skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will take it from Munich to Venice, but I must say that I have a better time in sleeper trains in India and China than in Europe, why I find them more comfortable there? My last OBB nightjet Vienna-Berlin was very uncomfortable.
Oceans may be a problem, but smaller saline pools shouldn't be.

Saline pools would have multiple benefits. Not only when kept warm could you use them to generate oxygen with phytoplankton, if you have to cut off power for some reason, they'll work as a great thermal heatsink, and they will not freeze as fast so they present less risk of piping damage.
It'a civil suit, and MindGeek is a defendant. You should probably read the article.
A lot of those conversations could have been just an email.
Remote Apple Events are pretty fantastic. Back in 2002/2003, I wrote an AppleScript Studio application (with a little bit of Objective-C) that let you control iTunes on another machine.

It seemed like absolute magic at the time to me and my friends - from my PowerBook on the couch, we could change the song playing on the iMac on the other side of the room! Wish I still had that source code to look at.
>they far more regularly act "decisively" to make things worse, to crush freedoms, to cover up their own corruption, etc.

That's why Democracy is the worst form of government excluding the alternatives. But it would be nice to have a democratic government that is also capable of acting decisively. I don't have any ideas how you'd do that, but it doesn't seem wrong to express the desire.
I completely forgot about the fire thing, and that only strengthens my argument/stance. The Triangle fire was a terrible tragedy in American history during which a lot of women died not even because of lack of windows, but because doors and windows were barred. Now imagine how many people would be at risk if they didn't even have windows in the first place.
Oh totally. It also probably is the formats they already had -- so they just dumped them into a file -- versus making something more orthogonal and ergonomic.
Paywall, can't read that
Scientists' warning to humanity on tree extinctions
An open floor plan office has plenty of space for rows of bunks. Better than sleeping outside.
This data is already available cleaned here.

https://turquoise.health/
> Some State initiatives to put MJ on the ballot were successful, and did not involve State legislature nor involve staking an extreme position.

You’re right the legislature and ballot initiatives did not take extreme positions, but those were brought forth by political groups that took the position of legalizing cannabis for adults full-stop. They’ve made incremental progress by supporting broadly acceptable and reasonable legislation towards those goals, but they made concessions to win broad support.

I don’t see how the Sierra Club is different. That said, I would like to see our political debates and process lose the gamesmanship.
The funny thing about people still acting like Web3 is the future is that you can't always be sure whether or not it's satire.
> (and Swedish/Finnish membership is virtually assured).

I believe Swedish/Finnish membership has been officially accepted by NATO. All that remains is collecting the official ratifications from the rest of NATO. (Currently, 8 of the 30 member states have yet to ratify it.)
https://tomassetti.me/wasi-how-to-run-webassembly-code-outsi...
But they are! It's truly bizarre. Somehow the accepted narrative is that prices are high because greedy developers focus only on luxury condos.

I often see new buildings criticized because they will raise the average rent in the area. And people accept that argument. Think about that for a moment.
> What am I missing here?

I'm not suggesting that humanities majors are a protected class. I am suggesting that it's legally problematic for job postings to lie about the job requirements. For example, if it says "Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent experience", but the company flat out rejects all applicants without a CS degree, regardless of experience.
How I Take Book Notes
Indeed.

A friend recently interviewed at a pretty well funded company started by some ex-bigco executives. It has raised a lot of money and has a pretty substantial team. They are, as far as I can tell, not far from product (trials now) and yet friend, who they really actively recruited, as part of his offer, was told he'd have to buy his own insurance using ACA.

(a) this was very surprising in legal terms, and I still don't quite get it, but (b) the friend absolutely rejected the offer even though he was otherwise very interested. His issue was that he can compromise on comp, he can compromise on location, and so on, but no way in hell was he going to compromise on health insurance. That take is regardless of whether he would, in fact, be compromising.
I'd definitely do it in sf again. I'd have a 4 person + one large conference room office for sales and meetings. Everybody else would be remote, with individual teams roughly colocated, and hence capable of 3-5 days/month in person.

The problem with sf is good fucking luck convincing anybody to move there if they're over, say, 25; or are married; or have kids; etc. One glance at the housing prices and they're gone. If they can work through the housing prices they glance at the school situation, price in $30k/year of private education, and then they're really gone.
> Snow that comes in 1 foot lifts day after day.

Put it on a stand.

https://www.arcticheatpumps.com/images/2021/03/31/standinact...

Put it just under your roofline, if you like. There's no reason you can't put these things six feet in the air.
>Lots of legal requirements exist to protect someone.

SF is the poster child for what happens when a bunch of people incapable or unmotivated to engage in planning more than 5min into the future write a law about everyone's pet issue.

Clearly there's a balance to be struck and it's to be struck somewhere on the less regulatory side than it is now.
New Law of Physics Could Predict Genetic Mutations
> city officials are asleep at the wheel

Eh, San Francisco's voters have been drinking crazy water for some time. New developments blocked by renters. Stringent building codes and environmental reviews defended by those who think they're being compassionate to the poor. Scolding tech companies for hiring in the city and then panicking when they stop hiring in the city. This obviously isn't all of them. But it's not like this wasn't predictable over the past decade.
In the northeast all my worst power outages happened during the winter. Usually from ice storms or even just an overabundance of wet snow causing tons of tree limbs to come down at once.
Lol. So true ...
Drug use isn't associated with crime and filth until we make it so via harsh city policies. I would, however, like someone to clean the 4 different instances of poop I saw on my 3 block walk this morning.
Thepiratebay has been offline because of DDOS-attacks in the past.
I guess it's possible you don't actually know the difference, but what you linked isn't a research paper or study; it's a news article! And it's factually incorrect. It cites the Bangladesh RCT, which I am well aware of already. The trial results showed little to no statistically significant benefit to masking: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/360320982_The_Bangl...

"A very large trial, whose results were published in Science, carried out in Bangladesh between 2020 and 2021 has been widely acclaimed as providing the most convincing evidence yet that masks work in reducing Covid-19 transmission and infections. However, the media grossly exaggerated the authors' own conclusions, and sceptical researchers have identified weaknesses in various aspects of the trial and statistical analysis which cast doubts on the significance of the results."

Also: https://www.justfactsdaily.com/famed-bangladesh-mask-study-e...

"However, their pre-analysis plan to measure results for “each decade” of age ranges shows no statistically significant effects among people aged 18–29, 30–39, 40–49, and 70+. Furthermore, they excluded this breakdown from their paper and relegated it to a supplement."

Also: https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/bangladesh-study-proves-m...

Also: https://www.acsh.org/news/2021/09/02/clinical-trial-banglade...

Also: https://anthonycolpo.com/the-bangladesh-mask-study-is-back-a...

"One especially illuminating finding, which would be funny were it not a reflection of just how far science has fallen, is that purple cloth masks showed no advantage over going maskless, but red cloth masks did. Red cloth masks, in fact, showed higher 'efficacy' than surgical masks."

One of us two is at odds with reality. That may be true. But here's a hint. It's not me. When you're done with your baseless and tribalistic accusations of my "agenda", maybe you can humble yourself enough to learn something today.
AppleScript pops up every once in a while on HN and the general consensus seems to have been: It can be powerful and in some instances it works well, but the syntax is insane, the JavaScript isn't documented, the edge cases are numerous, security updates and popups can be frustrating, it never really works as expected and takes you way longer to make it work than it should. It's a neglected part of the OS and given Apple's focus on consumers not developers, it's likely a dead-end feature not worth your time to learn.

I use it for "launcher" apps that I can add to the Finder toolbar to do things like create a new text document or open the console in that directory [1]. I wrote that a decade ago, and little has changed since. You use it when you have to, but then once whatever itch is scratched, you'll avoid it like the plague.

1. https://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/fun-with-the-os-x-finder...
I respect your opinion but honestly fragmentation sucks. I wish there was even more consolidation - ever use a power drill? 7 different battery types non compatible with each other.

On a related note I’m happy usb seems to be the general connector winner (though it’s certainly not without fault).

What would the average consumer gain if there were say, 10 different browser engines equally popular?

Chromium is open source and you can easily disable features you disagree with. Don’t see the downside. Fork it and add functionality you’d like, like Brave.
I think it is more difficult to impossible to make office to residential units conversions that fit a $/sqft that’s meets the market for normal housing (avoid huge square footage for cheap).

All of these buildings have a hub, bathrooms, and open ceilings for laying more pipes/wiring next to all the fiber cables.
ORMs, when best used (and we use them even though we're pretty SQL literate and maintain a lot of SQL) will survive forever, nothing beats an ORM for really dirt simple expressions that you want to be trivially testable. Never in my life do I want to see someone write an UPDATE query against a single table with no shenanigans with dynamic field support using string gluing to properly stitch in all the columns - this is something a known tool can do better, this is a great opportunity for an ORM.

A non-great opportunity for an ORM is anything I'd call a "report query" (some complex read-only query involving a lot of JOINs, a bunch of WHERE clauses and possibly some nested aggregation for funsies) - this is where you pull out the SQL (or alternative query language!) because an ORM will struggle to properly support all the functionality you need and because trying to tune a query being produced by an ORM (even just to make sure it's well aligned with logical indices) is a task that yields nothing but endless frustration.
I ignore them. The comments, not the people. I keep all discussions purely professional in nature.
Welcome to HN/Reddit. Most threads have people commenting without reading the article at all (or very briefly skimming). More or less just reacting to the headline.

And according to HN guidelines, we aren't supposed to comment on if someone has read the article or not. Stellar.
I'm not a SF resident, but a 1.5% payroll tax doesn't seem that bad? NYC's is over double that.

$20,000 for a pilot trash can is pretty ridiculous, however.
NYC is doing great, as are quality-of-life focused cities like KC, Miami and Columbus.

Maybe calling every critic in your town names and letting QoL go to absolute crap is the real driver of movement.
Californians and the like are moving to Idaho, so the COL there will gradually increase towards parity.

And perhaps Arkansas eventually?

https://www.camdenarknews.com/news/2022/aug/31/will-climate-...
Currently doesn't work on the desktop: you get a file picker. See:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes...

If you care about desktop users at all, you can't use this, except in a mobile-only version of your site or application.
> send a rocket to Andromeda that would arrive in 10,000 to 65,000 years

Andromeda is 2.5 million light years away. You are probably thinking of sending some vehicle to the closest star, Proxima Centauri, which is just about 4.25 light years away. This is the same as 270000 AU away; Voyager 1 has been launched 45 years ago, and it's at 157 AU from Earth, which means it traveled at an average speed of about 3.5 AU/year. At this speed it would take it 77000 years to get to Proxima Centauri.
I can't tell if you're being serious or not, but I feel it needs to be clarified.

The reality is free drugs at safe injection sites, supported by the tax payer, is cheaper for the tax payer. Overdoses and emergency services for overdoses cost a LOT of money. "a period of 2 years and 3 months", "with a savings of over $2.3 million for the lifetime of the program"[0].

Roughly $1 MM per year for just the 1 city in this study (and the population of the city is relatively small).

Additionally, there is a reduction in overall costs funded by the tax payer of rehab, help programs, etc because of benefits from colocation with the safe injection sites.

Additionally, this study doesn't even include the long term savings from reduced police/boarder patrol workload. Not only do free drugs reduce the need for petty theft to fund an addiction (costing tax payer time to file insurance claims - let alone the improved safety of no more petty theft), but when drugs are free, there is no longer a profit for organized crime and smuggling. Reducing the overall tax payer burden for the city / country.

[0] https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1...
I don't think NASA is all that focused on a Mars colony.

The general public has some interest because Elon Musk is "good" at twitter and advertising, but not a ton of interest.

I'm not sure why Musk is focused on Mars, I think you need to do a ton of drugs to get into his head. Or it might just be that he needs a big picture goal to help motivate SpaceX.

Mars is not a good target for colonization. It is just an inhospitable rock. A big pointless gravity well. Any ship capable of bringing people to Mars would be infinitely more habitable than Mars itself. Plus the view is better, and you can go fly to somewhere more interesting like the Asteroid belt.
Neolithic cuisine: cereal, milk, meat lipids in pottery from Scottish crannogs
Totally agree. The pendulum is gonna swing back, it's just a matter of time. Yes there will be more remote-first companies but we will see how that pans out over 5 or so years. There is a hell of a lot more to running a tech company than just writing code. Code writing can easily be done from home but there is a lot of other roles where it isn't as easy.

Plus, are people really gonna just hunker down in isolation? Aren't they gonna get a little stir crazy?

We will see.

PS: The fact that suggesting WFH isn't all peaches and roses gets one so harshly attacked suggests that there is some serious unspoken ulterior motives at play. It's kinda funny to me how so many arguments for WFH are centered around the individuals themselves. None of them are really arguing that WFH is actually the best for a business.
Humidity and saltwater corrosion aren't great in a space habitat, though.
Microsoft PowerToys 0.62 is out with three brand-new tools
The fact that you are going to get reinfected has a significant bearing on your ridiculous implicit claim made here:

> You can get it when you're younger and healthier, or you can get it when you're older and sicker.

that you are better off getting infected sooner rather than later and that there is only negative value to be had in postponing infection.

>What you can't do, no matter how much you hide and curse at others, is avoid a respiratory virus.

You may want to keep that sentiment for when a 30+% IFR respiratory virus like MERS causes a pandemic which, given the law of large numbers, will absolutely happen. Then, the attitude "you can do nothing" leads to only one thing - total civilizational collapse. (BTW, measles and rubella are both respiratory viruses that I have avoided and will continue to avoid but thanks for again proving the point that you have no idea what you are talking about.)

But looking at your submission history, I don't intend to lose any more time with the definition of covidiotism.
some nice didactic video to complement the blog post :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phbO46YJ1UQ
I had this discussion a few days ago and I read the entire essay Putin wrote - if this is the best evidence for the reuniting a nation explanation, then I am not convinced at all. Compared to decades of opposition against NATO expansion this is laughable evidence. Go, read it [1] if you have not.

[1] http://www.en.kremlin.ru/misc/66182
IMO, having such an interface completely eliminates the need for us to have the hardware in the first place. I don't think of a brain computer face as a one way device, but two way. The reason we have a physical phone is because you need to hold it up to your ear, your eyes need to read the screen, and the fingers need to give it commands. If we can solve for the bi-directional communication then the phone just becomes a tiny little thing that sits in your pocket to facilitate connectivity to your brain and to the wireless network.

Anyway, I agree this is far-fetched given the current state of the tech, and I think your skepticism is certainly well grounded, but I think we will make advancements in that direction. To me it feels like the natural evolution is to gradually get rid of personal device reliance... I think in our lifetime we will see the first steps towards this.
More:

https://www.genengnews.com/topics/omics/what-drives-new-muta...

Original paper "Second Law of Information Dynamics":

https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/5.0100358
It's best read with emacs info mode, given that RMS is an emacs lord.
The issue with the a "tree's worth of oxygen" is that in people's mind a tree is very big, so this comparison gives the impression of a very large amount of oxygen is being produced, when, in fact, barely any is produced at all.

A better analogy would be anything that can be expressed in volumes. For this reason, "4 football stadiums" and "2 school buses" would actually be pretty good.
100% agreed. Ben Shapiro did a pretty in-depth analysis of this on the Joe Rogan Experience.
NYC looks the same as before but with outdoor dining and legal weed.
KeePassXC & KeePassDX + Syncthing is also pretty simple.
I’m sure they’ll eventually make a PDF and HTML pages easily available on their site, like they have for plenty of other manuals. This announcement is more along the lines of “if you want to help us with the finishing touches, here’s where to go.”
Russia is busy with Ukraine so can't deal with Finland however they have been talking tough and posturing.

NATO members are NATO members, attacking them after they've joined NATO an orginisation basically created to fight Russia would mean you go to war with all NATO members.

Russia's preference methodogly of defence is creating distance. With Ukraine, NATO would have been extremely close to Moscow. Finland is further away but they're still not happy about it.

NATO expanding into that region was well known to be something that would threaten Russia, since it was founded to fight Russia, to the point Joe Biden said decades ago[1], that Russia expanding into that region would cause conflicts.

[1] https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/08/biden-nato-expansion-r...
NASAMS anti-aircraft missile system
> How does it do this? Just a list of known packages and their dependencies, or?

It checks a known registry or reads package metadata.

> I'm using https://github.com/LaurentMazare/tch-rs/ (rust bindings for pytorch's c++ api). Depending on the hardware I'm building for I either need to download a cpu build of pytorch, or a cuda build of pytorch. How would this work with riff?

Riff doesn't track which GPU you use at this time, so it can't track that which build of `pytorch` to use, sorry. It might be something we make it aware of if we have enough evidence it would be helpful.

> Is there any hope of a good cross compiling story? If so, that would be awesome (currently I just don't even try if there are significant C dependencies)!

Regarding cross compiling: We've spoken about it, and I certainly believe it would be desirable. I imagine it would come in a later version. We've taken some steps to ensure we don't rule out that feature later.

> How thoroughly are dependencies cached? Backed to the pytorch example it's a fairly big (and thus slow) download, I don't want that happening too frequently.

Dependencies are cached by Nix, so they should not become invalidated very often. If your tempdir erases we may lose the generated lock file (We've been discussing where to place these perhaps more permanently) which may force another download if there was an update.
Okay? They virtually always are outside, because it's far more difficult to put a unit in a basement. Heat pumps need outside air and a furnace typically has a single 2" PVC pipe to the outside. That's very far from sufficient.

If you have a furnace it's trivial to have it left in place.
Ask HN: How do you find time to write comments on HN?
How do HN commenters find time to write elaborate well, written comments that are arguably better than other platforms?

I've been a long lurker on HN for years. It's one of my favorite places to consume content. I enjoy reading HN discussions, which are better than other platforms, such as Reddit. Often times I scroll through discussions without even opening the link.

For all of you who regularly comment on HN, how do you find time to write? Do you do it from your phone? Or while at work via your workstation? How long do you spend writing your comments? How often do you comment?
Anti-Digit Dialing League
I am not familiar with Flipper Zero, but I can attest from first hand experience that Paypal does not really care about its customers.

I struggled for 3 months to get Paypal to pay out a odd $300 which I received as a refund because I cancelled a newspaper subscription. I am not in the US and had a Paypal account linked only to my credit card.

Paypal said that due to financial regulations in my country my Paypal balance may not be used at all - no withdrawals, sending it somewhere or paying with it. I may only make a payment via my credit card.

In the end I only got my money after requesting to close my account - and since they could not keep my money, the matter was escalated higher. But not before they in all seriousness suggested that I donate my money to an official Paypal charity.
Could you use a nuclear element to directly create pressure waves against the material? Something like: nuclear fuel, graphene drum head, water injectors to drive the drum expansion.