skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think the moral of the story is America has some very serious third-world problems. The reason things like this go on in America and not in any other developed country is that Americans just accept it. "They didn't pay, so they die." Here is how much they accept it, firefighters literally stood and watched a building burn down instead of playing with their toys. Not only that, the fire department refused to accept money to put it out.

It's not just a question of money, but legal arrangements. Going into a fire isn't a game--it puts the firefighters and their equipment at risk. What does the firefighters' insurance contract look like? If one of the firefighters gets hurt, is their insurance going to cover it when the fire was outside the jurisdiction of that fire department? Insofar as this illustrates a "problem" it's not a "third-world" one, but a distinctly American one. Americans are the most legalistic people in the world, and reflexively accept the consequences of the legal state of affairs. In many other contexts, that's a strength, not a weakness.

> This whole "unincorporated land" execuse is a sad state of affairs. The whole "You're not with us, so it's not our problem" mindset is really why America is so low down on every single ranking in the world, except for military might.

Even Americans aren't so tribal as to hold grudges between towns and adjacent unincorporated land. The significance of the house being on unincorporated land is that it demarcates the legal boundaries of the fire department's jurisdiction. A public body acting outside its jurisdiction can have all sorts of consequences.
Why even give these guys any legitimacy by regulating them? As some experts opined, just let them burn. Regulating them will end up bringing risk to actual financial markets.
Because with the information I was given above:

- every household gets trash collection service, no matter what

- every household must pay a flat fee for trash collection service, no matter what

Why charge it as a separate fee?
> Seeing your loved ones is great. Exhausting the total combination of <1hr long conversations with them over an infinite amount of time, not so much. What do you even do after that?

Well assuming everyone is conscious in the next life and can interact with each other, then that would lead one to assume next life has technology at least as good as ours, if not better since it collectively contains the sum knowledge of every human who has ever lived. Unless we are just disembodied consciousnesses that can't interact with matter anymore. In any case though, the mere existence of an afterlife in which you can visit with deceased loved ones is a strong sign there is a benevolent God over all and I'm sure said God would help solve the boredom problem. So I'm not terribly worried either way. Cease to exist = can't worry about it. Continue to be conscious = won't worry about it.
> The reason things like this go on in America and not in any other developed country is that Americans just accept it. "They didn't pay, so they die."

The reason you think this may be because your preconceptions stopped you reading what was written. This is not what happened, and not what happens.
It has been a long time since I read it, but it is truly a mindbending story. The intricate details and relationships are extraordinary, and I am amazed Dumas was able to come up with all of it. I remember the pacing being also quite good.
Typescript + React + Next.js. TailwindCSS. Go. Rust.
I had not heard that. Reports I saw at the time said he "forgot".

At any rate, in response to the story, the county changed it so paying when your house was already ablaze was a punitive but not impossible option. I believe it was $3,500 when they instituted it.

Which, frankly, seems like the proper way to handle the moral hazard.
Thanks! I should seek out more analysis... Master & Margarita is my favourite book, but I don't think it'd crack Top 10 if it weren't for the end notes.
COP15: Nations reach 'historic' deal to protect nature
You can also maybe extend that further to the people behind the decisions to make something private or public. If you're looking to commit crimes, you're probably going to have an easier time in the private sector.
Uh, that show is horrific pseudoscience nonsense; you know that, right?
Does anyone know if the "Luddite Manifesto" referenced written by Logan Lane is available online, and if so where?
"meh" as the only feedback I find extremely condescending. Someone has done (a lot of) work, written a tool that is considered useful enough, and kindly made it available to everyone with a free license. I feel only gratitude for this action, and if anything I would post constructive feedback. Not a coldhearted "meh".
Yeah, that's another point that I think probably goes in Mastodon's favour. Most of the people who could be loosely classed as celebrities that I follow either are posting to both, or have flat-out moved. But they generally are niche "celebrities", not people with millions of followers.
And cook rice grown in arsenic-laden soil in a coffee maker or find rice grown somewhere else with "cleaner" soil.
I really enjoyed this Dan Luu article https://danluu.com/nothing-works/

It's something I had been thinking about for a while but didn't have the knowledge required to put it into words. I end up linking it a bit.
John Green's "The Anthropocene Reviewed" was surprisingly a great joy to read. It was a light in the dark for me. He makes me feel thankful and appreciative of being a part of the human race without coming off as cheesy or contrived. And it's funny, too.
Is it possible to determine if one is gluten sensitive if 80% of the grains are contaminated with fungal toxins?
You could carefully choose an egg donor and a sperm donor who don't exhibit your bad traits. And then pay for someone else to raise the child. Dodge nature and nurture
I applaud you for this.

I think MathML (which has gotten much better in browsers, thanks to Igalia[1]) is a much better bet we have to make this possible than LaTex compiling to PDF.

[1] https://mathml.igalia.com/
There’s also a point where a structure is a total loss even if the “damage doesn’t look so bad from out here” at which point letting it burn as long as other buildings aren’t in danger may be the safest thing to do.
OP is not in USA though.
Every instance has its own moderation policies, and the user has the option of moving to another instance (and keep being able to interact with the fediverse at large) if they clash with the mods or don't think they're doing enough. Instance maintainers are named and contactable if you have issues with them or other users. If you don't trust them with your account, move to an instance that you can.

What can you do if you have issues with the moderation team at Twitter? Honest question-- I've been off Twitter for over a decade and hear about everything there second-hand.

This sword cuts both ways for the fediverse (allowing bad actors to just move to another instance, for example) but on the whole I find it allows for a more people-centric approach to online community.
This is me, this is me. Ahah. But, I'm not sure I'm looking for a wife though. it is draining having a partner/relationship for me. After a while, I just go silent and kinda avoid communication. I'm in my 30s, sometime I'm scared to be old and alone. I can't make my mind up. The fact is that I mostly like doing my hobbies alone. This makes difficult for me to have companionship. Even eating, I prefer to do it alone.

May I ask your age bracket?
If one needs hotter air cooking, I suggest looking a coffee roaster.
> sad commentary on the state of our industry

Honestly, I find myself structuring my own code to be dummy-proof and paint-by-numbers, even when I am the only user of it (:

I don't see it as a bad thing, necessarily; sometimes you want to "bake in" structure and conventions in various places so you can use your creative energy elsewhere.

Though I do take your point that this is not necessarily (or at all) communicated to junior devs, who are sometimes plopped into a little artificial coding cage and discouraged from reaching outside of it.

Depends on your perspective and intentions, I suppose.
Economic decisions should be viewed in terms of the incentives they create and not their stated intentions. Any economic system is one of rationing resources and this involves making tradeoffs. The apparent intent of one approach for doing this over another doesn't necessarily correlate with its results. E.g. "minimum wage" laws intending to protect workers from exploitation actually create unemployment instead (which is a zero wage, and that's less than the "minimum" wage). The "solution" is presented as being about low wages vs. high wages, so it sounds good and compassionate. But the reality is that it's about low wages vs. zero wages, and low is better than zero.

There's a film by the late economist Walter Williams called Good Intentions that is all about that kind of stuff.
In Europe, wire transfers work exceptionally well since the introduction of SEPA Instant Credit Transfer.

You have the choice between a free, transparent, technically stable, instant payment system (< 10 seconds until 100'000 EUR), using a stable currency.

or

an unregulated system where unknown people create and control the currency, that is generally slow, often with high payment or exchange fees and where you need to trust a lot of unknown parties (software, tools, network, coins, etc), where you can lose your key, that is falsely transparent (you see transactions, but you don't know who control the network).

Mhhh...
Hydrogel interfaces for merging humans and machines
Children of the Arbat(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_of_the_Arbat)

Pretty scary book about Russia circa 1930-1940
Flow analysis is such an essential skill that I'm surprised more people aren't on that tip. It's just so useful
https://archive.ph/8Adax
My father grew up (1930s and 40s) with a batch of soup always on the back of the stove. He moved away to university and then married my mum, a physician, who found the idea of that horrifyingly unhygienic.

He told me about this at some point when I was a kid, and observed that he was basically never sick after he grew up and moved out.
Thank you! Besides the CLI and browser UI, we also support a range of integrations (we're still working on this but you can already see some of them in the Integrations section of our ReadMe: https://github.com/Infisical/infisical; or here in docs: https://infisical.com/docs/integrations/overview). With that, you can auto-inject your secrets into those 3-rd party services. You can also inject your secrets into Kubernetes etc (https://infisical.com/docs/integrations/platforms/kubernetes). For larger teams, the web UI is also very useful since they can control which user is accessing what secrets, check the version history, and more!

Vault's pricing is outrageous indeed! This is something that we tried to do differently with Infisical by providing a very generous free plan, so that community and small developer teams can use the service for free.

The point about downtime is fair! Though, being open-source is also a big advantage here. You can self-host Infisical in the same place where you self-host your main app. This (slightly) minimises the risk of downtime with respect to your main project.
Exactly. It's extremely intrusive to have some random fool listening in on my own household, when I may be unaware. People have no idea how technology works, even smart people.

Default mic/camera etc. off - they can provided a nice little popup and have us turn it on.

Because companies will always push boundaries and cross the line, we need legislation unfortunately and can only hope the legislators don't fuck it up.
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As I recall, the whole "call the penalty a tax" thing was Roberts' tortured justification for allowing it in the 5-4 vote. Nobody ever really believed it was a tax.
Ask HN: Any good tutorials for Google Docs / Sheets plugins?
I want to try experiment and build a plugin for google docs etc but not sure where to start. Any good tutorial?
This crypto and asset bubble was of their own making!

Quantitative easing directly lead to inflated asset prices and inflation.

Then VCs jumped on the bandwagon and pushed FTX to unsustainable heights.

Now people all over the world are suddenly supposed to sit in cash while everything is crashing with high inflation to boot?
Since vom and emacs were already proposed, there is a third classic in this round: Shell programming. Typically you have $EDITOR env set (to something like nano, vim, emacs, gedit, kwrite, etc) and then can include it in your script as in

echo stuff >> worklog
$EDITOR worklog && mailto someone

etc
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? You've been doing it quite a bit, unfortunately. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
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Much of the Midwest is sparsely populated but not unpopulated - you’re never more than a half mile from a house but never much closer than that. It can cause weird servicing issues.
I love this goal, best of luck with it. I would like to build (or buy) a robot to protect my chickens from air and ground predators during the day so they can happily free range all day.
Progress in the Fight Against Inflation
Developer experience is becoming a C-suite objective. So, where is DX heading? How will the developer workflow change in the near future?
Abstract:

The last few decades have witnessed unprecedented convergence between humans and machines that closely operate around the human body. Despite these advances, traditional machines made of hard, dry and abiotic materials are substantially dissimilar to soft, wet and living biological tissues. This dissimilarity results in severe limitations for long-term, reliable and highly efficient interfacing between humans and machines. To bridge this gap, hydrogels have emerged as an ideal material candidate for interfacing between humans and machines owing to their mechanical and chemical similarities to biological tissues and the versatility and flexibility in designing their properties. In this Review, we provide a comprehensive summary of functional modes, design principles, and current and future applications for hydrogel interfaces towards merging humans and machines.

Overview:

The main challenges of human–machine interfaces stem from materials. Existing machines largely employ conventional materials, such as metals, silicon, glass, ceramics and plastics, to communicate and interact with human bodies. However, the hard, dry and abiotic nature of these conventional materials is intrinsically contradictory with the soft, wet and living nature of biological tissues. In recent decades, intensive efforts have been devoted to transforming these conventional materials into flexible and stretchable structures to conformally interface with soft and curvilinear biological tissues. However, these structural designs do not alter the materials’ intrinsic properties, which may still hamper their communication and interactions with biological tissues. For example, the integration of conventional materials with tissues usually relies on physical attachment or surgical suturing, methods that face challenges such as non-conformal contact, unstable adhesion, tissue damage and/or scar formation. As another example, the properties of metallic electrodes, such as their high rigidity, low interfacial capacitance and low charge injection capacity, make them far from ideal for the electrical recording and stimulation of soft neural tissues. In addition, biological tissues often recognize these materials, even when in flexible and stretchable structures, as foreign bodies due to their inherently disparate properties, resulting in an adverse foreign-body response, biofouling, and fibrotic encapsulation or fibrosis. Such foreign-body response and subsequent fibrotic isolation from the surrounding tissues can severely compromise the long-term reliability and efficacy of the communication and interactions between humans and machines.

Because of their unique similarities to biological tissues and the versatility and flexibility in tailoring their properties, hydrogels have naturally emerged as a promising material candidate to act as an alternative or adjunct to conventional materials for bridging humans and machines.
The Once and Future King, by T.H. White.

The Sword in the Stone is probably my favorite Disney movie so I was delighted to discover the movie was based on a book which was even better.
The best works of fiction I read:

- Count Belisarius by Robert Graves

- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

- The Expanse (all of them)

- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

And the best books on software development were:

- Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach by Mark Richards and Neal Ford

- Multithreaded JavaScript by Thomas Hunter II and Bryan English

- The Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans
I wonder how many people think that they have various intolerances or sensitivities to different foods which are in fact caused by improperly cleaned, stored, or prepared foods like this which are actually responses to the contaminants.
I agree with you (although I don't own Meta stock). There isn't an imminent threat of Facebook collapsing, but if you look at things mid to long term the situation for Facebook isn't that rosy. There is serious competition from newer social media platforms like TikTok. And more importantly, Facebook's revenue is 100% dependent on advertising and their ability to do effective ad targeting is basically dependent on the policies that Google and Apple implement in Android/iOS and Chrome/Safari. Even if you think that Google for example isn't going to seriously change how tracking works in Chrome/Android (since they are also highly dependent on ad revenue), increasing regulation, especially in the EU but also possibly in the USA in the future, could force things to change.

The situation is especially bad for Meta here compared to Google because even though most Google revenue comes from ads, Google still has a bunch of other product verticals like Google Workspace (G Suite), GCP, Android, Chromebooks, GPay, and numerous other products (including moonshot bets like Waymo). And Google doesn't need to rely on ad retargeting nearly as much, they can serve personalized ads just based off the text in search queries and gmail.

In the long term it is very important that Meta diversifies and finds new scalable sources of revenue. Even if you don't think VR has a high probability of success, it's one of their best shots at finding something that has the potential (if everything goes well) to eventually generate serious revenue and diversify their business. It's easy to throw stones but what else do people want from Meta? It's extremely dangerous for them to do nothing. Since they're printing money today they can afford to make these huge bets on their future, and without huge future bets their future looks pretty bleak.
In the worst cases they don't have enough mind left to care. (The worst kind of places they drug them that much, otherwise the residents may or may not have enough mind to care). Above that though there is a large range. Many elderly realize they are running out of ability to care for themselves and move to some form of assisted living where help is on staff, and there are lots of people to talk to - these are generally nice places to live as they need to attract people. However as the body declines those places don't have the ability to care for you and you have to move on, and most are not willing to admit they need that level of care (and such places often are not as nice: you are forced into them instead of invited in)
Precisely. As long as Musk owns it I don't see Twitter as salvageable, and even afterwards, you have to wonder who he gave access to the data. Twitter is now a time bomb for any future owner.
"See a Therapist" being the first, top-voted comment is to me a sign of a sick society, where loneliness reigns. In a world where in middle-age your closest friends are married with kids, and most people prefer to be 'remote-first' in friendships (you chat online with even friends you know), the answer "see a therapist" is for most people instead just a proxy for the gap: the gap of close friends and family to be able to bounce ideas and feelings off of.

What should see a therapist is society itself, with top answers like that. Therapy should be reserved for the eccentric pathologies, not for routine middle-age crises and life situations.
All of that is true (still have my n-th generation Lions photocopy someplace), but Modula-2 was early '80s (1982?). By that timeframe you had lots of folks shipping commercial Version 7 or System III variants (e.g. Unisoft, ISC, Microsoft (Xenix), Venix, Amdahl, Sun), with System V based systems just around the corner. These generally were, as the OP said, "proprietary and very expensive".

I recall we still got a sweetheart deal on university licensing from AT&T (usually obtained only because it was required to get a 4BSD distribution tape from UCB...we won't discuss the 3B20s), but commercial shops were charged real cash. Or did I miss your point?
That's funny, I just added Disco Elysium to my Steam wish list yesterday.
(disclaimer: I used to work on these EA* libraries)

The intention of EAStdC wasn't really to replace the platform libc but to augment it with portable implementations that had consistent behavior across the different platforms, as well as have some opt-in performance improvements (like a memcpy that used VMX), while also not polluting the global (C) namespace.
There are no sources to be found because no one even knows what country Binance operates out of. They're deliberately as opaque as possible
The Inner Game of Tennis
City; counties only have states above them so there isn’t “out of county land” usually.
Twitter isn't the state, period. Any analogy is broken beyond being useful.
Interesting, because I wish Amazon actually had better curation (aka less selection). There’s a lot of crap on there right now.
The asset bubble that’s quietly popping
I cashed out of binance and the funds were wired into my account within 48hrs, thank god!
Crypto Storage Protocol Tokens Slide as Traders Short FileCoin and Storj
From the article:

"The brothers, originally from California, moved to Austin five years ago, after starting InKind. It had planned to increase its 50 Austin employees to 180 by the end of next year, but Johann Moonesinghe now says he is reluctant to have people move to Austin to work for InKind because of his safety concerns."
That's not reading between the lines, that's just inventing a new article.
A much better lay-accessible introduction to epigenetics would be Ewan Birney's tweetorial from earlier this year [1] or his Guardian column from a few years ago [2].

Rabiz Khan lacks formal training in medicine or genetics, and I perceive him to be a crank who has a weird fixation on Jewish genetics and a history of writing racial superiority op-eds for the alt right community.

[1] https://twitter.com/ewanbirney/status/1520414171334168577

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/sep/11/why-im-...
What practical utility does that perspective have? The precise intention of the creators of a scheme does not have any distinct impact on anyone else, and is incredibly difficult to verify.
> Don't forget WhatTimeIsItRightNow.com

That's the problem with Hollywoo. Too much fragmentation as a result of everyone chasing after the power vacuum created by streaming. Every small outfit thinks they can win.

Consolidation will happen as clear winners emerge and failures continue to materialize.

(I have that sticker on one of my old laptops. Also a "Hollywoo" sticker on one of my current laptops. I love it because my startup is in that space.)