skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Books for babies and toddlers are pretty much all the same: cute drawings and simple sentences. On some level, they're all goofy and inane. There's no accounting for taste to be sure, but I am especially baffled why some of these books grow tiresome after two read-throughs, while you are delighted to see your toddler reach for certain books again and again. Eric Carle's books are all in the latter camp for me. The illustrations are beautiful, of course, but something about the stupidly simple prose and narrative just ineffably works. I'm grateful to him.
>it blinds people to say "country's messed up healthcare system is not my problem" because my employer took care of it :-(

This is something I never understood. If your employer is in power of your health insurance, how free are you?
The concern wasn't about ads, it was about patient privacy. You guys basically put together a search engine for medical encounters, allowing physicians to access medical records they shouldn't be able to: https://www.wsj.com/articles/behind-googles-project-nighting...
I absolutely hope that this experiment works out for Mozilla. However, I think there is no need for such a service. The web is an open platform, there is no secret knowledge. As an advanced web developer you can find out everything on your own, as a beginner you can use free MDN tutorials (or other websites).

They could offer certificates for different levels of web-development skills. Based on the popularity of MDN this could work out well...
Those adaptions seem a lot cheaper than trying to coordinate a global effort between hundreds of countries to engage in what is essentially long term geo-engineering.
Then you have to deal with the circumcision sales pitch.
Shimano patents electronic braking for bikes
This is mostly what I do as well; I make a branch, make a ton of little tiny commits, and then squash and merge them on GitHub with a better commit message. Best part is the series of commits are preserved on the PR in GitHub if I ever want to go back and look at the process.
The article mentions James Diggle [1] and Robin Osborne [2] as some of the authors. Have you got any specific concerns regarding these two gentlemen?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Diggle

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Osborne
forests are mis-managed and overgrown

First, forests manage themselves. There are wildfires because of the drought that you mentioned and higher temperatures.

Second, the first order problem is too many people. The warming/drought is a second order hysteresis effect. Creating more reservoirs exacerbates the first order problem.
I'd say that this article doesn't really show even that much.

According to the article itself, "This is mainly due to using an improved temperature dataset to estimate the baseline rather than sudden changes in climate indicators."

This is an example of the past changing, rather than the present. I'm not sure how to react when the only change was the past got cooler - I wouldn't think that would change anything in the present or future.
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I've seen this happen when Cloudflare caching is misconfigured.
I like to think of it like this - some places are doomed to extreme drought and flodding and others will be mostly spared - but the environmental effects are just one piece of the puzzle, other areas of the earth will need to cope with the refugee crisis we're going to see from parts of the world becoming less habitable.

As these crises put more stress on the rest of the world we're just going to accelerate exploitation to support more people with less stuff - we're essentially burning through the world's buffer of habitability to eek out a bit more profits today.
I personally don't like coffee but I drink it just to get rid of the drowsiness feeling in the morning and after lunch. Before I started doing that (I started drinking coffee at the age of 25/26) I was always dragging myself around post lunch, with heavy postprandial somnolence. It was really a pain. Never thought it would give me any cognitive boost...
It's such a heads-I-lose tails-you-win situation. If I talk about extreme cases I'm accused of alarmism. If I talk about nearly-certain cases that fall short of extinction, I'm told it's not important.
There are some folks doing great work here, although I agree on the overall sentiment. Ryan Florence is one name that comes to mind: https://reach.tech
I find it amusing how the top item of the stack "to be replaced" says "Unix", but then further down the page it notes that there is no version for Linux at this time.
> It's pretty simple - there are too many people and they are increasingly living high consumption modern lives.

So it's pretty simple: Let's just kill all people and their children over-populating _your_ planet. Right? </cynicsm_off>

The point I am trying to make is: This mindset of yours is pretty dangerous.
I'm a socialist, but I hate this meme on the left. We simply do not have time to build socialism before tackling climate change, especially with the recent crushing defeats the left has suffered in Western countries. We have to do this under capitalism, or we will not be able to do it at all.
There's nothing that any of us can do individually. The "turn off the faucet when brushing your teeth" and recycling initiatives are just to make people feel better.

The problem is so large now, only centrally-organized action that reorganizes a substantial fraction of the world economy will make a dent.

Donate it to a 501(c)(3) lobbying organization devoted to environment causes. Donate to political candidates that pledge to do impose a carbon tax.
I love how it doesn't go into any details and just leaves people to wonder why there is a button casually challenging/catering to their assumptions haha.
>Google has introduced declarativeNetRequest (DNR) to replace the blocking webRequest API.

...

>After discussing this with several content blocking extension developers, we have decided to implement DNR and continue maintaining support for blocking webRequest.

We've seen this before -- a number of times. This is what's put forth to avoid a cacophony and push back from developers and end-users alike. Both technologies will be supported for a short time before blocking webRequest is taken out altogether at a relatively short time thereafter.

>We will support blocking webRequest until there’s a better solution which covers all use cases we consider important ... (emphasis mine)

And there it is.

In a short time we'll read a statement -- released on a Friday afternoon -- stating the EOL for blocking webRequest with little-to-nothing in the way of analogous behavior because it wasn't considered important by Mozilla (or, perhaps, the pressure from Google was too much).

That's my cynical, entirely pessimistic outlook of it all anyway.

I'd like to read Raymond Hill's thoughts on this.
"No crisis, no funding" - Scientist/researcher on NASA "Earth Observing System circa 1996.
Also "We will spare no tree to save the earth" as we delivered reams of program documentation for program reviews. My suggestion at the time "Can we give them CDs instead?".
The mistake they keep making is focusing on sea level rise, as if that's the only real problem global warming could cause. Even at 1.5 degrees C higher than normal it will take years for enough ice to melt to cause significant sea level rise.

Meanwhile we are already seeing apocalyptic like effects of global warming: the worst droughts and fires across multiple continents as we've seen in modern history, significant increases and severity of tropical storms, increase and severity in seasonal flooding etc.

In 2020 alone both Australia and the Western US saw their worst wild fire seasons in modern history. 2020 also saw the worse Atlantic hurricane season in history:
https://www.noaa.gov/media-release/record-breaking-atlantic-...

2020 also saw the Philippines get hit with the most powerful Cyclone at landfall in history (175 mph winds at landfall):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon_Goni

And that was no outlier, in the last 5-6 years we've seen multiple Cyclones with winds over 175 mph, with several over 200 mph. This is definitely new territory for storms like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tropical_cyclone_recor...

With Covid-19 a lot of this stuff fell out of the news cycle rapidly last year, but 2020 surely marks one of the worst years in history for climate related disasters.
Probably the main value-add of StGit versus the git-only workflow described is that StGit makes operations on its stack of patches fast and fluid.

Reordering patches with StGit is trivial with `stg push` and `stg pop`. Arbitrary patches can be combined with `stg squash`. A modification in the work tree can be incorporated into the top-most patch with `stg refresh` or an arbitrary patch in the stack with `stg refresh --patch <patchname>`.

In other words, StGit provides a command vocabulary for performing these kind of patch-stack manipulations in a first-class manner.

But as you note, everything StGit does can be accomplished with plain git--albeit with more or less difficulty depending on the particular stack manipulation goal.
> From a cheap SSD to the best, there is very minimal difference.

I've got a cheap SSD that will change your mind. It has amazingly poor performance though, I agree with the general concept that while quantitative differences can be measured, there's not a qualitative difference between competent SSDs.
Mixing in generics to an already existing code base sounds like a bad idea.
Just because a little boy cries wolf two times doesn't mean wolves no longer exist.
Western nations are financing 3rd world birth rates at the expense of our own citizens well being. I imagine we should address that first before we even consider asking our own to stop reproducing.
I think intelligence is more generally how an agent optimizes to be successful, objectively and subjectively, across a wide variety of different situations.
Tax the destruction of the commons and the market will react.
Also we voted him out via democracy, the system worked. Iran's people have no such luxury.

The stories my Persian friends' parents tell of life before and after 1979 are heartbreaking.
I suspect you haven't had the pleasure of living in multiple EU countries. Schengen is borderless for travel. It is not paperless (or borderless) for living. Depending on where you live, you may have to register with local government. If you have a job somewhere, you'll have to register with tax authorities. You can pretend you're a "digital nomad", but as the saying goes: death & taxes! You'll end up paying your taxes, one way or another.

"How can they even know" is the wrong question. "How can you think that you can get away with living places without paying taxes?" is a better question. There is a lot of small scale tax evasion going on, like registering a car in Luxemburgh while living in France. Or buying boatloads of tax free booze somewhere and forgetting to declare it. You can probably get away with that without too much effort. But dodging income tax altogether? Forget it. Property tax? Good luck. If anything, you'll end up paying more because of your ambiguous residency status. There are all kinds of treaties for cross-border workers and all kinds of ways to prevent getting taxed twice. But there aren't many ways to avoid getting taxed.
And Gerrit as (IMO) a really nice UI for managing and commenting.
More likely, we hit it, look around and see that nothing has change, and keep going.

Second most likely, we hit it, look around and see the devastation that has been wrought, and the people living in relatively safe zones institute military-backed authoritarian governments who are charged with keeping migrates from effected regions from coming in, and seizing what little available resources remain from weaker, neighboring states.
I wonder why Tesla is removing the radar? I couldn't imagine it costs that much, and if the updated cars start crashing, this decision may be called into question in a public way.

I think tesla might want to publicly clarify things.
Why would I use Stacked Git rather than Git’s fixup/interactive rebase dance?

For example:

git commit -m "one thing"
# commit hash: deadbeef

git commit -m "other thing"
# commit hash: badf00d

(working on one thing)
then:

git commit --fixup deadbeef

(working on the other thing again)
then:

git commit --fixup badf00d

And in the end, when I’m ready to roll each patch into one commit, respectively:

git rebase -i --autosquash

I do realize that Stacked Git allows me to switch between patches. Which is nice because regular Git wants me to type in SHAs for --fixup.

But I’m not sure I’d take on a new tool dependency just for that. What are other benefits of Stacked Git? Just wondering if I’m missing something.
20 Versions, 16 people, 8 agencies, 2 weeks, 1 form to prevent evictions
Adverse Selection
Russia would get a lot of land out of it, and would get more usable coastline, which they have very little of. Countries like Canada and the Nordics also gain in this respect

Moreover, co2 is an input to photosynthesis. Studies show that projected levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere boost crop yields by 30%. Countries with a lot of agriculture exports stand to become wealthier from this, as well as countries with food insecurity issues.
I always enjoy people who think newspapers are on par with television which is literally on 24/7 and is extremely loud. Like, I don't know anyone who reads the NYTs, but I have boat load of aunts and uncles who just leave cable news running all the time
You're right that basic econ doesn't always hold, but in practice, it often does. In this case we actually have data on how road expansion affects transport times, which show that transport times slightly drop (as econ 101 predicts).

https://www.thecgo.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Can-We-Bui... (Pages 8-10)
Note that climate migration is one of the bad things that are commonly predicted by climate change models. And yes, undoubtedly there are indeed some people who move from wildfire-affected areas to protect their children, either temporarily or permanently. (I know of a few affluent families with children who did so last summer during the California wildfires). The point is that this "solution" will instead be a very large problem when, for example, significant portions of the West Coast of the United States is fleeing.

Or to put this more simply: I'm glad you live in an area that isn't affected by wildfires, but what portion of the California population (almost 40 million people) is that area prepared to permanently house in the next 5 or 10 years?
MobileCoin: A New Cryptocurrency from Signal Creator Moxie Marlinspike (2017)
What the F*ck Meme Coins?
You also need to increase taxes on imports from countries that burn coals if you ban coal. There is no point banning coal to import solar panels or EV car parts that are produced with cheap coal electricity.
That's true, we need to recycle ourselves by repairing things that are broken.
Such as? It was started as an experiment -- I think it's been an insanely successful experiment. Don't be pedantic here and claim it was supposed to be some kind of money, but it's not.

It's much more than that now, and in inspiring Etherium and all the other new paradigms, it's totally changed alot of people's thinking.
Good feedback, thank you! We've also started adding third-party valuation reports to properties and they should include more of the detailed property information. We're also working on incorporating more of the expense items. Will get it added!
Big fan of https://n-o-d-e.net Lots of unique content to the DIY, maker, hacker community.
I also have a much much longer list that is always growing on my own blog, under "Blogs (Independent)":
https://l-o-o-s-e-d.net/bookmarks
Obviously I was influenced by NODE's hyphenated domain. It's been a fun SEO challenge haha
Well with that attitude I expect you’ve opened a room in your house to a homeless person. Otherwise you’re just a NIMBY hypocrite.
I'm blown away that the Phoenicians (w/ Egyptians) circumnavigated Africa in 600BC and ... during 2000 years, it was assumed that it was a legend, until being proved otherwise only in 1488 - just a few years before America was (officially) discovered.
Interested that the project started as a REST API generator for any MySQL database [1], and then in a year was transformed to what can be seen today from what I gather following the git log.

[1]: https://github.com/nocodb/nocodb/tree/0.4.9
Could you elaborate more on this? wouldn't require docker if hooking up the middleware into express?

Would this work for a blitzjs/nextjs app?

thx! really cool stuff
Hey, how are the rats on board the Kursk doing?
This has to be one of the coolest things I've seen on HN :)
The main reason I've heard of people using tools like this is so people can review a commit at a time (a lot of review tools don't handle this well) and CI runs on each commit.

Generally, it sounds like people are simulated Phab with these tools which is trying to simulate the email patch workflow.
Signed up just to say that I've also really, really wanted such a tool since forever. While for example the Jetbrains IntelliJ family of editors has the automatic "inline function" refactoring, they do it by permanently modifying the source code, which is not quite what we want. Like you say, it should be transient!

So I recently made a quick&dirty interactive mock-up of how such an editor feature could look. The mockup is just a web page with javascript and html canvas, so it's easy to try here: https://emilprogviz.com/expand-calls/?inline,substitution
(Not mobile friendly, best seen on desktop)

There are 2 different ways to show the inlining. You can choose between them if you click the cogwheel icon.

Then I learned that the Smalltalk editor Pharo already has a similar feature, demonstrated at https://youtu.be/baxtyeFVn3w?t=1803
I wish other editors would steal this idea. Microsoft, are you listening?

My mock-up also shows an idea to improve code folding. When folding / collapsing a large block of code, the editor could show a quick summary of the block. The summary could be similar to a function signature, with arguments and return values.
> CentOS was huge in the cloud

There's no question about that, but I just don't equate a large install base with being successful. Had CentOS been successful, there would have been no Redhat involvement. CentOS failed the day Redhat took control of the project. After that it was just an version of RHEL without the subscription.

Companies wanted RHEL, but not pay for the development and maintenance. If this changes, and more companies are will to either donate to pay developers, or hire Rocky Linux develops, then maybe it will be successful. If it's just a few people slaving away in their free time, trying to maintain a parallel RHEL build, then I kinda doubt it's longevity.
Which is exactly my point. If something is 100x as bad as the alternative and "only" 10% likely, that's still a very high ~10x expectation of badness.
Those things are not mutually exclusive? You can say to someone "I want to punch you", and that can both be the truth and hostile.

...and yes, you're being extremely hostile. There's a reason you got banned off of that other site...
I hadn't heard of Borromean Knots before you made this comment and got a great read out of it. Thanks!

For others following up on this thread, Borromean Knots seem to be an extension of psychoanalytic theory that tries to describe social interactions through an object oriented model that highlights the differences between symbolic, real, and imaginary claims:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borromean_clinic

2. https://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/borromean-kn...
Russia is going to need to protect that massive southern border from climate refugees.

Canada benefits from sharing a border with a relatively stable state.
Other “groups” don’t have national broadcasts and major websites.
That's the baseline they've been using forever. Whenever the protocols are discussed about limiting the change to 2°C, that's what they mean. They've been warning about the dangers at 1.5°C for many years.

It's not an attempt to mislead anybody. They're simply leaving out the "above pre-industrial levels" part that they've said so many times they assume it's not necessary. Especially on HN, where the headlines are sharply limited in length.
Yes we have hooks for spreadsheet inserts/updates/deletes and we will be working on the frontend part to make it modularised as mentioned in another comment.

https://youtu.be/H4qBE0T47b4

Store images in BLOBs - we aren't against it. But we ran short of time to make that work for all databases.

For file storage : it used local filesystem if no storage app is installed.

You can connect to wide variety of storage services : S3, Minio, BackBlaze, GCS, Azure to name a few. I believe Azure storage isn't tested as we didn't have credits with them :)
A couple of my favorites:

- https://meltingasphalt.com/

- https://simonsarris.substack.com/

- https://ava.substack.com/
Isn't whether these claims are true the relevant argument to be making here? If they're true then steady warnings and coverage in the media are not something to complain about. If they're false, then any amount of media coverage is something to complain about.
I've pursued personally-funded research for more than a year. Some thoughts:

Think about your competitive advantages. What makes working at your place different from a university and why would a researcher choose yours? It could be they don't like to teach. It could be that they want their life taken care off and you can hire a cook/cleaner/etc. for them. It could be that they don't like writing grants. Or they have trouble winning grants. (E.g., their topic is out of favor for various reasons.) It could be the freedom to work on anything. It could be the location. It could be that they could be the most senior person at your institute. Perhaps they want to start something new. It could be that they love that you think their research is valuable.

Your own institute has weaknesses, but they can be ameliorated. Make it easy to travel to. Putting it near a major university may help earn academic traffic and provide for collaboration.

One way to structure the institute is to have one good mind and many followers on. That is easy to bootstrap, once you get the good mind. The other sustainable structure is to pick a topic and have the largest most-focused group working on that topic. People will come for that, but getting it off the ground will be difficult. Perhaps you can a few good minds right after they get their PhDs and build around that team.

If the key is the people, I suggest you talk to the people. Find out what top researchers don't like about university life.

If you need a topic to focus on, I did research on formal proofs --- writing a mathematical proof on a computer. Every other industry has moved to digital, computer-aided design, except the field most suited to it! The way that mathematicians advance their careers in academia is working against the adoption of the technology. A place outside academia might make more progress in the area.
Penii if you’re a person of culture. (Well it ends in “us” in my language)
I didn’t downvote but would be curious about your definition of “enforcement” that makes it wrong. I assume you mean “morally” wrong here and it seems NOT enforcing repercussions for externalities would be the immoral choice.
Aw. And I was hoping to escalate my complaint to him before that.

I ordered something in December '20 and it's still listed as "on the way, but it's running late". I went to cancel it a few weeks ago and then but the support folks insist it's been delivered. I haven't received anything and the tracking link on the order page is dead. The Amazon folks say that's because too long has passed and they can see "internally" that it's marked as deliverd. What ever does that mean? And why is the order page still not updated, then?

I'm escalating that all the way to the top, I tells ya!