skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> due to our own pollution and the lack of build up to diseases in the water

I'm not sure this is exactly correct. Modern people still need to boil water to safely drink it even if the water comes from a remote area which does not have any pollution or disease.

You are right that it is a reinvention though because we used to do this regularly because we had antibodies and other things which could handle whatever was in the water in small quantities. Everything we have now is so pure that our immune and digestive systems can't handle anything that isn't pure anymore.
Yeah I live on a rural property and I'd be uncomfortable taking something like this constantly through the season.

So far I have success keeping the grass short, discouraging deer on the property (tick magnets), and keeping the (two) dogs on Nexgard.

If they got worse, I'd get myself some guinea fowl to annoy the neighbours with.
Yes definitely. I feel it's an important distinction to make because
otherwise the authoritarians and profiteers of "for your own good" will
jump on that and say "See! These stupid users claim not to care about
security. We must mandate manufacturers manage that after purchase".

Nobody wants that, least of all manufacturers, unless they can use
backdoors to spy on and ransom customers like printer and car
makers are starting to.
(it's DBOS again)
I just meant it doesn't make anyone wise by default ;)

There are lessons you can only learn by living through them, no doubt about it.

I think I just don't like these type of posts where age is used as some kind of source of authority or to set expectations. Old or young, like a post that says "I'm only 16 and I did X".

It doesn't diminish the accomplishments or anything and maybe it's just better marketing at that point..
Do you mind if the data is used for targeting unionizing efforts? Great site, great work.
Harvard has halted its long-planned atmospheric geoengineering experiment
We should really give the statue back. It's an embarrassment how we explicitly reject its ideals.
I had one of those boxes, worked for a company that ran news and magazine publishing sites and we pushed all the data to them as opposed to rewriting our search on the sites.. they were pretty decent and seemed to also help our page rankings on the mothersite ;)
Except India where it is blocked nation wide
Work from home is not great for everyone. Since going fully remote, I have noticed a drastic increase in mental health and substance abuse issues among coworkers. An office job provided structure and meaningful daily contact that is not replicated in 30 minute zoom calls. Companies can decide if they want their workers to be in-person or remote, and employees can decide if they want to work for them. Saying that return to office mandates are bad for all companies is just plain dumb.
> Barring that, perhaps Firestore could introduce the concept of a "lightweight database function hook" akin to Cloudflare workers that runs in the lifecycle of a DB request, thus formalizing the security requirements specific to the business requirement and causing the development organization to allocate resources to its upkeep.

Firebase has triggers.
> Taylor Rule system of inflation control actually works extremely well

What are you basing this on? The Taylor Rule was suggested as a toy model--that's why a_pi and a_y were set to the magic value of 0.5 without further thought given to it. Its own author abandoned it as computers became advanced enough to run more complicated models.
Point estimates in general are deceptive. It's difficult to capture the nuance of a full distribution with a single number.

I've had some luck with upper and lower percentiles, e.g. 5 % and 95 %. These cover 9 out of 10 people, which is large enough to be meaningful, yet not so small it's difficult to estimate.
> another instance of how low property taxes and the absence of land value taxes massively benefits low-value businesses.

How are other businesses excluded from low property taxes? This is clearly unfair, and could be easier addressed by removing barriers instead of erecting new ones.
> The experimental pill that Tarsus Pharmaceuticals is testing is a formulation of lotilaner, a drug that paralyzes and kills parasites by interfering with the way that signals are passed between their nerve cells.

Who knows what effect this has on signals between our own nerve cells. Yikes.
By a custom renderer, are you referring to replacing the rendering process (e.g. ReactDOM) rather than replacing JSX?

It's not clear to me how this would be better than swapping out the @jsx pragma. For rendering content to the Canvas, we have no need for all the overhead and complexity of React elements/components. There is no need or benefit in using the `React.createElement` (or its newer counterparts) to create React elements. But in theory, you're right that CanvaSX could have used React elements and rendered those instead of replacing the JSX pragma.
I discovered them when running stable diffusion which maxes out my m1max and audio started to stutter a lot despite everything else running fine. I was even thinking to myself how nice it is to be able to tax the machine and this be able to use it.
I'd like to add ST's Stellar MCU's: https://www.st.com/en/automotive-microcontrollers/stellar-32...

Looks like Oxid has a demo using these proc's: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7041723...
Oh, it is going to be a huge issue in the future. Look at Bangalore. Once farmers too start facing water shortage, the shit will hit the fan.

The Modi government is not known for its long-term thinking - in fact, they are very bad planners as they don't have the requisite experience. Their whole approach to running a government is to treat it like a corporate business - "hey, this thing will make us money and create good PR for us, let's do it!". They have no vision for capacity building. Look at the whole electoral bond scam the Modi government ran and used to enrich themselves - it was legalised corruption worse than the corporate lobbying that exists in America. They even combined it by giving lower ranking IT official (who tend to be more corrupt) extra-ordinary powers of investigation, and draconian powers to the Enforcement Directorate to seize property and used both to extort money from questionable and / or corrupt businesses.

The last 10 years of Modi rule has seen the largest transfer of wealth from the public to the rich, with Modi personally acting as the middle-man and raking money from it too.
Blackwater PMC founder Erik Prince on distributed open-source communication
Yes, Gmail was Aprils’ Day of 2004.
What you say is true most of the time, but New York State's top tax brackets are flat rates. An income increase can indeed result in you netting less.
I'm a strong believer in road culture change happening. Biking in DC changed enormously when our bike share program showed up in 2008. Seeing casual chill people on slow bikes, often a little lost or uneasy, forces a bit of a reset from the classic fast cars vs spandex wheel-stander bikes dynamic.
Thats what sidecar did, and the driver market rejected it because it was an awful and unsafe experience. Imagine trying to set rates while you're driving around!
We here are all interested in hearing your thoughts, so please filter raw chatbot output through them, rather than pasting the output verbatim, which isn't value-added, and can even be negative value, given chatbots' penchant for hallucinating information.
Maybe.

I know I'm going to die. I've been with people when they died. And I'm seeing a parent living with the challenges of very old age. I know I'm going to die and I try to meditate on that and, as far as I can tell, I truly know it. And I see the value of that knowledge.

But in a way it also changes nothing. I'm still alive. I'm still going to die. Nothing fundamental has fundamentally changed.
I have a Japanese futon mat[1] under my bed that I roll out if I have muscle soreness. If it weren’t for my partner (who insists on sleeping in a bed) I would sleep on the floor 100% of the time. After getting used to floor sleeping I can never feel truly relaxed in a bed-I feel like the padding is putting pressure on my lumbar spine.

[1] https://www.futonbedsfromjapan.com/
> India's Eastern Fleet is not equipped to defeat a near-peer blockade

What near peer is going to blockade the Eastern Indian Ocean?

Outside of a couple of relatively minor naval and listening posts, the PLAN doesn't have a significant footprint in the Eastern Indian Ocean.

> A critical input are semiconductors. That said, none of this is novel--which is why onshoring production has been a long-term priority

Agreed, but you don't need leading edge nodes for this use-case, and India has been leveraging Tower Semiconductors fabs in Israel for this use-case for over 20 years at this point.

P.S. How did you use italics? That's actually p cool
One more reason to dump Apple products.
Is this true? When I was a desperate graduate I came with a suit, tie and gel in my hair to companies.

Today I would not bother to wear a suite or something. When people are surpised by this I explain them, that I always expect the other party to need me as much as I need them. And wearing a suit would just make me look like I don't bring enough to the table.

Do you really think Bill Gates could not come to a meeting in underwear and people would still take him completly serious? Unfortunately I am not BG.
> Eight-digit starting with 1, so probably 1997-1998

I had a very low 7 digit number and the earliest I would have created the account was late summer 1997. My recollection is it was hockey sticking at the time, so that boundary between 97/98 seems spot on.
No, the term data can be used to describe anything that can be recorded in bytes. It’s “data storage capacity” when you buy a hard drive.
More than hiring an American person to tutor their children?
Are you targeting both ICE and EV's vehicles?
And why do you think they are banning tiktok now and not before, when Trump tried?
Should the builder of the machine not be rewarded? Does it really benefit the village to wrest the machine from the builder? The answer is no- that is inherently unjust and history has shown us that living in a village such the one you are proposing is oppressive
Amazon, 1999. Only used for Kindle purchases nowadays.

eBay, 1998. Used regularly.

SSH login at my Alma Mater's Computer Club, 1997. Daily. Primary E-mail.

Also had a Hotmail account which MS eventually canned as I failed to login sufficiently often. Must have been created in 1996, I was still in high school.
From looking up old ads, I can see it actually was sold all over the world. I think this old Scout ad sums up who it was marketed to well.

A handy new workhorse for your farm:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/153403931038864688/
Well, to Dan's Credit, he kindly re-ran a subset of the tests for NodeBB:

https://community.nodebb.org/post/98597
You'll get parasites and random organisms if you consume water like that
How to deploy a Rails 7 app to Heroku
The problem is most people only use them to set timers, start spoitfy and maybe turn on a light or two. They lack discoverability and so make poor shopping portals setting a hard cap on what other revenue sources can be found for them. This is why Amazon, Apple and Google have begun canceling or at the very least scaling back some of their smart home products.
> the current economic models don't even account for energy inputs

What are you basing this on?

In power and military planning, one absolutely models the effects of power loss. This is sort of like saying physics is broken because our cosmological models don't account for the telescope breaking.
Pixelfed Introduces Loops – A Short-Form Video (Tiktok) App
I remember hearing about this sort of thing from a grad student a few years back. She pointed out that there were interesting privacy concerns with these microbiomes, given how we leave traces of it.
How do you get the tick to swallow the pill?
I biked for transportation (and fun) for years and it was great. In 2022 I moved and had no bike for eight months and hurt my back ~four times in that period.

I got a new bike about a year ago and have had no back pain since (until randomly yesterday, but I'm 41, I guess it's expected that it'll happen occasionally).

Biking doesn't seem like a back exercise, but you are using your core and flexing it a lot, and for longer than you would on any standard core exercise.

Building exercise into your day to day life is incredible valuable. If you're lucky enough to be in a place where biking is viable, I highly recommend giving it a try. It's not for everyone, but given the right situation, I suspect the majority of people would find it a positive change to start biking more. (I suspect this is true for a lot of exercise, but biking has the benefit of being a productive workout—similar to chopping wood vs. lifting weights, except few of us need much wood chopped.)
> core of the analogy made was that economic models rarely account for basically any variables that all other reality-based models have to live on

Energy intensity of GDP is a deeply studied statistic.
Seems to me like an opportunity for new entrants into the market. Granted… Uber and Lyft have generally been money losers over all. More folks can/should take public transit, and prices should reflect the actual social cost of these services. There’s no reason ordinary people should be subsidizing billionaire VCs efforts to disrupt the social fabric and exploit the commons by further eroding use of non-car options.
Java 22: What's New?
I feel like we need more followup, so come on, dish! Where are you taking her for that first date?
I love how the poor have to work at cubicles.
You might as well be describing Safari, Chrome, or Firefox. All are heaping piles of complexity that are tortured into becoming usable somehow. Such is the nature of software. We shoot lightning into rocks and somehow it does useful stuff for us. There's nothing inherently "right" or "wrong" about how we do it. We just do whatever works.
It's really more culture war than industrial lobbying. Sure, the industry is perfectly happy to have it, but it's popular far beyond people directly involved. Florida's government has defined itself as "anti-woke", and anything they can present as opposition to the left is politically good for them.
> China is promoting those stories to hurt the US than to help Gaza.

Can you tell me why you think China promoting stories of Gazan citizens suffering, hurts the US?
My workplace has been steadily ratcheting it up -- it's super interesting watching the execs/board members push for something that seems pretty clearly against the company's best interests. I wonder if the shareholders will eventually bring forth a suit against them.

I've had a poke through their SEC filings -- without revealing too much, the quarterly spend on "facilities" is about 10% of what they spend on compensation. There's a hiring freeze, but they've committed to a long lease renewal with a significant office expansion plan.

My little theory is that they're personally invested in the local commercial real estate. Quite a few of the board members are involved with other companies in the same area, which seem to have similar RTO policies.

People who want to project power do that thing of "I don't care what reality is, things are what I say they are" and the cryptkeepers in charge here definitely have that vibe -- but that only works when you have actual power over things. Here, they're trying to browbeat a tsunami, and it's actually kind of pitiful to watch. I wish them the worst, from the bottom of my heart.
Cmd backtick? For tabbing through windows.
C*Net is a site that might be interest to you as well. They do a lot of interesting things with PBXs and Asterisk and Telephones in general.

https://www.ckts.info/
Congrats on shipping.
Elegant could be removed from title though @dang
I think existing anti-tick chemicals works the same way, at least from my amateur understanding. Flumethrin (which is used as anti-tick in the collar we use for our dogs) targets the nervous system of parasites, which I understand to be the same approach as what Tarsus Pharmaceuticals is testing.
> But your neighbour plugged into a life-support machine at the local hospital does, because your machine could be used as a staging point for further attacks.

Unless your machine is in a particularly privileged position (for instance, it's plugged into the hospital non-public network), there's nothing special the attacker can do with your machine that they couldn't do with their own machines. So this is just fear-mongering.
> Uber’s initial intention was carpooling where someone would put in their intended destination and could pick people up for money.

Historically incorrect. Uber started out as a black car service (with California tpc licenses). Lyft started as a pivot of the carpooling app zimride named after the founder.

> Their initial subsidized prices convinced many people to advocate for an exception which was often granted

That's not really what moved the needle. What moved the needle on exceptions was the sharp drop in drunk driving incidents and fatality.
That "blind ranking" is limited to about 2,000 tokens of context. So it's certainly not evaluating how good the models are at complex assignments.
You can use different backends and optimization for different crates. It often makes sense to use optimized LLVM builds for dependencies, and debug LLVM or even Cranelift for your own code.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1bhpfeb/vastly_improv...
Not OP, but at my alma mater, NTNU in Trondheim, Norway, Amazon was definitely common (at least in geeky circles) in 1999 - lots of textbooks were cheaper than at the campus bookstore, at least until Amazon purchases became widespread enough to hurt their bottom line.

I think I may have created my Amazon account in 1998, but my first order was placed in January 1999.
One of my local taxi companies (Central Oregon) has an uber-like app for their cabs. So they are changing.
"A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION" — IBM slide from 1979.
It's not defined in the format, sure. That doesn't mean the format is bad. The format also doesn't specify how to interpret the binary data, or how to encode multiple strings, or automatically checksum it for you. But you can obviously use the format to exchange strings of variable length, or encode both integers and images, send multiple strings, or add your own checksum.

It's not "impossible to encode" that content just because you need to decide how to represent it. It's not "a mess" if some people use fixed-length strings and some use length-prefixed strings. It's just reality for any encoding scheme - you build layers around it, according to how you want to use it.

The same way the context of your software determines whether this binary string is supposed to represent a float, a name, a hash, or a pixel-art masterpiece, it will also determine the appropriate serialization.
New tool takes the globe's "pulse" as temperatures rise
But its Agile! This way you can release a known broken product and "fix" it for the next decade under a maintenance contract.
So to be clear, S&D is a statement about market prices at equilibrium, i.e. the steady state. Parent pointed out that transient effects matter. Not sure how you got from that to circular reasoning.
The American sports self-help response is “you make your own luck.”

And I do think there’s something to that; “luck” is by definition an event in which the individual lacks agency. But some lucky events have preconditions that the individual can influence. Sometimes it’s merely a matter of rolling the dice as many times as you can.

That said, having tanks roll across your country’s border is not going to be influenced by anyone’s can-do attitude.
Because once it is written to the database, it can be output somewhere before you execute your logic. IE, explicit language, child porn, etc. You generally want to check for that BEFORE you write the data.
I don’t think rats will touch the tubes, and it’s totally possible there are no mice around.

I had the same experience the first season I tried. I moved the location around the second season and noticed they were empty after a few months.

I hide some near a wood pile, along fences underneath plants. I just ordered more. It makes me feel better even if it’s just placebo.
copilot was installed on my computer a few weeks ago.

I turn on my laptop and login... and there is was, waving at me at the bottom of the screen... "Here I am, try me!" type of thing.

[I know, it was not "waving at me" but it was made obvious by popups]

Surprisingly, I was not angry or even thought to myself "I did not install this!"

I think that says alot about my views on Windows.. or Microsoft in general.
I am actually a GNU/Linux user but I do have 1 laptop purely for one company I work for. I am slowly moving it away from Windows (Windows Servers, Windows Programs, etc) to run on Linux.

As far as I am concerned, any job I get that are using Windows... they need to provide me a laptop.

Honestly just fed up it. I just accept that I really do not "own" my copy of Windows.
Climate Pulse: https://pulse.climate.copernicus.eu/
One perspective on this is to compare how much our devices have changed over a given time period versus other aspects of our society and infrastructure. A lot of our assumptions outside of technology seem somewhat frozen in time.
Except this plant is in Gujarat, and the distance from the southern most city I could find in Punjab to Dholera, GJ is 1048 km.

https://imgur.com/a/HaN5Qb7
I highly recommend 'How It's Made' for anyone interested in the complex processes that create the everyday items we take for granted. Humans are awesome!
> Economics has an ideological assumption that equilibriums exist and that “markets” will tend towards them

No? You're describing DSGEs [1]. They're useful because they're solvable. But the word stochastic is right there in the name.

> Classical economics would predict that the higher demand would stimulate more production through higher prices

No, it would call out market failure due to insufficient producer heterogeneity. This is like complaining about the equation for a line because a vertical line is causing a divide by zero error: you're out of scope.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_stochastic_general_equ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Leal

Chlorinated water is a pretty recent invention at about 115 years now. Most interestingly it was first done without permission and the only reason Leal wasn't jailed for it was the immediate positive impact on health.
I'm so old my first domain registrations were free. I had to register them via fax.
> Using 'induced demand' for good - I love it.

Oh The Urbanity had a good video on this, "What People Get Wrong About Induced Demand":

> In this video we explain why induced demand does apply to transit, walking, and cycling infrastructure, but with different consequences.

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wlld3Z9wRc

Transit, for example, can get better with more ridership: more train capacity is added to a line, and more frequent service may occur for better throughput. Both actions would improve service for each individual rider, so while while one may not want it "crowded", having it busy is good. While with roads, an individual driver may want enough traffic so that a street exists, any traffic beyond that would probably only slow you down.

There are also externalities: more walking, cycling, transit reduces pollution and can improve individual health and the collective health of the population. Driving does the opposite.