skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not necessarily true for all businesses in all locals. For instance if you buy a car in CA, they charge sales tax based on your home address, so two people could in fact buy the same product at the same dealer and pay different prices
This sounds like the starting point for a cringey song about physics.
Just started Master of the Senate. Caro's books have reignited my love of reading. Cannot recommend his books enough for anyone interested in how power in organizations or government is culled and cultivated. His books read like thrillers, but are exhaustively researched and sourced.

Sony Pictures recently released a movie covering Caro and his recently passed editor, Robert Gottlieb, relationship and process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv3CRojrbeE
it was always about money and control. Not science.
Science is about debating ideas rather than censoring and flagging comments.
It's not related to the escarpment, that is a glacial feature. Their origin is not impact related, either, it is tectonic (the rift valley from a failed continental rift): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midcontinent_Rift_System
No, they aren't piracy links. These are where the news site makes their content available to scrapers and then paywalls humans. This is where the news site is trying take advantage of search engines to get you to clink on their SERP, and then make you pay. In a lot of cases you can read this content by proxying off a non-dynamic ip range and changing your user agent.
I'd really like to uninstall Edge and never be pestered about switching to it as the default browser ever again.
A different machine in a similar vein: https://youtu.be/v4QyfElo1fs
Most reliable metric: ignore 5 star reviews and only compare the number of 4 star reviews to the number of 1 star reviews. this works across all review sites. most sellers only fake 5 star reviews. however, if you review products and services that you know are quite excellent, you will that they often have way more 4 star reviews than one star reviews and more 4 than 3, more three than 2, and more 2 than one. this is because they are consistently excellent. but products with polar review metrics like all 5 star reviews and all 1 star reviews generally i find have the most fraudulent reviews and are most likely to have a bad experience. I think you should weigh 1 star reviews much higher than 5 star reviews. the new amazon metric or the advertisements talking about their aggregate quantity of five star reviews are wrong and misguided.
Do CAPTCHAs in practice really serve to perfectly tell apart humans or robots, or just to thwart the laziest attempt of abusing a website? Everyone knows that a door lock, no matter how good, can be overcome if you a really determined. But the lock still thwarts off opportunists. Yes, the goal when we first developed CAPTCHAs may have been to tell apart humans and robots. Realistically now, if CAPTCHAs can still significantly reduce the traffic from bots then companies will keep using them.
As far as I understand it, this is only about implementing a blocklist for scam and phishing sites, like what Edge's SmartScreen already does. The agency in charge of this, Arcom, will have to comply to that requirement. While the principle in itself isn't great, this isn't as bad as Mozilla or comments on HN make it look like.
It's hard to see how that would have worked.

Google can put anything it wants in Chrome, but why would Safari or Firefox have done this? I don't see how they even could from a practical perspective, since they'd each either have to maintain a separate implementation (you really find out how good your specification is only once it needs to support multiple independent implementations) or import the Google one wholesale. Rinse and repeat every time Google changes Dart.

If Google puts it in Chrome and pushes it, most likely it simply dies there. But perhaps it catches on, furthering the reality that Chrome (and therefore Google) is the web. That's the worst case scenario for everyone (except Google, of course).

Anyway, WASM is here, and doesn't have these drawbacks, so we're all free to enjoy using Dart in the browser, if we want to (to the extent they support it). Not to mention Javascript is in quite a different place than it was when the idea of native Dart in the browser came up.
> The "ultra-rich" tend to contribute to the issue far more than everyone else combined

The link does not appear to show this at all.
Do you have a link to the source? I'm not seeing it on the site.
I hope not, I really miss the times when I could curl any website I wanted, make myself "API" out of it, good times.
The modern browser as a full-featured application platform was invented and developed by US big tech, not Europe.
Allen AI pays well?! Do they ever hire vanilla engineers or just researchers, applied scientists?
And good old web (well, that intermediary persons were many things didn’t yet use captchas but bots were already prevalent ) levels of spam and flooding of comment sections with links to advertisement and scams. Sounds great.

I hate captchas as much as the next person and have long suspected that bots can solve them better than I can, but I hate the comment sections and forums made useless by spam messages even more.
With XDG adherence applications might comply and put files scattered around the various XDG directories. Before XDG, applications that pissed all over my $HOME were rare, applications generally played nice and kept only on dot file or directory.

Backups are even harder now because I have to cherry pick what to backup from even more places. I don't backup all of $HOME because it's loaded with junk I don't want to waste backup space on.
I think you can get pretty far by searching on YouTube for “walstad method tank” or “walstad planted aquarium”.

Some people start with a large jar, while others try something like a 5–10 gallon tank. You can go very small to start.

In a tank system, it’s helpful to include either a small filter or power head to maintain water movement. If you’re adding a lot of plants, a head is sufficient because the plants and animals will do a great job of filtration. I use snails (naturally occurring) and shrimp (purchased, but I’d like to find a native equivalent) to aid with cleanup, and the water is crystal clear after several months with no water changes, only top ups to account for evaporation.

If you want to include animals like fish, you really should ensure you do some research first and establish something with a lot of plant life. The fish won’t thrive without a suitable habitat and usually, most species require some water movement and excellent filtration.

As for self sufficiency, the systems will run on their own for extended periods quite well, but if you add more fish for example, you’ll generally need to add more food. Even so, this can be a very occasional event. With mine I will add material I find from my worm composter such as small white worms which colonized on their own. I’ve also experimented with raising daphnia in a jar with baker’s yeast as their food. I think I’ve only added external food once per month or so, and I’m not sure this was actually necessary. The system produces a huge amount of micro fauna and algae which the animals go crazy for. The animals are all tiny, too, so their feeding requirements would naturally be far less than your typical fish tank system.

The book is also a great guide, though it’s a little advanced. It assumes you know a bit about the hobby of aquaria, both planted and with fish.

In any case, I’d say it’s easier than you think. With the right understanding, it’s hard to fail. It’s incredibly complex, but establishing a good culture and allowing it to thrive will generally ensure it remains well balanced with very little intervention.
Get in touch with the Debian folk, they're really good and would likely be happy to offer you a refund.
The rest of the world is enough.
Seems obvious to me that if you are a tech company without a huge money printing machine (i.e. you aren't big tech) you can compete with big tech on talent by offering true, full remote work. Giving you smaller labor costs.
I have this hobby project for personal time tracking I work on from time to time. It's usable enough for my daily use so motivation has dropped since that point.

https://github.com/eliasson/quarter
For a free speech purist that should be a distinction without a difference.
I just want you to know, you’re not getting downvoted by the “woke mob”, you’re getting down voted for making an idiotic joke and insisting on making some random conversation on history about “woke politics”.
W11 is absolute garbage. I hate it - I have two identical gaming laptops, one Windows 10& one is 11.

The 11 crashes a lot, overheats and then on top of it ms has integrated ads I to the OS... And tying your login to outlook.com should be illegal :-)

The w10 machine never over heats, doesn't crash and doesn't have as much as embedded - but it still ties to outlook.com no bueno
Do we know that the paving zone was properly signed/controlled? The single photo in the article has a cone on the outside of the zone, but we don't see the beginning of the zone.
Sometimes it's the CPU waiting.

Sometimes there is a connection open to the DB which acquired a lot of locks during a long-running transaction. The DB is processing this transaction on one DB connection, and many other DB connections are blocked because they can not access certain tables, pages, or rows. The other sessions are literally doing nothing and are waiting.

Potential ways to improve it:

- Reducing the scope of transactions
- committing more often within the transaction
- optimizing just the most impactful queries which contribute to the blocking session's runtime (not ones that don't block at all)
- loosening the transaction isolation level
> it'd be quite straightforward to power the grid using 90% renewables using the existing plants for the last hard 10%.

Sadly incorrect. You can see the variation of wind and solar we get here in the UK at: https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

As you can see, fossil fuels are about a 1/3rd of power and we expand renewables by maybe another 30% before we start getting excess power. After that point, you start to have excess power while no longer reducing CO2 by much as you still need the Nat gas for the cloudy and still days.

In practice you might be able to get to 75% non-fossil fuels before you're firmly into the realm of diminishing returns without a big storage breakthrough or a doubling/tripling of electricity costs (its triple to go pure wind and current tech energy storage because you need up to weeks of storage to not have blackouts, but with a nuclear power expansion youd only need a doubling).
I fail to see how more public transit would solve the drunk-guy-pissing-in-the-corner issue.
Soil carbon measurement company Yard Stick raises $10.6M Series A
Unfortunately the evidence exists. It's from [Location Services & Privacy - Apple](https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/data/en/location-service...):

> Location Services uses GPS and Bluetooth (where those are available) along with crowd-sourced Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations to determine your device’s approximate location.

> If Location Services is on, your iPhone will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers (where supported by a device) in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to be used for augmenting this crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations.

> The crowd-sourced location data gathered by Apple does not personally identify you.
And even so, what are the odds that other apps will just end up back on the OS after some period of time? It's part of the Windows experience, uninstalling the garbage only to see it come back in an update a couple months later.
> There are no features you should pay for on HN.

If somebody made a good HN app for iPad, I’d pay $5 a month for it. Features I’d like would be actual good design (not just feature notes that say, “Stunning, clean, beautiful”) and the ability to block specific users, topics/keywords, and domains.
I don't know why people use these analogies. No person can memorize terabytes worth of lyrics.
dontdiecollectloot.com

An odd mashup between Diablo, old arcade shooters, with a splash of Vampire Survivors style progression
CSS Tricks Is Dead
Doesn't the ratio of mass of asteroid to atmosphere dominate? The larger the asteroid, the proportionally less momentum it loses to the atmosphere. Not sure how much a column of air the radius of a mountain weighs, but seems relatively very small?
Totally. I support a team of 40+ and even I have a hard time proposing this. Very hard to go against the herd.

There's so much progress happening in existing Python-powered ML community that, unless there are very good interop tools and protocols (e.g. ONNX and the like), then even if you gain productivity gains w/your local team by moving to Elixir, you risk losing your ability to draft off that larger community's progress.

Very hard trade-off unless you're sufficiently funded to invest in the gaps.
You will be the judge.

I was tasked of enabling us to backtrack on our decision of building a microservice rather than a library. The service was using postgres, and was connected to multiple website, one of which was targeted to use the service as a library. The challenge lied in the fact we used JSON to store some metadata as a shallow tree of depth 2-3, and the targeted website used mysql (which did not support JSON data at the time). Concretely it required to introduce edits in more than 300 files and manually take care of parsing a couple datetimes. Maybe there were other gotchas I have forgotten but it was hard enough with respect to the test suite I decided to write an ORM adapter to add support for json in mysql (dump it as a string, retrieve it, parse the string as native datastructures, walk the tree to convert datetime strings). I know this sounds crude, but it was enough for these tiny JSON data we only looked at when investigating problems at the command line. I took the steps to isolate this adapter as an independent library so that we could take the same decision of transforming the microservice as a library dependency on other websites we maintained ... basically at the cost of adding a library dependency in the project config.

After a code review that astutely pointed out my adapter ran at every loading of an object from the database (which I corrected by running it lazily upon accessing specific fields), it was decided my code was a gas factory and the CTO proceeded to do the right thing, get rid of that perky – but working and ready to go in production ! – library (took me 2 days to write) and just update the damn code. 3 days later he still wasn't finished with the 300 files edits, and he ended up abandoning and splitting the library in two. One would be used by the microservice, and the other as a library on the website. He traded treewalking our datastructures with treewalking our codebases, program efficiency with programmers efficiency (we were 15 on the team while our competitors had 50 devs). This way any modification brought to that service/library:
- is not transferred to the other version, leading to organizational complexity
- is transferred and the time it takes to dev a features is multiplied by a number between 1 and 2.
- or there are complex surprises under the surface and this factor is greater than 2.
> Getting banned from your favorite baseball forum because you keep talking about hockey does in fact count, even if it's relatively minor and most people would even agree with it.

Fine. But then what word do you use for repressive coercion of speech by governments? I'm no linguistic purist. I get that words change their meanings over time.

What I was complaining about were people (1) using the word to imply terrible behavior on the part of some imagined enemy while (2) citing irrelevant nonsense evidence, as in your example. That's not a semantic argument, that's just lying.
Me too but after talking to my MP about it I do wonder how much of it is because they (Meta) fundamentally support privacy and everything that comes with that or if it's just a convenient way to deny having any responsibility towards safety on their platforms. It's possible to be right, but for the wrong reasons. I'd like to think it's for the right reasons, but I'm not sure.

If users really cared about privacy they'd use open source software instead of WhatsApp anyway. I doubt the removal or compromised e2e encryption would make much of a dent in user numbers. One thing I've come to realise is most people want privacy for themselves, but not for others.
I listen to their podcast. I'm just a little skeptical of the information they publish ever since they relocated Hayward WI to MN (episode on the lumberjack competition.) It was still interesting and mostly true but I wondered how someone could (purportedly) visit Hayward WI and think they were in Minnesota.
At a bare minimum, the onboard systems should know how to "pull over" like a human driver would if their vehicle was malfunctioning.
> Instructables used to support Chinese characters, and someone made a decision that broke that support and it got pushed to prod. (Did someone change the text encoding of UGC and migrate the DB without thinking about other languages?!) At best it was the result of incompetence and apathy.

Or alternatively, something somewhere was not built to design UTF-8 (since, you know, its an actual hard problem) and it was a short term "get this out the door before tonight" solution. Which having been in the industry long enough at this point is probably the most likely reason. Not some unfounded "hate" for Chinese people. Wu's rant is unhinged and insulting. It's so typical of online discussion to immediately go to "-splaining", "-ism", "-phobia" the second something happens someone doesn't like. To ice the cake she even talks about "tech bros" (the implied tone being white men).

> I bet her tweets played some role in getting that fixed.

Being a crybully is a not a virtue. I found this part the most hilarious:

> If a CAD company gets tagged by one of the largest digital fabrication accounts on Twitter, and doesn't respond? That is your answer.

Sounds a lot like "silence is violence". Another laughable term used to crybully people. Unhinged thirst trap is completely unable to understand how tech orgs actually work. News at 11.
I think attempts to tease out this distinction is going to make these laws unwieldy to use in practice
I assume this is all done server-side, with Google feeding your interests and investigations into your personal profile. I really wish this could be done on-device. I don't want Google slurping up even more data about web users.

I use FF mainly on desktop and mobile, and there's probably a great opportunity for Mozilla to build an offline, privacy-first summarization model.
There's nothing so anti-intellectual as the idea that a college or any formal institution is the only place for any kind of intellectual life.
Ossuary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossuary

I think this is fairly standard practice in much of Europe where space is scarce. Moreso in larger towns and cities than rural villages. It’s also why family tombs are common in the first place.

My grandpa’s family, for example, has shared the same cemetery plot since before ww1. That’s how you fit a whole village into one little tiny church cemetery.
> (Poland has been and is predominantly Christian with rate of catholic church members being >90% even today).

Nowadays that's on paper mostly, especially that apostasy is difficult and not really worth the trouble for most.

The pandemic especially revealed that many people were attending only because everyone else was.
With respect, this is not a theory as much as it is basic observation. Even this old data is striking:

https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/levelized-cost-of-energy

Batteries are completely on a similar curve, continuously improving at an exponential rate, and as they get scaled up to TWh/year production there is a chance of acceleration of this trend. There is a proliferation of new chemistry and tech in all parts of the battery. We are just at the very beginning.
People see batteries as "cheap and disposable". The price tag of $15 for 4 batteries is a one-time hit that most people in the US* don't want to take. You and I both know they will save money over time, and yes, it's much better for the environment to reuse, but that is why.

*I come from a non-US country, and was brought up using rechargeable batteries. I have lived here for 10 years and I have not seen a single rechargeable AA at any point.
This is the same mindset that uses potential child abuse to justify bans and censorship on everything.
No, but they use X.
Yeah, I need feedback on the language. But to do so, people kinda want to be able to try it. I'm still getting it into a demo-ready state.

Since my VCS will be all-in-one, yes, it will have a GitHub equivalent. In fact, it will be more of a Gitea equivalent because anyone could spin one up.

But I'm not worried about beating git (yet) because the use case for binary tracking is assets for movies and games, and movies and games generally use Perforce. Once my VCS has replaced Perforce, I'll think about conquering git.
Hi all! I'm a software/hardware engineer at Yard Stick and am happy to talk more about what we've been working on if anyone has any questions.
I’ve also been getting back into fantasy and sci-fi. I’m reading through the Wheel of Time series right now and it’s the best series I’ve ever read. I’m on book 7 and really glad there’s still 7 books left. If you liked Eragon, then you’ll probably love this series.

Contrast that to Dune, which I heard so much praise for and was very very disappointed by. The first Dune book was ok, but it just went downhill from there. The God Emperor of Dune was the most boring garbage I’ve ever read, and I’m convinced people think it’s great because they read it in high school or middle school and thought it was “deep” when it’s just a bunch of fluff with no substance. The plot is terrible too. Once again, the first Dune book was alright, but the rest are absolute trash in my honest opinion.
https://gridwatch.templar.co.uk/

Wind can be very low for days and low for weeks.

Hydro is ecologically devastating and there aren't enough sites for it.
My theory is that once a species has tech to make itself immortal, the drive to reproduce will be over. Thus you don’t see life everywhere, primitive life gets stuck in their own system.

If you you see the pace of acceleration of humans, I wouldn’t be surprised if we can get immortality type tech with in 500 years
Even if the cones weren't perfect, a flagger should be sufficient for traffic control. It's same as if there was a police officer directing traffic in an intersection. Both are explicit overrides to posted signs.

Same with emergency vehicles, which self-driving cars have already been shown to ignore.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. Lots for me to mull over in that.
I didn't say we had reached a saturation point, I'm merely pointing out that we've mustered up the investment to build them.
Starbucks Reserve Roasteries !== Starbucks.

The reserve locations are better seen as flashy celebrations of coffee and basically ignore the entire Starbucks Corporate supply chain, in that way they are:
1: Vastly better quality coffee with actual light roasts available.
2: Absolutely not Scalable.

I'm not saying they aree somehow better than other high-end roasters but
Isn't the issue though that such laws are usually abused so a website spreading "misinformation/fake news" about the government is labelled a "scam"...?
As someone who's done a couple of ultramarathons, my first reaction is "That's crazy."

However, the title of the race does have "Transcendence" in there, so it seems a primary motivating factor is to see if you can put yourself into that state of transcendence for the duration.