skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Self taught alert! I haven't gotten into fermentation of food waste yet, which would be very effective. But I make my own liquid fertilizer from food waste by passing it through the digestive system of maggots. Although this isn't very "bio available" because of more "complex" biomolecules, I have been getting fantastic results so far with greens, beans, cabbages, etc.

I followed the following [0] video for making a simple liquid fertilizer setup using 2 paint buckets (not in English but easy to follow). The advantage IMO is that risks associated with things like overfertilisation are minimised.

[0] https://youtu.be/7vEpf20_9dA
But that would go up at the same rate as renting, no? I imagine you're replying mostly to the "mortgage stays fixed" comment, but relatively speaking i think it still holds true. Sure, taxes may change, but so does the value of the dollar, etc.

In theory every cost you pay as an owner, you pay as a renter - just with less time investment as a renter. It's a convenience fee.
Yes, and this is not fundamentally different from companies that run servers in jurisdictions outside of the US's control.

I would agree - bitcoin will likely continue even if sanctioned by the US, but I'd not be willing to bet all that much on it.

If there is no on-ramp for new US dollars... I don't see it faring well. The market will likely collapse back to the only genuine use case: dark market exchanges.
At this point I'm convinced Satoshi Nakamoto was actually a public administration professor trying to teach kids why financial institutions have the rules in place that they do given enough time the entire crypto space will have reinvented every regulation they tried to get rid of and understood why they existed in the first place
I'm not sure of all the details but what about people that maybe used tornado.cash legally? Not everyone who participates in the crypto space, is doing so illegally..

Are they going to shut down banks and ban cash in the US since the US dollar is the most used currency in terms of money laundering?
Have you built one yet?
It's not always clear these days when a tool is "Made in the USA" vs. "assembled in the USA from global components", https://www.protoolreviews.com/what-tools-are-made-in-the-us...
I don't think it's as clear as you think it is. Consider that nearly every law and government policy is enforced by means of violence. Therefore, most political advocacy is in fact advocacy for violence. People who are "questioning immigration" are usually calling for state violence against migrants. How else are they going to reduce immigration? When the government bans inciting violence, it's not all violence, just the violence that's against the interest of the state in enforcing its monopoly on violence. It doesn't make any difference for the people who are being incited against whether it's a government or some other violent group that ultimately acts on the speech.

Another thing to note is that laws against inciting violence ban advocacy for defensive violence against the state's offensive violence. It's legal to advocate for all people of a particular demographic to be executed by the state, but it's illegal to advocate for those people shooting the cops who come to arrest them.
hey HN, supabase ceo here. interesting article, and interesting reading the comments

this article is more in-depth than any analysis we’ve ever done internally - perhaps we should add it to the company handbook. in case you want to know how we think about content/marketing internally:

- Twitter content has a half-life of about 2 hours and generally people there have a short attention span. we tailor the content for those conditions and pragmatically it seems to work (at least for the twitter algorithm, if not for some people)

- Conversely for “HN content” we aim to go in-depth and we don’t shy away from technical content.

- If we think the topic is somewhere in-between these two, we will write it more for a “reddit audience” - blog posts that are technical in nature, but nothing too in-depth.
I thought Zen Buddhists pondered unanswerable questions, like what is the sound of one hand clapping.
> Who the heck is going to risk dropping $1000 on a vacuum for use in a busy shop?

People who value not dying from silicosis, I guess. Obviously it depends on your use cases. Sawdust for example is not as dangerous, but you can still find various price points and performance of wood dust extractors.
Just practice incessantly and understand that silence is a tool.

In HS, I did debate and speech competitions, and my favorite was extemporaneous speaking. There'd be a few rules around each round, but the gist of it was you'd pluck a topic from a broad range from a hat, and you had 5 minutes to go back to your desk, and do anything you wanted to prepare to deliver a speech on it -- you could glance at materials that you brought (magazines, newspaper clippings, etc) and write down up to 10 words on a little index card. Then you just walked into a room and delivered your speech to a judge who had absolutely no context about what you were going to speak on.

After enough of this, the biggest change I noticed was just the feeling of confidence, and believing that yes, in fact, I could do it. The other unexpected lesson I learned is the power of silence. Even the best of speakers will, at any given time, not have the right words or phrases come to them immediately. The REALLY good ones allow themselves the gift of silence when that happens. One example which immediately comes to mind is the steve jobs q&a where the guy says he doesn't know what he's talking about. While he is thinking about how to respond, the complete silence that steve allows himself, the sip of water, is just so powerful. You are watching him incessantly, and are sure to be hanging on to every other word he says. I'd contrast this with Elon Musk who, despite brilliant, is not a very compelling speaker at all, at oftentimes will mumble his way through to an answer instead of pausing before offering a full coherent thought.
Very hard to make a business case because for the reasons you mentioned + the costs are very front-loaded because ontologies are so damn hard to build, even for very well-contained problems. Without a clear payoff, why bother
The NHS is in a mess at the moment due to being starved of funding well prior to covid, backlog due to covid, lost a lot of staff due to Brexit, and other ridiculous things such as the current gov't got rid of free tuition for nursing so what a surprise we have a shortage of nurses because they don't get paid enough to pay back hefty university fees. The model of the NHS is fine, but if not funded properly especially in the aftermath of a pandemic, it will collapse. The only hope is a future government may be able to fix it but that requires a big injection of cash, therefore may require tax rises. And time to actually implement that. I believe that private healthcare companies spread anti-"socialised-healthcare" sentiment simply because a well-funded NHS or US equivalent would be a lethal competitor. Meanwhile, there's some private healthcare available in the UK, its much cheaper than in USA, but only covers certain things, its not comprehensive. I guess maybe other nearby countries such as Ireland , have a much better developed private system for people who want to pay to jump the queue. Everyone in the UK is screwed by the current situation. You'd have to be super rich or lucky to pay your way to get the right treatment if you need it early, but as I say the private market isn't that well developed. A friend has just got a detached retina which needs surgery urgently. Last I heard he was contemplating paying £8000 for a private op cos the NHS just doesn't have resource to do it quickly.
Idealogical capture has invaded the expert class.
Getting straight answers without spin is basically impossible now.
You have to start tracking things yourself to see real world effects.

I highly recommend just looking at energy since it's an input cost into nearly everything
But that wouldn't prevent tracking anyway. It would just mean all the tracking is done by Google.
Government work sometimes has the most stringent standards
If it is 1/8000 60+ it's still a "withdraw now" ratio.
Maccasoft/z80-tools: Development environment for Z80-based computers
wrong, it's a shitty metric. consumers care about inflation bc it represe ts their quality of life getting more expensive. trimming is the equivalent of saying "lol just downgrade" which is not a good answer.

you can't watch people switch their crab and milk for krab and powdered milk then be like "oh we'll just trim that out of inflation lmao". inflation is not supposed to measure change in average cost of necessities, it's supposed to measure change in a basket of basic goods.
What exactly are you advocating as an alternative? Leaving the unserved homes unserved?
> "Polarization" is not, in fact, the "the single greatest weakness of the United States as a country today."

Ok, what are bigger weaknesses than the current polarization?
Can you install a real keyboard tray?
I didn't expect to ever find a news site that labeled itself "B.S."!
I agree, seems like it would be very distracting to have something, doesn't matter what, constantly scrolling/updating on a non-primary display. I purposely put weather, stocks, news, social, etc. out of the way so I can focus on work. On Mac this is just the side-bar thingy with widgets for those things.

My todo lists are always pen/paper because digital ones do not work for me. I get that there are people that use digital task lists and work well with them. I like having a desktop I can write on or not worry about spilling drinks on too.

I just got a sit/stand desk and have been watching various youtube videos on desk accessories and there is a whole category of what I would call desk porn - amazing looking, beautiful setups, tidy wires, special lighting, etc. that are just impractical from a daily need to do work perspective. They seem staged for the sole purpose of taking fancy pictures of them. This desk looks geared for people that want to mimic those desk setups. I'll stick to my post-it notes here and there, notebooks, real books, toys, etc. littered across my desk.
Actually I will reply to a couple of your points anyway, since I have your original message open on a separate device. I hope this may be helpful. :-)

Regarding the thin non-HEPA filters that come with the packs of bags, if your Miele is anything like mine, you're supposed to use one of those and the HEPA filter. There is a vertical tray behind the bag compartment that snaps open where you can insert one of these pre-filters. (You may need to cut it to size.) The air exiting the bag goes through the pre-filter first and then the HEPA filter, so the HEPA filter clogs more slowly.

On the cord retrieval system, my vacuum came with instructions to hold the plug while the cord is pulled in, and only let it go when the slack has been all taken up. This prevents the whipping you mentioned.
Crystal is fine, we wrote a microservice in it for a particularly CPU-intensive task and it performed as promised. It definitely loses more and more Ruby-likeness as you start optimizing though.

There are a few Rails-like frameworks but they all lack what Rails has: critical mass. Rails has over 4500 contributors and quite a few people working on it full-time at companies like Github and Shopify. Almost everyone in the Ruby community knows and uses Rails, and almost every gem available takes Rails into consideration. The Crystal web framework with the most contributors seems to be Amber, with less than 100 contributors.

I don't mean to disparage Crystal, as I like the concepts that the language is built on, but at the same time I don't see it catching up to the Rails juggernaut anytime soon.
Discretion isn't just about the subject but also about greater society and even the one investigating. Sometimes a fleeing traffic violator are let go not because they individually are somehow worthy but so that a chase doesn't result in greater risk to innocents. Sometimes a cop walks away from a riot because he'll get his ass beat if he tries to seek justice. Sometimes a brutal dictator is allowed to walk away into exile in the interest of greater peace of society. It's not as simple as you say "on the basis of the person."
Makes me wonder if junior developers are getting bait and switched.

They get pulled away by the lure of money into an environment that causes them to stagnate in their skill and career development, then companies pull the rug after only a few years of this high pay with layoffs. Now you've got hoards of developers with junior/mid skills who expect senior salaries and can't find jobs. Amazon doesn't want them anymore, because the new grad pipeline has plenty of people nearly as technically capable and much hungrier.

Only those who manage to recognize this short term period of plenty and rapidly stack investments toward financial independence will be alright in the end. Those who thought the raining cash would never end are in for a world of hurt.

On the bright side for Amazon, they get to trim off the employees who a) aren't paranoid enough about the viciousness of the business world, and b) are looking for a way to cruise and do minimal work.
Did anyone test garage openers?
I love Ruby so much as a scripting language, I ask myself why I don't just use it as an "acceptable lisp" [1] for my research, rather than Haskell. Haskell is more easily parallelized than any other language I've experienced. Alas, my experiments with Ruby 3.1 parallel extensions flunked. Who cares about single core speed?

I was always put off by Rust syntax (it's a fly-pollinated flower, to attract C programmers), but I'm starting to get the genius in its machine model. Learning Rust forces one to understand what's happening at the machine level, but offers better control as a reward. Its expressiveness is a lot closer to Ruby than I had imagined, it won't put me back in the C99 stone ages. So my provisional answer is that Rust is a Faster Ruby.

[1] http://www.randomhacks.net/2005/12/03/why-ruby-is-an-accepta...
zero mention of DASK here, is it that obscure?
> This is written as speculation of course, but it matches some long-time "conventional wisdom", that most Rails apps spend most of their time on I/O waiting for something external.

> Can we put this rumor to rest?

You have only given one example though. What rumor is there to put to rest? I think the statement is still accurate: "most Rails apps spend most of their time on I/O waiting for something external"

To your specific concerns though - I have also see ActionView and ActiveRecord casting take up non-trivial amounts of time (I recall a situation in a past job where the mysql driver being notoriously bad with allocations of enums - probably our own doing however).
I wondered if this was a spin on this-(insert noun)-does-not-exist
Trimmed inflation measures exist, but this one is not it. They’re not used in a sneaky way, they’re clearly named “trimmed CPI”, “trimmed PCE” etc.
Thanks! +1 to Carbonplan
This is also why USPS is crucial for rural areas. The Government should be subsidizing this work because if they don't people in rural areas are left behind.
Wow amazing. Thank you!
In this case the "middle man" is literally doing the work. Money doesn't build things. It goes to entities so that they can build things. I suspect you know this, but it _seems_ like you don't.
> they were apparently able to occupy 20% of Ukraine's territory.

On the other hand, they only took one big city in/since February and that's only because it wasn't defended by Ukraine.
Just like Tor. And BitTorrent. And non-backdoored cryptography. All super useful if you're doing something illegal, right? Governments really should be cracking down on all this stuff, it enables way too much criminal activity.

If you disagree with the paragraph above as I do but don't feel the same way about cryptocurrency, consider why. Tor, BitTorrent, etc undeniably do enable criminals, and cryptocurrencies undeniably do have legitimate uses. My personal position is consistent: I'm on the side of freedom, even if it does sometimes come at the expense of a little safety.
The screen feels like something that would ultimately end up detracting from my health and productivity as other comments have similarly mentioned already.

I love the power sockets and wireless charging aspects of this though, and I'd be super interested in a version without the embedded display.
Lobbyists exist for everything.
I've seen the exact scenario play out in Boise.

In my neighborhood, I was restricted to 100Mbps down for 10 years @ something like $100->150/month. The price was also constantly climbing. The only competitor for my neighborhood offered 40mbps down for $100/month.

The MOMENT a new fiber provider announced they were going to build out to my area, all the sudden 600 down cost them $60/month and the caps went away.

Once the buildout happens in my neighborhood I'm switching anyways out of pure spite.
There are some pictures (13) on the local newspaper's site, but they're mostly similar aerial shots and there's not really any crafsmanship on display:

https://www.thescarboroughnews.co.uk/news/people/in-pictures...
I'm not talking about the "trusted by" section, but now that I'm visiting your site again, I see you've added that. When i looked a year back you only had the second section. "The power of open source" which then shows a ton of logos, including:
affirm, box, axon, youtube, github, square, shopify, new relic, yelp, weave... If these are all your customers, that really wasn't clear to me! And that's awesome! You should be more explicit that they're all your customers.

I thought it was just saying, "hey, all these folks are using this open source thing that we're also using/selling".
The BEGIN CONCURRENT and wal2 are new things? Seems the former is only added in 3.39.0? Didn't get call out in the release note.
> Tests during the 1970s and 1980s showed that with proposed software updates (not carried out) it could spot objects less than 9 cm in size.

I'd love to see what current technology could do for it.
The Tech That Tries to Tackle NIMBYs
Hello, is a VISA sponsorship possible for this position. I am more than interested in this position. Especially since I think that as a reading fanatic, it's important that everyone is reading on their own level. Besides that, I also have many acquaintances who also work in the educational sector and this way I see how important it is that a child gets good guidance while starting to read.
Having a mammalian cortex (or avian cortex equivalent) is what give you the ability the predict. The cortex is the prediction machine - capable of overriding our evolutionary-earlier reactionary behavior with planned behavior based on prediction.

The ability to predict is surely what drove development of the cortex, since the benefits are massive - allows you to know what comes next when you hear the roar of a tiger, or see a poisonous snake, or make a plan, rather than waiting until something bad is actually happening to you.

Parts of our cortex specialized to social behavior would have come later. I doubt bullshit generation/detection would have been a specific driver though! As girls attracted to "bad boys" attest, the urge to merge is far more basic than that.
>Their days are filled with doing work that will not move the needle on any metric that matters to the company

This, 100%. I think this simple observation reverberates across the entire software engineering field and at many (most?) non-FAANG companies as well.

I am not confident there is a real solution to the problem of making sure people only work on things that matter. Medium to small organizations seem to struggle with having management even understand what "good" product looks like or how to optimize for that outcome.
Good thing roads are permanently in working condition!
Because those unhappy people are not really so smart.
He's getting $2.6 million to set up access to 417 homes. That works out to $6,235 per home. At $55 per month, it would take 113 months, or over 9 years just to get $2.6 million in revenue.

Horrible economics! What a crazy business to be in. No wonder grants like this are necessary.
Strap some weights to your monitor arm.
Yea insects typically have a high amount of allergens to humans.
It's why bioreactors for things like insulin, igb, etc avoid insects cells if they can.
Two way sync seems like it's asking for trouble. What do you do when an event is modified on both sides, etc. Even if you don't plan to modify things on both sides, you'll have it done for you when daylight savings rules change, assuming you're subject to DST.

I'm not familiar with Apple's calendar services, but Google and Fastmail both let you publish and subscribe to calendars; if you need to see everything everywhere, then I'd cross subscribe on the services. If you need to modify something, then you've got to do it at the source of truth.

Personally, I'm on Android and Google never built Caldav support into the built-in calendar, so I just put everything in their calendar. I might prefer to use Fastmail, but I don't care enough to get a calendar client.
Definitely not standard practice. There will always be bad actors, fraud, spam, etc, when so much money is involved. But most buy side systems are advanced enough to recognize bad actors and not spend money on them. So for any site/app that wants longevity in their revenue they will not implement shady tactics and they’ll earn high cpms.

Brands with real budget employ teams of people to avoid serving on the inventory you’re discussing. Nike blocks like 99% of available inventory.
Simple way to find out when new EV chargers pop up along your route (US)
I built this service to address my own range anxiety, especially as a Leaf driver on the lookout for CHADeMO chargers.
I only can use Windstream as the other providers are right on the edge of my area and refuse to move in. I only get “50Mbps” (It's never gone above 45) for $90+ a month, and they have been forever increasing it because well, what choice do we have.
Exactly, and that INCLUDES rental companies and lease companies: lease companies provide cars for lease mostly to individuals so these are only formally "company cars".
At most 10% are really "company cars" in the sense that "they are bought by companies to be used by their employees for business purposes e.g. delivery vans".
Eh no, "speaking up" has varying outcomes in varying environments, this is not a universal constant.

I've chosen the job I have now specifically because I wanted to be able to do something about things I see that could be going wrong. Anyone can do this, but especially smart people.
And remember that year-over-year metrics depend on the baseline of the previous year. The first half of 2021 was still artificially low for economic activity with pandemic-suppressed demand for many things.

At least some of the 2022 numbers are only an artifact of being compared to that low baseline. And the apparent drop in the second half of 2022 is an artifact of comparing to the second half of 2021 when demand got mostly back to normal.
Actually, the hard thing about dark matter is that the arguments for it and the arguments against it are both relatively compelling. No matter how this shakes out, we're going to have a very different view of the universe when we finally understand what is really happening.
You can throw up what-ifs and counterfactuals all day long - gsibble was the one who wrote the software.
Binutils: Package Up Gprofng
gprofng is new profiler now included with the gnu binutils. It is written by Oracle and looks quiet sweet. Here a presentation on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXIjNFF17YY
And a full public unfalsifiable history of all transactions ever ensures you're only as anonymous as the exchange you used can make you.