skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're building a seawater extraction plant in Arizona, the price of electricity is the least of your worries. (though admittedly Arizona has toyed with the idea of a desalination plant in the Sea of Cortez (so it'd be in Mexico), but they'd also have to build a power plant with it)

Likewise, if power is a significant part of your operating expenses, probably shouldn't run it in the state with the most expensive electrical costs.

Though my point was more that the actual power consumption in KWh isn't essential to know for figuring out if this process is viable, just a ball park price base on some average industrial power prices is good enough.
Entropy is inevitable. It’s not at all obvious that aging is primarily an entropic process.
> “Introverts should use this period to readjust and to make their way slowly back into their social life.”

As opposed to extraverts, who don't have to adjust.
How about OSM?
I'd say the opposite, more or less.

Before the lockdown I lived in London with a flatmate, went into a sociable office regularly and voluntarily and spent a lot of time in bars. Had a lot more "alone time" when I travelled, but actively sought out company the whole time.

18 months later, I'm living on my own for longer than I ever have before, in a boat travelling through relatively rural locations a long way from London or people I know, and the notion of going out to socialise and having full time work gigs is something in the past, and it's.... fine. Haven't felt the need to overcompensate with catchup calls and messages, will be quite happy taking on projects or a next job with fewer meetings, have seen some friends since but no need to force the issue, because that's the way things are and there are other things to do .

Though I might have to find something resembling a crowd for the coming World Cup Final :)
Cheaper to buy, but not to run
Brb looking up kugelblitz
edit: :O
Oz probably has the means to produce vaccine and speed up roll out if the situation gets worse there.
Or at least they can't do it perpetually. They can be faster in a turn, keeping momentum and in theory material science is the only thing keeping it from doing enough turns shooting downwind fast to be fasten on average too.
Let me be clear: Thanks, Xavier!

httrack was extremely helpful and there really was no equal. The “modern” web requires a live JS engine, but as you point out, even the “old” web had server-side logic that couldn’t be captured.

In that light, I think httrack has stood up pretty well and nobody expects you to go rewrite it or clean it up. If someone today has a mostly static site they want to archive without writing custom code, I would still recommend httrack (it’s more controllable than wget or similar). I just assume that those sites are mostly gone :(.
Exactly. That's why the whole "extroverted introvert" movement everyone's so proud to join has always annoyed me.
On the flipside Google maps gives me all kinds of local business number to services that either do not exist or are definitely not local. Pairs nicely with street view images of destructed empty space overgrown with brush.
This looks like what androids dream of. No electric sheeps though.
I find your responses baffling, because on one hand I agree with your main point that Covid is just not very dangerous to children, but on the other, you keep ignoring all the responses that point out that the primary reason for things like school shutdowns was to protect others from child carriers. Children obviously interact with a ton of different adults throughout their day, and "almost immune" would definitely argue to me that these kids wouldn't be a dangerous coronavirus vector, which is false.
Entropy doesn't really apply here: the idea that it always increases only holds in closed systems.
Not much interesting here. I recommend “The Abolition of Aging” for a good primer on the possibilities of affecting aging (including socio-economic questions).

The article mentions both physical limits, and geneticly encoded aging, and argues for the latter. In reality it’s a combination of both. But it doesn’t matter, as we should theoretically be able to affect both.
Seems like may favourite artists were GANs :) both audio and video are strikingly similar to IDM/glitch stuff I love.
This is a terrible analogy. We're talking about an automated test suite for verifying that a piece of software conforms to an established specification, not a skills assessment for humans.

Compare it more, perhaps, to housing codes. . . and imagine if the specification of the housing codes were covered by an (at least ostensibly) democratic process, but the actual housing inspectors all worked for one company, and that company also happened to be the biggest player in the construction business. So the inspector therefore had a clear incentive treat outside construction firms with less than complete fairness.
> You extroverts will never drag me into an office again.

And people after tasting what working from home feels like, want to continue doing it: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/economy/articles-reports/2020/09...
The problem is that defaults are very powerful. I could equally well argue that the Internet Archive shouldn't archive my website unless I give them opt-in permission. Of course, if that were the case, the Internet Archive effectively wouldn't exist.

ADDED: To be clear, it may be fine to say that making certain things opt-in means that other things that many might value can't exist.
Apparently, these days, if you make a visual layout editor, you call it no code?

I still think Kelsey Hightower has the only true no code solution
Me, too. Locally you get to inspect the product, which eliminates most Amazon-class difficulties, and also there's somebody who has to physically hide from you if you have a complaint.
Why the World Is Facing a Covid Apocalypse
This seems to be building on rocky foundations though. It's unlikely a functions entire test vector gets checked during testing. This is a known risk (you can't test everything) but by leaving all the functions under a public function untested there is no safety net.
Yeah, this has been my experience, too. Sql and RDBs are a lot less frustrating when someone takes the time to actually do some design and planning.

Personal experience incoming:
At startups, it's usually a mess because hiring someone who knows databases seems to always come so late in the game. At bigger corporations, well, hopefully the developers and database people get along and talk - otherwise, one of those teams is going to be a bottleneck.

> Model it correctly, then consider an optimization pass if performance cannot be reconciled with basic indexing or application-level batching/caching

So true. This also extends into general purpose languages, everything is so much easier when you take the time to model things correctly.
Specifically: the cells you're made of are the product of an older organism. We all descend from older people yet are born as young people. So clearly, the progression is not inevitable, otherwise the human race wouldn't be here.
The article says it is unclear if it covers generative models.
How long would humans live on average if they don't die from age? 150 years? Mentally what can we handle? Everyday dangers, traffic, disease etc.

Some crabs or lobsters don't die from natural causes from what I have heard but eventually get eaten by pray or die due to some other reason.
Entropy can be increased locally, the human body is not a closed system. Otherwise, how would humans have even come to exist?
Speedrunners do that via timing, not reaction. The fastest possible human reaction time with any level of consistency is somewhere around 100-120 ms, so if you reacted to 'ghost enemies' faster than that you would be definitely cheating.
You've totally changed my minds on how shitty they Basics products are, thank you!
Show HN: Simple CLI for command-not-found.com (recommends installation)
Having worked a lot with neo4j, a graph DB, over the past two years, I must say I'm surprised how rigid and inexpressive SQL is by comparison. We started our project with a SQL database, but some queries would be 10 or more lines with multiple joins. Very hard to read. Once we switched to neo4j, the same query was a single, easily readable line.

SQL is very well-established, but it's also old, and it shows its age. It's kinda weird how easily we jump from one programming language to another, and yet we can't seem to move on from our main relational query language.
In a browser environment, all addressable memory accessible to WASM is more-or-less just a javascript ArrayBuffer object. If you can unintentionally break the browser sandbox with buggy C++ code, someone else has almost certainly already compromised your system with malicious plain ol' javascript.
I use it as my primary GPS now and I live in south of the UK.
Google Maps took me down all sorts of goofy unpacked backroads in Crete this past month. It’d cut the driving distance in half and double the driving time. Although my Fiat Panda rental did surprisingly well on uneven, unpaved roads.
The answer is yes.

It seems the author is reasoning more in the philosophic realm than in evolutionary biology.

In this podcast [1] an evolutionary biologist goes into depth about telomeres, evolution and how cancer and longevity are two sides of the same coin.

Long story short, having cells die after a number of replications is a postive trade off. It means that when a cell replicates too fast it also dies fast.
The opposite are cancer cells, which replicate too fast and don't die.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLb5hZLw44s
Actually, they both are correct. "Softwares" has a different and older connotation to it, but both are acceptable in English.
Freon's properties are somewhat analogous to contact cleaner: an aerosol that dissolves organic compounds and evaporates quickly (Freon boils around -30C). Basically they go where you spray them and are gone before they have time to drip somewhere else.
This is nice, having most of the important stuff laid out.
Would have been useful when I tried to use OpenBSD. In the end, I moved away from OpenBSD, Because I couldn't figure out how to recover the filesystem after a power outage.
1) Possibly, but getting an organization going where all those different tasks are taken care of often requires substantial up-front costs, i.e. "barriers to entry", which a person or organization who already has a lot of resources can afford, but a little guy like me can't.

2) New guy is unlikely to succeed in a market where there's a natural monopoly already filled by someone else. I'm not going to try to start a competitor to facebook.

3) Entrenched businesses have an interest in eliminating competition. Sometimes this happens naturally (walmart can take advantage of economies of scale in a way that 'mom and pop' down the road can't), and sometimes they go out of their way to prevent competition (e.g. big telecom bribing politicians to pass rules against municipal internet).

The resulting trend being large companies become more and more powerful over time, making it more and more difficult for an outsider to compete. This should be plainly obvious to anyone living in the USA, but it's theoretically the case even under completely non-corrupt circumstances (see https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-inequality-ine...).

Therefore, no, I don't feel I could bring in 1000$ without them, but I am still being ripped off. The handout I give my employer is non-consensual.
All the fear, isolation, and disruption to their normal lives has also had a very negative psychological impact on kids. I've seen many who are clearly developing phobias and anxiety issues. The rare and hypothetical long term risks of covid to children (and the mild risks to vaccinated adults) need to be balanced against these ubiquitous and very non-hypothetical adverse psychological effects. On a population level, I believe the evidence points to there being far more risk in the latter.

A society that sacrifices the psychological wellbeing of its children to prevent moderate illness in adults has really screwed up its priorities, and that's increasingly the situation in places where the most at-risk have been vaccinated.
It is certainly odd, Dashrath Manjhi [1] was called insane when he started building a tunnel to make the travel distance from his village shorter.

Baldasare Forestiere[2] probably was also called insane in his day, he just wanted a cooler catacomb style home in Fresno.

It is hard to know when some one is following a mad vision or just mad.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forestiere_Underground_Garde...
Google drive enterprise for $20 a month for unlimited is the best I’ve found. Rclone and encfs to mount and send the content. Almost 0 issues.
Crazy. My wife and I used 619 kWh last month
What part of the comment you replied to implied that Amazon would never grow? The entire OP is about the growth that Amazon would have to do to fulfill certain scenarios (that would result in expected profit for investors.)
Probably people would die from cancers.
I like this idea. It gives the comment poster a statistical summary of peoples generalized opinion without being personal and potentially starting attack/counter-attack contrarian wars. Those could probably also be buttons to avoid having two actions, pull down + select.
What an annoying world we would have, with all those non dying conservative people, not leaving space for the young and their new ideas
Android Automotive from an OS Perspective
This.

At the end of the day source code is for human readability. If you pollute your code with a poison pill you just make it harder for other humans to use.

ML Systems are doing sequence analysis and looking to predict the next token, for an arbitrary length of phrase. You've poisoned your code but compared to the volume of GitHub or any other public code data set it becomes the equivalent of noise. If you create a movement that puts poison pills on all Haskell files, now every project has painful boilerplate and an AI will learn to produce the same code. And every human that deals with it won't see a difference because you created a Haskell standard.
pdqsort isn't stable and still suffers from killer inputs.

Not sure how well this will paste:

Name | Items | Type | Best | Average | Loops | Samples | Distribution
-------- | -------- | ---- | -------- | -------- | --------- | ------- | ----------------
blitsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.005962 | 0.006532 | 1 | 100 | random order
pdqsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.002665 | 0.002802 | 1 | 100 | random order
| | | | | | |
blitsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.000069 | 0.000078 | 1 | 100 | ascending order
pdqsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.000098 | 0.000100 | 1 | 100 | ascending order
| | | | | | |
blitsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.001138 | 0.001196 | 1 | 100 | ascending saw
pdqsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.003245 | 0.003317 | 1 | 100 | ascending saw
| | | | | | |
blitsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.003777 | 0.003843 | 1 | 100 | generic order
pdqsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.000819 | 0.000851 | 1 | 100 | generic order
| | | | | | |
blitsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.000051 | 0.000060 | 1 | 100 | descending order
pdqsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.000202 | 0.000207 | 1 | 100 | descending order
| | | | | | |
blitsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.000815 | 0.000845 | 1 | 100 | descending saw
pdqsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.002307 | 0.002368 | 1 | 100 | descending saw
| | | | | | |
blitsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.001761 | 0.001774 | 1 | 100 | random tail
pdqsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.002560 | 0.002572 | 1 | 100 | random tail
| | | | | | |
blitsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.003328 | 0.003374 | 1 | 100 | random half
pdqsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.002651 | 0.002854 | 1 | 100 | random half
| | | | | | |
blitsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.000593 | 0.000938 | 1 | 100 | ascending tiles
pdqsort | 100000 | 32 | 0.002316 | 0.002482 | 1 | 100 | ascending tiles
This is true in theory but in practice it doesn't really make the problem solvable. Go show me your machine that turns an omelette into an egg.
Point #6 skims past what is (IMO) one of the most interesting results in Turing machine theory: adding additional tapes doesn't increase the computational power of the machine.

This is significant because machines at the next-lower level of complexity (pushdown automata) DO get more powerful: a PDA with two stacks is equivalent to a Turing machine!
I was going to say that... with fd.io this should be pretty easy these days.
I wonder if it increases the probability of drives dying.

When you connect multiple similar devices together mechanically, their vibrations can sum catastrophically.

Ah, it’s mechanical resonance I’m thinking of.
> I feel like most frustrations with SQL boil down to fighting against a shitty schema.

Which one of the frustrations from the article boils down to fighting against shitty schema?
This white egg thing is nonsense. The color (sorry, colour) of the egg is determined by genetics, it has nothing to do with the way that the chickens are raised.
I noticed this last year and made a dumb game out of it: thisaccentdoesnotexist.com
That's a footnote section and to me the listing is only partially related to the text, i.e. the write up contains a lots more details on multiple components.

Thanks though for backing up this write up. That's +1 for confidence.
Sure, but it's a question of status in society and how you are treated according to your status. A butler accepts money to be subservient to their employer and attend to their needs. An Uber driver isn't like that. He or she is captain of the ship navigating a vehicle through sometimes difficult circumstances and if the passenger doesn't like it, they are welcome to get out.
I’ve been using Apple Maps since getting my first CapPlay compatible car. I switched because the Google Maps app was (and remains) awful to use. GM forces you to view a very small view of where you are going next. Multiple click to access trip view and custom map scale. In contrast, Apple Maps makes it easy to toggle between multiple views with one click and the UI is less cluttered.

Personally, I like to use the map to occasionally update my mental map, not for turn by turn spoon-feeding. Apple’s app makes this much more convenient.

Additionally, bookmarking in Google Maps remains primitive and hard to manage. Apple introduced collections over the last few years which are great.

What I miss the most about Google Maps is the photos, which are generally better than Yelp (and don’t open a new app).

Apple has work to do outside of US, but their maps make steady progress year after year, and if the US indicate where rest of the world is headed, things will get better.
The author believes that aging is not inevitable. He suggests supplementing with NAC, one of few anti-aging supplements that actually works.

The author also believes that, "it is difficult to escape the inference that powerful people and organizations have engineered this pandemic with deadly intent," believing that Bill Gates' TED talk indicated that he knew that COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) was coming. He thinks that the pandemic was planned to profit the pharmaceutical industry, and that vaccines are sometimes maliciously manufactured to induce infertility.

Take of that what you will.
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People use different licences, because they want different things, e.g. attribution, or that improvements be contributed back, or nothing.

It is harmful to open-source, because if these wishes are not respected, people will stop contributing and stop open-sourcing things.
It’s not hiding profit, it’s reinvesting in growth… Amazon is saying to investors that they think they can give investors a better return on cash by reinvesting it into Amazon than distributing it to investors to put to work elsewhere.
I never got to the article as I gave up after 25 "no" clicks on the cookie form. (I know I could block better - but sometimes I like to see the state of the bad ui design). Websites like Forbes and The Condé Nast ones don't exist in my world as I don't go there.

As to Apple maps I gave up when the dumped us in a field in Norfolk (England). It was about 5 miles from the proper destination, and no clue how to get to a road going there.
Attachment style probably doesn't change.
Linux is just an implementation detail; it's a more accurate description to call it a GNU/Linux system, yes, but most Linux distros could drop in one of the BSDs or illumos as their base layer and from a user perspective nothing would change.
What's backing Circle's $25B stablecoin? We may never know
Presumably it refers to edges in an object graph [0]. EdgeDB seems to be currently deployed as a management, schema, and graph-to-sql translation layer for PostgreSQL.

[0] https://www.edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-a-new-beginning#edgedb.
That’s not much of a router with just two ports and no WiFi.
This has actually been a native feature of Chrome since 2018.

Couldn't find the current docs but here is the release announcement: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-devtools-65/#overri...

And Chromium Edge's docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-edge/devtools-gui...
Hah, I'm not sure how our dev staging URL ended up on HN :)

Here's a direct link to the documentation page about EdgeQL: https://www.edgedb.com/docs/edgeql/index.

EdgeQL, the query language of EdgeDB, is a very interesting piece of tech. It's a new, strictly typed query language, that aims to surpass SQL in querying power. Functional in its nature it was designed to be composable and easy to learn. Happy to answer any kind of questions.

EdgeDB itself is almost ready for its 1.0 release, stay tuned. The GH link: https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb/

// Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder & CEO.
And then there is Windows Update, which I have seen take hours even on $100k servers.
Maybe I'm too cynical, but I think instead of worrying about extending our lives we should focus instead on making the most out of the time we've got.

In our modern era I think most would benefit from having a healthier relationship with death as well. Death is inevitable to us all but modern life shields us from much of this. I know many people my age who are frightened by the concept and go through an existential crisis whenever they contemplate death.
Reddit, Hackernews, Youtube, Craigslist, ...

Honestly, reddit sucks but there isn't really another option that is some-how hotter garbage than reddit. I really don't want to chase content around the internet, so I tend more towards the aggregators.

I also like garage sales.
Optimizability is one of the core ideas of the relational model. The others being data independence and a declarative query language. SQL is based on relational calculus and relational algebra, which in turn are based on first-order logic. The reason that every attribute in the relational model must be atomic is that first-order logic cannot be applied to nested sets. However, first-order logic is what makes query optimization possible in the first place. Thus, if one were to develop a query language that did not have these constraints, then one would lose optimizability.
It's not a database meant to run on the 'edge'. I'm guessing it's a graph database built on the PostgreSQL codebase.

> EdgeDB is a relational database that stores and describes the data as strongly typed objects and relationships between them.

> EdgeDB is built on top of PostgreSQL, inheriting all its core strengths: ACID compliance, performance, and reliability.
Were any of the books mentioned in this scene from “Hackers” real? (2019)
Can you elaborate on the “zeitgeist’s value system”? You keep accusing people of doing a thing and then not really defining that thing.
Because having good genetics isn't enough to actually achieve anything, and there are a myriad of reasons someone with excellent genetics won't achieve as much as someone with lesser genetics.
A New Way to Prevent Shark Attacks
I've found them to range from unusable, to adequate, to simple and perfectly designed for purpose (and readily available from dozens of Chinese manufacturers through other channels.)
I don’t understand why this is here?