skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So unfortunate that some things move forward simply due to inertia. Eventually this inertia will be transferred as energy to other things, but it can be frustrating waiting for the ball to stop rolling!
Any chance we’ll get a proper official routing mechanic that doesn’t rely on the file system and magical file names?
I see you’re more interested in hashing out the communism vs. capitalism thing. I am not. Frankly it’s the internet’s most overwrought and under productive argument.

All I want to see is industries pay according to the impact that they have on society. This isn’t an inherently socialistic idea, but it would require a change in the way that we currently conceive of capitalism[0].

0 - Economists generally think that removing these externalities are good for the market. But this runs contrary to the anti-regulation attitude currently in vogue.
I have an hypothesis that the same could happen with deflationary cryptocurrencies if they become used widely enough in financial institutions that central banks decide they should tie part of the monetary system to them.

https://benoitessiambre.com/specter.html
Right, they don't host the databases, but they do integrate with other database, etc. providers: https://vercel.com/integrations

Vercel itself I believe runs on a combination of Google Cloud and AWS.
In Australia at the time I grew up we got a lot of British TV. One I still remember fondly is Yes, Minister (and the follow on Yes, Prime Minister). This to me was the golden age of British TV.

Anyway, any talk of smoking taxes always reminds me of [1].

Australia is also a good example of the impact of high prices on smoking rates and the evidence strongly suggests hiking prices is the most effective way of bringing down smoking [2].

Still, profiting from death is an ethical issue. If the disastrous War on Drugs has taught us nothing it's that prohibition doesn't work so it's at worst the lesser of two evils.

It is unfortunate that this does contribute to keeping some people poor however.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJIMffhpZRw

[2]: https://www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-13-taxation/13...
Unhealthy eating is already taxed higher here. Processed foods are taxed here whereas things like produce typically have no tax.

Extreme sports are nowhere near as popular as things like smoking, drinking, and unhealthy eating. And extreme sports still have the same taxes other material objects would have. If I go mountain biking there is a lot of expensive gear you're paying for which would be taxed at 15% here. Injuries from mountain biking at most usually result in some kind of musculoskeletal injury. They are not usually long term problems and don't involve anywhere near the amount of resources something like a cancer patient would require.

An alcoholic may drive drunk and injure someone else, they may have to go through multiple detox programs, they often end up in the hospitals for days, etc... And they also don't have the same benefits an extreme sport can have. Someone who does a lot of mountain biking is going to be a much healthier person. They'll require less doctor visits and overall are also probably mentally more healthy.

Really not sure what specifically unsafe sex means. What would be the "sin tax" there? They aren't purchasing something?

We are talking about taxing people's unhealthy purchases. Not taxing someone because they engage in an activity.
I just drove across the US (down the east coast, across the south, up the Rockies) and found I had to do this only after driving across Texas.
This also stopped being a problem for me in the 90s when I started driving my mom's Dodge Intrepid, which was significantly more aerodynamic than other cars of the era.
There's a graphic floating around that show cigarette consumption in the U.S. It goes up and up until about 1950 or so then it starts to go down and down.

I always wonder about that. I mean, I understand that there were laws and taxes and reports about smoking. Looking at that chart though it doesn't look like that. It looks like everyone went - "You know, I don't want to smoke anymore and I don't want to be around smokers" - and then just slowly gave it up over 30 or 40 years.

Was it the laws, taxes and reports? Or were all of those things just an expression of desire?
It's not like we were all driving in Chevrolet Bel Airs in the 90s and now switched to Lamborghinis.
It's one bottle of wine, but I'm assuming they're referring to liquor. There's about 17 drinks (it's like 44 ml to a shot in the US) in a bottle of liquor.

That said 17 drinks in a week is 2 a weekday plus 3 a weekend, which doesn't seem that crazy.
SWC, a typescript/js compiler: https://swc.rs/

SFC, single file components.
Public companies routinely "restate earnings results" years later after a whole new C-Suite is saddled with the problem and after all the prior personnel and traders at the time of the original earnings already got their profits.

It is disingenuous to say this is working well, assuming "well" means "prevent lying because 'audit'". It is working well for generating profits with minimal consequences for anyone.
I've got an anecdote on this. I've requested some paper documents, a simple thing that should not take a long time to process. It's literally just to look at the request, check a database, and print a response; the only reason for human involvement is that it's on paper.

I don't see how it can take more than 15 minutes, but it's been in processing for 14 months now, and I paid $200 for that service. So in a frictionless world, it produces $800/hr. But I'm sure that the end worker receives something like mentioned $15/hr, which looks like extreme inefficiency. They lose at like 98% of it somewhere just because of that inefficiency. So it's not about taxes, but about the effective use of money. They can easily 2x the wage, and maybe even 10x, if someone would spend some time to figure out where the leak is.
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Why didn't you just send people to https://scribehow.com/? It explains the product so much.

I'd love to see some examples of this other than just little animations on the main screen. Right now it's just simple animations and a request to register.

The world is full of "solutions", as is my inbox from products I had to sign up for just to see what it did. Not sure I want to bother with that barrier to entry just to evaluate (and get on some mail list).
I disagree with this and I guess most here. I think the screenshot that Drew displays is actually showing a stale bot that's misconfigured, maybe this is how GitHub's stale bot works by default, but I would say the crucial bit is that the stale bot should give issues a chance to be kept alive.

After all, an issue that has people who care about it enough to comment isn't stale at all. Issues which are truly stale deserve to get a ping from the stale bot: "Is this issue still relevant? If I don't see anyone comment then I will close this issue in 7 days". Then after 7 days of inactivity the issue should be closed.

Why do this? Because it enables prioritisation. Fixing every single issue is unrealistic and something that might have been a pain to someone in the past they may no longer care about.
Really? COPD is an incurable and debilitating illness, almost always caused by smoking. Also, smoking causes death, which I would put in the "debilitating" category.
I feel like this is something we could check with simulations. Given the same insect clouds, would an older car hit more of them than a newer one?
PyTorch Lightning Tutorial #2: Using TorchMetrics and Lightning Flash
I haven't been able to find a clip of it, but Biden recently brought up that democracies are having a hard time keeping up socially with the pace of innovation, and that autocracies are reacting quicker. He wasn't advocating for autocracy; merely pointing out that democracy is struggling on this point. I've been thinking about this a lot whenever government oversight is brought up.

I'm not convinced the war against misinformation is any more winnable than the war on drugs in a free, self-determining society. The best we can hope for is to curb the worst consequences by slowing virality.
Nothing is quite so toxic to my willingness to part with money that the term 'subscription'.
GitHub Copilot is now available for IntelliJ as a plugin
It also depends on the bugs spawning behavior. There are still species which blot out the sky when they spawn along the Mississippi.
Facebook Faces a Public Relations Crisis. What About a Legal One?
Maybe the author doesn't see insects as they are in a heavily populated city with exterminators everywhere. Down in Southern California I have seen more bees this past year than I have ever seen. A few things I do feel like I see alot less than I used to see is dragonflies and praying mantis. I remember as a kid I used to see so many of both, now I may see one or two a month(dragonflies), and praying mantis once or twice a year.
Are other social media sites blocked? Other categories of sites blocked? Or just the edgy sites?
To be consistent, I would then also want to get into opting out of end of life healthcare which is where a huge, if not majority, of healthcare spend is.
can you elaborate on what "overly SQL heavy" even means? it's just a postgres db as a service, use as much or as little as you want
People who run Windows generally aren't very concerned with software freedoms, and see nonfree software like this freeware as fine.
Because you don't get to become the big Billy goat by taking all the upfront risk. I've seen many a buck follow this strategy. When a group of 2 or 3 bucks enter a clearing, you'll almost always see the biggest oldest one go last.
>"I see you’re more interested in hashing out the communism vs. capitalism thing."

No, I just think that most of your previous post was wrong.

edit: I see that you added to your post:

>"0 - Economists generally think that removing these externalities are good for the market. But this runs contrary to the anti-regulation attitude currently in vogue. "

Where have regulations decreased over the medium to long-term (5+ years)? I can't think of any (stable) country which has acted in an anti-regulatory way; do you have any specific examples?
Here is the bizarre part.

Open iTerm, login into a Linux VM, run vim. It will be snappier than native on the host.

Go figure.
> Coming from NL

NL in this context is Netherlands? Or another area of Canada?
Historian wins release of 'public' Mountbatten archives at great personal cost
I'm hopeful for some other parser implementations to crop up. It would be pretty neat to be able to build this into my personal note taking app.
Agreed. Been using it for several years!
Go's templating system is woefully awful.
We are pre-great depression in many respects. Debt levels being at very high percentages. Income inequality out of control. Inflation out of control.

Fundamentally as well it's the baby boomer's fault. Right before the great depression was when the boomers of the american civil war were retiring.

The 1980s inflation and crashes were WW1 boomers and now is the WW2 baby boomers retiring.

History repeats.
That is true, but there is a difference between some messages being screenshotted, and a service that acts as a bridge storing all communication that passes through an account. It's a matter of how likely it is that the assumption "my communication is not going to leak beyond the two participants" is broken. Every step in the wrong direction counts, IMO.

Also, AFAIK it wouldn't be trivial to extract all the Signal chat histories from an iPhone device - this new service makes that much, much easier (not least because they'd be remotely accessible).
My point is philosophical, not historical.

To put it another way, education for the sake of education is higher on the Maslow Hierarchy than being able to make a decent ROI on college. Self-actualization is great and all, but when you're telling people to pursue it at the expense of whether or not they're going to eat something it's not noble and honorable, it's tone-deaf at best and can be downright evil when huge propaganda machines are deployed to convince people to do it, because the people selling self-actualization benefit.

Debt skews the understanding by moving the time that the payments come due around but they're still due. It doesn't change the fundamental calculation.

"the collegiate cast was largely poor"

But were they going into massive, life-changing debt? Poor people going to a generally cheap (by modern standards!) college is no big deal. But now we're sending poor people to expensive college, so they can self-actualize at the expense of a good chunk of the rest of their life. This isn't noble.
>at least 90% of smokers are like this

Please provide a source of data for this assertion. Thanks!
Author of the post here (Nir, CEO of Arnica). Thanks for the feedback! That's a great tip, I wish I knew before. I'm not a developer (our developers are busy building the actual product) so I learn new things every day. I'll give the BigQuery dataset a try.
EDIT: I took a look and it seems like that the last modification was on 2016.
Am I understanding correctly that you (your company) found prior art and chose to settle instead of presenting it in court and killing the patent? Any idea why? Isn't there some law that automatically awards you legal fees in the case of a frivolous lawsuit?
It's hard, logistically, to tax consumption at the margin. We can do it with income because it's highly documented. We tax smoking with a flat rate because nobody needs any of them.

It's not exactly a great idea to tax a hungry kid's only meal of the day.

Really, the only way you could logically do this is to track everyone's consumption of food, which is very problematic for various reasons... or by taxing certain types of food, which is more likely to shift the problem rather than solve anything.

It's probably easier to impact health by encouraging movement than decreasing food intake.
In this case would a protein subunit vaccine like NovaVax have been a better choice for vaccinating the populace? Or would we then have run into the same issue but with spike?
Again per Gibson:

"“What’s in the case, Buschel?” Seersucker bunched in his fist, knuckles white and shaking.

“Damn it, Turner,” the man jerking free, the handle of the case clutched in both hands now. “They weren’t damaged.
Only some minor abrasion on one of the corneas. They belong to the Net. It was in her contract, Turner.”"
I've done at least 20 upgrades (user since next 1.0) and it is getting easier and easier to migrate.
Social security is not paid by other taxes. It's its own fund.
All that talk about invasive species without talking about the humans...
Steps for the Perfect Marketing Campaign
Because mommy’s coke is very, very expensive. Now go play with your x-box.
for >10x the javascript weight of Svelte tho :upside down smiley:
Broken link. Was there actually a study on that subject or was this just a way to start a conversation about taxes?
Antidotally, my roommate was a pack a day smoker. Switching from cigarettes to a vape saved them more a month than their last raise of 2 dollars an hour. If you have more then one pack a day smoker in a house, that both also drink, it's easy to see how fast these numbers go up.
You can, in some cases, sue for damages accrued up to six years in the past. You don't have to sue for those before the patent expires. You just stop accruing new damages when the patent expires. Past damages is what was allegedly at issue here. (Which is why the attorneys were talking about "marking," as it's a factor in whether you can get pre-suit damages for some types of claims in some cases.)
The biggest die shrink in recent times was probably Intel's 22nm jump to FinFET (Global Foundries made a decent jump at 14nm, but it couldn't save bulldozer). Rather than the usual 50-70%, Intel claimed transistor density DOUBLED.

Haswell got a very modes (<10%) performance improvement and an equally modest 10% lower power at load (though almost 25% at idle).

Sandy Bridge did much better in performance (up to 40% in some benches) and also did decently well in power consumption despite using the same node.

AMD saw massive increases with Zen on the same 12nm node. The also saw almost 20% IPC increases from Zen 2 to Zen 3 despite both being on the same N7 node

If anything, history shows that node shrinks are always overrated at improving power and performance.
> I'd be doomed with a modern laptop

Can you not install Linux, or enable airplane mode or mute notifications on Windows?

> or a smartphone

You wouldn't want to write long-form on a soft-keyboard with a tiny screen anyway - even though, ironically, I know that you can silence notifications for sure (as opposed to a question mark for Windows 10/11).

I don't think that the problem is the technology - at least, not that technology - because it already has the ability to silence distractions. The problem seems to be with us - we're more distractable and less able to focus. Although, you can probably blame the internet and commercial social media for that!
> He spent a sabbatical conducting field work on Trinidad and Tobago and in Suriname.

What a great example for why we need the Oxford Comma.
"So it’s a linguistic issue."

Only in the same way that you can dismiss misaligned values as a 'linguistic issue'.
> we see less and less of them

Can you justify this statement?
Isn't that legal insurance? It's a good idea though
I smoke about 1 cigarette a day and I always make it point to throw the butt away. I think they should be made with biodegradable filters at least
That's a valid comparison.

The only difference is that C-corp shares are marketed to investors as securities, while Wordcoin is disguised as a so called cryptocurrency/tokens.
Show HN: Bubble Cam – Walking simulator from panoramic photography
I developed this graphical technique for use in a video game. I've been calling it Bubble Cam. Basically it’s like what would happen if Google Street View took a picture every quarter of an inch instead of every fifteen feet.

See playable demo here: https://gamejolt.com/games/thewebsiteisdown/591936

In the writeup linked above I go into a lot of detail but essentially I photographed my parent's basement at about 2 inch resolution (meaning a panoramic picture every two inches along a path through the room) and then used various image manipulation techniques to interpolate, stabilize, smooth and track features. The result is a very realistic "walking simulator" with interactive elements. I am developing this in the context of a game but I can imagine other uses as well.

Also see the part where I am reproducing an old IBM 5160 in game.

Lots of fun stuff in there. I hope you enjoy. Feedback would be great!
i agree it can be done but it's a fragile balancing act. What I don't agree with is that Rust provides anything particularly special allowing you to do this.
It's not the years (roughly speaking) -- move college to 16, or 20, the point still stands. For many people it's the first time they leave the only family/friend/schooling setting they've ever lived with.

Some people certainly don't need that, but I think a soft-entry into the real world in a more limited environment is not to be dismissed outright. It was certainly helpful for me.

No matter how good your family and secondary schooling is (and for many people, it is lousy!), I think that having only one environment and set of perspectives before you're assumed to be a solo capable adult is not ideal.
Throughout my life I've heard rumors of people who invented 100 MPG carburetors, or other types of devices which would radically improve efficiency, or allow for freedom from the petrochemical supply chain, or power grid. There are obvious problems with any devices which actually claim to produce more power out than in, but there can be systems which actually do it by a yet undiscovered mechanism.

For example, the carbon capture threads in the past two weeks seem to be over-unity, but in an obscure way. I suspect the ultrasound and silver nanorods floating it gallium might be involved in some form of sonoluminescent fusion events, the energy of which is captured in the splitting of CO2 back into carbon and oxygen.

I suspect that because the world is actually starting to die off due to the gigatons of CO2 we've dumped into the atmosphere, this (the Carbon capture/gallium thing) might be a trial balloon by the group that controls these technologies, having hoovered them up across the past century, to see how they can keep profits while slowly letting their dependence on fossil fuel profits give way.

I'd give that a 50/50 chance of reflecting reality. If true, the future will get better. If I'm wrong, and it's a fun tale to tell at parties as the world burns.
Idk. We sent our daughter to pre-K to a educationally-focused place, and for her I would have welcomed all forms of rigor as early a point as possible. If [when] we were spending time with her we'd be doing that, and sending her to a babysitting program wouldn't be quite the same.

I'm sympathetic to the author's arguments about licensing, although I think some level of licensure with child care is probably inevitable. If I were being honest, even though I'm licensing-skeptical, education and child care is one area where I think I'd look for it. Maybe not from individual teachers/staff, but for the program as a whole?

I guess my sense is kids will learn a lot on their own, but they're not in a vacuum. They can't really learn what they're not exposed to.
I do not find that clerical accounts for government expenses matter for practical purposes. Nominally, they can have various funding sources, but a politically popular expense will get its funding from somewhere, somehow.

It seems prudent to just treat all monies paid to the federal government as taxes, and all services/products received from the federal government as a whole when accounting for it as an individual taxpayer.
Any way to recover the legal fees for something like this?
https://www.firefly.org/

i remember an article about how fireflies are dying out
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...

>Although effective obesity prevention leads to a decrease in costs of obesity-related diseases, this decrease is offset by cost increases due to diseases unrelated to obesity in life-years gained. Obesity prevention may be an important and cost-effective way of improving public health, but it is not a cure for increasing health expenditures.
Until you realize that that means -every week- that's your plan. When's the last time you drank 2+ drinks a day every day for a year?
I'm not particularly thinking of domestic heat production, I agree that heat pumps (ground source, or a pool if you have it, works even better!) are the future of domestic HVAC. I'm thinking about heating for industrial processes, turning off the factory for 30+ minutes during a useage spike is a minor catastrophe if unplanned, you'd either have to design your shift around it (we had time-of-use power pricing and did this) or just close down.
I won't rule out heat pumps as being part of the solution out of hand, but from your source:

>Lower output temperature than conventional boilers – you may need to update your insulation and invest in bigger radiators too

is a pretty big problem when you are trying to heat industrial quantities of things up to industrial process temps at industrial rates.
I mean, that's too literal of an interpretation.

It's more like "if you don't need to, don't invent your own [x]." People who like to invent [x] are usually smart enough to understand why that warning is there to begin with, and don't tend to argue with it.
>Better than GIMP in so many ways (does GIMP still not have adjustment layers for non-destructive editing?), and was created by one person

This makes total sense. GIMPs problem was never feature quality or quantity, it was mostly focus and coherence.

A single person brings that.