skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Consider all of the "free with ads or paid without ads" products such as YouTube. It's pretty clear that a substantial number of people understand these tradeoffs and are willing to accept them as I imagine the percent of paid subscribers is miniscule.

Obviously people would prefer, for example, a YouTube that is free, without advertisements, private, etc. But, my point is that developers tend to have different preferences than the general population and, thus, we shouldn't be surprised that the Internet has evolved in a way that reflects those differences.
To overcome the fear of taking rsisks... you need to take a risk.

Sounds banal (it is) but this is the only way to make it happen.

Though you always can try things with low cost and high reward first, like parachute jumping.
Lexis-Nexis
Sadly it's not that simple.

Trees alone do not absorb much CO2 past the lifetime of the tree. In the vast majority of the world they die, decompose, and release a lot it again. To store this carbon (and energy) long term the material needs to be buried. Mangrove forests are excellent at this because anything that dies is quickly covered by sand into an anoxic environment where it can't be broken down by bacteria that create CO2. Over a few thousand years the sand layers really pile up. Over a million or so it'll turn to sandstone and coal/oil/methane). Hopefully a shale develops overtop or that methane is just gonna escape straight into the atmosphere anyways.

Melting eutectic salt isnt much more useful. Once you have molten salt, now what? Bury it? It will equilibrate with the ground. You might as well have just let the ground absorb the energy and saved the trouble of making panels.

Fun fact: Not all life on earth is a direct result of the sun's radiation! Sulphate reducing bacteria are regularly found in ocean floor vents and deep in caves, completely independent of solar events.
I'm not tuned into Arrow all that much. I've read some of the about and stuff, but the code examples (to my eye) look really complex and complicated. [1]

Could someone point me to a more glossy "arrow flight sql for dummies" examples? What I'm gleaning from this (or am I wrong?) is you could use a JDBC driver + arrow jdbc client and write... SQL? Or is it something a lot different?

Is this the sort of thing where you could just add a plugin to postgres and be arrowified or something?

[1] https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/release-7.0.0/java/flig...
You can run any app on any platform. It's just going to be a shit experience.

Apple want you to get 80% of the way there, then do the last 20% of tailoring it to the device.

There isn't some magic unicorn toolkit which can do that last 20%.
Good blog post and thanks for writing it. But though Babbage's work may not have been lost for quite as close as 100 years, there is truth to the usual history and I don't think these two examples establish the "turns out to not be true at all":

• Charles Babbage lived 1791–1871, dying a couple of months before his 80th birthday. He wrote his Passages from the Life of a Philosopher in 1864.

• The Swedish difference engine, produced by Scheutz father and son, is mentioned in these memoirs. At the time, it was regarded as a smaller-scale/toy/prototype version of the Difference Engine he was engaged in building. So, even though this version did find use "in production" (at the Dudley Observatory at Albany, and an English-made copy in use "the department of the Registrar-General, at Somerset House"), it was still short of what he actually wanted to build (or had promised to build).

• As for the example you illustrate of W. Stanley Jevons's praise in 1969 of the Difference and Analytical Engine, this too came during Babbage's lifetime, and was for the idea rather than any concrete details of the design: "in his subsequent design for an Analytical Engine, Mr. Babbage has shown that material machinery is capable, in theory at least…" etc.

So it does seem to be the case that at least after Babbage's death in 1871 (if not before), his ideas for the Analytical Engine were dismissed as impractical, or absurdly expensive, or a failure, etc, and no one quite looked at them at least until (going by the Aiken reference you found) 1936, which is 65 years.
I love that some work is going into UI design, but there are a few things I really dislike in gnome apps. For example using a hamburger menu instead of a regular menu or icons instead of text for buttons.
This is the creator's motivation for godocs.io and against pkg.do.dev: https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/01/pkg-go-dev-sucks.html
I am not sure what you are arguing for. We should not have asked a police for help because we should have known that their job is hard to do efficiently and their workplace contains office politics?

That's their problem, not mine. As far as I'm concerned, police should do what they say they do on the tin. What happened was my friend got punched in the face and what we wanted was for the police to at least make it appear like they were interested in reducing the ambient amount of face punchings in their jurisdiction.
Jokes that the surveillance robot could spy on "the other locker room" like the Patriots, lolol
Don't forget about Moller.
>Otherwise that tax will end up increasing a resident's rent/mortgage

It would do nothing to rents or mortgages intrinsically but it would cause property prices to fall and it could add to the tax burden of regular property owners depending on how it were implemented (i.e. if the tax free threshold were set too low).

>that still wouldn't be much of a disincentive to the wealthy

It would be a massive disincentive to the wealthy, since they own the most property and are used to it being an asset not a liability.

They would dispose of properties that were nonperforming because taxes > capital appreciation + rent and this would spiral as falling prices leads to more hoarded properties being given up.

They would also scramble to rent out previously unrented properties where capital appreciation wasnt covering taxes. More rentals on the market means even lower rents which makes their properties worth even less to them.
I find towns and cities to be unbearably noisy now and almost all of that noise is from cars and other motor vehicles. Certain people, of course, need to stand out from the crowd and have responded by making even more noise. Some of those cars and motorbikes are obnoxiously loud, but I think something like the top 20% are louder than they have to be. It needs to stop. There are studies showing the bad effects of noise pollution on people's health. Electric cars should reduce the overall noise level but the outliers definitely need to be targeted.
Very useful, i dislike using yt's UI on televisions
I'm quite sure you could change system colors willy nilly in OS 8. It was great fun. I miss that part - the feeling of having "your own" system.

Since customization where pretty standard back then, it feels like product managers pushing their "vision" rather than technical difficulties preventing that nowadays.
Nice to see that the author uses Shellcheck. There is a very nice Shellcheck VS Code extension that links examples of good/bad practices when writing Bash. I can definitely recommend using it if you’re writing Bash scripts!
Yikes, I didn't know about that! Thanks, some interesting responses there.
My favorite fuckup is when the MS Authenticator itself tells me that it needs me to use MS Authenticator to verify who I am, so it sends a code to itself.

You can't make this shit up.
Can we start using something like this with light meters to ticket obnoxious LED beams that have not been properly retrofitted into older cars?

It's extremely obvious which cars these are when you're driving at night. That these people are endangering dozens of other cars on the road is lunacy.
Basically, it's a distributed code-first workflow manager (as opposed to configuration-centric solutions that use BPML). It's a fork of Cadence, which was the author's project at Uber to create a single workflow manager for their platform.

The use case is basically any kind of temporally-distributed workflow that you might use something like Airflow for, or else otherwise hack together with some combination of event buses, temp tables, and cronjobs. Its main charm is that you define the logic in code rather than templates, so you can intermix business logic directly into the workflow.
You can't "just" put 1GW of power into the ground, that energy is conserved and is still going to do something (quite a lot of somethings, in fact)
Don't you think that these quotes shouldn't be taken at face value, given that these officers could intend to maintain a public image? Who knows, may be some of those quoted here even dreamed about a political career after their military service.
I've been coming around to the idea that the threat models that are often used for website identity are not the ones we want. The ssh threat model related to changes in host keys seems to me to be a better one.

The first time you connect to a website you get whatever identity it wants to show you. Whether it is a real site or not doesn't particularly matter, it only matters when the identity changes. If my first access was MITMed and then I connect to the "real" site, I should go and check to see what information changed, and if I sent any sensitive information I should probably do something to mitigate that (the exact action would depend on the exact type of info you sent). In the reverse case where you trust the original identity more than a changed identity you would ignore the event and might possibly want to inform the original entity that someone is trying to impersonate them.

Still fairly complicated for the original user, but certificate expiration would no longer be the insanity that it is now, and you can at least get transport security without the big scary self signed warnings that show up now.
Well they would be if anyone actually owned them.
BlockFi is relaunching its “interest accounts” as BlockFi Yield post SEC fine
Good. Now target Harley Davidson motorcycles.
Maybe I’m missing something but why not actually finish a game first instead of making a community about finishing games? How can you know what those people need without doing it yourself?
A very important topic. Specially if you are into MLOps!

If your product is mainly powered by AI, and you found "AI-product-fit", then this topic should be something you bring up to the AI team tomorrow or to the infra team.

AI models are powerful yet sensitive, and how new samples (out-of-dist) could affect them is hard to anticipate.

The other day I came across https://www.raymon.ai/, "Observability for AI systems
". I'vent tried Raymon yet, but looks promising.
A model for startup CEO compensation [pdf]
In Starship Troopers, as I recall, you had to serve for some period in order to be a citizen/vote. I don't remember if this was necessarily military service (although that is certainly what the book highlighted).
I agree for the most part.

That said, it requires actually reading the news for someone to come to the same conclusion that you did through first hand experience, rather than just taking your word for it.
Australia.

I guess their systems aren't quite as smooth here. I'd still be quite annoyed to have to go to UPS in my free time to return something I never ordered.
Consider a Ploopy trackball. There are 4 easy accessible buttons on the mouse plus another under the scroll wheel, and it's fully programmable.

https://ploopy.co/classic-trackball/
There seems to be a lot of a unhealthy bitter jealousy on HN toward cryptocurrency. And I believe you've nailed the reason why.
Great news, and I hope this catches on elsewhere. Our acoustic environment is a commons, and a particularly fragile one at that. Quiet surroundings are a boon to health and happiness, a fact that is not only immediately obvious to anyone with ears and a nervous system but also proven by scientific studies. However it can be destroyed so easily by one a-hole to the detriment of all. It's about time we start protecting it.
European attitude towards guns differs a lot by country. In Czechia for example getting a license is straightforward and lots of people have small firearms. They just don’t fetishize it and brandish it at every opportunity.
Steps for an Engineering Manager to Maximise Negotiation Leverage
The correct password is impossible to calculate from the given data, but it seems like it should be possible to check whether a password matches the data.
They make you feel safer because you're in a bigger vehicle and higher off the road. Ironically they tend to roll more easily so are often more dangerous.
You're skipping over the power dynamics- the brides are often very poor and dependent on spouse for financial support, the lack of support network (bride leaves family & friends thousands of miles away),as well as the precarious visa situation (real or perceived). Other than that, it's just like internet dating, like you said.
What about adding a positive number to a negative number?
Chrome OS Flex: an ideal off-ramp for millions of PCs that can’t run Windows 11
I disagree with the whole premise of having a single app for both desktop and mobile. Even if you give developers the tools to make a good app for desktop and mobile, they won't. They'll make the mobile app first, ensure that it runs on desktop, and then dust off their hands and call it a day. To quote the Purism blogpost cited elsewhere in this thread:

Web designers now have toolboxes to design web pages, which they adjust for mobile or desktop in order to get easier readability and use.

Except, web designers don't adjust web pages for mobile or web. They adjust pages for mobile, and then what you end up in a desktop web browser is acres of white space and buttons that are the size of your head.

The way I see it, this is Linux UI framework developers chasing Apple, Microsoft and Google's taillights yet again. Sure, Apple, Google and Microsoft don't care, but that's because they're trillion dollar companies and they have to go where the majority of the customers are. But why does Linux have to go there too? Why can't Linux UI framework developers focus on an under-appreciated niche (desktop "power" users) which are increasingly neglected by the megacorps?
The price of construction matters considerably whether you're planning on building mass market apartments or condominiums. Most cities have explicitly different building codes based on the intended use of the dwellings, interestingly most of the time to avoid civil litigation with the city. Condos generally have much higher quality duct-work / fresh air exchange not to mention thicker walls, more sound dampening etc. All of this is more expensive, but the cost is passed onto the buyer and ensures the contractor isn't on the hook for tenants levying lawsuits against the architect / contractor / city that conducted inspections.
Yeah those higher ceilings are very popular, andextremely inefficient. We recently saw this in the new constructed homes in Texas, which made their problem with the power grid last year even worse. The few minutes they gave power to those fancy new home regions (during the time they were cycling power steering) basically went to waste, because the ceilings were so insanely high, and everyone has the open and spacious aesthetic. Many of them had 2 story entrance like ceilings, and few doors to close off where the heat should be directed.
Older homes in the north tend towards lower ceilings and smaller rooms with doors - so heating one room can be efficient and fast
I'm very anti-advertising as well. I use ublock and youtube vanced, and have a pihole on my home network.

While privacy is certainly a bonus, the main reason is that ads interrupt what I want to look at, consume power, are ugly, intrusive and a vector for malware. I know many content creators consider me to be stealing their content, I wouldn't exactly disagree. But so be it. Some sites block me from visiting them, I think that's completely fair, and I don't put up much effort in circumventing such blocks.

This Privacy Sandbox initiative appears to not at all address the problems I have with advertisements.
And then proceed to criticize their foos choices? J/k
Ok, this confirms what I said:

> Also "Mostly False" sounds right, as it was just the pipe detail that is in dispute, no?

In fact this passage articulates why "mostly false" is accurate, the framing done by right wing media was purposefully and misleading (and leaning on emotionally/racially charged language like "crack pipe"):

> Collectively, these articles gave readers a grossly misleading and reductive presentation of what was a real substance abuse harm reduction grant overseen by the Biden administration in early 2022. We are issuing a rating of “Mostly False.”

> It’s true that the grant description required the provision of smoking kits — an established component of harm reduction strategy — but in reality, those kits constituted just one of several sub-components of an even longer list of requirements for grant recipients. In other words, while outraged media coverage focused almost exclusively on “crack pipes,” this was actually only a very small part of the program.

I asked you for a solid example of something objectively wrong that hasn't been corrected, you gave me something that is at best nuanced and deserving of more clarification.

> Snopes and Politifact have outright lied and no one cares.

Not here they didn't.

I'd ask for another example, but if this is the best you have to prove that "fake news" is out to get you, I think we've dispelled that thoroughly.
On the one hand, I think red light cameras and automated speed traps are unconstitutional and there have been shady companies caught fixing them. I hate the idea of putting super sensitive microphones in public spaces and connecting them directly to police departments.

But on the other hand, fuck loud cars and motorcycles, they are a menace to society, and they are the only thing that makes my blood boil, when they wake me up at 2am.
The internet has become a confirmation bias machine (as platforms figured out giving people want they want to hear keep them on platform longer).

The result is, people are becoming more confident in false conclusions.

https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1493987804442812416

The promise of the internet is more information will help our accuracy, this doesn't take into account the nature of some to want information that confirms their beliefs, not info that is confirmed accurate.
Flatpak is a bad idea but GTK4 and libadwaita are really nice.
Kind of off topic. But we need to find a way to reduce the noise of squeaking subway trains.
YES. I have lived on some incredibly busy streets in New York. Cities aren't loud. Cars are loud.
Wait, you can’t see it either?
As power autarky and energy stability is a major backbone of economic and defense capabilities a mere billion here or there should be absolutely worth it. You need an energy source mix in the end, and this is part of that.
Huh? It's just an article about a TV show the author liked, not business advice.

Also:

> This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline "Avenger in a raincoat"

The online article headline is just clickbait.
Looking forward to the improvements KDE will make in 2022!
> Consequently, alternative considerations like that the bombings were a show of force with the Soviet Union

But how is that an alternative? Showing force to Soviet Union would ALSO save millions of lives.
I bet Trudeau wishes they had this in place in Ottawa.

I understand the desire to curb excessive noise, but anything that involves a faceless machine dishing out summons is a hard no. One errant ticket is hours of wasted time where you’re guilty until proven innocent.

If they really want to do this, pay for some plain clothes officer with body cams to wander through the city. That would likely be cheaper and prevent all kinds of other crime as well.
Have you tried confronting them about it?
I am not sure what the law is here in Australia, but as others have mentioned, a chargeback would have jeopardised my account. I don't pay for prime (although I think I actually had a prime trial at the time of the issue, which makes it even more infuriating) but have quite a few kindle books.
Brainwashing is a powerful thing. Make sure it never happens to you.
See also Plan 28, a project to build an Analytical Engine, started by HN own jgrahamc:

https://plan28.org/
This maybe true even if the next person to maintain that is yourself! I have certainly wished terrible vengeance to be visited on past me.
> You can log and send metrics from your app over a network

That's far from enough. It's conceptually and practically wrong to rely on the application to monitor itself.

> IDS makes no sense when you don't have logins and such

On the contrary, there is plenty that IDS can do for webapps.
I added the quotes because I wasn't getting what I wanted without them. I don't need the user manual; I already have that and I'm not just trying to clean it. I wanted to find a guide to fully disassembling it, like the videos you find for phones when you want to replace a cracked screen yourself. Knowing that there are no matches at all is good information. (Disappointing, but good.) Trying to give me results for a different query, apparently assuming that I accidentally used the exact-match-only quotes, is not useful and kind of condescending. I think that's what leads people to think the quotes don't work the way they used to. Finally, the wording about not many good matches makes it sound like there are some good matches, but they've been mixed in with these other irrelevant matches. That's probably just a wording issue on the message, trying to soften the "We can't find anything" result.
You just reminded me of something from when I worked at a pizza place. Most of the time we sold pizzas cut the normal way. Either 6, 8, or 10 slices using a circular cutter. The normal style you might have in your kitchen.

But one Wednesday each month, we had a massive lunch order for a local school. Hundreds of individually-boxed slices, delivered just before 11:30. The slice box was sized for a 1/7 slice of our extra large pizza. We had to use a "wagon wheel" type slicer for those. It was a huge stainless thing that must've cost a fortune.

I always wondered why it was 7 slices and not 6 or 8. The best theory I could come up with was that these slices all had to be the exact same size; no variance from sloppy cutting. And the only way to ensure that would be to specify it as an odd number to make it impractical for the normal cutter.
Across panels, the CEOs of mature firms, (Post-Series B, with greater than $10 million in revenue), earn, on average, over $270,000 per year in cash com- pensation. Also relevant is the variability around these averages.