skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It sounds like you're content being offline more, which is great. If you miss it, though … per your comment that "nothing worked back then but that was part of the experience", you might enjoy seeing if there's a local Homebrew Website Club meeting near you (https://indieweb.org/Homebrew_Website_Club). I've gone to a couple meetings of the SF one, and it's a nice, earnest, group of makers, looking to build cool stuff on the internet, independent of corporate efforts "to steal and sell your data". They have a sense of that feeling that "The internet was a mess back then and even though it was frustrating as hell, it was exciting."
There is an astonishing amount of good content on youtube. In the last 3 or so years it has blossomed into something of a renaissance and begun to grow into what I always kind of hoped "citizen content" could be. To my mind it is the most obviously beneficial of all of those "web 2.0" companies.

Do you like jet engines? Prepare to lose the rest of your day watching AgentJayZ talking about his job repairing jet engines in such detail I'm surprised his channel isn't a national security violation. Like teardowns of tools and sardonic commentary? AvE. Electrical engineering discussions? EEVBlog. Planes landing? Cargospotter. Interesting shit? Wendover/half as interesting. Analysis of famous Roman battles? Historia Civilis. 2 hour long videos of japanese train rides from the cabin? ato5kgyasetaito. I could go on.. and on.. and on.

I suppose I am letting my tastes show a little here but to me the issue isn't finding the content, it's knowing when to stop!
If only all hiring managers were this honest during the process, everyone would be better off.

The candidate, for example, could just walk out of the interview and go for a beer, while the hiring manager could get on with the business of finding a gullible new grad to hire.
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> I never even watched Saved by the Bell

U wot m8
Very slowly for many parts of the city - Ballard is looking at a 2030+ timeline to get a light rail expansion.

That said, it's better than nothing!
Assuming all other variables stay the same -- with such a large revenue increase you'd assume some would be changing substantially.
pls help me get online, nerd

Seriouspost: Agree with all that’s been said. Corporations have turned the web into an unpalatable wasteland. The prospect of someone finding out my name and job has taken all the joy out of calling someone a fuckhead online. I want to find it again.

I will start searching, but the good communities I’ve found have been invite only.
I don't know either but I have absolutely had the same experience. Although for me the heyday of IRC was 20 years ago, and even then (in the late 90s) it felt dated and quaint. People at that time were moving on from ICQ to AIM, and IRC was the old, weird place you went to get anime DivX videos in particular.

I do think the maturation of "troll culture" has really devalued a lot of the Internet. Virtually any event or topic has groups around it dedicated to being as loud as they possibly can, and that kind of sucks some of the air out of it. Loudness is way overvalued by the Internet.

I enjoyed going into IRC chats and spamming offensive things when I was 14 (more than 20 years ago), but that phase lasted a few months, if that, for me. It seems to be almost a profession now - my idea of offensive was just repeated curse words and flooding. Trolls these days go all out.

And it's not that I can't ignore them, but it feels the broader world can't, and we have to always fight about what to do about them, and how whatever asshole on twitter said whatever super offensive thing or how somebody doxxed somebody or whatever.

Plus! Wikipedia has gotten old. When I was young I was curious about tons of things but going to the library to look them up was way too much work. Answers at the touch of a button? Links to related content? It was endlessly valuable and interesting but I've kind of exhausted most of the random topics I was interested in. I still spend a lot of time on wikipedia, and I'm still curious about new things, but the backlog isn't what it was then.

It's sort of like 80's music. For a few years in the mid-2000's I kept being shocked how a favorite 80's station would find yet another hit I had never heard but now fell in love with. But the musical content of the decade was indeed finite, and I can't remember the last time I fell in love with a new 80's song (I've moved on to KPop but that's another story).
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About WALs, did you use replication slots? That feature makes WAL logs only removed after all standbys process them.

As for S3, WAL-E is probably what you wanted to use. Barman was more intended for on premises installation.
That's really cool, but is there an original work that it's recreating? My Google-ing is only turning up American dad references.
As HN: What makes a good mentor?
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Ask HN: Service Discovery Using Route53 vs. Consul?
Hi all,

I'm exploring options for doing service discovery for system in my company that used micro-service arhictecture. Mostly, we're using AWS for our stack.

I found out that Route53 can provide service discovery for AWS https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/APIReference/overview-service-discovery.html

But I wonder the reason some companies (e.g. Stripe) using something like Consul https://stripe.com/blog/service-discovery-at-stripe

Anyone can share their experience and provide the difference between those two?

Thanks
That's precisely my point, though: it wasn't "a win" at all. It was just getting shit done that in hindsight, was a pretty remarkable event not to be repeated for decades. So much of the narrative of the space race is childish bragging for doing X first or biggest or farthest. Ultimately those trophies are worthless.

"be right back, getting the stuff from the old space station" is the sort of thing that should have become commonplace by now. Making that progress would have been much more important than having landed on the moon 50 years ago.
One day in the far future AIs will marvel at how humans once made these by hand.
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Works for me, has some imperfections though
And that's a stupid heuristic. Simple bash scripts can be critical to a processing pipeline while still being the best tool for the job.
Your point would be made just as well if not better with the first paragraph elided entirely. In general when you rewrite something so many times, it means you should say less
I think I saw one as a music control in the Amazon Music app on the iPad.
Your intuition is right, your EFI boot menu entries are pointing to the wrong path for GRUB (grubx64.efi).

Basically this problem is because Anaconda (the RedHat / CentOS installer) puts the files in [/boot]/efi/centos/... when you install into a UEFI-capable system, but efibootmgr, the tool that manipulates your laptop's NVRAM to tell the UEFI boot loader what to display/default boot, was being told they're in [/boot]/efi/boot/... That's the standard location on other Linux types (Ubuntu, Arch, etc.) and is being picked up as a default somewhere.

If you patch or upgrade the system subsequent to your initial installation, it can mess this part up (supposedly this was fixed in RH/CentOS 7.4)

You can make a one-time fix using efibootmgr from rescue mode from the installation DVD as pointed out in the linked mailing list post by others.

But my recommendation would be to blow away the existing partitions and try doing it from scratch using 7.5 if you haven't done anything with the system yet.
Wow, that is pretty amazing article. About 2 orders of magnitude more energy than I think we're talking about here, but still. These things are scary when they get away from you.
There are lots of risks to marijuana and I never had any desire to have it in my system. I dread the thought of it becoming normalized. But we have seen the alternative. Hopefully, it will become legal like cigarettes but with people knowing the risks.
> In contrast, there are great people and companies to work for if you put in the effort to find them

Is that true, though? That is, is merely putting the effort in enough? I'd expect there's an element of luck/timing, especially with startups, since funding is so limited.
If the internet were a bar that got boring, then you’d find a new bar.

Too bad there isn’t a new internet, separate from the old, to explore and rebuild freely.
There is a pervasive idea that developer salaries in sf and other tech cities only cover the rents, etc. Not at all true. Thousands and thousands of career developers making great wages. It’s not VCs driving real estate prices.
> Glanzman’s experiments — ... — involved giving mild electrical shocks to the marine snail Aplysia californica. Shocked snails learn to withdraw their delicate siphons and gills for nearly a minute as a defense when they subsequently receive a weak touch; snails that have not been shocked withdraw only briefly.

> Ryan knows Glanzman and trusts his work. He said he believes the data in the new paper. But he doesn’t think the behavior of the snails, or the cells, proves that RNA is transferring memories. He said he doesn’t understand how RNA, which works on a time scale of minutes to hours, could be causing memory recall that is almost instantaneous, or how RNA could connect numerous parts of the brain, like the auditory and visual systems, that are involved in more complex memories.

It sounds less like the standard definition of "memory", and more like RNA stores/caches the response mechanism of a pain receptor. Thoughts on that interpretation (I'm a layman on these subjects)?
I don't have this problem. My problem is that I'm so good at finding interesting live internet drama and stories that I get extremely bored with most fictional forms. The only fictional books and movies I have any desire to consume are the books and movies I wish I had read or watched when I was much younger.
> why would it have to achieve it "spontaneously"? You start with the onomatopoeia, and ...

Exactly, you don't spontaneously start with suffixes added to a sound imitation. In other words, evidence for the first step is missing. And I claim it doesn't exist, because the derivation was perhaps different.

> standard set of suffixes

-os, as in barbaros, supposedly was nominalizing suffixed to verbs. Is a verb in that sense attested? "brabbeln" (to murmur) as I mentioned? I could also imagine "bare"-naked to describe uncivilized folk. Or consider "bear", because carrying, drawing is what beasts of bur-den frequently do. Indeed, wiktionary has Lithuanian "bernas" (“young, unmarried man; child; boy; servant”) from ... from PIE bʰer-no-s (carrier). I don't know the root to persian "barde" (slave), I suppose this is it. The regular development of PIE bh* is to Greek ph, but to b in avestan (percursor to persian), so I'd assume a borrowing. There is more argument in favour, but also many inconsitencies and arguments against it. Just speculation.

> irrelevant as in that the origin of the word wasn't relevant to what I was discussing

I'm sorry that I had to go off on a tangent but propositions such as this are always difficult to explain because of the inherent uncertainty. And because "No, it means slave" would need an explanation. Certainly though, slavery was very topical. Dumbness is a mild slur in comparison.

Another topical theory of mine is that "Aryan", in one of many semantic levels, if meaning golden, referred to skin color. The meaning noble then would be in contrast to other kin.
Why is it nice that it 802.11ac is optional?
I have nothing interesting to add, except that I literally just stood up from reading House of Leaves in bed before sleep.
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Bad thing is people will start calling it google one drive, because others won't know what you talking about by "google one".
What is the subject that intentional modifies in that sentence? That would be the 90% reduction in the native population, right? You aren't going to win any attempt at verbal/logical gamesmanship with me.
I don’t agree that everyone is an anti hero now, but regardless the complexity is a sign of the medium maturing.
I think it's not so much unintended consequences as it is perverse incentives.

It's the same as measuring a programmers output by Lines of Code, you're just going to get a heaping mass of code that could be done in 1/10th of the lines.
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Same reason I always cook my eggs using a shoe.
It really is. Our ability to sweat to shed heat, our slow but incredibly sustainable pace, and our intelligence make us amazing hunters. We're not just pack hunters, we're able to communicate and create complex plans. And in the end, the endurance we have is unmatched in the animal kingdom.
Gut feel suggests flywheels would last longer, be less expensive to recondition.

I can only make a (barely) educated guess at the difference between Li-ion battery cycle life (single digit thousands of cycles to 80% capacity seems to be what I see everywhere?) compared to bearing replacement schedules and motor/controller maintenance (and I don't have even best guess anecdotal data for this? A little Googling suggests some Rolls Royce airliner jet engines have 15,000 hours between overhauls, but that at least one has made 42,000 hors without an overhaul).

I'd _guess_ you probably don't dump energy back into the flywheel as fast as you pull it out? (I base this on calculating a Tesla 100KWhr battery requires 600(+)KW to recharge in 10 mins, and if you could pull that off the grid easily, you'd just do that. They seem to get enough grid power to charge a Tesla in ~1hr, so they've got ~100KW available I guess?) For back of the envelope calculations I'm gonna use 1 hour as "one cycle" (discharge in 10 mins, recharge in 50 mins seems a reasonable/conservative estimate) - that'd implie a flywheel with similar bearing longevity to a 747 engine bearings would last about 10 times as long (15k - 40k hours) as a Li-ion battery takes to drop to 80% capacity (say 1.5k to 4k cycles?).

The big difference would be a flywheel with new bearings is "as good as new", whereas there's nothing besides replacing the Li-ion battery that gets it back to new.

Pretty sure "charge directly off the grid" is the optimal option for "supercharger like charging stations" (perhaps not for the grid operator), but if you want 600+KW per charging station, and the grid cannot deliver that (economically) where you need it, I'd be surprised to find flywheels would come out something like an order of magnitude cheaper to operate long term than Li-ion battery storage.

(But I'm certainly not a "Former flywheel energy storage startup engineer" - I'd love to know where I screwed up my calculations to indicate and order-of-magnitude benefit that _probably_ doesn't exist???)
Why do you prefer the former?
I guess he means shorter range AC is not required by client and/or mesh devices.
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No Amiga or Atari OS?
They use electricity, which in much of the world comes from coal, the burning of which emits toxic gases that kill people.
But isn’t most of the sea plastic also from the Yangtze and Ganges rivers?

I try and avoid single use plastic, it seems obscene to me it even exists, but my waste ends up in landfill. To solve ocean plastic we need bin men and landfill in the countries causing it.

The fight against single use plastic in the developed world is just, but a separate issue.
Anyone know when these certified devices will go on sale. I need a mesh system for home, and would rather a standard than a vendor locked in solution.
I stick with bash to avoid implementation differences due to POSIX ambiguity [0]. I know that all my bash scripts will run on at least bash-4.0 but I have no idea what shell /bin/sh is going to be for any given system. I haven't written a single shell script where the performance difference matters, nor do I expect to. And there are a few nice bashisms besides arrays. I'm not sure what portability issues you're referring to.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/a/16376043
Can you expand a bit more on this? How do you find content on these decentralized services?
See, I'm already confused with all these simple generic words, do you expect average user could figure all these out?
A direct link to Solr for those wondering what it is http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
All of the cipher suites I mentioned can be used with at-rest data (including ChaCha20-Poly1305, and AES-{GCM,EAX,OCB}), which means that there's nothing stopping PGP from adding support for them.

But since you asked, the offline backup software restic[1] uses AEAD (though it's a mix of AES-256-CTR and Poly1305 rather than AES-GCM[2] -- but it's still an AEAD construction). I also recently started working on a paper-backup project, and used ChaCha20-Poly1305 over PGP because of the lack of AEAD (and also because it is vulnerable to surreptitious forwarding -- something that AEAD also solves[3]).

There are distinctions between online and offline protocols (mainly related to PFS), but whether or not AEAD-capable cipher suites can be used is not one of them.

[1]: https://restic.net/
[2]: https://blog.filippo.io/restic-cryptography/
[3]: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...
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Her other work[1] is also pretty fascinating

[1] http://diana-adrianne.com/purecss-zigario/

edit: updated link
Considering that China has now banned importing most of this kind of waste, it seems likely that the waste operators weren't operating in accordance with government policy in the first place.
Depends which part of China you go to, really.
Surprised this mesh standard is relatively simplistic and doesn't take advantage of any commercial advancements over the last 15 years. Come on vendors, open up your old stuff. Like node skipping that Meraki did.
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Isn't the person you f-ck up, effectively f-cking down? Or, more eloquently: without f-ck down, there is only f-ck sideways :)
> 6. You will not regret getting really good at shell script. You'll have to take my word for it now because you don't know what you're missing.

Stories! C'mon, it was a long Monday :-)
Did your joy of calling someone else something bad remove the joy for everyone else?
It now also does rewriting on the fly for certain shebang lines, as part of its C library, so unmodified scripts can run.
I think this is a case where you didn't take the trouble to find out the facts and are instead projecting your beliefs on a situation at which you weren't present. I'm calling you on because there is much too much of this kind of commentary in most forums.

I bet dang saw that and wanted to remind him about the HN guidelines and then realized that the author of the comment was freakin Alan Kay and just said never mind.
I hope I'm incorrect, but as I understand it would be impossible to make a decent XMPP client on Android.

Any app wanting to get push messages _must_ go via Google Firebase Cloud Messaging, other processes with long running services or network connections will be killed off in favor of longer battery life.
I’ve actually been thinking about this recently, as I was also a heavy forum user back in the day.

Why don’t we just start a forum for the HN crowd? Not a new interpretation of the forum model or anything like that, literally any instance of vbulletin or phpbb or something comparable and “traditional”.

If people are genuinely interested in this, I would be up for spinning something up over the weekend.
They do this in datacenters - mostly I think to bridge the gap between a power outage and diesel generator startup time.

You might also be interested in this:

https://electrek.co/2018/05/11/tesla-giant-battery-australia...

“In the first four months of operations of the Hornsdale Power Reserve (the official name of the Tesla big battery, owned and operated by Neoen), the frequency ancillary services prices went down by 90 per cent, so that’s 9-0 per cent. And the 100MW battery has achieved over 55 per cent of the FCAS revenues in South Australia. So it’s 2 per cent of the capacity in South Australia achieving 55 per cent of the revenues in South Australia.”
Well, in the context of storing energy, you want mass in the flywheel. Having a lightened flywheel is beneficial in, say, racing applications however... But that's not really important in this discussion.
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No it isn't. We're drinking the same water the dinosaurs drank, for the most part.
What is your opinion on using other languages to augment bash? Awk, perl etc.
> You also need uninterruptible power supply to maintain safety and control systems when grid power is unavailable since you've still gotten a huge spinning mass that you can't slow down without somewhere to send the energy

Why? If it's safe in it's vault when powered, why is it unsafe when in it's vault unpowered? Hell, you could use one flywheel to power the rest, and as they lose too much velocity the next one becomes the generator, until either they're all spun down, or power comes back, then you have at least some of the flywheels ready to go. Now, let's say you just don't do anything, they're spinning away slowly slowing, then power comes back and they don't have to spin back up from a dead stop. Why is that not true?
Having seen a flywheel + clutch assembly disintegrate on a drag car in the lane next to me (10,000rpm - bits of flywheel came through the bodywork of his car), I can understand why you'd be hesitant to sit on top of something spinning at 140,000rpm.
No, it is the original work. She did the art “in the style of 18th-century oil paintings.”
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I don't know either, but FWIW, there _are_ many (ok, several) Haskell implementation, but they only implement the language defined in the standard, and nobody has been able or willing to chase all the extensions in GHC.

Does Ruby and MRI have specs detailed enough that you could implement the entired language from just those? Few languages do, but Scheme and Haskell are among them.
My thoughts exactly. Another problem with RNA is that it is a few orders of magnitude too slow (minutes versus fractions of a second) to account for memory formation. Which is not to say that gene expression is not involved in memory consolidation; that's been known for a long time.