skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This varies a lot from area to area, but I agree that dogs can be a serious problem. I went hiking in Montana last year, and saw a LOT of dogs on the trails that were not leashed. They were well trained, not aggressive and minded their own business. In contrast, a lot of dog owners near me have zero control of their dogs, and don't seem to understand that they have any responsibility. I have had numerous run ins on the street or in public parks where I end up standing between my kids and an aggressive, unleashed, uncontrolled dog. Its owners call to it pitifully from twenty yards away while it tries to dodge around me to eat one of my kids. I've always dismissed the concealed-carry set as a bunch of LARPers, but man, this shit is out of control.
Ask HN: What is your go-to PaaS these days?
If you were building a new startup and need to host your core web app, where would you run it to keep things simple?

My inclination is always to do things the fun (hard) way by self managing everything. But as I'm also the one writing the app, that wouldn't be a good use of time.

There seem to be more options than ever, so I'd love to hear your experiences with these tools.
International Battery Company powers up with $35M to bridge EV gap in India
A real thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum

Fun fact, the famous actress Hedy Lamarr actually was instrumental in inventing it!
> masculinity as toxic

What these influencers like Tate do not want to tell you is that masculinity can be considered as toxic for other reasons as well. For example 'toxic masculinity' burdens men with unreasonable expectations.
> we are going to extract all the oil, no matter what

4C warming is going to be toasty. Mind you, timescales matter; we don't have to extract all the oil now, this century, despite what drillers demand.
Oh man, that's exactly the song I was thinking of (though I had the original, electronically-produced version in mind). The glissando string part, which comes in at 2:28 in your recording, is this cinematic, unapologetic, swaggering thing, like a sweeping helicopter shot of an Aston Martin zooming across Tunisia.

I do prefer the original, electronically-produced version, because I think Amon Tobin is more talented as a producer than as a composer per-se, and I think a lot of the non-"classical" sounds in At the End of the Day are really well selected, like the electric guitar. It adds to the "James Bond"-ness of it all. This is the original, AIUI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mjnHPFS-qw
The fountain of youth is a T cell?
I too was a bit disappointed that the data in question wasn't explained. The only thing the article has made me do, is become even more wary about heatpumps!
Are you sure you're not thinking of other Mac laptops with passive-matrix screens? I remember that the active-matrix screen of the Macintosh Portable was so unbelievably sharp.
Exactly, almost nobody is, except for stenographers.
I want a comparison of the lithium battery supply chains that the competitors have.

Isn't this a major factor?
I would encourage you to talk to iOS devs and see what their opinions are on tooling, docs, and API quality. My experience has been that they're very unhappy with all of the above.
Ask HN: How do you handle ultra power users?
I operate a small knowledge management app for people that play tabletop RPGs. It's a wiki/mapping tool for keeping fantasy worlds organized. It's a subscription-based, collaborative, mostly-local-first app that runs in the browser. Shareability and collaboration is a fundamental conceit of the application.

I adore my users and am thankful for their business, but <1% of them produce ENORMOUS amounts of data. Tens of thousands of pages of text, millions of words, 1000x or more of the average user. I've chatted with these users and they're 100% legit; they're just prolific writers, or like copy pasting lots of content into their projects.

These projects push my application to the absolute limits. Because of these projects, for every feature I make, I must consider the extreme scenario, because someone comes along and pushes the feature to 1000x what I thought was possible. It certainly makes me think about algorithmic complexity every day.

Engineering-wise: sure, make the app more performant. But as a solo dev with a business to run, every product decision is a tradeoff, and performance improvements for 30 or so users suck away a lot of time from core product dev and marketing. Of course, I'll continue to improve the application, but if I set out to make it perfectly performant, I wouldn't have time for anything else.

From a product experience perspective, how do you handle super users? Should I just put my foot down at some point and say "no, actually here's hard limits X, Y, and Z"? Or just suck it up? Or design the product in a way that subtly discourages power-use? Rewrite the whole app in Rust? (Joking.) Obviously I want to make the app work for everyone that wants to use it, but I have to be realistic about my hours in a day. These users are great at surfacing bugs that would've affected everyone eventually, but some bugs are unique to "extreme power-use", especially with an imperfect host like the Browser.
Tesla's quite profitable, with a big cash buffer and little debt with the most popular entry in a highly growing market. It's biggest competition is from Chinese makers like BYD who are being increasingly excluded from Western markets.

Tesla is fine.

Tesla's stock price, OTOH, probably isn't. A P/E of 75 can perhaps be justified with a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 50%, but when the company itself says that it won't hit that CAGR, a share price drop of only 12% is less than I would expect.
Maybe a publishing address is locked to a sender address after the first post, so you'd need to also hijack the sender account
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E...

Here's the context since it's been quoted without providing it.
A Counterintuitive Effect of Global Warming
I didn't say anything about truth, I'm speaking about a humanness signal.
Because Google wants the money, I think.
Plagues Upon the Earth is maybe even more on point to the plague bit in particular, with the co-evolution of human society and infectious disease over history taking the front stage.
US Extends Lead over China in Race for Biggest Economy
The author is describing his personal journey, but the real question is not fully answered. And the answer is yes, it matters.

For sports, action, wildlife (i.e. not in zoos), deep-space astro-photography (not milky-way), micro-photography (not macro), etc - you need good gear to make high quality photos. By quality I'm referring to technical elements of quality - ample detail, minimum optical aberrations/distortions, good color accuracy, good accuracy of focus, etc. You can intentionally make a picture which is blurry, has intentionally bad color casts, etc - but then we're getting into art here, which is subjective.

Having said that, a boring subject will result in a boring photo, and this is true regardless of gear.
It would take me longer than an hour just to install the electrical circuit and disconnect box. Then more than another hour to bore holes in the brick wall, mount lineset covers, and run the lineset.

It's not a huge amount of labor and $5K+ for the labor portion is not justified, but if I sat on your sidewalk with a stopwatch and stopped you at 60 minutes, I'm willing to bet a pretty good sum of money that you wouldn't be done.
I do. I do care about mine, because it helps me work, and I do care about yours when I contribute to your project, because it helps me work.

Scrolling through the list of downsides, it seems like every single one of them should have "but only if you're doing it wrong" appended.
I’m stunned that this list overlooks the brilliant PowerBook Duo and its Duo Dock, which mechanically injected and ejected the Duo like a VHS tape. https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Duo_Dock
These are great.
It's sad, but unfortunately it's kind of like the whole "vulkan" issue: allow a great tool to degenerate that people can actually easily use (Flash) and then replace it by much more difficult to use and/or less well supported technologies (HTML5)

The issue is, the training and support for similar projects in JS and CSS took such a long time (and honestly is still nowhere near the ease of use of Flash) that by just a few years later interactive websites became a throwback anyway. Now, if anyone were to do that, it would carry a dreadful air of nostalgia.

That said, perhaps they would have carried on if not for Adobe basically refusing to fix Flash, but I think by the time Steve Jobs' note was published it was already out of vogue. The end of skeuomorphism and the era of "flat design everything" was concurrent, and these were easily accommodated by contemporary web technologies without Flash. I think that's also an important point, there was an era where such websites as Amon Tobin's were considered basically old-fashioned and lethargic, and everyone was genuinely very excited about turning everything into flat design.
There's no reason not to expand it. Expanding the acronym does no harm to anyone who is already familiar with it, and is very helpful to people who are not.
Definitely a real thing. Also, during WWII actress Hedy Lamarr developed a system for spread spectrum torpedo guidance to prevent jamming, but the general idea predates that.
It's just them lying for PR. It's not something which has consequences.

> "evil oil companies", but this is 2024

Same companies, and often same people. They can keep the climate change denial going as long as they're making money from it.
A TB of memory is not
Yes, although it very much depends on how big 'everything' is if that's a problem.
I believe that, in terms of compactness and image quality, it is hard to beat Sony's mirrorless, but personally I can't stand their ergonomics.
The distinction is between using APIs (documented or undocumented) vs using and distributing 3rd party libraries and SDKs.

It's likely that in order to avoid distributing Apple IP one would need to reverse engineer some undocumented APIs, but that's coincidental.
Are you in the US?
I recommend this article: https://www.additudemag.com/workplace-legal-protection/

If your ADHD is preventing you from working effectively, you have the legal right to reasonable accommodations (going offline on Slack may be one).

Any decent engineering manager would be happy to work with you to find a way for you to work effectively, and the ADA gives them cover to make exceptions to company policy.
Consider me on team conquistador now
Yes, but why? Why does Rust (or, more precisely, the "rewrite in Rust" meme) such negative connotation?
What did the circumvent?
I didn't like the Mad Max movie either, but isn't that a bit much?
Flexible Notion to Pandoc AST Tool
He carried the Witcher spy network too.
Tickets Are for Remembering
Show HN: I made a tool that helps you visualize what a kilogram is
This was a point I hit with guitars and gear too.

I can't imagine what else I'd need right now, might as well learn to play.
Apple makes open source Swift, LLVM, Clang, WebKit, darwin. They already spend millions on open source.

Google makes open source Android, Chromium, Go, Dart, Flutter, Lit, ANGLE, Dawn. They also spend millions on open source.

Microsoft makes C#, F#, VSCode, Electron, Powershell, and further Microsoft is providing free hosting for probably 95% of all open source projects (github) as well as free CIs (github actions) and free JS/TS library distribution (npm). They're spending millions on open source too.

I don't know what Meta provides except React and LLaMa but that's still millions

Taxing requires administration so what you'd really be doing is giving a bunch of non-developers money in the form of salaries. The rest they'd give for their friend's projects, or whoever bribed them with kickbacks etc...
Was skeptical about this data.

Our World In Data sites a 2015 study [1] which in turn cites an 2012 World Bank report [2] for some of its data, including the numbers for Japan. This then in turn cites OECD data without a solid link, but a search and some digging leads us to [3]. This data is acquired through questionnaire (there's some info available in the data explorer), so the trail runs cold there.

I did cross-check with the numbers of the Central Bureau of Statistics of the Netherlands, and the overall waste production matches: an average 532 kg of waste per capita, ~17 million people leads to about 9000 million tons of waste per year.

However, I cannot find the fraction of plastic waste on the OECD site anywhere. If I use the Dutch CBS data (counting "Kunststof verpakkingen", "PMD-fractie", and "Harde plastics"), the Dutch fraction of municipal waste that is plastic-related seems to be only about 4%, which is 5 times fewer than the World Bank report lists.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1260352

[2] https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/1a4...

[3] https://data-explorer.oecd.org/vis?fs[0]=Topic%2C1%7CEnviron...

[4] https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/cijfers/detail/83452NED?dl=41FD6
Blog post read alright, the author probably has a short position.
This is literally furthest front the truth. Instead of having develop of all building test passing squashed commits you have to fiddle with bisect around commits that accidentally break the build and fail test and god knows why.

Squash is basically a hard requirement for bisect to be useful at all. Especially for compiled languages.
> You understand there are many societys in this world, in fact the majority of them, which would conteract that statement?

No. The entire world can be assumed to be like America, so Americans don't need to really think about it. Everything foreign is properly understood by mapping it to familiar American concepts and obsessions.
A room with no elephants in it
I already knew about this, old graphs and it's going to get much worse for about 6-9 years. Completely predictable and understandable. SK is getting there sooner obviously. I wonder what Japan's latest data looks like, not good I bet. Like OP points out, this isn't a divide on gender related issues.

Most recent polling from angus reid says Canada is similar to Germany but much more conservative, but same amount of divide. Roughly a 15% lead for conservatives with women. Canada is a unique case where women have moved conservative already because of he-who-must-not-be-named. I'm pretty confident we will fix the problem in about 3-4 years? Hopefully.

The remarkable thing about this issue is that this isn't sustainable but you're not really allowed to talk about it. Why is the only place you can discuss this on twitter?

there are some probabilities or implications to figure as well. I expect SK will uncensor their internet in due course. Not a certainty though.

Something a democracy must have is open free discussions in order sort out your beliefs. Sometimes you have to talk about painful subjects. I am 100% egalitarian, but the discussion has to be had. The societal rift is growing and it's really bad.

When issues are censored though, everyone just sits there dumbfounded and unsure why it's even happening because nobody is talking about it. There is no right or wrong, it's fine for women to become progressive.

OP calls it negative polarisation and drops the hashtag. I'm shocked this thread hasn't been flagged and disallow the discussion.
My career solely exist because of foss. My salary level is only that high because of foss. I don't feel like I've been in a bad position.
Colony Collapse
YC for Solana
For what the author is doing, the main consideration is that the type of gear you use affects your process, which is going to affect the end results. There's not a better or worse, but it's inevitable that you're going to get different results if you use a digital camera with an old manual focus lens vs an iPhone vs a medium format film camera, because the act of taking a photo is different for each one. I think it's easier to overlook this in photography more than other artistic hobbies because camera companies are very interested in convincing you to buy more expensive gear. And because expensive gadgets are fun.
Ah, lack of availability makes a lot of sense given these community remakes are now two decades old. Improving the content layout also sounds great. I will check them out, thanks!

Kinda weird to differentiate between B/X and BECMI, considering Companion/Master/Immortals are extensions for higher level characters using the same Basic/Expert rules.

Edit: the distinction still seems pedantic to me, but these helped to understand the differences in the context of OSR:

https://leyline.press/blogs/leyline-press-blog/a-comparative...

https://leyline.press/blogs/leyline-press-blog/a-comparative...
Create Dynamic Discounts with Custom Conditions on Laravel
Just imagine Microsoft charging $1 for every .exe installer clicked on in Windows 95.

Apple's total failure to build popular new products has forced it to defend/grow it's services revenue in unethical and anti-user ways. The only winners here are $aapl stock holders and at great cost to global progress and fairness.

Tim Cook of all people should sympathize with developers everywhere getting it in the ass without consent.
I make sure by boss understands that if I'm expected to monitor and respond to slack all day long anything else I'm asked to do is going to take forever and I won't be able to commit to having any other work done by a particular date.
LiteratureGPT
https://archive.is/8tBPf
It depends. If you have an EV that number starts becoming favorable very quickly.
NIST Privacy Framework revision plan
Would it be fair to say that "preventing data loss", broadly speaking, requires defense in depth, and that RAID alone is not sufficient?

If so, then both things in the gp are true: raid isn't enough, and can be a false sense of security.
Its not the same, the act of taking a picture is seen as simply pressing a button - which is true.

The process of designing an image isn't. So if you were an art director in a studio in charge of the look of the model, hair, makeup, etc, nobody will question your credentials, but if you were the photographer hired to simply take the photo, then you're merely an operator of an instrument, not someone with a creative vision.
Germany unearths pro-Russia disinformation campaign on X
> Investigators uncover concerted onslaught on Berlin’s support for Ukraine involving more than 1m posts
A linker typically only includes the parts of the library it needs for each binary so some parts will definately have many copies of the same code when you statically link but it will not make complete copies.

But I wouldnt consider this bloat. To me it is just a better seperation of concerns. To me bloat would be to have a system that has to keep track of all library dependencies instead, both from a packaging perspective but also in runtime. I think it depends where you are coming from. To me static linking is just cleaner. I dont care much for the extra memory it might use.
I had a dog growing up that insisted on watching The Price Is Right every weekday morning and she'd bark at you until you changed the channel. Then she'd push a stool in front of the TV, sit on it, and watch Bob Barker for an hour and when the show was over she'd get up and leave.
this brings up complicated questions about perception, and the way that thinking links to senses.

In other words, it is quite possible that dogs see (poorly, without red) very much what we see, but the cognitive ability and then the "thinking" that happens after that, is very different.
EPUB 3 includes MathML.

https://www.w3.org/TR/epub-33/
Squash merge is a tool to use when the contributor did their job poorly and you're hopeless about getting them to do it right. There's barely any other use for it when accepting merge requests.
No but there are people in the hack news crowd that care about these outcomes. Those people write articles talk to policy makers, discuss these issues at conventions and help to get the word out to other people that have influence who do care. Everything is connected.
That is pretty neat, is it on both sides of the lens (entry and exit)? The synchronisation mechanism between all these things also sounds very interesting.
I like how some linter have levels. Like Perl Critic or PHPStan. https://phpstan.org/user-guide/rule-levels I never use the highest levels. With Eslint I stick to the Airbnb defaults (https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-config-airbnb)
My cicada anecdote:

In my youth the cicadas were quite a bit more common. Probably because not every square inch of the land was cultivated back then, leaving undisturbed nymphs in the ground to erupt periodically as adults in their millions.

Every couple of years they'd swarm, probably different broods according to this article but nevertheless there they'd be, filling every tree and making their racket.

One summer after they'd come and gone, filling the air with a sound like industrial saws going off every evening come dusk, the barnyard was blissfully quiet.

But for one hardy individual, still sawing away (they rub legs together to make that awful noise?) by herself, having missed her once-in-a-lifetime chance for some sweet cicada nookie.

It was loud as I walked down the lane, then it got suddenly VERY LOUD! then almost instantly quieter.

Wha? I stopped, backed up carefully, and there it was - in a particular sweet spot the sound was like ten times louder! And inside my head!

So I stood there, playing with the noise, moving slightly to make the center of the sound move around in my head, and it got quiet, I couldn't find it!

Hm. Fish around, it had moved a few feet further north!

I had to figure this out. So I listened carefully, found the little bugger, on the trunk of a tree some fifty feet away(!)

I studied her from close-up. She'd saw away for a while, then do a side-step thing where she moved further around the tree-trunk, take up shrieking again.

She was scanning for a mate! Like a lighthouse, broadcasting her fascinating search-beam in a progressive circle, hoping some male (or is the males that scan?) would hear her, find her sexy voice just the thing for him, and home in. Loud as she could, to out-compete the others doing the same thing presumably (not today, today she was alone, destined to die loveless and unmated).

I remember this episode, fifty years later. It was a singular event; I moved away from the Midwest and never heard a cicada again for decades.
Susan Sontag's Funny Sexy Sad Magnum Opus Threatens to Upend Our Democracy
Is it 48000 or 49152? (49152 being 2^15 + 2^14, working well with a lot of binary stuff, but def not divisible by 5 or 10)
That's what you get when you have a scientist try writing a book that's simultaneously popular science and popular history. And judged as a popular history GGS does get a lot of things wrong and isn't up to the standards historians work to hold up. But on more scientific questions like "why there weren't diseases endemic to the new world that would affect Europeans in the same way that smallpox did to the indigenous populations" it does a good job.

EDIT: Really, the reception to GGS is probably one of the best illustrations of what Thomas Kuhn was talking about in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions about different paradigms having different rules that I can recall seeing in my lifetime.
That's just HTML that looks like a PDF, though. Incredible feat, but not really what I want from PDF turned to HTML. I want something mobile friendly.
Pounded in the Butt by my Hugo Award Nomination
If you work on a repo with 120 teams across the world you spend your time making sure their stuff compiles and doesn’t break the build. Not that some guy actually made the commit history pretty.

You can have a 3 person team work with such policies. But it is unworkable for a huge repo.