skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi Oliver, Supabase team,

Love what you are doing with Supabase!

Quick question, have you considered building any kind of local mirroring system for offline mobile app/PWA, say on top of SQLite? Something like Realm for mongodb or PouchDB/Couchbase Lite for CouchDB/Couchbase.

It would obviously need devs to add some extra columns to tables for tracking, and a way to define the merge/overture characteristics for each column, but it would be awesome to have something like that!

It’s something I have thought about building for a while but never found the time. (I want to combine it with Yjs for collaborative offline rich text editing)
So the correct course of action in this situation (being chased by a murderer) is to make a decision that 100% ensures the denied-driver's death, in order to prevent the possible, and probably unlikely death of an bystander due to said driver's likely emotionally-impaired driving?

No, that's not ethical reasoning at all.
> "This is just one of the ways an unprincipled "builder culture" can backfire, particularly if you have people running the show who have no problem putting their own gains ahead of the company. They'll push all kinds of garbage if it makes them hit their goals and get a bigger bonus, a promotion, or some kind of shiny new position."

In lots of places I have worked there is a particular term that is often used to precisely describe this situation, it is called POA aka "Promotion Oriented Architecture". In POA, you deliberately add a lot of accidental complexity to come up with a fiendishly complicated solution to a relatively simple problem. In short, the complexity stems from the solution space rather than the problem space.
In terms of generic textual documents, do you have a link? The only thing that comes to mind is Pijul:

https://pijul.org/

I also found peritext:

https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
If it makes you feel better, your SSN is dumped into thousands of leaks already, most likely.
> "medical mask" = "surgical mask" is that it? anyway, this one seems a bit fishy to me, as far I can tell, in the first wave covid wasn't THAT MUCH more widespread, when very few regular people were wearing masks, this claim seems dubious to me

you are going against the scientific based evidence provided in the very op and countless other studies with terms like "fishy" and "dubious" without providing any evidence yourself. You are even making it clear in your very comment that you didn't really understand the article itself. That's misinformation or at least classic misdirection or in other words spreading FUD.
All my budgeting apps work fine (merchant name can be a little bit of a mess sometimes) since the transactions come through individually in my bank.
The US adult obesity rate is 42.4% [1]. To get to 75% of deaths being obese people, you'd need about a 4x death rate of obese people compared to non-obese people. Most obese people find it extremely hard to stop being obese and often fail despite immense effort.

Meanwhile, getting a COVID vaccine reduces the chance of death by >10x at a cost of <$40 per person. My impression is that vaccines are unusually cost-effective medicine and that the low-impact medical spending is elsewhere in the system, but it is nonetheless thought-provoking to consider this specific example.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db360.htm
Excuse my ignorance but...

Wouldn't the energy required to launch something from a slingshot be the same as using a propulsion engine?
I don't have specific advice for the original question. But I have been exceedingly happy with what my own parents have done, they're both in their early 70s.

During the last 10 years, all 4 of my grandparents have passed away. They lived long good lives, and did my parents the service of "taking turns". Though one had 3 kids and the other 6, it fell to my parents to do the majority of the work during each's final years due to many issues, geography being one. It was a LOT of work for my parents. Many times they joked that, just when they got the kids out of the house and on their own, it was time to start taking care of grandma and grandpa.

Having been through that, my parents have taken some steps to avoid some of the pitfalls they experienced. Once a year, we have a family dinner (us and their children + spouses). It's usually a sort of joint anniversary dinner. And after dinner, we have a "state of the union" type chat. At least an hour or more. Our parents talk about how they're doing, how their finances are doing, how their health is doing, even their mental health, what's bumming that out, etc. We ask questions. It's all very candid.

This discussion is never had without everyone present. My Mom's explanation is that she doesn't want there to be any sort of "well, when I was talking to Mom she said, and what I think she'd want is..." There won't be arguments about when or if to put them in a nursing home. We know how they want to be buried. Kind of service, etc.

There will, I'm sure, be surprises and we'll have to adapt. But we've tried, and it's a together effort, because they kicked the ball off that way. Before it was too late to have these discussions. Their biggest frustration with their own parents had been that they didn't want to talk about it, and when it came time to have to talk about it, it was too late. People's faculties and emotions were compromised at that point.

My wife and I have compared this to her parents who are in their late 80's. It's going to be a mess. They won't talk about it. Don't want to. It's uncomfortable. And the kids all have their own viewpoints on thing.

If you can, before it's too late, start having the candid discussions now, together as a group. It makes things way better in dealing with the downhill years.
It’s been discussed to death, literally. It’s hard to believe you’re asking for a discussion in good faith, when there’s clearly no evidence on your side, and your baseless “skepticism” has been indulged for almost 2 full years by the government and media. The outgoing German government bent over backwards for you Querdenker, and that’s why we’re still in this mess.

You’re simply wrong. You’re entitled to your wrong opinion, but you’re no longer entitled to force the rest of us to suffer for it.
None of that actually shows that natural gifts and talents do not exist or are not necessary. Their results could be equally well explained by mathematics success requiring both gifts and early encouragement and support to develop those gifts, with children from less well off groups receiving less of the latter.
By saying "shadow government" I mean groups within the US government that has connection to say NOS.

Again I don't have concrete proofs so I could be 100% wrong. But reading world history especially cold war history makes me be sceptical to certain things.
They did, and that one dude really didn't like a person named Alexa
The blender's internal datastructures are optimized for editing. Game engines use optimized data structures for rendering, the conversion is usually done offline. The interactive viewport could be bundled with "export as a game" option i guess, where the exported version would run faster.
U.S drones and F-15s don't have software?
It isn't quite true that cattle is the biggest driver of deforestation in the Amazon. The number one driver is soy. However, landowners will typically deforest and then place cattle on land for five years, before converting to soy to circumvent regulation. This creates the impression that cattle was the driver, when it was in fact soy.

That said, a lot of the soy does feed cattle too!
great tech for Moon launches though.
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That Daily Shower Can Be a Killer (2013)
I mean, why would we expect it too? Spending is about profits accumulating somewhere, so why would that have anything to do with optimizing healthspan? Note, I'm vehemently critical of the modern medical establishment, and a health loon myself (by necessity, was hit with a though illness early on in my life).
It is not at all normal to experience frequent pneumonia due to minor upper respiratory infections. That's likely a symptom of some more serious underlying pathology. I recommend consulting a physician. At least get your vitamin D levels checked.
A lot of $ is spent on medicine because medicine works. Alternatives such as diet, exercise either are spotty in efficacy or do not work. Medicine offers a quick fix and in some cases the only fix. Someone who has cancer will need to be treated with medicine, not diet.
It doesn't justify it, but if we're going to take a stance against spyware, we have to take a stance against all spyware. That includes the home-rolled stuff that the NSA pushes out to Apple and Google.
Wow, just wow.

This is simply amazing.

If you want to learn digital sculpting and proper meshing (manually unfortunately, but still), this is a fantastic resource.

Thanks for the link.
It should be... I love the concept of seasonal mustards. Care to share what recipe you landed on?
No worries. Can confirm it's fixed, thanks!
> [...] and also there were events in history like china's cultural revolution, Stalin's great cleansing and the killing fields in Cambodia (to name a few) [...]

Under the assumption that is meant to be a sincere argument:

The difference between the holocaust and those crimes is that Germany's the country primarily responsible for the former, giving special meaning to the denial of that crime and the law banning its denial.
Also Israeli publications are subject to military censor. Its very much a militarised society.
> I would fund Asia-style 'cram' academies in disadvantaged neighborhoods and make them free

Cram schools are laughably useless. Works well at a national level with a large enough population but they are really a side effect of the intense competition and pressure for the few decent university spots available in Asian countries (per capita).

It's basically optimized to pass a test, not learn, and heavily rewards rote memorization.
Similarly to watches, jewelry techniques, styles materials have made their way far down market. Exclusivity (or a certain designer's mark) is just one buyer preference.

Take a look at the jewelry case at Walmart or Kohl's (if you're in the United States) to see what's happened.
Anuel AA- Llorando En Un Ferrari (Video Oficial)
Here's a related recent video from Kurzgesagt, discussing how space for beef cattle drives deforestation in Brazil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Hq8eVOMHs
Reminds me of the slingatron: https://web.archive.org/web/20111112064356/http://www.slinga...
"For many, the simplest path may be to say very little, or be generally kind in the exit interview, then grab their things and wave good-bye as the lift doors close."

YMMV, but in my experience this advice works best. Not burning a bridge, as much as you want to, is what I've found to be most successful. And you don't want a vindictive ex-employer "poisoning the well" for you elsewhere.
Right, not sure why it wasn't working yesterday as opposed to now, I swear I wasn't doing it wrong (or how I could've).
User-space ACE would still be enough to do something like this. All sorts of user-space apps have the relevant permissions and are not secured against attacks to the necessary extent to stop a state level actor.
I would have used a proxy.
Just because Terence Tao is a genius at (and world-leading researcher in) mathematics, and Alan Kay is programming pioneer, doesn't mean that either of them understand the implications of the CMF, or are knowledgeable about children's education - they could merely be taking the word of someone else who is misinformed or not acting in good faith (perhaps through a telephone game mechanism).
What specifically about the courses being taught by black people do you think helped you do better?
For front-end development where you already using GQL as a layer on top of content I can see the use case for this.

A lot of old systems have this tight coupling between databases and back-end code. I would advice against going down that path.

GraphQL was designed to solve the flaws in the utterly poor service design at Facebook. Do not forget that.
None of these things are in the law, so gg to you for lying on the internet while trying to defend lying about the holocaust. Well played.
The reason healthcare and education cost so much
I get so frustrated when I read piece-meal, overly specific explanations for the enormous cost of healthcare and education.

There is a much more compelling and systematic answer: Baumol's cost disease. I wrote a quick thing about it at sunderji.substack.com.

Curious to know whether this community agrees or not.
Dislikes still visible on incognito tab. Most fiction/speculative authors assumed tyranny would be from governments, not private companies. How wrong they were.
I guess I missed the most important step which probably was don’t have three kids under 7.
https://www.npmjs.com/package/true
Eufy brand products doesn’t require cloud or subscription.
Let me tell you a secret: nobody cares. Except maybe the people who need to invent this stuff. Everybody else, including the ones who put the mission statement on the letterhead etc., just learned to ignore it. It's just like "How are you?" without really asking about your well-being. It's a kind of ritual. These words are basically empty, but have a function. However, the function is not so much in the meaning as in form. Nowadays you can't have a company without a mission statement, corporate values and so on. The point is, most values are the same. You don't have that much choice, you have to "embrace diversity" and so on no matter what you actually think. All companies do the same, and going in the opposite direction would be insane - you would simply lose customers.
Dark Matter from Exponential Growth
Not being a windows person, can you explain what that error means?
That is a well-intentioned but simply wrong statement in the blog. One of the letter authors is what I would call a professional educator in some way (a non-profit). The rest are university professors and a few are industry scientists. They are certainly not "people with experience teaching at all levels" even if they believe that. Same with the signatories. The vast majority are university professors. These people are generally great at what they do and frequently terrible at teaching, *especially* when teaching K12 students. I have seen it first hand as I have been organizing K12 events (not for "gifted" kids) and have been tutoring gifted students competing in the international physics Olympics over the last 8 years while working at Yale, Harvard, and MIT (as a graduate student and postdoc). Teaching competitive physics, teaching college students, teaching K12 students, and doing research are 4 completely different things. The signatories are certainly amazing at the research, but I have seen first hand how that type of professionals are just terrible at teaching K12 students while thinking they are doing great. Even worse, we usually pat ourselves on the back for having a single-day event with cool math organized for the K12 students, but never bother with the year-long battle to actually lift all boats.

Obviously this is just my personal anecdote, but I do claim I have been very invested in exactly this type of education and have seen how well-meaning crazy-smart professors are failing to teach K12 students (in their once-a-year charity event) while patting themselves on the back for a job well done.
Meanwhile Microsoft has adopted full remote.
It being Israeli is definitely a big part of why this story is so huge. Why do you think it's making huge headlines then - what's your theory? The fact that 8 American diplomats got their phones hacked?
I seem to recall that the problem with "just google things" or LMGTFY is that if "google" becomes a verb (to google) it can't be trademarked once it becomes of common use. That's the reason many companies often issue official statements discouraging the use of their names as verbs when they see them used as such.
I think Google themselves did this many years ago.
A viewpoint I've never seen addressed - if the people of this country have unmet economic needs they can only meet by using some land from the Amazon, is it really more important to preserve it as a landmark than for the land to go to use? I'm all for conservation but there must be some reason everyone down there wants some of this land as opposed to going elsewhere.
No I specifically ask this to one of the founders and the display is not customizable unlike the rest.

You get the reflective non matte display and according there were no plans for a matte or EPD option.
I don't think it's very constructive to call every personal risk assessment "irrelevant" without qualifications.

For one, there might be vaccines that work more broadly and give immunocompromised individuals better protection in the future, or cures/remedies that help your body fight the virus better when you do fall ill.

For another, right now hospitals are starting to overflow here and if I decide today to start going out and about as if nothing is amiss again, me or a loved one might end up there at a time where they're actually full. That is not cool for the covid patient, the medical personnel that usually already do overtime during normal times, or the people whose treatments are delayed again because it's full of covid patients again. We do still have a period to work through, either by (booster or initial) vaccinations or by forced inoculation for anti-vaxxers (aka having covid).

It's not about being too short-sighted to see that it's very likely we'll all be exposed eventually.
Thank you very much for sharing your opinion! I've added those to my "Book/Essay" folder, especially liked and agreed with the idea of having the book free to download.

I can't see your email on HN nor DM functionality, is there any chance I can know your email?
...and the corollary to that is turning things into data is often a much simpler alternative to abstraction.

For example suppose you have a program with configuration. You might have a "ConfigurationProvider" and abstract that with an "IConfigurationProvider" and mock implementations of that interface for unit tests.

Or you could simply define a Plain Old Data structure with fields for the configuration data. Then you can construct an instance of that data structure in different ways as appropriate.

The key idea there is: "data" is something that's already automatically decoupled from where the data came from. For code you have to do work to achieve that decoupling, and it will always leak.
Covid precautions and adherence to same has been a giant Rorschach test. Given a situation in which old norms are no longer assumed, with different information and beliefs, what does each person think is "reasonable"?

Personally, IMHO, if someone isn't wearing a mask in crowded public places and getting their vaccinations, it's mind bogglingly hypocritical to be claim to be afraid of returning to the office.

Either they're worried enough about the virus to protect themselves and the people around them, or they're not. And if they're not, then how can they be too worried to be in the office?

* Leaving aside the issue of the minority who medically can't vaccinate.
A lot of high-earning parents in California send their children to public schools, and they are willing to pay extra money to buy homes in the best school districts in order to do so.

School district quality has a significant impact on home values in California, and that wouldn't be the case if the majority of high earners sent their kids to private schools.
I love the idea, yet... The latest episode 7 is about a girl thinking about killing a witch, kicking her in a face, her hitting her back, and stuff.

Definitely did not help me fall a sleep.
From time immemorial, when you tell a drama queen or king that they are too emotional, they get even more emotional. We just have more of this kind of royalty around lately.
Whenever public discourse turns to topics within my domain I realize that even one degree of separation from a subject means you're basically just making stuff up.

How many people on the planet are worth listening to when it comes to teaching math?
At the end of the day what makes a top university is its reputation, its brand. Any other measurable metric (SAT scores, quality of research, size of endowment fund, etc) is a consequence of that. There is no better way to hurt their brand than what they are doing now. And by "kill" I don't mean "close", I mean kill their reputation.

And I think it's a good thing. I much prefer the German system which, as I understand it, doesn't rely on a small number of elite universities, and where you have to evaluate the candidate rather than its credentials.
No. I'm saying in Affirm, the only options for payment are ACH cards, and debit cards.

I don't like either of those, so previously I used Privacy.com cards. Yes, that meant Privacy.com had access to my bank/debit card details, but they already did (and in general it means one place has my debit cards, rather than every place that eschews credit cards).

Affirm previously accepted cards created with Privacy.com just fine.

However, to prepare for the old cards no longer working (per the article), I just went and had new ones issued on Privacy.com. When I went to put those into Affirm, though, Affirm rejected them with "something went wrong". Multiple cards, multiple attempts, no further data given (both on the site and in the network request).

When I went "uh-oh; I need to actually make sure the Affirm loan gets paid off next month when it goes to bill again", and so inserted my bank's debit card details, it went through fine.

So, Affirm rejected the new Privacy.com cards for me. It accepted my personal debit card just fine.
> The best way to give a manufacturer feedback is to not purchase their product.

And then the VW software team managers say "Look how great Tesla's are selling. It's because they have more autodrive features. Give me more money to add more features." Note, that was "add features" not "improve features".
> When you hit orbital height, your velocity is in the wrong direction.

Wait, why is your velocity in the wrong direction? You're right that you need to add a whole hell of a lot of horizontal velocity to reach orbit, but you do have ~400 meters per second of horizontal velocity borrowed from the surface rotation of the Earth. You're not going the wrong direction -- there's nothing you need to counter-act. You just need your 2nd stage (assuming we count the initial throw as a 1st stage) to provide all that velocity. The fuel you need to do that was launched up with you. What's the problem? It's a hell of a lot easier than the way we do it now.

> How do you ... survive forces involved

Yes, that is the real problem.

> The projectile has a carp ton of angular momentum after release

No, the centrifuge has a crap ton of angular momentum, some of which is converted to linear momentum in the projectile upon release.