skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then the bank would give out 2FA codes to un-authenticated people??
Clean energy from the fastest moving objects on earth
Doctors in Lithuania find kilo of nails and screws in man’s stomach
> penalties are prohibitively high for a reason

Which works, until your supplier is simply willing to go bankrupt. And you still have no chips and can't ship anything.

> most have to compete on cost, and there every cent counts.

Until you can't ship and everything grinds to a halt. Risk reduction has a cost and nobody is willing to pay it because it doesn't enter the balance sheet.
Yup, they're great! Provided you have a lot of unused water and land, of course.
Considering the author seems to be committed to BCH gives this list a somewhat jaundiced perspective. The LN vs BCH arguments are quite fervent mostly because it is likely a zero sum game - the bitcoin purists vs the pragmatists.
> What part of this do you object to?

Given the lack of success of, well, any major climate change action in the US, this quality would probably not provide much.
For anyone in the south east of England, I'd recommend a visit to the Knepp rewilding project if you want to experience this effect for yourself (for everyone else there are some interesting YouTube videos). It's an old farm which has mostly been left to fend for itself, except for some carefully managed animal activity.

The minute you walk into the site it's apparent from the dragon flies and insect noises that there is something different about the place. It just feels alive in a way I've rarely come across.
What’s the battery life on this thing? Any info on how the Steam Deck stacks up against it (obviously drifting from the keyboard convo here)?
Same thing in Germany, after WW2 and the boom and rebuilding thereafter, a lot of forests are pure pine forests since they grow very quickly and provided the wood for the country.

Sadly, that lead to a lot of forests all over the country losing their beautiful biodiversity that you can e.g. find in the black forest.

Nowadays they're also often diseased, as you said, and you can see whole blocks of forest being torn down to contain the spread.
As someone that has very little idea of what all of that is, I think the title is great and certainly made me consider looking into the implementation.

It might be wildly optimistic, but encouraging people to learn new things, especially by trying, is always a good thing.
I'm curious what makes you look into other solutions than Kowl then? :). We are happy to add anything that is desired in the community. Now that Kafka connect support is also there we will most likely just expand the existing features (e.g. adding, editing schemas etc.).

Disclaimer: I'm one of the Kowl authors. I do not intend to hijack that post for Kowl content though!
It doesn’t require socialism to hyperinflate your currency. Anybody can do it.
WhatsApp is cloning Telegram, and no one bats an eyelid. I guess Telegram is the kryptonite of HN forums only because WhatsApp has supposedly "e2e" conversations- which stay intact even in the most repressive regimes, but Telegram is routinely blocked in the same places - read Iran etc.
>Eg, Obamacare would probably have been described as dragging the US into the 21st century and getting somewhere close to what every other modern democracy has offered for decades.

Uhm, no. Obamacare is basically a Republican brainchild, mostly conceptualized by the Heritage Foundation in the late 1980s. I wouldn't describe it as dragging the US into the 21st century... more like dragging it barely into the 20th century.

>And yet it turned out not to, the rhetoric is still that US healthcare is pretty bad.

US Healthcare is pretty good. But also extremely expensive at the same time, with lots of people unable to afford it, even when they have health insurance thanks to huge co-payments. You keep hearing the stories of severely injured people screaming they do NOT want to go to the hospital because they cannot afford it, and of other people who are brought to the ER, then amass huge debt in a short time that bankrupts them, and then they end up dying very prematurely anyway because the actual life-saving treatment or surgery is something they couldn't afford before, and certainly cannot afford after seeing the initial ER bill.

Waiting a few months at worst for a hip replacement surgery in Germany seems fine compared to waiting for hip replacement surgery forever and never actually getting it in the US because you cannot afford it even though you worked two jobs your entire life. All the while the US spends 17% of their GDP on health care, bout 5% points more than most other western nations.

That's the state of affairs after Obamacare. And yet, Obamacare still made things better than before for a lot of people.
>> But that is not this. In the case of inverting a binary tree, what you call logic-puzzle minutiae is just taking a fundamental building block in computer science (binary trees) and asking the person to demonstrate even the faintest ability when it comes to writing an incredibly basic algorithm.

The thing is that most programmers are not computer scientists anymore, in the same way that most computer scientists are not mathematicians anymore. In many CS101 courses there's only a very brief study of algorithms and data structures and most of the course is about using this or that language (probably python, these days, java back in the day, Ada further back etc).

This is partly the fault of universities, in a "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" kind of way. Universities try to prepare their students for the industry, except they seem to be in lockstep with the industry's requirements, but with a ten-year gap. So they try to teach students programming, rather than computer science, because they believe that's what the industry is asking for, then the students go to interviews and find themselves staring at a binary tree on a whiteboard.

Also, to be fair, the majority of programmers nowadays are not nerds, anymore, and they're not even that interested in computers, or even progamming. Most of my class in my degree and in my Master's just wanted a cozy job at an office. In one company where I was hired through a graduate programme, all of the guys in my cohort came in with a qualification in CS, then immediately sought the better-paying manager jobs in the corp (and I left to go to academia because [edit:] they didn't let me train neural nets on their mainframes :P).
> Ashkenazi Jews, who are genetically more likely to have high IQ

As an Ashkenazi Jew I think this theory is likely nonsense, but dangerous nonsense which can drive racism.
Yeah I don’t see why not. I’ve collaborated with a handful of scientists of indigenous backgrounds who still practice their culture. That’s never even been a contradiction in their head. Living a sustainable life doesn’t impact or hinder science whatsoever.
I know you want to think those people are hard core anti-vaxers like yourself. But the reality is most of them of low grade malingerers who will cave when confronted.
Guess I better stop eating babies
James Veitch: Deep Fake David Attenborough W Tedious Explanation
Hilarious application of deep fakes - for the good of the planet.
Permaculture food forests are a very sustainable and productive way to create or restore a forest: https://youtu.be/6GJFL0MD9fc
I think it's more millions of years than decades.

And tree is a very short term solution, because they die and release all the carbon they absorbed as they rot.
I would guess laws and regulations.
we managed to connect a few billion devices using about 200mio addresses and a protocol that was designed for a few thousand hosts.

successfull technology indeed.
Doctors in the UK were effectively bribed to allow the National Health Service to be created. "I stuffed their mouths with gold" is the quote. Organised, doctors could have simply refused to take any part in this endeavour and killed it, but with some having sound ethical reason to agree with the plan and others having financial reasons that was enough to ensure that resistance was piecemeal and today even those who most want to destroy the NHS are obliged to couch this as "reform".
> His mind is the kind of mind that comes along only once in a millennia.

I'm sure the guy was smart, but lets not overdo it.
Picture from a local news source: https://s1.15min.lt/images/photos/2021/09/30/original/radini...
You're probably underestimating the amount of boring laws passed in a given time period.
Crashed by Adam Tooze is really good reading on this topic:

https://adamtooze.com/crashed/

https://www.amazon.com/Crashed-Decade-Financial-Crises-Chang...
Speaking as a person on medicaid.

Our local dental clinic. "Sorry, we are not accepting new patients at the moment"

But there's a local veterinarian that has a sideline in tooth-pulling, if it gets too bad.

USA is medieval.
Apple's privacy stance is questionable (see the recent content scanning debacle).

Plus, I would say they profit more when the web experience on their devices is inferior to apps, which means annoying ads and popups help drive people to use apps, which Apple profits from... (and some companies, like Reddit, actively participate in annoying their own users to get the app).
"yourself" detection is anything but simple
Of course, businesses will support executing baby seals. Baby seals are a source of premium leather that has nice waterproofing qualities.
I suppose it’s one of those “effect size” cases where a small sample is ok. Finding one child with micro plastics in it ought to be alarming, finding 6 is already a strong signal.

Further studies are always a good thing in any case.
> Native apps dont deal with the same issues around storage, and are actually _much_ more performant overall

Its funny you have to say this - there's a whole generation of programmers who just think web first.
I remember the company/service but I'm unfamiliar with the unfolding of the company.
Write a function that outputs average rate per age
Actually they do, just in combination with other ways of granting citizenship. To pick Italy off your list, if a child is born in Italy and it’s parents are unknown or unable to transfer their citizenship(stateless, unknown citizenship etc) the child becomes an Italian citizen. Most modern first world states provide pretty solid protections for children born on their soil.
and there are those having ipv6 access from the isp but disabling it in the router because it caused some (badly timed) fuckups in the past.
> it seems like your argument boils down to "I prefer a for loop because I'm more familiar with it".

I don't think that's it. A lot of code ends up being calls to functions, and so other types of syntax add a bit of texture. Replacing those with function calls too reduces the code to a smooth paste. It's a bit like if the standard library had a lessThanThree(x) function; it doesn't matter how totally familiar I was with it, I'd still prefer to see x<3.
Apple has entered advertising before with iAds. A bit odd Reuters doesn’t even mention that.
Because it's very simple- compared to a web app backend (which is typically an uhonly mess of unnecessary complication; but still, much more complex for that).
Sayre's Law: "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

Was there ever a less essential fiefdom than citation formats?
There is a fringe theory, that agglutinative languages with consistent vocabulary are more effortless for children to learn. So children would spend less time learning and memorizing words, and could proceed faster to learn other things.

English vocabulary is a patchwork with origins from several different languages, so words with related meaning can look different. Whereas for example Finnish is consistent:

kirjoittaa – to write
kirjailija – writer
kirja – book
kirje – letter
kirjasto – library
kirjallisuus – literature
kirjasin – font

In this way, you can learn the same vocabulary by learning maybe 5x smaller amount of root words.

http://finnish-and-pisa.blogspot.com/
After a few iterations you only have "leader" personalities left, at which point things might get as ugly as politics itself.
Thanks for this fantastic link. I will share it with my students at the end of my intro to compilers class.
> unless a crazy network gives you only /128

like the incumbant cable network in germany (vodafone) ...
That NAT "does not work" is an old myth that certain people love to use. If you show it does work, their final reply is always: but inbound connections are hard.

I do not know who needs inbound connections to all of their devices in a corporate network, nor at home, since we solved that shit long time ago.
Smart is not the same as cynical. Being cynical doesn't require that much intelligence.
I think we see a more liberal agenda playing out through big tech as it supports their ethos. That is, jobs/marketing aimed at the current obsession with diversity and support for immigration. I get immigration as the world is global and we need a global workforce.The latter I find weird. I turned 50 this week and have observed society to have become more angry and frightened over the last 30 years. It does not surprise me then that Google's tech follows and creates bias. Ironic.
It's not acceptable in Australia .com.au domains!

Grab yourself a lawyer and make a formal complaint to AUDA. [1]

You have to establish three main things:

• That the domain name is similar to a trade mark that you hold
• That the cybersquatter has no legitimate interest in holding the domain
• That the domain name was registered in used in bad faith

I've never made a complaint myself, but you can certainly recover your domain name in Australia!

It varies country to country, so YMMV :-)

[1]https://sprintlaw.com.au/is-cybersquatting-legal/
>I’m aware that consumption of microplastics is a huge problem.

Is it? Is there any research showing this?
> I don't know what you mean by this - lambdas are values not types.

I think they meant "`Maybe` is a type-lambda abstraction", meaning roughly "a type-level function", which seems true to me. I don't think they meant to say that `Maybe` is a type in the same way String is. (I'd agree it's not, though I'd still call it a type.)

> there is no Type type in Haskell

Incidentally there is[1], and it even has kind `Type` just like `String` does. So you can ask "what is the kind of `Maybe Type`" (it's `Type`) where you can't ask "what is the kind of `Maybe Maybe`" (`Maybe` has kind `Type -> Type` so this is a kind error).

[1]: https://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-4.15.0.0/docs/Data-...
A very popular covid comorbodity is obesity and diabetes, which are extremely common conditions in the US. It would be interesting to split those death rates statistics by those conditions as well ( and not just age group).

It may help understand the epidemic, and encourage vulnerable people to get vaccinated. But also maybe focus the public's attention on the atrocious food habits most americans are living with.
Heck yes! That was excellent!
You would make a good point, except that this post is not anything approaching an argument - instead its a list of links of other arguments that the reader has to independently go through and judge. The quantity of opinions says nothing of the quality of them, and the political angle explains why such a strange format was used.
This is indeed a very biased comparision where some features in the comparision table are just claimed to be not supported by other (open source) solutions. Even after reaching out multiple times the article is not updated accordingly. So this has to be considered a sneaky marketing page to be honest.

I might be biased as I'm one of the Kowl authors but I can definetely tell that Lenses is affected negatively the most. Imo it is one of the most complete paid solutions and got the worst marks basically.
Show HN: WebSockets Explained with TypeScript
The failed iAd network notwithstanding, haven't they already?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24109695 (1 year ago, 75 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26019427 (8 months ago, 0 comments)
Heard a bloke introduce himself at the onboarding as a "Sematic Ontologist".

His sobriety was only exceeded by his earnestness.

I prayed he'd not become attached to my project, as he looked like the sort who could love a problem for weeks without ever reaching a conclusion.
So this is a page made by a lightning network "hater", who just collected every bad article about it out there.
Sounds pretty practical to me. Plenty of torque, plenty of range. Can definitely handle rough terrain. Awesome for camping out in the middle of nowhere. Etc. And you can plug into any wall socket to charge up.

Journeys into remote areas would require a bit of planning as to where, when and how to charge. But that's not that different from driving a petrol car. If you run out of petrol in the middle of nowhere, it's just as bad as running out of battery because you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with no easy way to fix it. The difference is that an electric car will tell you how much range it has and is pretty accurate about it and be able to guide you to the nearest charging point.

But if you insist on draining the tank or battery until there's nothing left before you top up, then yes, you are going to be taking a risk. Simple suggestion: try not to do that. If the absolute worst happens and you ignore all the warnings the car gives you, the solution would be to charge the battery. For example from another EV (some models actually support this). By driving up to somebody's house and begging for permission to plug in. Etc. Absolute worst case is you'll be towed away by somebody shaking their heads to a place where the car can be plugged in. People would be shaking their head because it would be your own fault.

Now some people have a genuine need for hundreds of miles of range because where they are going there is nothing. The good news is you can fix that. Put up some solar panels, truck in some batteries, etc. Easy to do. I imagine, many logging operations will end up doing exactly that sort of thing.
I've worked with and for brands with multi million dollar budgets.

My general advice, which I borrwed from somewhere...

Advertising is like an Aircraft. You power up, use a lot fuel(budget) and you get airborn!

Then you cut the engines (reduce budget) and you start gliding and you think, well OK, everthing seems fine! I dont need to keep burning fuel!

And then all of sudden you either smash into the ground or you have to use that rapid fuel burn all over again to get back on top!

YMMV!

On the flip side, I've cut Google Ad spend for a large tourism brand and traffic to the website continued to grow even 24 months later.

Traffic is one metric of course....

Marketing and Advertising are complicated and hard! It requires nerves of steal and it really helps when it's someone else's budget! :-)
You can configure your operating system to prefer IPv4 over IPv6. On glibc systems, this can be done by adding e.g. "precedence ::ffff:0:0/96 100" to /etc/gai.conf.
These days, you can use Wikidata and the related tooling such as Scholia. Here's a starting point to their ontology, including the difficult details such as the "page(s)" qualifier for the property "published in": https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Source_Me...

Scholia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Scholia
More discussion about this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid...
A GTK theme based on Windows 3.11 appearance
There is. Let me show you this neat search engine for such things.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=micr...
Most things are. Administration is a network, a nation is a network. Or should I say system exchanging information ?
>This attitude is terrible and corrosive to your own sense of self-worth.

I would argue that tying your self-worth too closely to your career can be even more corrosive. Sometimes doing the bare minimum and saving your mental, emotional, and physical energy for your life outside your work is even more rewarding.

I say this as someone who has spent time at both ends of the spectrum. I have had stretches in which my career is my only focus and times in which I honestly put in maybe half a day's worth of real effort in an average week. Which is better all depends on the specifics of your life, your job, and your personal motivations at the moment. And it is probably worth noting that my career didn't progressive any faster during those workaholic periods compared to my slacker periods. However those slacker periods were clearly better for my life outside of work.
"Properly scaled"

If they had this for their UI and the scrollbars maybe this would keep me from switching. But they know better.
In Europe protected software engineering titles definitely exist as a sibling comment already pointed out. This only means you can't call yourself that, it doesn't mean you can't do that kind of work. From that perspective it might differ from civil engineering, but the distinction is likely not clear cut there either. Maybe only the guy signing off on the bridge's technical capabilities has to have the degree while the rest of the group that does the work doesn't need the degree.
Taxing carbon has justification. Subsidizing EVs does not. If I walk and bike everywhere, I shouldn't be funding someone's EV, which has its own externalities above and beyond my bike related to lithium mining and manufacturing and the grid not being fully renewable and taking up more space on public roads. They should be giving me money instead.
Hello Mercury
If what you're saying is true and those software are mediocre at best, this implies that software quality and success have no correlation. Or perhaps that software quality is not at all what the users of this site tend to think.
> Smart people know that you gain nothing by sacrificing yourself for society. Even if you cared enough to say no, all that would happen is that Facebook would pay somebody else to work for them.

Nothing? Not even a clear conscience?

The "but someone else will do it" argument is used to justify so many wrong doings… We hear it all the time about fighting climate change, building unethical weapons, etc.

You also have the choice to not personally actively contribute to whatever unethical thing is being discussed. It's a circular game theory problem, that "other person that will do it anyway" might also be justifying it because they think you would do it if they didn't.
Why from Australia ? I heard that the south pole has sun half of the year.
It was easier for our grand grand parents to understand the issue. A global war is something that hits you on the head, you and everyone else. Climate change doesn't do that. Second, after the war (and before too) life was harder than it is to day, you had to work together. Then the sixties came in with lots of oil and all the richness. So people were just leaving the hardship of pas decades and entering a world where everything was much easier. We are the product of those years. We were born in an easier world (at least in western europe, where several countries had access to their late colonies on top of that)). So I'm afraid we don't know much about working together. We'll have to learn that again.

Hopefully, we could have a very big energy crisis. Unlike COVID, energy price rise affects everyone directly, it's not like "I know somebody who..." (unfortunately, the poorer are hit harder). This would affect everyone and would lead to some social unrest. Not that I wish social unrest, but that is a signal that can't be ignored, even though it is a very slippy slope.

Interestingly, the current spike in gas prices down here puts a lot of politicians in panic mode. Gas price, unlike covid, is the result of human negotiator; you can't invoke "bad luck" or "nature's revenge" or whatever....