skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reducing Real-Time Query Latency from 0.5 s to 0.01 s with an HTAP Database
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What exactly are you looking for a citation for? The GP was stating their strong belief regarding a future event and (I assume) facetiously saying you should bet on it.
Maybe it helps to not think about people as statistics. You could write something like "Do you doubt you are right for this job? Please apply anyways, we'd like to know about you!". The problem with that, of course, is that you cannot meet every applicant. So after all, maybe it's not the wording but the position's description that's the problem.
Mount Athos?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastic_Republic_of_Mount_Ath...
I didn't suggest that buying always makes sense. I was only trying to point out that comparing month to month costs isn't a fair comparison, since a significant part of the money you put into a mortgage becomes available to you in the fullness of time. With rent, once you've paid it it's gone.
Exactly, people are repeating decades old argument without incorporating what has happened with technology over the last 10 or 20 years.

In the last decade, grid scale battery costs have declined by 75%. Wind turbines and solar panels have declined by 80% and 90% respectively. These declines are actually accelerating at the moment - grid scale battery storage has halved in price over the last two years. In contrast, the LCOE of nuclear has increased by 20%.

The industry is moving so fast that arguments become stale very quickly but people are slower, it seems, to update their opinions.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2020/04/30/solar-and-...
The issue is that solar/wind can only provide so much of your country’s energy supply, due to storage issues.

So you’re then left with a choice. Go with nuclear, or use fossil fuels, to make up the remainder of your energy consumption.

For example, Germany is still under 50% renewable despite their recent pushes. But instead of getting the other 50% from a relatively clean source (nuclear), they choose instead to use fossil fuels.
Isn’t it mind-boggling that under the stress of winter, the same infrastructure that they had yesterday suddenly costs billions of dollars more to operate? Profiting from calamity. The exact opposite of how public utilities should operate.
I use a similar setup for the same reason. 32“ 4K Dell and a MBP.

When I was still using a dual screen setup I had one in the center as primary and one at the side in portrait mode.

Having dual screens next to each other with the space between the screens in front of you sounds like an ergonomic disaster. Some people seem not to mind though.
How can I find email addresses of business owners’ quickly in 2021?
There is a (similar?) effort that takes inspiration from dwm:

https://github.com/prabirshrestha/dwm-win32

Maybe you can take inspiration from one another...

I'm really tempted to try them out, but I probably first need a spare Windows system...
The Global Population Crisis That Never Was
One of the points of the toplevel comment is exactly

> This article also again equates safety with lack of deaths.

So adding a statistic that only focuses on that seems not helpful to me. Are there some available that give a broader analysis (that might not be as catchy for social media)?
I think it's as you said, corporations didn't recognize the economic value of chat platforms back then. I think they were mostly focused on "Web 2.0" stuff so they probably tried putting all of their resources into that. You often see companies axe perfectly good business units just because they have a slightly lower margin or contribution to overall revenue, as they think putting the people from those units into the "cash cow" units will be better for the profit line (and it often is). We can see Google doing this over and over: They actually create a lot of nice products that could be profitable on their own, but since the main Google products are just making much more money per employee it still makes sense for them to axe the small "winning products" and have almost everyone work on the big winners.
Why don't you think we can use renewables to reach 100%? People have done calculations on it using existing tech?

For my country, those calculations were done by a government body in 2014, and they estimated that the total cost would be somewhat higher, but not astronomical. But since then, the prices have fallen much faster than they anticipated.
You still typically perform a measurement at the end of a quantum algorithm, which is irreversible.
Yes, indeed, Code as Data isn't difficult if you just do something else. Your example is completely different from what the concept means in Lisp.
Additional tips regarding psTools.

Enter https://live.sysinternals.com in to Windows Explorer to browse and run the psTools suite.

Its also exposed via WebDav at: \\live.sysinternals.com@SSL\DavWWWRoot
> gravity storage is in the works now

To cover the electricity needs created by using solar as base load for the US, you would need on the order of 10 TWh of sotorage -- that means basically using all of the Great Lakes as water storage, filling them up with 300 feet of extra water every day and pumping that out every night. Theoretically possible, but an unimaginable feat of engineering and prone to nimbys in Chicago/Detroit/Cleveland, far more so than creating a few dozen extra nuclear plants...
I'm planning on a Stripe-style approach where each user (perhaps even each access token) can choose which version of the database schema they want to query.

I don't have any worries about managing long-term schema migrations though because the per-user databases get blown away and reconstructed every time the calendars are refreshed.

At the moment there's just an `events` table but I might handle migrations by having: `events_v1`, `events_v2`, etc. and just have `events` be an SQL view onto the version you chose.

Managing as little persistent state myself was a specific goal so this project is perfect because apart from some authentication info and a list of iCal URLs, the source of truth for your calendar is always with Google/Microsoft/etc.
Interesting to see that the most effective way to block tracking is the combination of Firefox, uBlock Origin and NextDNS, according to the report.
Using dual displays with the second one not being the exact height/bezel-size/shape as the other is distracting and is less of a nice experience than when both displays are the same.

Usually with an iMac, the second display is always something else, this is a nice way to make the overall experience nicer.
Rx: combineLatest vs. withLatestFrom
> “With an iterative process, the computer doesn't need to use up resources for each iteration. If you know a bit about programming, you might have expected that each iterative call, like each recursive call, would consume a small amount of memory and eventually run out. Our system is smart enough to notice the iteration and avoid doing that.”

Yes, getting recursion right is old hat. But the fact that it was solved a long time ago doesn't mean it's solved for me today. If I program like that in my day job in 2020, I do in fact "consume a small amount of memory and eventually run out"
The amount of tooling you have to write yourself to keep a sane workflow is excrutiating.
Are those costs calculated in the current energy markets?

Once intermittent renewables (solar, wind) reach their saturation point, nuclear revenue changes.

This is also highly dependent on how much storage (and flex) capacity is installed alongside these renewables...
Just curious where we are we at in terms of the environmental aspects of mass scale heavy duty battery production?
HAProxy – sysadmin’s swiss army knife
Laugh all you want, but you can do both. Farming work is repetitive and allows the mind to wander.
We just spent 2 decades saying this.

I suppose we’re going to say it for another.

that’s 30 years of emissions that could have been avoided.
> Viable base load battery storage is science fiction.

That's a huge exaggeration. There are several solutions building commercial plants right now that should be good enough. Ambri is one example that was designed from the ground up for grid energy storage.

The other thing is that even with nuclear, if we want to solve emissions from transportation, steel production farming and fertilizers, we need to produce a HUGE amount of hydrogen. If you have hundreds or even thousands of renewable hydrogen production plants, you have all the energy regulation capability you'll ever need.

I feel like most nuclear proponents really aren't looking at the big picture. Not that I'm against nuclear btw. It'd be tragic if we didn't continue the R&D we're doing. But it's not as essential as you'd think, if you keep in mind the fact that we have to solve the energy storage problem anyway to get electricity into places where you don't have a grid connection.

I actually think the main benefit of renewables is that they stimulate even more R&D in energy storage. There's huge synergy benefits.
ruby_smb: A native Ruby implementation of the SMB Protocol Family
I heard that Chrome team had this KPI from very early on - how much time it takes for Chrome to load and it stayed the same to date. i.e. they can't make any changes that will increase this parameter. Very clever if you ask me
The first page has a link to download wasm3-cosmopolitan.com.
Tech recruiter here from Switzerland.

Most non-competes that I saw are invalid because they contradict with local laws.

Firms put them anyway to scare candidates. In reality, they never hold.

I made even a video about it to calm down applicants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st7JaIdLJ4w
The evidence would suggest the California approach to regulation also fails to keep the power on.
Cool analysis hope it goes well.

Would you be able to isolate sock puppets (people that push agendas for profit or other nefarious purposes)?
The thing that conflicts with this goal is that they require that you show proof of previous failed attempts. Why is this at all useful for creating an archive of answers? There have been times where I can perfectly write up a problem and the expected inputs/outputs but it gets closed because I didn't paste in some non functional code with it.
....."ultimately be a matter for markets to decide".

done.
I hate this story - the case of Dunedin's lines company (Aurora) is not a matter of simple underinvestment - a decade or so ago the city built an indoor stadium, it cost hundreds of millions more than they originally claimed, and the local rugby community welched on the 'private fundraising' they promised to bring to the table - the city got stuck having to pay for it all, plus rather than making the promised small annual profit it needs to be subsidised to the tune of millions every year.

The stadium is owned by the same city owned holding company that owns Aurora(as well as a couple of other companies) - they effectively balance off the money made from Aurora with losses from the stadium - this allows them to avoid taxes on the profits from Aurora (a perfectly legal process).

However - and here's the real problem - Aurora (and the other companies) were not making enough money to cover the loan servicing - the holding company put immense pressure on the various companies to produce more income (profit) Aurora seems to have done it by reducing the amount of money it spent on maintenance .... now they're dealing with the results from years of missed maintenance and are trying to get the people living around Dunedin (and in it) to pay more to effectively cover that money taken out for the stadium.

Really they need to raise ticket prices at the stadium to cover these losses and make the stadium self funding - at the moment we subsidise every rugby ticket from our power bills and from our rates (property taxes)
> hernobyl was underbudgetted in terms of safety.

I think that is something we should expect to be the default and is a problem in maintenance as well. Leaky pipes and more are common problems for nuclear power plants. e.g. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/radioactive-leaks-found-at-75-o...

> Fukushima on the other hand is a better comparison. But on larger scales, such as Europe or the US, surely it must be possible to place the plants in areas that are not subject to such natural disasters that would threaten the safety of the reactors?

In the end it matters to massively overscale the safety for the location it is in, no matter where you put it. Including rigurous maintenance and checks of all of this. But those things will make it much more expensive.
At one point people were speculating about monitors with eGPUs built in.

What would be super cool is if Apple could take this further and you could use an iMac as both a second screen and off load work to the CPU and GPU.

I'd like that from an eWaste perspective if nothing else. i.e. just add a new iMac to your existing set up.

For myself I've been using the same external 27" Dell 1440 monitor for about 7 years. It's not like it's worn out in anyway.
Yeah no. While the C++ library ecosystem is painful to use, it still doesn't justify hand-rolling a JSON parser and there are certainly high quality hash-based container implementations available too, but even the standard one should beat the one used here.
You just don't change anything, and that's how you last forever, like COBOL.
I think it's simply a badly worded way of saying they would need to push the build to 1000+ hosts after they compile it.
Yeah but this actually not very good. The good GIFs don't redraw the static areas of the image. You can see it in the keyboard gif

As far as I know there is no automated tool to do it though. It's done manually by the meme lords

Also dialing in the quality is some black magic and not only about adjusting the fps. You can adjust the image size and bitdepth and other parans. This is also not automated and ffmpeg makes it very cumbersome to dial in the right parameters to get decent quality and small file size

I'd actually be really interested to know if there is a better reference out there
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> The problem with nuclear power plants is that: You have to deal with very dangerous material and guarantee that this waste, which could very well outlive humanity, will not hurt your population?

It is worth noting when considering this question that fossil fuels also leave dangerous and radioactive waste, but instead of being confined to a dense waste we understand how to contain, it is emitted as particulates into the air that we breath.
Yeap, that's I think one of the disconnects - while it would allow you to have a market beyond the game the items, in the case of a fully digital TCG, are only valuable due to the game and their scarcity in the game, plus the game needs to have some game play options where having the items is relevant.

Amiibo looks more like the skinning/customisation market - probably they don't have an impact on the game.

In TCGs with games/tournaments where you need to own cards to play them there's an actual "desire/need" for a market to trade/buy - although it seems most digital TCGs nowadays all do the hearthstone thing of being able to "create" items by destroying others which diminishes the need for it, I personally don't like that mode, but I also don't see where a blockchain helps instead of a DB and backup of all "actions" recorded.
That's interesting to hear, because my experience is that I really really _want_ to use Remote Desktop / Screen Sharing but the performance has gotten worse and worse over macOS releases, and it currently abysmal over gigabit, and even 10-gigabit, wired Ethernet. (I could not see any difference between 1Gbps and 10Gbps which made me think bandwidth is not the problem).

I'd love for this to be some flaw in my own setup, though.

I used to use this setup circa Mac OS X 10.6 and it worked very well (1Gbps wired connection). I could leave my home office and screen share in from the living room via my MacBook Pro from the living room, when I had to watch my kids or whatever.

Today, I don't even try that. Command-Tab lags, yes, but almost everything lags to the point of being super-annoying to use. Even typing lags. I also have a Windows box in my office, and this setup basically works (even from my MBP). So I've been assuming this is one of those features that Apple has let degrade to the point of unusability.

But am I wrong? I'd like to be. Are others using Screen Sharing or Remote Desktop on macOS with success beyond like click... wait... click... whew I got a system update installed? I mean, for like typing emails or coding?

(One thing I'd been thinking of debugging was whether my office Mac having 3 5K screens is an issue — I am only trying to screenshare one of them, but maybe they have a bug or something where total pixels of the host kill perf even if those pixels aren't being shared.)
Do you have any stats on this? I'd be surprised if Apple laptops ended up in landfill quicker than their competitors' on average, given the huge second hand market. You also have to bear in mind that the vast majority of 'broken' laptops just get thrown away or put in a cupboard, regardless of whether it would be theoretically possible to repair them.
> like someone stopping maintenance of a private server is way more likely

But the chance that thousands of someones all stop maintainance of their private servers (at the same time) is way more unlikely.
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I used AIM to create what had to be one of the earlier live-blogging proofs of concept. It supported live-blogging from my Nokia 3390 dumb phone by virtue of its AIM client (which was literally just an interface to AIM over SMS).

I coupled that with a custom plugin on Trillian (Astra?) to post to an API (API is generous, it was literally just a PHP script that knew to listen for a certain URL variable) which would post to the database, and update the page live. I even gave my friend a different prefix, and then we set up a dueling live-blog screen as we went on the same trip together: me on the left column, him on the right, timestamped, both of us contributing to this blog without easily being able to see the other's posts, since the phone itself didn't have any web capabilities.

I dug into the old database, which I still have banging around somewhere here, and sure enough, the first entry was January of 2005.
And Java, which (I feel like) is used for bigger, long-term projects.
> Renewables are based on the hope that one day we will either had transcontinental grids, which no one has managed to build, or get batteries with energy storage seen only in Star Trek.

That's absolutely ridiculous. Even with nuclear power, we'll need to produce MASSIVE amounts of hydrogen to cut all carbon emissions. If we have enough renewable hydrogen production plants to make all the hydrogen we need for ships, planes, steel production, farming and fertilizers, we'll have all the energy regulation and storage capability we'll ever need.

Seasonal variations in cold climates can be handled better by trash burning facilities. Yeah, recycle/reuse first, but eventually you'll need to get rid of a lot of non-recyclable mixed waste regardless.

I feel like people claiming nuclear is essential has never truly thought about the big picture.

In my opinion it's a benefit that renewables stimulate more R&D into energy storage. It's a positive synergy, since those solutions are absolutely essential to solving the climate crisis anyway. Unless we invent nuclear reactors we can put on planes and trucks. Now there's a Star Trek level invention!
nuclear doesnt run 24/7/365
That appears to be an autonomous zone allowed to make its own rules but still under the sovereignty of Greece. Also it looks amazing but I'm bummed I wouldn't be able to visit as I'm female (though I respect the tradition behind it.)
The mars atmosphere is equivalent to 120,000 feet.

The record altitude for a helicopter on earth is 40,820 feet.

How are helicopters able to fly so high on Mars?

Also, parachutes do not open when the altitude is greater than 15,000 feet.

How was the rover able to land at all with parachutes, in an atmosphere equivalent to 120,000 feet?
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HN becoming kind of underground FightClub, where people share how to fight back.
When a politician enacts a policy that ignores some big tail risk, they won’t be in office when it eventually blows up. Who foots the bill in that case? Certainly the politician and maybe their party won’t suffer election losses from it.
You can already see what effect nuclear has when the safety is not done well (Chernobyl and Fukusima). But even those cases kill less people than coal done well.
Yeah, when the last government was trumpeting a new stadium in Christchurch post-quake as a massive economic boom, I was somewhat dubious. If the rugby franchises want it, maybe they should put their money where their mouth is.
I expect there will be a big fight about this.

Insurance companies are already worried. I expect them to start writing into their policies exclusions about man made climate change. Which most people won't notice until it is time to file a claim. And then there will be a big uproar.
In the context of trump being stupid, I can't guarantee anything. Assuming sane leadership there are established methods that appear to work well.

In response to trump being stupid my only response is that waste management isn't the nuclear problem in worried about when it comes to trump...
That is if, not only can we keep making them, we produce them at massive scales without inciting coups around the world for Lithium [1]. Because let us be honest with ourselves, the CIA has staged coups around the world many-a-times [2], and iirc but can't locate that some of said instances were done to support private entities.

[1] https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/opinion/3735-we-will-c...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...
I think it might actually work for other digital items outside games - sincerely in games unless they're interoperable between platforms I don't understand what would be the advantage - but maybe things like coupons, say you got a coupon from a signup somewhere, and it was represented as something with an expiry date, associated with an email or phone or wtv, but you were never going to use it, maybe selling that and the person associated with it changed to the new owner that then could redeem/use it?
Again, not sure it's useful.
> Calling that personal benefit when they were hit by a massive surge in supply pricing is shifting the blame a bit, no?

How is it not personal benefit? This company was essentially acting in the same role as an insurance company for retail customers. They charge a fixed fee for electricity that is above the average price of electricity. When electricity costs less than they charge they make money. When it costs more they lose money. They should have maintained cash reserves from profitable times to handle unprofitable ones. In an extreme situation like the current one in Texas they could seek a loan or already have lines of credit in place to cover any shortfall from their cash reserves. The profit they made went somewhere and it obviously didn't go into a rainy day fund.
This continues after this blog post - https://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/not-lisp-again.html - discussed yesterday - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26297040
The 'firm' is Brazos, which was run as a not-for-profit co-op.

Here's a statement from the CEO who resigned describing a precursor event in 2014 and suggesting how the DoE should proceed to make a repeat less likely:

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/08/f18/karnei_s...

It suggests the problems were systemic and interconnected, but at least some parts of the industry were aware of them.