skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought 8 kilos of Roscoff onions on the internet, back at christmastime. I gave several kilos to various relatives; I have a couple of kilos left.

Roscoff onions are recommended by French chefs, particularly for making onion soup and tarte a l'oignon.

Roscoff onions have bite; but they are also sweet, and can be scrumped like apples. Breton fishermen used to cross the channel with a load of onions and a bicycle, and cycle around the English south coast with strings of onions dangling around their necks, for sale. So for many years, the stereotypical Frenchman (in English eyes) wore a beret, and a white jersey with horizontal blue stripes - the costume of a Breton mariner. This was the "Onion Johnny".

You can't (generally) buy Roscoff onions in British supermarkets. I've heard of sightings, but I've never seen them myself.

Roscoff onions are seasonal (I think the harvest is late autumn), and they don't keep very well unless you put them somewhere really cool and dark.

Vidalia onions are a new one on me. Maybe they're a US specialty.
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Where are you getting this from? Europe is completely fine from electricity standpoint. Most are doing deals with countries that have nuclear plants. Finland isn’t rationing anything either.
Great, but what exactly does that mean for this conversation and how users percieve Apple products?
Well sure. But it’s substantially less speculative than shitcoins.

Some degree of skill can be used to understand if a specific company is going to improve its situation long term via sound investments in new projects. You can look at companies stated goals and strategy and decide for yourself if those goals are valuable and if the strategy is viable. And thus make an educated call about future value (with appropriate error bars).

With shitcoins there’s nothing to analysis. They fundamentally don’t do anything. Speculating on shitcoins is just trying to guess what a disorganised mass is going to do in the future. There’s no reasonable way to gain any understanding of what their behaviour is going to be, and if it’s going to increase or decrease the value of the shitcoin, because it’s a disorganised mess.

Ultimately the value of a company present and future derived from the fact that it’s organised, and broadly predictable.

Shitcoin value isn’t driven by anything organised, or predictable.
> People in the US are only against handouts to other people who aren't them. I wonder how many people would opt out Medicare or SSI if they could?

> Also how many companies opted out of PPP loans.

This is exactly what I was going to highlight, people who use the narrative that some how a $1200 stimulus check sent nearly years ago is what is keeping people from taking low paying, dead-end jobs are the first to overlook the fact that PPP was the biggest welfare handout to the business class in some time, compounded on top of lower tax obligations. And 75% of the PPP [0] was never actually used for payroll!

It's insulting to working class people to see this narrative be as persuasive as it is, even amongst their own, but if I've learned anything about US culture is that was it 'trashy' for the lower class, is some how 'classy' for the rich. It's a pathetic attempt to divide people into already highly contentious tribes in order to maintain the illusion of business as usual.

0: https://finance.yahoo.com/video/report-shows-most-paycheck-p...
Or set `push.default` to `current` to have plain `git push origin` push to the same remote name, ignoring the configured upstream (you might also want to set `remote.pushDefault` alongside that).
How to Avoid Eye Strain While Working at a Computer
Indeed. The internet these days is such a fundamental part of our society, I can't imagine server providers will be forced to shut down. We will find a solution in Europe, however costly it may be.
It always was a stupid argument for the case for abortion but it does make sense one the question of vaccinations. I think emergency services need a different perspective since this is an occupation by choice. You give up safety voluntarily. Military service sometimes is enforced and it is true that bodily autonomy is disregarded. Many democratic countries have acknowledged the problem and move to professional armies.

In case of diseases I have to accept a certain risk if I interact with other people. I can get a vaccination against a disease I am afraid of. An enforcement of vaccination can make sense for certain occupations like health care but the rules need to be laid out to those accepting to give up their autonomy on such decisions.

But this is besides the point. Some people regard a growing fetus as a human life. With few or no exceptions every society puts an arbitrary and ideological value on human life. You quickly see that the argument of bodily autonomy can only fall short if the opposition is balancing rights between the mother and the (potential) child.

I am for abortion, I think the best one to make the call is the mother and I believe abortions will happen with legal sanction or not. Not having legal access does not make sense and would only increase suffering further. I think recent arguments of activists are not convincing. I don't have to like it but they have to convince others. Maybe they had the wrong speakers but they don't seem too successful as they now might have fewer rights than before and as far as I know started the discussion.

But what most people do wrong is that they believe there is a right or wrong answer to any ethical question. There just isn't. In this case legislation should ensure that the decision for abortion is best delegated to the mother. Of course there are not many people around that wish they were aborted and maybe activists should consider that thought for a moment. Likewise there aren't too many expecting mothers that want to kill their children. Same question for the author, even if your upbringing wasn't optimal (whose really is?), would you rather be dead? Very likely not. I doubt there will ever be a study that can prove or disprove anything here.

> It is thus in the best interests of society to limit the number of unwanted children

I think the goal of an enlightened abortion policy should see that society doesn't really gets a say here. In that regard I align with popular activists.

> Unlike with military service, where the state reserves the right to deny bodily autonomy, allowing abortion would actually be upholding bodily autonomy.

It is upholding bodily autonomy for the mother but not the child obviously.
> ROI is unknowable

In the case of things like trade shows, mailing physical brochures/flyers/offers to address lists, and so on, the knowability is higher than many online alternatives.
I don’t remember where i saw it, but the thesis that being that unimaginably rich is detrimental to complex decision making has a certain logic to it.
Compared to a normal person, you just have so much power that your inner circle is unlikely to be able to change your decision making process if you don’t want them to. No matter how bad your decision making any consequences of those decisions is almost completely abstract (going from 100bn to 1bn net worth is a lot of money, but there are still almost no limits on your purchasing ability)
It seems like a lot of people i respected early on in their software careers (dhh, pg, etc have succumbed to this specific malady.)
From my Kobo vacation readings :

- The internet didn’t kill counterculture — you just won’t find it on Instagram
https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-k...

- Extreme Athleticism Is the New Midlife Crisis (10 min)
https://elemental.medium.com/extreme-athleticism-is-the-new-...

- The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done (19 min)
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-rise...

- On Aging Alone (19 min)
https://thewalrus.ca/on-aging-alone/

- How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations (31 min)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/science/gedmatch-genealog...

- They Hacked McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines—and Started a Cold War (31 min)
https://www.wired.com/story/they-hacked-mcdonalds-ice-cream-...

- Why Revolutionaries Love Spicy Food (14 min)
https://nautil.us/issue/62/systems/why-revolutionaries-love-...

- For Hannah Arendt, totalitarianism is rooted in loneliness (13 min)
https://aeon.co/essays/for-hannah-arendt-totalitarianism-is-...

- The Olympics Is a Racket (18 min)
https://jacobinmag.com/2021/07/olympics-politics-working-cla...
That's called Therapy. You pay someone so he/she cares about you.
> a fictional crime wave

Do you live here in SF? Because I doubt anyone who lives here would agree about the crime wave being "fictional", unless they live in a sufficiently ritzy neighborhood where they are well-insulated from the obvious effects.
First they come for...
You can get paid more or less on the minimum wage by e.g. having more or less working hours given to you. And some people don't use their negotiating power for increased wages, but rather for other preferences (like getting a formal job instead of an informal one, better working conditions, time with their children, etc.)

Of course there's a lot more to it than that.
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Can also be existing employees wanting to protect their sanity.

Because what if a new employee steps in with incompatible skills, starting to teach everybody about new tools X, Y, Z, that are so much better?
A one-source story about a 10-year-old and an abortion goes viral
> On it I run a small website with about 1000 visits per day. It's not
vital that it remains up at all times (it doesn't bring money) but
if I can do it for cheap I'm looking to relocate this VPS in a
country where electricity won't be a problem.

Your house.

A site like that would run on a Raspberry Pi from a small solar panel
and/or small (tiny) marine wind generator depending on your climate.

Self-hosting is a learning curve, but don't listen to the pessimists
who tell you it's "impossible". There are many examples, but my
favourite it this one [1].

[1] https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about.html
The JWST is only now entering science operations. What you see is pretty pictures taken as part of the commissioning and PR efforts of NASA.

The actual science is yet to come, but will likely not look as spectacular to the layperson.

Edit: Here is an overview of the science that JWST is going to be doing in Cycle 1: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra....
There’s no law on silence. You could have neighbors blasting their music for hours. Good luck working from home
> you're still legally obliged to provide source code to the users of your SaaSS.

IIUC, only insofar as the software already does that (i.e. by a download link in the UI). If the software currently lacks such a link, you have no obligation to add that feature, AGPL or not.
The people that like AB5 are the mega fleets (Swify, Schnieder, etc). The people that don't are literally everyone else in the industry. Considering that almost everyone in the industry started working for a mega fleet and got out as soon as they were able I'm gonna side with them.

The fact that the OOIDA is lobbying against this is also a pretty strong data point.

I think that constitutes a stronger signal than some internet comment hurring and durring about how 1099ing drivers is exploitative based on a few data points in one B2C industry.
Awful lot of food banks in the UK, though. A hyperlocal kind of shortage.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2549/pound-dollar-exchange-rate-... : ouch. Hard to believe it was £1.70/$ only eight years ago. The referendum itself slips it from $1.45 to $1.30 and it never really gets back up again.

I wonder how long the government will last with energy bills doubling and diesel hovering around £2/l.
At the time, I felt that my fingers might be paralyzed and they would fall off.

Luckily, I ate the yogurt and they were saved.

It is a testimony to the power of fermented foods.
It seems really useful for people who are already making Bitcoin transactions.

I'm not sure I see it function as a tool for increasing adoption, though.

Anyone can send someone Bitcoin by asking them to install a wallet (or giving them a paper wallet).

The story seems less simple if those were sent with Lightning. Maybe that's just a question of wallet support not being pervasive.

One nice property of money is that you don't need to have read extensively about money for someone to give you money.
It's been clear for a while now that Hive neither cares about the environment nor their customers. The Hive home hub, which you need to connect to your devices via an app, is locked to your name and email address, which can't be changed. If you sell your system, or your home where it's installed in, a new user is required to buy a new hub for £70, even though the old one is perfectly fine. When I asked them for a reason, they talked nonsense about privacy, which didn't make any sense. I believe you can now change your email address, but still not your name. I see no technical reason for this other than that they want to squeeze some extra money out of new customers that inherit a system.

So it's hard to take their "big plans to make homes greener" PR speech seriously. It's disrespectful. As others have said, if they cared they would open up the devices for local use.
Only if outsiders can use the service. Internal corporate use of GPL code has zero strings. You're all one entity and no distribution has happened.
>Industry in Germany and much of the EU about to grind to a halt.

It's been striking how little discussion there is of this in /r/europe and /r/germany. (The latter has pinned a megathread for the topic, the classic way of killing discussion.) /r/de is slightly better, if only because of the absence of the constant "I don't know German but want to move to Germany and get a job" posts.

I don't mean to say that there's been nothing, along the lines of the 100% censorship that happened at /r/news the day of the 2016 Orlando mass shooter. There has been some. But there is far, far, far less. Just this week we've had

* a German minister stating that becoming dependent on Russian gas was a "grievous mistake", and that his country is begging for turbines from Canada "with a heavy heart"

* His government stating that entire industries might "collapse"

* Rationing of gas announced

* Local municipalities planning warm buildings that those without heat in their homes can visit during the winter

This is the greatest German catastrophe in 80 years. It is an existential threat to the German (and, thus, European) economy and nation. Any other topic half as serious would occupy far more of these subreddits' front pages.
> A jet turbine is a diesel engine

I though jet engines used heat to ignite the fuel? Diesel engines use compression alone to ignite it.
I wonder if they use; Banana : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana

Cavendish Banana : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana

Or Plantains a.k.a. (Cooking Banana) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_banana

Pineapple : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineapple

EDIT: Add; Pineapple and Cavendish banana
They know you clicked on a page that is for a given (set of?) product(s). They know you stayed on that page for longer than a moment, then scrolled down.

They may also have data that >90% of customers who make a purchase choose/click in <10 seconds, and never scroll. Or may even take a different path entirely or similar.

They could interpret all of that as you inspected the product(s) on the page, didn't choose/click one, and _now_ is the best time to prompt you with suggestions to maintain engagement in >75% of instances.

You could also be one of the lucky few customers in a sacrificial control group unknowingly testing their new shitty popup to measure its impact on sales.

Whilst I can't say for certain that any of this is your case, I absolutely guarantee there are many retail sites that do this - I've worked at several now - and this is bread-and-butter material to data teams working with customer engagement.
What you find most exciting is a subjective thing. I don't have a clear answer, but you can browse through the list of accepted proposals in cycle 1 and decide for yourself: https://www.stsci.edu/jwst/science-execution/approved-progra....
(* Trustworthy except when it comes to fire extinguishers) :D
Hetzner has a US VPS location. Linode and Vultr are good, too.

Anyway, I’d be surprised if things like OVH went down over this. I imagine they run some critical stuff and that France wouldn’t want their tech darlings to look so unstable.
CP/M is really open-source now
I worked at a well known, non-Facebook social media platform during a turbulent time where my grant went down 50% and the company went through a botched acquisition offer. Thankfully I was still compensated well afterwards and it didn't affect me too much, but I do know colleagues who had to reconsider home purchasing decisions. Google's not impervious to market forces, and I obviously have no information as to how it will perform in the future, but in general it's probably safer than smaller companies. If you don't have much of a safety net, or have specific goals you'd like to meet in terms of compensation, picking Google may not be a bad idea. On the flip side, if you like the culture of working for a smaller company, are confident in your ability to switch jobs on your own terms, or are compensated primarily in cash it may be less attractive to join. It's really up to you, but the only general advice I can give you is that it never hurts to explore your options and make a decision once you have more information, such as actual offer letters. I work as a security engineer and as far as I am aware there are still plans to hire additional headcount in our team and many others, so you might as well give it a try.
Einstein[at]Home uses your computer's idle time to search for neutron stars
Those chips generally have on-board RAM, so accessing it 14 times isn't much of a big deal. This DMA engine can be fed very quickly (in core clock cycles) if you are doing several DMA transfers at a time: write out all the descriptors to RAM and then just go one pointer at a time.
If what you are saying is true, then won't the ISPs turn off their equipment too, so you won't be able to reach your server no matter where it is.
Now all I need is a way to import this into my local Mealie instance! :)

Self-hosted, FOSS recipe database: https://hay-kot.github.io/mealie/
(Discussed four months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30623852 - mind that Tandoor looks like a good option as well)
As the author of the linked repo - You should! :-)
You could do button clicking with a simple js bookmarklet. anything more advanced can certainly be done with a custom tampermonkey / violentmonkey script.
No, when a government collapses it is not uncommon for a neighboring country to provide structural assistance in establishing a new government.

This only really works with a UN declaration/international support. Having historically friendly ties makes this a better proposition.
That's nice in theory, but in practice most biofuels in use today are manufactured from food crops. So worries that producing kerosene from cooking oil might worsen the already existing food crisis are not completely unfounded.

Related article from today: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/13/halt-use...
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from the introduction:

>The development of the Lightning Network may have consequences for welfare. First, as Bitcoin becomes a more efficient payments system, users are better off. Their transactions settle more quickly and more cheaply (Zimmerman (2020)). Second, since fewer transactions need to be recorded on the blockchain, less memory and energy are needed to run a Bitcoin node. This saving lowers the cost of maintaining the blockchain, allowing more nodes to participate and making the system more secure against a double-spending attack (Budish (2018)). Third, by reducing fees, the LN reduces the incentive for Bitcoin miners to use large amounts of computing power, meaning less energy use and positive consequences for the environment.5 Fourth, less blockchain congestion may mean lower barriers to arbitrage across cryptocurrency exchanges, thereby improving market liquidity (see Hautsch, Scheuch, and Voigt (2018)).

>While this paper focuses on Bitcoin, the same technology can allow other cryptocurrencies to be widely used, secure, and decentralized. For example, the Raiden Network is a similar netting solution for Ethereum. Other solutions to the scalability problem have been proposed, including sharding, and batching at exchange level.6 If the scalability problem can be successfully addressed, it may be possible for a currency based on a permissionless blockchain to obtain wide acceptance.

very cool to see this coming from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
It's all just implementation detail, not show-stoppers.

> I wouldn't call an insufficient abstraction

Terminology can vary, but the root comment is pointing out that Postgres didn't abstract away column order and has multiple performance penalties from it. It seems reasonable to call that "insufficient abstraction".

> You can't just simply physically re-order columns based on new columns that were added.

You can. You could use a table lock (as Postgres already does in many column-adding situations), or there are plenty of other ways it could work (definition-versions at the row level, or such).

> It's not trivial.

Then nothing is. In a hypothetical world in which Postgres had had this optimisation from the start, nobody would be saying "Well, we can't have an add columns feature because we'd need to [X] or [Y]"; there's nothing particularly complicated about it.

But, yes, going from the current state of Postgres to this hypothetical world could well be painful and is almost certainly not worth it, but I believe the original point is approximately that this aspect of the Postgres design has imposed performance issues that weren't necessary and are unintuitive.

Also, note that Postgres already has features that are in the same area - null bitmaps put the null-ness of columns at the start of the row, and adding a ninth column moves all of the data in a row. It's all just implementation detail, not show-stoppers.
Conflating nitrate with nitrite, an allergy to something that's not an antigen, a substance that's only dangerous when it's not 'natural', a website filled with clickbait.

Based on the number of red flags I'm going to have to dismiss this out of hand, sorry.
I can't speak much for those graduating this year, but anecdotally those who graduated e.g. last year had a very competitive market ahead of them. I'm hearing things from this year like not providing offers to interns, which is definitely going to suck for them, but the market overall isn't what I'd call "cool" yet though it's definitely moving in that direction.
If you really want a great mesh with some guaranteed properties, not just a Delaunay triangulation (which can still contain small angles), look into the work of Jonathan Shewchuk.

For example, for 2d mesh generation:

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/triangle.demo.html

He also solved the problem of degenerate cases (e.g. four vertices exactly on a circle) with adaptive precision floating point arithmetic.