiple per day.
It's frustrating too because deployment technologies and tools continue to get better and better. It's never been easier to deploy an application + database to some arbitrary computer. You can do it declaratively, no SSH, no random shell scripts, no suspicious fiddling.

Also, sidenote: but for small stuff you can just deploy in your home. I've done it before. It's really not that scary, and odds are you have a computer laying around. The only "spooky" part is relying on my ISP router. I don't trust that thing, but that can be fixed.
I don’t know where a “bright line” needs to be drawn here wrt jurisprudence, but akin to Monsanto, I have _zero_ doubt that Deere has been crossing it for decades.
> ChatGPT allegedly has on the order of 100 million users.

That’s users, not subscribers. Apparently they have around 10 million ChatGPT Plus subscribers plus 1 million business-tier users: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-coo-says-chat...

To break even, that means that ChatGPT Plus would have to cost around $50 per month, if not more because less people will be willing to pay that.