skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always liked:

"Be yourself, everybody else is taken."
> It doesn't take thousands of years to develop a forest. Trees grow rapidly.

Except it does, and they don't, because that's literally what makes old-growth forest so important and so rare. A forest is not "a field of trees", when we call something a forest we're talking about the complete, fully established, stable ecosystem that makes up a forest. And an old-growth forest is one where the trees took hundreds of years to grow (old growth trees do not grow fast) with a floor composed of biomass accumulated over many generations of vegetation, requiring -surprise- thousands of years.

Fields of trees only take 10~15 years to stand up, so you can log them. Which is why we do that. Actual forests take a hell of a lot longer to create, usually a few generations of humans. Except for old-growth forest: we can't create those, we die way too quickly. By the time a single generation of old-growth trees have done a cycle, it's anywhere from 150 to several thousand years later.

If you've never seen old growth forest: imagine a huge, adult tree, so wide two people can't even put their arms around it. Good job: you just imagined a toy tree compared to old-growth forest, so let's do this again: Imagine a car. Then imagine a single-car garage built around that car. Then imagine a fantasy-world tree that is so big, the entire garage fits inside that tree.

That is what old-growth forest is. Those weren't fantasy trees, that's what our forests used to look like. It used to be everywhere. Now, there is almost none of it left, and no one should ever be allowed to log it.
Without seeing the marketing, I think running a full RDBMS inside your browser is not a great idea. Just idling it becomes my most CPU intensive Firefox tab, out of dozens, according to about:performance.

I shudder what performance a full-fledged application would demand. I know some people will embed this on an Electron app, for double the fun.
would you like to schedule some time with us to dig into this further. This sounds really interesting and pretty close to things we've seen others do before.

To move this off of HN and to a channel that we look at more regularly, I'd like to suggest a couple alts:
1) GitHub Discussions: https://github.com/build-trust/ockam/discussions/categories/...

2) We can schedule a zoom call: https://www.ockam.io/contact/form
Even paying for tools at existing 1€ shops is more than many currently do.

ToolHub would need at very least to pay electricity and materials for their replicator devices, and when the bill becomes too high, the shop would close doors.
> In Zimbabwe, which has followed the World Bank and IMF process, interest rates are 200% and inflation back at 280%.

> There comes a point when we have to accept that interest rates don't really have that much power to control inflation in the real world. It's a religious devotion to a theoretical model.

I don't understand how Zimbabwe's experience is a refutation of the 'theoretical model'.

The model says that having nominal interest rates lower than the rate of inflation increases demand for loans, which increases the money supply, which increases inflation. If Zimbabwe's interest rate is 200% while inflation is 280%, then the model says inflation should continue to increase. Which is what it is doing.
congrats to the DuckDB team for their WASM version. I've been following it from afar and it's very impressive.

> what hurdles you encountered in making a native WASM

I'm sure Mark & Peter can jump in with specifics but mostly it was due to complexity - there it probably can be done it's just that we took the path of least resistance.

> Are there future plans at creating a native WASM version of Postgres

We'd like that. If anyone would like to collaborate with Supabase + Snaplet to create a more "native WASM" version then please reach out
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True, and the amount of radiation left in thr Rocky Flatts area is dangerous, simple fact.
America’s economy is too strong for its own good
Don't worry, those trees will (maybe) grow back in hundreds of years. What's so bad about taking some short term profits in the mean time, right?
> We had one of the largest podcasts in the world and the hosting bills were killing us.

If only there were a way to distribute files freely, in distributed, decentralized fashion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent
Using IndexedDB, the forthcoming SQLite support in Chrome, or the browser filesystem components all might be good paths. Either way, what do you think about using WASI instead of Linux? I think it would reduce the overhead significantly.
So basically the industry is incentivized to waste money and hide this from the boss, even within companies that are spending on ads?
That issue is literally why I have a branch integrating GLyphy. But yes, your casual drive by comment is definitely more knowledgeable than the people who work on the stuff.
I haven’t read the article just yet. But from the comments I gather and am reaffirmed that there is a preoccupation in the Western World with the prevention of death.
These ideas are mistaken.

"Sharpness" is related to the physical size and radius of curvature of the apex of the blade, combined with the angle of the terminal bevel. [1][2][3]

Chipping of any sort almost certainly tends to erode the sharpness for many reasons, not least of which is that a sharp edge is a very low entropy state (compared to a dulled / chipped / etc edge...).

VG-10 steel is considered "entry level" in terms of high end steels. [4] It was first introduced in production knives in the mid-90s, almost thirty years ago! [5] And there has been significant progress in materials since then.

Almost all mid- and high-end knives these days are cut from blanks via an industrial laser or waterjet cutter.

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[1] https://scienceofsharp.com/2014/01/25/quantifying-sharp/

[2] https://scienceofsharp.com/2014/08/18/definitions-of-sharp-a...

[3] https://scienceofsharp.com/2015/03/24/sharp-and-keen-part-2/

[4] https://www.bladehq.com/cat--Best-Knife-Steel-Guide--3368

[5] https://forum.spyderco.com/viewtopic.php?t=87185
One could argue that the lack of false pretence at least makes them (slightly) more honest.
Let's not forget financing the sicilian mafia to keep the farmers at bay.
That isn't what I was talking about.

Regarding ActiveX, ever heard of this thing called WebAssembly?

"USENIX Security '20 - Everything Old is New Again: Binary Security of WebAssembly"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glL__xjviro

"USENIX Security '21 - Swivel: Hardening WebAssembly against Spectre"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLAHmnIkg24
The article says that they only burned waste from logging process. This might be unclear, because the article is written in a (probably purposefully) confusing way, but they very much did not cut and ground up massive old growth timber for pellets.

Setting aside the issue of logging an old growth forest, in any logging operation you’ll always end up with some material that’s not practically usable for various reasons. Using it as fuel sounds to me like rather effective use of resources.
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Yup, absolutely. It's definitely true that it's better to have a more-capable device in your pocket than a less-capable one when a laptop or desktop isn't feasible - I completely agree.

I just wanted to point out that these devices are still significantly less efficient than a laptop or a desktop, because it's non-obvious to some people - including the throw10920 a decade ago, who thought that doing development on a phone when they had access to a desktop was a good idea. I wouldn't want to give other people that same impression, just like I wished I had never gotten it myself.
Ironically enough, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance videogame from 2013 had a villain character who went on a monologue about memes, and a lot of people were confused by the way he used that term. But he described that original Dawkins definition really well.

> We are all pawns, controlled by something greater: Memes. The DNA of the soul. They shape our will. They are the culture — they are everything we pass on. Expose someone to anger long enough, they will learn to hate. They become a carrier. Envy, greed, despair… All memes. All passed along.
When you said "[electric scooters] especially in the north they are nearly the majority of vehicles on the road", it's definitely wrong. They are popular against certain demographic segments (e.g. students), but they're nowhere near the majority of vehicles on the road.
Yep, that. Such feeble excuses. Ach, well, for our part we really tried hard to help them find a way, so at least we're not loaded down with guilt on top of all the sadness.
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> If you want to get 'conservatives' to agree to do something about conservation, you need to appeal to the 'religious' ("Did God give us these gifts so we could destroy them in our own name?")

You can't win that game against their own priests, particularly if you don't even believe the religious arguments you're trying to make. Atheists smugly and self-servingly explaining Christianity to Christians with arguments the atheist doesn't even believe himself is something they're already very familiar and derisive of.

Use arguments you actually believe yourself. People can tell when you aren't.
I have a good high school friend that this happened to. 2nd degree murder because they bought and split a bag together. Ruined his life.
Bringing up Godwin's law as meta commentary is a thought terminating rhetorical tactic. It isn't an argument and it conveys no information.
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This seems to be an issue even for plug-in hybrids, which in my view are a far more intelligent solution than all-electric vehicles. The all-electric portion covers 90% of the trips you take, and the gas portion gives you basically unlimited range, given how common gas-stations are.
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Right - I totally understand that we have a long ways to go. But at the same time, I think there's probably a lot more chargers running around already than most non-EV owners suspect.

Do we have enough EV chargers for everyone today? Of course not. But the deployment does seem to be keeping up with the amount of EVs that exist, and that's good enough for today.
Perhaps pandering (at least excessively pandering) to people being only willing to use anonymous channels isn’t doing them any life-long favors.

I have my own “don’t feel like dealing with this mildly unpleasant task” hang-ups. I’d likely be more successful and happier if I spent more time overcoming them (to include being forced to).
Some of this might be difficult to set up but I don't think that's the reason why people don't use more pretrained models. If you have a working ML environment adding a pretrained model to it is trivial most of the time.
This issue is why I can’t wait for CA’s mandate to push EV ownership higher. The charging challenges are not going to be addressed while it’s a very minority issue. Laws and regs will catch up only when it reaches a critical mass
Lethal dose of fentanyl VS heroin VS carfentanyl: https://www.scripps.edu/news-and-events/press-room/2021/2021...

You need a very precise scale to measure those quantities...
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How does Javalin compare with Dropwizard which is also quite lightweight?
If you buy the CO2 narrative, then cutting trees should be deemed bad, since these trees will not be able anymore to absorb CO2.
Younger audiences may not remember, but yes: major card providers used provide virtual card numbers back in the day.

This is a feature of the past, and most providers don't do it anymore. The only one I know of is Capital One's Eno: https://www.capitalone.com/digital/eno/virtual-card-numbers/
I remember running GTK apps on KDE desktops just fine. Why wouldn't I be able to run GTK apps on their ICE powered desktop?

Re: web - isn't the purpose of WASM to make possible in web environments that which is possible on desktop environments?
I am old enough to remember development when image maps were still common for things like headers and big hero homepage navigation images.

I'd like to add <input type="image" src="…"> which acts like an img tag and submit button that submits the clicked X and Y essentially as two separate inputs

Here's an MDN example showing X and Y position in GET string on click.

- https://mdn.github.io/learning-area/html/forms/image-type-ex...
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A stupid ruling here might/will end free social media as the risk of litigation and liability would be a big burden. This kind of bs should do wonders for the nasdaq 100. And I think the supremes are stupid enough or biased enough to do it.
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"7 Cool HTML Elements Nobody Uses"

=> "7 Cool HTML Elements [the author] Never Uses"
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Why not have every (bio/medical) paper then include the cost of a separate red team to recreate the results? Is there a fundamental issue why this wouldn't solve the reproducibility by handling it internally as part of the process itself?
I'm certainly not putting words in your mouth. You asked why you were being downvoted. I mentioned that there's a conspiracy theory along the lines of what you're saying. In no way did I say, "YOU'RE propagating a conspiracy theory". Just that there is a thing, and that thing is in some way influencing people's opinion on your comment. That does not imply intent.
For most things, especially art, I would think that the expanded access to like-minded people would more than make up for the expanded visibility of people more skilled than you. Before the internet, would your place in the world have been defined around you being the most skilled linocut artist in your small town? That doesn’t seem likely. Surely now you have access to a relatively vast community of people interested in linocut art, nearly all of which are not among the few most skilled artists in the form.
Thanks for having the courage to post your very sane views in an increasingly insane world.
Those buttons are too round, man. Where’s the edge at these days?
That’s not what the linked article says.
> Criticizing someones methods of activism is always kinda a joke to me. If you care, and think you have a better way to win people over - MAKE YOUR CASE - don’t tell others they’re doing it wrong and if they just said the right words you’d get on board and help.

Point to where I said I wasn't on board.

Criticism of ineffective activism is necessary for anyone who continually beats the same message and then has no idea why they keep losing elections and failing to achieve their goals. "Why do they keep voting right-wing?"
Good. I bought Darter Pro recently and had to - business as usual under Linux - compile this and tweak that. Via things like their keyboard configurator[1] I was exposed to Rust's GTK bindings. It wasn't pretty: the mismatch between the obviously object-oriented GTK and Rust which doesn't do (and doesn't want to) OOP was glaring. I understand the appeal of Rust very well, and I'm happy they write their drivers and (parts of) firmware in it, but it's about as fit for OOP-based GUI as Go and Erlang. Which is to say - not very much.

[1] https://github.com/pop-os/keyboard-configurator
The hard limit on BTC requires mining to eventually be funded entirely by transaction fees. It's unclear whether this will work. Is there any successful PoW currency that runs on transaction fees alone now? How sure are we that this model pays enough to miners to keep them outspending a hypothetical attacker?

For PoW to remain secure, mining honestly must always be more profitable than mining dishonestly. In other words, the total amount paid to miners over a given period (say, 2 hours) must be greater than the potential profit from a 51% attack over that same period.

At present, through block rewards and fees miners are getting about $1.5 million every 2 hours. Due the the competitive nature of mining they are probably spending nearly that much in aggregate, on rent, hardware, and electricity. That's a fairly significant amount of spending to match, if you wanted to out-hash them and perform a 51% attack.

However, only 1-2% of that is from fees. Almost all of it is newly minted coins. If the current level of transaction fees was all that was securing Bitcoin, we would be talking about only $30,000 of hashing spend per 2 hours and a 51% attack would look pretty darn feasible.

I've heard it said that users will pay more in fees as the coinbase reward shrinks to zero, but there doesn't seem to be any reason for users to increase their fee payment to support the security of the network. Each user will spend just enough to get their transaction included in a block. As long as there is not much competition for block space, there is no need to pay more for fees, security be damned.

So far in the history of BTC halvings we have seen fees rise very slightly, but not nearly enough to replace the lost block reward. Mining revenue (in $) dropped sharply following the last halving, and what restored it was not users picking up the slack in fees, but the price of BTC increasing, making the 6.25 BTC minted reward worth more. Obviously that same effect doesn't help you when the minted reward goes to zero.

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Another way of thinking about it is that with a minted block reward, HODLers are "taxed" (in the form of dilution) to keep supporting the security of the network. In a 21M coins, no-more-minting, fees-only model HODLers expect to get their security for free, fully supported by those suckers actually transacting in Bitcoin. I'm not convinced it will work out.
>State election law in Illinois and others disagree with you. I already posted Illinois.

That's a good point about Illinois election law. I suppose if I were king for a day I would add an amendment to the US Constitution that specifically prevents this.
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Supabase developer here. Yes we'd love to collaborate on a native WASM version. I tried this first before starting on this project and I didn't get very far. I'll have to go back to my tests on that, but it seemed like WASM wasn't yet capable of compiling Postgres due do some libraries not being supported. Hopefully we can find workarounds or push WASM into a new era of compatibility :)