skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the renderer itself must be async to enable async tooling, but everything else can remain sync unless async is really needed.

Regarding data fetching (it's a recurring theme in the comments), I'd probably do most of my async business logic in my routes (well, I'm obviously using htmy with FastAPI and HTMX through FastHX), and components may fetch additional resources if they need something other than the route's result (translations, markdown, html snippets, some other IO).

I'm not sure if any other tool really enables this pattern, but I'm quite curious to see how I'll use it in future projects, and hopefully also what ideas and patterns others come up with in their projects. There's definitely room for creativity.
Great references! Thank you.
Some mammal species like bats, whales and naked mole rats seem to be extremely unlikely to get cancer. Which may be an indication that a very efficient immune system can keep cancer in check indefinitely.
Rebranding Can Save a Brand
These are just grumpy posters, while I was not expecting the post to get all of this attention, its usually the ones who are reactive or trolling who respond here. They want to find so many mistakes just so they don't have to admit to themselves that they don't understand what the project is or how it works.
Cigarette companies knew that their products were dangerous for years. They didn’t know who specifically would develop lung cancer.
Not everyone is into pirates you know?
pretty optimistic review of the power of the individual/mind contra the really fine-tuned algorithms of engagement. the hook is the “filling bits of (idle) time.” the accounting when all the filling of bits of time is done seems to add up to a huge sum. the extra time definitely would have been borrowed (read: stolen) from somewhere.
I think it is silly to load everything up with so much suspicion.
The Clandestine Oil Shipping Hub Funneling Iranian Crude to China
Human "normal" may not be enough.

Bat "normal" might be. Of course, now we are crossing the threshold from medicine to bio-augmentation.
Figma killed the desktop app. I yearn for the good old days of standardized UI if I actually need to get shit done efficiently. Nowadays it's learning everything from either scratch; maybe if you're lucky, the designer put in some 'intuitive' (read 'fashionable') interactions.
A thread at the time https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24035866 and a little one a bit later https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29502811 both with some author comments
That I don't agree, it seems to me the BlueSky way is block and ignore. I didn't see a lot of negative engagement, and ragebait (I don't have any blocklist ATM,I want to have the full experience) seems to receive very little responses (except from idiots, but right now it's clearly not as much as twitter, pre or post-buyout).
> One person's bug is another person's feature
1. How granular does that data get for urban/rural/suburbs?
2. What effect does social media have on the floor of loneliness?
The Land That Allowed Ken Burns to 'Raise the Dead'
Why allow free and unrestricted connections from hosting companies in the first place?
Please don't buy a Synology just for that app. It is absolutely horrible.
As of lately they have deferred HEIC / HEVC encoding to the devices uploading the photo/videos, because they don't want to pay for the license.

Next to that the application touts itself as a backup application. When I think backup, I think matching checksums. So when you take video on an iPhone in slow motion (120/240 fps) I expect the uploaded version to be the same fps, and just played slower to give the effect of slow motion.

Except the application exports the video, so you end up with a 30fps video.

Imagine you backing up your PSDs with 473 layers, and the backed-up version is a flattened PNG. That is what Synology does.

Do yourself a favor and get immich.
> Slonik does _not_ make it possible (let alone trivial) to write composable queries. You're just doing string concatenation and string concatenation will bite you when things get complex enough

In practice, I find this to be potayto/potahto. At the end you need the thing to output SQL that is going to run, and I've had a lot more problems trying to get Knex to output the SQL that I know works vs dealing with any string composition issues in Slonik.

More importantly, at the end of the day, when it comes to DB operations, all of the information you get from the DB is going to be output/logged in SQL. There is no way getting around the fact that you need to know SQL well to manage a DB. Knex just becomes another layer that you need to translate to and from ("the leakiest of abstractions" as I like to say). I'd rather focus my effort on becoming an expert in SQL than yet another popular-library-of-the-month.
Fossilized poop reveals secrets of how dinosaurs came to dominate Earth
That’s been done for decades and the problem is still severe.
Presentation of analysis on Christopher Columbus' alleged remains postponed
> Hoping for and/or expecting societal change through mass application of willpower

This sounds like the same mechanism for democracy, educating a broad populace and hoping they make the right (best?) choices.
The New Covent Garden Market itself is currently in the middle of a multi-decade redevelopment, they've slightly reduced the footprint and sold off some land for development, and the remains (still a massive area) is being _very_ slowly converted into a more modern design - sadly not really a market where you can actually go on foot to buy things, but a co-location area for lots of wholesalers to warehouse and deliver from.
> And even worse is if some actor out there starts catering to kids by publishing "proxy services".

How long until this happens and there's a big paedophilia scare so I can point and laugh at everyone involved?
I've been at it for a bit over 25 years as well and have worked on everything from telco billing projects to complex consumer applications. Query builders and ORMs are not the same thing, and it's odd that you conflate them.

The project that I happen to be on now has a mid sized db (~70 ish) tables with quite a few custom functions and complex queries. I have been untangling a mess of slonik queries and there's an objective difference in the quality of the code and the maintainability between that and the kysely code that's replacing it.

The people I see drift toward things like slonik tend to be journeyman level developers and they often end up over their skis. Smart folks a lot of the time, but inexperienced.
The whole notion of "calm technology" is so stupid. It sounds good to a tiny echo chamber of twee technologists but no one else cares.
That's fair! I would assume that was due to your comfort zone and muscle memory. Not because you found Java to be harder than C++. Usually a higher level language is easier to grasp, handle and manage than a lower level one.
It's the kind of field where you can talk yourself up more easily
Laser: Attention with Exponential Transformation
The Trial does deserve the term mindfuck, I think, both because of the story and because it upends the notion of what most people expect of a novel. Kafka's other words are weird and wonderful and not nearly as hard to read as some seem to think, but if you've read The Trial, they're not very mindfuck-y, and that's a big problem with a list like this - each book you read that is still a mindfuck will make a lot of the rest seem pretty pedestrian (though often still good).
This article made me reflect on my own upbringing. My parents weren't particularly well-educated, but their parenting style actually had a lot in common with the fictional Andy Taylor from The Andy Griffith Show. While Angela Duckworth's research on grit wasn’t around back then, Andy Taylor modeled many of the traits Duckworth describes—compassion, high expectations, and letting kids learn from mistakes. My parents seemed to naturally follow a similar path, and it served as a kind of guardrail for them—a common-sense approach they likely picked up because it felt right, not because of any research.

I'm not claiming my success today is solely due to this upbringing, but I do feel like it had a meaningful impact. Especially when I see the outcomes of friends who had either very authoritarian or completely hands-off parents. There's something powerful in that balanced, "Andy Taylor" approach: patient guidance, firm boundaries, and leading by example.

It’s interesting to consider that despite all the developmental psychology and theories on parenting we have today, a lot of the fundamentals were demonstrated in simple, accessible ways by a character on 1960s TV. It’s a reminder that, at its core, effective parenting often just requires consistency, empathy, and a healthy dose of common sense.
Seeing current flow through switches isn't the same as seeing specifically where your power is coming from.

Like, if power from several different sources flows into a single substation before it goes to your home, you know exactly which source created the electricity you're using?

And if I purchase power from a 100% renewable company, is it always only electricity from their generators, never ever mixed in with power from other grid sources during downtime?

No, it's just best estimates based on generation, consumption and flow.

That's like taking a bucket of water out of the ocean and saying you know where it came from. Sure, it might have come from the nearest estuary, but odds are it got mixed in with water that originated somewhere else.
The AI PC market, also known as the PC market, because all major semiconductor lines used in new PC models have AI accelerators.

Also, is Perplexity a challenge to Google's dominance, when Google has invested $2 billion in Perplexity?
Can Whistleblowers Root Out Public Expenditure Fraud? (2023) [pdf]
> It is, and remains, a site dominated by political actors who cannot have a conversation with anyone who doesn't precisely align with their class interests.

This is not true, just a trope for those who want to hate on people for enjoying a different social media experience
Building a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server
Some individuals in the AI space mentioned they didn't quite understand what AnthropicAI MCP is about.

Here's a complete walkthrough of how I built an MCP server to connect Tinybird and Claude, so you can build yours
I read digital and dead tree, but there is a spatial understanding I gain from books that I don't get with ebooks. Like, if I want to re find a passage, I usually have a physical sense of where in the book it is, and can flip to it within 10 or 20 pages. That's the major difference for me at least between the two.
> Apple might be able to tell Brazil where to go

Doubt. Corporations who have folded before Brazil and its officials include Telegram, Meta, Google, and most recently Twitter.

In fact the supreme court judges are debating regulation of social media literally right now. Yes, the judges legislate in this country. Last time Google tried to campaign against that by putting a link on their search page, they slapped it with a totally arbitrary hourly fine for the grave crime of "abusing their economic position". The fines kept coming until the link was gone.

Just today I saw news about this. One of those judges was trying to calm down a Meta lawyer by reassuring him it was not an inquisition, only for the judge who shut down X to finish his sentence by saying "yet". It's not gonna stop, they're gonna steal millions from the american economy unless they call their White House contacts and get Trump to sanction this place.
Ummm, clearly it is! Why does something have to be cranky just because you don't understand it? Maybe that's on you, dude.
Right, but life down there didn't independently spark from raw organic molecules. Or, rather, there is no evidence for that, whereas there is quite a bit of evidence to suggest all such life on earth is migratory to new ecosystems and shares one common ancestor.

That leap from organic molecules to "life" is still a bit of a mystery. And how often it occurs is still up for debate.

Look at Earth's history - trees existed for 60 million years before some chance bacterial mutation stumbled on efficiently breaking down lignin. And then boom, trees everywhere - every continent on earth - immediately (in geologic timescales) were decomposed.

The fact that it took 60 million years for extant bacteria to allow for that should give pause to any sweeping statements about the certainty of life and especially complex life.
Thanks for responding, I appreciate the insights here! I'm not focused on offering every single feature at the moment. This is a brand-new project and also is not in the same market as the products you have mentioned (AB Tasty, Optimizely, etc.). Those products may offer a lot more than A/B testing, but for my situation, I have a single, clear problem that I want to solve which doesn't require much.
Something to consider, adobe Lightroom has a feature coupled with adobe portfolio (iirc that's the name of the product) where if you use Lightroom you can turn albums into sites.

Similar idea on paper. May be useful to compare how theirs works since that could be a competitor of sorts.
If you need long term price security, than you need to get a long term contract. The big cloud providers will give you that if you pay them enough in advance, but probably for at least 50 times the price per TB.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor of California, he refused clemency for notorious gang founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams, who was sentenced to death for four murders in 1979.

https://www.ocregister.com/2005/12/12/governors-full-stateme...

Reading over the governor's statement explaining his reasons for denial of clemency, my brain couldn't help but do so in an Arnold voice. Sometimes, to amuse friends, I would read portions of it aloud while doing the voice.

Maybe it's a bit tasteless, like the anime-girl Demon Core memes, but there's just something about hearing the legal and administrative justification for proceeding with an execution in the voice of the Terminator.

I'm the same way with famous YouTubers. If I see "Guru Larry" Bundy Jr. or Clint "LGR" Basinger leave a comment on someone else's video, my brain reads it in their voice.
The amount, abundance and share of water among everything on this planet doesn't mean anything if none of it is in that dam nearby your city and you can't utilize it.

Similarly, that spring water has no use if you can't extract it and get out from the hands of capitalistic companies (cough Nestlé & CocaCola cough) which monopolize said spring and suck it dry without giving it to you.

Don't forget, Nestlé's CEO told that "water is something they package and sell, and that water is not a human right". So don't expect it to get that abundant resource and use it the way you wish.

So, water is precious. You need to be mindful about it.
I think you have a misunderstanding, but you are welcome to believe your first reaction to something you are not familiar with!
ChatGPT for Data Analysis: A Beginner's Guide
Why Ted talks suck now [video]
This change is now released. Thanks knome and gpderetta for your suggestions and clarifications.

availableToPoll() is now availableToFetch()

poll() is now fetch()

peek() is now fetch(false)

Note that fetch() == fetch(true)
1. You certainly need to know SQL
2. Composition is very different than concatenation and the differences become apparent as a project increases in complexity
3. I'd recommend checking out the current SOTA, especially with kysely (or Ecto if you ever get into Elixir projects)
Digital signatures as part of audio/video that can't be easily modified or faked which can trace the origin of a piece of media. Some camera manufacturers are already working on it.
Are these Smithfield and Billingsgate wet markets the last wet markets to close in the wake of the covid pandemic?
A map is not a territory.
> you feel like you're the one in control.

I know right? Sometimes it so ridiculous, it's not even funny.
Here's one, totally idiotic example. I use Google Translate directly in Emacs, okay? So, when you enter something like "He was born in 1978", it doesn't translate the date, and that's sensible. But I'm learning a language, I really need to see it e.g. in Spanish like this: "Nació en mil novecientos setenta y ocho", and I didn't want to write every time "He was born in nineteen seventy-eight", so I wrote a tiny function (took me ten minutes) advising google-translate that installs 'number-to-words' npm package and uses it to turn the numbers into words before sending the whole thing to Google Translate API. Totally imbecilic, right? I guess shit ain't no so stupid if thy shit works, yes?

Now, Neovim, VSCode, Jetbrains, and Sublime, they all have similar plugins for translation. I wonder if any experienced user would ever bother with something like that? I bet they just wouldn't. It wouldn't occur to them to even consider that as a minor annoyance. Emacs on the other hand, changes the way you think about efficiency and being in control.
A bit more recent. Soylent Green was set in the year 2022, and was about how humans and climate killed the ocean as the world's largest food source. In the film, they are always sweating and it's 90 degrees F at night.
If you are looking for automatic dubbing without voice cloning:
https://github.com/Softcatala/open-dubbing
Yeah, whenever I hear people talk of the properties of bike frame materials it reminds me of audiophiles: plenty of strong opinions backed by a remarkable absence of data.

A typical bike frame follows a truss structure: stiff and unyielding by design. Vertical compliance is going to be found elsewhere: tires, exposed seatpost, chamois/saddle, fork, handlebar, tape.

Yet, how many roadies do you find talking about suspension seatposts? It's all because in that subculture emulating present and past pro racers is seen as cool, and anything else isn't.

If you are curious, a few people like CYCLINGABOUT [0] and Overbiked Randonneuring [1] have done some measurements and the data suggests that suspension seatposts provide even more reduction in vibrations than wide tires.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1e3g8uqrJU

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAkDaHlZQow
I agree that algorithmic feeds and even just having endless distractions in a hip pocket are terribly unhealthy. I thinks its wise to be very mindful with both and that they can quietly steal from other experiences that one might prefer in hindsight.

But I don't have a way to square that perspective with what the original commenter suggested about "psychological obliteration" and "addiction akin to gambling or heroin"

People won't even pay for most of these pocket distractions. They're clearly not consuming or addictive in the same way as those others things, where people often make explicit wantonly destructive choices in service to their addiction.

And realistically, that they're a different kind of risk with a different kind of impact may make them even more dangerous from a health-of-society perspective, because we don't have great cultural insight or hygeine practices to deal with them. If we want to change that, we need to recognize that they don't represent the same danger we're used to.

So I'm not dismissing that they're bad. I'm just dismissing the original commenters' deeply strained and distracting characterization.
There isn't any buzz words being used, you could simply look up with the words mean if you don't understand them.

"Conversational" is plain english for conversation. "Game Theory" implies what it says.

Which words made it so challenging? Let me know and I can explain.
That’s a cultural difference though. It’s like when people believe that you’re going to be declared a witch and burned at the stake if you time travelled to the past and talked about iPhones. Just like in any culture today, they’d just assume you’re nuts, laugh and move on.

However, people generally underestimate how culture differs. The idea of belonging to a certain group was vital in the Middle Ages. And that’s something modern people would probably not put much thought in if time travel was possible.

Single digit thousands of years is a drop in the bucket for evolution. The people back then were largely the same as they are now. They just lived in different cultures. Modern innovations are all motivated by a need. Some form of pressure to come up with a solution. Pre civilization societies just don’t have a need. It’s accounting and management of a large population that requires some form of book keeping and written records. There is no reason to believe, without need and cultural precedence, that writing would have been invented by societies in earlier stages.

In the same way classical physics isn’t wrong about the world compared to modern physics, calling this the first writing system is just in the context of our current understanding of the world of the past. We can be pedantic about the details but going by our current understanding, this is what makes sense. This understanding might change but it’s is needlessly pedantic, especially in a field like this that is less „cold hard truth“-ish compared to physics.
Tesla releases API pricing, dev says would cost $60M/year to run his app
Do you know how that adds up, what the ratio of business votes to residential votes is? I imagine many more people work in the city than live there.
There is no free lunch in biology. Augmenting the immune system to better attack cancer is going to cause other problems. It's so naive to think there is some simple solution that will improve on a billion years of evolution. I mean it's not impossible but realistically what are the odds?

There won't be any magic for cancer. It's just going to be slow grind to solve one hard problem after another.
I’ve been on the BTTF ride at… wherever in Florida it is, and I loved that as a teenager. The films just never really appealed though for some reason. I guess one related fact would be I have a lot of gaps like that in the movies I have seen. For instance, people are often shocked that I’ve never see any of the Indiana Jones movies (also loved the rides!); but Star Wars I could probably recite the scripts of.

I don’t think I have any other facts that are very interesting, but then again I didn’t think not having seen BTTF was all that interesting either. For the record I was familiar with 1.21GW and what it related to… I don’t live under a rock!
Save yourself the angst and give this userscript[1] a go. It adds some nice quality of life improvements for posts that link to paywalled articles.

[1] https://github.com/MostlyEmre/hn-anti-paywall
I didn't mention rust. If you were targeting something that only has a c compiler and it is critical infrastructure, f* could prove correctness and then generate c from that as an ir. A lot of safety crtical stuff uses a DSL to generate c that humans don't touch afterwards.
The CAISO (California Independent System Operator) grid is a good example of large scale battery use (1). Texas is also seeing a ramp up of battery storage (2).

Whilst battery demand will increase it's expected costs will continue to decrease - "Innovation reduces total capital costs of battery storage by up to 40% in the power sector by 2030 in the Stated Policies Scenario"(3)

1. https://www.gridstatus.io/live/caiso?date=2024-11-27
2. https://modoenergy.com/research/ercot-battery-energy-storage...
3. https://www.iea.org/reports/batteries-and-secure-energy-tran...
To quote xkcd, "So does a handgun" https://xkcd.com/1217/
It's hard, but I think not impossible. I was thinking mostly in terms of explaining to people who have already read the book why people believe it belongs there.

E.g. I love all of Douglas Adams' books, but I have no idea what they're doing on this list.

A non-spoilery hint at which concept in those books someone thought was a mindfuck, would be nice.