skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in Sequoia National Park last week. All parking was absolutely full, people were parking illegally all over the place, traffic was slowed to a crawl because people were walking on the park roads trying to get to where they wanted to go, and there was a 45 minute wait for park buses because of a traffic accident.

We need more places like that, especially since we're becoming more urbanized, and kids are growing up without access to less-developed areas. Granted, there are a lot of unique places like Sequoia and Zion that can't be replicated, but every landscape has its own charms.
The one I write. :)

I mean this seriously. I really don't like any of the solutions that I've worked with (although Looker does check a lot of the boxes, it also has some big blind spots), and I want to create my own reporting suite in the future.

Besides, after seeing many options over the years, I feel that I could make some substantial improvements.
Here's a (kind of?) objective take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...

By my quick count, Obama (awarded the Nobel Peace Prize) started seven wars, Trump started zero wars, and Biden so far started one war. All three Presidents were involved in a war started by a predecessor.

So, yeah. Trump started no wars, and he is the most rejected POTUS by the Powers That Be(tm) for that and other reasons.
In an American city, your odds are pretty good.
I see the same things emerging in the computing realm. Really, we don't need you to come over and help with X, ill just get off-the-shelf commoditized do-hickey and we'll be all set. I'd like to think the same won't be said for developers in the future.
Slow down, please.

I'm (very obviously) not referring to the WB as J+S; simply citing the fact that these are the names the Israeli government uses administratively for this region, and in its external propaganda. But these are not the names the international community uses, and as such, they are not the names I use.

Perhaps we can dissect RoR and other issues later, but let's get the above issue very firmly settled first.
With special equipment and by half-pulling/disassembling the power outlet. See https://wiebetech.com/products/hotplug-field-kit/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G8sEYCOv-o
ICE vehicle fires take about 1000 gallons, and the average fire hydrant puts out about 500-1000 gallons per minute. Structural fire engines carry about 1000 gallons and the heavy duty nozzles and ground monitors/deck guns put out 500-1000gpm. This is a LOT of water for a vehicle.
My parents had 4 boys, two of them in the early 70s and two in the early 80s.

Our heights are, in order, from oldest to youngest:

* 5' 7", same as our father

* 5' 9"

* 5' 11"

* 6'

Now obviously the sample size is quite small, but we've always wondered if nutrition had something to do with it.
Boeing stock is worth 4x what it was 15 years ago.

It had gone up almost 10x from 2010 to 2020, then they got hammered by the obvious.
> Boeing spent $43B on stock buybacks between 2013 and 2019

Stock buybacks should be illegal or at least very difficult to do. They provide short-term gain to shareholders (and the executives who authorize them to prop up the stock price on which their bonuses depend) but can be extremely damaging to the company long-term (by which time the CEO is out anyway, and shareholders may have reaped their profits and moved on), with workers, and the local economy, left paying the price. The worst kind of capitalist poison.
Not really.

Diesel fuel technically has several times as much calories as Cola-Cola. But try drinking diesel fuel for lunch and see what comes about.

This is because the human body doesn't literally burn food like in a calorimeter. Digestion is a very complex chemical reaction with lots of nuance and different nutrient pathways.
The Sony WH-1000XM4? I'm still on the Bose QC 35, but you got me curious. Could you explain how using it as a hearing aid works? I searched the web but couldn't find good references.
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That's low for an electric vehicle fire. An average car takes 500-1000 gallons. Teslas can take up to 30000-40000 gallons. Fwiw, most fire trucks only carry up to like 3000 gallons.
It tells us enough to counter the low effort "even just cleaner 15 years ago? lol, they were not". If 2023 was the worst it had ever been, then they were cleaner at all points in the past. Q.E.D.
Good point! Makes perfect sense. I’ll take care of that so it’s easier to visualize the user journey.
Just reading the references for each of these is gold!

Trout muscular control in a vortex?! The correlation between super old people and lack of birth documentation and pension fraud?!
> Weird that he didn’t just ask.

Cameron did quote someone who asked him and the answer he got was "it’s complicated". There is no reason to think that asking again would have resulted in different/better answer.

Plus, as we see, it's not that complicated. He explained the situation fully in one paragraph so why didn't he when asked in the past?
Same here, 2kmg every day split between 1 in the morning and one in the evening. I did have Diarrhea at the beginning but that went away in a few days.

I am more forgetful now and a little bit more irritated at times, and I've heard this could be related to Metformin.
I have an onlyfans and I constantly see people talking about this parasocial relationship thing and how people are managing accounts. Maybe for the big people but I know a lot of onlyfans models by way of working in the industry for 20 years. My first sysadmin job was for a porn company where I interacted with talent a lot. I don't know anyone amateur with social media management.

Anyway, a lot of people who have never used the site before think it's mostly what you said. It's not. The parasocial stuff is tiny unless you're doing specific kinks for people.

What I tell most people not familiar with the industry is that it's usually more like seeing someone in real life (NOT a porn star, celeb, etc, amateurs only) that you've got a crush on naked for only $10/mo. It has the amateur thing a lot of people love. Another reddit comment is always "Why pay when porn is free?" Have you never had a crush on someone? And amateur porn is probably the biggest "kink" I feel weird even calling it a kink, I'm practically on the "who doesnt like amateur porn??" end.

That's 90% of the customers. Lots of people who think a youtuber or instagram or whatever not professionally showing themselves off is just hot and want to see them naked.

I've never spoken to a single customer. I'm a straight man and most of mine are men and I have no interest or desperation for money to do para/kink stuff.

I really don't get why so many people think onlyfans is about messaging talent back and forth. It's kind of annoying to constantly read because it always comes from non-OF users who have this weird morality/ethics problem with sex work. It makes no sense if you know anything about porn. Most people jack off in silence and close their laptop and there aren't thousands of onlyfans models with media managers. Most are 18-25yo women who work corporate jobs or bartenders and have their own life to live. They treat it like youtube, upload content a few times a week and never look at messages.

Don't kink shame, stop with the "I don't know why anyone uses this instead of that, you're a loser if you pay for porn" thing. You like what you like, other people like what they like.
A few weeks ago I randomly thought, "is there a market for a startup that creates EV fire extinguisher technology?" It seems even Tesla's recommendation right now is to just dump a ton of water on it.

I'm not sure the volume is there right now to justify a new company, but maybe 10 years from now? Just thinking out loud.
In the end this comes down to a Reddit post from Henry's, one of the online compounding pharmacies:

> There are now around ~20 FDA licensed facilities that have a DMF for the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) Semaglutide including: Bachem AG (Switzerland), Ambiopharm (South Carolina, USA), etc.

> Novo Nordisk does not sell bulk Semaglutide API to compounding pharmacies, and while they are 100% the only licensed source for Ozempic & Wegovy, there are other licensed API manufacturers that work on the active ingredients and excipients used by compounding pharmacies.

> Any API used in sterile compounding is required to come from an FDA licensed manufacturer.

I confess that I'm more confused than when I started -- why can these companies get away with selling it to any party other than Novo Nordisk? And if they are doing it extrajurisdictionally, how on earth is it getting back into the US and sold to customers without the FDA police knocking down doors?

I've talked to survivalists who get their tubs of antibiotics by buying fish azithromycin in bulk from veterinarian suppliers -- are we going to be buying horse Ozempic next?
For people who didn't read the linked article: Pinboard is not shutting down, just the OP is tired with outages and unresponsiveness of the owner.
It's not accidental. It's optimized to minimize the number of writes necessary to determine whether the reported storage capacity is genuine.
they were dumping it on a semi not a car, it seems like fire dept just needs to get more efficient, hopefully they are not trying to fight these fires in the same traditional way
Sorry I did not see this reply sooner!

1. Yes Ditto uses query-based sync. Candidly, the flexible sync in Atlas has roots back to when I was VP of Product at Realm. It was a must for me, but I think got abandoned for performance issues then brought back. Ditto was built always to support flexible/query sync. We recently have added our own more advanced query engine - DQL (SQLish) and it will enable JOINs and other advanced queries while still being schemaless JSON collections. In this regard Ditto is a better compliment to Mongo than Realm is from data model perspective.

2. Yes this partner-first approach is huge opportunity for us. Given Realm had to sell, we were very focused on building a sustainable business. This meant though more focus on enterprise and specific use-cases than going wide to all developers (you can see how well that worked with Firebase, Parse, and many other developer products when you have VC backing). This means we have a solid foundation technically (large-scale deployments in mission critical systems) to now handle wider awareness. Mongo will really help us bring the awareness of Ditto.

3. Right now candidly our permission system is nascent compared to Atlas - a webhook fires from Ditto to allow you to integrate into external identity systems and apply permissions. The focus with enterprise meant we targeted use-cases that didn't have too much dynamism in their permissions and data models, so you will find our system naive comparatively. This is a top priority where we will be adding built-in dynamic permission functionality that is similar to Device Sync later this year. You can read more on our system here: https://docs.ditto.live/auth-and-authorization/data-authoriz...
I do not have access to first hand accounts nor detailed records that would allow me to to make such an analysis. I only have access to stories that look irrational from the outside.

I would like to see more rigorous study of it. If they find its nonsense fine. We can move on to something else. They might find something else entirely.
It's a delight to see the Haiku folks keep BeOS alive after all these years.

I often wonder where we'd be today if Microsoft's illegal activities had been stopped soon enough for Be to survive. BeOS really felt way ahead of its time.
There has to be a better solution than letting them cook
Why is it the 34th "first annual" ceremony?

Is it humor or is there something deeper?
Rotation itself isn’t a threat, but if you want to directly estimate displacement to distinguish between earthquakes and someone stealing the machine, without relying on heuristics, actual inertial measurement would do the trick. And inertial measurement involves tracking the direction of acceleration, which involves tracking rotation.
> Because clearly it’s not about the content per see which is a dim a dozen and available for free in trove.

Naked people aren't fungible.
The context of the Keys et al 2022 study is the earlier claim by Bannister et al. (2014) that

“individuals with Type 2 diabetes who initiated metformin monotherapy as their first-line treatment exhibit lower mortality over follow-up compared to the general population WITHOUT diabetes.” (emphasis added)

That is an exceedingly strong and apparent wrong claim. Mortality rates are worse among metformin treated subjects.

Of course there is no perfect control of the type we might want in principle (metaformin-treated non-diabetics or non-treated Type 2 diabetics).

However the first type of these case-controls studies has been done in genetically diverse mice by the NIA ITP team and the results are reasonable strong and negative.
AI giants pinky swear (again) not to help make deepfake smut
replace Flask in-place with FastAPI and you get a bunch of QoL stuff for free w/ no drawbacks.

- wonderful integration with pydantic for serialization
- background tasks
- autogenerated swagger docs
- dependency injection per-route

"in-place" is a stretch, you will have to change code, but I found it to be a very speedy task to migrate a codebase from flask to fastapi.
The Gorilla Sun newsletter is a cool resource. Here's a recent edition:

https://www.gorillasun.de/blog/gorilla-newsletter-71/
> I'll spend the money I save on Nebula on monthly donations to creators.

You'll split your 3-6 dollars between multiple people? So that after fees they'll each receive a dime?
Well, to eliminate a source of spam, reduce exposure to phishing, and prevent vulnerabilities like the one talked about in the article by reducing attack surface.

If someone is going to make some demand for my time, the very least they can do is give me notice outside of my icloud calendar. An email, an IM, a phone call, etc are all very easy and they allow me to make sure it's real before it has any chance to interfere with my schedule. "Hey Boss, this guy says he's our new IT guy and he wants to talk about my network settings" or "Hey $vendor, I just got a call from $rando saying he's our new contact, can you verify that for me before I tell him everything I know about your propriety applications?"

It helps that I like to keep my work devices and my personal devices entirely separate. If someone in the office wants to pull me into a work meeting through outlook, they'll already have to have an account set up on the company's exchange server. Anyone outside of the company I should already have a relationship with or at least a heads up.
Cal Fire probably got involved because the cost of battling a wildfire in that area would be astronomically higher than 50k gallons of water.
For bar/restaurant owners and/or trade show organizers, here's a pretty cool project called High Score Host that just launched and has an attractive lifetime deal available right now as part of their public beta. Could be a game-changer for those of you who understand the value of building an email list.

Originally built for brick-and-mortar businesses like bars, cafes, and restaurants, it allows them to transform any screen into a live leaderboard, engaging customers and collecting their emails at the same time.

If any is interested in being part of the Beta Test, you can find it at the url above
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Legislators really need to come up to speed on Tesla and crack down on this shit. There are going to be many collisions involving these trucks. Doesn't even have to be the fault of the driver or Tesla. That's simply life on the highways.
It really depends on your needs. I use Pinboard on many different browsers and devices and I'm not really interested in running my own service. I'll happily pay for the full text archiving but I acknowledge it is not perfect. I have come to the conclusion if you want to retain full text copies of your bookmarks, you need to download the pages yourself. I have been using SingleFile extension but there is also a CLI available.
Look it up if you don't believe me.

Sleeping burns 40-80 calories per hour, walking 200-350.

You're not gonna burn off any calories by walking.
Well if you'd watch the movie and read the sources, you'd see that there is not much difference in the amount of calories you burn exercising or sitting at a desk. Consequently you won't loose weight one way or another.

Weight seems to be almost exclusively about the calories you ingest. It has little to do with obesity causing less exercise or the other way around. There is not a swathe of pathological things we do that contribute. We eat too much.

I also found that surprising. You can exercise without changing your diet, but you won't loose (much) weight. You can sit at a desk and start eating less and loose a lot of weight.
This is true in _a lot_ of the areas where these trucks will be driving.
I sure hope that this modern-day Habsburg isn't promoting royal incest, otherwise you end up with fine specimens like this guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain
AirTags are tied to your Apple ID, not to any particular device.
Mussolini: "Fascism is reaction".

That guy, a former Marxist, who invented fascism might be a more credible source than other opinions.

Fascism is as revolutionary as communism, focused on the collective vs. the individual. The only real difference is that fascism keeps capitalism intact.

Both are at odds with the aristocracy and liberal democracy.
The Great Data Integration Schlep
Search google for "EV fire blanket". They don't extinguish the fire so much as contain it.
They should want to influence the company to ensure they can keep their jobs, at the higher pay they want, indefinitely. There's a clear incentive: without the corporate culture fixed, they'll go from on strike to laid off when Boeing goes bankrupt before they can get the full raise.
Show HN: The Communal Plot – A Shared Coordinate Space to Express Opinions
This is a daily data viz game where you can answer a pair of questions every day and see how how your response compares with the community's in real-time. You can get some cool analytics about your answer, share it with your friends, and even make your friends guess how you answered.

It's built to be easy to use. There's no login required, so you just open the page on your phone or computer and tap on the grid.

It's also built with privacy in mind. Because there's no login, everything is anonymized in the backend. And after the daily poll gets archived at midnight, all the responses for that day are aggregated on the backend. Your responses are stored locally on your browser.

I hope you enjoy it and let me know if you have any feedback or hit any bugs!
Sorry, made an outdated assumption about Germany in particular.

The French post office, a pioneer in EVs (they've used them on and off since the early 20th century) and until recently the biggest postal user of EVs, uses off the shelf vehicles like the Renault Kangoo: https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/04/08/la-poste-...

They also use electric bikes for urban areas.
The economic side of Waymo still makes absolutely no sense to me. Uber, with no heavy capital investment, has been pretty much unprofitable for over a decade. The car companies are low margin. The taxi companies are low margin. Alphabet has like 30% profit margins. Waymo's business proposition is 1) to own a very capital-intensive fleet of bespoke cars with no resale value, 2) employ an extremely expensive team of engineers to develop autonomous driving for them, 3) use this incredible capital investment to try to undercut an industry that is already barely or not at all profitable and earn back their 10s of billions of dollars in investment (and 10s of billions more of costs in the future), one taxi ride at a time.

And that's completely ignoring their issue with surges, as their robot car supply is inherently fixed - they either don't intend to handle surges, or intend to have low utilization of their fleet.

None of it makes sense to me.
> Additionally, CAL FIRE used an aircraft to apply fire retardant to the immediate area as a precautionary measure

Seems like it was a precaution, rather than needed.
I’m fairly certain that this was one of those so-called “jokes” I’ve read about.
No he shouldn’t.

That mentality is cancerous to society.
There is no great solution because these fires are self-oxidizing and produce a hell of a lot of heat. If you could blow it apart with a bomb then that might spread the stuff out enough for it to quickly burn out. But other than that all they can do is wait for it to burn out and maybe cover it. Metal fires such as those in these batteries are uncommon but far from new, yet nobody has found a solution in decades.
you can do that as well, just include Tailwind through their CDN [0]

[0] https://tailwindcss.com/docs/installation/play-cdn
EV fires seem to be less discussed when talking about going fully electric. They create their own fuel and as far as I know, there isn't a better option than taking it somewhere and letting it burn itself out or using crazy amounts of water for a long time (relatively)
Seems like something you'd, ideally, want to develop and license to an existing fire suppression tech company. One that already has all the municipal sales figured out.

If you really did go it alone, I think you could target the FDs in metros with outsized EV populations. I believe San Diego is among the top of the list.
Maybe semi-truck sized electric vehicles should not be allowed to use a battery technology subject to thermal runaway. Either lithium-iron phosphate, or, once it works, solid state battery technology.

They definitely need to be prohibited from using tunnels that don't allow flammable cargo. There are many tunnels that don't allow gasoline tankers.
We Need to Rethink Exercise (Updated Version) [video]
The surprising role of deep thinking in conspiracy theories
Hah, thought this looked familiar… I had a similar idea back in 2017 and published a little 5-line library to get this type of syntax ([err, result] for async): https://github.com/timwis/eres