skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm wondering why Australia isn't considered democratic enough to have their GDP taken as correct.

Australia is clearly shown in the "Free Countries" graph.
Hey HN, we’re excited about this launch. This was a collaborative effort with the team at Snaplet [0].

postgres-wasm is an embeddable Linux VM with Postgres installed, which runs inside a browser. It provides some neat features: persisting state to browser, restoring from pg_dump, logical replication from a remote database, etc.

The idea was inspired by CrunchyData’s HN post about a month ago [1]. We love the possibilities of Postgres+WASM, and so Supabase & Snaplet teamed up to create an open source version. The linked blog post explains the technical difficulties we encountered, and the architecture decisions we made.

We’re still working hard on this, but it’s at a good “MVP” stage where you can run it yourself. Snaplet are working on a feature where you can drag-and-drop a snapshot into your browser to restore the state from any backup. Supabase are exploring ways we can run the entire Supabase stack inside the browser. You can find the Snaplet repo here [2], and the Supabase fork here [3]. There’s very little difference between these two, we just have a different browser UI.

Both Supabase team and the Snaplet team will be in here commenting if you want to know anything else about the technical details.

[0] Snaplet: https://www.snaplet.dev/

[1] Crunchy post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32498435

[2] Snaplet repo: https://github.com/snaplet/postgres-wasm

[3] Supabase fork: https://github.com/supabase-community/postgres-wasm
iPhone alerts responders after car hits tree
I fail to see how nuclear fusion is "revolutionary". The principles are simple and has been known for a century.
My greatest contribution to scientific progress came in 2010 when I was having lunch with Nick. He described an admixture problem to me, summarizing: "I've got observed populations and I want to build a tree where I pick points for unobserved populations such that it minimizes the edge length of the tree. I can't seem to come up with a good algorithm for it."

"Nick, that's the Steiner Tree problem! It's NP-complete!" He probably would've wasted a few more days going down that rabbit hole.

Edit: Nick has some great Cold War spy games stories that I've only heard him tell in broad strokes.
In my experience cats are remarkably aloof and seem like they couldn’t care less about me if they tried.

More social animals such as dogs seem to care a bit too much about what I’m doing, and I feel like they could care less.

</pedantry>
Right click on the file, "Properties", look at the "Location" property.
I'll admit I don't know a ton about how much this would have affected it but could it be because FB/Meta was not part of the salary fixing ring (Apple, Google, Intel, and Adobe) so they were paying "market" rates vs the fixed ones.
GameFAQs was necessary in a time of dial-up modems. The guides were just plain text documents that were tiny and downloaded quickly. The site design was basic and not overly flashy. The forums were a "go-to" spot for any game that got announced. I spent a lot of hours in my summers in the late 90s and even early 2000s writing FAQs for N64, Gamecube and Game Boy Advance games and patrolling the message boards.

In the mid 2000s, a lot of that traffic got diverted to IGN (who started siphoning off prominent FAQ writers to write guides for their own site) but also Digg and then Reddit. Having a game-specific forum on GameFAQs didn't matter as much when you could moderate your own subreddit community for it.
Must be a European joke. In the States I'm guessing it costs more to see a doctor than just go buy eggs.

And, yes, i know my euro-taxes essentialy pay for my doc, but a week in hospital that cost me €13.50, I'll live with. As well as a year's worth of post-care and meds....€0.00.

Eggs are getting a bit pricey now, though.
Brand and design is used as an argument when the product isn't doing anything critical. If your solution solves a real pain point nobody cares what it looks like.

The onboarding for my SaaS products could be a lot better, but somehow we never get around to fixing it. But also, we're not tempted to look for solutions out there, because we want onboarding that is very specific for our software, and we don't want a generic solution or a another dependency that could break or keeps changing on us.
Haven't read the article (can't be bothered to work around the paywall), but the fentanyl scare is driven in large part by "copaganda". Cops treat fentanyl like some sort of boogeyman (to the point that they have panic attacks when they think they might have had fentanyl somewhere in their presence, get "revived" with narcan, and further perpetuate the myth that fentanyl is some mythical thing that can kill you just by looking at).

This isn't to say that fentanyl (and opiates in general) isn't a huge problem in the US (I couldn't possibly count the number of legit narcan wakeups I've done over the years), but fentanyl in particular is really prone to exaggerated claims by law enforcement that don't pass the sniff (or snort?) test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrrdFvXu1-o
Yes, it is, but my point is that Google Pay collects more PII, including IP, so what Google Analytics does is moot.
Containerizing .NET Apps?
Being punished for being realistic publically is an occupational hazard
I think the hard, honest answer is getting people to pay for things. Netflix, Prime Video, etc. have leap-frogged TV in terms of audience enjoyment by optimising for being a good product that people will pay for. The hard thing is getting people to recognise the options in front of them: pay for the thing you enjoy, or have it slowly turn to shit as it desperately morphs to optimise for ad money.

Patreon is in a similar category to "donation" links on Twitch/YouTube. It's all phrased as this weird "support us!" thing, instead of "pay for the damn videos you've enjoyed for the past year", which might be necessary right now just to get people to sign up, but I don't think it's sustainable or healthy. Journalists, streamers and video creators shouldn't need to pretend they're busking on the street, asking for donations and support. They're working a damn job, pay them.
All PhD's should be required to spend one year building production software at a company, and should be subjected to weekly code reviews.

Mostly kidding.
These videos actually have frequent ads throughout the video like any monetized content

And because no one is there to skip them after 5 seconds, my cat gets the full length ad served..

It's hilarious
SEC charges Kim Kardashian for unlawfully touting crypto on Instagram
"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger!" — F. Nietzsche

"Or disabled" — reality
They can do this for the desktop environment programs but the vast majority of GUI programs for linux are going to use Gtk or Qt. Not having to do all the distro-side patches required to fix the GNOME dev's Gtk3 breakage (not sure if Qt is this way or not) will leave their distro much rougher than other distros when running non-Pop_OS programs.

Also, the fact that Iced Rust also targets the 'web' suggests to me it will not be a fully capable toolkit (as web cannot do what native can). Seems like they're going to be using this by themselves... and that's fine. Pop_OS has gone off on their own successfully before.
More traditionally, at least a couple of formal logic classes. Nothing drilled into me the fundamental that the logic gate system is IN AND OF ITSELF an abstraction quite like the class where we constructed a formal language. (Which did not evaluate to true and false - it evaluated to tasty or not tasty)

Less traditionally, at least some digital history, politics, and ethics. History of computing at minimum, but ideally also things like the dot-com bust, the rise of search engines pre-Google, a basic idea of when and how the internet + WWW started to grow, the intersection of tech companies and governments, political issues in digital spaces (decentralized versus centralized, "real names" versus pseudonyms, how property ideas translate (or don't) to the digital world etc.) and going over some of the ethical dilemmas and fuckups the profession has faced in the past.
Tip: New York Times paywall can be bypassed easily by turning on ‘reader’ mode in your browser.
One big difference is social media, where you can see any celebrity "at the same level" as your uncle or friends, while back in the 2000s there was nothing to reproduce this "mundane" seemingly close relationship with celebrities.
The chaos actually comes from English importing both foreign spelling and foreign pronunciation. Without a way to reliably represent an arbitrary phonetic representation, English has little choice. When English tries to phonetically adopt foreign words, success is intermittent: it may work with easy cases like sputnik or sushi, but becomes more problematic with words like typhoon or borscht.
> The business team vetoed that, it would adversely impact their numbers in the current quarter, and well, a significant proportion of their total comp was bonuses tied to those numbers

Furthermore they were not spending their own money to buy those ads. Shareholders money is (almost) for free. In my experience companies run by the founders with little or no investors are always more careful about the money they spend.
Maybe the ads are really effective, but you just need a cat translator to know how effective the ads are on your cats? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5JuVHCJVYf4
None of those consent modals are compliant. GDPR compliance requires those modals to make it as easy to decline as it is to accept, and not skew the choice via a pre-ticked checkbox or making one option more prominent than the other. Which again reinforces my point that nobody is interested in seriously enforcing the GDPR.
To counteract this, I've come to realize that actual real-life experiences feel far more fulfilling than any browsing. Now this is of course blindingly obvious, but the not so obvious part is actively modifying your life and trying new things to make these real-life experiences more common.

Just talking to a person I'm attracted to makes all of the Internet seem completely uninteresting in that moment.
Test strips are binary (present/not present) and we are already at the point where you can’t really find heroin that is not at least partly fent. And quickly getting to that point with coke. What then?
> And still, corporations are mostly authoritarian, with top down decision making and big hierarchical structures.

... working on one particular problem.
> With video though, it's extremely hard to run independently.

I just left a company that's doing its level best to make this more affordable and achievable for small organizations, and I wish them the absolute best, but this was true when GB was new and it's still true now. Video is just too many bits across too many gatekeepers (like any of the big clouds). It's not that there isn't transit capacity, it's that everybody who anyone "trusts" wants to bill you per-gigabyte and if you want decent quality-of-experience you have to play ball with the CDNs, who then proceed to have a noose around your neck.

> How can good content be monetized in a way that allows it to remain independent and not succumb to warping its content to feed that monetization?

I think, most strongly, it either has to not be video or consumers have to be willing to put up with early-2010s video jank. That's the crux of it: an audience trained on YouTube and even Twitch--despite their own jank, they're about as good as it gets for streaming and they're free--is much less likely to put up with something like a 2014 Giant Bomb media player (and 2014 Giant Bomb video quality; the cinematography was always great but 720p lasted for a long time in GB-land).
Indeed, might be the bomb casings are there and the pits (or other vital components) long since removed and they are there for purely political reasons.
Ad businesses are in the business of selling ads. Not of selling less, but good, ads, if they can sell more but bad...
I would think being low income is itself prohibitive to adopting electric.
It's amazing how much compute time - both hardware and humans - is dedicated to figuring out how to show which ads to people.. and it turns out that many of the "views" aren't even people.
I can't speak to PlayStation but on Xbox switching into (at least a limited) development mode just requires the right cert [0].

[0] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devk...
Problem is it is fragile.

If it works then great. If it doesn’t, it’s difficult to know why a need even more difficult to fix it. The fix might involve retraining with better data, retraining with different architecture, regularisation, endless and unknown knobs to tune.
Show HN: Free Stable Diffusion discord bot, accepts crypto for heavy use
Blame the public for poor science communication? No. Its not the public’s fault for science communication being ineffective about something that involves the public. Even the CDC realizes has badly they flubbed their communications for the pandemic.

You also had Fauci and President Biden spreading the message of vaccine created immunity until the vaccine was found to be ineffective on preventing delta variant.

The popular understanding of vaccines prior to COVID was vaccines worked to prevent disease. Even the flu vaccine were generally effective at preventing you from catching the flu. Covid vaccines were extremely ineffective at preventing COVID. Almost every vaccinated person I know has had it, some folks have had it multiple times. Only when it was evident that the Covid vaccines were essentially ineffective as a preventative, you saw the communications strategy shift to “prevents severity”, but even that seems to be a pretty dubious claim in hindsight.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdcs-communicatio...
This is almost certainly because of the malware targeting Russian IPs in a similar format.
> How is he over promising with Tesla? Yes, Semi/Cybertruck are late, but it seems they are about to come to market.

Do you also believe that the Cybertruck will be able to "briefly serve as a boat"? https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1575508498430820352
Show HN: I finished v5 of a JVM framework I've spent spent half a decade making
Sue Mingus, Promoter of Her Husband’s Musical Legacy, Dies at 92
Nils M Holm Uses This
Clear astroturfing in comments, don't do that...
https://archive.ph/GPS6k
Allows easy file access with sftp and sshfs, can be used to kill a misbehaving program from your phone or PC if you're stuck on a black screen, can be used to monitor resource usage from another machine.
In the meantime, switching to a non-plug-in hybrid (HEV) will reduce CO2 emissions and use as little as 5 liters per 100 km.
> If my tools are gathering data behind my back and not telling me, that is troubling. I should not be liable for this, as it is an abuse of trust that would result in me no longer using the tool had I known prior.

Well, you can sue tool makers if they lied to you.

But ability to just say "but I didn't know" would be catastrophic to any accountability, as nobody would even read a manual to be able to plausibly claim that they didn't knew.

In similar way you can't go shoplifting then claim you didn't know that was a crime.
Bella Hadid's spray-on Coperni dress
The British have had an experience being attacked with real rockets in late 18th century [1], a technology they eventually adopted.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysorean_rockets
idk, after 20 years of experience in the security field, I have seen more than one enterprise printer put to other uses by bad guys :P
I've almost forgot what having ads in my browser was like using AdGuard for Safari on my MacBook but it seems to miss a lot on my iPhone.
How to download academic papers and books for free
U-He Zebra

https://www.mercurysounddesign.com/
Nobel medicine prize goes to explorer of ancient DNA
That's why my cat recently ordered a casper mattress
But there’s no free lunch. If businesses realize there is a 0% ROI to ad spend due to all the traffic being bots, they will stop buying ads. At which point sites will just migrate to a subscription model.
They do it to regular people every day, I was banned countless times from websites when I was a stupid kid, and more than a few times as an adult. No one cares until it happens to famous racists. I wonder why.
> How can good content be monetized in a way that allows it to remain independent and not succumb to warping its content to feed that monetization? How can it be audience driven instead? Is such a thing even possible? Right now good monetization strategies beget bad content.
I don't think such a thing is possible in present society. As you kind of get to, there are two audiences: The people for whom your content is useful, and the people for whom your platform can make money. Appeasing the latter will invariably ruin your content, but their financial resources dwarf the former's, and they're more than happy to use those resources, since the result is that they end up with more.

You would need to create an ecosystem that rewards public good more than private capital. To do that, you would have to start with an enormous amount of capital, and be willing to essentially give it away.

In theory, that's what government is for. In practice... not so much.

(edit: my cat submitted this post half-finished. I've completed it now.)
That's what religion and their threats to companies does.

But violence? We're cool with torture porn and hard violence. Up to a few years ago, there was even a subreddit "watchpeopledie". There's plenty more subreddits and shock sites that focus on hyperviolence. It's normal and expected.

Violence, dismemberment, and torture are cool. Sex, or even a female (not a male) nipple just destroys lives.... /cringe
It's something I haven't studied before. Why does quadratic voting solve the dictatorship of the majority problem? Do you mean to say that it attenuates the worst effects even if it doesn't solve it completely?
Titan: A Package Manager For Snowflake
Wow. WOW. I didn't think Red Ventures was this quick to exit the market. This is not a good sign for the future of game journalism.

Disclaimer: I worked at CBS Interactive/ViacomCBS Streaming during the original properties sale to Red Ventures.
I agree, I live in Brittany, west of France, yet roads lights are off at night (and as someone with an interest in night sky I appreciate it)
> How can good content be monetized in a way that allows it to remain independent and not succumb to warping its content to feed that monetization? How can it be audience driven instead? Is such a thing even possible? Right now good monetization strategies beget bad content. There's got to be a better way than cobbling together five platforms under a Patreon account, giving all of them 10-50% along the way.

HN skews critical but NFT and web3 poses a possible path to improvement for certain types of content creation.

An artist or content creator can deploy their own smart contract, have full control over what media it points to, and be paid directly through it. Marketplaces like Foundation[1] act as wrappers on top of this content, and it is in their best interest to keep the fees low and website free of ad-spam and algorithmic nonsense to retain top talent on their platform that drives revenue.

[1] https://foundation.app/collection/shapesncolors?sortOrder=DE...
Sorry the original tweet didn't call out Apple. Tweet 2/3 in the thread does (https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1576794330580148225). It didn't click for me until a little later that Apple went out of its way to explicitly add an API to disable some basic functionality in macOS. The end result is the user expects one thing to happen (a screenshot) and instead get a black screen.

A very unethical decision, IMO.
A PKM workflow to incrementally retain (and find) everything
Because the students taking an AP course are motivated to move beyond the 101 level before they even have the opportunity to take the 101 level course. 101 level courses are for people who can't otherwise move passed it through other means.
Linux version 2 was release in June 1996, and v3 in July 2011 15 years later. Everything in-between was incremental.

This massively predates web browsers with 100 versions
As a developer working at the intersection of cloud and "fullstack" - doing software often feels like an endless chain of stack overflow queries.
While this works, it also makes it hard to figure out how to "master" something when the ground feels like its constantly changing.

The compromise I've come up with is to focus on understanding the underlying concepts (things that don't change, eg. language paradigms, networking fundamentals, etc) and then develop an index to be able to quickly externalize and reference the specific implementation details (things that change, eg. js frontend frameworks).

The post here is the distillation of this in action (I'm the author). curious how other folks manage knowledge in this space and whether this resonates.
I think this has been the mayor difference between Facebook and Twitter (which still allows chronological sort, even if you have to "remind" the website to do so) and the explanation of why still use the second but not the first
I think we agree then - if new technologies allow an artist to more rapidly explore, iterate, and refine a particular message, then those artists should still have something to create beyond what is possible with these images.
I make presets for media composers. People working on film and tv. I doubt anyone below 30 bought my presets.
Well, the new change in ethereum fixed that "problem"
I have used popos in the past and was very happy with it. The current install is stuck in an unupdateable mode because the underlying Ubuntu reached end of life. Once I get around to it I’ll gladly reinstall the latest.

What I liked then is the idea of privacy, which I didn’t spend a lot of time to verify and the ease with which I could play games like GTA V.
I had the similar pleasure of attending a Svante Pääbo lecture at Princeton. A bit after the Cell paper was published. The entire team seemed like scientists genuinely chagrined at the attention. Of course it should surprise no one that Neanderthal / Homo Sapiens "gene flow" would spark imaginations ;)

It's the Year 2022, and it appears we've evolved technologically to the point that Nobel calibre bioinformatics can be done on consumer laptops. It should be enough to literally calculate a personal Neanderthal / Denisovian admixture ratio on your own, provided you have access to your own sequence. With prices dropping on an Illumina machines, gene sequencers could be as ubiquitous as the PC shortly. Which, it's quite easy to see, results in the private sector human gene hacking industry, where humans in competitive play seek to "amp" their hominid characteristics for performance advantage ;)

https://github.com/PrincetonUniversity/IBDmix
Why Is Group Theory So Important in Particle Physics?
I think that's valid. I guess then what I'd look to create is something akin to Stripe Atlas + a content delivery platform for non-profit communities. I think it's a lot easier to just say "make it non-profit" without understanding how hard doing something like that might be for your average content creator.
I run wireguard on an OVH box that I've had for years as my VPN. I just checked and I still get Google ads.

So it's not even automatic on the largest ads network out there.

Personally, I'd love it if using a VPN meant that advertisers didn't even try serving ads to me, but unfortunately that's not the case.
Arti 1.0.0: Tor rewritten in Rust