skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The abandonment of the region for approx. 600 years is judged as caused by hypersalinity preventing growing of crops till natural leaching lowered salt content of the soil.
Your city is doing bike lanes wrong :-)
I don't understand what he means with the build systems comment? What does that have to do with Glue systems? I could speculate that he wishes the build systems accounted for all the supposedly siloed dependent systems in some way but it's not clear what exactly his complaint here is.
Yeah, agree, there's a large sector of overlap. Basically that, but modern, and built for engineers with a polished experience.
I realize it's irrational given the price of ebooks, but the lack of "ownership" of the books makes me a lot less interested in buying them.
> MD5 is relatively secure for many applications

This is pure gold.
> because obviously Google Streetview cars don't enter pure bike paths

Their cars don’t, but their bicycles sometimes do (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View#Data_captur... shows a trike. At the bottom of the page, there even is a photo of a pedestrian wearing a camera backpack)
I would guess that is because all the nuance gets stripped.

There are multiple reasons for experts to be against boosters. A few that come to mind:

- Requiring boosters to maintain "fully vaccinated" status undermines public trust in the vaccine's efficacy. This depresses willingness to get it in the first place, and utterly destroys the confidence of those that already "did their part".

- While the long term prevention of COVID contraction and spread seems to be beyond these vaccines, they do significantly reduce the severity of a COVID infection. I would guess that a large portion of the scientific community has accepted that this may be the best that can be done. Getting COVID and having the vaccine means that you likely have more durable long term protection with severely reduced risk of hospitalization.

Something to remember when it comes to public health: you, the individual are unimportant. What matters is the herd. If that means sacrificing a few to save the many, governments will do it and lie to you the whole way if that is what is required to accomplish their goal.
So that’s the infamous Sodom
Yes! I had something like that and it was so frustrating I wrote a post (on FB, sigh) about it, looks like it was August 10.

I had written a comment with multiple paragraphs (which I guess they don't expect people to do, or test for) and I wanted to add something to the next-to-last paragraph, and when I tried to type "matters" it would keep locking me in autocomplete tagging for friends name "Matthew", and as soon as I dismissed the cursor would leap to the end of the comment. If I tried to click back, the cursor kept jumping to the end!
How does this not fall under the "abusing one's dominant market position" section of antitrust laws?
Have you tried? I’ve had good luck using Perl (years ago) under very heavy load and it worked very well.
What does veritas aequitas mean?
This site is really nice. Videos aren't Youtube embeds, zero tracking scripts, RSS feed, and quite fast. Subscribed.
> (audio is on their roadmap though)

And implemented 7 hours after your comment, apparently!
Same. Out of my entire collection, the 5610 gets the most wear because for me it is the perfect watch. It is so rugged, I can keep it on while wrenching on cars and it still looks fine after several years.
> the odds are so astronomical

Heh, in more ways than one I suppose
Steve's history went on beyond Byte:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ciarcia

His projects in Byte were better IMHO as it was usually just him doing some cool or impressive stuff. Sometimes he'd get some help, but he didn't have a regular staff back then.
Absolutely, true, just as reading one natural language won't necessarily help you read another.
I'd probably get it but try promoting that "mRNA cocktail" to the average American.
Best definition of a city ever: “bolide sensor”. Love it
Yeah, this benchmark is way too specific. Would be much more interesting to see how different implementations could take advantage of their frameworks. Eg. some frameworks may make it easy to use animations, or they may have reusable components like date pickers. And of course they should take the target device in account - phone apps should look different from desktop apps, and they would probably also look different from control interfaces on industrial equipment.
The difference with revelation is that climate change is real. It is happening and will continue to happen.
From Example 2 (https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI#example-2---inter... ) it looks like you can assign names to layout elements with "key".
Gonna install this just to get screen rotation on my Clara HD.

Thanks!
Ah, yes, well-known defect-free Firefox is being held back by Chrome's bugs. It has nothing to do with the fact that, anytime Mozilla claims it's getting serious, its answer is to make widely and wildly unpopular UI changes. This is the same, dead-end, low-energy excuse that Mozilla has been using since Chrome released. How did Firefox ever claw 30% of the market from Internet Explorer in the first place if it's true that "the incubment's bugs and half-baked featuers hold us back"? If that's the narrative you're telling yourself, it's no wonder Firefox steadily lost 85% of its marketshare over the last 13 years.

I don't hate Firefox. I don't want browser hegemony. But if Firefox is our last, best hope against a Chromium hegemony, then we're doomed. It's been a decade since Chrome surpassed Firefox in marketshare. Not once, in 10 years, has Mozilla expressed any sort of believable plan to turn the ship around. Mozilla is failing Firefox.
>The Kindle is also great for reading in the bath, and is honestly BETTER for reading in bed than a real book for me now -- I'm 51, so my eyes aren't as great as they were 20 years ago. The lovely cool backlight of a Paperwhite, together with the adjustable font, make it a pretty pleasant experience.

The Oasis (and the brand new Paperwhite) both have adjustable color temperature. I've found the warm light is much better for my eyes, and feels more natural. The other thing that I wanted to mention is that you can choose your font as well as install your own fonts on the device, so you have a significant amount of control over what the text looks like.
I'm not having kids because it's too expensive. Nursery costs near me in London are approximately £18k/year per child.

Basically it comes down to choosing between buying a house and having a kid.
Interestingly, the "biblical connections" side of the paper would actually make certain issues with biblical inerrancy.

Namely, the article notes that the most probable locations for Sodoma and Jericho are two cities that show evidence for the air burst theory. Meaning story of Lot and the Fall of Jericho would have to happen on the same day, which kinda doesn't work with bible being infallible and inerrant.
> Maybe those who believe they are bringing souls into the world, rather than bags of meat and water, tend to have a more positive outlook on having children?

I think it is more likely that following religions where you can only have sex in the context of attempted procreation leads to more children.
Not really a mod, but I use the alarms on my Casios to store data, like calories consumed, protein, hydration, distances, progress, etc. I started with the databank models because you can use text labels in the phone number display, but ended up wearing some five-alarm models around so I adapted to those. Even without the text it's kinda cool to think of what you can track.
the only solution is to keep your screen off, get your car and go somewhere with your friends
Yea you have a point in our futile efforts to develop flu vaccines. If we ever have something that's actually deadly infect the world we're probably just screwed. The governments have used all the clout on Covid. Best just to get the vaccine and move on with life. Let's just be honest, we will probably die of Cancer or Heart Disease.

I'm convinced if Covid hit in the 50's we wouldn't have near the deaths. We're such a unhealthy society now. Best just to focus on health going forward.
I think if the pandemic has taught us anything it's that we need to be flexible in our opinions and approach as new information comes to light. Anyone who hasn't had to change their opinion on a whole bunch of issues to do with the virus over the last year and a half is either an unfeasibly lucky guesser or is doing something wrong.
How do you remember where you left off?
350k is an incredible amount of money.

You're not adding much to this discussion other than bragging about how much you make.
I really like e-ink, but the ability to fiddle with page corners & edges in the iOS Books app means it's the only way I actually get ebooks read. Mini's perfect for fiction, 12.9" pro's amazing for PDFs (say, textbooks) or other work that needs large pages (comics, too—it's close enough to the size of a two-page comic spread, in landscape mode, to be entirely readable that way, at least until my eyesight gets even worse)
Other way around. They made Stash in house, they bought BitBucket, and rebranded Stash as BitBucket Server. The BB acquisition happened before Stash was released but Stash was not an acquisition.
> The Gene

I read this book but i had to take huge amounts of notes/scribbles on the pages to keep track of various acronyms. I go back and lookup stuff that i forgot about. I thin an ereader is less amenable to going back forth and refer things. I feel like ereaders are designed more for linear reading .
No one said it had to be a single, year-round, uninterrupted settlement. A seasonal, interrupted, settlement would be no different to an asteroid.
I like the theory that this event is what inspired the biblical story of Sodom. It reminds me of how paleontologists use the ancient art and stories of Native Australians to figure out what Pleistocene animals looked like and how they may have behaved.

In the story, Lot and his family were one of the few people to escape the city before its destruction. God told his family to not look back at the city as it was being destroyed. Lot's wife looked back and turned into "a pillar of salt". Maybe this is a metaphor for the people who went back to the site and couldn't grow food there due to the hypersaline that was spread across the region by the airburst.
I commend the developers for acknowledging the problem that exists with modern social media and trying to do something about it. My personal opinion is that you don't fix this problem with another platform that promotes content sharing. Regardless of the content shared, it'll likely turn into a comparison game and result in the same unhappiness that more traditional social media platforms bring and it's now been proven through extensive studies that these platforms do in fact worsen mood. Why is that? Well, it kinda makes sense.. you're sitting at home looking at what other people are doing instead of doing those things yourself. Certainly images and videos of loved ones enjoying themselves can bring you joy, but nowhere near the amount of joy you'd get from being with them. The problem is that the current social media platforms do everything but make us social. They encourage us to sit back at home and feel as if we're being social by seeing social activity.

So what's the solution? If I had to take a stab at it, I'd build something very primitive with no content sharing, no followers or likes that promotes actual social interactions. The primary focus of the application should be to get people together, IRL. Once that interaction has been facilitated or scheduled, that's as far as the application should go. The goal of social media should be to get people to be more social again, in person and not through a phone screen. Going to visit a new city? This app would allow you to let your network know and use approximated GPS data from your phone to connect you with people in your network that could meet up in person. Even if you're going to visit the same city you always visit but live in the suburbs, you can let people know where you'll be by location and they would receive alerts that someone from their network will be in the area. Want to plan a hike? Schedule it in the app and make it public, semi-public allowing people in your network to see your plan and opt in to join.

Going to meet a friend for happy hour? Throw it on the app and allow your network to be updated and suddenly you're catching up with a few friends you haven't seen in some time.
IIRC the first report of domestic cats testing positive for covid came from Hong Kong in March or April 2020.

In other words, we shoulda worried about it then, if we were going to. By this point the wild deer population have it. Happy "zero covid".
Will they also be supporting static site generation?
Seems unlikely, seeing 20 years ago we had just come out of the the dot-com boom. I'd say this has been the norm since the 90's.
(bash +) AWK
Are you serious?

https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?catId=0&initiative_id=S...

Or do you want a brand name that you know attached to it?

Why not pick the Li-Ion cells in your devices by brand name, too?

Come on, this is ancient tech, any $5+ watch works well.
Tinkercad to vrlandio Simple build Wonderful 3D Worlds
It's possible to adopt kids and still pass on those values.
This is the one thing that's been a deal-breaker for me with ereaders. I still love physical books and the interactivity with a laptop or desktop, but always saw ereaders as filling a gap neither really address, where you want to read material on a eink-style screen without worrying about the sun or batteries, but don't want to lug around a large number of texts.

However, for me reading material goes back and forth between relatively simple text and things that require pdfs, and I always had trouble with pdfs. They've never displayed correctly and have been ridiculously slow on top of it.

My dream ereader would have an eink display (preferably color but it's not a necessity for me to be happy with it) that is optimized around displaying technical pdfs, like math-heavy scientific articles with lots of images. If it could do that and display simple text well, I'd probably use it a lot, probably next to my laptop sometimes even.
Started my first drop shipping company. Custom lasor cut metal signs
I'd love some feedback on my work. It's my first one. Also take a look around the shop. :)
I read a lot of maths and have ended up for the most part using a 10 inch Fire tablet. I then tend to prefer them in their original typeset PDF format that way and am able navigate them with the sort of speed you need. It'll depend on the particular technical content but I tend to need to jump back and forth and zoom in and out and it never seems pleasant on e-ink.

I've been seriously tempted by splashing out on a BOOX 10.3 (https://shop.boox.com/collections/eink-tablet) - but don't think I can really justify it to myself and from what I gather the refresh rate is still not going to be anything like a tablet.
I wouldn't put the scare quotes around experts but around "talk". What is getting reported is often not quite nuanced enough. I would suggest to cut down on news if the reporting makes you feel bad.
Humans Lost Their Tails
> Why not pick the Li-Ion cells in your devices by brand name, too?

I tend to buy Samsung cells.
It's Always DNS. Filtering with PiHole and Podman
First time I thought reading books on an iPad was actually not bad is when they added true tone. It's been a while I think but it's just much easier on the eyes.
What's especially stupid about this is that almost nobody knows that we have a quite workable backup plan (solar geoengineering). It's not ideal but at some point it will have to be deployed. It'll be relatively cost effective and can be 'tuned' quite easily.
Firefox used to not send those to the site js; I think that broke with the Quantum update. Just one of its thousand cuts.
I’ve got to think they’ll develop a 2nd generation vaccine with fewer side effects especially if a new one is actually needed yearly (still not convinced we don’t just need the vaccine re-tuned for Delta rather than blindly shoving booster after booster of the original strain).

I get the flu shot every year and have zero side effects, it’s a different type of vaccine but I believe the Chinese have developed an inactivated virus vaccine for covid.
Github has (or maybe had) some hotkey that not only opens a clunky browser-based text editor, but also forks the repo under your account. Then you have to go back and manually delete the repo that you didn't intend to fork. Ugh!

Also a lot of web-based code editors override the standard Ctrl/Cmd-L shortcut ("go to URL bar") to mean "go to line". It's nice having IDE-like affordances, I guess, but not when it interferes with the basic functionality of the browser.
> has no glare like an iPad Mini does

Unless you use a PaperLike screen protector. I don't like glossy screens, so I get matte protectors for all my i-devices (except the Watch).
I'm telling people to shop around.

And I've always told people to shop around:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28561460

Etc. all throughout my post history.

People in Atlanta in particular aren't aware of these salaries and they need to know. I'll tell people more details if they reach out.

It behooves me to get people paid more in Atlanta. It drives up market rates and brings more talent here. It also brings more high quality work and venture capital.

Before the pandemic, I spent a lot of time recruiting and telling people about this f2f. My improv buddies, people at bars, literally anyone who also worked in software.

If you aren't making this money and aren't happy, keep looking. There are places that are trying to fill headcount that will pay this salary.

Conversely, there are a lot of new startups that can't compete in the salary dimension and will use other perks such as 4-day work weeks, work abroad, and other desirable things that drive recruitment and retention.

There are very few jobs that aren't plumbing crud at some level. Find something that gives you what you want in exchange for crud plumbing.

When I start a company I likely can't afford this kind of comp either, so I'll do my best to make it up with other tangible perks. Like 4-day weeks and interesting domain work.

Even if you're not making these wages now, it doesn't mean you can't or won't.

I want all of us to make bank. It gives us FIRE, financial mobility, ability to pursue bootstrapped startups, etc.

Please don't normalize lower pay. It hurts us all.
Agreed. Having worked extensively with GraphQL, I’ve come to see it as a MASSIVE source of unnecessary complexity in almost all cases. Haven’t worked with Next.js, but using an SSR framework, then not using SSR, seems like a tonne of unnecessary complexity too. They even say:

> At Liferay Cloud, our project lives behind authentication and our clients are enterprise-level, with relatively modern browsers and powerful networks. So, SEO and client-side limitations are not concerns for us. Therefore, we've elected to render our application completely on the client.

So, why are you using an SSR framework then?

The FE stack at my current co. is React, MobX and TypeScript, powered by REST APIs that are well documented via OAS. It’s a very nice, easy to learn and maintain stack.
It is my genuine hope that desalination becomes cheap enough in the next decade that most coastal places will depend on it instead of any other source for domestic and industrial use. Taking that as a baseline i hope transporting water in flat topography inland up to 100 to 200 km inland from coasts also becomes cheap enough. All depends on material science breakthroughs, cheap renewable energy, technology sharing and scaling.
I have no ethical obligation to move my assets onto a corrupt network in order to reduce the percentage of illegal material there, no.

This is a ridiculous position.

The network is flawed. It's not hard to provide anonymity and yet still be able to remove child pornography.

Stop being an apologist for a network that delivers child pornography. Absolutely nothing makes this unfixable except the creators' dedication to making false ethical arguments.
Windows 10 has this funny bug where sometimes for some reason your individual windows don't get focus any more. You can click at their title bar, and they'll be drawn as-if they have focus (darker shadow and foreground titlebar), but no window actually accepts or processes any user input (while updating normally in the background, and also redrawing). The only way I know how to fix this is to go into the Ctrl+Alt+Delete screen; just bringing up task manager doesn't change anything.
From my understanding: gas in USA is heavily subsidized. The cost of fuel in Europe is more the true cost.

- gas-loving American living in Norway
> What I'm hoping for is a configurator/wizard where you can choose your options, and then you get a fully functioning foundational system to start from.

Not sure if Yeoman is still around but did they not attempt something similar?
Gearing Up for Next Gen Power Semiconductors
Neighbourhood wealth, not urbanicity, predicts help towards strangers
Chess or Coding – what do I teach my kid first?
Idea is to help them develop their thinking capabilities. I'm biased towards coding, since the things to imagine and think are endless, but am not completely sure about it. I can do both too in parallel, but would like them to focus only one thing right now, since they are young, under 7. Or any other game/activity?
> What I wonder about is if the average scifi reader expects or even could tell if something is "science" and not fantasy

I think hard sci-fi requires that the book universe has consistent rules and the book focuses on their consequences, while soft sci-fi focuses on stories and the rules are unspecified or don't drive the plot.

The rules don't need to be what we currently think about our universe for the book to be hard sci-fi.
> Even today, I think you'd find plenty of people who'd claim that whatever the people in those city were doing was bad enough to upset the divine powers enough to bomb them from space.

See New Orleans and Katrina.

The more things change, the more things stay the same.
Javascript has a rare yet similar feature called label

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Don't know about Elixir, but Clojure has a strong focus on dealing with external system the following way:

- convert the data output/need as input in core data structures
- Don't use classes or custom types to encapsulate data and make it accessible using a custom interface
- instead manipulate the data structures instead using the large standard library.
- convert the data back into the required format for storage/output/etc.

Very ETL-like, that is needed as different systems that need to be glued together may be written in different languages and most likely will export serialised data or write in a database. Certainly binary formats are rare nowadays.

Abstractions like the one for sequences allow reuse of the same function for different data structures (you don't have to convert things into lists for processing). It's possible to have other, non-core data structures implement the same abstractions, so that the existing library can be used.

ORMs are not desirable with that approach, for example. The query result tables are usually converted into things like Clojure hash-maps instead being created into unique objects with different ways of accessing the encapsulated data.

Then you have functional programming, which while nice by itself also allows using your cores efficiently. Less of a need for additional "infrastructure" glue that way. Asynchrony is also provided using libraries like core.async or agents.
How is not having kids a moral weakness?
So all the hacks just happen to align with "The Great Reset" agenda bullet points?