skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. You can make your substantive points without any of that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
i wonder if your interpretation of the myth of sisyphus that sisyphus just doesn’t cope with negative pressure well enough. maybe we should look for a biological component to explain sisyphus‘s attitude.
Pure EV’s prices keep dropping to the point where oil doesn’t look price competitive 5 years from now let alone ethanol.

The 2023 Chevy Bolt has a 247 mile range and a $27,000 MSRP without government incentives. That’s still a higher cost of ownership than a used ICE, but things are getting a lot closer. https://www.chevrolet.com/electric/bolt-ev-2023
Glad to hear it is possible, but I need it to be default and correctly configured on all Wayland installs to be useful.
Personally, I can't stand instant coffee and treat it as some kind of insult to decent coffee (I always choose tea in preference to instant coffee). As others have said, Kopi Luwak should be shunned for the animal cruelty involved as well as for the the excessive hype about it.

I am a fan of quite a few Asian coffee beans, however. Monsooned Malabar is one of my faves as well as some strong flavoured Indonesian beans. I really enjoyed some Thai beans that I bought in a small batch although the flavour was definitely funky and not to all tastes.
I think most "kopi luwak" nowadays is produced chemically, rather that using a weasel's digestive system (OK, that's "chemically" too, but you know what I mean :)

A while back I visited a kopi luwak farm in Vietnam, Hue I think it was. The animals were treated really well, but I'm sure that's not going to be the case for all these places.

Anyway, kopi luwak really is amazing stuff - but at the farm I tried "weasel coffee" and "chemical coffee" side by side (the same beans, with the same grind and roast), and I couldn't tell the difference.
Clojure needs a Rails
How do you define the word virtually? Also, do you go to a public gym? Do you go dancing ever?
The richer people get, the more meat they eat
> I’d expect they have at least decent security protocols in place.

Don't expect too much from the government :)
Again, while I think those things may be true sometimes, they aren’t the biggest problem we have in terms of science. And I feel like choosing to frame it the way you’re framing it is intentionally ignoring how often things go right, how often people are sincere and honest and competent and right.

We already know peer review isn’t perfect, but it’s also probably a lot better than the layman’s attempt to discriminate good science from bad. We don’t have a ton of data of how many papers are rejected either. But, one high profile example isn’t a particularly scientific way to establish that all of science is actively bad. It’s one bad example, and yes it’s awful that one case can have such wide ranging ramifications, but you’re downplaying the thousands of papers, and thousands of scientists who assumed the research was valid and did good faith work on top of it.

If anything, the practical reaction to your example should be that papers that go high profile need replication studies very quickly, not that we should assume as a lay person that all science is wrong.
Thanks, that's a good idea -- especially for standalone courses that are kind of pre-made and done.

I guess it's a bit tricky to balance with "screencasts vs courses" which I suppose is a different conversation than a SAAS model or not, although these 2 are pretty tightly coupled. For example, you could have 100 isolated 5-15min screencast videos released once a week about let's say Flask or Rails or whatever topic you're interested in or a 5-10 hour course that covers a cohesive project from beginning to end using a specific tech.

The appeal of screencasts to me is you can make a video about anything around that topic, it's completely standalone where as a course is more like you pick the material, record it and that's it but then 8 months later something changes and you'd like to refactor something which could mean re-doing half the course because now you want to use esbuild instead of Webpack for your assets.

Full courses tend to be better at taking someone who is a beginner and guiding them to a finished solution and screencasts are good for anyone who wants to solve a very specific problem like "how do I do pagination with Flask". In theory you could have screencasts grouped together as a learning path to solve bigger problems tho so you can technically maybe get the best of both worlds with screencasts which is something I've always wondered about as someone who has made a couple of one time standalone courses.
If you're still interested, I wrote the post and submitted it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32288291
Reminder: biofuels made from corn are not sustainable at all.

They compete against plant agriculture for access to land, making food more expensive.

Often they also use a lot of energy, water and produce CO2 during the farming process.
Estrogen is a 'stress hormone' that needs to be balanced with anti-stress hormones for optimal health.

All the steroids in the body are made from cholesterol. The term is steroidogenesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid#Steroidogenesis

Estrogen is at the end of the steroidogenesis pathway. It's a stress hormone. In the menstrual cycle, estrogen tells the uterine lining to 'swell and divide'. Fertile women are protected from their higher estrogen levels by their high levels of Progesterone USP during the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle. When women reach menopause, their heart attack numbers rapidly reach men's heart attack numbers.

Adipose tissue has a lot of the aromatase enzyme [0], which converts testosterone to estrogen. People with more adipose tissue lose their testosterone by converting it to estrogen. The heart of both genders concentrates testosterone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aromatase

[1] Obesity, estrogens and adipose tissue dysfunction – implications for pulmonary arterial hypertension - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20458940209520...

I sold a progesterone supplement on Amazon years ago... My best customer was "Billie", who I suspect was MTF and was using progesterone USP to balance his estrogen treatments. I referred him to other manufacturers when he noticed my supplement was no longer available.

Pregnenolone is a useful supplement for balancing the steroid system:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid#/media/File:Steroidoge...

(edit: added [1])
So how far back _are_ we allowed to go hunting for justifications?
Do older tweets get these new css classes when viewed after a deploy?

I could see using a set of standard tweets you created to sort of benchmark the change.
I'm not sure if it's the method you're referring to, but I believe custom keybinding dicts still work. For those interested, this should tell you all you need to know: http://web.archive.org/web/20210130012801/http://www.hcs.har...
> Is this disruptive?

what's disruptive is that keys are in different places

; on IT keyboards needs SHIFT

~ is not present

| is on the other side of the keyboard

etc etc
This is sugarcane ethanol and it is way more efficient than corn ethanol
> Published by Gabriel Sieben

> Gabriel Sieben is a 20-year-old software developer from St. Paul, MN, who enjoys experimenting with computers and loves to share his various technology-related projects. He owns and runs this blog, and is a traditional Catholic.

Well isn't that something, someone who writes blog posts proselytizing the importance of individual freedoms while also making sure his readers know he's a "traditional Catholic".

The level of cognitive dissonance is impressive.
I have to buy this
Most of Brazil's ethanol is made from sugarcane.
Mr. Rogers sued the KKK (2021)
Just smoke a joint. What the fuck is wrong with people these days?
Capture all images from your browsing using mitmproxy and auto pass to this could be fun. Have it log the source url, etc?
No, it’ll be us. It’s always us.
Most Ukrainians didn't believe that Russians will invade them even if they can see the massive forces pilling up 1 feet to their border. This wasn't possible in 2022, they think. Oh well, guess what? Reality always beats even the most brilliant sci-fi writer.

A collapse of our current society, that is mainly based on paper-money can happen. And even if some of us can see that certain things looks awkward, our brain is fooling us into the safest route "don't panic, it cannot happen to me".

I say it's just a matter of time for a major shift of how our civilization keeps going ahead.
Firezone (YC W22) is hiring a founding engineer – Elixir and networking
This is amazing, how do I access the HTTP request query parameters and headers?
we have all kinds of jobs organizing stuff and optimizing it but they increasingly spend the resources on optimizing their own work and wealth.

We are even stuck in a cultural fallacy where the person policing managing or politicing gets all of the credit and the money for the work they didnt do.

> Political collapse occurs when governments can’t provide food, shelter, transportation, and security

Those are the things that will hurt the most. "Great" management is needed in these areas which apparently means wages need to be squeezed as hard as possible. Who wants to work in the food sectors? woah no thanks! Transportation isn't a real job either is it? I'm talking about the actual work not the bean counting around it. Or how about being a fucking hero in the security sectors? No thanks!

Not to argue bean counting doesn't add value but no one in governments provides food, shelter, transportation, or security. The talk:value ratio is off the chart.
Sometimes a lazy shortcut is to read the metastudies instead. That's other researchers aggregating papers on a particular topic and seeing if they statistically agree with each other after normalization of some sort.

You lose a lot of nuance that way, but if you're researching a general topic that's not super niche, it can be a helpful overview.

That's also not for groundbreaking research since it usually takes years, but very little in science is groundbreaking like that anyway, and I doubt a layperson would be able to recognize the true breakthroughs on their own.
I’ve long wanted some sort of platform for reading somewhat simplified, summarized research papers on topics of interested. Something a little simpler than an original paper, but more accurate and in-depth than what you might find in a popular news article.

I haven’t found anything loke that yet, and I don’t know if it would be feasible to crowdsource summarized publications. AI summarization isn’t quite good enough yet.
> Fly.io simply boots a Linux kernel, and the Docker image you give it

There is nothing "simply" in a Rube Goldberg machine of such magnitude.
When EV’s are hitting 350+ mile ranges that’s becoming irrelevant.
ethanol can be easily stored in large quantities and transported where it is needed
This disproves nothing, merely also asserts that compound interest has ALSO existed for a very long time.

Disproving my (unsubstantiated) assertion would involve a bit more than showing that compound interest existed in the past.

Of course you could follow GP's very effective and valid strategy of simply stating that I must support my claims if I wish to sway your views. As it stands now we're both pontificating on the internet.
My Unifi APs have a minimum RSSI of -80dBm set on the 5ghz band, which helps a lot. Maybe your router/ap has that setting somewhere?
This has affected the news multiple times.

In Germany there was an attack, and the news didn't mention the attacker because he was from Africa and they fears they will appear racist, i don't remember the details, if someone does, please add the source in the comments.

The Opposite thing happend with the Christchurch massacre in NZ, they didn't call him a terrorist because he was white, if the case was fliped, I would've bet the first headline will be terrorist Muslim.

Instead when its a white shooter its always a "mentally ill" person.

So it both hypocritical and biased, its only "correct" in one way, and not the other, and it affects news coverage without good reason.
> Ethanol is not a good solution. It's extremely inefficient to take solar radiation and turn it into corn, turn the corn into ethanol and then burn the ethanol for mechanical power.

Brazil uses sugar cane, which has better energy yield than corn for ethanol, due to it's higher caloric content. But yes, it is less efficient than direct solar to batteries.

> Just turn the solar radiation into electricity and turn that into power. Solar and EVs are here now.

Yes, but large battery vehicles are still to expensive in developing and middle income countries - they are just now getting affordable to the masses in developed countries.

A smaller battery could easily offset 50-80% of ethanol fueled miles because most daily drives are short, so a smaller affordable PHEV with a 20kWh battery could offset a lot of liquid fuel usage.
Let's say you apply for a job. They ask you for an address, and you give it to them. Most bosses may be cool people, but some of them tend to pry. If they get to see the street view of your house at the click of a button, they can estimate how rich/poor your family is, and can use it against you. For example, if the job applicant comes from a very poor family, they may play hard-ball with salary negotiations.

Or your sister posts a pic of herself on Instagram, showing a quarter of the house-front. Some random creep who recognizes the locality can use street-view to narrow down where she lives. All from the comfort of his own home.
Don't mess around with your breathing without guidance. It can do more harm than good.

Pranayama is an ancient Indian science passed down from saints who received these teachings as divine visions. It didn't materialize as a result of experimentation as many would assume.

Even practices like Sudarshan kriya (which makes use of breathing) were passed down to Shri Shri as a divine teaching.

So my advice is to not experiment with your breathing unless you have proper guidance and knowledge.
I really despise the "smartphone on wheels" trend. I got a used Mazda 3 which doesn't have any of that, the new models come hyperconnected, so you can "see the status of your car with an App" (no thanks).

Is there a list of cars which don't have remote data collection?
Maybe not directly related to the article but worth noting.

https://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/sites/default/files/cc08...
One reason I started working on "Linux on the Web" is that I wanted to work within a paradigm (web development) that has strong connections with current practices but that also can allow me to iterate in directions that are more related to the nuts and bolts of our shared physical reality.

One thing that nobody ever talks about are the more hardware-centric possibilities of the web platform such as WebUSB, but I would absolutely love to start playing around with it in order to allow for an interface of real world objects with the LOTW system -> https://github.com/linuxontheweb/LOTW
Reverse osmosis.
https://archive.ph/l41G2
I don't think #1 or #2 are bad.
Brazillian Ethanol is made with Sugar Cane, not corn. And it is reasonably efficient, much better than corn ethanol that is just stupid.

To make corn ethanol you get an energy loss actually, the energy usage to grow and process the corn, for example to power the tractors and so on, is bigger than the energy you can get burning it.

US government solution for this is spetacularly boneheaded too.

So USA has so much corn because it has corn subsidies. This is the reason for USA using the terrible for health corn syrup too instead of sugar from cane.

Then USA government decided to give ethanol subsidies to incentive green fuels.

Result is people make corn ethanol, get 2 subsidies, pollute a bit and cause a net energy loss.

So USA government decided solution was give a even bigger subsidy to sugar cane ethanol.

Result is Brazillians make sugar cane ethanol, sell to US companies, those companies collect the subsidy from it, buy corn ethanol that has 2 subsidies on that thus is extra cheap, sell back to Brazillians.

So now you have USA government giving 3 subsidies that result in people making a ton of corn ethanol, causing energy loss, and shipping it to Brazil, while Brazillians ship cane ethanol back, the shipping in question being done with Diesel ships.

Sometimes I wonder what the fuck is wrong with USA government to think that such decisions are good idea, wasting a ton of taxpayer money on energy losing production process and encouraging Diesel-based ocean shipping all in the name of "green".

It is not MY tax money though (I am Brazillian) so it is not like I can do anything about it.
That is expected. With different input data (what you call runtime condition) you get different result. With the same input data the determinism holds for RC, but not for GC.
I think the problem for more and more people is that there's not many places left to live, anywhere, if you want even a lower middle class life.
but we are yet far from it, so it is not irrelevant.

cars that run on ethanol are also cheaper than EVs and are going to stay cheaper for a long time.
I got surprisingly good results out of a Kinect 2 and a program called kscan3D, feels like a shame Kinect 2 didn’t get the kind of dev support the first one did because the tech was seriously impressive for the time.

Pretty sure Photogrammetry would do better now if only due to the drastically better dev support. Need to get around to trying some time to compare.
All these solutions do very little for privacy, and DNS resolution is a big privacy hole.

I'll stick with the Tor Browser where I can, but we really need Tor-backed local resolvers.
And how would I know if a given paper is of interest for me if I don't read the abstract?
It definitely backs up the claim that they are allocating resources where they will have the most impact.
Show HN: Redis-rope, a native data type for large strings
These are EVs which cost ~3-5x the price of the average car though.
More laws to spy on citizens, who would've thought.
Followed the Sirius link in the article to their privacy policy: https://www.siriusxmcvs.com/privacy-policy/

> Vehicle Data... After your Vehicle’s ignition is turned off, the Vehicle transmits the location of the Vehicle and the time it was turned off.

If every car with Sirius installed transmits the time and location when it was switched off to marketers, that would close the loop on all those "I just moved to this place and I'm getting local robocalls to my cell number".
Currently discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32285593
I agree with that.But at the same time probably that's what makes his podcast interesting to me. There are actions that are suggested which I can take to make my day/lifestyle better. As far as I recall most of the actions he suggest are (zero or low risk ones) and there is no harm in trying them. Some of the interventions he suggested (like not drinking coffee as first thing in morning, exposure to sunlight) have indeed helped me.
My extended family lives near a place where using it as fertilizer is common. It works wonderfully, also it is incredibly smelly, the reason it is used there is because there are no cities there, just gigantic prairies, as soon you get near a city the smell stops (implying people there aren't using it as fertilizer).
You're not wrong, but some fraction of the hikikomori could also be treated effectively through tough love. Their behavior is being enabled by parents who allow them to live at home, set low expectations, and fail to enforce consequences. If parents kick them out then they'll be forced to sink or swim. This may seem harsh, but those parents will die eventually and the hikikomori will eventually have to fend for themselves no matter what. Better to learn how to live in society sooner than later.
From Wikipedia

"In the past, vinasse was a problem in production of ethanol, but vinasse is also a good fertilizer (at least for some time) and a source of methane that can be used to generate heat or electricity. Moreover, other uses of vinasse involving also the formulation of nutritive solutions for hydroponics, formulation of culture media for plant tissue culture and culture media for algal growth."

Seems like it's only a problem because it's being dumped and not being purchased for reuse.
Does anybody actually believe the world is about to turn vegan?

Because you got to be really delusional to believe so.

Edit: title was changed, it was "Ignore the hype that the world is about to turn vegan", and my comment was an answer to it.
That we still think there are biological rather than sociopsychological roots shows we’ve got a long way for science to catch up. Misunderstanding of trauma and the effects on physiology of it abound. The amount of pressure put on children in society is extremely high.
Is Vagrant suddenly not declarative just because the config is written in Ruby?

Also that rant is just a woeful misunderstanding of well everything, but in particular AWS and k8s. If you do it in Terraform you couldn’t specify the AZs either and instead have to define a VPC config with two subnets. That’s an AWSism not Pulimi.

“I will learn nothing and complain the whole time!” isn’t as damning of a criticism as they think.
Author of the (terrible) article here. I woke up to messages from people in Farer saying "Congrats, you're on the front page of HN" which was an interesting way to start my day considering how I am not awake still. I wanted to thank everyone for the advice you've been putting out; all of us have been looking into basically all of it and seeing what we want to go moving forward based on it.

A few people have asked if documentation and an infra plan would ever be public. Right now, we're in such an early state of spinning around and seeing what works best not only for us, but for future us in 5-10yrs. Why should we waste time implementing service X if it's going to be a PITA to maintain; service Y is plenty decent and fits the same criteria? It's a matter of the seemingly easy decision between service X and Y. Sometimes we go with Y because that makes sense, other times we go with X because it (somehow) makes more sense.

All I can say is keep adding your two-cents! It's helping us think even more about what needs to be done, and we really appreciate all the help so far. I (never) check this website, but I'll keep looking here throughout the day to see if there's something more. My email (should) be at the bottom of that article as well if you want to make sure I see what you have to say. Cheers!
Sure, you usually see this poem in your LIT101 class or samesuch, agree with a snicker and move on.

The terrifying clarity of these three stanzas are only grasped when you have children of your own.
You should try going in-person to a ping pong place! I bet your VR experience transitions decently to physical gameplay.
Skins are fairly slim, so I'm not sure its going to be noticable.
Damn spammers!
There is a common trend in the USA or right wing people (generally men) complaining about soy products and the supposed estrogen content that they think is causing widespread hormonal changes in men, despite soy phytoestrogens being the wrong kind of estrogen to do anything and being at extremely low levels.

EDIT: I’m just citing a factual cultural phenomenon in the USA. Look here is a source:
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/soy-boy
There is currently no way to access the HTTP request query params and headers, but we could add it (probably as part of the context obj).

What is your use-case if you don't mind me asking?
Absolutely. Fortunately using react native will make it easier to be on both platforms.