skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's good to see a comment that recognises that this "bug splatter on the windshield" data is mostly just an easily observed hook to connect the measured declines to people's everyday life experiences.

The topic seems to come up here ever few months, and there's always a significant percentage of the discussion devoted to aerodynamic effects, or changes in insect distribution specific to roadside habitats. Those converstations often feel like "middlebrow dismissal": people who think the fact they can come up with a plausible alternate explaination for the data given a few seconds thought means it's likely that the studies are totally flawed and can be ignored.

Meanwhile if you dig in to the actual evidence, the studies based on vehicle data show a small negative correlation between vehicle age and number of impacted flying insects (i.e. older cars have slightly fewer splats, not more). More importantly, the general trends of declining biomass of (especially, but not only) flying insects reproduce over a wide range of methodologies and habitats. For skeptical readers, there are some links to studies in a previous comment I made on a previous thread on this same general topic [1].

Having said that, I think you've missed one of the big factors that's likely to contribute to the decline: the widespread use of insecticides (especially) and herbicides in industrial agriculture. Studies on bees show that even insects exposed to something much lower than the LD50 of certain insecticides experience behavioural changes that dramatically decrease their survival rates. And because "pest" insects typicaly have short lifecycles and rapid reproduction rates, they're often best placed to evolve tolerances for the insecticides, so there's pressure on farmers to use more and more to get the same effect.

For anyone who's interested in an introduction to this topic aimed at the general public (like me!), but written by a Professor of Entomology, I can recommend Slient Earth [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31278206
[2] https://bookshop.org/p/books/silent-earth-averting-the-insec...
> Using a general-purpose static site generator for Python docs feels just wrong

There's a spectrum on this; a lot of stuff in the async ecosystem uses mkdocs (FastAPI, etc.) for example. I'd also argue that Markdown is known by waaaaay more SWEs than Sphinx--I wrote a ton of Sphinx years ago and couldn't even tell you where to start today, but I'm fluent in Markdown because I use it everywhere. That says a lot.

Looking through the Textualize docs [0], they seem pretty good to me? It reminds me of most of the web UI toolkits I've used: components on the left, specific functions of the component you're viewing on the right. I think the advantages to Sphinx you're pointing out aren't super relevant to Textualize.

My day job's in Python, and I spend a lot of time reading through various Sphinx documentation. Sure it's possible to make a great Sphinx site, but most people just add bare minimum docstrings and leave you to figure out the rest. Like you say, people generate docs, and I don't think Sphinx has extra magic that "makes you" generate better ones.

On the contrary, I think something that does help you generate better ones is liking your doc tool. If you're not into Sphinx, you're not gonna be enthused about writing excellent docs in it. If you're into mkdocs, you'll be more motivated to do so. The best exercise is the exercise you'll do, etc. etc.

[0]: https://textual.textualize.io/reference/app/
With SJ gone Apple returned to the organization without taste driven by The Economist orthodoxy.
> Also, sharing resources between connections is (at best) very difficult using CGI, and its trivially easy using a stand-alone app server. You can just set up a global variable at process startup and you're done

You can pass environment variables to CGI scripts as well. In fact, that's exactly how CGI works. Shared resources can be cached in memory through redis, although a shared file (for example sqlite) is enough in many cases.

> I don't need Apache + fastCGI + php + php fastCGI + apache configuration to get started

I'm talking about CGI, not fastCGI
What is the point of this website? I see it often but doesn't Twitter and Nitter etc automatically provide this functionality? Genuine question.
> If you're still using the plastic, then it's not currently degrading in the ocean.

I'm curious why the ocean appears to be the terminal destination for plastics. After I throw it in the rubbish bin, which mechanism transports it to the pacific?
trust in public things. or as it says here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_trust_and_low_trust_socie...

"the ability of various peoples to organize effectively for commercial purposes without relying on blood ties or government intervention"
> Question: why does the market fail so miserably in this respect?

The most common type of market failure is monopoly/oligopoly: you can choose Microsoft or Apple. They have a suffocating grip on OEMs, making it very difficult to develop alternatives.

The real question is: Why is human society tolerating oligopolies on software, CPUs and hardware in general?
Symbian and reliability was never a thing. I worked at Nokia at the time, the various Nokia phones I had rebooted more than windows 95 back in the day. Also, they were slow and the UI was pretty bad.

As for battery life, my Pixel 6 is fine. Easily lasts two days on a battery. I had a cheap Nokia Android phone before that; also fine. Stable, just worked. Fine battery life.

Symbian was pretty much obsolete before it launched. Nokia (and the other Symbian consortium members) bet against the clear trend towards mobile Linux in the late nineties. And they lost. Of the Symbian consortium, most of the companies no longer produce phones or have disappeared entirely. That's how badly Symbian lost.
Ok, I will change my previous phrase then

"Yes, if the dog is treated against roundworms and other inner parasites. Not a good idea otherwise"
All capable engineers have their decisions filtered through management before merging to production is authorised.
The one in the article is based directly on the die scans, while the MiSTer one is a completely custom implementation.
Most of the preinstalled apps (Home, Maps, Siri, Stocks, ...) cannot be uninstalled by dragging them from the Applications folder to the Trashcan. I don't have any use for any for those apps, so I would really like to get rid of them instead of cluttering up my Applications folder.

For some others it works (for instance Numbers and GarageBand). The randomness (why can some preinstalled apps be uninstalled, but other not) is pretty close to a dark pattern.
i hope you understand the inherent irony of your second suggestion, but if you missed it: I Don’t Care About Cookies just got bought by one of these companies known for similar types of abusive UX (surveillance-ware).
I'd hardly call notifying the op who may not even be aware "making a big deal"...
Steve Jobs decision to not license the OS to OEM’s is so fu*ing awesome.

Reading stories makes you think how right that decision is.
> In my experience, it's far better than Reddit (mostly because there's far more niche content, and it isn't limited to "recently posted")

I find that very hard to believe (despite how god awful Reddit has gotten by now). Reddit is pretty much the last place on the internet where real people post long-form content that is not a single-issue niche forum. I can't imagine that the mode of TikTok with its short videos, algorithm-driven discovery and lack of community (commenting) encourages quality.
Yep. But usefulness is besides the point. The question was whether GDP can rise without changing the ecological footprint.
Is this that common? xD
The reality of the matter is this: almost all demands are flexible depending on the market. Today's 'red flag' is tomorrow's 'not the worst'.

Almost none of the red flags have an academic or scientific basis. Almost all of it is rationality with a thousand caveats.
Dude, what?

Parks are there so you can have a breather. There's no propaganda written on the trees, in the grass or in the sky.

You know, happy healthy people are good for the economy. That's all.
Strong "I am very smart" contrarian energy here.

See also this tale:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2376002/
Lucky everything is relaxed in the Asia-Pacific is relaxed and there is no risk of conflict rising up there for any reason! Otherwise I'd be scared.

Except for the China-Taiwan thing and the concerning risk of an unstable China after their COVID policies. We're very close to a really ugly situation.

Russia is isolated in the Ukraine conflict, but not in opposing the US military.
> Bullying doesn't magically disappear in adulthood and not being prepared for it may make it significantly worse.

What are you talking about? Were you ever actually bullied?

The only place where violence is tolerated is school. Post high school, if anyone physically bullied me, I’d just call the police, the person could end in jail or at least their career would be gone.

In school, you’re left to your own devices. Police don’t care, teachers can’t do anything because schooling is compulsory.

> people are receptive to it and don't defend themselves

Another delusional take. Why did she let him rape her, she should have just defended herself! Well, because I’m smaller, weaker, and there’s less of me (1 vs group of bullies). Taking it and hoping they leave is best option, not hitting back and provoking even more violence.

I think it’s best if you don’t contribute to this discussion any more to avoid embarrassing yourself further.
It’s also sad to see what people are doing to their gardens over here. Fake grass, no plants/just bricks. Not to mention the municipalities mowing nice patches of grass/plants/flowers where insects thrive.
hidden file extensions by default are to "save" users from renaming files and borking the extension. Later windows UX improved the renaming to help avoid selecting the extension.

file extensions are the mistake here really not them being hidden.
Microsoft accounts are the biggest clusterfuck they've produced in recent history. I hate them with a passion, and they keep pushing them no matter how much you keep rejecting them. You need to jump through lots of hoops to simply get a local account in Win 10, and then they keep harassing you about upgrading.

When my son was ready for his own laptop, I originally set it up with a Microsoft Family account. That was a terrible mistake. Microsoft Family causes only pain and misery and completely fails at what it's supposed to do.

Microsoft bought Minecraft and recently forced everybody to migrate from perfectly functional Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts, which makes everything more complicated. My son's Minecraft account ended up on my wife's Microsoft account, and suddenly I'm called UnshavenFiber (though not entirely incorrectly, I've got to admit).
Right but his point was that they aren't explicitly opt-in. There's no `unsafe` keyword you have to use in Python before you are allowed to do unsafe things. It's just based on documentation essentially.

Therefore there's not really any issue with having a Python API that you have to be a bit careful with to use safely - as long as it is documented and relatively obvious, it's no different to ctypes.
> My point was that 3d printing lightweight plastic structural parts where they are needed, will be to space based solar power, what mixing concrete on a construction site is when compared to having everything transported to the site via cement mixers. Sometimes it makes sense for the project to mix on site, other times it won’t.

I argue that any kind of large scale structure fabrication is fundamentally different than the preparation of raw inputs, like your concrete example. A large orbital 3D printer is a complex industrial machinery that needs servicing, constant supervision and human involvement, it's more akin to the Hubble telescope than to an concrete mixer. The costs to operate it in space are orders of magnitude higher than on the ground even in the most optimistic orbit cost reduction scenario, short of space elevators and the like.

Until we have self replicating and selfrepairing orbital robots, any space project will need to contend with the fact that human labor in a spacesuit in orbit is inconceivably more expensive than a guy riding his bike to the factory in sweatpants, breathing the free air our planet seems to have aplenty and drinking the water that falls from the sky from time to time. And this is, I repeat, a fundamental stumbling block no matter how far launch vehicles advance, space will always be insanely hard compared to surface.

So you better have a damn good economic case for printing structures in orbit which are 1000x more expensive than the same structures built on earth. The savings from the support structure and the lack of foldable mechanisms necessary to deploy into orbit could be significant, but definitely less than a single order of magnitude.
Ah, okay. Perhaps it's more that the venues (part-)own the labels than that they own the ticketing systems?

I guess this is the same problem that any location/property-based situation has: incumbents have a huge advantage.
> The explosions benefit Russia because it gives them cover for a permanent stop to supplying Germany with gas,

Russia is still supplying gas to Europe (and indirectly to Germany) through Ukrainian pipelines that operate normally. Despite all the carnage of war neither side attacked the pipelines. War is war and business is business.
The shitty thing is, she'd probably be better served by denying cookie preferences... but despite whatever regulations say, companies find impressively difficult ways to keep the user from answering "no, please don't spy on me".
The digital divide is a major problem today, and manifests all over the place, whether it’s spyware like this laptop, issues with phones or just interacting with service providers.

I recently tried helping my aunt switch internet providers to one 50% cheaper, I called, set everything up, it was all finalized they just needed to come switch the connection over.
After I left, she made a call to the company to switch the appointment and ended up getting the contract cancelled, then stuck in limbo and a month later I still haven’t been able to get it fixed.
It’s impressive how if someone doesn’t know the right phrases and things to say, you end up in digital purgatory where no one can help you.
Has there been an increase in urbanist views? In the US, big cities saw huge population losses in the last couple of years: https://www.brookings.edu/research/big-cities-saw-historic-p...

And the cities that kept growing are places that are not urbanist at all: Phoenix, Fort Worth, etc.
> Define trustworthy.

Come on, I'm not a student debating in the common room, this is just silly.
Too often the people at the top don't define the culture explicitly. Instead, they do it accidentally through behaviors they incentivize, often without even realizing it. Sometimes they do this in direct conflict with the culture they are trying to explicitly champion (e.g., saying "we believe in transparency" while subtly punishing people for being open, maybe for well-intentioned reasons). And once a given company culture takes hold, it can be very hard to change because people who thrive in that culture tend to stay longer and get promoted more. Those people end up being a kind of "momentum" for the proliferation of said culture.

In my experience, it takes people in positions of power, and with real skills for cultivating culture, to deeply change an existing work culture for the better. I've seen a few leaders with such skills make wonderful changes at their scale of influence. But I've seen far more people in leadership positions who act as if they are largely unaware of the nuance and importance of good company culture.

Such changes are also hard because meaningful cultural improvements often conflict with short term revenue/profit. It takes a lot of discipline in senior leadership to maintain the needed resolve given ever-present pressures to produce in the short term.
It is because most people don't actually care about those issues (discolored clothing, crap food ingredients etc.) to any measurable degree. They might in theory, but in practice they exert zero effort to educate themselves on these issues and learn how to discern better products from worse ones. And if the consumer doesn't care, why should companies care?
What I do, with the caveat that while I am doing this I've had mediocre results from it so far, is find where the people you'd like to meet tend to hang out, go there, and start building positive relationships. You can politely express romantic interest, so long you respect the other person's space/right to not be interested you're generally doing a positive thing, I think.

To illustrate that last point, I am hetero male. I've had gay guys tell me they thought I was cute, I told them politely I wasn't interested, but appreciated the compliment. I believe this generalizes.

As an example of the first point, I tend to like fit girls, so I go train Olympic weightlifting and do acroyoga. I also like artsy girls, so I go party at places where they tend to congregate (certain 'alternative/queer' or 'techno/EDM' nightlife venues, generally).

Also, I've gotten laid off random outfit compliments - e.g. "I like your blouse" when the girl was wearing a nice blouse and I walked by her on the street.
It's a red flag to assume that I'm going to want a raise, regularly? I don't know that it's my undervaluing of the work that's the problem ... I'm fairly certain that the company undervaluing my work is the problem that makes me leave.
Can they shut it down, though? Reverse engineering and emulation are all perectly legal despite Nintendo's claims to the contrary. The inner workings of their consoles are not protected.
You may want to try Ink: https://github.com/vadimdemedes/ink
>> One example of this is adding a real database migration instead copying SQL queries from the company chat. Simple stuff really, but does make a meaningful difference

bytebase.com could be what you are looking for.

Disclaimer: I am one of the authors.
I do miss the "show up and mess about" part of my childhood lives.

However, did that disappear because of the technology, or because I became an adult?
Yes but they get points for trying. At least they see what rampant price inflation has done to other cities and aren't cheering it on as a neo-con victory.

Contrast (any city in) Australia which is stuck in a nightmare loop of homelessness and political pressure to keep the house prices high (from homeowners) and affordable (from everyone else).

Or London, where house prices are now so high it is mostly owned by absent foreigners.
any image compression/resizing logic [in twitter.com] [in 2018]
True, but on any other platform you'd just sideload it. State sanctions do not apply to people doing things in private, for the most part.
Apple has had choice to allow side-loading. And some rumors that they're working on it is the only thing that keeps me interested in this platform, honestly. That's not the problem with Android, for example. Google can remove all they want from their Play Store, installing APK is easy.

PS it's funny that Europe pushing for side-loading could potentially help with by-passing sanctions.
Iran and India are trying to see what they can get out of Russia. China is ready to pounce at the smallest sign of weakness. Belarus needs Russia but doesn't want to get dragged into their war.

Russia has no allies on the world, only common enemy relations.
WFH is just a glimpse of what's to come.

The real world is inconvenient and costly. We'll disregard it and just interact with each other via technology.
Creating bridges that allow Apt to become the overarching package manager for all sorts of language-specific packages would be extremely interesting.
Yeah, it is like a mass psychosis.
The Golden Tooth (1686)
Dedicated to the many comments on HN where people argue with a lot of logical argument instead of getting the facts first...
> The only way they’re going to stop is if they hit rock bottom. If you’re enabling their behavior that’s never going to happen. And yeah, it’d be rough for them and some will die, but that will cause some others to never go down that road.

Now this is some proper fucked up high horse shitty cruelty. Its appalling to read it here to keep things polite. It seems you have no clue whatsoever about addictions, how to treat them, what works and what is just some arrogant entitled wishful thinking. I realize similar extreme people are rather outliers, but not so much as we would wish for, hence the topic discussed.

One of those moments when its so darn easy to say 'we have it figured out in Europe in much better and humane way than across the pond'.

I could write an essay about how we have methadone, heroin etc. no-question-asked dispensaries in the middle of one of the richest cities globally, shelters for the poor and actually treat mental illnesses appropriately, but I don't think your type cares about that. Needless to say, we don't have these issues at all while having similar folks as part of society.
My worry when I read your first paragraph is that you haven't stayed anywhere for long enough to see the consequences of your actions. Especially for senior positions: there's a reason why "seagull management" is a cliche.

It's a real problem, though -- as you say, there's no money or glory in building something for the long term.
If you hate being an employee, is applying for a full-time job really the best move?

> and frankly I can't understand people whose goal in life is that

Not sure I'd call it a goal in life since most people in tech are in-demand enough to take it for granted, but providing the job has good work-life balance and isn't too stressful it's the best way to work to live. Also, not everyone has the luxury of not needing stable employment
the only thing you can say in reply to that is 'ok boomer'
I used to think the iPad was going to be the best way forward for my (non-technologically-inclined) father, now in his 90s. But in the end, the combination of the touch UI and his arthritic fingers just didn't work out. We ended up going back to a Chromebook, with slightly better success.
I think this is sad, though - work should not be the primary source of socialisation. The fact that it is (or used to be) is sad, and we should be glad that this is changing.
The market isn't failing, it's just that the subset of users that care about such things but aren't just switching to linux dwarfs the number of people who don't care about this at all. There is no incentive for companies to cater to the wishes of this minority.
How does btrfs do it? Afaik it doesn't use content-addressing either but it does have defrag, on-demand dedup, rebalance and all the other things that need BPR.
Heartbleed was in openssl, and Log4J in java.
What does it have to do with openssh ?
Apple had a choice to NOT have a restrictive policy on not allowing app sideloading. It wouldn't be an issue for users if they could just download the app themselves.

This way Apple could comply with sanctions, removing the app from the AppStore, and not causing their users any real harm.

This would also allow users in China to use messaging apps like Signal.
Because you didn’t pay money to receive the email spam. I suppose the main detail is that many people will just eat the loss on a scam book and devalue their trust in Amazon rather than bothering to refund and return it.