skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends. For forestry stock there's no real way to avoid monoculture if you need a lot and you need it soon (40-60 years). There's much more to this answer though because Phytopthora is hammering larch, Ips is hammering spruce and red band needle blight is hammering pines. That's another topic on itself. Broadly though, there's nothing wrong with a monoculture per-se ([Pando][1], Boreal woodland) it just depends on how it is managed and how well the ecology does in response to it.

That being said, personally, I favour the continuous cover approach of mixing up natives broadleaves with non-native conifers as long as the site isn't ancient or semi-ancient natural woodland (ASNW) or plantation on ancient woodland site (PAWS). For those sites, they're too important for use as a commercial forestry site and arguably the ecology needs to be restored, maintained and managed. Those sites are precious and should be managed properly in-line with their identified [NVC identifier][2]. The one exception to this is coppicing. Having a coppice on ancient sites where coppicing was practised is one of the few woodland management techniques that adds to ecology over all four woodland layers over all time frames.

I never thought I'd answer that question on HN. I appreciate you asking. What's your take on forestry monocultures?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_(tree)
[2]: https://jncc.gov.uk/our-work/nvc/
Even further than that, individual evaluations of ‘better’ can meaningfully vary. Not everyone has the same metric of success here and I think there are many reasonable yet distinct evaluation criteria.
Async Rust is about concurrency, not (just) performance
Your suggestion that the educational system, any meaningful part of it, is welcoming of constructive criticism of any kind is not compelling. The US government has put such enterprising parents on terrorist watch lists for speaking up at school board meetings.

If a system is specifically set up against you, runs poorly, and in a real sense hates you, you have the option to let it fail without you. It is the polite, and least conflict path to leave it to its failure, and to forge your own way.

On the other hand, listening to people who tell you that you are unethical, guilty of an *ism of some kind, or bad, does not have a good track record of success. The path to hell is paved with good intentions. What you suggest is specifically not going to happen on my part.
> your lock screen is a FaceTime call like UI/UX with your AI Agent who does everything for you

I just… don’t want this. I don’t think anyone I know wants this.
Which party should I vote for to help the people of Gaza?
TikTok has a great e-commerce integration, no one else is offering this at the moment.
As a preamble, the discussion of versioning is difficult since it's abstract; this is difficult to discuss in general.

> You should never reuse the revisions. If you launch a major version, then it means you only support r5 onwards. Do not reset it back to r1.

Hm, so hypothetically a v1.0.0 of a library could begin its life with structs at a greater-than-1 revision number. This seems odd, since a major version bump is able to be breaking, but revisions don't have the same semantic meaning - it just means "it's different from before".

This kind of breaks my mental model of major version bumps. I consider v1 of something to be distinct from v2, where it just happens to be that v2 typically is mostly compatible with v1. However, with revisions, it maintains that connection explicitly. I suppose the answer to that would be to rename the structs and have them start at revision 1, but now we're back at square one, where I could've just done that without revisions to maintain backwards compatibility by introducing a new struct.

I'm not sure if I'm conveying what's odd about that sufficiently. Let me know if I should think on that more and try explaining it again.

> I don't think documentation is more complex because that's something already factored in today. Functions add new options in new releases. Structs add new fields. And today we already annotate the version they were added. Perhaps this approach can automate some of it instead.

The expectation here would be that a struct revision would be a minor version bump, correct? That seems like it kind of breaks semantic versioning, since a user of v1.0.0 wouldn't necessarily have any behavioral changes in v1.1.0, since the structs and users of the structs would be identical, right? It kind of pushes the minor version bump onto the consumer code at their discretion, but not in a typical way. Now if I bump a dependency's minor, I don't necessarily want to bump my own minor - but maybe I do? Especially if I'm a middleman library, where I pass behavior from client code to one of my dependencies.

This is getting a bit confusing to consider the hypothetical situations. The main gut feeling I have about this is the same about versioning in general - it's fine until it's not, which is usually some unknown point in the future when things get complex. Kind of the gist of my hesitation is just that versioning is already a complicated problem, and introducing more variation in that seems like it really needs to be a long experiment with the expectation that it may not work. Unfortunately, the situations in which versioning rears its ugly head is typically only in long-used, complex projects. So I don't really know how a test bed for this could exist to give realistic results.

As a bit of a disclaimer to everything I just said, semver is not the holy grail, in my opinion, and I think it's perfectly reasonable to experiment with it and try alternatives. Maybe part of my issue is just that I haven't entertained other versioning schemes that can sufficiently handle the difference between behavioral and representational changes.

Thanks for the discussion!
Congratulations to Louisiana on improving from 50th-ranked state in education to...50th-ranked state in education?
Can we note the absurdity of one part of the government banning too much cash, while another part of the government notes that some cash is essential?

Also, prepper realism: a week's worth of cash at hand goes a long way towards handling the most likely disaster scenarios (which are all well short of Road Warrior).
Personally I see it as bad theology as much or more so than bad science.

I mean, how do you reconcile the idea that "God is great" (Muslim slogan but how you can not believe that as a theist?) with the idea that the world is just 6000 years old and he sits on the throne and is obsessed with Jewish people as opposed to the scientific picture that the world is at least 13 billion years old, 'his image' is inscribed into the molecular structure of our cells, which implies God is a lot bigger than that.
About three years ago I switched from an office full of paper, where I would print and write my notes, to an iPad with an Apple Pencil and the app Noteshelf. It worked remarkably well. There are screen protectors that mimic types of paper, and tactile resistance pretty well. Slowly paper disappeared from my office and I stopped printing all together.
Thanks to ubertaco for the neat response point by point, but I don't think any of your points are relevant, even if they are true.

I know a couple of big-scale farmers in the US. They are Christian, and believe in Creation. That doesn't stop them from using the necessary pesticides, or choosing the adequate strain of corn seeds, etc.

Believing in Creation doesn't turn you into an illiterate moron. Believing God created everything according to a design and purpose is not incompatible with acknowledging the presence of similarities and design patterns throughout all of Creation, and believing that doesn't suddenly poof take away your rational capabilities to think and understand things.

Either way, I was asking for is a real situation in which someone will be negatively impacted because they hold a Creationist belief.

Will a Creationist live a sad life without fully embracing the misteries of goose-bumps? Will a farmer not use pesticides, or choose the wrong one because Creationism? Will Advil won't work on a Christian because they don't understand that rats and rabbits are our cousins? Will their knees hurt more (or maybe less?) because they think humans were standing up from the beginning?
Sonos speakers set up their own WiFi network that's used to configure them before they join the final network, doing that probably requires "Access Wi-Fi Information Entitlement".
> seem capable to produce our own services, or to not use the US ones.

Like the China/US situation, as soon as there's friction against using the US ones people will switch to local competitors. There was a UK competitor to Facebook around the time of its launch called "Friends Reunited". Technologically these things are not as hard as recruiting users, overcoming the natural monopoly effects, and handling moderation.

A confrontation has long been brewing over the Microsoft Ireland "safe harbor" case.
The Internet Archive mirrors a subset of the collection here: https://archive.org/details/freemusicarchive

IIRC this is a point in time snapshot from some years back, but likely sanitized of any tracks that may have more restrictive licenses.
fyi, to remove the pedal on the left side (non-drive side), you turn wrench to the right (clockwise) to loosen (that's opposite to what you would normally do).

Note: the point though the author is (or should be) making is to take "baby steps". Break down learning into smaller problems. Taking on whole new things at the same time is difficult and overloading causing frustration (esp for kids).

anyway, don't remove the pedals. find a road that slopes down slightly and have the kid just sit and coast to the bottom. add in turning and eventually pedaling.
> TikTok... estimates one-third of the 170 million Americans using its app would stop accessing the platform if the ban lasts a month.

If customers care that little about the product, maybe it's a good sign that it isn't providing significant value to their lives.
No, the law doesn't give a users threshold: it names ByteDance and TikTok specifically, and provides a mechanism for the President to add new companies controlled by a "foreign adversary country" to the list. So anything at all by ByteDance is banned, but RedNote is owned by a different company that would have to be targeted separately under this law.

https://www.congress.gov/118/bills/hr7521/BILLS-118hr7521rfs...
That's fine for encoding but Handbrake doesn't let you do video streaming to my knowledge.
China's Invasion Barges, Leading Indicator of Plans for Taiwan
Eh, you institute WFH where it makes sense. I am a heavy WFH proponent and I am not suggesting that surgery should be done remotely ( at least not yet, but technology is supposedly improving in that area ). On the other hand, some jobs absolutely can be.

Why on earth does everyone have to fit the same mold?
Agree completely, my point was indeed they are choices, not lack of time. I think I came across too judgy even trying not to. You made a better job of it.
The book Lord Of The Flies made a lot more sense when I realized it was a satire of British elite schools, rather than a real exploration of what cast away young people would actual do in that situation.
> Public school does come with a guarantee of failure.

I disagree, because it's demonstrably false, but I don't think there's a reasonable point of debate here. I'm sorry you feel that the state has failed so badly here.
Open-source neuroscience-based AI
Actually I think illuminated manuscripts had more value, insofar as they were art, than podcasts (99% of which are vapid timewasters and/or friend simulators.) The good podcasts are those view which involve interviewing interesting people, and AI isn't replacing those.

There's a lot more to be said for the value of audio books, but the accessibility gains of proliferated auto-generated audiobooks outweigh the downside of losing a small number of expertly produced audio books.

For context, I listen to audio books a lot, and for years I have listened to traditional TTS readings of books too. Better voice generation for books without audiobooks is a great win for society.
Literally same arguments used by Iran.

It’s fascinating honestly. Soon we’re going to have “we need government to be able to DPI and block propaganda!”
Technology for the American Family
The Floods This Time: In the Mediterranean, Climate Change Is Already Here
How I learned it, as a mere undergrad, was that the mass of the virtual particle for the field in question determined exactly how long it could exist, just by the uncertainty principle -- much like the way the virtual particles drive Hawking radiation.

In short, a massive virtual particle can exist only briefly before The Accountant comes looking to balance the books. And if you give it a speed of c, it can travel only so far during its brief existence before the books get balanced. And therefore the range of the force is determined by the mass of the force carrier virtual particle.

There's probably some secondary and tertiary "loops" as the virtual particle possibly decays during its brief existence, influencing the math a little further, but that is beyond me.
I can't really know nor do I care to speculate on why it's becoming fashionable. But I'm a successful, well adjusted, homeschooled child from when it wasn't fashionable. This comment stood out to me: "Opt out of interacting with average people."

And my immediate thought was: "I can't imagine a less effective or worse way teach kids how to deal with people, average or not, than to throw them into a pool of similarly untrained people and telling them to just "figure it out". Which is essentially what public school does. Teachers can't be expected to help 30+ children work through that. They don't distribute across the pool of students in a way that can be effective for that. Homeschooling I firmly believe can be a more effective way to get exposure and learn how to deal with other people than a public school.

Public schools are training grounds for poor social skills.
> In a really healthy society, with really good schools, dropping out would (99%) be quite regrettable.

That depends.

Those who drop out because they can't hack it will find misplaced regret, blaming future woes on dropping out when in reality the problem is a continuation of the deficiencies that lead them to dropping out.

Those who drop out because they have bigger and better plans won't think about it again.
> it's the place for Luigi Mangione memes

I read a lot about TikTok the last few months from users all over the web. Trust me, that's not what TikTok is actually full of, its just what algorithm you got sucked into, for whatever reason. I assume there's some specific bubble for "current viral thing" that you're locked into. Make an alt and like completely different content, you'll see that your feed will be night and day.
>that most American voters aren't so perturbed by what's happening in Gaza as to want an administration that would be at least as effective in reeling in the Israelis as the Biden administration was.

It's not hard to be at least as capable as somebody who's completly incapable. Think what you will of Trump, but in one meeting he had a solid deadline for implementing the ceasefire agreement the Biden admin has had floating since May. There weren't even any changes to it, so what the heck has Biden been doing?
> if we are seen as privileged

This is not a matter of interpretation or view. You are privileged and your comment shows exactly that.
What's the complaint? This is one ingredient that can be added all on its own (apparently) and have good results.
>more pervasive

US spectrum export controls have been every bit as pervasive as PRC ones, pretending muh "rule of law" is a distinction without difference at this point. It's functionally the same.

>forced to divest

If US law is forced divestiture, then Bytedance is "force" to leave, because having US nationalize a PRC company is obviously a nonstarter except for the terminally stupid like noahopinion. Unlike Google + western platforms who "chose" (read: not banned) to leave because they "chose" not to comply with PRC laws that applies to all companies, including domestic PRC ones. The difference is US has no equitable law, i.e. some sort of data privacy law, that enables Bytedance to operate in US... while following the same laws that US companies do, as if Bytedance wasn't already bending backwards following additional requirements that US platforms do not have to follow (i.e. functionally Oracle JV).

Like fine, Bytedance needs to follow US laws, except US laws is designed specifically to prevent PRC companies from operating, vs PRC laws is designed to allow everyone to operate, just said operation is onerous - see retarded reciprocal argument that US companies should operate in PRC without abiding by PRC censorship laws that domestic platforms has to abide by. There's a reason FB and Google had internal programs to re-enter PRC market compliant with PRC laws (before being axed by internal dissent), because it's still feasble for US platforms to operate in PRC while being US (or at least JV) owned. So let's not pretend what US is doing is the same thing - PRC is more rule of law, US rule by law in this comparison. But again, functionally that hardly matters.
Wow, this is a remarkably simple ploy from the scammers. Combining Google's own ad account policies to serve a Display URL of ads.google.com, and a Google hosted microsite on sites.google.com to get past the automated ad approvals and pose as Google in their own ad results.

Should be a fairly simple fix for Google to blacklist sites.google.com from their ad tools, though perhaps they want to let people spin up ads on microsites like that as a boostrapped way of running ads without their own site?

To be fair they probably should blacklist any mention of Google in an ad and use a Brand registry to manually verify anyone who wants to use their trademark in ad URLs or copy.
i thought mixture of experts didn't update itself with new sets of weights and was just a collection of already trained networks/weights? I could be wrong.
It was true for me, specifically for my workflow, the websites I use and how I leave some specific tabs in the background.

I’ve used Chrome for many years before Firefox and it was always prioritizing JS responsiveness even when the app was in the background and not needed, so it consumed CPU cycles and battery power needlessly. I see now that Chrome enables a Low Power mode by default on battery and it’s unusable as scrolling gets janky. I don’t know if the overall experience has gotten better in the last year on Chrome.

Not sure what’s different about memory though, but Chrome always appeared like a memory hog when I tested both browser side by side on the same set of websites and same few extensions. Could be that it just caches more and that’s benefitting responsiveness
So we chose private school over home schooling, for both time reasons, educational reasons, and social reasons.

But the important thing is we choose to take our kids out of public school. The trigger was Covid, but what really happened was suddenly millions of parents could directly see what their schools and teachers were like because we watched our kids work remotely all day for a year.

We did not like what we saw. A few teachers were really good. Many never bothered to show up, “class” was a note to do homework or something. Others were just plain terrible teachers who didn’t know their subjects well and couldn’t really teach.

More and more our district was also relying on computers and software to make tactically replace books and teachers, and not surprisingly that did not work so well.

Yes, remote learning and covid and all that was a shock to everyone, and all schools took a hit during that time. But this was a window directly into schools, and seeing how well yours did in the face of adversity.

The truth is, at least for our school district here in NJ in the US, schools suck in massive amounts of money, give them to largely incompetent people (to whit, our school superintendent started his career as a gym teacher), who unsurprisingly waste a lot of it.

There has also been the constant creep over the years to turn schools into social welfare systems. This is well intentioned, but in reality is just another bureaucratic money suck.

I could go on. But in short, home schooling and private schools both have risen in popularity because Covid revealed just how bad many public schools in the US have become.
Your argument is similar to burning the house down, once you discover that you don't like the couch in the living room. Or, more realistically, arguing against taxation based on the idea that rich people avoid being taxed anyways, and it's only poor people who will get the short end of the stick. The school system isn't perfect, and is hard to improve due to many reasons, but this doesn't mean we shouldn't try. It has a purpose which is much more important than the suffering of any individual who goes through it. It's a shared good that can only be made better if everyone participates. When people who can contribute the most are allowed to be excluded, the whole thing becomes worthless. But, guess what, those who thought that they may be exempt from contributing to the public pool will inevitably find out that the public who was in this way deprived of a public good hates them, and will eventually come after them with pitchforks and torches.
Horribly complex and/or impossible.

(1) quantum mechanics means that there is not just one state/evolution of the universe. Every possible state/evolution has to be taken into account. Your model is not three-dimensional. It is (NF * NP)-dimensional. NF is the number of fields. NP is the the number of points in space time. So, you want 10 space-time points in a length direction. The universe is four-dimensional so you actually have 10000 space-time points. Now your state space is (10000 * NF)-dimensional. Good luck with that. In fact people try to do such things. I.e., lattice quantum field theory but it is tough.

(2) I am not really sure what the state of the art is but there are problems even with something simple like putting a spin 1/2 particle on a lattice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermion_doubling

(3) Renormalization. If you fancy getting more accuracy by making your lattice spacing smaller, various constants tend to infinity. The physically interesting stuff is the finite part of that. Calculations get progressively less accurate.
I've been wondering for the past couple of years, why did Vine fail but TikTok succeed? Based on my increasingly fuzzy memories of Vine and my rough understanding of TikTok as a non-user, they appear to be pretty much the same app.
Well, Newton thought he could do it with just 3 lines, and we've all been playing code golf ever since.
https://archive.today/FJqzS
> Most of all, it’s so ironic that in America, which is supposed to be the bastion of free speech, is banning something that is so valuable for many people. This sort of confirms what I had feared for a few years now: that Americans don’t really want to be free or have free speech.

What in the law, exactly, would prevent the things you discussed from being spoken about on another online platform?
Does it handle alpha-renaming? Most of the golfed interpreters I've seen over the years does not and hence does not handle the full untyped lambda calculus.
I think most would infer that, but in any case, it most definitely implies a non-rigid schema.

Cassandra et al. IMO only fall under the NoSQL banner by retconning the meaning to be “Not Only SQL.” Columnar DBs are a fine idea for certain uses.

Document DBs and/or chucking everything into a JSON column, though… those can die in a fire.
So is LLM pre/post-processing the best approach here?