skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mentioned this in a similar discussion on HN a few years ago. I used to own a Nissan Cube (a boxy car), and it would regularly get encrusted with insects every summer, when compared to other family members’ vehicles which did not.

Insects still get hit with aerodynamic cars, but the blows are glancing and less likely to cause a “burst”.
I admire this effort and wish you a lot of success with it.

I see three main problems:

1) tech people probably do not cook much and more order/eat out, so it is hard for me to imagine chefs/grandmas/not-tech-savvy people using it;

2) main problem for people cooking/experimenting is to decide what exactly to cook - and here you would usually go for something proven (e.g a cook-book or a website)

3) there is a reason not everyone can be a good recipe developer, because it takes a lot of experience and knowledge and you cannot really copy/paste and publish from existing pages/books. I am not sure if I would try a random "forked" recipe.

Good luck, I am interested in what comes out of it!
Cost increases to whom? Society or the individual? If a person is living longer and healthier then isn't their income and economic contribution higher as well? This does not even mention retirement. This seems like an extremely narrow stat to draw conclusions from.
How is this not anti-competitive collusion.
I agree it costs too much, and as a result we aren't getting all the advantages of education. That is a different issue though.
Not at all, it took 10 years for WebGL 2.0 to be generally available, and WebGPU is with luck reaching MVP 1.0 in 2022 on Chrome, let alone anywhere else.
One thing that doesn't look possible from the spec is supporting recipes with multiple discrete parts. An immediate example for me would be I made a fish dish that had an optional salsa to put on top. I substituted the salsa for something else, so given a recipe, it would be nice to see "here are ingredients for the fish, here are the ingredients for salsa", and that they don't go into a unified singular count of ingredients.
There is strong evidence that when humans first arrived in locations they had never existed before, mass extinctions of megafaunal species occurred. And this was thousands of years ago, before we collectively had any idea about the dangers of biodiversity loss, climate change, or the sheer extent of the power we wielded as a species. The first time we ever thought about the greenhouse effect as a tangible concept was only 200 years ago.

Given that it required us thousands of years to develop a scientific mindset to even be able to comprehend the scope of our own destruction, I can't see how we could have stopped ourselves any sooner.

The recent uptick in energy consumption is now magnifying the problem at an exponential rate, but it doesn't sound agreeable or practical to prevent people from spreading around to consume all the resources we have, or to smack the newly invented, frivolous and energy-draining devices from their inventors' hands the moment they've been first actualized.
meaning bugs are doing well in Texas, but not nowhere else?

Really weird
as a non American what always strucks me is that cigarettes are taxed because they harm the person smoking them - they are heavily taxed in my country as well and only the State can sell them in licensed shops, it's a State monopoly -, but guns and ammunitions are not.
>it's not 100% unknown

What does this mean? Can you quantify how much of the long term effects are unknown?

>though of course, not about these specific COVID vaccines

These specific Covid vaccines are of course what I'm talking about, so reference to other things that aren't these is a non sequitur.

I think we have a pretty good idea at this point (if you pay attention to the declining effectiveness of the vaccine to immunize against Covid as time goes on, thus "boosters") that Covid is something everyone is eventually going to get. That natural immunity, if any, is the end-game. And so in this context, the upside of the vaccine is even smaller, while the unknown downside remains.

Whatever you want to say about the size of the cohort that has no comorbidity risk and are in, say, 40s and below age brackets, the point is, especially if they are maintaining good fitness levels and lower body fat levels (which should have been advised for everyone if we really wanted to be honest about the threat and mitigations) they have a perfectly legitimate risk/reward reason to avoid the vaccine.
I believe that bugs (Heteroptera) might be more resistant to common pesticides than other insects.

Where I live, in Europe, several species of bugs have become quite abundant in recent years.

On the other hand, most other kinds of insects, e.g. butterflies, dragonflies, beetles, crickets, grasshoppers, various kinds of wasps and flies etc. have become exceedingly rare compared to how abundant they were when I was young.
excellent! really useful, thank you!
Huge trucks and SUVs are really popular in the US. The aerodynamics are not going to compare favorably to typical 90's cars, where even the trucks are much smaller.
Facebook Integrity team is about user's integrity of not abusing Facebook services. It doesn't manage Facebook's integrity towards its users.

There are overlaps (for example, some people may abuse the system by trick people to like a piece of content to promote misinformation). But the focus is about protecting Facebook services, not the user. Certainly not user's privacy in the realm of how Facebook uses it (how other actors use it may fall into "abuse" category).
I know that owning dedicated hardware is appealing, but - why not solve the problem on a software level? Install Linux and then disable/remove the TCP/IP stack (and associated tools) as much as is practical, and use a USB drive to get your creations onto your main computer.
right - and it assumes that a company like apple has given no thought to what might sell in the market when they come out with things like the "wildly overpriced" airpods.

Yes, when they came out, they cost a LOT more than the competitors (I used Jabra). But wow, did they WORK well. It was no comparison really and was a lot of little things (just fewer bugs I think rather than features, they ALWAYS paired with my phone, pretty quickly, and had good battery life).

For a lot of consumers, they don't care about features, they just trust apple more than they would for example govt run email or govt made phones.
Sounds like the systems would work best where you have both heating and cooling loads throughout the year.

Though usually you’re pumping more heat out of the ground than in. There must be a perfect place for these systems where it’s well balanced.
> Also, do you have data on this?

My argument wasn’t that people quit smoking all together, but people stopped smoking in public spaces like planes and bars. Sure the occasional person lights up in the airplane bathroom despite the ban, but I think my broader point still stands.
Ants, birds, and spiders are all tick predators. FWIW, it sounds like there is a lack of natural predators for ticks in your area.
There is probably something wrong with this, but I was thinking something like the following.

Take the sequence of sets M(n) = { 0, 1, 2, ... n - 1 } with measure m(n, i) = 1 / n. The m(n, i) are non-negative and the sum over all m(n, i) for a fixed n is 1. Then take the limit. The set M(n) will seemingly approach the natural numbers but I am not sure that this is valid. The m(n, i) will approach 0, I think that is uncontroversial. But I guess it might not be valid to argue that the sum remains 1 even though it seemingly equals n * 1 / n.
yeah we hear that a bunch. long term we'll host pollers. gotcha tho :) thanks for the thoughts
Perhaps an exception if one of those items has an "and" in the middle?
Until the temperature drops below 4 C
They explicitly say “marketing purposes”… doesn’t mean they won’t share for other purposes.
> "Oh, but now it's different!" the "integrity" people claim

Because it is. Our modern legal constructs of free speech came about in a semi-literate, printing-press pamphleteering age. It was revised in the era of broadcast television. "It was like this before, and so it should be forever after" is not an argument.

We're at a point where we have to talk in terms of first principles. Not ideologies or teams. That's tough, because we haven't done it properly--in America--in at least a generation.
Those are distinct from my concern. In your scenarios, I have trusted you to keep the conversation secret, and you betrayed that trust.

My concern is about giving messages in an automatic fashion to a third party, which I'm completely unaware of and have no way of making an informed decision about. The third party could be breached (they run an online service, which is much, much easier to attack than some dude's iPhone).
Not that I'm going to buy a reMarkable, but I do wonder what kind of organization tools it provides. Being able to tag a given note with arbitrary categories and have the device produce a date-ordered index on any category seems like it would help with this a lot.

(I use a similar system in my paper notes, with a topic index mapping to page numbers. A few minutes of grooming a day suffices to keep it up to date, and it speeds lookups enormously.)
> On one hand, it seems everybody wants more freedom and less surveillance, but they give FB a hard time for not monitoring content better.

That seems perfectly consistent. FB is already going all-in on surveillance and ignoring any notion of freedom; if they must destroy privacy, the least we can ask is that they actually do something useful with it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/pl6czq/k...
Groundbreaking theory - Set the legal age to smoke at 18 then increase this age by 1 year every year after.

Everyone who can smoke now gets to continue their quest to die of a debilitating cancer. Children are protected as it will never be legal for them and eventually my tax bill will start to drop as the 200 IQ galaxy brains die out over 50 or so years.

There, i've solved socialised healthcare in the sensible world.
Linkerd retries HTTP requests with bodies
This won't be popular, but remember just 10 years ago when people were talking about the environmental advantages of a mass die-off of humans? It was trendy for a bit to spitball about how much better off the environment would be with an x% decrease in human population as a result of a global death event. In fact, "we need a new plague" was a running joke on online environmentalist forms for a while. Funny how an actual pandemic made those same people glibly taking up the advantages pull a 180 when it was their grandmother who was in the x% who were going to die.
It has some relation. If people aren't smoking, then they aren't smoking in planes or restaurants.
Haven’t yet got time to read the whole thing so sorry if it’s already answered but is it possible to run this sql pod/storage pod separation setup yourself with crdb community/enterprise? We run enterprise crdb but it’s all in one process (with replicas)
This is like saying "If you don't sweep the bathroom for bugs/cams, you don't really care about privacy. Why do you bother closing the door"
Run your own CI pipeline with GStreamer's new monorepo
As a GA pilot, one of the complications of the navigation exams for small planes was navigation and calculation of magnetic versus true and the entire range of derivations. It was mostly useless because of the local legislation demand to fly only in visual conditions (IFR not allowed for small planes), but it made the exams unnecessarily harder. The ever worse part was the demand to be able to calculate a flight path to something like New York, where Earth curvature matters, for planes that cannot fly more than 1000km at low altitude and speed, so they are never allowed to fly over the ocean or on distances big enough to have a significant difference between a straight line on the map and the shortest route. I am happy to see at least one of these going away, even in 9 years.
I understand your point - farming, mining, and manufacturing are all essential economic activities that have largely shifted overseas post-WWII. This has hollowed the rural economy in US and other western nations while also making goods vastly cheaper and bringing billions out of poverty worldwide.

In my mind I am very willing to help and support many parts of a community and society. We need all sorts of work to build a society - finance, tech, manufacturing, non-remunerated work (raising children, etc).

I’m in favor of gov investment in infrastructure as I believe it helps all of us grow. Same with healthcare and education.

But it is _very_ important to make these benefits transparent and clear, otherwise we end up in the situation we now face, where the same voters that would be most helped by these investments argue against such programs and are strongly anti-government (see Trump, Brexit, Jan 6, etc).
Don't forget that the administrators threatened that the situation "could escalate". Being in his position I would read that as being expelled.

It's important and should be on hacker news because one day they'll come for you.
> but it opens Apple up for a lot of regulatory scrutiny given that they were able to flip a switch that annihilated a $50b mobile advertising industry

There is an implicit but unsupported assumption in this statement that the advertising industry has a right to this data, and that taking it away from them is somehow wrong.
Specifically I've been to bars in Tennessee and Florida in the last 8 years that allow smoking inside, as well as a diner in Kentucky that still had a smoking section until a few years ago.
Does CockroachDB Serverless expose an HTTP api? This sounds like a great fit for use with Cloudflare Workers, but that requires an http api.
I actually upgraded my team's Jest config to use https://github.com/Brooooooklyn/swc-node a few weeks ago. However, our Jenkins CI agents run RHEL7, and neither of the Linux binary targets would run. The `x64-gnu` binary needed a `GLIBC_2_23` symbol when only 2.18 was available, and the `x64-musl` binary had no `musl-libc` on the machine. I don't own the Jenkins agents, so I couldn't install other deps myself.

I ended up building `musl-libc` from source on another RHEL7 agent, committed the `.so` to our repo, and added that to the `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` in our Jenkinsfile, and actually got that working.

I did see some mentions that Rust could build to target an older GLibc ( https://kobzol.github.io/rust/ci/2021/05/07/building-rust-bi... ), so I'm curious if Next is going to use copies of SWC built that way for better compat or if it will require more workarounds on my part.

I can definitely see shipping a WASM version as a great workaround to those sorts of compat issues.
>How about increased taxpayer funded healthcare costs?

A known cost of socialized medicine.

Unless you want to go down the road of justifying any government coercion or loss of freedom as a taxpayer cost saving measure.
I think most would consider facebook’s usage of onavo pretty gross from an integrity perspective

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/facebooks-onavo-gives-socia...

The characterization as Spyware seems pretty accurate.

You are correct there is a balance between offering free services in exchange for data collection, and likely most people in tech misinterpret how the general public views this balance, but at the same time it’s reasonable to assume that the general public isn’t fully aware of the extent of these data collection practices.

There is a reason Facebook is constantly mired in controversy- especially compared to their social media peers.
I didn’t know this! I’ll try installing fish again
Faze Clan Files IPO for $1B
Are they, though? So many trucks, SUVs, and other cars that don't have sloping windshields. Also, I would expect even pastier windshields given that the nationwide speed limit was 65mph until 1995, and it took years for states to nudge it upwards to where it is now (85mph at some places in Texas).

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law
Faster than I expected. https://twitter.com/Legendary/status/1453058884516466691
No to first question, unless you count learning, as it's mot enabled in browsers yet. Maybe to second (depending on your game).
I'm not so eager to jump to that kind of conclusion, because it's too facile.

You might personally decide that anyone who worked for FB has no integrity, but I don't think it makes for a good discussion on HN.
This has a lot of potential in education. Instead of installing lamp, just use this and quickly write something in python instead. Thank you so much!
> Nobody would have heard of this guy were it not for "the current crop of whistleblowers."

You might not have heard of him, and that's fine, but Alec Muffet has had a Wikipedia article dating back to 2013. He's been a public figure since long before this crop of "whistleblowers."
yup! all Scribes can be set to "shareable with link" - thanks for the feedback re: including this on the FAQ page!
Not a nitpick at all. Fixed.
100% Agree. From everything I've read, our being able to print money is an indispensable tool during financial crises. Fixing the great depression and the great recession depended on this ability.

If the world transitions to cryptocurrencies whose supply is unmanaged or fixed, that will not be possible and presumably will be stuck during financial crises.
`@vue/compiler-sfc` which powers the vite Vue 3 SFC plugin (`@vitejs/vue`) has a dependency on the `@babel/parser` package[0]

That's the dependency I am speaking to here

[0]: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next/blob/master/packages/compi...
For embedded and systems programming, its pros/cons balance is remarkably high. This is a narrow field, where the only capable languages and C, C++, ADA, and ZIG. (Correct me if I missed any). So, strong player in a narrow field, with gaining popularity.
How long have you been running for - I see you have more than 10,000 companies using Scribe, which is amazing!

Echoing what another person here said, I'd really like to see some decent examples of the end result - I love the idea of Scribe, but a small screenshot and a small gif really isn't hooking me in to spend the time to find out more.
I would argue that the problems you mentioned are not unique to rails.

I've seen those same problems in other technologies and architectures, just as I've seen them in Rails applications. I think those issues come from lacks of carefully enforced standards, separation of concerns, domain design, and discipline. These are people problems, not technology problems.

What rails provides is the freedom to think about your business domains and such without having to also design the plumbing. I would argue that rails gives you space to solve those problems, but you still have to solve them.
It seems like all that's left around me is stinging/biting insects. Plenty of mosquitos, wasps, fireants, and carpenter bees but that's about it.
Electromagnetic pollution is the main cause. Right?
Rumble acquires Locals to help build a bigger creator economy
This seems like a false dichotomy - Libreoffice/Openoffice and Abiword don't have any of these anti-features (except for telemetry, which is useful (when sent to a trusted party)).
yes definitely. i applied to a place where my previous career (finance) could potentially help (ended up not being used at all lol).

BUT i did get a 120k-150k offers elsewhere (ranging from adtech to music), and had friends join FB/Google out of bootcamp and thats easily six figures

being in NYC helps. the low end was like 90k.
Top-tier rehab is a bit like a nice holiday - class-A cuisine, saunas, massages, therapists who are paid to listen to you wibbling on about your childhood, nice beds, nice gardens. I can imagine people falling back into addiction just so they can have another spell in rehab.
Roadmap for the Pyston Python Implementation
> Anyone with a moderately sized music collection depended entirely on iTunes to manage their library

I had a fairly big collection and I didn't. Just used a folder structure and copied stuff over to my flash mp3 player (it was maybe 1GiB, maybe less).
No, that is why you need a semicolon. The Oxford comma is good as well, but what you showed was where a semicolon is called for.
This is not a good argument against vice taxes because there is a clear distinction between activities that are demonstrably self-harming (smoking) and otherwise (using a vibrator). If you want to presuppose a fundamentalist regime, then go ahead, but then are vice taxes really the problem?
for sure, check out our gallery: https://scribehow.com/gallery to view Scribes (you don't need an account to view them)
that’s not a disagreement. pigouvian taxes aren’t used to ban, but to internalize costs, which has a secondary dissuasion effect. it’s a economic solution to a market inefficiency (i.e., a mispricing), not a legal solution to a social vice.
Nice slippery slope there. Let's argue about it when the time comes.
> From everything I've read, our being able to print money is an indispensable tool during financial crises.

You might want to add to your reading list the history of the Roman empire.
Self-driving tech firms take R&D to the track
My point was that

> but requiring taxes to cover the negative externalities from vice is fine, e.g. funding DUI checkpoints).

Is not as simple as it may sound.
I understand it so that you merely need a scan to create a wallet. After that, you no longer need to scan.

Still, there are so many ways this is bad, it's not even funny. Starting with the question of granting anyone without a retina access to the technology...
I was assuming at first from the examples that this was just for web based applications. But I see it also supports desktop apps. Which OS?

I'm being picky but I'm also pretty intrigued. The idea is quite nice.
Were 'anonymously analyzing your data' either true, or the complete extent of the exchange, then you might have a point
I'm quite confused by Request Units, and trying to predict how many would be used by queries/operations.

I launched a test cluster, and the RUs are continuously increasing without me having connected to the cluster yet. At this rate of RU climb, the cluster would use over 8mil of the available 10mil RUs in a month without me touching it.

Coming from AWS, one of the most difficult aspects of using Aurora is guessing how many I/Os will be used for different workloads. It would be a shame to introduce this complexity for CockroachDB Serverless, especially if the RUs are impacted by internal cluster operations that aren't initiated by the user.
The Japanese government is still trying to phase out floppy disks
Is 2 kW a typo? That's pretty small. I typically see 12-15 kW residential turbines.
> being connected or open won't end slavery, homelessness, crime or ignorance.

Is any other corporation (Visa, Saudi Aramco, Apple, ...) expected to solve slavery, homelessness, crime, and ignorance? This is an absurd criticism.
> Syncing that local CouchDB to your web based CouchDB is very fast

This is not true. When you compare the CouchDB replication with other replication protocols, it is slow. The reason is that CouchDB supports replication with many instances at the same time. This creates big overhead in handling revision trees. Many requests have to be made all the time. You can observe that by starting the PouchDB subproject in the comparison repo. Watch the network tab in dev tools.
Another problem is that CouchDB does not support Websocket replication, everything is long polling and plain http requests.

Other replications that only support many-clients-to-one-server are way faster. Both, on the initial load and on ongoing changes. This was the main reason why I build GraphQL replication for RxDB.
Showing my age here, but IIRC, that was the file extension used by Flash files?