skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is mostly what I would do at a small to medium sized startup. Everything seems really sane.

There are two potential flaws, though.

One is that while using a read replica for reporting works, there be dragons. There is a reasonable amount of tuning possible here. It's important not to conflate the reporting replica with a standby replica for prod. You also might consider asynchronous replication over synchronous replication for the reporting DB. Lastly, there are (tunables) limits to how much you can get away with, but long running queries on either end can potentially cause queries to get cancelled should they hold up replication enough. In other words, it is still very valuable to have optimized, small queries on the reporting DB where possible.

Second is that this works fine until your data doesn't fit on an instance. Large RDS instances are not cheap, and at some large table size it begins to make sense to look at warehouse solutions, like Spark on S3/whatever or Redshift or Snowflake, which can scale out to match your data size. I'd be concerned to find a rats-nest of reporting database instances when a proper cluster should be used.
We've decided not to do anything. Any other conclusion is foolish optimism. The effects will happen.
Well I guess that eco collapse is really coming. Jikes
Archive link in case original page is not loading for you:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210314215410/http://www.hisutt...

(This website currently has 2 articles on the HN home page and is being hit hard)
Sd: My Script Directory
If those are prison fences then why don't Jordan and Egypt cut them along their borders and let the Palestinians out?
Because it might not show the answer to a human? In their methods they say that they employed a technique called multiple endmember spectral mixture analysis which looks to me to be a probabilistic model which performs well over a large data set, like the one they draw from. It's not just a single image they use, but a bunch, each with small spectra differences which indicate areas of cover.

EDIT: Their methods also say that `Bull kelp forests are readily identified by multiple existing high spatial resolution satellite and airborne platforms because their floating surface canopies have strong reflectance in the near-infrared, similar to terrestrial vegetation`, so you wouldn't be able to see the difference anyways.
How to Read ARM64 Assembly Language
The original Little Mermaid is a very different sort of story.

But I agree with your second point. You could actually read Ursala in a very troubling way—as the queer crossdresser encouraging children to become gay. Lgbt people are infecting the minds of our youth, keep your children away!
I don't get NFTs, but then I've never really gotten Bitcoin either. If I'd bought a Bitcoin every time I told someone Bitcoin was overvalued I would have made quite a lot of money.

But I'm much more skeptical of NFTs than I am of cryptocurrencies in general. The most persuasive argument to me has been that it's no different than other collectible items. Art is one example, but I think stamps, coins, and baseball cards are better examples.

I think it's kind of objectively stupid to ascribe a lot of value to some random stamp or coin that is rare because of a printing or manufacturing error. But if that's your thing I'm not going to stop you. And if I were very wealthy and you came to me and made an incredibly compelling case that you'd figured out how to predict the future market values of rare stamps and/or coins well enough to build a profitable trading strategy I would consider investing.

The main gimmick of NFTs seems to be that they make it possible for a digital object to be rare. So I suppose some sort of NFT market could just be another type of collectibles, no better or worse than stamps or coins.

That's the most generous argument I've been able to make to myself. Personally I still can't get over the feeling that they're really stupid.
It has two seat-belts.
I said at the outset it could never be proven. There will never be anything to cite, just a continuing trend towards mediocre medical practice in the USA.

I'm not a medical person, but have had family in that role. They couldn't comment on it, but I sure can.

Informal discussion of patients has been stopped. The feedback channels that allow for discovery of subtle problems and their solutions have been removed.

ER staff used to visit their patients, and keep in touch with them, this stopped with HIPPA. This is dehumanizing.

Imagine if developers weren't ever allowed to discuss bugs in their programs, unless they were actively working on the same bug? Think of how much that would kill productivity.

What if we weren't allowed to discuss any software or OS we currently don't have a license to use? That's about how strict HIPPA is when it comes to discussing patients, at least as implemented by Hospitals.

It is far far safer for them to shut all talk about patients down, in terms of patient satisfaction, lawyers, lawsuits and fines.
They're stream compressors, so they don't want to rely on being able to seek in the file. Even with swap, you'll have to cut it off somewhere; swap space isn't infinite.
FASA is as shameful about never crediting creators as HG. Kawamori stated in an interview that they overextended the "package illustration" rights that they bought to Studio Nue mecha:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2015/12/10/shoji-ka...
This seems more like “build your own data warehouse” than data lake.
But don't worry — as a journalist, she definitely knows who Facebook and Twitter should deplatform next.
And yet Deutsch finished his talk by advocating passionately for absolutely trying to develop a sustainable economy and ecosystem. At least in the written form of his talk, it’s not convenient for me to watch the video at the moment. He’s putting on an impressive intellectual show, but at the end of the day he’s not actually arguing against any of the conclusions we might draw from the spaceship Earth concept. As is often the case merely quoting the opening of a well considered argument and skip the body and conclusion, you’ll end up completely missing the point.

He does contradict himself though. He starts saying where we are is different because not everywhere has life and intelligent beings and such. But then points out (not in these words exactly) that wherever you go in the universe it’s all just varying distributions of protons, electrons and photons anyway so its all of a muchness.

No matter how you choose to think about the uniqueness or mundanity of our place in the universe though, we’re still right here, right now, with the same problems and constraints whichever perspective you prefer. Hence he finally turns to proposing effective environmental management. His grand perspective doesn’t help him escape the fact our problems are real and need to be urgently addressed, and he makes no attempt to evade that.
The GDPR forbids dark patterns and unclear or annoying consent flows. A consent flow that assumes opt-in (pre-ticked checkboxes, etc) or hides the option to opt-out is not compliant.

The problem is the complete lack of enforcement, and the ICO has been particularly incompetent regarding this.
Forcing you to do in particular to do either of these things wouldn’t help. The reason you’re using a car and not walking is cities aren’t built densely enough because California’s land use rules are made to keep the state looking like a 50s sitcom set.

Electric cars are better for families (even in Japan), but having car-shaped cars is still pretty polluting due to road and tire dust, so encouraging micromobility + mass transit would be a better move for the individual.
> That's a battery capable of supplying 1.2 GW peak demand.

Is it, and if so, for how long?

I saw several articles talking about battery capacity in GW's, with no mention of how long the batteries can provide that power, so I think some reporters just don't understand the difference between GW's (a measure of instantaneous power) and GWh's (a measure of energy or battery capacity).

Power plant capacity is reported in GW's because they provide that power continually, but batteries should be measured in GWh's.

And Vistra's Moss Landing 1.2 GWh battery storage in Monterey County, California claims to be the world's largest.[1]

> Those TWH factories are being built right now.

I don't doubt the factories will exist soon, but I wonder if they'll be able to find the raw materials to feed so many factories, and customers to buy it all. Probably some/many will go bankrupt.

1: https://insideevs.com/news/489894/vistra-moss-landing-energy...
Really, really depends on how you live. People in first world countries are worse for the environment than people in third world countries by a wide margin per capita.
The Nature paper is available:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-021-01827-6

and there's a Github repo available:

https://github.com/mmcph005/PyMESMA.git
Practical Scalability Analysis with the Universal Scalability Law [pdf]
TS does not fight the math of venture capital the same way Indie.VC did. My understanding from Einar (and the reason I made an LP commitment) is that the same extreme power law of returns that characterizes traditional early-stage venture is at play in Micro-SaaS: the exits are an order of magnitude smaller but you also buy in at prices that are an order of magnitude smaller.

It may be telling that, in response to my "Seed investments follow an alpha < 2 power law" paper, Bryce (whom I have never met) posted something dismissive on twitter whereas Einar reached out to me to discuss how he could validate a similar hypothesis for his own investing.
I'm not sure what you mean. I don't know all sorts of things. I watch a conference talk or I read a paper, and I start looking things up.

If it's a paper reference I search for the paper's ID/ title - Google won't do any better than DDG, this is a pinpoint search. If it's a term, like recently I was looking into Entity Resolution, I wikipedia it. I run into things I don't know constantly and my search engine has virtually nothing to do with how I discover new information.
This got me thinking about the common misperception of how empty the Earth is:

If you dropped a bomb of a certain type and strength on a random coordinate in <country> how many people do you kill on average?
Could it be that rich persons are largely ignored by the police? What lowly officer would risk their career to embarrass a wealthy powerful person?
What a dull essay by someone who studied lots of things about philosophy, but never practiced any. Which is, by the way, simply thinking about thinking. Complex terms and systems are strictly secondary, thinking is the thing. Questioning positions, wondering whether they are right or wrong for real — not because it's some logical exercise, what is true and what is false in principle, how do thoughts form and interact with each other, and so on. From this grow all big questions about the truth itself, and the world as a whole. And most often the ideas to doubt are your own, but self-criticism is all but absent from the essay.

Even according to his own standard of “practical utility” (ugh), philosophy would help a lot. It would probably prevent relying on textbook stereotypes, like the one about “Dark Ages”, and looking condescendingly on all those “stupid ancient people”, help believe less in common propaganda, and generally hint that 19th century militant scientism is a bit dated position (in addition to being not that smart from the start). Of course, cork hats and cranium measurements fell out of fashion, but the rest looks quite familiar in people who are so loudly happy about “SCIENCE!!!”. Obviously, the description of “science” presented is as far from real science as this description of philosophy is far from real philosophy.
Sounds like hacking the climate. We all know there will be a lot of "bugs" before we get it right.
And here's one in action (with what appears to be ketchup): https://youtu.be/z_44kDWdhw8?t=53
When you buy land you gain a right to physically use (or charge others to physically use) the land you didn't previously have. Exceptions include the Brooklyn Bridge scam, where you actually gain no control over the use of the land whatsoever, no matter how verifiably unique the vendor promises the token they're giving you as proof is, and the people selling certificates with parts of the moon and your name on it. A token which grants you legal control of distribution of a piece of digital art so you can charge others to look at or listen to it might be like a real land deed, but a token giving you a nominal association with something already in the public domain is much more like the latter examples.
Finland? They are still doing construction but it seems all the planning stages have been done, but haven't seen recent update.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-07-31/finlands-solution-nuc...
they generate the money to pay for the spent fuel disposal by taxing the revenue from the nuclear plant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repo...
What happens if the trolls decide to bring explosives to blow up your Buddha statue?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_motor

If you've flown, you put your life in a wax motor's waxy hands: "Wax motors are used...to control fuel, hydraulic, and other oils critical to safe flight today in modern airplanes."
The best solution to the toxicity issue of anonymous internet comments I've seen relates to identifying the users. In Sweden there is a country-wide ID system called BankID. You can authenticate towards any website using a mobile app which validates your identity (through your bank).

One of the regional comment platforms has adopted this and requires you to sign in using BankID, thereby confirming your identity.

I don't know if this is solving the problem or if it's just masking it a bit better by introducing a "shame" aspect, but it's working on the sites that I've seen using it.
That's surprising, and makes you wonder what the explanation is.

One possibility: that Florida's numbers just aren't accurate. From a new article just published this weekend:

It was April 2020 when Rebekah Jones says they first asked her to change the numbers. Then a 30-year-old scientist at the Florida Department of Health (DOH), she'd spent nearly two months building the platform that the state was using to provide daily updates to the press and public on COVID-19, including number of tests, confirmed cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. Jones was so proud of the dashboard — which included six maps and covered half a million lines of data — that she monitored it for up to 16 hours a day. But now, a top state official was telling her to change the test positivity rate of certain counties to align with the state's maximum threshold for reopening, according to Jones... "There were counties that had, like, 18 or 20 percent positivity," Jones recalls. "And she was like, 'Well, just change it to 10....'"

At first, she says, she laughed out loud: "I thought it was a joke.... I was fired for refusing to manipulate data to drum up support for the governor's plan to reopen..."

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a35714647/rebekah-jone...
Try to limit your to-dos to about 3-5 a day maximum. This obviously depends on how much each tasks is going to take, but at least it'll start helping you prioritize your tasks.

But try to cross off the task each day. If it's a big project, then only write down that actual task you'll do as part of the big project for that day.

Use good, old, pen and diary. Don't do digital as that just starts to blow up your list.
The Nokia N900: the future that wasn’t
It's a low profile bulletproof boat, looking at the air intakes and spikes on the prow, it is not designed with X-band stealth as a primary concern.
There does seem to be a lot of sketchy grifters floating around the space. I think that's compatible with thinking of them as collectibles. From movies and books, it seems like a lot of cons revolve around absurdly expensive collectibles (art, coins, jewelry, etc.)
It can be frustrating, because that means you were unable to save tens of bucks by piracying Windows. At least that's what I have seen why some people prefer computers with FreeDOS.
The US is effectively zero population growth, as are many other affluent parts of the world. This seems like an overly simplistic assessment.
What you described is pretty much LZ78. It has been proven that if you can have an infinite dictionary, then you can achieve optimal efficiency. But infinite dictionaries are impossible.

Much better algorithms exist nowadays. Also, no modern algorithm uses Huffman coding anymore, it was overtaken by arithmetic and range coders long ago, and more recently by ANS coders.
enough people won’t care until it impacts their daily lives directly, and by the time it does it’ll be too late

we could likely do it with 10 billion people on the planet, but with the greed there it won’t happen
It's more similar to the meaning of audio master, like a reference copy, not that branches are slave of it.
I think that was referring to smuggling the old way in containers.
Disrupting the Recruitment Process
It was informal. No doubt it relly helped that we are G-Suite users and adding Google Meet to a calendar event is a one-click operation (although it is possible to add other providers now).

Compared to the ultra clunky WebEx client, buggy web version and no native integration with GCal at the time, it just faded out of existence for us.
Yes, and the loss of advanced search syntax hasn't helped either (ex: + operator, quoted strings, etc). They also have weird issues around date ranges (ex: reddit results that appear in date range searches are wildly incorrect). I've been trying to force using DDG as a habit since they first launched, but rather than DDG getting better, it's been Google getting worse that has actually accelerated my use of DDG.
100% agree. Customers do not know or care whether Stripe is being used to process their credit card transactions. There is zero brand loyalty on their side. And merchants absolutely will switch in a heartbeat if there was an existing service with similar ease of use and lower fees.
I don't know if fewer people will choose to hold bitcoin in such a scenario. I think that there's something to be said about the social and political complexity that might lead to such a decision, and whether that is a factor for peoples' thinking.

I am, however, confident, that irrespective of the number of holders, that the price will go up. I don't understand your last point at all. It seems to me to be the same as suggesting that in the presence of cannabis prohibition that the price will decrease because people will choose to use other medicines and psychoactives. The two are only distantly related; fewer users does not imply a lower price.
IIUC the macOS approach is functional but not perfect. I believe it renders all apps at a high resolution (higher than the highest attached display), then the compositor downscales them to the display. This means that apps are using more resources to render and are unable to render pixel-perfect.

I believe that on Wayland the apps are told the scaling factors of the monitors that they are on (or the compositor can scale them if they don't want to switch resolution or are across multiple monitors).

AFAIK apps can't work around this very easily (if at all).
At what price? And how sustainable is that as more users come online? What about uploads?
If discrimination in terms of time is what concerns you, then I guess you'll welcome this new development of autonomous machine guns used for area denial, right? They address exactly the problem, after all.
I don't agree to this one tip.You can choose to be happy or be miserable.

Pursuit of happiness is wrong anyway in my eyes. It should be pursuit of fulfillment, this leads to a person living in the 'happy' state.
Yeah I've done a lot of unpaid overtime as well, don't even bother to count it mostly, what's the point.
But being salaried is still superior for the large majority of people. This becomes more evident the older you get, when benefits like maternity/paternity leave, long service leave, paid annual leave etc become more useful. There is also the matter of getting a loan - huge disparity based on employment status there.

Another factor is if you fall sick or can't work as usual for some reason.
Australia has laws which make it hard to get fired (unfair dismissal legislation), providing even more security to the salaried.
> “ Those "things" which have risen in price does not count as inflation. It has never counted as inflation.”

I’m sorry you’re homeless, but it technically doesn’t count as inflation!
Sad news. I worked with Gordon at a couple of places back in the 90s, in his pre-Mobius days. He was a good guy, big heart, always positive and motivational. And his sleight of hand with a deck of cards was the best I've ever witnessed. Good memories. RIP
> shitty ISPs that have done nothing for years

Oh no they did do a lot. They lobbied for hundreds of billions of dollars from congress to upgrade infrastructure, then gave themselves bonuses and bought back company stock.
Well, in some senses. Yet ocean plastics were reported to be 90% China and India. Soil erosion has been mostly eliminated in the US and is endemic elsewhere. And obviously, since most remaining native species are in 3rd world countries, the threats to them are there.

It seems logical to direct efforts to control damage toward the places where they are occurring.
Ada lets you use any integer subtype as an array range. The first index can start anywhere you wish. It's string library defaults to 1-based but you can easily interoperate with strings using a different subtype. Code can be written that is base agnostic by using the attribute mechanism or by aliasing arrays to use a known range.
i’m carbon negative but honestly i’m not sure it matters... this is a problem that won’t be solved on an individual level
The paper and a repo a few clicks away with better figures and explanations of how they're obtained.
I am assuming we need to go negative in population growth, current population levels are not sustainable.
tax havens baby.
> You can't have all the modern day luxuries (cars, airplanes, electricity 24/7) and somehow expect everything to just "hum" along.

[Citation needed]
Sorry, maybe I didn't do a good job with my comment. A better more specific example of what I meant might be all the people who drank the cool-aid at Jonestown. They bought the cult propaganda hook line and sinker, and died for it. Sometimes people are too sceptical, sometimes they are not sceptical enough. I didn't mean that the twitter lockout was propaganda.

And my closing thought was that it probably make us better as a society that we have both sceptical and non-sceptical people.
Even the photos that sell are scarcer than digital photos - the only people who could reproduce it are the original artist, or an owner of the photo who made a perfect scan, and the owners of the photo likely aren’t going to distribute scans of their own art.
Right. Sometimes old habits die hard and I use FORTRAN when I mean Fortran but I don't do it intentionally nor do I do it out of ignorance. (I note that as I type this into Firefox, its speller still wants to capitalize the word! As I've discovered so do many other editors and word-processors.)

In recent years I've adopted the following nomenclature and you'll note I've done so here in my earlier posts. That is to treat the name of each specific version as a proper name. As FORTRAN IV was originally called that including the Romanized numerals for the version number I use that out of respect for those who originally named it in the same way I'd always use say John and not john. Nowadays, when I refer to Fortran in its generic sense I use its new default name rather than its old acronym form.
The problem is not necessarily the population growth, but the growth in aggregate demand. The rich demand more and more every year, the middle-class demand more and more every year, and the poor demand to live like the middle class.

Your population can be stable, but the economy is not.