skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue/problem is that you have to actually pay the developers/managers/staff working in/on/around Chrome the browser and OS somehow. Any monetization strategy will lead to conflicts of interest and poor decisions along the way.

For example, adspace is the biggest offender in terms of cripling browser resource overload. If they implemented, say a 500kb cap for JS in IFRAME, and disabled JS entirely for IFrames more than two layers in HTML>IFRAME>IFRAME get JS, another layer doesn't... that would be a massive boost to actual performance, especially in low-resource devices.

Unfortunately, such limitations will NEVER be implemented by Google, and Firefox getting most of their funding from Google as well won't do it. MS might, but I don't see them making those kinds of changes in their fork.

Even as a separate entity, Chrome would have to get funding from somewhere. Also, where would ChromeOS fall, or Android? What would stop Google from forking and starting all over again?
I don't know about you, but I live in a log cabin in the back woods of Canada and have only wood stoves lined with bricks to keep me warm in winter (and we have a real Winter here). The cook stove has a cistern (water tank) for greater thermal mass and the stoves have baffles for high efficiency. The fuel grows all around me do it's carbon neutral (except for the chainsaw gas, but that's a luxury I will not forego).

This is not a used-to-was thing. It's the norm outside of towns in my county.
My Latest Brush with the Corporate Internet: GitHub Has My Stolen Code
CSM shadowbans – a list of blocked accounts on FB/Twitter/Instagram
There are a lot of tools in a union's negotiation toolkit.

When the French train drivers go on strike they continue to run the normal service but simply don’t collect fares. Hurts management but keeps the ordinary people on their side.
An intelligent person can communicate important information through jest. In this ability is found charisma and charm - important characteristics for a diplomat. We wouldn't want our adversaries to think us dull.
Not all ovens have timers, not all measuring jugs have all necessary units and I my phone is not only more practical but also more available than one.
Crop rotation is a useful technique that both organic and non-organic farms use. However there are lots of other farming techniques. By being organic you are limiting yourself out of them all.
Switched from Angular9 about 6 months ago. Never coding a js-app without Svelte. Sooo much simpler and stupidly fast !
We're talking about stocks, so that would mean the organisation would go public ( again)...
The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) states that they they have limited access to commercially available data, and that they are used in line with relevant rules and regulations

Well sure, relevant being the operative word here. For the US CBP the only relevance is US law, since the USA has no concept of data subject ownership -- in the US, all data is owned by whoever holds it, not who it is about.
It's a generic API for automated provisioning. It asks you to make some decisions up front (what do you want to do when an instance goes down or has a new version available), and lets you forgo making some (like which nodes your instance should run on).

It's not more complex. If you're small, the overhead is probably not worth it. If you're big enough, you manage the k8s control plane, and you don't have to manage your tenants infra.

Is a programming language too complex for hello world? Perhaps, but that's not all it does.
There is certification and regulation required and a fair amount of promises to become USDA organic or even use organic on the label of a food legally in the U.S. So if they were using pesticides they would be engaging in fraud. There is large scale organic farming that is probably not sustainable though and this is likely the source of a lot of organic produce that is not locally sourced, but it also probably doesn't have pesticides on it. O. The other hand fraud does happen and there was a big organic grain trader who was found to be substituting non-organic grain for grain and I think he was prosecuted for it but he got away with it for years. There are also local sustainable farmers who grow organically but can't afford or can't justify the cost of organic certification. So while it does mean something it isn't doesn't always mean what you might think it does.
Is there any scrypt or argon2 implementation for nodejs that has as nice an api surface as the bcrypt package? Specifically, it will generate a salt for you (included at the beginning of the generated hash). This has the great properties of: can't forget to use or store the salt; use a weak salt; or forget to use the time-safe compare function. I want to minimize the number of footguns available to the person coming after me, who I suspect will not do the same depth of research and understanding before making changes as I have when setting this system up.
Bitcoin is not the only cryptocurrency.
> the paintings—some are so high on the cliff that they only can be studied with drones

How on earth did the people back then do the paintings up so high? Would the ice somehow have given better footholds than we have now?

I also wonder if it was a bunch of bored kids, that found the painting material and the surface, and figured this was as good a way of passing time as any. Or maybe it was adolescents getting high together, having visions, and doodling them on these walls day after day.
Definitely. I wouldn't consider buying an assistant for that. I just use my phone really, since it's free and I have it on me at all times anyway.
What kind of auth & logging does TimescaleDB offer? Is every request authenticated & authorized?
This post is a good description of why some people like functional css: https://adamwathan.me/css-utility-classes-and-separation-of-...
how is this a bash-ism?
you mean it's related to linux /dev tree?
wait til you hear about the factory farming industry that produced that prosciutto!
Great way to handle microservice configuration and secrets.
Tbh, they are the most user friendly of the three platforms I guess, so they could compete on that. But I doubt Google will realize that.
Noticing that 'William Wallace' an 'Robert de Bruce' are Norman names, and reading that Robert fought both for and against the southern Norman rulers

Does this mean these Scottish heros were more largely aristocrats having powerplay land grabs with their southern cousins?
> We had a world 100% on renewable, back in the 18th century

There's nothing renewable about using wood if you're not replanting the forest.
This sounds like an interesting idea.
And databases can be held in the RAM (e.g. HANA)and things move into the direction of having calculations done directly in the RAM (without a processor).
Egg: E-Graphs Good
>more places will become livable with always on AC/heating

It's time to realize that climate change is not the only environmental catastrophe we're facing now.

If the switch to renewable energy leads us to speed up the ecological collapse (due to land artificialization, natural habitat loss/fragmentation...), we're £%cked.

https://ipbes.net/sites/default/files/inline/files/ipbes_glo...
Why I keep a personal log of bugs
For docking: Autodock Vina (from Scripps) is the most frequently cited docking software in the biomedical research literature. It's open source.

Researchers use docking software to run libraries of existing drugs as well as design never-seen-before drugs out of the enzyme protein's active-site pocket.

These operations have been performed extensively this year (by research groups all over the world) on covid's main protease enzyme as well as the spike-ACE2 interface, for example.
Updating to Spark 3.0 in production: Breaking changes and expected improvement
But you don't have to share it with cryptokitties yet...
"Strongly typed" and "statically typed" are not synonymous. Yes, SvelteComponentTyped is statically typed, but that's somewhat implicit (and irrelevant) here. What they're referring to in that particular sentence is ease of strong typing. Static typing is a separate thing.
Benchmark: Puppeteer vs. Selenium vs. Playwright vs. WebDriverIO
Well, either it's a standard or not.

And if the most powerful browser vendor decides to drop support for standardized features that is a strong "political" signal against the standard and it absolutely has a different meaning...
America, if you can refer to it in a monolithic context, has decided that individualism, self-reliance, entrepreneurship, etc. trump a lot of things. Almost no social safety net (barely enough to prevent you from starving or dying in the street, and not much more, and most of that won't even come from the government but from faith-based charity), but yeah if you're a software developer you might be able to make an extra $50-75k/yr compared to Europe. But how much are you going to have in student loans? I graduated in '08 with about $22k and that was a lot back then. What's someone graduating last year or this year going to graduate with?

There's pros and cons to both approaches, both at individual and societal levels, but I rarely hear Europeans acknowledge why US companies can pay its developers so much more.
Classic example I saw was Chamomile farming in Egypt. Traditionally done along the Nile. 'Sustainable' in terms of family owned farms for literal millennia, community works projects of maintaining the nile flooding irrigation, etc. Of course there are issues, but the families live close to their fields, kids go to school, they make their own business decisions, don't want to deplete their soil, and there are social frameworks in place for solving collective problems. BUT! Doesn't work for organic: if a neighbor 3 fields up uses pesticides, and a tiny amount blows over onto your field, your crop isn't organic.

No problem! We found an aquifer (fossil, non-renewable) in the middle of the desert, we'll pump up the water and irrigate the ground out there where we're far away from pesky neighbors. Of course this is a big operation, so we need big investment, and thus a big company. Also we need workers, since nobody lives out there. We'll bus them in. They'll need a place to stay, so we'll put them in camps.

After my evening yoga I like to have some warm chamomile tea to wind down before bed. I like this one because it's organic and has a haiku on the inside about how we should take care of the planet.
Firefox reader mode does not show up on some sites.
Wait quanta is bad? I like their articles damn...
> you may regardless be found liable

How would the accused have the mens rea?
digital tech is a small fraction of your emissions - reminds one of David MacKay's book:
Sustainable Energy – without the hot air.

In particular as Professor MacKay puts it: "Obsessively switching off the phone charger is like bailing the Titanic with a teaspoon. Do switch it off, but please be aware how tiny a gesture it is."

https://www.withouthotair.com/download.html
With dark mode!
I also have doubts that people who did this for an income are likely to raise them in a way that results in strongly productive adults, even after accounting for some amount of regression to the mean.
Depends on what type service you trying.... We do face few hiccups now and then.. but overall okay..
Rather i would recommend to go with architecture that is not tightly coupled to certain vendor and built on open source products...

We also prefer/buy services from companies who build OSS like in case of ELK, we, rather than hosting and doing it by ourselves. We are more than happy to pay bit more for hard work their team has done.
In Poland you can redeem 80% of what you contribute to grid, so if you have excess in summer you can use it in winter. I think it's quite good and demand is there from houseowners.
FreeBSD – How to Submit Bug Report
The photo from the press release doesn't inspire much confidence.

It seems that their measurements are based on what the current reading said on the screen of a $60 noname ("Hanmatek") power supply. [1]

I don't now much about CPU loads, maybe it's constant and the reading is reasonably accurate, but I'd at least hope for some better measuring equipment.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Adjustable-HANMATEK-HM305-Variable-Sw...
The point is that you have exactly zero say in it. The comp team spits out a number using a formula that changes year over year, then your manager has a little bit of wiggle room to allocate to high performers, and then you get your number. With zero advance warning they can absolutely just say "sorry, your performance review ratings are now worth 50% of what they were last year" and there is nothing you can do about it.

With a union it'd be possible to ensure that the comp formulas are made public ahead of time and that nontrivial changes to the formulas are reviewed by the union.
This is essential work, using the GDPR as a tool for data privacy journalism. Unfortunately, GDPR is only the beginning and lots of work like this needs to be done to uncover the breadth of the damage that is being done daily. Also, as the article states this shows that stronger laws need to be in place all over the globe.
I use fungi mycelium to convert woodchips into soil for food production, I document the process here:

https://youtu.be/u4w9ir45Ebw

4 minute video, no capital investment, and no infra required.

Truely an amazing and under appreciated lifeform just waiting to be utilized for planetary healing. I'm looking forward to continuing my research, please subscribe if this is of interest to you.
For what it's worth the php implementation of password hashing offers a function to determine whether it's time to rehash a password. https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.password-needs-rehash...

The idea is to alert an application program to the need to regenerate the hash at the time it has the plaintext password in hand (when the user has just presented it for login).

This is a great idea; rehashing a long-standing bcrypt password with a larger work factor makes it safer.

And, an extension or new version of the runtime can add a new hashing scheme.

It would be sweet if other password-hashing APIs added the same kind of thing. User accounts can last far longer than LTS versions of software runtimes, and this can help future-proof them.
Test web, mobile apps, and APIs continuously DevOps speed
Thanks, I don't like Twitter for long form content. It's not designed for this.
Related big data landscape 2020:
https://mattturck.com/data2020/
Consumers and competing businesses were still harmed during Standard Oil's rise. Why wait until there are no practical alternatives left?
What mechanism enables RAM to do calculations/processing? Or are you just talking in-memory processing?
Nobody says it is not possible to use PHP in all the use cases you mentioned. But is PHP the best tool for those, or is it just the one closest to the hand?
You definitely can do surgery with a kitchen knife instead of a scalpel, but often the long-term result would be better if a more appropriate tool was used.
And we in fact have fully open-source/free k8s helm charts to easily spin up TimescaleDB, including with HA and automated failure detection/failover and streaming replication for incremental backups:

https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb-kubernetes

Or just use Timescale's managed cloud on AWS:

https://www.timescale.com/timescale-signup
In that case it would be useful to see which components could still be optimized on the level overview :)
As far as I understand the central point isn't about some absolute/perfect understanding of anything but about the capacity to deliberately and effectively modify the way we live.

To do so we need a certain quality of understanding of our "technological system", which was maybe attainable but now seems impossible to reach.

This may be summed up in the article by "instead of electing visionary leaders, we are in fact just voting for middle managers in a complex, global system that nobody fully controls ((...)) politicians can’t effect change. Not really. They might not understand why, exactly, but there’s this increasing sense that leaders have lost the ability to make fundamental changes to our economic and social realities".

This is all about "technique" (the concept described by J. Ellul) and control.

Terse summary: https://www.slideshare.net/rredekopp/ellul-and-technique
> The initial pages are Go templates which are hydrated with Svelte components. It took a bit of trial and error to get the flow right so that I don't have to write double the code.

What is the advantage of doing this over using http.FileServer to serve html which imports your svelte generated javascript directly ?

Are you using Svelte in a part of your application instead of the entire application?
> What is your suggestion to a lead developer of a big organisation? Let’s say to the CTO of Apple.

He can pay for my advice if he really wants to hear it, but this isn't really about programming at this point because we're talking about business goals which can have all sorts of priorities besides making quality software.

Do we want software quality? Then we want better programmers.

> if we want to make secure systems we have to change how we are making them.

On this we agree, but thicker training wheels just gets more people on bikes; It doesn't make the roads any safer.
Impressed by the speed of the results. Some of my more obscure tests didn't give relevant results, but I guess this is still early on. Do you have any numbers about the size of the index, and where you're aiming to go?

My big question: What's behind the name? I find it a bit confusing and not very memorable at first sight, maybe an explanation would help.
If you drunk drive you likely won't hit anyone. But it is more likely than if you don't.
Yes. Mostly the aristocracy of the lowland parts of Scotland just convinced the (more tribally organized) highlanders to fight in their wars. Scottish independence and separateness became just a theme to gather supporters among Scotts, not really an aim as movies suggest.
Amazon: The Slave Master
I completely agree I think you misunderstood me.

I would like to see comparisons between Timescale and Druid.

I already know Timestream isn't up to the task lol.
I wouldn’t use it for big commercial projects because the ecosystem isn’t very big (ie I wouldn’t build a b2b saas app with it) but for small projects and side projects it’s great.
Jeff Dean fired employee for speaking up
What’s wrong with hiring a lawyer to assert your rights?
That's a really weird explanation of SIMD. There are big fat cores in GPUs but each core can process the same instruction stream 32 or 64 times but with different data. If there is only one core but two branches have to be taken it is obvious that the core has to process one branch after the other.

Your "there are cores inside my cores" explanation is what's causing the confusion.
The point of digital storage is not that you etch it in crystal and store it in a vault somewhere, but that you can make redundant copies for free.
> QBE is extremely hackable.

and

> it is programmed in non-fancy C99 without any dependencies.

These are contradictions. C99 is not a "very hackable" language. If the compiler isn't designed to make fast binaries then they should have written it in a higher level language that has less foot guns.
I think he was kind of joking there.
Mind boggling! Such gems are why HN can be so much fun :-)
For short haul (think ferries) the same calculations will make electric ships feasible when distance travelled is 1 or 2 order of magnitude less. Such ships already exist.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50233206
> 224x cheaper if you’re self-managing TimescaleDB on a VM

I'm having a hard time understanding the cost comparison without details of the above. Are they saying that hosting your own cluster of timescaledb nodes within EC2 still comes in cheaper than timestream? This seems impossible, depending on the instance types of course.
Principles That Have Guided Me Through My Twenties
Pi-hole not working with Chrome v84 and how to fix it
This.

Also, feature design is "playtime" for most founders/devs/designers/productGuys/managers. Thinking up cool new stuff that your product can do is fun. And, once thought up, it's hard to put that feature aside. "Wouldn't it be cool if it did this..." is easy and fun. Managing the ensuing bloat and complexity is hard and not fun.

I've done it a hundred times, little driveby features like Dark Mode that take a couple hours to implement (but no customer asked for). Then 3 months later it breaks randomly from a dependency update and it's another 2 hours to fix it. Then it adds half a day to creating a new feature that people actually did ask for. And so on. The cost of that little thing adds up and up.

I'm starting to think that product design time should be handed out as a reward, rather than seen as work.
Special RAM :-)

VC buddy of mine invested in such a company. So basically the RAM can do small things by itself. Should be very interesting for Databases and HANA. When he and a major Chip producer invested, I even considered asking SAP if they want to be on board.
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It's been a while, but a few months ago I used this image [0] and it worked great.

[0]: https://github.com/nadiaholmquist/archiso-pbp/releases
I tried a few searches in Japanese. The results for search terms written in kanji were okay, but searches for terms written in kana—such as アメリカ or ぴかぴか—yielded no results at all.
the cost can be prohibitive for some people
It costs money. Many people rely on the fact that lawyers are expensive as a defacto deterrent from legal action.
[followup] and so frankly, it's hard to imagine a world where drug discovery isn't enormously sped up by an automated protein-folding approach which docking software like Autodock Vina require to be run. I know that not all of the pharma industry agrees with this assertion however...:
https://twitter.com/michael_gilman/status/133375535280704307...

My take: Since 0.1% of proteins whose amino acids have been sequenced have ever seen a crystal structure (i.e. the folded model) generated of them. an automated approach to 3D model generation
1) will have enormous implications on drug development, and 2) will most likely come from a new and very different generation of drug developers, who don't have a lot in common with the generation that produced the tweet pasted above.
I'm not sure what the author tries to say, maybe that's the entire point. The article does lay out some observations that I agree with and are interesting.

I take away from it, that there are opportunities in the fact that big-bloat will continue, and that the opportunities are in building fast and light software that performs exceptionally on what is considered low-range hardware of today, and incredibly on high-end hardware.

What is your takeaway?
Huh? If I want to run someone else's software on my cloud, how I want to do that depends on my cloud. I want docs and binaries, not a full cloud configuration.

Some people would want k8s, some docker swarm or whatever, some an aws config, others ansible, etc etc etc.

If I want a managed service, I _want_ to pay for that. The price includes people responding to pages and fixing problems, as well as fiddling with configs.

And I'd much rather be paying that money to a small (relatively) open-source company than a behemoth like AWS.
A Beginner's Experience with Functional Programming
Repo seems to be: https://github.com/Mr-Steal-Your-Script/bwfForum

Edit: yep, that's it. Here's the commit that removes the "Sh*t Message": https://github.com/Mr-Steal-Your-Script/bwfForum/commit/184a...