skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is much more complicated than it appears. Cutting and transporting trees is not easy or free, and there is already a huge glut of wood caused by the die off from phytophthera. Might still be worth looking into.
Very friendly for beginners.
Capitalism is intrinsically evil. I'll never defend a socioeconomic system of oppression.
Bold move. If I were the Union I would call perplexity's bluff and increase my ask.
> OP is talking about CA paying money to the park service

Sure. I don’t see how the Congress stops that if the USFS (not Parks) and Sacramento strike a deal.
Actually, these are pretty bad examples. Both of those fits of anger ultimately come down to caring about the users, but especially the NVIDIA one. I eventually gave up and switched to AMD graphics, but from 2004 to at least around 2016 I was running NVIDIA graphics on Linux and their increasing apathy towards Linux desktop users and Linux in general was clear. It just now is getting better, long after Torvalds complained about it, and even then it'll be a long time before things are stable and in good shape for most users. (e.g. only RTX 20xx cards are covered by the new "open" drivers, for example.)
To automatically generate a freeform 3D sandbox environment based on a prompt? Do you have a specific criticism or counterpoint?
If you're creating an app to help, then you don't get about acquiring new users. Who would care?

If you're creating an app to make money, then don't put all your eggs in a Tinder-for-dinner basket.
If the problem in California is anything like the problem in Australia, it's that it's not primal forest. We clearcut all the ancient tress, so what's left is secondary growth.

The huge old trees cut out the light reaching the forest floor, so there was less underbrush to burn. It absolutely did burn, regularly, but did little damage because the fire never got hot enough to burn the trees.

But with the secondary growth, it's vulnerable to fire. So we have to burn it often to clear the fuel load before it gets too much. But there's a lot of opposition to this kind of preventative burning, and then the fuel load builds up until we get a monster bush fire, everything burns down, and it all has to start again.

We need about 100 years with no major bush fires, and no logging, to regenerate the first-growth forest that evolved here. But that's a major economic asset and the chances of it not being logged are tiny.
Ask HN: Should the word "secret" in a submission generate a warning?
There are definitely legitimate uses for saying that an article is about some secret or other, but in keeping with the guidelines, I was wondering if such a notice could guide people to pick a more informative title for their submission. Not a hard reject, just a reminder while typing/pasting

> please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

For reference, what's being submitted with that word: https://hn.algolia.com/?prefix=false&query=secret&sort=byDate&type=story
https://www.ccfj.net/HOAFLevict6yearold.html

55-AND-OVER COMMUNITY WANTS TO EVICT FAMILY WITH 6-YEAR-OLD
As he noted, many people claim to use an integrated model. It's a motte and bailey.

>I’ve never heard anyone willing to defend the actual Social Model the way it’s taught in every course, written on every website, and defined by every government agency. Everyone says they mean the Interactionist Model. Yet somehow, the official descriptions still say that disability is only social and not related to disease, and that you may only treat it with accommodations and not with medical care.

> the topic is taught in a way that only occasionally nods to such a compromise; more often the Medical Model is condemned as outdated and bigoted, and the Social Model introduced as the new, acceptable version that people should use

He quotes many sources that take the social model literally even in the 2020s
Noncompetes are capitalistic. Property use restrictions aren't inherently capitalist but how they're used in most cases, particularly within the US, they almost always are.

Single family home zoning is the factor in bloated infrastructure and housing prices going up. This protects capital investment of a necessity which ensures exploitation of the working class.
I think this, or something of equal complexity, is probably the right choice. I have spent a lot of time helping people with their dev environments, and the same problems keep coming up; "no, you need this version of kubectl", "no, you need this version of jq", "no, the Makefile expects THIS version of The Silver Searcher". A mass of shell scripts and random utilities was a consistent drag on the entire team and everyone that interacted with the team.

I ended up going with Bazel, not because of this particular problem alone (though it was part of it; people we hired spent WEEKS trying to get a happy edit/test/debug cycle going), but because proper dependency-based test caching was sorely needed. Using Bazel and Buildbuddy brought CI down from about 17 minutes per run to 3-4 minutes for a typical change, which meant that even if people didn't want to get a local setup going, they could at least be slightly productive. I also made sure that every dependency / tool useful for developing the product was versioned in the repository, so if something needs `psql` you can `bazel run //tools/postgres/psql` and have it just work. (Hate that Postgres can't be statically linked, though.)

It was a lot of work for me, and people do gripe about some things ("I liked `go test ./...`, I can't adjust to `bazel test ...`"), but all in all, it does work well. I would do it again. Day 1 at the company; git clone our thing, install bazelisk, and your environment setup is done. All the tests pass. You can run the app locally with a simple `bazel run`. I'm pretty happy with the outcome.

Nix is something I looked into for our container images, but they just end up being too big. I never figured out why; I think a lot of things are dynamically linked and they include their own /usr/lib tree with the entire transitive dependency chain for that particular app, even if other things you have installed have some overlap with that dependency chain. I prefer the approach of statically linking everything and only including what you need. I compromised by basing things on Debian and rules_distroless, which at least lets you build a container image with the exact same sha256 on two different machines. (We previously just did "FROM scratch; COPY <statically linked binary> /app; ENTRYPOINT /app", but then started needing things like pg_dump in our image. If you can just have a single statically-linked binary be your entire app, great. Sometimes you can't, and then you need some sort of reasonable solution. Also everything ends up growing a dependency on ca-certificates...)
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Potential issues? What potential issues could there be with people running faux bars in their own home without a liquor license?

Why not go all in. Run an app to let people invite strangers into their house and do major surgery/critical care on them. Call it AirAandE.

After all the obvious evidence to the contrary, why do people think this "who needs laws what could go wrong" approach will work out?
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The depositors are innocent in this. Except where they were also shareholders or executives.

The shareholders lost their investments. The executives got to pack up their personal items into cardboard boxes[0] under supervision by the authorities[1].

The vendors and companies doing business with the bank were also innocent but ended up being harmed by the failure since their outstanding invoices were never going to get paid. If you suspect a customer is going to fail - demand immediate payment. You want to be first in line.

[0] Ironically, one brand of records box commonly used for this purpose is named "Bankers Box".

[1] I have not-fond memories of doing this during layoffs.
He does a long form podcast "data over dogma"
You know, I miss the times where these big merger companies at least laid low for a few years before enacting obvious greed. I don't even think the merger is finalized yet and the fact that this kind of stuff isn't a death kiss for the trials is a failure in and of itself.
> Unless the investor is willing to pay significantly more than a local family

Institutions tend to not be dumb money as much as retail. But institutions can uniquely be dumb at scale. Every few years someone thinks they solved the housing market with algorithms, and tends to be profitable to do business with them.
I'm about halfway though "Angel Tech: A Modern Shaman's Guide to Reality Selection" https://www.amazon.com/Angel-Tech-Shamans-Reality-Selection/... which is a very interesting book that attempts to de-mystify mysticism using more modern concepts and language. Don't worry, no actual angels are involved nor does it either require or prohibit any particular religious faith. But it does require you to LARP as a robot if want to try their techniques.

It is loosely based on the Buddhist 8-fold Path as interpreted by Tim Leary's (yeah, him, sigh) 8-circuit model of consciousness, but also discusses tarot, cabala, alchemy, the Hindu Chakra System, western magickal esotericism, the usual boring stuff everybody gets taught in grade school.

It's better than most, but unfortunately like a lot of other books on the topic, knowledge of all the background material really is required to get a full understanding and appreciation of the content. I've just never found the time to sit down and actually read "Ulysses."
Please look at the confidence score for the npr rating.
A question: what is the date of the first physical copy of any of these texts?

Much discussion about the temporal distance between the described events and the writers, but what about the distance between the writers and the text we know?

Any hope earlier copies will surface?
Yes I have. The problem is you haven't heard of the US Federal Reserve and The Fed drastically increasing the money supply during Covid. The Fed's golly-gee where did that inflation come from was gaslighting.

Yes, agreed. There are people who feel desperate and want something done. Doing nothing is what got us Trump. How is more of the same going to fix that? Hint: It didn't and it's not. And here we are again faced with the prospect of Trump.

The opportunist didn't create the opportunity. Keep that in mind as you look for those who are responsible for all this. What has changed for the better since Trump showed up?
New memory chip controlled by light and magnets could make AI less power-hungry
I'm a Christian and I've heard some of these before but it's always fun to find new things to look into.

The early wacky variants of Christianity are pretty fun to research (obviously I'm biased, and I think a lot of them would have made for an insanely incoherent religion and so I'm not really at all surprised they lost out), but they are definitely fun.

The "this generation shall not pass" thing is hotly debated even in Christian circles as to what it really means, but I agree with you that it's fishy and that you present a plausible alternative explanation.

I'll definitely take a look at some of those books about Paul.
At least 8 hours before sleep [1].

[1] https://www.sleepfoundation.org/nutrition/caffeine-and-sleep....
They just released their earnings report.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/04/new-york-times-nyt-q3-earnin...

> Total revenue of $640.2 million was in line with estimates of $640.8 million, as digital advertising thrived.

> Adjusted profit was 45 cents per share.

There are 164,540,000 shares outstanding.

That gives a profit of $74,043,000

They have 5900 employees for a profit per employee per quarter of $12,550

While yes, they are profitable this doesn't suggest that there is a lot of room between profit, pay raise per employee and net loss for the company.
> Just look at it’s size!

Should have been its. Now you are aware of a 12 year old typo
I'm not making them anything. The support for Trump is approx 50%. Those ppl are tired of the gaslighting. I'm not saying anything. I'm just listening. I'm only a messenger.
Hence why we don't allow unrestricted capitalism
The point isn't keeping a job, it's being well liked by others. While it's unlikely to be anyone's overriding objective (I too would rather be employed but hated, than well-liked but starving), it's still something that people care about. More importantly, it shows that he cares about the other side of the transaction, rather than being some sociopath that only cares about what he gets.
If you did a trillion moves per second then it would take around a billion years. Top speed cubers make around 25 moves a second, so even at that top human rate you're looking at using around 40 billion billion years.
I don't know that the American Enterprise Institute is the most unbiased source of this information.

The author of this particular article you linked to (which itself doesn't really link out to much, other than an interview given by Sheryl Sandberg and references to her commentary from The Guardian, so where is the data coming from exactly?) is also a concurrent fellow at The Federalist Society[0] which has a notoriously right wing bent to its interpretation of law and policy research, which does bring up some questions of bias here, given this and the fact there isn't anything in the linked article that really supports their position, rather its a snippet of interpretation for a Sheryl Sandberg interview and a book titled Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap -- and What Women Can Do About It by Warren Farrell. To which, he uses both snippets outside of their broader context, which both argue that pay remediation is a core component to having gender equality in the workplace, but isn't the only thing

I'm coming up empty here, as to what supports this assertion as any semblance of reality?

Prove me wrong with facts and studies, I’m all ears. I would life to be wrong about this

[0]: https://fedsoc.org/contributors/mark-perry-2
Larry Ellison talks curing cancer, genetically altering food as AI possibilities
> Back in the mid-90s, most ISPs gave space to users to host a website. There were produts like Dreamweaver [...]

Those tools and services were still too limiting and complicated. Why would I need to use a separate protocol to upload my content to someone else's machine which will then serve it for me? My domain name and server configuration would still be controlled by someone else. These solutions were made in response to something the web was missing, but they were far from ideal, and would later become the cause of the major problems we deal with today.

The limited upload bandwidth and network infrastructure are often brought up as reasons in this discussion, but ISPs only offered what users demanded, which in turn was driven by what was technically possible. Had there been demand for symmetric connections and home servers, we would've standardized on that much earlier.

> Which web are you referring to? The document web from the 90s to early 2000s, or the now app-centric web we have now?

The current web TFA criticizes. But the design of the early document web is what allowed it to get to this point.

> If TBL's view of the web emerged, you wouldn't need a separate tool to author web pages, the browser could do it, and use PUT to store new pages on a web site.

I don't think that vision was ever developed in detail. The original proposal[1] mentions a phase 2 of the project where "authorship becomes universal", but that was never implemented AFAIA. The entire concept is very vaguely described.

I imagine that the complexity of that phase far exceeded phase 1, which pushed it back, and eventually sites like GeoCities and Tripod appeared to fill the void. By that time the momentum was gaining ground, and any web-native solution would've been difficult to launch.

I think this was a major misstep which led to hyper centralization, provided a huge opportunity for advertisers, and the rest is history.

TBL is only recently trying to fix this with his Solid project, but it's too little, too late. Over the years we've also had several attempts at something similar, like Opera's Unite, but none of them gained traction. And now we have the fediverse, and all kinds of decentralized protocols, but they're all focused on the technology rather than the user experience, so I'm not hopeful that they will succeed.

[1] : http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Proposal.html
> What I don't understand is how followers of this philosophy overlook the obvious, basic, overwhelming flaw. How do you overlook that?

Followers of sama? Simple: in it for the money. The only tangible philosophy that sticks ends up being greed combined with lying through the teeth.
It's not, but as a Christian they did post some sources they would like us to consult with and also said they didn't wanna litigate so I think that's okay.

Occams razor says Jesus was probably a real person that developed a following and caused a big commotion. That seems to be the general consensus from secular historians as well (no Dan Brown stuff here).

But the theory about Paul that they brought up is at least an interesting alternative despite me not being convinced right now that it's as likely. So I appreciate them putting the time and effort in to share.

I'm a fan of HackerNews being open minded to less popular scientific or historical or religious theories so long as they aren't in totally obvious crank territory (and I don't think what they said is in that territory, it makes at least some amount of intuitive sense).
Climate change absolutely increases the fire risk:

Fire activity in Australia is strongly affected by high inter-annual climate variability and extremes. Through changes in the climate, anthropogenic climate change has the potential to alter fire dynamics. Here we compile satellite (19 and 32 years) and ground-based (90 years) burned area datasets, climate and weather observations, and simulated fuel loads for Australian forests. Burned area in Australia’s forests shows a linear positive annual trend but an exponential increase during autumn and winter.

The mean number of years since the last fire has decreased consecutively in each of the past four decades, while the frequency of forest megafire years (>1 Mha burned) has markedly increased since 2000.

The increase in forest burned area is consistent with increasingly more dangerous fire weather conditions, increased risk factors associated with pyroconvection, including fire-generated thunderstorms, and increased ignitions from dry lightning, all associated to varying degrees with anthropogenic climate change.

The "usual suspects" here being the journal Nature publishing analysis of thirty-two years of satellite data and 90 years of ground-based datasets performed by Australia's national scientific body the CSIRO.

Multi-decadal increase of forest burned area in Australia is linked to climate change, Nature, Nov 2021, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-27225-4

https://www.csiro.au/en/news/all/news/2021/november/new-rese...
That's not true: idiomatic Rust projects use `unsafe` much more liberally than other languages use FFI, because of shared xor mutable. That's not a knock on Rust. I couldn't be less interested in Rust vs. Go; I use both and would use them both in different situations.
I have yet to come across a fact in your comments! You are literally calling median family net worth median individual net worth, and then making arguments on the basis of that misrepresentation.

Further, this thread is about the labor force, not retirees, who generally have more assets, all else equal.

Stop making clownish claims and you wont be treated like a clown.
You specifically mentioned the FDA as being a problem; are you suggesting that approval in general is the problem, and no approval should be required anywhere?
An example of extraordinary code would be code that interfaces with and/or pulls in non-memory-safe legacy C code.

Another example would be code specifically contrived to highlight a soundness problem in the language.

I used the term "extraordinary" to avoid exactly this kind of bickering over corner cases that aren't relevant to day-to-day software development (or at least, not in ways that aren't immediately evident when they come up.)
This has always made me sad, but I think you're right in a lot of cases. What I've always tried to do is to focus on basic productivity; make sure everyone has everything they need to do their work, and that most people do it in the same way, so you can make progress on the learning journey together. Whenever people ask me for help and want to set up a meeting (not just "please answer this on Slack and I'll leave you alone"), I record the meeting, try to touch on all the related areas of their problem, and then review the recording for things that would be interesting to write about it. If any of the digressions are interesting, I go into Notion, create a new page, and write up a couple paragraphs. Then I give my team "ever wonder what dynamic linking is and how to debug it?" and they can read it and know as much as I know.

I really, really struggle to deal with the fact that people don't know as much as I do (I wrote my first program when I was 4 and I'm 39 now), but I have accepted that it's not a weakness on their part, it's a weakness on my part. I wouldn't lower my standards (as a manager once suggested), but I do feel like it's my obligation to lead them on a journey of learning. That is to say, people don't learn without teaching, so be a teacher.
The Onion Futures Act for example.
No worries and thank you anyway for sharing. We may disagree but it's a well thought out post you made.
John has a higher Christology in addition to what other people said
I Improved Video Streaming with FFmpeg and Node.js
Good definition. I've seen Go beginners trying to append to a slice from multiple goroutines. It works as well as calling push_back on the same vector from multiple threads in C++. It can easily corrupt GC state and lead to segfaults. The beginner didn't use any advanced trickery or the unsafe package. Therefore Go is not a memory safe language.
Can you define fluffer as you use it here, and maybe mention where you picked it up? I haven't heard it used much outside of a specific and very notorious Sankey diagram.
The Casio fx-9750GIII though very poorly named is a gem full of functionality from python, to spreadsheet and even a text editor and very low priced for what it does. If HP made a similar product with RPN it would be a game changer.
(2017), or at least that's when it first appeared on HN, some discussions:

(392 points, 41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14450945

(341 points, 28 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14883776

(489 points, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21902281
Ah gotcha. Well thanks for responding thoughtfully, reading what I actually said! Good luck with all that, you are fighting a good fight. One day those rigor-less Academia scum are gonna get whats coming to them, I'm sure.
Not on topic at all, but crazy coincidence to get so many “c” words on my left hand side: https://imgur.com/a/thwKg0b

I’m not sure justified text works well here, lots of “rivers” through the text.