skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ERCOT failed to adjust pricing appropriately after the initial emergency, which allowed energy producers to milk the situation for billions of dollars more than is fair or reasonable. It's not like their input costs went up by billions of dollars that required compensation.
AArch64-as-a-service available soon for open source projects
The horrendous load time was one of the reasons I stopped playing GTA Online. But at this point I don't think I'll ever pick it up again.

Cool fix, nonetheless!
This is false. The €336m was a down payment to AZ for 400m doses, not funding for development. It was agreed in August after protracted negotiations as the EU demanded a lower price.
Sounds like you're teeing up to be the pipes for DER management. That's great -- lots of people are coming into the field wanting to be the ones who own the DER management/experience -- but who do you think is going to win the coordination fight?

The EV folks know they have giant batteries on wheels, so they're all wanting to control their schedules to do utility-scale grid services. Smart EV chargers like the JuiceBox try to make their own schedules for the same reason. In California, we have nega-watt companies like OhmConnect that push out their schedules. Folks like Tesla want to sell you a closed ecosystem so they can vertically integrate their schedules. And then there's Nest/Homekit, who want to be the central hub of it all.

It's great to allow all these devices to be connected via API, but as a consumer, who am I going to go to to realize some of this value? And how I am going to make sure my EV's schedule doesn't turn on during my OhmHour or some other combination of aggregators pushing conflicting schedules that will just drive me mad into IoT hell?
I think you missed an important element.

Inflation does not hit countries evenly as well.

Right now, US is exporting inflation in droves. I've seen it firsthand abroad.
Really? Do you want to link the evidence suggesting that?
The OP is pretty much a refutation of your answer, you don't think it has a point?
Vienna is the most dull and calcified city I've ever lived in, and it's not a growing city. It's not super useful to compare to cities that are thriving.
>The book was like a Latin liturgy, filled with terms like the readership only half-understood.

Neither more nor less that 99% of other science books for the general public (aside from the ones aimed at kids).
> I want you to interrupt me as soon as you need help.

> 98% of the questions I get are not about the basic

How do you know your advice is being followed/ is valuable? I don't think that statistic is relevant. I don't think people are misinterpreting what you said. Its either
1. a tautology: because when they need help, they'll ask.
2. It can be misinterpreted: Ask for help whenever something challenging happens.
Something else to consider is all the edge cases you'll hit with tools like Ansible and Puppet. I'm pretty sure neither of them handle apt getting into a locked state because an operation was interrupted. So you end up having to write some hacky script to detect that and fix itself.

Ansible is not even an option for IoT because it doesn't scale well and requires a stable connection. Puppet's agent model works better for large fleets especially if you're crossing multiple gateways.
I have verified that the chrome is removed in full screen mode under Linux, and I seem to recall the same being true under Windows. Why the macOS version would behave otherwise is a mystery.
Does anyone know why services like Google Authenticator were ditched industry wide in favor of SMS codes? It has never made any sense to me.

Feels like the industry needs to push for a dedicated, universal, probably physical, tool for 2FA.
Right, so the company is saying "I will never acknowledge our mistakes because if I do we might have to fix them." or "I am trying to trick you into thinking I am apologizing even though I'm not".

That's more offensive and insulting and time-wasting than saying nothing.
I look at analog audio processing gear sometimes... so expensive. It really holds its value, unlike the digital hardware and software.
I agree, in the meantime the following quotes are directly from their groff manpage[0]:

> mmv - move/copy/append/link multiple files by wildcard patterns

> Rename files ending in .html.en, .html.de, etc. to ending in .en.html, .de.html, etc. in the current directory:

> mmv '*.html.??' '#1.#2#3.html'

[0]: https://github.com/rrthomas/mmv/blob/master/mmv-include.man
I have similar view
If your feed is just content you don't care for, that's infinitely better than disinformation and hate.
No mention of increased crumple zone, which was probably the entire reason for the redesign in the first place? Sheesh. I assume the article was written entirely based on a press release together with a nice pack of product photos.

The previous models were injury/death traps.
Today in the news (in UK) the figures mentioned are that out of 17 million doses given in EU and UK they have recorded about 40 cases of blood clots. So far there is no indication of any link with the vaccine and the 'anomaly' is that these numbers represent less blood clots than they were expecting as, according to a Prof interviewed on BBC, blood clots occur at a rate of 1-2 per thousand people per year.

The summary of the experts' opinion in the UK is that those countries' decision to suspend the vaccine is "baffling".
It's 1920s Vienna that is looked to for lessons about public housing.
"Oddly-shaped mail trucks seem to be a staple of Americana."

As a non-American I have always found this amusing.

Here in New Zealand Post was until a few years ago delivered by bicycle in cities (SUVs or vans in rural areas). They have since moved towards small electric vehicles called Paxster. Basically large four wheel scooters that can ride on both the road and pavement.

https://jobs.nzpost.co.nz/paxster
HE says so many interesting things, yet what the guardian chooses to showcase is a minor point in the interview(Particularly when he talks about a topic he is not as knowledgeable of)? Casually enough a point that goes in favour of the nu guardian's agenda ( More censorship on social media). Honestly this is definitely not the first time they do this, this is reaching insulting levels, particularly with such a distinguished guest for the interview.
Better, but still slower by about 1.5x.

$ time guile3 fib.scm
guile3 fib.scm 2.01s user 0.02s system 99% cpu 2.047 total

edit: apparently my cpu was still being throttled post-build or something, as the initial runs were around 3s. Rerunning slightly later, it was noticeably faster.
While I understand you might be frustrated.

It could be considered satire if you would substitute "Apple" with "Generic Windows Laptop OEM" and "MacBook Pro" with some plastic model of a windows laptop.

What I'm trying to say that 7 years is a great lifespan for a laptop and a fact that only now first-party repair is becoming problematic (I understand it was possible to replace battery with OEM a year ago) and you have to resort to third-party parts seems still outstanding for a consumer goods company.

Apple does have its fair share of problems with less repairable laptops as of recently - that's for sure. Especially if you listen to Louis Rossmann
What kind of CA model do you use to simulate heat treatments in steel?
Your laptop does not have equivalent specs to the new ones :P No doubt yours will feel very slow compared to it running modern software.
The bug affected practically every user.
Oh that solution is a garbage fire.

We hit the 4tb storage limit that they didn't tell us about on it when the documentation said 16tb. They told us we were on the older storage tier and that we needed to rebuild a huge analytics database on our time because they couldn't migrate us to a backend storage tier. So we had a database server that was in read only mode until we could migrate off of it.

Then we had random restarts and outages with their proxy that handles all of the connections. Which is why you actually need the username@db-name, because without the @db-name it doesn't know where to route you, because the postgres connection string is actually just mapping to one IP that they manage for multiple databases!

Fun trick is you can make your url anything that maps to the IP they use for their proxy and it'll take you to whatever the @db-name is in your connection string.

Their solution to the random connections dropping for minutes at a time was to "implement retry logic" on our applications.

Our solution was to migrate away from it.
"Well, let's say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and thats 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that's probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you've saved a dozen lives. That's really worth it, don't you think?"

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Saving_Lives.txt
Do you have a kinky significant other / do you want one? Pick up some 4mm braided nylon rope from Home Depot, google "rope bondage", and go to town. (Books from Two Knotty Boys, Lee Harrington, and Jay Wiseman are the gold standard instructions; Douglas Kent's books have lots of technical information, but are apparently rife with errors)
> playing back my own audio with a delay

Sounds like this device:
https://www.google.com/search?q=ig+nobel+speech+jammer
Objectively, Vienna's housing price index is up 75% in real terms since 1990. While that's not the ideal 0%, it is much better than San Francisco where prices have gone up by 400% since 1990.
If so then they still acted in a gentle way that is rare afaik. If they were so careless they'd just lift the fix and ignore the author.
Noone is complaining that they did not look through all their code for quadratic footguns. There probably are bunch of places like that, but they don't matter and doing that would probably be just a waste of time. Premature optimization is the root of all evil and it makes all sense to dedicate all your optimization on the 1% of code that actually matters the most - but this was the 1% that obviously should have been the target of optimization and was not.

The issue is that slow loading times was a contentious issue with many, many customer complaints (IMHO it was the #1 complaint) and during many years not once did they spend even trivial effort on trying to look into that complaint, and that's shameful. As the tostercx's article shows, if they had ever assigned any engineer a couple hours to look into why loading is slow with a profiler, that issue would have been easily found; the fix as described was a bit more tricky because the author did not have access to the source code, but within a company that would have literally be done within an afternoon by a single non-exceptional person. But they never cared enough to have someone look into it.
I think you missed previous news about this. This was an incredibly trivial issue that would show up in any use of a profiler on the slow startup screens. The fact they didn't is that they're either unable to run profilers on their code at Rockstar (which would be shameful indeed) or they never bothered to do so. Either case shows egg on face at Rockstar.
My willingness to pay is more like $2.99/month, but it's still more than I'd pay for any other Messenger.
TL;DR because you haven't seen a vehicle optimized for this purpose in 30yr (i.e. since the LLV) and you're not used to seeing this particular instance of it yet.
True. I guess it’s semantics whether to call that resiliency within a service or failover to another service.
after ovh fire, it's not a good month for web backends it seems
Solid sounds like a nice idea, kind of like Urbit without the feudalism and for normal people but I think it also sounds a lot like the semantic web. (which is no surprise given that Berners-Lee is on board I suppose).

I'm not too optimistic about this and I don't think it will see widespread adoption, in particular not without any kind of legal framework behind it.

When Berners-Lee talks he still has essentially the early web mindset. Build it, and individuals will come voluntarily because it looks nice and we'll make friendly communities... somehow. I think if that was enough Mastodon would have already replaced Twitter.
If you are curious about the fuel like me -- 10% of the new vehicles will be electric [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/2/25/22300281/usps-new-mail-tr...
Can you explain this language?
Microsoft essentially does this. They call it Shared Source.

Most companies won't do more due to competition or embarrassment.
Linked in is people selling themselves, their career, their made up expertise, etc. Always someone trying to make a buck directly (products & services) or indirectly (self promotion). I’ve never gone to a Lyons Club, though from the little I’ve heard it’s selling but also helping and Linked in doesn’t have much helping (with the exception of the professional side of things it works for many people one way or another).
I don't think I would consider side loading with a developer account as a hack, and I don't think there's much evidence that this will change.
Show HN: Use SQLite as a Message Queue
Hi! I'm the author of litements[0], a set of data structures (and more coming later) built on top of SQLite. The reason I'm building it is that I think many apps can run perfectly on a single server using a few SQLite databases.

The queue[1] is like a message queue, similar to the standard Python queue. Right now everything is built with Python, but the idea behind all the litements libraries is having some persistent structures that can be shared between multiple processes. All talking to SQLite.

I would love some feedback on it to see how it could be useful to others. I want to keep everything as simple and reliable as possible.

[0] https://github.com/litements/
[1] https://litements.exampl.io/queue/
Made into a brand is not the same as deifycation.

Not just in the literal sense (Pharaohs and some Roman Emperors were actually deified, not Hawking), but also in the metaphorical sense.

Hawkings just had a very striking visual presense and story which was easy to remember (alas, because of his health issues mainly), and so became a stand in for "famous scientist" the average Joe knew, and the press could use a a common interviewee, reference, etc, when talking about physics.

Otherwise people (whether into science or not) didn't care that much about him, nor they had particular esteem for his various views (unlike e.g. with Einstein).
I miss the "close other tabs" and "close tabs on the right" feature when they used to be directly available with a single right click. Now you need two clicks for that and are hidden !! why break something when nobody ever complained about it. Its getting ridiculous, like someone from another browser team is the product owner for firefox choosing how to cripple this browser one tiny step at a time
I mean, I get the argument. But it falls easily, from my pov. If the styling is for all content from the target site, 304 still works logically. If the argument is "all content in the browser", it fails as it depends on the address.

And I can see the argument for either. If I increase my terminal's font and run a curl, the response is scaled up. That makes sense, I scaled up my terminal.

To that end, it is odd that scalling up is per document origin. I'm assuming that is configurable?
The countervailing trend is that the number of people per household has fallen greatly in the last 100 years, so even a city without a growing population needs construction to keep up.
Have you considered working for non-FAANG companies for a little while, while you build up your skills on-the-job? I was nearly in my 40s before I got a job at one of those “top” companies, and it wasn’t for lack of trying.
They still do that today.

It's why TurboTax is so darn slow and hard to use, wasting user's time.
I tend to agree with this - Emacs is my daily driver and the way I use it, it's really 1) a tightly integrated window manager/text editor powered by elisp, and 2) a great community providing additional functionality. It would be relatively easy to make something to replace (1) for me, but (2) is tough. I'd love to know how far we could get with an updated editor and rendering system, with backward compatibility for emacs code via some sort of emacs/new-system translation layer - I was really excited for xi-editor for that reason because it seemed like it might be a good platform for those kinds of experiments.
Anyone who has grown up playing multiplayer games knows how important it is to have everyone with 1. A good headset with a noise cancelling microphone 2. The ability to control other people's volume individually and 3. The ability to switch to push to talk rather than open mic.

And last but not least... tech literacy
It could also be the opposite, rent stable => population not growing
You should actually compare the actions of Apple compared to other companies before stating that their stance is bullshit. I don't think this holds up to scrutiny. It looks to me that they actually do a lot for the cause of environmentalism.

Also, have you never had an old car where the repairs start to cost more than the car is worth? Sometimes you do need to replace things.
Is there a path through the maze it generates? If so, are there multiple paths?
Yes, we've seen those! We're essentially building a big, souped-up version of #1 with a lot more features.

#2 is an interesting comparison that raises the question of why now is the time to build automated restaurants. The biggest reason in my mind is actually labor cost and people's increasing unwillingness to work fast-food style jobs. When AMFare came out it was easy and cheap to hire teenagers to flip burgers, but that's less and less the case and people still want cheap, convenient food. There are also other factors like the fact that we have a lot more modern electronics to work with and learned from examples like AMFare to make our system easy to clean.
A family member moved there recently so anecdotal.

To find an apartment was easy in their case (4-5 days) the total cost is similar to Berlin and about 50% the price of Dublin.
And maybe read the top comment by someone who worked on that project:

"The food was really good. The hamburgers were great. The patties were transported on an open steel belt as they passed through the gas burner that cooked them top and bottom. They had a great char-broiled flavor. But the Amfare system never got anywhere, because it took a crew many hours each day to clean the machines. A normal fast food chef will clean the grill after each burger is made. You can imagine how bad the hamburger machine got after running continuously for 12 to 16 hours every day."
> I absolutely despise ads of any kind, and go to a decent amount of effort to block them from appearing on any device in my household

No one cares, my man. This position is so off the grid that your anti-ad cruzade will likely have 0 impact in the real world.
Time, Our Greatest Wealth
Google Voice SMS might not be able to help since they are all in the same POTS ecosystem as well.
These vehicles rarely make it above 40mph and the drivers often don't use seat belts.

Spending an extra hundred bucks per vehicle for a nice N-way adjustable seat or spending engineering hours making the seat-belts more convenient will have far greater benefits than throwing random safety technologies at it.

The previous models were designed in the 1980s. All 1980s work vehicles are/were death traps by modern clipboard warrior standards.
Yes, it has been proven.

Also, while it's good that you admit your bias, "don't think highly of him" while you don't even know the basics of his field (never mind of his career), it's nonetheless a bias.

I don't think he (or, well, his legacy) should be striving to prove something to you, rather the opposite. You should be striving to evaluate it if you want to have an opinion about it (even if it's a negative one after the evaluation), as opposed to randomly have opinions and feelings about it.
> Yeah. As someone not in any risk group I will prefer the Pfizer or Moderna one. I'll be happy to get the Janssen one or even the Sputnik, but if the vaccine they offer me is AZ then I will refuse.

Maybe they won't let you know, to avoid people refusing to get the AZ "vaccine".

How long until you can buy it? This way it's not a (possibly corrupt) politician deciding which corporation will make the stuff that gets into your body.
Vienna is the most livable city 10 times in a row now!
Surface radars don't work too well with objects very close to the sea. It becomes hard to pick them out from the clutter caused by reflections especially if their size is comparable to the height of waves. That's why floating stray shipping containers are so dangerous to small boats and why sea skimming missiles are so effective.
Yes, increasing population generally leads to increasing land prices, so I think that's a good question. There are other things that drive land values up, however, such as just generally increased productivity due to technology and any other factor (because a more productive population earns more and can thus afford to pay more in rent to their landlords).

For a full assessment I would like to see other Austrian cities that have had similarly stable population sizes but don't have Vienna's policies.
But Google Voice requires a Google account, and to create a Google account you need to provide a valid phone number. There are also a lot of service providers that don't allow you create an account without providing a valid phone number.

I wonder how high-profile politicians and celebrities deal with security issues like this? If this is really such an easy attack to pull off, what's stopping someone from shilling cryptocurrencies on celebrity social media accounts (again)?
Proven? No idea. But it has been observed: https://phys.org/news/2021-02-stationary-hawking-analog-blac...
Realizing this thread is very very weird I'll recommend codingames clash of code for those who don't know.

https://www.codingame.com/multiplayer/clashofcode

It's code golf/some puzzles on a 15 minute timer in versus mode. Extra fun with twitch streamers or with coworkers because you can discuss the mess after you made it.
To make matters worse, Apple actively weaponizes the legal system against repairers and to make sure that spare parts aren't put on the market for their computers.
Yes! This is one of my biggest gripes with modern flat UI's. What's that thing? Is it a button? I'll just have to hover over it to see... and hope the developer didn't forget to implement a hover state to show me whether this element is interactive.
This isn't really true for the AstraZeneca vaccine, though. There's supply, but people don't seem to trust it and it's just sitting on the shelves because even when people book an appointment they don't show up. I'm sure the number of vaccinations _will_ drop, because it's one of the only few vaccines being distributed, but I doubt it will be as high as you mention here.
Why is every linux laptop manufacturer insistent on using panels which likely came from a dumpster behind a 7-11 ? I have yet to see an open source laptop with anything above 1080p which looks like complete ass, and makes you want to claw out your eyes after an hour of real work ..
> it works for your use cases

Until they remove the feature you used for years. But hey, they are the champion of the Free Web so anything goes.
I enable javascript if I have a contract with a vendor. I am sure I am not representative of any significant group however. I expect the future to be dumb terminals, vaults and bottle caps.