skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for the thorough answer! Learned something new today.
Doing less is the core value prop of the device. It is intentionally not a full Android experience. If that's what you want, there are other competing devices.
Yeah unexpected for me, seems like there is a big hook spiraling in from the east, I guess it's hitting first farther north of us.
Not a physicist either but currently self learning quantum physics. Note that Planck length and time are just units - they do not mean that space and time are quantized. Quantum theory treats space and time as continuous variables. While it has been speculated that space and time are quantized I do not believe this has been experimentally verified because the scales involved are beyond current experimental reach.
In some cases, sure. But how many times have you had to attend to an email chain that went on way too long? Maybe a meeting is better if a decision can be reached more succinctly via a directed discussion.
It’s a joke list of silly things. Not serious at all.
> Drone PIDs are hard, and a lot of that to do with the quickly moving targets which is not the case in many (most?) scenarios PIDs are used.

You can write a flyable PID in a few lines, and a full PID in a few more. Set the error term to the range-mapped input - angular rate measurement, for each axis. (Assuming you have the control inputs, gyro/acc inputs, and motor output IO setup)
Small Text Is Medium’s Large Fail
The Medium platform has a lot of good features going for it, yet it literally ignores visual accessibility. For a platform that is entirely based around readable content, one would think that it’d be close to State of the Art, instead of the State of Unreadable.
> unprecedented scale and speed of decarbonisation in many countries

And yet carbon emissions still increased by ~1% last year [1]. As it has for decades.

It's gone from greenwashing to outright lies. The atmosphere doesn't care about your political successes, or the relative percentage of energy sources, or the economics of renewables - only absolute tonnage of CO2e.

This is a great example of the "shifting metrics" fallacy. Instead of measuring the thing that matters, you measure the progress of the proposed solution and claim success regardless of meeting the original goal.

We need to demand better from journalists.

> It is even looking like we may soon see the beginning of the end for fossil fuels

Counterpoint: renewables absolutely require fossil fuels for mining, transport, manufacturing, installation, maintenance and recycling. Solar panels and wind turbines cannot provide the energy to deploy new panels or turbines, not even as a demonstration, let alone at a scale that would "end" fossil fuels. In a very concrete and objective sense, these technologies are not at all "renewable" - they're an effective mechanism to extend the energy output of a barrel of oil, not to replace it.

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/co2-emissions-in-2022
> CI/CD is a bad choice for most developers, on most platforms, for most clients. That said, it makes sense to do for your backends.

Are you making this statement about game devs, or more broadly? I don’t know much about game dev, but if more broadly that’s a pretty spicy take.
You have asked question 19.27, by the way.
> Fatal anaphylaxis is actually extremely rare. Even in people with severe allergies.

If your only metrics is dead people, perhaps. If we look at people ending up in ER in a severe state, there would be a lot more (anecdotally that's how many of us have discovered allergies, from asking other parents dealing with it)

> Meanwhile the treatments are not 100% guaranteed to work, and they do have significant risks of their own, plus costs both monetary and non.

Thanks, I assume there's significant research behind them, so I'd see how a doctor could want to wait a bit more advancement before mentionning it to their patients.
The problem you run into is that your solution is unwanted by the person you offer it to. You need the dysfunctional person to stop stealing your shit, pooing on the sidewalk and assaulting but they want to continue their current lifestyle. You would have to offer very large carrot to get them to stop and even then it doesn’t always work
Confession: I posted my multi-paragraph comment into Claude and asked it for some ideas. It didn't come up with exactly that, but what it said helped me get there: https://gist.github.com/simonw/a160a49d39446aa53870ed1ca43d7...
The gene pool is pretty much identical (at least for whites, which is a fairly large sample of the US population anyway) in Europe and in the US so the massive increase of obesity in the US is certainly due to specific factors that are specific to the US in terms of lifestyle or food products.
It's quite possible that "eliminates" is not the right word, but I had a difficult time fitting all the relevant information into the title while remaining under HN's 80-character limit. The phrase that I would have preferred to use was "effectively removes".
A bit different but not as much as you'd think. If you ever look into radicalized organizations the playbook is remarkably similar to how cults operate. It's a lot of trying to fill a void and dissatisfaction with society with the purpose of the movement. "You feel this way because those people are ruining society. We know the answer, it's xyz". Even right down to the love bombing to get someone in "You aren't like the rest of society, you've found the secret truth that makes you better than everyone else. If only others could know what you know, then the world would be better. It's a conspiracy that keeps the world from the truth."

The cross over between radicalization, cults, and conspiracy mindset is extensive. Each feeding and stealing the others greatest hits.

In my childhood cult, everyone believes they're the chosen, the ones that have figured everything out. When someone points out "hey, you are wrong about X" they just laugh because obviously those people aren't as good or loved as you are.

Before anyone gets out of such a cult, the first thing that has to happen is the question "What if I'm wrong?". That's why the cult spends so much time telling you to "doubt your doubts" and "everything bad you hear about us is actually the devil trying to trick you".

You can see this in radicalized groups all the time. "We are right. It's all a lie when someone says we did something bad. It was actually this group we hate, a psyop"
I don’t think OP was talking about colonists, but American citizens of today.
The advent of cheap flights made holidays within Europe affordable to most people. As a consequence, traditional UK holiday destinations became much less popular. Over time old-fashioned guest houses, B&Bs and cheap hotels transitioned into very low cost housing for people with 'problems'. The inevitable doom spiral began...

Destinations on the South Coast were not affected in the same way though and have remained a popular choice with more affluent clientele.
Most driving for some people*

Most of my driving is national speed limit country/2 lane roads. Because of where I live I'm rarely on big A roads or motorways. This kind of driving has many more edge cases, for example yesterday I had to go into the other side of the road to avoid a lot of ivy hanging off a stone wall that was torn down by the wind. I'm not sure I'd trust a self driving car with that (would radars see it?)
Designing an API is a ton of work, especially if you care about backward compatibility (otherwise you may as well use that internal API). And at some point will be deprecated for removal.

Without a standardized way of writing devtools - assuming the web standard is overall simplified - you can expose a more specialized API without the baggage associated with standards, break it every so often, and make it as easy as possible for developers (potentially even users) to port other devtools to it.

I believe that instead of finding the "universal API", we should embrace the fact that there will be 15+ of them, and therefore simplify the porting process.
Control system was probably one of the hardest class I took for undergraduate. Unfortunately, it really requires a college course (mine had a lab too so you can some “real life” experience) to understand the beauty of PID controllers. Highly recommend sitting in a college course if you like this stuff!
Whether you consider someone your enemy or not doesn’t really matter if they turn out to actually be your enemy. If those people turn round and stab you in the back one day and leave you dead then their ideology has effectively won and yours has lost. This was how a lot of imperial empires operated, first befriending and then betraying.

I would say that hiking groups definitely have enemies. Land owners are hostile to the idea of ramblers rights and in the UK they are trying to dismantle them - look at the back and forth over the right to wild camp on Dartmoor in the UK. You might not hate these people or spend any time even discussing them, but that doesn’t change the fact that they exist and they dislike you, or at least the activity that you do, on land they perceive to be theirs.

Same with the arts, you only have to look at the amount of HN comments clapping their hands with glee at all the AI tech that is putting actors, writers and artists out of work. There is a sizeable portion of society who see the arts as “not proper work” and have an intense envy and hatred that people can make a living doing it.

No matter what you do, you literally can’t get everyone to like you. As the famous joke goes, look what they did to Jesus, the guy who loved everyone, they killed him. You might not go around trying to actively find or create enemies, but that doesn’t change the fact that they probably exist.
At this point why do they have to apply for emergency use authorization? Shouldn't we be back to typical safety trials? Is the yearly flu shot under EUA too?

Why is the CDC still blanket recommending shots for young people? Especially with risk of myocardiitis predominant in young males?
This is IBM. I read this as - we plan to justify laying off our most senior employees due to not reskilling due to AI. This is just another MBA planning their own promo doc.
You just have to be prepared to crab slightly for a second as a result, but it's not that big of an aerodynamic impact.

It's more to see if you can stay calm and focused on your task when something loud and chaotic and unexpected happens. You're basically supposed to evaluate it, ask for him to close it and then continue monitoring the VASI/PAPI and your instruments.
> US Slavery as an institution was gradually on the way out before the civil war. Again a bloodthirsty mass movement was not willing to let time take its course. Slavery is wrong but murder is worse.

Can you link to some places I can read more about this?
You might enjoy the comic version of The Hobbit by David Wenzel more than Tolkien's original. It was how I was introduced to Tolkien, and was, frankly, the high-point of Tolkien for me personally.
I wrote my first "database" program on a C64 with a Datasette (when I was about 7 years old I think, it didn't really do much!), the name is absolutely an homage to that.
Adobe cofounder John Warnock passes at 82
I remember the days of dependency hell in the early 00’s. I was using Red Hat at the time, and flipping through Linux magazines at a newsstand regularly to keep up on developments. Although things improved gradually on both sides, Debian won the race to effectively solve dependency hell and I rushed to download 9(?) CD-ROM images over dial-up and burn them.
Not really, better to keep the structure in it's strongest configuration (doors closed) for a crash
Why not just use memcpy()?
The only justification I can give to “$documentId - The ID of a document” style comments would be if they are alongside comments that actually give context.

If there are 5 parameters, and 3 of them are helped with a bit of context, then adding superfluous comments to the other two makes sense because that in itself is a piece of documentation (parameters needed for a function or class).

If all of your comments are like that though? Gross.
Ideally it's lifecycle carbon footprint averaged over expected power production during that time, but the numbers aren't always directly comparable and the error bars are huge to boot.

With solar, most of the carbon footprint comes from the massive energy requirements needed to produce the panels, and countries that use coal to produce panels like China have a significantly higher carbon footprint than say the EU. Then there's the matter of where you install them, panels in most of Europe will have a CO2/kWh figure similar to to panels installed in north-west Canada, while panels installed in the US will have a similar figure to panels installed in southern Europe and northern Africa. Newer panels generally have a longer lifespan and are more efficient so will have a lower number even if the total footprint stays the same. Should the albedo effect be considered with solar? It matters if you plan to cover a light desert with dark panels. How often it rains can also ironically have a difference, as rain helps clean the panels keeping them running efficiently.

With nuclear, there's the mostly fixed costs of constructing and decommissioning the plants, the ongoing cost of running and maintaining the plants, disposing of spent fuel, and with most of the cost coming from mining the fuel. To me nuclear seems a little more straight forward to calculate, but there's still variability that can come from the availability and difficulty of mining the ore. There's also political issues to consider. If your country decides to shut down your nuclear plants prematurely, like Germany did, the huge upfront cost of building the plants can't be recouped by running them for an additional 10, 20, 30+ years until it becomes necessary to decommission them.

Regardless of how renewables are compared to nuclear, coal and gas are the elephants in the room when it comes to CO2 produced per kWh.
it took me many decades to decode the economics of the intense Desktop Publishing era.. as far as I can see, Apple made hardware, requiring long lead times, large cash reserves, deep industrial secrets.. while Adobe made software and intellectual property, which was fundamental to the written word, changed the entire publishing world, but was copied without paying Adobe. The ecosystem of developers, business and small business around the publishing world, was watched by every literate eyeball, but did not have a transaction model that made Adobe money. Apple in comparison, made plenty of money on each new sale of hardware, but the infrastructure to do that was huge and expensive.

When Apple turned on Adobe, over and over again, I did not understand how "Apple bites the hand the feeds it" .. Adobe was a likable brand. Of course, Microsoft betrayed and undermined Apple not repeatedly, but as often as possible, inventing new ways to do it with vigor. No review is possible without mentioning the day that Apple, Microsoft and Adobe were on stage at a trade show, and Apple+Microsoft announced the TrueType standard, and John Warnock literally wept in front of thousands with the shock and betrayal of it.

very strange days indeed
RIP John Warnock, bright intellect, inventor, leader
> And this would be the same tired refrain of every tankie who will justify atrocities committed under communism by pointing out that bad things also happen under capitalism.

Oh look. The name callings begin almost immediately. Isn't there some badly applied rule here on HN about insults?

Anyways, I never said I was communist either. One can critique capitalism AND communism both. And this is about capitalism and the abdication of any responsibility of the capitalist rules that cause poverty. I just find that capitalists can never actually talk dispassionately about the sufferings their system costs. It's always the "best-est-est system the world has ever known".... except for all those thrown away by capitalism. However capitalism does what it's best at, is by externalizing those human costs and blaming the individual for systemic choices.

Then again, that externalization is what is going to get our world baked, literally. (Climate disaster, not cannabis)

Try *being* homeless, or permanently injured, or born in the wrong family, or in a location that has high unemployment and no way out, or hunger, or countless other reasons. All of these can be solved with various amounts of money.... but by being in poverty (or "shit life syndrome"), they do not have.

And to the point, read the linked article. It mentions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_murder :

Social murder (German: sozialer Mord) is the unnatural death that occurs due to social, political, or economic oppression. The phrase was coined by Friedrich Engels in his 1845 work The Condition of the Working-Class in England whereby "the class which at present holds social and political control" (i.e. the bourgeoisie) "places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death".[1] This was in a different category to murder and manslaughter committed by individuals against one another, as social murder explicitly was committed by the political and social elite against the poorest in society.

"Shit Life Syndrome" is just a euphemism for capitalist social execution of the "undesirable group" aka a group that can't be profited on. But again, it's just easier to blame the individual for systemic choices, and not do anything to help the situations. And gods forbid if you're a man - you're doubly expendable.

(As an aside, communism ala China and USSR, etc all traded shitty capitalist dictator for a shitty government dictator. I don't count that as a win in my book either.)

EDIT: I'm not going to spend a comment to refute a poorly constructed No True Scotsman fallacy. Sure there's 'less bad capitalism', but that's not the article subject, is it? And it's obvious we're not talking about the willful choice to eradicate Finland's homelessness like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37197785 ... Which are choices NOT to implement... Hence Social Murder.
But that’s the point: its not an API, it’s just an app web server.

There’s nothing wrong with a web server serving HTML; that’s their whole purpose.
These are matters of values, not empirical matters. There's no research or experiments to perform to reveal how to weigh the needs of the pregnant and unborn, or what balance to strike between economic growth and increased temperatures, or how much redistribution there ought to be.
This would be a fantastic little toy/demo in VR.
I don't think it's accurate to say that all coastal towns in the UK are doing badly - I can't help noticing there here on the east of Scotland you have on different sides of the Firth of Forth Methil, which is deprived, and North Berwick which is doing very nicely.

Different histories, reliance on different industries, quality of transport links make a huge difference.

Not even all coastal "tourist" towns are doing badly - I live near Burntisland in Fife which actually seems to be thriving, probably because of the excellent location for commuting by train into Edinburgh, combined with nice beaches, great views (of Edinburgh!)...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DA64y1dXoAAnHzW.png

Modernity has unambiguously created a net increase in health. The key here is net increase, which can happen even if some of what modernity brought was negative.

Over time we gradually figure out what the negatives are and either remove or correct them.
My screen glasses help with eye strain, but they were $80 and not $15. The orange backlight in my Kindle is also easier to look at in the dark than the white backlight. Maybe it works for some people and not others.
We're still talking about The Matrix, right?
One extra thing I have confirmed after writing this article: it's usually a bad idea to reuse back-end data in multiple places on the front-end.

If you think about functions or object constructors in general, it kind of makes sense. One of the most important architectural practices I've ever discovered is: don't pass in the parameters that you have, pass in the parameters that the function needs. So if you have companyName, and you are constructing a page that has a title, you shouldn't pass it companyName: companyName, you should pass it pageTitle: companyName (parameter name: parameter value). It's crucial that the parameter is named after what is needed, not what you have. This is kind of the essence of what the article is suggesting.

If your front-end is reusing a lot of fields from back-end, it's likely that you're passing it what you have in your database/resources, and not what it needs — fields for constructing the UI, configuring the views. Moreover, I rarely see front-end going through the exercise of defining exactly what they need. The article encourages more of that.

Once the front-end starts reusing the generic back-end fields everywhere, you lose track of your use-cases. Everything you ship from the back-end becomes potentially important for mysterious reasons that not even front-end can easily understand anymore. Front-end already built complex dependency trees based on these generic fields. If you actually untangle these trees, it might turn out that your front-end can only exist in 5 different "modes", but you can no longer see that in the tangled mess. You can no longer streamline and optimize these 5 configurations.

So to summarize: pass what is needed, not what you have is a good general architectural rule that's also applicable between back-end and front-end.
Love Datasette. I have successfully deployed it internally to host many studies which were too big for sharing or consumption by normal users (100MB-20GB). Historical options have been to: distribute very high-level summary information (with a few data call outs), build up a minimal Django app, or use a much heavier weight solution (eg Metabase).

Once you get into this medium data space, just distributing the data becomes a challenge as you can no longer email results around. Maybe there are limits on network shares, Sharepoint, whatever your customer is accustomed to using. Then, you run into the problem that your typical user can only use Excel which will similarly barf on too much data.

Previously, I would make a few data call-outs for the most interesting results: whatever could fit in an email or a Powerpoint. Maybe an attached Excel file with the top N interesting data points. Tell the customers too reach out if they have questions or need to know anything else. Questions rarely came.

Now, you can give them ~everything (usually I would only include data after some amount of processing, raw signals are not useful without extreme domain knowledge or the software to process), build up a few views to show different data highlights, and a <5 minute tutorial (“this is Super Excel, this is how you filter data”), and away they go.

My first deployment, I thought it was a cute trick, that was just satisfying my nerd curiosity. However, when I checked in on the logs, I saw they were hammering the system. For a routine study, they were looking up all sorts of things. Which made me wonder: how many times in the past had they wanted more detail, but did not want to bother me? They were now empowered by data, and they could now do their own sleuthing. When I did receive questions post-Datasette, they were more sophisticated because they were able to answer the routine ones on their own.
The article is correct: Bytespider does not observe robots.txt directives.

I set Apache to give Bytespider 404 on anything. Not even Ahrefsbot is this poorly behaved.
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American does not have the structure in place to take care of people in this way. The cost of “housing” a single homes person that easily top 50k a year or more due to high administrative costs and medical costs. It cost more in Seattle to run a RV parking lot per spot than to does to rent a nice 2br apt.