skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am a good singer (as in: I have done it for a paying audience of about 1000 and gotten away with it). That was in a format where singing was expected, and with an audience primed to whatever I was doing.

I was nervous, since I am not used to singing like that (I am a professional bassoon player, working full time in a symphony orchestra). The risk of me bombing was rather small. This thing is different in just about every way.

Would I stand up and sing in a tech conference? Not without vomiting before going on stage (not sure whether that is an exaggeration for comic effect). It requires more than just a little chutzpah.
Look up "paleolithic ketogenic" diet, a clinic in Hungary is treating "incurable" disease with an all-meat high fat diet. With extraordinary success.

Humans were obviously hunters for most of our evolutionary history, deriving most of our calories from animal fat.
basically this means that `apt install emacs-nox` now takes 2GBs of downloads, pulls in hundreds of fast-changing, hardly audited extensions and probably is not available in sane distros. No, thanks.
What’s the fine when the government does it. Oh like say California DMV
No you cannot, you cannot infinitely scale SQLite, you can’t load 100 G of data into a single SQLite file in any meaningful amount of time. Then try creating an index on it and cry.

I have tried this, I literally wanted to create a simple web app that is powered by the cheapest solution possible, but it had to serve from a database that cannot be smaller than 150GB. SQLite failed. Even Postgres by itself was very hard! In the end I now launch redshift for a couple days, process all the data, then pipe it to Postgres running on a lightsail vps via dblink. Haven’t found a better solution.
k8s isn't the only option, Nomad is a much better fit here.
> It produces $1/day in electricity

Maybe under ideal conditions, at a very high per KWh price (25c or more). The math would only work in a very sunny place with very expensive electricity (Hawaii, perhaps?)
> The efficiency of this process is approximately 50%, and it is estimated that it may be increased to almost 65% with non-consumable electrodes, wetted cathodes, lower temperature electrolysis cells, and reduction of heat losses

That's not too terrible I suppose, plus aluminium is rather convenient to store.
Wow, this website is one of the first ones in the wild I see which seamlessly integrate SVG into the text flow to produce a single look. Amazing work!
Without knowing, 500kg per dwelling sounds like it would pose some supply scaling problems.
The use of non-combustable electrodes only gets a passing mention here but it seems a key part of making this system less carbon intensive. Also, if I remember correctly aluminium smelters use some pretty nasty cover gasses in the process to avoid creating a giant firework, I didn't find a reference to these in the paper.
Allow for the possibility that you have something important to contribute to the world.
I've visited a few communities quite a while ago, and I've found a common trait of those that didn't devolve into a cult: They were outward-oriented right from the beginning: Volunteering for various purposes, engaged in the local communities around etc. - things that made steady social contacts with the outside world a necessity. These communities usually also had less problems with gaining new people once the founding generation got a bit older.

It's the same as with normal individuals, actually: The more the individual traits make one prefer solitude (like introversion or social anxiety), the more it is mandatory to maintain steady contact with others, otherwise the own comport zone steadily shrinks further.
Wildlife farming means raising of traditional undomesticated animals. So no races breded over a long time, but animals they fetched some years ago from the wild and started using them. For example, foxes are not domesticated, but some people started with breeding them a while ago.

This term is not specific to china.
> are the solar panels worth the added manufacturing cost and weight?

"worth" here implies the third factor that you didn't explicitly mention: how much power you get off them. And "69 miles per week of charging" is pretty small, hardly worth it unless it's extremely cheap in vehicle cost and weight.

You're not wrong with the qualifiers "people using their cars once or twice a week to drive 10km to do groceries" and "some people don't own the land they park their car on" but each qualifier of the prospective customer greatly decreases the potential market size. Combined with a qualifier that they must be without good access to shared transport (so not in a big city, but not on their own land); then you might be looking at corner cases, not a viable market.
Al processing already consumes vast amounts of energy, and the plants are already being used for intraday load balancing. There was a story recently about an incident in Germany where due to weather and strange market mechanisms, the grid was in danger or collapsing. The operator’s third line of defense (after gas peakers and hydroelectric storage, IIRC), was to remotely turn off the Al plant 600 km away, something they can contractually (and technically) do up to four times per day and six times per week for an hour each.

That plant uses 1 % of Germany’s electricity. It’s not the only such plant, and Hermany generally frowns on frivolous uses of Aluminum: cans are far less popular, for example, and will earn you dirty looks.

The Audis may make up for it I part, but in the US it should be possible to shift some non-trivial fraction of the electricity consumption by, say, doubling processing capabilities and running them seasonally. Al isn’t too expensive, and the plant is a small part of the costs anyway, with energy making up the bulk.

Of course there are countless opportunities to optimize consumption patterns once consuming devices all have data connections: heat and cooling, washing machines, dryers, dishwashers, roombas, notebooks... all these devices could shift their consumption on the hours-to-one-day scale and easily cushion even large variability in production. Once electric cars are ubiquitous, they‘ll make up the bulk of consumer electricity usage and they could even feed power back into the grid.

The only real problem with Al is, obviously, that we keep misreading it as AI. The confusion will drive some lesser Al insane, and either that or the singularity will cause a bloodbath, henceforth known as Al Gore.
And you can refuse to merge those changes and promptly kick the idiot who did that from your team. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s that one case where it actually makes sense.

Not all problems are technical. This is the sort of thing that can be solved with people skills.
A great excuse to drop a link to this legend:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke

Richard Louis Proenneke (/ˈprɛnəkiː/; May 4, 1916 – April 20, 2003) was an American self-educated naturalist, conservationist, writer, and wildlife photographer who, from the age of about 53, lived alone for nearly thirty years (1969–1999) in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin that he constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes. Proenneke hunted, fished, raised and gathered his own food, and also had supplies flown in occasionally. He documented his activities in journals and on film, and also recorded valuable meteorological and natural data.[1][2] The journals and film were later used by others to write books and produce documentaries about his time in the wilderness.
Another great benefit - permissive OSS!
I don't think that's true though. Maybe you haven't SEND any, but I bet you receive a lot. At least I do: from my bank, from some of my bank accounts, from my mobile service provider, from my parcel delivery service. From Coinbase, from PayPal... The list goes on and on.
To me it feels as though the last decade and a half computational power has not grown vertically. Instead Intel and AMD have grown computational power horizontally (i.e adding more cores). I'm looking at the difference the M1 has had on compute performance as a sign X86 strayed.
To be honest I don't see the point of the nose.
In Europe, lorries and busses have flat front and have since I was born.
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Sahara to Berlin is ~5,000 km over land and would pass thru ~7 countries (including syria & potentially lebanon).

Assuming no electricity theft, high transmission powerline losses range between 0.5% - 1.1% per 160 km [1], and losses are generally higher on hotter days, leaving us with a probable loss of between 20% - 35%.

I've argued this before, but I would rather avoid unproven storage concepts entirely and fasttrack nuclear reactors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission?wp...
The day you do you might find it quite liberating, I definitely recommend a trial in a good environment :)
> Appimage is basically a linux port of the windows workflow where you download an exe file from random sites and run it. No update mechanism, no discovery, no install/remove mechanisms no sandboxing.

Not 100% true. See e.g.

https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/blob/master/src/app...

Since the AppImage format is always the same and not just a random .exe it is possible to build tools around them.
It's still used a lot also in Europe for OTP codes (banking and such), as well as for shops/deliveries, where they send an SMS for order status changes (shipped from the warehouse, in transit, ...).
I still miss CoreOS, it was a really good solution.

Edit: as said in another comment in this thread, there are now alternatives to CoreOS!

- Fedora CoreOS: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-coreos/

- Flatcar Container Linux: https://kinvolk.io/flatcar-container-linux/
The politics around nuclear is a real hurdle (rightly or wrongly) so it makes sense to look at other solutions.

Lots of energy in Europe is supplied from countries you may not want to be reliant on (Russian gas for example).
They also didn’t live to a ripe age.
I think you're right - just looks like monthly report padding. This is the problem with private security, it's hard to trust that the client sees the value in you, when part of your effectiveness comes from deterrence. No takedowns would be great news for Adobe if it meant that no one was pirating their software, but it doesn't make for a very compelling presentation at contract renewal time.

Ultimately the damage here is relatively minor, but this behaviour could cause serious harm in future.
Yes, this is only for VOIP. The author of article is dishonest. He mentioned that his TMobile phone number got hacked but I am willing to bet that this is a marketing .. .
Java developers are rightfully conservative and sceptical of "new things". That said I believe Kotlin really provides a strong value proposition over Java. You also don't sacrifice much, there is less tools ofc but enough to get by, performance is equal for the most part etc.

Also unlike stuff like CS it has a very strong future with Android backing.
But why?

I recently ran Netscape 4 for the giggles and +90% of the web no longer functions as I could not load the pages due to the protocols no longer being supported.

You may be testing against JS features but in reality those browsers cannot function on the open internet as their protocol and security stacks aren't supported.

A simple check of caniuse.com is sufficient, but if you're worried here's which browsers are in use https://caniuse.com/usage-table . Netscape no longer even registers.
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That notion isn’t entirely wrong, but Sahara here means Morocco which happens to be among the most stable countries on that continent, and would compare favorably even to some South American countries or, say, Belgium.
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There is a big gap between being functional in a language and perfecting it.

Each sound cue not mastered hinders information redundancy and thus increases risk of not being understood. It probably seems like percolation: small crevices that suddenly reach a critical point where comprehension is lost at the receiver side.

Also way before that point, the receiver needs more subconscious effort and thus fatigues itself parsing the message.
because neither solar panels, cables or charging network (to connect the cars) is free (money and emissions).
Yeah. Maybe on Youtube, only the extremes exists.

Sweden has thousands of remote houses (ødegård) that be bought or rented for very little.

It can be refreshing going there for a few days. Drinking fresh cold water from a well in the forest, no electricity, a fireplace, some mosquitos, crayfish, playing scrable and looking at the rain.

And then being reminded why it is actually quite nice and much more interesting to live in a big city.
Its not needed, but its sure helpful. Docker handles much more than just app distribution.

Health checking, service recovery, process isolation, networking, log management, etc.

Sure, everything is possible without using Docker, but why not use an industry standard tool that does a lot of the heavy lifting, especially when it comes with as little overhead as docker?
Advoko's channel is great!
Damn lies. Damn lies. The attack vector only works for VOIP or Toll Free Numbers. The upstream agreements already block Mobile numbers. This is paid marketing for his company.
A bit confused here. Isn't CoreOS deprecated since ~May 2020?
> Docker is about running multiple things on the same server

Or about running a single thing on multiple servers. Or providing a temporary runtime with language/lib/software X preinstalled. Or to facilitate easier testing.

In the end, many people use containers for many different reasons. There isn't a single "This is what docker is for", although people tend to shove containers into places that might not be 100% suitable for containers.
USPS has an insane structure. Its leadership consists of government officials, but it gets 0 taxpayer funding, it's essentially a private company with government overhead.
A fun-fact that its CEO, the "Postmaster General" is the second-highest paying position in the government after the President.
Did you ever feel the itch to add a 'trait' to access and manipulate the partial ordering set? Something like CLOS' method combinators or call-next-method (to call the next most specific function).
If you enjoy this stuff, do check out "Alone in the Wilderness" with Dick Proenneke

Here's a clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss
That installer brings back memories. When I was a kid, I would wonder how it managed to render its own UI and look so different from all the other DOS executables.
Large tech companies tend to buy other companies when they grow and with that, centralize the ecosystem. Microsoft buying GitHub and moving all the infrastructure to Microsoft is a classic example on centralization. And the frequent downtimes are another classic example on the drawbacks of centralization.
Absolutely this. I currently have a document from my bank, that they emailed me. Which I’m suppose to print, write all my personal info on, plus a copy of my passport and FAX to them!!

All because I want to change my phone number, and I’m overseas.

Which I only need to change (or even have associated with my account at all) because they refuse to offer any other 2FA option.
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Or you know, there is a bias towards the negative for some backward-ass reason and there is this much engagement over some random clickbait UI feature, and almost none about actual technical advances in the renderer and the like that happen regularly, which is kind of saddening on HN.

It would be nice if the community would have more acceptance towards the last remaining browser fighting the good fight, with the many welcome, recent (!) advancements regarding privacy.
Energy directly translates to wealth, wealth translates to stability.

The lengths of bizzare ideas people go through to not help their close neighbours, so that they can avoid facing the injustices of the past have no end.
Allow for it, but then realise in reality even something important is trivial.
"Last I checked" - Could you provide a link?
Interesting thoughts. I think you're onto something.

Going off on a tangent: I personally won't leave for California/SF since I have family here and won't put the obviously massive financial advantage ahead of that.

But I did consider this when I was in my twenties. It wasn't a super easy choice. Interesting to hear that someone have taken the leap. Not multiplying one's salary by 3-6x could indeed be described as quite financially irresponsible, and the alternative has to be pretty important to pass on that.
I wonder how much of an overlap there is between those still using classic GSM phones, and those who listen to vinyl records.
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Banks already has tools that detects SIM Swaps and SS7 attacks. It's just hard to make decisions. Banks care about false positives too.
SMS is a standard and easy way to send/receive messages without using incompatible messaging apps owned by third parties. And the only way for me (except email) since I don't use Android or iOS.
It isn't uncommon to see people rely on the argument of neuroplasticity as a crutch. That one person seemingly doesn't learn as well and as fast past one's twenties is a thinly veiled ageist take but also an easy hand-wave to discard personal/professional change.

It's always good to see your kind of comments.
That cloth insulation often included asbestos fibres.
Ada with the Ravenscar profile enabled is a good choice for such scenarios. Together with a real-time operating system it allows you to satisfy hard real-time guarantees. As you certainly know, though, hard real-time constraints require hardware validation.
> one and a half years of professional coding experience which ended when I got fired for performance issues

So what happened there? What did you learn from the experience? How did you work to improve?

Being fired for performance reasons would be much more concerning to me than the fact that someone online is better at leetcode problems. And it should also be a sign that maybe you aren't ready for a job at some of the most competitive companies yet.
Forcing companies to have mechanisms for the deletion of user data is absolutely a public good. Frankly, most anything was legal before these laws.
>https://vinaytech.wordpress.com/tag/disadvantages-of-ast/

cool
No, normally sdk will build with cgo if you import “net” anywhere and it will not run with musl or even older version of glibc
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Would Spain’s Tabernas Desert be a better bet?

It’s closer and Spain is part of the EU and politically stable.
> Printed/saved backup codes are still an option

Vast majority of users don't bother with such complexities.

SMS is the easiest minimum entry barrier to 2FA. It is better than having just passwords.
Sure it was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_oGi8uuDpA (from history)

I guess I remember incorrectly it was 3 hours long. It is only 1hr few minutes and you can easily watch it at 2x speed.

But overall Youtube is a great resource for learning new things. If you search Kotlin crash course (filter by duration > 20min) you will find ton of such courses and you can easily judge them by number of likes/dislikes.

And make sure to watch it at 3x speed with subs ON initially (video speed controller for chrome). This is truly a great hack when learning tech things via video.
> Nevertheless, we were able to build a comparably lean system with Debian: The base systems of both Ubuntu Core and Debian each have a total size of about 1 GB.

This line made me somewhat sad. But it is possible that I am just being old and grumpy.
Not sure about variety effect, but overall they had much healthier diet from certain perspective (fruits + vegetables + lean muscles/whatever part of animal). No processed sugars, preservatives and other slow-poison crap. I don't think the diet was complete and for sure some vitamins/nutrients were often missing (ie in winter).

Combine it with much higher activity and they would look like superman with regard to fitness to average human these days. At least those who survived those harsh conditions, infancy and various easy-to-cure-now ails like tooth infection or appendicitis.
This one is quite fascinating. It comes with a highres GUI mimicking Windows 3.1. I wonder how big the market was in 1993 for graphical applications running on pure DOS.

Screenshots: https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/106ec2b0-c389-1cc3-8411-c3...
The main competitor of Delphi ultimately was Visual Studio, especially VB and later VC#.

And it was the mess that Borland (by then bough up, I think) made with Delphi 8 that was critical in decline of Delphi.
Nuclear is a) way too expensive, b) takes decades to build in the current climate (see France and UK for current timelines) c) the Swiss population voted against new nuclear plants in 2017, so this topic is moot anyway.

That fact alone that nuclear power is so much more expensive compared especially to renewables is it's last nail in the coffin.

Edit: fixed idiom, thanks raverbashing
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Most cars weigh more than that, yet here we are
> I want to know is whether file ordering makes the same efficiency difference for zstd as it does for xz.

It should, because much like other LZ77-based formats zstd uses a distance symbol plus additional uncompressed bits for longer distances, which should be frequent with the unorganized file order. Those formats assume that lower bits of longer distances are essentially random, so if this assumption doesn't hold those bits will affect the efficiency. Zstd also recommends the minimum window size of 8 MB, which is an improvement but also not very large.

I've done a quick experiment with a directory hanging around my temporary folder that weighs about 14 MB (Android CellBroadcastReceiver source code, if you ask). The random file order resulted in a file about 1.4% larger than those for the file extension order. So the effect definitely still exists, though I'm not able to quantify that.
Interesting timing, given that I'm currently running through hoops with a simple address change with their bank. Their web & mobile apps suck bigtime, and it looks like they aren't even making an effort to make online transactions easier.
One course of an antibiotic might not "rot your brain", but one course of a corticosteroid certainly can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid_dementia_syndrome#Case...

I was on prednisolone for a couple of months a few years ago. I can't say I was very intelligent before that, but it's certainly took a toll on my memory and cognitive abilities. (No, it's probably not hypochondria, I didn't even know corticosteroids could have such consequences when I noticed the problem.)
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I understand your confusion.

CoreOS has indeed since been deprecated, however when Redhat acquired CoreOS in Jan 2018 they merged CoreOS and Project Atomic to create Redhat CoreOS. They also released Fedora CoreOS which shares some technologies with vanilla Fedora and Silverblue.

Shortly after the acquisition, Flatcar Container Linux was released which is an updated derivative of the original CoreOS.