skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know how one might do “automagic FQDNS“?

At home, at any given time I might have around 10 or so Linux or BSD VMs across my laptop, Synology or Raspberry Pi’s. I’d like them to know each other’s names (even if they are not all directly reachable via IP). I really really hate typing or copy/pasting IP addresses.
Removing the ability to drink milk also comes at a cost. You body has to have the program to remove lactase production exactly when appropriate else you die or get hurt.

> From a theoretical perspective, this cannot be a surprise.

Going off the crappy title "Humans were drinking milk before they could digest it" Don't you find that surprising? Why drink milk if it does nothing for you?
How do you factor HD mapping into the equation, like the one used by the Cadillac CT6?
The Easiest and Hardest Thing
Did anyone make that claim? No. Go re-read my comment and try again.
it drives me absolutely insane that this TypeScript compiles:

const num: number = [][0]
Texan here. This is great advice and have been constantly reminding myself of it the past couple of days
It’s fun stuff to notice and consider though. Anyone have a good AR slack/discord/... to pass along?
Microsoft repo and key are automatically added to Raspberry Pis
BTC's price story is based on the idea that a huge portion of people will use it. Berksire A is expensive for an entirely different reason.

The story seems to rapidly shift between "BTC will save Venezuelans from an oppressive government" and "we never said it mattered if people could use BTC for transfers of non-huge amounts of money".
My impression is that having ENIAC running made this event the place to be for anyone interested in computers:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_School_Lectures

This had a major impact in how computers evolved in the next few years.
My sister lives in Rockwall and she’s been without power since Sunday with no service expected until Friday.

I’m in Dallas and thought I made it through unscathed. Power and inet have been stable with gas furnaces doing their best. However today at about 430pm a water pipe burst in an exterior wall. I shut off the water, found the break, cut a hole in the wall all set to repair. I get to home depot and they closed early! Closing a hardware store early during a major weather event seems wrong to me.

I called a couple plumbers but they’re booked for weeks (not surprising)
The way the natural gas issue has been explained to us over the last two days is there are two issues. First: natural gas is prioritized for home usage, which has understandably skyrocketed over the last several days. There was not enough left in the gas market for the standby power plants to buy up to burn; and what was available was inaccessible due to price and price caps. Second: The standby generating plants themselves suffered failures due to excessive cold. This also affected coal and nuclear plants (one of the reactors at the South Texas plant shut down automatically after the intake water in its cooling pond froze).

The emergency charges for the spot prices changes from that order are recent news that I've not had time to digest yet and as such can't reply to.

Apologies for not providing sources - barely have cellular data service at the moment and have only had electric back for a handful of hours. (Edit: And I jinxed myself there... back in the cold dark again.)
Don't worry.

Only have about ten minutes of charge on the laptop left.

Shut the generator down for the night.

And, my fingers are a bit numb.

But, as I slip into my bed -- made comfortably warm by now by my own personal 98.6f furnace (otherwise known as a wife) -- I'll sleep more soundly knowing that various computer programmers and tech guys are worried about us.

Adios.
Have most individuals in the US bought a house? Have most individuals in the world bought a house in the US?
I need to write a blog entry titled, "Your test suite is basically a sh*tty type system." -- I'm in the "totally anal" camp of type system aficionados :)
Still keeps the floor price of electricity up as some would probably not bother turning off in the case of an astronomical bitcoin price. (Read the article Yahoo, they are in fact keeping some on!)

Also I'm assuming 429 TWh is when it's at full capacity. You have to quote the number for the current crippled capacity for a fair comparison.
Interesting, maybe I'm just in my own filter bubble, but I never see that suggestion. After sampling roughly 15 articles found searching for things like "how to use inception net", etc I didnt find a single article suggesting you take a pre trained model based on image net and use it without modification on a completely different dataset. I am genuinely curious, do you have any examples of this?

Also, it may seem minor, but as someone who has been working professionally with neural networks since 2013 or so, there is a huge difference between saying "what inception net doesn't see" and "what inception net trained on image net doesn't see". I may grant that the author is simplifying for an inexperienced audience, but if that were the case, they should at least point out how such problems can be avoided, and have been avoided for at least 5 or 6 years now, if not longer.
"Mastercard says that it's only going to support cryptocurrencies that meet a number of requirements—including stability, privacy, and compliance with money laundering laws".

So, not Bitcoin. And maybe not any existent cryptocurrency.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/02/mastercard-will-...
Texas' problems can be traced to a long history of wanting to avoid federal regulation:

*"Texas Power Blackouts Were Preventable -- But Freedumb, Dammit!"*

https://crooksandliars.com/2021/02/texas-power-blackouts-wer...
Would that good-engineer QA specialist have a good career in terms of appreciation and remuneration, or merely a good career in terms of being the least likely to get laid off, and providing a lot of value to the company?
Samsung reportedly plans to spend $10B to make 3nm chips in the US
I have a similar opinion of the usage of the phrase 'systems thinking' in the context of 'you're just not a systems thinker.' Absolutely insufferable.
Pipes bursting has absolutely got to suck right now. No power, no water, probably not the greatest of roads still, and getting everything fixed is going to take quite a while.
This brings back thoughts I've had that we should be working with normalized data in code, rather than thick objects. I think the main reason we don't is because there's a lack of tooling around it in our languages. I think a system/language/library designed around this could solve some of the problems in the article as well. First class support for having only one value for a given domain specific id, relations, declaratively describing constraints, and strong querying seem like they would be very helpful to lots of programming problems in complex apps.
About half of Austin has been out for 42 hours now. Source: I’m one of them.
Command Line Shell for SQLite
Which beliefs burned you?
I find coding fun, and I have been coding since I was 10. I did not go to university because I had family problems, and financial problems, along with mental health problems (depression, anxiety, panic attacks and the like). They usually do not care about this though.

I wish they would at least check out my projects, and let me talk about them or something. I would probably work harder and better than some of their employees. I am currently working on a game and I do not sleep for 2-3 days. I am pretty dedicated when I am interested.
The problem is that you’re right: it’s not Apple’s phone. If you want, you can jailbreak. Apple has no obligation to help you void your warranty (same as cars and every other device). If you want to argue that them not being obliged to help is unfair, why are we singling out Apple here? Have a Right to Repair law instead.
The point is about making a comparison. When Bitcoin's energy consumption is equaled to that of a single dam, it just doesn't seem that impressive.
Longest hockey game ends after 252 hours in Canada
There are issues with restarting a forced hot water furnace if you drain your pipes entirely.
Cold climate here (Quebec) and we heat with electricity usually. Many people have an electric furnace (forced air) or even baseboard (what I have for example). We also have a heat pump (heats the upstairs very well until about -15C and provides awesome AC for the entire house in summer).

For Power outages and also coz its just awesomely warm: propane fireplace. All the benefits of a wood fireplace with none of the downsides.

What this means is that we don't worry about "oh how about we all go ice skating" just turn the fireplace off without worrying about a fire. No indoor air quality issues. Electricity is out? Sure no fan but who cares. Still warm (and some have battery backup fans). Have to start it up without electricity? No problem, pilot lights w/ piezo starter. Propane delivery isn't that different from having to stockpile the firewood.
You are right if they were trying to reduce load 50%, that's basically impossible
for the reasons you mention. They were only trying to get it down 20% and it might have worked if they could have effectively rolled the blackouts. A lot of people have natural gas heat. It doesn't work when the power is out (no ignition, no thermostat, and no fan), but doesn't put a huge load on the electric grid when it is on. For a well insulated house, you are probably running the heat for much less than 50% of the day. We run on average 6-8 hours in the winter. A rolling blackout where power was off for 1 hour, on for 2 would have exceeded their target savings, and shouldn't have affected heating or demand.
Munchausen Syndrome, sounds like a bad case of the munchies to me.
all i am saying is fact, it is a waste

don't ship what's not needed, it's a waste

and it tells a lot about the mentality of the developers/company

60mb, now CDN server need at least 60mb of storage to cache your file

compare this to a developer that care and will produce the same with a native language for 6mb, that's 10x less the space needed

it'll cost CDN 10x less money to store and serve since they'll need 10x less storage and will require less bandwidth too

for you single dev, you apparently don't care, but it then hurts everyone, including global warming issue

and at the end, it'll hurt me, now my 128gb SSD isn't enough to store all the electron shit, i need upgrade to install new update

cpu and memory also has to take longer to load and cache all your program

it is the reason why software sucks despite hardware becoming better, nobody care anymore

and it all start at the developper computer, if you don't care, nothing will improve, and every bits matter, either you like it or not, that's how computers work
Why DoorDash Cannot Deliver Your Order Properly
Every time I see a thread like this, I think of XKCD Spirit:

https://xkcd.com/695

Something profoundly bittersweet about that entry.
>Where would one build them?

Nuclear energy is insanely efficient from a "materials that need to move around" perspective. That's why not having long term storage and just cobbling together short term on-site storage hasn't caused a crisis. The maintenance department at a plant generates more waste by volume.

Finding the space isn't the issue. Anywhere we could fit a couple container ships is fair game if you're looking for a national level solution. Politics is the problem. People are more scared of "magical glowing toxic waste" than normal toxic waste for whatever reason.
A federal judge did side with this. This fell into one of the limited exceptions to the law that would require the recipients to normally return the funds, since they were owed the money disbursed and weren’t notified about the mistake prior to receiving the money.
The energy is used to provide security for the value the network stores. The energy consumed by the actual transaction processing is incidental. If bitcoin used a traditional database to store value it would need physical security (people with guns and/or lawyers) to ensure its integrity. To decide if bitcoin is actually wasteful you'd have to compare it to the energy consumption of the physical security that would be required to protect an equivalent amount of value (getting close to $1T).
>I wonder why that is?

Because it tops out at four transactions per second while consuming as much power as Argentina. It's not rocket science.

>I wonder what will change the opinion of the skeptics?

All of the following are necessary but not sufficient:

1. Bitcoin users must panic when Bitcoin experiences deflation rather than celebrating it going TO THE MOOOOOON!

2. Someone has to find a way to make it scale.

3. Tether must be audited.
So is Netflix or a ton of other ‘useless’ activities.
Snark isn't the way to go.
> Don't you find that surprising? Why drink milk if it does nothing for you?

You can view milk as a mixture of four basic nutrients: water, fat, protein, and sugar. What we're discussing here is the sugar. No one anywhere has problems digesting the protein or fat.

So the answer to your question is, because milk is quite nutritious even ignoring the value of the sugar. Lactose-intolerant populations today frequently consume yoghurt, cheese, and even milk for this reason. Yoghurt and cheese contain negligible lactose. (A fun way to think about this is: take out the sugar from the milk and you get yoghurt. Take out the water from that and you have cheese. Take out the protein from that and you have butter. Of course, that's not really how these things are made; you get butter by separating the fat from milk. But still.)

Metabolizing the lactose in milk gives you more than you were already getting, but you were already getting plenty.
This would have been cool in 2018, when kickstarters and IoT crowdfunds would push for wearable tech. It would have mattered then, and be shut down this year by Google when it was no longer successful.

All their marketing is out of touch with the world's current status. Everyone's going places in these videos, running, in contact with each other.
A failed currency and successful store of value. You win some, you lose some.
Why would it be complicated though? Is gravity changing a lot? I thought it was just a constant you plug into equations. Air density on the other hand I would think can change for hundred different reasons from one second to the next.
Or just lottery tickets, which are mostly purchased by low income folks, and legal/state-sponsored, no less.
Those were fairly short and did not take out the entirety of the Bay at once.
Do you really want an answer to that question? Feels more like your are taking the temperature of the top minds of HN to decide if it's cool to like bitcoin yet.
Nimpy: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy

A good test as an example: https://github.com/yglukhov/nimpy/blob/master/tests/tpyfromn...

I've tried it and it works fine. The only problem I ever had was trying to call a specific Python function at the same time from multiple Nim threads. I'm not sure where the fault lay exactly, I just made that part of the code single-threaded and moved on.
And then Microsoft had to stop forcing OEMs to bundle crapware. And, no surprise, crapware from OEMs is still a thing. Bundling a browser into my OS is the least of my worries.
Check out Nano. No fees, no mining, near-instant transactions, and fixed supply.

https://docs.nano.org/protocol-design/introduction/#abstract
A texan? I didn't buy anything below a 20* sleeping bag until I started camping in the desert and even 20* was super low for TX, most go with 40. I've got a -30 now but I never knew they went that low until I needed one.
Because of what happened in Texas, the higher demand of gas affected electricity generation in Northern Mexico which has been without electricity too. As as I understand it, not only the price of Gas wet up 5,000% but also there were shortages.

The federal government has started doing electricity cuts in most Mexico to control the gas reserves and distribute energy to the Northern states.

Edit:

Here is an article about this in English:

https://www.8newsnow.com/news/international/mexico-suffers-a...
Those interested in this subject might also enjoy What To Know Before Debating Type Systems:

https://cdsmith.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/an-old-article-i-wr...

It’s one of those older articles where not everyone will agree with everything, but there’s still a lot of insight and food for thought.
Even worse, all that exhaust gas that goes up the chimney has to be replaced. And it's replaced by cold air from the outside coming through all the little books and crannies of your house.
Don't dig for gold, sell shovels.
> So basically, this is the worst winter in the history of Texas to such an extent that nobody could have possibly predicted this?

It's a bad winter, but not "nobody could have possibly predicted this" bad. Some cities are breaking records, but quite a few haven't. For example Austin's Tuesday low of 7F is cold, but not quite as low as the record from December 23rd 1989 (6F). San Antonio recently tied their all time low from December 22nd 1990. Obviously "coldest winter in 30 years" is quite the statement, but it's still well within living memory and not the distant past. Chances are most of the policy makers and system designers for the TX energy system personally remember the winters of 1989 and 1990.

There's also a 2011 report recommending that TX winterize its power systems in case this exact thing happened. So at least back in 2011 energy experts saw this as a distinct possibility.
You can refresh your vague memories - all of Alcoa's west-coast aluminum industry is long-gone.

The waves of Enron took out most of them decades ago when its destruction rolled through the energy markets. IIRC, the last NW aluminum smelter closed a few years ago.
Show HN: Bitcoin surges to new record as major firms flock to crypto
The important constitutional violation here was that the cop misspoke and said he was arrested when the actual encounter was effectively detainment, which may result in a few tens of thousands to be paid on lawyers. Yes, I'm sure you can find many examples like that.

I don't see the "benefit" here. I've been pretext stopped in the middle of the night while driving a beaten-up car in an out of the way area. The cop asked me to get out and walk around to see something and I did so, etc. We both went our separate ways a few minutes later, because nothing was wrong.

If this guy had simply said "my name is X, I'm videoing these illegally parked cars for my blog at Y" this would've ended without incident. Instead, it will become an incentive to cops to either "find something" (which, despite the headline and a quote in the article that makes it seems otherwise, I would point out that the article says the cops did not do here) or make sure they never bother to investigate anything happening in plain sight, even if that leads to bad outcomes for people.

But those are invisible, because you can't see that but-for event and someone acting like a Karen with the cops will get tens of thousands of dollars for it.
https://www.offgridquest.com/fload/homes-dwellings/heating-c...

Almost without comment. All I will say is that we have some friends in Germany living in the 'countryside' (as much as that's still a thing in densely populated Germany) that heat their main living area with one of these (way less elaborate design lol). My grandma had one of these sitting in the wall between kitchen (right next to the eating area) and the living room.
> I'm saying that the people who identify with Antifa tend to practice or condone violence

Who have you spoken to who is like this? I identify as an antifascist. I've never thrown a brick or punched a person. Virtually all of my antifascist action involves holding signs or calling businesses. This is true for basically everybody I've ever interacted with who considers themselves an antifascist.
The Dos and Don'ts of Software Localization
Would customers be willing to pay 20% more for electric power to prevent a once a decade event?
Can Email Not Suck?
It also takes more work to digest.
Ah, yes, the good ol' Stalin Sort!
That pesky Page 25.
This is exactly why old farmhouses here in the Midwest were T shaped. There was a chimney in the center of each long arm of the T. Then vents through the floor right above the heaters to warm the second story. With good placement they did not need to blow the heat around.
I am also a big fan of iquilez, and a little fed up with openscad. I recently tried out deadsy/sdfx, a similar tool written in golang. I was impressed and I enjoyed using it, but there was a little too much friction when I had a complicated design that I just wanted to make and print ASAP.

I'm a little more comfortable in python, plus I think the language is better suited to this, as a DSL or something like it. I'll definitely try it out, thank you for sharing.
Very excited to see how many codebases that do anything along the lines of `fs := flag.NewFlagSet(...)` have to update to also import `io/fs`
Important distinctions when comparing Closure Compiler's performance to other tools:

1. Regarding bundle size: Optimization level used (SIMPLE optimizations yield output that is at least expected from a minifier these days)

2. Regarding compilation speed:

* Whether the JavaScript-only compiler was used over the JVM compiler: besides being slower, a number of optimizations are not available to the former.

* In many conditions a pre-heated JVM (or Nailgun), or using the NPM-distributed native compiler binary yields faster compilation.

* Which compiler flags have been tuned; e.g. such that the parsing of browser externs is bypassed during compilation for Node.js-targeted bundles.

Relevant discussion: https://github.com/evanw/esbuild/issues/425
Trademark != Copyright (the concern here was with Trademark)
Um, question, does remote code (as defined by the Webstore and Mozilla) refer to JS that is downloaded and eval()ed in the background and content script contexts, or <script> tags that are injected into the page, or both?
On the contrary, I find myself more productive in languages that do not have pervasive null because then I don't have to manually reason about which values might be null.
> Comments can be deleted by any moderator with for any reason. They don't like you? They can delete all your comments. They hate LGBT people and believe you're LGBT? They can delete your comments. This is one reason why there is no visible comment history.

That site is a dumpster fire.
Sabine's version of "real" - that the universe cannot exist without this is a better one imo

Worm holes aren't real until we can't describe phenomenon without them.

Same with the aether. Black holes and chairs are real because we can't make a theory that doesn't include them while still making accurate prediy
Quebec has the “winter package” on the wind turbines Texas does not. Keep in mind, these conditions are almost unheard of in Texas and the infrastructure just isn’t designed for it. Like when it’s 95F in Chicago for a week and all hell breaks loose. Different regions are geared for the norms of their climate.
Yeah I'm curious about what motivated calling out a "myth"... that appears to be not a myth and, why give it more attention?

Seems counterproductive.
Microsoft invested in Apple in 1997. The DOJ filed suit in 1998.

It was a tactic to deflect a DOJ suit, unsuccessfully, but again, this was likely not an appropriate use of the government’s authority. For the sake of argument, even if it were, that does not mean it would be today. Present circumstances are not a mirror of the past. If you want to make a good case for government intervention in the market, your best argument is not that the United States once sued Microsoft and now it is Apple’s turn.

Mind the DOJ has sued Apple (and publishers) once using antitrust law relating to the iBooks Store. The result further cemented Amazon’s market dominance in ebooks and increased ebook prices.