skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was less pedantic than I expected.

Re-wilding land will be a big part of fixing climate change, but I think anything that focuses heavily on the planting of trees, rather than a holistic approach (e.g. stopping things getting cut down, asking why things are being cut down and fixing that cause) is probably a pointless stunt. I thought they covered that fairly evenly.
The reason geoengineering is necessary is because transition to renewables isn't good enough, even if it were implemented more rapidly. We would still stand to see exacerbating climate-change and temperature uptick. You're discounting geoengineering as though it's intended to be a substitute for green transition; it isn't. It's to save our asses.
The corruption might not be related to the vaccine. Her ex-lover was found corrupt and this was before the vaccine was rolled out. It's possible she is being investigated for this previous corruption and some new corruption involving the vaccine but it seems more likely the investigation is only around the previous corruption.
Ah thankyou! In that course we did write a web frontend that interacts with the contract ABI to mint the NFTs, but we didn’t do the display side. I’m curious how opensea are doing it, because they can display NFTs from my contract without me ever giving them the ABI. Can you go from decompiled contract (like etherscan can generate) -> ABI maybe?
Orbital mechanics.

The efficient (and probably only viable) way to do this is a solar shade at lagrange point 1 (directly between the sun and earth). There's an unstable equillibrium point there were things can sit permanently with some (but minimal) station keeping. But you don't get to pick which part you're shading, you're always directly between the earth and the sun (or really the center of the earth-moon systems gravity, and the sun).
Apple is heavily active in advertising. There are ads all over the App Store and Apple News.
Hard disagree. Python is a nightmare to get started with from a dependency management perspective. Its use in exploratory programming and for writing quick hacks to solve immediate problems is so popular because you rarely care about backwards compatibility or future proofing the deployment.

I think it caught on because the syntax is clear, the execution model has relatively few pieces of foot gun trivia to memorize, a really nice repl, and most importantly, almost no one doing exploratory work needs anything faster.
Wait, how is it possible that you stated you don’t know what the person was talking about and then turn around and tell me the precise origins of the thing? Did you Google it?
Lithium is not a scarce resource. This is pretty obvious because when looking at commodity prices lithium is measured in $/metric ton rather than actually scarce elements like gold where the price is in $/troy ounce.
It would be considered alarmist to yell fire to people who had no concept of fire, and if the actual flames were years or decades away.

They won’t thank you until after they see someone being burned.
I think that's all correct, but am blurring the lines between logic and epistemology in the sense of Martin Löf, logic is the mechanism of judgement and judgement is the currency of knowing. Formally, anyway.
Agree. There’s so much money floating around that companies can be brought public with essentially all future possible growth priced into the offering at a very high success. It’s as though everyone assumes every bet is going to come out the most profitable way. No room for error nor even learning process in the valuation.
Now would be a great time for facebook employees to leak everything.
In general, we need to be skeptical of people who claim that the only real solution to climate change is enacting their preexisting political agenda. It would be very surprising if our preferences about economics and society just happened by coincidence to address climate change - but there’s a lot of biases that might trick someone into thinking they do. In other words, would this author tell you about a potentially viable strategy for addressing climate change within capitalism and investigate further, or would they presume something must be wrong with it because they’re already confident capitalism is bad?
Show HN: Toss an ETH – Let fans support you with crypto
Why do you think it is hated? Seems to be one of the most popular backends right now. Personally, I dislike the lack of convention and immature library ecosystem.
Why does every attack on Facebook seem like an actual pressure tactic to get them to censor views the mainstream media disagrees with? It seems a lot of the reporting on Facebook is driven more by a desire for censorship than for anything else.

In terms of misinformation, it was just a couple a weeks ago that the mainstream media was pushing the narrative that the Border Patrol was whipping immigrants, which was completely false.
Good day fellow hackers,

Do you ever wish random web apps were rebuilt on top of blockchains? Do you feel the need to buy random bloggers a coffee while paying with crypto? Or support your favorite creator with $5 and pay $30 transaction fees?

Well, you're in luck, because I've built exactly this. No more need to paste your Ethereum address at the bottom of your blog posts and "instantly" receive the full payment from your fans.

Toss an Eth let's you create your very own page to send your fans to, where they send you their hard earned coins and you get 98% of the transaction, because let's face it, I want a piece of it too.

Hope you like it, and have a great weekend!
Probably the worst thing is that the standard library with Node Javascript is tiny. Therefore, you have to pull in a pile of NPM packages to do pretty much anything. The package ecosystem is rather messy for the same reason - there's a mountain of tiny packages doing a few little things because somebody needed to do just a few things and didn't want to pull in some massive library that does a ton of stuff including the thing they need to do. Which then leads to a lot of bigger and more useful packages having huge dependency trees of tons of little packages, all at poorly-managed versions that usually can't be shared with any other big packages. So a program that needs, say, 3 major packages to do something useful might end up with thousands of dependencies taking up hundreds of megabytes, often with 3+ copies of the same package at different versions.

For example, I have a little webapp that I built with create-react-app with typescript and redux. Very convenient overall admittedly. It's not very big, maybe 1k lines of code total, and 3 fairly minor packages added to do various things. The node_modules folder has over a thousand items in it, and takes up 350MB. The yarn.lock file alone is half a megabyte. Ahem, what the hell? At least the built artifacts are pretty small.

This might be seen as just a problem with create-react-app. But in my experience so far, pretty much everything in the Node world does this. Seriously, has anyone managed to do something useful in the Node world without ending up with a thousand packages?
I don't want to try to answer your question, but instead I'll turn it around: logic and epistemology are the fields most centered on understanding and shaping exactly what it means for a human to effectively come to know something.
Why can't they do those things? All of them are easy steps. Sure, they take time, but so does the process of someone dropping a drug dependency.

It sounds a lot as though the obese then suffer a severe addiction if they can't make even small changes to their lifestyle in order to directly save and improve their lives on both short and long term scales.

If that's the case, shouldn't we be pressuring them to get help? Obviously i'm not sure how you feel about alcohol or opiate addictions, but assuming you think we should warn people of the dangers of drug overuse and addiction, shouldn't we do the same for the obese and their addictions?

Also, i am rather genuinely curious on one point:

What makes some people seem to have such a hard time compared to others? How come some people can consume the same food overall, but still maintain the ability to self regulate instead of greatly overeating?
Culture. It can't be just genetcs

Edit: whoever downvoted me is a racist! Hohoho
I haven't done this level of research, but in Austin I have observed motorcyclists with mask and no helmet, which is even crazier.
Akira Miyawaki has developed a method of (re-)creating healthy forests:

> The Miyawaki method of reconstitution of "indigenous forests by indigenous trees" produces a rich, dense and efficient protective pioneer forest in 20 to 30 years, where natural succession would need 200 years in temperate Japan and 300 to 500 years in the tropics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_Miyawaki#Method_and_cond...
I think some folks have this romantic ideal of going out with a double barrel shotgun, making an obnoxiously loud cocking noise (que movie clip), and upon seeing them, the bad guys flee and they get a medal and the keys to the city.

Which hey, maybe somewhere? But yes, it is not the most likely outcome, or frankly a good idea to try, even if legal in your particular jurisdiction.

Ideally response is either 1) it’s defended enough it’s not worth their time, or 2) evidence is recorded enough the perpetrators can be identified, then folks track them down and arrest them when they aren’t prepared for resistance and on guard and there is less of a chance of someone getting shot or blown up in a fight. Because that is a incredible amount of paperwork.
I think the point being made though is that CWD and other prion diseases are quite rare. Is there any danger from compost sourced from human bodies that died from non-prion-related diseases?
That's a badly misguided take though. I bet his apps don't work anymore now.
I know there's a lot of Javascript developers on this forum. If you want to get into GPU programming, I highly recommend gpu.js [1] library as a jumping off point. It's amazing how powerful computers are and how we squander most our cycles.

[1] https://gpu.rocks/#/

Disclaimer: I have one un-merged PR in the gpu.js repo
I have to defend Apple for these verification checks. I bought replacement display online and replaced it myself, after I was all done found the display was fake based on bad colors. It was old iPhone which didn't have fake component detection, I traded in that phone and now somebody else has iPhone with poor display.

iPhones get used for longer period of time by multiple users and they carry high resale value, if they let devices with fake components they will eventually tank resale value as people will not trust used iPhone.

I support right to repair, but ONLY with genuine parts with warranty. I want Apple to provide cheaper display replacement just like they do with batteries. As long as Amazon, EBay, and small repair shops keep selling fake iPhone displays and batteries there is no way out of this problem.
Oh wow, having interacted with the SemWeb community quite a lot in the past couple of years,

> the sort who could love a problem for weeks without ever reaching a conclusion.

is such an accurate description of a number of people part of it. Possibly the root cause of all the problems that led to it never taking off at the scale they'd envisioned.
Put it this way. Say we goof up with global cooling, just a bit over but not disastrously so (i.e. not existential, just expensive to fix). We just use more fossil fuels for awhile to offset.

This wouldn't work with a simple mask (blocking sunlight) and Jevon's paradox would be something to watch for.
Node has a low barrier to entry(JS), and that shows in the quality of the work. If anyone remembers QBasic, it was hated for the same reasons. It's great to grasp core concepts with, but inappropriate to build something like an ERP system. It's a toy, although a powerful one.
I think the primary point of the parent comment is that saying "Heck, just look at your own kids" may be fine for your own family, but, as we love to say, anecdotes are not data.

If the internet has proven anything it's that you can always find someone with "proof" of something based on their own personal experience ("My kid got a lot of vaccines, now my kid has autism, ergo..."). The reason we have scientists that do research studies is so we can examine these issues systematically.
I think this is basically true. Impermanence is part of what makes possession important. I can totally see the value of all NFTs decaying on long time scales because they're just boring.

But on short time scales all age is similar and authenticity seems to be sufficient to at least toss a bunch of liquidity from place to place.
"Please make sure you have all privacy settings and firewalls disabled" - we don't need to travel to 2046 for this, this has been practiced by google and cloudflare for years.
Do It Yourself Crypto Index Fund
And the winner for the worst idea of the year goes to Coinbase.
The IE box model was correct, but different from all other browsers, and in addition to all the other bugs and IE6-isms (which were wrong), was pretty annoying to deal with.
When a Power PC is perfectly capable for a MARS rover missions, I dont see any reason why they must run Snapdragons.
Unless some evil company, starts ditching physical controls or starts shoving Ads into Speedometer.
And everyone follows.

Im thankful that automobile tech didn’t discover electron yet.
Imagine your speedometer consuming 200mb of ram.
Only tyrants use censorship. Period. Open debate need not be feared by freedom loving people.
Fortunately TV and radio weren’t broadcasting what my peers/colleagues were doing in that very moment, so I wasn’t comparing myself to my school colleagues and I knew by definition that I wasn’t as cool as Kurt Cobain or Dr Alban (that’s what I saw on MTV back at that time). Not comparing myself with my peers almost each and every moment was a very good thing for adolescent me.
Maybe at least a phone call to police though, yeah?
I see, thanks. I guess I was thinking of something that 'moved' with the earth, but that probably isn't realistic.

Could something be placed at such a point that then only blocked sun on the far north/south of the planet, near the poles?
Not saying this is you or GP, but I've dealt with enough juniors who just thought they're really smart and awesome but lacked any sense of what it's like to develop software for actual, normal people. They couldn't grasp that you don't just break your software for 20% of your userbase because it results in a cleaner database layout or nicer abstraction layer for something internal. "No I know what I'm doing, look I have this github project with 500 stars and none of the super techy people who use it ever complained when a new release broke something"

Yeah, no.

Usually these people come in two flavors: Those actually smart and developing an understanding for what it means to sell software and have customers with demands, and those who live in their little bubble where they're the most awesome person on the planet, and everybody else is just retarded. Halting all development for a year and refactoring everything according to what they think would be way superior after spending 5 minutes with the codebase is obviously a sane thing to demand.

And I usually try to let them fall into this trap in a controlled manner, like when it's a relatively unimportant component/feature, or just one customer where I can more or less directly relay the expected complaints to the junior dev. Usually playing the "this guy is responsible for your paycheck" card makes something click after a while.
The list has been updated to include New Zealand but service to many of these countries has been suspended for quite a while.
I built an app to automatically edit my tennis match videos
> Mesa 3D - driver library that provides open source driver (mostly copy of AMD-VLK)

Wrong, wrong, very wrong. No copy here. Mesa's RADV was developed completely independently from AMD, in fact it predates the public release of AMDVLK. It's also possibly the best Vulkan implementation out there. Valve invested heavily in the ACO compiler backend, so it compiles shaders both very well and very quickly.
I'm hearing good things about "biochar":

> Biochar is charcoal that is produced by pyrolysis of biomass in the absence of oxygen; it is used as a soil amendment.

> Biochar is a stable solid that is rich in carbon and can endure in soil for thousands of years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar
I first heard of this idea from Terry Pratchett, who as well as explaining the problem gave a possible solution:

> Shortly before the Patrician came to power there was a terrible plague of rats. The city council countered it by offering twenty pence for every rat tail. This did, for a week or two, reduce the number of rats – and then people were suddenly queuing up with tails, the city treasury was being drained, and no one seemed to be doing much work. And there still seemed to be a lot of rats around. Lord Vetinari had listened carefully while the problem was explained, and had solved the thing with one memorable phrase which said a lot about him, about the folly of bounty offers, and about the natural instinct of Ankh-Morporkians in any situation involving money: ‘Tax the rat farms.’

—Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
I think I just inadvertently proved the point that a lot of replies to the original commenter were making. If you just say "I benchmarked this and X was way slower than Y" without posting code or other details, then it's likely that you're doing something wrong, particularly when you aren't familiar with X or Y.

The original poster said:

> To me that means performant Lisp is non trivial (meaning you need deep understanding to achieve it). If you show a slow but easier to understand example, it’s because fast examples are way harder to understand.

And

> What I was trying to see is, can I do something useful with this? Or do I need to invest a good amount of time (something I don’t really have now) before being productive.

I could have equally said that my example demonstrates that "To me that means that performant Rust is non trivial" or that I would "need to invest a good amount of time ... before being productive"

Both of which are clearly not true. Posting my code let other people find the extremely trivial change to fix the huge performance difference.
> But that's not that different from driving a petrol car

Of course it is! I can go pretty much anywhere in the CONUS and not have to worry about running out of gas because gas stations are everywhere. In the few cases where they aren't, there are usually clear indications, e.g., "next gas station 50 miles ahead" signs. Or if I'm that concerned, I can take a 5 gallon can full of gas with me.

> you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with no easy way to fix it

I've stopped to give people rides to the gas station (where you can rent/borrow a gas can) when they ran out. Probably won't be feasible with electric for quite some time.

Sure, people should plan their trips, but please don't make a false equivalence between gas & electric in this regard.
There are huge sources of waste plastic, credit cards are not one of them. Just shopping at a supermarket once I generate more plastic waste than all my credit cards in a year. This would be the last thing I'd consider to lower the plastic waste issue and ironically its one that has already solved itself by NFC based payments.
Wow. That escalated quickly!

I hope you’ll never be in any position of power to realize this “solution”.
Small composable packages aren’t a bad thing IMO. It’s nice to pull things together how you want without having to reimplement the same logic multiple times. Just encapsulate smaller bits of useful code into their own mini packages

Like if there’s some string manipulation thing I need, instead of copy pasting some snippet, I can pull in the micro package that already does this
IPv6 should have supported NAT like IPv4, not dragged its heels by begrudgingly implementing it years/decades later (and still not all support IPv6 NAT so the problem isn’t yet solved).

NAT, as much as you hate it, makes deployments easier and quicker and simpler for your average business. I don’t have to worry about BGP, or if my ISP has given me a /64 only or can they do a /60 or /48.

A gradual migration would have allowed both types of approaches to be used. Some would start with IPv6 using NAT, and other more switched on orgs could go straight away with NAT-free IPv6 networks. And lets face it, this has been a very gradual 20 years migration…
> It's perfectly fine if universal "you owe me"s cannot be held back indefinitely

Loans are adjusted for inflation already.
only login available. nothing more. fake?
This is true near me as well. You can literally identify fascists by their incoherent behavior. They goose step with masks.
I don't think it's hated. Tons of node lovers out there :)
> I'd probably talk to both banks first for such a large amount

I don't need to ask anyone to move bitcoins.
Not directly. You could place something in an orbit where it only ever blocked sun at the poles I think, but it would spend the vast majority of its time not blocking sun at all.
Every time you commit, package-lock.json is different. And when it is not, then I have 26 new vulnerabilities to be fixed by “npm audit fix”. I have zero trust in my build being reproducible, or even working one year forward.
You're really saying "most" banks don't have a customer service number on the back of their payment card? Sorry, no, this just isn't true.

I just checked my own debit and credit cards. 27 (twenty-seven) of them have a phone number printed on the card itself, only one doesn't - that's SoFi Money debit card, it says "for assistance please visit the SoFi app or SoFi.com." it's also just one extra step to phone support - I opened the app and clicked "help" and there was "Call Money support" as the first option.
Facebook doesn't do much research like this in the open either. The WSJ articles are largely based on leaked internal private reports. Their employees are leaking them because they're tired of being ignored.
Not sure where youre getting those numbers.

I'm not sure about Tesla, but according to specs I found, but Kia e-Niro with 400 km range is 1737 kilograms, 400 km range Hyundai Kona Electric is 1685, 500 km range WV ID3 is 1730 ... while Toyota Mirai is 1825 kg and my ICE Jaguar is 1950 kg.

Long story short, I'm not convinced it's so simple.
Not really. See http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt...
There’s probably a PhD length answer that involves the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music, the plagues of the mid 17th century and the Little Ice Age.

Violins have always been identified as being tuned in 5ths to the best of my knowledge, but the features mentioned above helped them out-compete other stringed instruments over a century when the fashion in music favoured those features.

Some of them are - the construction favours better projection over the kind of mellow sound of a viol, the rounded bridge allows for better virtuosic playing rather than chords. Music from the late 16th to the time of Monteverdi had a tradition of florid embellishments (diminutions) which favour a more responsive instrument, like cornetto, recorder or violin. The plague of 1630 in Venice is thought to be a major factor in the decline of the cornetto, so the violin had an opportunity to fill that gap then.

There’s also a change in the theory of harmony around this time from the Guidonian hand and hexachords to a more complete chromaticism. As someone’s already pointed out, fifths make for a very convenient arrangement of tones and semitones in order to play a scale. I suspect hexachords fit more naturally (!) across strings tuned to fourths - you would have ut-re—mi on the hard, soft and natural hexachords at your fingertips. As music theory moved away from this understanding of harmony, it would have also been more suited to the violin over the similar instruments tuned to fourths and thirds.