skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous tech that has come to light in recent years:

There a beetles with dimples on the shell which can collect fog moisture, I think this is being used to provide water.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1508-beetle-fog-catch...

https://news.mit.edu/2011/fog-harvesting-0421

Giving the nets an electrostatic charge which I believe also increases the amount of water that can be extracted.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aao5323

However the article goes on to say that the land around is having less and less water. Perhaps the water table that fed the springs is falling due to extraction elsewhere?

Or that it was once replenished in the past and the rainfall pattern has changed.

Edit: links added
If your attitude towards life is that it sucks so I'll play computer games instead, it sounds like a negative feedback loop :)
Isn't vitamin D going to get mentioned? Has sunscreen growth coincided with plummeting levels of vitamin D?
This is a recognized phenomenon. Games are simulations of reality, almost always with softer rules, and players are essentially gods within that simulation.

Here's a massive collection of examples:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideogameCruelty...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGamePervers...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatTheHellPlaye...

And also a massive list of positive examples:

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGameCaringP...

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VideoGameCruelty...

> know the difference between the game world and real life

This is the norm. As far as I know, all attempts to prove otherwise have failed.
I can see how this works, but my personal experience is that concurrent code that is finely scoped is easier to reason about than larger-scoped concurrency already anyways. Hardly a controversial statement, I guess. So if nurseries help me reasoning about finely scoped stuff even better that's great of course, but only solves part of 'the problem'. And maybe not the most interesting part.

Just quickly running a task to perform a handful of stuff concurrently for a single purpose (like doing a few network requests and packing the results) is hardly where I encounter big issues. The compositional behavior of Futures really helps here I think. A bunch of `Future<Result<A, Error>>` go a long way.
Go really didn't figure package management until very recently.
I can understand the concept of Amish communities not having telephones or mailboxes, but that lifestyle seems inconsistent with the behavior of arguing for the merits of that lifestyle on Hacker News.
The article goes into this a little. Obviously there are different groups doing this with different setups, but in some documented examples it's basically slavery
There are some counter examples, like Thalidomide, and in a field where regulators (used to) trust each other and just accept what other countries' regulators said, aviation, the 737 Max (which nobody tested properly because the FAA didn't do their job and let Boeing self-certify, meanwhile EASA and other air regulators accepted the FAA's stamp of approval, not knowing it wasn't worth anything).

Also, different regulators have different thresholds - for instance many things that pass in the US food-wise wouldn't in the EU - be it chlorinated chickens, "false"/misleading labels, etc., and vice versa in some hilarious cases like Kinder Surprise (banned in the US because non-edibles inside food aren't acceptable to the FDA, meanwhile in the EU people just... teach their kids that you open it to get the toy, and eat the rest).
Most frustrating part with find is:

$ find -type f .
find: paths must precede expression: `.'

It's like the tool knows exactly what you want to do, but still refuses to do it just because.
This isn't true at all - in Spain teenage suicide and other mental health issues grew massively.

https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20211209/7898188/covid-dis...

https://www.lavanguardia.com/vivo/psicologia/20201108/492604...

Europe isn't some magical wonderland. It's just poorer than the US but with better infrastructure.
I may be interpreting this incorrectly, but it appears that you're calling them lazy.

Whereas they're saying that spending time setting up AWS is complicated (for them) and not worth their own personal effort in comparison.
The module specified in the article, as mentioned nearby, is around 100€|$.

According to an article I posted in the root,

> Un panel captaniebla es económico. Uno de 40 metros cuadrados está en el orden de los 1.000 a 1.500 dólares

It also says that the most common nets are made of plastic: so, there will be different standards and costs.
The DIY desktop gaming tower market has got to be pretty small by now.

Margins on pre-builds have been shrinking to almost nothing, I build my own PCs because I see it as a hobby, but I could hardly recommend it nowadays to someone who's looking for a machine, not a new hobby.
Exactly! That's the first time I hear about that. And there may be many more that we'll never learn about them.
ps can also get a prize with its incompatible mixture of BSD (non-hyphenated) and UNIX (hyphenated) options. The letters chosen appear pretty random, too.
Nope. Mail.app removed it long ago. iOS mail has never had it. Even gmail is less info-dense than it could be, as it routinely increases the padding and margins for each message, even with the most dense view.
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Lockdowns are evil - Spain is still recovering for teenage suicide rates, etc.

https://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20211209/7898188/covid-dis...

https://www.lavanguardia.com/vivo/psicologia/20201108/492604...

It wasn't worth the cost.
I really hope that he loses the cases.
cancer has nothing to do with civilisation. it was already recorded way before we had modern and industrial societies
Isn't that basically every crypto Telegram / Discord group? A bunch of "to the moon" sock puppets very excited about shitcoin du jour...
welcome to software development
Yeah but they never have to come in and pick it up and I doubt the post office retains that mail in perpetuity until it’s picked up.
Maybe the framework notebook could be also an choice.
But why use redbean for that, and not nginx?

The point of redbean is to be CPU- and OS-agnostic. Containers are CPU- and OS-specific.
I consider myself relatively technical as a software engineer, but networking isn't my forte. I still don't understand the documentation about bringing in my other devices that don't have clients. I'd like to be able to have access to homekit while out and about on 5g for example - via tailscale.
World Population Clock: 7.96B People (2022)
will it get a native windows backend anytime soon? i saw a closed issue from 2020 saying that there were no plans for it.
The whole premise of a doctor visit is you don’t know what is going on and you need someone to differentiate everything that’s happened to you to figure out if it’s gas pain or cancer. When you see a Doctor, they are trained for years more than any mid-level provider and they carry massive legal risks if they are wrong or negligent. When you see a PA or LPN they have far less training, and are judged by “nurses standard”, so when they miss your child’s cancer, or kill you by administering the wrong dose, you don’t have repercussions.

In reality, the legal costs in healthcare should be the next big trim on the cutting block - a single judgment for the $100 million against a provider somewhere in South Carolina makes insurers raise malpractice rates for all doctors everyone by huge percentages. Those costs put doctors out of business and all of a sudden you have far less providers in many rural areas and people die of preventative stuff. The stress of dealing with malpractice is so high (60% of all doctors are sued for almost entirely frivolous reasons, every single year nowadays) that doctors are now directing their kids to become nurses - higher guaranteed pay, you don’t lose your 20s to medical training, and no stress of career ending lawsuits.

If you go to a hospital for a longer illness and have to be taken care of by team of rotating health professionals, every lawsuit can name every single professional, whether they have anything to do with your damage or were just on the note for admitting you to the hospital. All of those providers then have to pay 100k to a lawyer to defend themselves, even though it’s obvious to a kid, they shouldn’t have to.
Thanks for your work, Hilel! I've been using TLA extensively in my job the last few months (I work at a blockchain company), and it's been a good run - we found a bunch of issues in several designs and even implemented code (some fairly critical). My secret hope is to get some co-workers to start using TLA themselves (so I can go off to do code-level verification instead hehe), I've organized a couple of internal tutorials but no takers so far - hopefully this free learning resource will help advance that goal :)

On a related topic, does anyone know of a comparison to Alloy 6? I've been meaning to take a day or two to look at it (I tried Alloy out a while ago while I was still in my PhD, but have forgotten most of it), I'm curious to see how it stacks up.
Sorry, low effort post on my part: This is silly, so now we are expected to negotiate and haggle medical costs like we do at a car dealership? No thank you. Rather we all pay the same price, and if we have insurance, charge the insurance more.
Tailscale has this in beta at the moment https://tailscale.com/kb/1084/sharing/
A mining GPU will not experience thermal cycling.
>phones are just so damn useful for just about everything in modern life

Honestly, I'm not sure how true that is. I got rid of my smartphone just before my daughter was born (she's turning 2 this month) and there has never been a single point where I've regretted it.

That's not to say I avoid Android entirely. I've still got a tablet at home for Netflix/Chromecast, and we'll use my wife's phone in the car for Google Maps, but that's about it.

There really is no need to be 100% connected 24/7.
How noble of them. They really care about their users, except when they don't[1].

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/google-russia-rutarget-sb...
To play devils advocate, I indeed have solar panels at home (7kW). I use my graphic cards only when it is sunny. However I don't mine ETH but instead contribute to Folding@Home.
Once said that not necessarily all pizza in Italy is good, when it is good it is simply another thing from "international" pizza, I believe mainly because of the ingredients used that - generally speaking - are simply not available (at the same level of freshness/taste) outside Italy and in some cases not even everywhere in Italy.

A typical example is "mozzarella di bufala" that is easily available all over Italy, but if/when you taste the fresh one in the area around Caserta and Naples you will understand how it is different.
Acalculi cholecystitis (cholecystitis not caused by gallstones) is rarely treated with surgery, it is usually just antibiotics. Cholecystectomies are indicated in cholecystitis, gallbladder tumours and gallbladder perforations (rare).
If only OneCoin had bothered to create any sort of blockchain token, they'd be just like every other altcoin and she could keep the billions (maybe pay a trivial fine to a regulator somewhere).

Her scheme preceded Ethereum, so she couldn't make use of the convenient Token Scam Construction Kit like the other similarly promoted ICOs that came a bit later.
It's different when people vent with personal attacks, and do it in a place where your reputation matters to you.
I don't think that's correct, they both expose TUN/TAP devices so should be equivalent in their encapsulation abilities. I use both regularly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUN/TAP
> Tailscale is insanely easy, simple, and pleasant to setup/manage compared to AWS anything.

Seriously? What equivalents does it have for Route53 and tons of other services?

I can't tell if this is misleading or pointless.
It would be very usefull as intellij idea plugin, it could hook up to Idea AST and work in any language. And not just files, but methods. And it could be contextual depending on edit history and current context.

Probably great tool for quick start on new project.
It's possible that "aquagenic minerals" means "minerals that are created in water"; it would be weird for minerals to generate water.
https://github.com/vercel/ncc
The insurance company probably has a hotline you can call to report medical billing fraud.
Guava Health (Guava) is hiring full-time ONSITE in sunny Santa Barbara. Primarily a creative marketing leader, but always hiring software if it's a great fit.

We're building software and products to help people understand and improve their personal health. We have web, an app, and a physical Emergency Card for your wallet.

I'm co-founder and help build the software. Happy to chat: dylan@

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any examples of where TLA+ is being used? do any open source projects use this?
At least in the UK, this if not the case. The number of people presenting with RUQ which is not caused by gallstones (even in the presence of deranged liver function tests in an obstructive pattern and with risk factors) is significant. This means USS +/- MRCP is used to diagnose the gallstones before considering surgery. Indeed, in most trusts (hospital areas) funding for surgery can only be acquired with imaging evidence for gallstones due to this issue. Furthermore, approximately 30% of cases of assumed biliary colic do not improve with cholecystectomy, as the pain has been falsely attributed to the stones or gallbladder. Sometimes it’s actually sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction, which is difficult to prove and treat.
And I'm suggesting that spending money on a subscription fee for something that could be learned within a few hours is not worth it in comparison.

I'm not sure where you read the ad-hominem.
Turing Book ( https://www.ituring.com.cn/ ) will publish the Chinese version!
Yeah, mostly UE4/5. Godot may be a good 2d engine, but nothing more than that for at least until 5.0.
Being open source is not as useful on iOS though, since there’s no way to verify that what they uploaded to the App Store was actually built from the source that you can see.
TIL "pre-sliced mushrooms" is a thing.
This is good stuff, Hillel. Thank you.

The images don't render correctly on macOS safari (v 13.1.3). They are squished horizontally.
This also comes into play with the current discussion of EVs. People will say, "you don't need that 500 miles of range." Or, "just plug the EV in at night - you don't have to wait at the charger."

That probably works well for average use cases, but not for the outliers.

The great thing about ICE vehicles is you generally don't have to worry about non-average use cases. To reach parity, EVs will need to be chargable in 5 minutes from empty to achieve 500 miles of range, at 5 degrees F, with 5 year old batteries. If you live in California, that may seem like an extreme use case, but it's pretty normal around here.
except for the autogenerated docs, you can also make use of Pydantic in Flask easily to validate your models with Flask-Pydantic[0]

[0]: https://github.com/bauerji/flask-pydantic
By that metric, it has been wiped, what, 4 times now?
> Bank local! If you want to speculatively invest, that's fine. But keep some money in a local bank so that you can pay your bills next month.

Hmm, shouldn't you also consider having accounts in multiple banks, even if they're relatively local ones? For example, in my country there's two banks that I guess are the most popular ones: SEB and Swedbank.

While they both have a history of being reliable, it's not unheard of that people's bank details might be compromised, breaches happen, or outages/cyber attacks that might disrupt/slow down service in whatever capacity.

While a part of these factors might not be applicable to people who practice good information security, it's not like you cannot write them off entirely. Furthermore, I do think that there was a bank that actually went bankrupt a number of years ago, people couldn't access all of their funds etc.

So treating banks like any other system - where avoiding a single point of failure might just be worth it in the face of significant consequences should anything bad happen, seems like the right thing to do.

Then again, one might also just buy gold and bury it in their back yard (provided that they own the land), depending on what their risk tolerance is towards certain events. Not even kidding about this. If you can diversify your investments, doing the same for where/how you store your money or other assets just seems smart, even if a bit cumbersome.
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Not sure I agree, but accept it's not my area of expertise.
We don't necessarily want to simulate the human brain the way it does actually function biologically, rather simulate the its most useful behaviors, which are hard to see as being intrinsically linked to the workings of the gut.
Yeah, I don't necessarily agree. I assume many miners didn't run these cards in temperature controlled server rooms, but in places like abandoned warehouses in south-east Asia, with high ambient temps and humidity, which can destroy electrical components.

And even if they did, the capacitors in the VRMs of these cards are full of electrolytic capacitors which do degrade over time due to heat and chemical reactions occurring between the plates and the electrolyte as well as the evaporation of electrolyte, they not only age, but age faster over time as the degraded capacitors are put under increased stress.

Besides, the assumption of running these cards underclocked and undervolted might not be true - if the folks running those obtained the electricity illegally, or incredibly cheaply, it might make more sense to run these cards hotter.

Everything considered, these second hand GPUs are not even that cheap, I saw 5700 XTs going for $250 on ebay, with a comparable brand new 6600 costing about $300.

Edit: The fans also have suffered serious wear and tear and are likely to fail. Considering these are often custom, you might not even be able to replace them.
> Does this kind of scam exist yet?

Are you kidding me? Of course it does! Inviting a victim into a group chat where everyone (all scammer-controlled accounts) is allegedly making good money from some get-rich-quick scheme has been a tried-and-true scam tactic for ages. Might be as old as group chats. FOMO is powerful.

There are even improved versions that involve multiple groups. E.g. you first join an entry level group, and after you invest a certain amount (they’ll make sure you’re rewarded for that initial investment), you’re promoted into an inner circle group for which the best opportunities are reserved. Of course, that’s where they drain your bank account.
Incidentally, is Tailscale reliable? I recall VPN services are a bit iffy because they need to store user data so it does not really matter the service they offer - if what you are after is privacy, rather than a way to bypass country-based content filtering systems
Ask HN: Benefits of Being a Coda Developer?
I think the new age coda doc looks interesting, but if I invest the time in learning it and becoming a developer what kind of job offers can I look at realistically speaking.
The post you're responding to wasn't arguing for capabilities, it was arguing for ease-of-use and it was right.

Your comment is pointless and a straw-man argument.
too many ingredients in general and specifically of questionable tolerability.
Equus (Play)
Same as well. Basically authentication->firebase, authorization->backend api (I normally write custom python decorators for this)
I am not a fullstack/web developer more like a general purpose developer. So my approach of building things is hacky and straight to the point.

Compared to flask there was a bit too much boilerplate involved in Django to essentially build very barebones APIs. My usecase of a backend framework involves processing data on command and serving that data. I need a few API endpoints that trigger other Python files. I build internal use APIs. So flask, particularly RESTful flask is perfect for me.

I am not the intended user of Django. I was part of a few Django projects and I saw people investing more in configuring the framework right than to focus on the actual functionalities of the application. Even though they were building MVP, the initial investment in foundation building with the hopes of scalability for proof of concept project just feels wrong to me.
This becomes impossible to do correctly because of the halting problem, interestingly. For example, suppose a routine calls F in a loop for most of its work, then at the end takes the square root by sqrtf(). Clearly number of calls matters for the edge weight in the call graph, but this tool would count F and sqrtf equal.

I suppose you could do it by sampling, then you actually just have to look at the sample distribution, though that would show you the graph weighted by cumulative execution times per routine.

As they say though, never let perfect be the enemy of good. Neat idea.
Well, negative feedback loops are generally more useful than positive ones. At least in electronics...
I wrote a ruby script that does tag lookup for me with an interactive prompt. Took about an hour. Sent it to my team so we all use it. Can't imagine subscribing to a service for something that is a minor devops task.
Weird, 4% on my iPhone. It's always on, though I don't make a lot of connections through it
I’m not sure if I’m reading it correctly, but if the reader has the inference / bias that playing games makes life suck, that would be a positive feedback loop (albeit with negative effects).

Negative feedback loops are self correcting. So if games make life better it would indeed be one.
Yeah, the price seems palatable - the need for the service in the first place, not so much.
See also:
“advance warning”
“past experience”
But should they be writing highly concurrent software, without thinking bloody hard first I mean?

I can see this being the next Big Data or NoSQL 'must have' bandwagon.
If the EV market could agree on a battery size and configuration, then maybe doing a full swap of a battery could be done like an f1 Pitstop.

Similar to those electric scooters in Asia, Just imagine if you rolled over a pitstop and had the battery quicky taken out from below the car and then a new battery placed back in.

That sort of system could change the economics of building an ev as you could move to a model where users don't really own the battery they rent it for a while until they need a swap.

Or electric cargo bicycles. Because every bike on the road is one less massive car.
No need for conspiracy. HN has its darling companies that people are really enthusiastic about, more so when they actually work really good. And karma whores know this fact and know any Tailscale article will probably hit the frontpage.

Blame the game, not the player.

I know I will click on a Tailscale post because people have said it's cool, I tried, and it is indeed cool and it feels like I'm only scratching the surface.

There is astroturfing on HN but don't forget we're a bunch of enthusiastic tech nerds. Do you complain because there is a big number of Linux or M1 posts? People really like them.

Disclaimer: not affiliated with Tailscale or any of its employees, haven't interviewed with them, not even giving them any money. I am not from a marketing or ad agency but just a lowly SWEng nerd.
the "It's not some weird conspiracy aimed at making modern humans "weak"." bit seemed a bit much (and out of nowhere unless there was an edit in the original)
The GPU shortage is at the initial stages of being over, largely due to multiple facets of the cryptomining implosion that are right around the corner.

I still can't yet walk into a Best Buy or local electronics store and get one off the shelf, and online prices are still jacked above MSRP.

We'll see real action 6 months to a year from now.