skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was excited about this because I use docker-compose to run a service written in Rust. The final command of the container is “cargo watch -x run” and the compiles take 1-2 minutes per hot reload.
Porter solved this by completely sidestepping images, but I’m still considering if this is worth having the user install cargo on their host machine (in the case of porter) and give up hermetic development.
Not sure yet, but thanks for this tool!
India’s switch to GM food crops hinges on court verdict
The best ROI is to insulate and air seal.
I'm travelling at the moment (like, backpacking for 6 months). I find it perfect - it fits into my day bag no problem.

I even have a portable monitor, and an external keyboard and mouse. Hook them all up with a USB hub and I have a "proper" desktop gaming setup that fits into my backpack no problem.
Or she could have been brainwashed by certain political movements. Hard to tell who's at fault without hearing sides.
Reasonably politely pushing back on these has got my post not only downvoted to oblivion (after upvotes) but then flagged (!!) while of course the guy who was abusive in return, no problems.

I know you have written eloquently about HN in the past, but I think that site is gone. And I remember because I've been on it for over a decade. I joined an early stage start up on it.

Sadly, they give no means for deleting your account. But thought I'd flag to you anyway.

Anyway, I will be abandoning this account, but it's maybe something for other HN old timers to think about.

I had similar experiences suggesting covid had natural origins. I'm not sure the culture that HN possesses is the same as the one it alleges it desires.

Anyway, last post from this account. I am sure this one will equally be nuked... :)
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What? How is talking to the dispatchers inundated by false alarms failing to do research? That’s literally the people who would know.

The biggest danger of false alarm is alert fatigue. If your false to real ratio is ten to one you’ve seriously messed up. This sounds like exactly the case where false alarms are causing real harm to people in need.

Your stance shows a serious misunderstanding of incident response.
> It has one of the lowest number of people per dollar of GDP in the world.

Am I misunderstanding, or is this just a way of saying they have high productivity?
Fall Detection is an optional feature. There is nothing mandatory about it.
Awgee?
I think the numbers above actually make sense if you look at the pressures that influence decisions on what to study and whether to get a PhD for national vs international students.

If you're international getting a bachelors you need to find a company willing to sponsor when you graduate so it makes a lot more sense to pursue a STEM degree that is in high demand to employers.

For graduate students their is compounding pressure because getting a PhD allows the student to stay in the USA while they obtain the degree and STEM degrees qualify for the STEM OPT extension so instead of only having 1 year of work authorization post graduation you have 3 years. If the goal is to stay in the USA permanently it really doesn't make any sense to pursue a non STEM grad degree.

I don't have any commentary on whether the way the system is set up makes sense but I don't think it's just a case of American kids don't want to study these subjects rather theirs intense immigration pressure on international students to funnel them into STEM subjects.
If gender of hypothetical example persons is selected at random you'd expect a 50/50 ratio. Perhaps this example just happens to fall into the 50% that happen to be female?

There is no reason to assume the worst. It only detracts from the discussion.
We live in the Colorado Front Range in a 50 year old house that isn't particularly well insulated. We have a Mitsubishi high-efficiency air source heat pump distributing air through our existing duct work. We have electric backup inside the air handler. Last week it got down to -15F overnight. The heat pump ran throughout and there was only really activity from the electric backup during the occasional defrost cycle. We keep our house pretty warm too as we have a baby.

In winter the heat pump seems to have no issues meeting our heating needs albeit at quite a bit higher overall utility cost compared to our old gas furnace. In summer the heat pump is much more efficient than our old AC unit and our solar panels cover >100% of our usage from ~April-Oct.

Prior to installing the heat pump we did as much insulating as we could (mostly attic) and I think that was important for enabling the heat pump to keep up in the cold. The nature of the heating is lower level and continuous compared to the occasional blasting from a gas furnace, so you do want to prevent rapid leakage of heat from the house.
This is exactly the point. Tying up phone dispatchers time is annoying and marginal. Sending limited search and rescue teams off on wild goose chases could have fatal consequences.
Beach shoreline is public but sometimes there are no public footpaths specially around cliffs or rocky shoreline.

Legally though you could still access those beaches by boat or swimming and you would not be trespassing.
This is cool. I've been looking for something like this to pair with my nix env. Docker makes process management and logging in the dev environment so easy, but between the performance issues and abstraction leaks when jumping back and forth between native containers on linux and virtual machines on macos we gave up and started using nix to handle the reproducibility of our dev environment. The only thing I miss is the ease of process/service/log management. If anyone has any other solutions I would love to hear them.
I tell those folks that news isn't a hobby: doing something is.
> Because there are some extremely different ways of editing text out there.

Key word here being _different_. Different should not be the default. That does not mean we should all be forced to edit text the same way, it just means that the most widely used way of editing text should be the default.

For the most part we have agreed on what the standard way of editing text is in GUI's. nano has its quirks but at least it follows the most widely accepted standard - if you're inside a text editor and start typing text, the text gets appended and magical things happen to your text only after you press a combination of keys.
I've been using a bit of dbt to smooth some of the edges of an existing SQL Server analytics solution.

dbt's biggest strength is that you can incrementally expand it to fill the gaps in your existing solution: some source data quality tests here, a few automatic history-of-changes tables powered by dbt snapshot there, and with enough context you can then create push-button documentation and data-lineage graphs, which tends to be a lot more documentation than most companies' BI teams maintain natively.

The downsides that I have found so far (subjectively) have been basically that it's wholely geared for batch operations, it seems to expect to export to only one data warehouse and thus lacks a "many-to-many" data-mesh-like mode, and it wasn't easy to hack the documentation page to describe things like "the ETL process that populates this table". Also, it does not seem to have a way to define or create source tables if they do not exist (so it will not black-start a project for you, it's really only for existing data), and if your code is already checked in to SSDT you might have to move some code around.

...But I have complex problems due to $CURRENT_JOB's existing code base, organizational structure and business needs. (And yes, I am really liking my job.)

My needs aside, dbt is refreshingly easy to get started with, it provides value very fast relative to time invested, and you could do far worse than to spend a day or a week seeing what small annoyances dbt could help you with.
> The cost in emissions to raise a child in the west is far higher than in other countries.

But the west is already way on the way to reducing population, even too much.

> There are very few countries with as many children, all of them very low on emissions per capita, and the easiest way to drop that is by accelerating their growth, improving education, and QoL.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?most_rec...

if you scroll down to the second table, sort by most recent value, you'll see many many large countries with numbers way above 2 (replacement value), and pretty much none of them will be developed western ones.

Again, why should the west not have children, while the rest can have 5? Shouldn't we focus our efforts on those 5 per couple, instead of 1.5 or watever the average for eg EU is?

> No idea. If you wish to reduce the need for immigration, the simplest way is to enable people to have children. US' policies on maternity, leave and so on are not helping the situation, and neither is the ever increasing CoL in European countries while we have as high tax rates.

But didn't you just say that we shouldn't have children in the west, because children pollute? But moving poor people to richer countries pollutes too, since they earn more there and pollute more in turn.
Those are two different and somewhat unrelated statements. First, "this notion" is unknown to them. Second, that they previously meant "sex". What does the second statement mean? Let's look at it in context:

-I’ve never heard anybody who thought that there was no differences in women and men behaviours on average.

-those differences you pointed out being connected to gender, are actually due to the sex of the individual, not due to the gender an individual chooses to identify with

-Where I came from, this notion is basically non-existent. I meant sex.

ruszki's comment expressed more verbosely would be:

> This idea that sex and gender are distinguishable does not exist where I come from. Previously when I said "women and men" I was referring to the sexes, not to the genders. That is to say, to me "man" and "human male" are synonymous, as are "woman" and "human female".

You had all the information necessary to interpret what was written charitable, but instead for some reason you decided to interpret it as if they were saying something nonsensical.
Seems like 'unlicensed LFL' would be better than 'pirate'. The latter implying something a bit more sinister. Unlicensed ones still serve the same purpose and are run by volunteers.
It helps if you look at it as temperatures in Kelvin, to bring something from 250K to 300K requires a 20% increase, which can be done by an ideal engine at an efficiency of 300/(300-250) = 6. Sure you can't ever reach that ideal but the upper limit is high enough to make it worthwhile.

I'm not fully sure at what point it stops being worth it, but anything above 150K can get an efficiency of more than 200%, in theory at least, and 150K is way above any reasonable ambient temperature. As far as I know the ideal is not even that hard to approach it's just how to do it in small scale and quickly that is the problem.
A cynical comment about regulation or curtailing this.

Everyone agrees smoking causes health problems, is costly and doesn't offer anything. Smoking is regulated (taxes, labels, etc), but cigarettes are readily available everywhere - gas stations, convenience stores, etc. You would imagine that something so universally recognized as detrimental would cease to exist (either outlaws or society would just abandon it completely), but it's more accessible than say clean water, healthy food and such.

My point is I don't think we will see this problem going away. As long as there is technology enabling this level of connectedness we will see the side-effect.
I agree with you. The first UI I used on a computer was Volkov Commander, and maybe so, I'm really partial to mc and mcedit. Nano is tolerable, but vim, emacs are just so alien that I'll never touch them.
I think it'd make more sense because we're taking in different developmental factors together.
The nature of free market means if there is money to be made, there will always be sellers for whatever junk you need, including indulgences. After my readings into the topic, Shellenberger seems to be the new age indulgence seller for the class that climate denial profits the most. I am much more inclined to believe the people who are warning us about the danger even when it would lose us money overall, because they can't be doing so from a profit motive.
>> Ok, but why are biological neurons exempted from this argument?

Because biological neurons are not computers? I think the argument is that our current theory of computation is not enough to explain the human mind, not that human minds are magickal and special compared to other computational devices. We just happen to understand one category of computational device that does not include human minds.

I think if we look hard enough we can find examples of computational systems that exist in nature and that are not Turing machines. For examples, a weighted chain forming a catenary can instantly calculate the shape of a load-bearing arch, without going through any states: it suffices to set up the computational system (the weighted chain) and the result of the computation (the shape of the arch) is immediately known.

Meaning, "there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamt of" in our computer science. Our mind is probably the biggest fucking mystery in all of existence and it is a little ridiculous to think we can understand it, and simulate it, with our primitive science and technology.
I've seen plenty of campaigns about smoking being a bad habit, but never social media or internet addiction. Only books or fringe documentaries that get discredited in the news/media due to their incentives.
Or, to look at it from another perspective:

The airline sold you something that they can't deliver because they refuse to keep extra planes around. They refuse to keep extra planes around because that would eat into profits, and would mean their execs wouldn't be able to buy their third gold-plated yachts.
That last statement is an assertion lacking evidence, and as counter-evidence I offer every accident Tesla’s “autopilot” has been involved in.

If drivers always paid good attention, I’m sure we would have fewer collisions. I’m not sure we would have none.
I write bash scripts almost solely for web hosting automation. I don't write a lot but when I need something, I spend a few hours making it. And when I'm done, I document it, because it's quite likely that in several months (or years?) I won't remember where I found that snippet of code, or what that function does, or how many bats ears and tree knots I had to boil to get that regex to work, or even what he regex does. So, I put comments throughout. It also saves my coworkers time when they're trying to figure out the script.

So yeah, leave comments! They don't have to be long. I leave comments like

# at this point we know $daemon is dead, so remove socket and kill any stray processes, and restart

#IP is validated as being a proper IP, now lets make sure it's not on the server itself. You're welcome, Scott.

So simple, but explains what was going on in my head when I wrote it.
It depends on the scenario. Which is why planning eventualities is so important. If I suddenly die, then my wife has knowledge and signatures on file necessary to keep going. Also a three ring binder book to look up since that is not the time to be making decisions. If both my wife and I die together, and our minor kids are the ones remaining than immediate password access is a good deal less important compared to the keeps being fed and housed and things being worked out. Of course the will will come into impact, guardianship, life insurance, social security survivors benefits, when they will live, where they will go to school. Winding down this business I have and other matters would be secondary.

I am not saying we do this right. I certain have to "sharpen the pencil right" but the point is this should not be an afterthought.
I ordered a small item from Amazon about a few months ago and it came in a paper envelope which was light weight but padded with a corrugated paper mesh which was not rigid like cardboard. At the time I thought, “This is the perfect replacement for those plastic blue and white envelopes!” But every small item since then has been shipped in the standard plastic envelopes. I don’t know what it would take to change all to these soft paper envelopes. If all retailers changed to these, it would be so much easier to recycle.
https://archive.ph/yTO2u
CTEs considered harmful. This query will run nornally as long as those CTEs stay unmaterialized. But all you need is a single intermediate CTE and due to the “two+ references cause CTE materializations” rule in Postgres, the query will start to load an entire table into an unindexed set and use that for the query. Basically, disables all indexes for that table.

Idk why Postgres doesn’t disable materialization by default. IME it’s a niche use case compared to using CTEs as intermediate views (where you want to expand all joins and use indexes). It’d be better to have an explicit opt in “Yes, store this result on disk, disable all indexes, and process it O(N) fashion.”
In general I agree, but it really depends on the idea, product, branding etc.

Movie ideas can be sold for 6-7 figures.

So why wouldn't something more developed than just an idea also be valuable to someone, ie a good fleshed-out business/product idea and some development, trademark etc, but not yet online/no paying customers, etc.

How to find that someone?
Ask Dang/Feature Request: I would like to see only top level replies to a post
Often times I click on the comments of a post to see people's reaction to it.

However, with the current comment structure I get one reaction at the top and then have to scroll through tons of people's reactions to that reaction.

I really just want to see people's reaction to the post and then if I find an interesting reaction then I'll dig deeper to see more about that.
For others interested in preparing for a situation like this, here's a video laying out in reasonable detail what to do.*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JNuovFpCpQ

* I don't like that they skipped putting a bushing or an NM clamp on the back of the box into the furnace, but otherwise the video looked sound when I watched it a couple weeks ago.
Putin’s war and small islands are accelerating the global shift to clean energy
You might also like Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake. It's focused on fungi rather than trees, but has a similar outlook. Overall it's a bit more down to earth and factual (or at least it seems that way to me, having no special knowledge of the subject matter), but no less eye-opening or fun to read.
Imagine some documentary director filming five minutes leading into a car crash that ends up killing the passengers in the front seats and leaving the rest severely disabled.

Afterwards she screens the film for us, but for unexplainable reasons she plays it at 1/1000 the normal speed.

We are supposed to figure out what is happening. We are somewhere midway the film.

Everything looks so earily calm. The driver seems confident on the steering wheel. The passengers are absorbed in their own pursuits. Rain drops hit the windshield. One by one, every few minutes.
I honestly think 90-95% of Frontend Devs are capable of all this. Maybe not 10 years ago when spaghetti code ruled, but if you got your foot in the door as a FE Dev then you have a portfolio containing examples of almost all this 'wildcard' work.
Pigeons and papyrus at Amarna: the birds of the Green Room revisited
The Chinese Online Slang That Took over the Internet in 2022
There's majority rule but also minority rights. At what point should I be compelled to help you do something I have a problem with? Or on the other side, at what point am I preventing you from doing something that you want to?

To put it more plainly.

If I'm against abortion should tax money be used to pay for it? If I'm against abortion what if I use tax money to blare "Abortion is bad" from loud speakers across the country 24/7 ?

There are certainly far ends of this - I'll put you in jail if you attempt to kill your self - that are more clear but even there talk to someone who has a firm belief in property rights and I think they'll be able to make a cogent argument that's more then a rationalization.
Ah, now I understand - I was only referring to the single feature of positioning the cursor forward/backward to a given sequence of characters, nothing else.
What the hell are you talking about? Being well-defined and arbitrary are two orthogonal things.
It is on by default.
It's a marketing decision, "learn to code" sells these days.
Ca. 1994 we had Pascal as the language for AP computer science. Later, they started adding other languages. In my school the options were Basic (TrueBasic) which was offered as a stepping stone to APCS and pascal. I also had the opportunity to study Scheme through CTY's excellent summer class.

At the time, I remember pascal feeling like "real programming". The programs were compiled and they operated at various levels of abstraction, from pointers up through advanced data structures and interfaces/ADTs. I didn't see Scheme as more than a toy, which was partly because the MIT Scheme implementation was just an interpreter. And I hated Basic and still do.

Pascal was great because it was pretty easy to learn and somewhat consistent. Its most annoying feature, semicolon-as-separator, was easily handled by the terrific Think pascal editor.

In its time, Pascal was a great choice. There were real-world things that you could do immediately using Think Pascal and Turbo Pascal. Making the switch to C and Unix wasn't simple but probably easier than starting with Basic. However, I was left with a bias towards wordy languages like Pascal, Ada and Modula-3 that took a while to get over :)
And if you can only do one, air sealing is almost always preferable.
The first is the category / blend of metals, the latter represent the amount of alloy metals.
Basics of the Internet
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The Beats Fit Pro are USB-C, use the same chipset as the AirPods Pro, and are (for my particular ears) much more comfortable.
They are really handy for storing backup hard drives too. Short of having your own armed guards and razor wire it is good physical security for free or cheap.
“We joke slash not joke that this is partly a company and partly a cult,”

If you have something that's partly a company and partly a cult, it's mainly a cult.
It’s not wrong, but I’m this context “authoritative” doesn’t mean the whole thing is “legally operative.”

Here is an example (reckless driving): https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2020/title-40/chapter-6...

The first part, subsections (a) and (b) is the actual law. That’s the only legally operative part that defines what reckless driving is. In most states, that is the only thing that is published.

The following sections are explanatory notes that don’t have the force of law and are not law. For example, it cross references relevant case law. In other states private companies will create these annotated versions of the legal code with these cross references, and those are definitely copyrightable.
It seems this problem could be largely mitigated by incorporating some kind of timestamp. "This person hasn't moved in the last minute" isn't such a big deal. "This person hasn't moved in 10 minutes" is probably cause for alarm