skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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How the hell did the US (or Germany for that matter) accomplish what they did in WW2?

If we treated the coming climate catastrophe as an actual crisis and waged war on carbon emissions, I'm sure as hell we could outdo what was done 80+ years ago.

The problem is that now we have to coddle the corporate elite who need to make guaranteed profits. And that takes time. Hope we have enough left.
I tried setting up a game of solitaire (on desktop with a mouse) and it got tedious really fast. What I wished for right away was:

- Ability to drag a selection region and move multiple cards together (like, say, the deck)
- Ability to align cards to each other (I found myself testing modifier keys while dragging to see if this was a hidden feature, but alas.)
A Simpler Testing Pyramid: Getting the Most Out of Your Tests
With Postgres, you also need to worry a lot about tombstoning and your ability to keep up with the vacuums necessary to deal with highly mutable data. This can depend a lot on what else is going on with the database and whether you have more than one index on the table.
Where does it say it's a billing mistake?
I've been using perplexity.ai for anything that's not a site/company/person name look up.
It's true that they are still there, but I think loyalty is really soft. Musk seems to make some antagonizing change at least once a month that results in defections, the whole Substack thing being the latest. I follow Rex Chapman who seems to be one of those people that just does not want to have to rebuild his following somewhere else. He just recently signed up at Spoutible.
Open question: what are the benefits of replacing Lambda with this new service, if you’re not using any other Supabase functionalities?

Our Lambdas are currently written in Typescript and built with esbuild. We zip them and push to AWS.
I appreciate you clarifying your points where they were proscriptive rather than descriptive, it is certainly a common civc intention of government and a persistent ideal of governance.

In a previous era from 1890-1910, the purpose of "trust busting" and regulating industry was specifically to limit the threat of any single private entity from creating enough systemic risk to be considered "too big to fail."

There's nothing particularly pro-market about saying that habitual drunk drivers who no entity will sell accident insurance to must be retroactively insured for free by the government to contain the systemic risk they inflict on sober people.

The legitimate benefits of the technological innovations that've come from no-downside financial speculation appear to be increasingly portable, available to other societies either through reverse-engineering or commodities-for-technology-transfer or outright espionage.

So regardless of how much the top 5-20% of Americans and their cultural institutions have a moral or predictive-utilitarian argument for the societal and technological benefits of concentrated capital and financial policy that sees the wealthiest capture a larger percentage of GDP decade-over-decade, it appears to be internally destabilizing and internationally weakening by nearly any metric one could name.

To steelman the other side of this, one could argue the decline is overstated and temporary or attribute it to other factors. But it's no longer the case that a majority domestically or internationally is confident that this is the least bad system to emulate out of all the really existing systems.

Powers in decline and relative elites within them tend to spend a lot of time creating theories for why the majority is wrong to feel the way they do, but historically that strategy has failed, regardless of if what replaces the existing system eventually turns out to be even worse.
Dispute the debt.

They can't put a lien on property without a court case and I want to see someone stand in front of a judge and justify an un-itemized 100k bill when their own public charge sheet shows that the service should cost <1000.
Kubernetes v1.27: Chill Vibes
In a box, each cable bound with a rubber band (like cash). There’s no issues with searching through when they remain separate, so I don’t use any accounting scheme except for a light similarity grouping in that box. Long ethernet cable rings go into a separate bag.
>> perhaps a likely one, if we didn't change course somewhat... which we did

We didn't. CO2 has continuously risen and the rise accelerated with time. Hansen's predictions should therefore have absolutely come true if he was right, but they didn't. Or do you think the graph of CO2 I showed you in the other post is misleading as well?

W.R.T. the quotes, now you're getting really desperate. Sure, sure, those poor innocent scientists keep getting ascribed word-for-word predictions they never made and they're all just too polite to complain about having words put in their mouth like that. Come on, wake up! He wasn't being misquoted. Here he is in another 2008 article written by himself in which he makes exactly the same prediction:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/jun/23/climatec...

"As a result, without any additional greenhouse gases, the Arctic soon will be ice-free in the summer."

Lots more CO2 was added, 15 years passed, the Arctic is not ice free. Nor are ice levels falling. Here's the data from Hanen's own former employer showing that summer ice sea levels stabilized around 2010, which should not have been possible according to these people:

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/arctic-sea-ice/
If I recall correctly we had no insurance at the time. I was able to afford to re-vaccinate my animal, as it's only $60 at the vet, I figured at least my pet would survive.
Show HN: Check if PyPI package name is available (tool)
I kept on having to switch my PyPi package names after creating my setup.py file and source files- because seemingly all the best package names are taken. Or I kept getting "Your package name is too similar to existing package names," which is very vague and unhelpful. So I built a little package to help determine if your ideal package name is available. Enjoy!
Depends, but there’s long-term disability, SSDI, etc. in those scenarios. I’d expect a lawsuit and settlement would be likely, as well.
The Future of GPT4 1337 Programming: CyberCode Tutorial with <=\> cYber-C0mb1n4t0r !!! </=>

I asked GPT-4 to implement QuickSort and the Y-Combinator in my own personal programming language that I designed — who can guess the influences (besides cannabis and shrooms)?

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-future-of-gpt4-programming...
Thanks for mentioning this. I'd assumed this was the case, but I'd been wary of using them because I wasn't sure which of them would be reliable and non-sketchy. Your comment made me take a second look, this time specifically for FOSS custom UIs, and https://chatwithgpt.netlify.app/ seems pretty decent (and is FOSS).
Very satisfying animations.

It needs some form of multi-card selection, so that I can grab a stack of cards and move, shuffle, or flip them as a group. I tried to play a game of solitaire, then got to the part where you can reuse the cards in your discard pile, and realized that there was no way to have it shuffle those cards, or even to just flip them all over.
Source code here: https://github.com/pablojosecodes/pypi_name_validator/tree/m...
The systemic racism people are going to go wild about this
> United Healthcare still paid more than $58,000 for the couple's rabies treatment

They did.
iPhones have similar Neural Engine capabilities, obviously far more limited but still quite powerful. You can run some pretty cool DNNs for image generation using e.g. Draw Things app quite quickly: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/draw-things-ai-generation/id64...
You want to solve "seeing a lot of, very obviously mentally ill, homeless people" by... giving more people guns?
Pentel Energel 0.7mm is the best pen I've ever used, period. Effortless writing with almost no friction. Clear contrasty quick-drying ink. Never too much ink (blotchy) or too little (streaky).

I don't trust the recommendations of this page. They recommend pens as blanket statements not mentioning size, and that's just... wrong. and imprecise. For example, the Pentel Energel 1.0mm is too blotchy. The 0.5mm is too scratchy. The 0.7mm is just right. Also their uniball recommendation is strange. I've tried all kinds of uniball pens and never liked any of them. They seemed to require too much effort, or had ink that wouldn't go down cleanly.
That's fine and valuable, but it doesn't sound like much of a moat. Those thought leaders used something else before Twitter - even if it takes a while, it's not a crazy idea that they'd eventually move somewhere else if the grass is greener.
It would almost definitely have been cheaper for you, without insurance, than it was for this couple.
skyward sword was basically unplayable for me until the switch version with normal controls came out. i never was even able to get past the 2nd dungeon with motion controls.

i do like the games where you can use motion controls of the controller to enhance your aiming.
Hey there - Tim here from Supabase!
We have some options to explore here so probably best to connect on a call to get a better understanding of your project and how we can best align to help!
Can you send me an email on tim@supabase.io and we can tee up a time?
Cheers,
Tim
Fair enough. You're correct, I'm jus expressing my antipathy to marketing technique.
Map of Space-Time Distortions Reveals Universe’s Dark Matter Distribution
The thread is at max depth, so I'll reply here:

As you quoted from the paper:

> The six main groups that provide satellite-altimetry-based GMSL estimates ...

1) You're restricting your attention to groups producing satellite-derived estimates.

2) Several of those groups, e.g. CSIRO, are using data assimilation to combine satellite estimates with gauges [1].

3) There are multiple satellites, often overlapping in time, often of totally different design/orbit/etc... [2]

4) Up to the most recent IPCC report (AR6), assessments were based on tide gauges alone [3]. For many of the reasons that you bring up. Hence "Nobody relies on estimates from a single satellite alone." Reconstruction of historical sea level is a huge scientific discipline and you would benefit from doing some more reading before beating a dead horse. The estimated uncertainty is large for a reason, but it does not encapsulate any scenarios where the observed change has been insignificant. If you think otherwise, I'd be happy to take your money for 2100 options on coastal real estate in about 90% of the world's coastline.

[1] — https://research.csiro.au/slrwavescoast/sea-level/measuremen... and https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10712-011-9119-1

[2] — https://research.csiro.au/slrwavescoast/sea-level/measuremen...

[3] — https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6... p.1287
As far as I can tell, it's state by state, so... you want to cite some sources?
These sort of stories like these go viral. The amount paid is nowhere close to that, sometimes nothing is paid. The final price is always negotiated vastly lower. The patient often pays a tiny fraction of this. It's bad that this happens in the first place though. There is something wrong when people getting these outrageous bills in the first place. Hospitals send out these bills in the hope a tiny fraction of people pay in full.
What's the consensus on using custom HTML attributes such as "hx-post", "hx-trigger" and so on, which are "invalid" according to the spec? I don't mind prepending data- to custom attributes but it's still a minor nuisance.
> The rest would probably pursue deadly force even if they didn't have access to firearms.

I hope I'm not making a straw man here, but I think your argument is that people who are going to resort to violence will find a way, even if they don't have a gun.

The thing that always gets glossed over in this argument is how much damage you can do with various weapons.

Yes, there are people prone to violence for various reasons. And yes, people, do get beat with pipes, or stabbed (both big SF news stories lately.)

But you can kill much much more efficiently with a gun. So those prone to violence, with access to guns are able to do much more damage much more quickly and easily.
‘the Zeen’: Steadicam inventor creates wheelchair-walker hybrid
TBD, but we may have something within a couple weeks. We're also working on a webapp.
Theoretically, yes. The infection can lie dormant for an exceptionally long period of time in an exceptionally small percent of cases and can be triggered by unrelated external factors.
I'm looking at my word processor window on the second monitor right now and it is not distracting.

https://i.imgur.com/E7Xj4Su.png

Which word processors are distracting?
In my experience the reality is much more nuanced:

- VCs don’t want founders to own 0% of their company because founders need to be motivated to work hard to make it a success

- % of dilution usually goes down very significantly over funding rounds

- there is significant competition between VCs to fund good startups these days, which can translate to founder leverage

- there are early-stage VCs these days, which don’t pressure founders for quick growth

- founders talk to each other and a large portion of founders are serial entrepreneurs. Reputation among founders matters to VCs

- looking over the longer term of decades, typical funding terms are getting much more founder-friendly
What is a visual snapshot of the DOM?
Only a small group of people are responsible for the majority of crimes. The same people keep committing armed robbery, shootings, carjacking, etc. until they are physically stopped from doing so.

Keeping criminals in jail so that they cannot commit more crime will absolutely reduce crime. The elimination of cash bail and downgrading of felonies is a joke.
This is all very easy stuff for you to verify for yourself and wasn’t the original point of my top comment (which was that these stories are hard to suppress without manual effort— although apparently many Americans are unaware).

But to be clear, the US was funding Ukrainian rebel groups (right-wing paramilitary organizations) 2014-2022 but through clandestine means. This is much more difficult to do without the support of congress because the support has to be indirect — the funding has to be off-the-books — because this was a violation of the Minsk agreement.

Since 2022, the floodgates have opened and the US is now openly sending money and weapons systems, now totaling over $100B since the Russian invasion. The Russian Defence budget is estimated to be $70-80B per year.
Note that the metric here is "is the tweet in one of the languages spoken by the user". This hypothetically allows more nuanced implementations than you contemplate.

For example, they could have a language "unrecognized" and assume everyone speaks it.

I broadly find this useful: I see tweets in other languages when they're retweeted by people I follow, and about half the time I machine translate them. But I don't want my whole feed to be that.
> It seems to me that librifying everything (much like is already done with JS engines) could be a good approach to making building a new browser engine more accesible. ... Because that way any one wanting to build a new one can starting by pulling in a bunch of libraries (layout, rendering, etc), and then just customise the bits they need (ideally publishing them as a new iteroperable library that others can also use).

I think that you are right; this is what will be needed. However, that alone won't do because it is also needing to write them to be good, and not too slow/inefficient and not too incapable of doing many customization stuff.

And, ensure things are properly separated. (Looking at your examples, it seems like it is properly separated, to me. You can define styles independently of parsing them, which improves efficiency as well as allowing adding other steps in between such as "meta-CSS" if desirable.)

In some cases, it may be desirable to modify parts of the libraries, although then it may be necessary to maintain a fork of that library, which is not always desirable.

(For example, I may want to add proper support for non-Unicode text, and being able to customize text layout functions, including all possible text directions (vertical, horizontal, boustrophedon, etc). Adding other CSS rules might also be needed for some other purposes, too. And then, we will also need to do accessibility features.)

(I like to use C programming; looking in issues, it look like they might be added, so that can be good; unfortunately, Rust has a Unicode string type and this can be problematic even if using C, unless the Rust programming is done very carefully to avoid this problem.)
>the machines literally swinging around in a fiery puddle of its own hydraulic

Just put the fire out and slap some jbweld on it. We don't have time for a repair call.
> The hospital is required to make its charges public. NorthBay Health's online listing shows $547.65 for a rabies vaccine.
Hospital administrators don't take a hippocratic oath, unless they happened to also be doctors too.
It really bothers me that none of these stories seem to describe what legal theories are used to enforce these fabricated "debts" against the victims. It would seem there must be a whole collection of state laws that enable these practices, and I would think they would be a prime area of reform - if they were eliminated, providers would have to publish prices and form an actual contract (including a lack of duress and well-defined consideration), instead of being able to play this game of "nobody can tell you how much anything costs until the billing extorts you".
Property crime should be considered violent crime. Nothing in this world is free, someone had to spend hours of their life to be able to buy said property, and taking that is essentially stealing those hours of their life away.
> DB based queues are fine if you don't need more than a few messages a second of transport

I'd estimate more like dozens to hundreds per second should be pretty doable, depending on payload, even on a small DB. More if you can logically partition the events. Have implemented such a queue and haven't gotten close to bottlenecking on it.
Well if someone asked me to do that, I would suggest that it’d be based off their recent tweet history and not just one tweet. And I would make my case in the meeting.

Second, it’s already been done so my next suggestion would be to look what at all the computational linguistic majors have been up to.
The horror stories I hear are usually when a Graphic Designer is given the role of a UX/UI designer. There is nothing that is going to quickly fix that situation other than getting them some much needed education and mentorship.
And if you store your work inbox in a relational db then you invented a queueing system. The point is that queues can ingest messages much much faster and cheaper than a db, route messages based on priority and globally tune the speed of workers to keep your db from getting overwhelmed or use idle time.
That sounds like something Bard would say.
Sea ice also reflects light. Remove the ice and the water beneath heats up.

That's part of the runaway effect we are freaked out about.
Looks like there was already an outrageous payment:

> Even with plan discounts, United Healthcare still paid more than $58,000 for the couple's rabies treatment.
What exactly do you mean by "take a job in advance"? I have certainly set the prefetch limit to 1 on my queues, which I believe prevents them from taking a job while they are running one. One of our production applications runs 4+ hour jobs in a RabbitMQ queue without blocking and has done so for 5+ years.

You do want to make sure to set the VM high water mark below 50% of RAM as the GC phase can double the used memory. If high water mark is set too high, the box will thrash swap really badly during GC and hang entirely.
Jobs getting harder and paying well means that if you are going to invest time in having and raising a child, you are going to have to make a significant career sacrifice in order to do so.

Harder/more demanding job => can’t dedicate proper time to job and child at the same time.

Better paying job => giving up job means giving up significantly more wealth.

It still tracks.
Everyone I talked to who worked at or joined Twitter early on talks about how they felt like they were part of a global conversation but it was always really puzzling to me. I read Twitter occasionally in the early days but most of my friends were on IRC or GChat, with a lot being offline, and my networks migrated but never got onto Twitter. Twitter never really felt that relevant to me and over time it felt like it only got more not less insular. I lurked on it the way I lurked on tons of IRC channels. Once IRC began to fade, early Reddit (from the founding) was where I found the community I was looking for.

My feeling as an outsider is that Twitter was useful and valuable ("high engagement") for the folks who enjoyed the culture that built up on the platform, but for everyone else it was always a bit insular and self-important. Since Twitter's founding, more and more online communities and spaces have sprung up, so if Twitter does indeed decline in usage its regulars will diffuse into the many other alternatives that have sprung up.

That's my $0.02 at least as someone who's watched from the sidelines for a couple decades.
Security and Privacy
Prior to the pandemic, when the universities were still allowing international students (and I believe they're about to reopen to international students again soon) the anecdotes I was hearing from teachers was appalling. Pressure to pass students despite them being barely able to speak English, let alone know the subject matter.

The universities here in Australia have essentially transitioned to being businesses and failing students is bad for business. The incentives have become completely misaligned and short sighted.

Who I choose to interview and eventually hire now has no relationship to a computer science degree. Instead I'm looking at what you've actually achieved prior to the interview. If you're coming in for an entry level position, show me your group project. Show me you fumbling around in technologies that you don't really understand fully yet but have a genuine interest in. I want to see the homepage you created for your dads panel beating business, that alone tells me that you're curious enough about the industry to actually try (and succeed!) in creating something, even if it looks like a dogs breakfast.

I know others are thinking the same way when hiring and the universities have only themselves to blame for chasing short term profits over long term viability.
How is that legal? What is stopping the hospital from charging 200 million dollars for the rabies shots?

If I hired someone to fix my plumbing and they wouldn't give me an estimate and then decided to charge me $20k/hr I don't think a court would honor that contract.
They are though. Apple released a library to use Apple Silicon for training via PyTorch recently, and has libraries to leverage the NE in CoreML.
What's their incentive to reduce the cost?

They make money as a % of care paid out (max profit is capped).

More costs == more profits and the costs are just passed onto the people paying for insurance (both employees and employers)
I believe it’s only transmissible through saliva. Unless you are bitten by the infected animal you will be fine.

https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/transmission/index.html