skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depleting an underground reservoir is a matter of national security. Doing it to sell alfalfa to another country is off the charts a matter of national security.
This is the equivalent of “I am moving to Canada if so and so wins”. In my opinion after all the stages of grief are complete, everyone will still be in the USofA
I have a Hameg HM604/HM605 oscilloscope that has an orange long persistence phosphor.
Show HN: I built a GSheets add-on that connects to your eCommerce store
Hello fellow hackers,

I built an add-on for them spreadsheet lovers who own an eCommerce store and don’t want to have to deal with migrating their entire spreadsheet and method of operation to an expensive multi-channel inventory/e-comm management software.

It works with WooCommerce but I'm actively working on supporting more sales channels.

Short list of features (well, really really short):

- Inventory import/export
- Sales orders import/export

Backlog:

- Product listings
- Variations
- SEO & website metadata management

Demo (no sign up required): https://app.arcade.software/share/zRi6Eahtgc3w8H0TheKy

Link to add-on: https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/mellow/37206619...

BTW: Does anybody know of a good way to integrate Google's AppScript editor with a proper editor/IDE + git? Very few resources/dev-tools...

Will appreciate any kind of feedback :)
Video appears to show killing of captive Russian soldier
Ancient water system uncovered at Roman Stabiae
My flight from the Canary Islands to Portugal was delayed for ~2 hours because of this. Everyone was a bit on edge and it seems extremely irresponsible, dangerous, and wasteful.
FYI: They recommend buying a dedicated saw for aluminum and using a "special saw blade", which I assume they mean a "non-ferrous metal" blade? I've cut extrusion using just my normal woodworking miter saw and blade, cut it slow, and it worked great. The factory cut edge was slightly better, but I had a hard time telling which was which.
IO language is good: https://iolanguage.org
You can ask the same question to 2007 twitter.
baybal's comment is now dead, I'm not sure why. It has some grammar mistakes, but I've seen much worse comments on Hacker News get upvoted. I think baybal was trying to make the point that Ukraine needs a large volunteer force to stay in this war? This sentence:

"This is all shows that you can't fight something like Russia with professional army only if you are a country of only 44m people."

is correct, if the implication is something like "Only with a mass draft can a nation of 44 million fight against a nation 143 million people."

I think we all understand that the situation in Ukraine is very difficult right now.
I didn't read the paper but it talks about "Corvids (jays, jackdaws, crows and ravens)" first but it seems like they did experiments using carrion crows (Corvus corone corone).
I prefer BSD to Linux for a few reasons. Firstly, BSD is not encumbered by GPL. Also, any BSD is a complete operating system while Linux requires distros subject to the whims of their creators, which seem to focus on form over function. Any long term stability is almost accidental, and there is no standard edition of Linux. Lastly and I think most importantly, the centralized BSD ports system is more trustworthy than an untracked number of repositories and sources. Actually, these complaints about Linux aren't about Linux, they're mostly about GNU. Linux is just a kernel, and it's fine, really. GNU is the problem.
A point probably worth making, but article is aware enough to consider it already:

With all of this, Gary Saiter doesn't care if the farm is owned by a company overseas. The way he sees it, it doesn't make much of a difference who owns the farm; he just wishes they were better neighbors.

"I am kind of ambivalent about the Saudis," Saiter said. "You can't control where people sell stuff, and it's going to go somewhere."

"I just don't like the crops they're growing and the water they're pumping," he added.
Hello from Madrid!

I'm here for 9 months, normally live in the bay area. So trying to improve my Spanish from bad to decent.

Also wrote a script to help me work on my slow 6 year old laptop here, and stream the changes to my workstation stashed in a friend's crawlspace in San Francisco, so I can run builds/tests/etc there:
https://github.com/nolanl/rp

Might be useful for other folks in similar situations.
Yes and no, PPA don’t change the underlying economics. In the above model, of batteries added 20c/kWh then Nuclear averages cheaper over a full day. If batteries added 10c/kWh then Solar ends up cheaper over a full day.

The underlying issue is nobody wants a PPA that lasts for the full 40+ year lifespan of a new nuclear reactor and battery prices are still falling. Enough subsides can make anything viable, but western governments have largely lost interest in doing so.
Hmm, if you’re literally throwing it at them, yeah, they don’t like that. You just kinda have to throw it where they can see it, then walk away, and they’ll come running over to scoop them up. Do that for a week or two and they’ll start looking for you. Also, cashews are their favorite (based on watching them pick the cashews out of trail mix and then come back for the other stuff later).

They don’t let me get close to them, but sometimes they do fly up from behind and tap me on the back of the head to get my attention.

Also, unlike the guy up the street, I only throw out a few at a time so they have to sort of follow me to get anything.

My ultimate goal is to be able to point at someone and have the crows attack them like in Bioshock. It’ll be my thing for when society collapses. So far, however, I think our relationship is much more “let’s get some peanuts off this sucker” than “I’ll loyally follow this peanut person into battle”.
Begnal famine: Controlled by the British during WWII with rice imports blocked due to Japanese occupation of Burma, wartime inflationary policies, trade barriers imposed, food forcibly diverted to those important to the war effort, etc. These were not capitalist policies, but rather statist policies.

Ireland: Reading the description of Ireland, it sounded like aristocratic English landlords brutalizing tenants. I could not find a definitive claim about how the land was acquired, but it did not sound like capitalist acquirement of lands, but rather forceful appropriation. A significant factor was the inability of tenants to profit from improvements which could be taken away from them at anytime by the absentee landlords except in Ulster which then prospered more than the rest. It should be noted that the migration of the Irish to a much more capitalist society (US) is what helped minimize the deaths of the famines. This can certainly be a warning about potential dangers of massive land holdings and could arise from capitalist accumulation, but it is not clear that it actually was such a thing. Rather, it seems more akin to imperialist extraction.

Cuba: Not sure what you mean. Do you mean the various periods of famine under communist rule? Are you blaming the US statist policies of trade embargos? I found the following article to be a succinct and seemingly balanced history of Cuban farming in the past few decades: https://www.anywhere.com/cuba/travel-guide/agriculture Despite embargos, the US has supplied a lot of food to Cuba. Cuba got out of some of the worst famine by doing half measures towards privatized farming though they never let the markets really work as they should.

Dust bowl: I can't find any statistics about deaths. There was massive migration to more profitable areas which allowed these people to survive. It isn't pleasant, but it is better than starvation. This is how capitalism works when disaster strikes. It doesn't prevent the problems, but it does mitigate them by allowing people the agency to adjust their lives to maximize their chances for success. Is your blame on capitalism about the bad farming practices employed? I am not sure that any other governing ideology would have had different outcomes. But the farmers learned what needed to be done and have implemented it such that those conditions have not returned for almost a century. It should be noted that the 1930s time period coincided with strong federal government intervention in the economy as they implemented work restrictions, price controls, wage controls, and explicit governmental crop destruction policies. In fairness, they also implemented measures to deal with the underlying problems causing the Dust Bowl.
What scenario are they training for exactly? Highly unlikely Russian/Belarus army would be able to get anywhere near Polish border let alone cross it. And if nuclear war is their concern how is such training going to help? Their concern is understandable given history but very misplaced. And their nationalist politicians benefit greatly from rallying around the flag (much like Russia hmm).
If you are already working remote, why limit yourself to jobs from your local market? There is of course no guarantee, and right now is probably not the best time for it, but you seemingly can afford to spend time searching for something new that does pay well too?
What about plain Debian :) if you’re comfortable with BSD then Debian should be a cakewalk for you.
hm... so by that logic, is Zelensky one of the most "corrupt and conservative" politician out there?
Twitter should switch to an open protocol
Millennials just have to snap them up before investors do.

And will investors have enough money and appetite for risk in a heavily crashed market? My intuition is that they'd be too spooked and would want to preserve capital rather than deploying it.
That's something I noticed. There were a number of people who were on the edge but managing to hold things together, and the lockdown just sent them off the edge into a spiral they couldn't get out of. Some of these impacts won't be full understood for years.
There was a great IMAX documentary on the 50th anniversary of the mission made by searching and scanning all original footage. I highly recommend it!

Amazon Prime Video link https://www.amazon.com/Apollo-11-Todd-Douglas-Miller/dp/B07R...
Do you suspect you get a lot of psychological benefits from these habits, or something more than vitamin D supplements would provide?

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/vitamin-d-myths-debunked
Of course it was. Setting standards involves competing interests, bargaining, power dynamics... Obviously the stronger party will have the upper hand.

It's also funny how the article praises the freight container standard as kind of ideal, while in fact it was the product of "committee work worthy of the Bolsheviks":

"Being an ISO standard, the text is a little dry, but to me it’s a thing of great beauty, because of the collective effort it enabled. Naturally, I expected the process of creating such beauty to be a virtual Platonic Symposium of engineering prowess and disinterested advocacy. Nothing could have been further from the truth."

Read more at https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2021/12/the-romance-of-shipp...
I suspect it is a trade off: problems for alcoholics if you cut off the supply versus more problem drinkers if you maintain supply but people cannot go to work, spend time with others etc.
I miss being able to change application icons. I can't stand these square white icons with 4px padding.
> people are going to skim the article and copy & paste the pseudocode.

Heh. But then again, these kind of people will create way worse problems than last-bit overflows.
Couple weeks ago the guy who implemented autocomplete on iOS went on a bit of a rant.

Doesn't translate directly to macOS but useful reading:
https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/1565341723860971520

And just in case you or somebody isn't familiar, read this classic:
https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html

I suggest to try and keep it simple.
For information, this idea was actually talked about during a h2020 meeting, but discarded (probably because free market stuff)
> I had sympathetic parents with chemistry degrees

In other words, you were able to access the cool stuff because someone in your life knew how to handle it. That is probably the way it should be. Now consider all of the families where the parents do not have chemistry degrees, do not work in industries where they regularly handle hazardous materials, or even have to take general workplace safety seriously. You pretty much have to hope the teenager instilled a sense of respect for safety in themselves.
The problem is not solved by using unsigned ints though, because it stems from integer overflow. I'm afraid your implementations are, alas, also incorrect.
Care to elaborate? Would like to understand this more.
Elon Musk Defies Management Mantras with His Rapid Overhaul at Twitter
Thank you for the heads up!

Could you please contact me directly using the address in my profile?
Same here. I emigrated from the UK to a tropical country. It made a big difference to my personal well-being. I left behind all the routine coughs and colds I’d get. Before, I’d struggle with fitness because I would pick up running in the spring, then drop it this time of year when the clocks change and lose all forward momentum. It’s just a miserable feeling, travelling to work in the cold, wet, dark mornings, then travelling home at the end of the day in the cold, wet, dark evenings for months on end.
But there are many many people at least in the western world who absolutely would be in a position to make the jump. And yet they choose not to.
Of course today, half the population would start thinking this was some vast conspiracy (the astronauts were just sent to a soundstage in arizona) and the other half would be tweeting "I don't care about 3 overprivileged men"
>Is having characters face the direction they're moving really that big of an ask?

For one character, probably not, but if you have 200 dwarfs and a large goblin raid is flooding your gates with about as many units you now have another coupling between the logic and UI that must be tracked bringing your fortress closer to FPS death at earlier stages.
I was trying to cut out "stuff I do on the internet habitually", i.e just scrolling. Twitter is the least missed item on the list. But I seem to slip back onto internet habits time and again.. What has once been won must be won again.
This is simply how Apple does things. They provide software support for ~10 years and then they drop it.

Is it wrong? I’m not entirely sure. You can call that greedy, but take a few things into consideration. Firstly, Apple provides highly specialized software that runs extremely well and efficiently on their own hardware. Continuously providing support for old hardware while simultaneously maintaining the same level of performance is simply not feasible. I challenge any software developer to achieve a similar goal.

We are not talking about Linux here, where if you’re lucky, things work. Anyone’s that ever used macOS even once knows that things really work.

Now, I assume this window of time between a new hardware’s release and the software drop for that given piece of hardware will increase over time, given that new hardware released by Apple nowadays is incredibly performant, this would allow longer software support.

Frankly, my opinion is that 10 years of support is more than enough for anyone to consider renovating their hardware.

Recently, in the last XNU kernel release (corresponding to macOS 13/iOS 16) the 32-bit part of the kernel has been entirely removed, meaning that XNU won’t support any 32-bit device anymore. This is really exciting to me, as I see the technology moving forward, without getting stuck on prehistoric hardware support.
.gov is intended to signify offical US government websites. .eu domains can be registered by anyone.
I agree profoundly with everything except "the concept is superfluous". Yes its just a lack of information, or as I say it "entropy is the name of the bits you don't have." That's a profoundly useful thing. You can talk about the password entropy (the bits in the search space for the password you don't have), the mutual entropy (how many bits does Alice have that Bob is missing) etc.
In https://tigyog.app I'm solving the same problem in a different way. Like Bike, the TigYog editor treats those two cursor locations as district. But TigYog shows which position you're at in a different way: when the cursor is inside a link, the link gets a "focus" outline.
This proves that Earth is a truly leet planet.
My advice: close HN, close your web browser, shut down your computer, and go spend time with your partner, not us.

(and congrats, btw)
I'm currently working on making the most(hopefully) editable and configurable software/browser/tool/app ever.

Yes I'm trying to directly compete with emacs for the title.

I love the idea of lisp, hypercard, SmallTalk, Self Referentiality, Tools for Thought, make-your-own-software.

I was inspired by many different ideas in software. Immediate feedback(Bret Victor-Inventing on Principle), Reactivity, meta-programming etc.

If someone made a plugin, you should ... in principle be able to edit it, so you learn by "thinkering". Editability, learnining via example.

All of this is done with HTML.
To check it: https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook
> It always baffled me that so many governments relied on a private solution

You can't exactly use tax payer money to develop an in-house solution
Eh, you mean in 2023?
This looks great, nice way to teach it.

Love the animations.
An obligate carnivore specialized in hunting large megafauna is disadvantaged when that prey is hunted into scarcity. A similar species with more metabolic flexability was advantaged, relatively, by that change.

That doesn't say much either way about the nutritional pros or cons of carnivory for a modern Homo sapien. My own experience with it is positive, and I'm glad I can buy hunks of megafauna from the cooler at my grocery, unlike those poor neanderthals.

My nutritional flexability has decreased as I've aged. My IBS means I can't handle the fiber I used to, and have been forced into a low residue diet. I eat like a neanderthal now because my compromised digestion handles it better. That makes me wonder if our consumption of vegetation has always been a compromise ... one that helped us outsurvive neanderthals, but still sub optimal.
Thanks, I didn't know about Control-Space on MS Word. Looking in menu's I see "Clear Formatting" menu item, but the shortcut isn't listed. How did you know about this shortcut?
It doesn't matter how many people are on twitter, because all the journalists are already there. They pick the official's tweets and turn it to news.
There should be a pointer type that is not an int and whose size depends on the host platform.

Casts from int to pointer should be explicit.

We are enamoured with programmer convenience at the expense of the safety of our systems. It’s unprofessional and we should all aim to fix it.
That’s not how the stats work. There’s a 71% chance it lands in water this time (and every time). If you flip heads 3 times in a row, it doesn’t mean you’re more likely to flip tails next time.
Both actually. I replace hardware the moment the AppleCare runs out. I also tend to track near or at the latest versions of macOS.

I factor in the cost on a monthly cost basis.
Alcohol sales have also been growing in Russia since the beginning of this year (roughly +8.5% compared to 2021). The reasons for that should be obvious.

They had only been going down before that for the past 20 years. It wasn't so bad as cultural stereotypes would have you believe: I've had lots of friends there (most of whom have moved to other countries by now), and many of them didn't drink at all, the rest doing that in moderation, like what you'd expect to see in countries with a developed wine culture.

Blue collar folk is another story altogether.

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5560109
Get into astrophotography or winter sports
I'm pursuing my passion to climb mountains.

I grew up in Alberta and my favorite childhood memories are of camping trips in the mountains. I always dreamed of climbing peaks. I never had the opportunity financially to pursue that as my family was poor, and once done university I got a job and raised my own family.

Now that my kids are a little older I have the opportunity to chase that dream before I get too old to do so.

I'm obese and almost 40, and this gives me motivation to transform myself. My goal is to lose weight to be able to take a mountaineering course next August.
I was citing the highest profile, very recent incident. The one that got greater attention. I’m sure there have been other times Democrats have made statements that have been fact checked and found false, which is a good thing to do.

Still not sure where you’re getting this idea that there is suddenly an outcry because people across the aisle are just now being fact checked. Do you have any data on how often it was only Republicans vs. Democrats and how that shifted? Do you have any data on whether or not there’s been an uptick in bad information posted by Democrats? I just think you’re missing a lot of critical context here and your inferences are not really earned.
The Other Side Village
tbh I assume, naively, that organisations that post official things would post them via wire service and twitter at the same time.

You are right, it should be illegal, at the extremes it totally breaks down - "I announced it publicly" could legitimately be "I stood at the back door of Downing street and whispered it out loud".
That’s nice. The article and most comments are about mac os. Snarky android comment is misplaced.
Latest update: Candy bracelets no longer made of flesh....

Hmm, ok this is getting my attention.
For most practical purposes, an int64 index can include a universe of negative return codes with no loss of functionality.

The problems here are about using integers that are too narrow and not properly doing arithmetic to prevent overflow from impacting the result.
Have you ever tried to import the AWS SDK into a front end client? It's huge. Last time I tried it, it added multi MB of JS to my SPA, so I could do a relatively "simple" call using it. Yuck.

It did not tree shake cleanly with my build system and I eventually ended up just yanking AWS from the stack entirely.
This should be easy to determine by looking up the phosphors and seeing what colors they admit. Here's a chart:

https://www.phosphor-technology.com/crt-phosphors/

P1 phosphors were green; P3 were amber
Well, I thought it was about depicting eyes on a webpage ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
yep, so does Mathematica
Maybe consider that just because something doesn’t affect you, that doesn’t mean it’s not real.
I change the message and behaviour about alcohol in my family and company.
It can be small changes like, renaming event from "Beer afterwork" to "Gettogether", offering water before any other drink etc. Slowly removing the social pressure and availability.
Full paper is here https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr485152
Just place a few fav seeds where they can see it clearly, soon they will figure it out. Once they start recognizing you (which is very fast, few times tops) they will come. Don’t look or make sudden motions when they are near enough. They don’t like that.

In time some might become more interested in you, depending on mood, and will come closer to you.
> this influencer with 40k followers will find that ~40 of his followers

Mastodon is way more active than what you pretend, at least in France.
Some 40k influencers already have thousands of followers on mastodon.
How does the DOM "look like an eye"? It appears that there are drawings on a page that look like eyes, but does the DOM itself look like an eye?
I'd love to know for sure whether this can interoperate with the existing Lightning ecosystem. The paper makes one reference to this in section 6.2.1, but it's unclear to me how it would work, since the rest of the paper describes it as a wholesale competitor.