skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thinking Apache, Mozilla, FSF or Linux foundation would be better stewards than EFF.

Counting income + assets - liabilities - expenses:

Mozilla ~142.7 million
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200...

Linux Foundation ~136 million
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/460...

Apache has ~4.25 million based on
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/470...

FSF - 902k if I did the math right on this (ouch)
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/428...

Not sure I'd trust FSF to steward a project. Apache could but it feels like they're almost a graveyard.

Also not sure I'd want Linux to control it based on the latest Chrome/Google dealings.

Not a huge fan of Mozilla, but it's somewhat in their wheelhouse, at least.

What else is there for tech non-profits and dev stewardship of something like this?
While there exists a lot of sedentary work in the US and that has consequences, there's still a great deal of physical work done in the US as well, and a very high number of non-working people with plenty of time for personal exercise if they wanted to pursue it. Yet the profound wellness problems we're talking about apply to all of those groups.
> Yes, life sucks. It sucked worse for your ancestors.

Most of the time you are right, but the Baby Boomers are a pretty big outlier in this regard

There is no question that the average Baby Boomer has had it much better than their children and grandchildren have
OK, I'm convinced. I just installed uv. Thanks for sharing!
> I've found it much easier to take an existing working program and parallelize it in Julia, than in most other languages I've worked with.

Unfortunately, this isn't possible when interfacing with proprietary, closed-source binaries. Especially when the C FFI is defined by standard, makes no mention of threading, and each implementation has different quirks.
Im hoping that with the launch of the lenovo steam deck clone, that there will be even more products like this. But yes you are absolutely right that laptops are more accessible.
A few months ago I saw someone hacking the linker to get mundane package management working in Nix. It was bubbling up to the top of my "to try" list and that bumped it back down. It'll be good eventually, I'm sure.
Maybe to a small degree. Grazers might keep the non native grasses and invasive weeds in check (although that has historically been the job of wildfires). Grazers aren't going to eat mature oaks, toyon and other woody natives though. The canyons near me have plenty of deer but the canyon is still overgrown and full of fuel.
being afraid to speak honestly might be most pragmatic choice, but it certainly perpetuates the status quo where toxic employers don't really fear any repercussions. aside from it being morally corrupt, the continuance of the status quo isn't helping the economy or the company. abusive bosses are ineffective bosses.
> "HR is often more about protecting the company's interests than supporting employees," Costi says. "Reporting toxic behavior can backfire, labeling you as a 'troublemaker' and potentially putting your job at risk. The sad reality is that many toxic bosses are untouchable, insulated by the very system that's supposed to hold them accountable."

This is exactly the reason tinnitus go to HR. Can confirm.
Ditto. This is pretty cool!
My only beef with this has to do with power usage which can make some of the older computers just not worth it.
Yet economic mobility, measured in terms of the likelihood that you die in a different income decile than you were born into, is lower in the USA than almost anywhere else in the developed world.

How to reconcile? It's fairly easy ... there aren't that many millionaires. The US has a society, culture and economy that allows for their occurence perhaps "better" than most other places. But this doesn't reflect the likely economic pathway that most of the population experiences in life.
Slightly off topic but what's going on with the font for the "y" character in this article? It sticks out like a sore thumb.
True! That said, I wasn't fooled. I'm very good at Finns. It might be incorrect but they believed it for sure :-)
What an amazing article on "de-FAANGing" the perverse org/incentive structure of most startup/tech places. Would love to see more of this type of leadership in the real world.
I live in southern Ontario which is mostly like this too. There is occasional flooding but minor compared to other places, and occasional major snowstorms, but the worst natural disaster I can recall in a half century here was an “ice storm” that caused damage that was quite frankly small potatoes compared to hurricanes and earthquakes.

Living next to the Great Lakes also means that regardless of what happens with droughts, we have a supply of fresh water that is virtually limitless. I have to wonder whether the region will start to become more popular with climate refugees. Might Chicago become more of a destination, for example?
Some years I got paid for As ($1-5) and less for Bs. Anything less than a B meant you got nothing for the whole report card. Other years I didn't get paid. I think for my kids we won't pay them for grades, but might celebrate with a nice/ favorite dinner or something.
I've embraced the Pulaman over the past year. It's grungy when used on rougher paper, and wet enough to bleed through lighter weights, but the lines are full of character. It's a fountain pen with a marker tip - it fills in a certain complementary thing that Pilot nibs don't have.

I have also become a champion for Bic Gelocity, because they figured out a quick-dry gel formula that has similar viscosity and reliability to their classic ballpoints. Viscous ink keeps my writing legible, and the gel needs less pressure, so it's a great EDC writer.

Some of my bigger explorations have been with graphite - I have both new mechanicals, cheap stuff, lead holders, and vintage pencils. There is a lot of reason to go mechanical for reliability, but cheap mechanicals like the Bic pencil are unreliable - it's worth it to go for a Pentel. Similar story with lead holders - I have some from Daiso that do the job but aren't as tight as brand names. The nice thing about wood is that it handles well - the weight is lighter than metal, and it stays balanced as you wear it down. As well, for drawing, being able to cut the point you want makes a difference. There are woodless pencils which are quite a bit heavier and more brittle if dropped, but they are nice to work with to get something similar to a long point sharpen without having to get out a razor and whittle it by hand.
> Government doesn't pick up bills, taxpayers do.

Is this an interesting comment to make? Yeah... the tax payers foot the bill because like we elect the representatives to maintain the government.

> Someone in Montana should not have to pay to rebuild homes in California.

Is this a joke? Should I, as a Californian, also be able to say "oh, my tax money? You damn well not send it to Montana to help subside program XYZ that doesn't help me."
It will get worse no matter what. Even if we went carbon-negative tomorrow, California in currently in a historically wet period. The music will stop no matter what, unless we acquire planetary weather control.

> Across the Californian region, paleoclimate records dating back more than 1,000 years show more significant dry periods compared to the latest century. Ancient data reveals two mega-droughts that endured for well over a century, one lasting 220 years and one for 140 years. The 20th century was fraught with numerous droughts, yet this era could be considered relatively "wet" compared against an expansive 3,500 year history. In recent times, droughts lasting five to 10 years have raised concern, but are not anomalous. Rather, decade long droughts are an ordinary feature of the state's innate climate. Based on scientific evidence, dry spells as severe as the mega-droughts detected from the distant past are likely to recur, even in absence of anthropogenic climate change.

I say this because people should not confuse the issues. Fighting climate change won't stop California from burning. This was always going to happen; even in the best-case massively carbon-negative future, we at best defer the burning a few years. So we shouldn't have the attitude "California will just be OK if we can go carbon negative." It won't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_in_California
In the meanwhile, people with nvidia laptops can enjoy a blinking white cursor on a black display. Courtesy of nvidia Optimus and their “wonderful” first party linux support for it.
An outright ban would be unconstitutional, and wouldn't be necessary. The issue is who owns and runs TikTok, so why not use legally extant powers to correct that? I'll add that this isn't a country versus a farmer, or even a country versus an individual... this is the US vs China.

So please, spare me the loaded analogy, there are no poor farmers here.
> and an external PCI-E expander (six x16 slots just weren't enough).

Out of interest - what do you use the extra slots for? At most I can think of:

- NIC

- GPU

- NVMe

- HBA

- Maybe old protocols like FireWire/SCSI/GPIB
One would certainly hope that reconstruction would involve houses with concrete exteriors, or masonry. It would be silly to build a bunch of wood houses. Especially for luxury homes, a concrete shell should only add 1% to the overall cost. And technology exists to build hurricane-proof houses.

Shouldn't this be mandated, if a "natural disaster" destroys a home, to not replace it with a similarly vulnerable structure?
You're using arguments appropriate to other ecosystems.

Please familiarize yourself with coastal sage scrub communities in so cal.
Eh, as someone who’s been vegan for a couple decades, ascetic for a solid chunk of that time, and active in various other ways to greater or lesser degrees, people will still shut down mentally when they don’t have the hypocrisy lever to pull.

People in the reactionary/denialist/antagonistic camp will just end with “okay yeah you’re right but I’m not changing/I don’t actually care/I accept that I do evil and shrug”.

People looking to inspire positive change being required to be perfect saints lest they and their movements be condemned seems like a hint that human psychology is not tuned to rise to this occasion.

That expectation of perfection is unrealistic. Humans are messy and bound to be hypocritical in countless ways.

The CEO of Phillip Morris may volunteer at the local children’s hospital and feed the homeless on weekends.

Yet his hypocrisy in doing good in his personal life while doing so much harm in his professional life doesn’t seem to interfere with his ability to do harm, in fact it likely helps.

The executive director of the nonprofit children’s hospital going out on weekends and beating stray dogs to death with a pipe, well his hypocrisy may very well end his ability to do good in his personal life.

It seems like we’re just destined to let people who do bad things without any pretense of doing good off the hook, while crucifying anyone who dares try to do a moral good who isn’t somehow perfectly aligned in their lifestyle, ideology, and entire life history. Despite the fact that the former may represent a large net negative to our world and the latter may represent a net positive.

TLDR: Even if the climate activists weren’t hypocrites, your friends would likely be no closer to embracing the terrible reality of climate change and the necessity of painful sacrifice to address it.
uv implements PEP 723.

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/inline...

Especially useful if the script has dependencies on packages in private repos.
Since nature is brutal and natural balance does not exist, should we humans try to enforce an “unnatural balance” in order to preserve ourselves, or is that folly?
The activation of the virtualenv is unnecessary (one can execute pip/python directly from it), and the configuring of your local pyenv interpreter is also unnecessary, it can create a virtual environment with one directly:

pyenv virtualenv python3.12 .venv
.venv/bin/python -m pip install pandas
.venv/bin/python

Not quite one command, but a bit more streamlined; I guess.
why is that 'instinct' to build out of wood? The instinct is to build wealth, and it's cheaper to build wood than brick.

I find Western European construction standards to be higher than American. European homes feel like they're made out of brick and stone, seem better insulated, and American homes feel like they're wood-framed with giant modular pieces of wood (at least here in the northeast).
Not going to enter into anymore baiting, but no — that is not at all the extent of Chapter 7's protections against external fire.

https://codes.iccsafe.org/content/IBC2018/chapter-7-fire-and...
Simplest answer is cut down all the trees and pave it over. No fuel no fire.
> not sure why it has become verboten to say

It's not. In California, we've been discussing forest management for at least 25 years since a series of wildfires broke out. There have been plenty of discussions about how we should be managing forests, trying to build consensus around best practices, and building the political will to implement them. It's been a maddeningly slow process.

If anyone is coming into the conversation out here saying, "California has bad forest management, they need to rake the forest floors" or whatever, it shows that they're entering the conversation with at best a 1990s mindset of what modern forest management is like. Yeah, we know, that alarm has been clanging for 25+ years. Come at us with solutions, not problems, we know the problems.
This strikes me as not understanding the limits of private insurance. There wouldn’t be earthquake insurance across much of California if the state didn’t provide it. Private insurance isn’t generally able to withstand large calamities which result in many thousands of high dollar claims in a short period of time.
that's too much tech for a trust problem it can't solve. just use a TimeStamp Authority like https://freetsa.org/index_en.php or https://knowledge.digicert.com/general-information/rfc3161-c...
Eh, same old story. HR is not your friend.

HR is there to protect the company from you, not you from the company.
Former physicist here! I used to work on this stuff. I don't think anyone has ever been a "true believer" in dark matter or dark energy.

There was a pattern in late-19th- through late-20th-century physics wherein someone noticed something weird, said "hey, if X were true, it'd be kind of weird, but it would explain it all", then people went out and looked for evidence of X. In many, many cases, people did indeed find X, some closely related X', or at least got strong evidence in favor of something else Y, which might have disproved X but at least settled the matter.

This has not happened with dark matter or dark energy. The questions still remain open, with no good evidence for any explanations.

So... what I'm saying is, don't think less of people for trying to explain things, just because they tried and it didn't work out yet. You're seeing the scientific method play out right now: there is a whole lot of wrong. There was a lot of wrong in the old days, too, but we weren't around to see it; only the successes got passed down.
And supposedly Matt tried to get him fired for this post!

>TLDR. In May 2010 Ben Cook wrote a post titled Why Matt should resign. [..] The post, a well-balanced, well-argued, and respectful post, was not liked by Mr. Mullenweg, who reached out to Ben Cook’s employer, Network Solutions, and tried to get Ben Cook fired. Network Solutions did not fire Ben Cook.

Why? Because THAT POST "borders on hate speech"

https://kindness.is/examples/2010/mullenweg-the-coward/
Yes there are many. One of the strategies for dealing with the upcoming climate catastrophe has to be to do a sober assessment of its impact and instrument societies to relocate quickly. There is simply no point in trying to rebuild in areas that will be constantly destroyed by natural disasters on a regular cadence.
Indeed, you're right ;).
He threatened to sue the person behind bullenweg.com (https://mastodon.social/@mvsde/113373682248521134), so if you're really interested you could revive it. The repo is at https://github.com/bullenweg/bullenweg.github.io and there's another mirror available at bullenweg.org.
CalFAIR is subsidized in the sense that insurance companies are forced to pay into it. Insurers of course pass this cost on to their customers. Combined with price controls on insurance this is just taxation with extra steps.
Yeah, it was bad conduct of me. I apologise, and I'll try to just flag and move on in the future instead.
Just scraping the site isn't quite enough. You'd also have to fork Wordpress to be able to use a plugin directory not under Matt's control, which is important for the average admin to quickly patch security-relevant issues.

But even when you do that, I'd expect him to just give people an ultimatum - either "officially" host on his plugin directory, or others, but not on both. You'd have to reach critical mass pretty much immediately, or Matt can bully the ecosystem into compliance.
Neither does he. Thiel is the last Straussian fanboi. He wrote a treatise on it while at Stanford.

Rather than create new ideas or philosphies, you just invent some DaVinci Code like conspircay theory that all the great philosphers were really saying something else, and whatever that is depends on your last bong hit.
I've replaced the linkbait title with an attempt at saying what the feature is. If there's a more accurate wording, we can change it again.
I’d be eager to hear folks poke holes in this opinion, but it seems like C# has made a wild mess of class/record initialization in recent versions, whereas in Rust fields are either simply required or are optional.
The default behavior is unwind, and unless the library is targeting something like bare metal embedded, in all likelihood will never resort to an aborting panic.

I'll bet $20 USD to the open source project of your choice that the authors of whatever PDF library was being referenced here did not go out of their way to abort on panic, and that it's just a normal unwind.
Shouldn't competition take care of usurious rates in relatively free and working market? That is people will move to cheaper offerings which likely are close to real price.
Not only is it problematic... the real anonymity is gone, as well. I would not recommend using it anymore.
I would love to see what they talked about, do you have the transcript?
> This is for good reason; making some types of systems-y code exception-safe can be tricky to get right and comes with a performance cost. For many companies the juice is not worth the squeeze.

Those types of systems-y code can avoid exceptions if they want. Nobody said exceptions are a panacea. The alternative error models have their own performance and other problems, and those can manifest differently to other types of codebases.
That was a breath of fresh air. Thank you James.
Thanks for that link. The data also shows that, over a longer (millennia) timescale, California is currently in a wet period.

Context is very important. Climate change is a critical issue, but solving it doesn't help California stop burning.
Not numerically. Median real income today is more than twice what it was in the 60's.

FWIW: there's a... sociological problem with arguments framed around that. When you measure US citizen wealth in the 1960's it looks unimpressive[1]. When you picture a "baby boomer", you see a working class family with no debt behind a white picket fence in a beautiful new subdivision living a great life on just the one income. And those families existed! So what gives?

You're looking at a family headed by a working class white man. Not everyone could get those "working class" jobs that supported a family in the suburbs. There was plenty of poverty in the 60's, it was just hidden along with the single moms and minority communities we didn't record.

Things today are a lot more even, which means that the "white picket fence" demographic perceives things going in the opposite direction from what's actually happening.

[1] Relative to today, anyway. The US in the 60's was obviously an extremely wealthy country!
Since my favorite type of pen, which are very short pens that fit everywhere and don't take much space isn't in the list, my recommendations go for Penco Drafting Pen and the Penco Bullet Pen. Penco.jp is also a pretty cool website. I have no affiliation with the brand other than really liking these two pens. I must have about 12 bullet pens in different pockets of jackets and pants so I'm never without a pen.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42650732, which was posted first and is currently on the front page via the second chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308).
Will it remain the safest place if there are no people left on-site to staff the fire-protection mechanisms because of a mandatory evacuation order?
I really like uv, and it's the first package manager for a while where I haven't felt like it's a minor improvement on what I'm using but ultimately something better will come out a year or two later. I'd love if we standardized on it as a community as the de facto default, especially for new folks coming in. I personally now recommend it to nearly everyone, instead of the "welllll I use poetry but pyenv works or you could use conda too"