skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’ve just been paying a $30/mo upcharge for unlimited data (removal of overage charges). Basically because it’s more predictable than the $10 for every 50GB overages. A few months we’ve had 4-5TB through the service and Comcast doesn’t seem to have slowed us down or charged more.
> There are two equilibrium temperatures.

The third one is radiative equilibrium. You could achieve that in a solar furnace, the object won't get hotter than the black body temperature of sunlight, which is ~5800K.
Good to know you enjoyed the read!
Makes sense. Commercial construction is dominated by bean counters whose incentives and penalties discourage risk.

Public works usually require separate bidding for different aspects of projects, which means you have 2-5 different entities to coordinate around. Some states and entities are experimenting with design/build contracts, but there’s obvious opportunity for corruption there, so who knows how that will fare.
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Sure, that would be reasonable, though the two posts citing failure seem to be talking much more explicitly about the attempts - "all these efforts have failed", "gave up".

If it's "people expected this to already be done and it isn't" yeah sure, of course.
Here's a link: https://github.com/Hirrolot/datatype99
After accurately describing the problem, would you now say that the real root of the problem is our socialized healthcare system, or having choice in drugs?
When I say "scale to zero" I mean like Cloud Run or AWS Lambda: I define it as the service automatically scaling to zero (and hence costing nothing to run) in between requests, but automatically starting up again when a new request comes in - so the request still gets served, it just suffers from a few seconds of cold-start time.

I'm pretty sure Fargate doesn't offer this. It sounds like you're talking about the ability to manually (or automatically through scripting) turn off your Fargate containers, then manually turn them back on again - but not in a way that an incoming request still gets served even though the container wasn't running when the request first arrived.
Volkswagen and BMW Fined $1B
Newsflash: it’s the building trades unions. We have the tech to build nice buildings much more efficiently but we don’t use it due to political advocacy from the trades unions. We have extremely inefficient regulations around building codes, largely due to lobbying from the trades unions. In CA right now, the trades are lobbying for regulations to ban cross laminated timber structures, which are a step function cost reduction change for 5-12 story buildings. The reason modular construction hasn’t taken off is largely due to political lobbying from the trades unions. They even lobby against zoning code changes that would allow people to build larger buildings with the same tech we currently have. It’s absolutely insane.
No. But I do somewhat regret waiting fairly long to have them. It was certainly a trade off, and being kid-free for our earlier years certainly gave my wife and I the freedom to do as we pleased and establish solid careers without having to factor kids in all the time. The flip side is that I wish I had my younger body and energy now that we do have kids. They are very taxing, and I would sometimes like to be more all in with them, but it is certainly tougher at 47 than it probably would have been at 37.

I really don’t know if I’d change the timing if I could do it all again. Probably not, but it has been something I’ve thought about. OTOH I’ve never had such a thought about having kids at all. They’re wonderful.
I'm not American and I'm not sure why you think you can talk for all pregnant women (or maybe pregnant women), or for all recovering alcoholics (what's with the quotes?) or for all beer amateurs. I am giving you an example of why those 2 categories of people might crave the taste and feeling of beer. I suggest you take that anecdata and try and open your mind to other people's tastes. Also, not everyone is a beer snob, and can still like beer. Not everyone has to know the whole gamut of stout to ipa to lager to ale. Some people (I'm guessing most people, judging by the sales of kronenburg and Heineken) just like the general taste of beer. It rings like a discussion with our wine snobs that can't imagine someone liking the refreshing taste of a rosé (most French people I know that like wine also like rosé and yes they don't worry so much about le millésime, la robe, le cépage of their bbq drink)... I can guarantee they enjoy it a lot.

Recovering alcoholics might crave the feeling of being refreshed and would probably prefer that drink to a 'water' or coke. What do you know about coping with alcoholism. Do my 10 years dry count? It's hard enough to police oneself without people having opinions on what I should drink... The fact that I can go meet friends, colleagues, business contacts in a pub and not drink while avoiding the shit question is good for recovery.

The thing is you can get non alcoholic beer throughout Europe I restaurants and supermarkets (do Poland, Portugal, France and Germany count?) and they're getting better and better every year.

As to your point about... burgers? It's getting more and more shunned to get shitfaced for lunch, yes even in France, and maybe you can have the 2 or 3 beers at noon with your meal and still drive (well, no...), work (good luck of anyone smells wine on your breath), etc. No, just because you 'can' drink, should you be only drinking an alcoholic beverage.

I have been asking for more NA beers of every small producer I know of and have been making them deliver them to me, across Europe, sometimes across the pond. There are very good NA beers, far tastier and refreshing or interesting than the generic beer.
Basically a $149 consumable wireless earphone. Somehow Apple managed to train a lot of people thinking these as consumables. And that by third year they will need a new pair because of battery, hence renewed purchase. From a company that claims they enrich people's life and care deeply about the environment.
Do you run your lightbulbs 24/7?

If so, you should get a LED alternative.
> In my opinion, an ideal test case only terminates if a mistake is found. If not, it will simply keep on searching, potentially for months, years, ... You need to be able to start the search for mistakes and keep it running for as long as you want.

That's a good point, but the fundamental problem is that any sufficiently complex space takes way more than a practical amount of time to be completely traversed (easily reaching or surpassing age-of-the-universe magnitudes), so isn't that where fuzzy testing comes in? If you use something like Prolog, isn't it going to perform the search in an ordered manner, drastically reducing the chances that a hard-to-spot mistake is found? And at least in the general case, don't you have to restart the search from scratch every time logic changes?
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JavaScript Arrays Simplified in 3 Sections
humanity moment
I don’t remember details now, but I’ve seen a situation when a Java app was working slower and a box with more RAM (and probably a bigger heap size), compare to a box with the same CPU but 2x less RAM. I suspected that TLB cache was the reason, but didn’t have time to test this.
Do you have data to cover this statement, or is it simply conjecture?
No.

I remember looking at my first daughter as she was laid on the hospital bed just as I was about to pick her up to leave the hospital with my wife.

At that moment I realised that I was not immortal, that one day I would die, that I had to do my very very best for this tiny human because it was down to me to protect her, to help shape her life, to help her become whatever she could be.

I took a photo of her on that bed, still have it in an album and it will always be one of the most powerful moments of my life.

She helped me define who I am, who I wanted to be.

She's 31 this year, her sister a few years younger and there is literally nothing I would change.

If I regret anything, it is leaving the planet in the state it is in.
Here's the live (hourly*) temperature data from the Death Valley station,

https://hads.ncep.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/hads/interactiveDisplays/...

*(Transmits each hour at the +1m 40s offset).
SQL is not a great API but its a great human interface. JSON based query language is much better API but terrible human interface. So depending on your objectives, it might make things better or worse.

MySQL is strange choice but think I understand why the author picked it - from his other critique he seems to look at databases as a building block of hyper-scaleable applications, not as a tool for humans to do often-ad hoc things with data.

I would never recommend MySQL for "business data" - it had and possibly still has way too many footguns with regards to number behavior, character encodings and Unicode, date and timestamp handling, and so on - hell, it doesn't have a proper MERGE and it only got CTEs in the latest version.

But if you're using it as persistence store that barely more than key-value store, why not? I have no problem believing the author that that kind of use is more common.
The hunt for room temperature superconductors has been going on for decades with quite a few notable achievements towards those ends. Even once we discover such a material it will take a long time before it is cheap enough for mass adoption in consumer goods as supply chains move at glacial speeds.
Internet in Germany is really bad and expensive compared to Switzerland and even to the rest of Europe. In Germany fiber to the home is maybe 1-2% of all internet connections. Most fiber providers in Germany offer only artificial asymmetric connections and are very expensive.
> I noticed that my internal network was 100Mb/s, which was dreadful. Downloads of 500MiB files would take tens of minutes, because Tomcat would drop connections on such a slow download. And even without dropped connections it generally took a long time to download anything, and Zoom call quality was regularly degraded.

Was you network setup broken? Did your firewall block ICMP? Ancient servers like tomcat and apache should handle slow networks in stride, even with modern updates - and 500MB at 100mbps is 40 seconds?

Now I can't imagine running 100mbps today for a home network... So upgrading makes sense. But your problems doesn't sound like they were caused by your lan speed.
Build a scalable content pages system for SEO using Next.js
Looks like finally, instead of just rioting, Luddites got smart and got themselves some political representation.
30 years of state run schools and colleges telling everyone you absolutely need a college degree and everyone who works in the trades is a loser has resulted in a massive skilled tradesman deficit.
Note that other half of the world has like, 15% of the humans.
Amazing critique! It has a wealth of examples -- I liked the "N+1 query bugs" and "feral concurrency" links (stuff I've experienced but didn't have a name for).

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The comparison of SQL vs. flink windowing ("kernel space" vs "user space") reminds me of the this 2013 call to change the design of browsers feaetures:

https://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/

Basically there's a lot of stuff implemented stuff in the C++ layer of the browser that's impossible to emulate in JavaScript, and that's a bad design.

It is indeed alarming how much syntax SQL has. It reminds me of shell, where every string manipulation function like stripping a prefix has custom syntax like ${x//pat/replace} or ${x%%prefix}. Oil (https://www.oilshell.org/) will simply have functions for this, like x.sub('pat', 'replace').

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I also wonder if the author has worked with dplyr and the tidyverse at all? He mentions Pandas, but IMO it's a clunkier imitation of those ideas (and I'm saying that as a Python programmer).

Tidy data was my intro to the design of dplyr: http://vita.had.co.nz/papers/tidy-data.html

It's very inspired by the relational model, but it has a few more operations like "gather" and "spread" which turn "long" format into "wide" format and vice versa.

It has a clean and expressive API: https://www.rstudio.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/data-wran...

It composes like regular code, so you can write stuff like:

bin_sizes %>%
select(c(host_label, path, num_bytes)) %>%
left_join(bytecode_size, by = c('host_label')) %>%
mutate(native_code_size = num_bytes - bytecode_size) ->
sizes

Good comparison of the relational model and data frames: Is a Dataframe Just a Table? https://plateau-workshop.org/assets/papers-2019/10.pdf

I link all of these in What is a Data Frame? (In Python, R, and SQL) https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/11/30.html
So Jeff VanderMeer makes video games now?

This is very creepy.
Starting to do things for halloween? Halloween in Shibuya is probably the most crazy thing I've ever seen and it's not all foreigners!
That’s disingenuous, given that the movement is about allowing police to only focus on security rather than trying to solve every societal ill.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nskorpen/status/12841449250392637...
I'm in New Zealand, a small island nation. I have 1gbps for around $70 USD per month. The install was free. I get a VoIP phone and Prime video subscription included.

Most of my devices are wireless so I really don't take advantage of the speed.
Start a cryptocurrency, mint 1,000,001 coins. Keep 1M coins, sell one coin to your buddy for €3. Boom, your crypto market cap is €3M.
Yea, that’s what I mean. If the evidence was merely equivocal, as in there was some evidence in favor but not as much as expected, then nobody would have resigned. In this case their last study was “halted for futility”, which makes the approval pretty egregious.
I don’t have an academic study, put I do policy advocacy in this space as a hobby, specifically around supportive housing for the homeless and this is my experience in California and the general understanding of the state of things by the politicians and professionals in the space.
It was never even remotely feasible. Musk's design was simply too large to fit through the restrictions in the cave. It's the kind of nonsense that only someone with no real diving experience could come up with.
Lol. Just because you're not a social butterfly doesn't mean you're not going to be affected by being locked inside during a global fucking pandemic. Absolutely zero people had a great time the last 16 months. But introverts clearly suffered less than extroverts. This must have been a slow news day.
No swap. These are large RAM (400G to 1000G) Kubernetes nodes.
But you are wrong. I'm sorry you're upset that "programmer types" are telling you that... do you think it's better to allow misinformation to spread uncorrected? That doesn't seem very helpful.

Even according to @EliRivers's link, it only hit 121 twice. Unfortunately the article doesn't have 120, but given the distribution it's fair to assume it's only been a handful of times historically as well.

Nobody's talking about "feels like" temperatures (they don't exist on thermometers), and "all the time" doesn't need a debate -- it's obviously significantly more than once a summer, for example.

So in every possible way, it seems your statement that Palm Springs hit 120 all the time is 100% wrong. It would be better to just accept that graciously.
Here's an Övdalian song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2pxZJ6uFvg

You can hear the 'w' sound here, in a couple uses of the copula. Compare Övdalian 'werið' with Swedish 'varit' and Icelandic/Faroese 'verið', Övdalian 'war' with Swedish, Icelandic, and Faroese 'var' (also English 'were', 'was', derives from the same Proto-Germanic root).

There are actually two Old Norses. By AD 1000 or so, proto-Norse had diverged into Old West Norse and Old East Norse (probably still mutually intelligible dialects at this time). The former's descendents would become Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese, and a couple of dead variants in e.g. the Shetland Isles and Greenland. The latter's descendents would become Swedish, Danish, and Övdalian. We have far more records of OWN than OEN, but one thing we do know is that unlike OWN, OEN preserved the 'w' sound, which was eventually lost in Swedish and Danish.

Övdalian also preserves some grammatical aspects of Old Norse. Modern standard Swedish has no case system, but Övdalian has a three-case system (nom, acc, dat; compare Icelandic and Faroese which have those and gen). Modern standard Swedish has two genders, common and neuter, but Övdalian retains the three gender system that's present in Icelandic, Faroese, and some dialects of Norwegian.

At the same time, it's clearly quite different from Old Norse, unlike Icelandic which is famously conservative (n.b. that Icelandic has had sound changes that are not reflected in the written language, though, so even it isn't the same as Old Norse a thousand years ago). There is some Swedish influence here, the word for boy is 'påyk', cognate with 'pojke' which is not of Norse origin, but Finnish 'poika' (the Old Norse word was 'drengr' which is used in Icelandic, Faroese, and Danish; Norwegian uses 'gutt').
The infection rates among adults should mirror the infections rates among children - Covid doesn't discriminate, right? But if there isn't any clear delineation between the infection rates of areas where schools shut down and those where schools are open, it likely infers one of two things:

1) Lockdowns aren't as effective as thought

AND/OR

2) Children aren't as prolific at spreading Covids as adults.

My analysis here is far from scientific, but the data genuinely doesn't seem to indicate that the behavior of children influences the spread of Covid all that much.
So, you are not going to start with yourself in saving the planet? These hypocrites always want others to do as they like...
Imo Apple does easier directions.

Sometimes, going on some weird detour with Waze is appealing. Apples routes are usually a few minutes longer.
This is indeed great, but keep in mind that this story is about one of the well-known greatest: Init7.

They're well-known as a for-geeks-by-geeks service. I was massively impressed by them when I lived in CH.
I visited Death Valley in the summer year ago. I remember the birds would line up in the narrow shadows cast by the telephone poles to stay out of the sun.
Showing relative error: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/a3whptxkqu
It's... Cultural. You finish later. Before I had kids I'd do the whole long meal + activity (music) at lunch. After a good meal and a long pause I felt full of energy and patience, and slumped into deep concentration without thinking about it. Finished around 7pm (started 7am) and went home or out, full of energy.

Now I want to see my kids before they go to sleep, so I just eat a quick sandwich (which most of my entourage has kids and does that anyway), I feel tired sooner, a bit on edge, and will easily get distracted throughout afternoon.

I think it's mostly the power of habit. I've seen all kinds of lunch arrangements work. Mostly, I think I don't care if anyone does different :-)
I've never even heard of a franchise chain called Honey Baked. Are you from California or something?

Not OP, but I’m from the Midwest, and I find your “must be a California thing” hilarious given that we were eating a Honey Baked Ham at least once a year over 40 years ago. Imagine my surprise (and regret that I had since gone vegetarian) when I moved to the west coast and found a Honey Baked Ham store in Bellevue, WA. My wife still gets one once in a great while, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t sneak a piece or two.

Anyway, back to the point, looking their website prompts me to ask where one would have to live in the U. S. and not be within an hour’s drive of a store.
That's largely overstated: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-claus-that-refreshes/
A few generations ago (most) people did not have to think about what they want to do with their lives because it was decided for them.

Today the space of possibilities seems unlimited, people know there are affordances and barriers but not exactly what they are. You can compare yourself to the people around you and reasonably think "I am above their league" and see successful/famous/media people and say "I am below their league" and have no idea who actually is at your level.

That task of self-making gives people a lot to be depressed or anxious about.

Personally I dislike the phrase "first world problems" because it is dismissive and colonizing: e.g. as a first-worlder I "own" my first-world problems. Third-worlders have third-world problems and they are the ones who decide if the problem is solved or not.

First-world people devote their lives to solving third-world problems such as better cooking wood stoves and often wind up with little to show for it because third-world people don't perceive problems the same way.

When Bill Gates solves 1st world problems through Microsoft (responsive through the market, being required to pay taxes, file annual reports, etc.) that is much more "real" than the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation which decides on its own what it thinks third-world problems are without decisive input from the third-world.
Apple Maps needs to provide bicycle directions in my city (Madison, Wisconsin). Until then, it's literally nonfunctional for the vast majority of my trips.
Everything you said sounds like Britton-Lee's database. What is new?
I think this is very common in many "western world" countries, not just the US.

And at the moment the software field seems a lot more financially rewarding to smart, practical young people trying to figure out what field they should go into.
But google maps will get the opening hours bad more often than not due to COVID changes. And frankly, I am fed up with google - I used to help correcting said hours in the earlier contributor model, but will no longer do so since there is no reason to feed data into that monstrosity that doesn’t give back anything in return to society.
It exposes a very problematic communication pattern. The engineering team doesn't respond to the support team (accidentally or deliberately). The support team then just decides to close the issue instead of prodding the engineering team for an actual response (even if it's just "Yeah, we're not fixing it").

Now the issue is just in limbo and the only one who feels the pain is the customer.
Indeed, the genetics of every living thing are not evidence of its fitness, but once it has reproduced, it is.
Thanks! Just curious: At what price point would you consider this? Say you have a student room (like a studio), how much would you like to pay to furnish it to your taste? I'm asking because we want to make this as affordable as possible!
Don't make it someone else's job to take care of your mental health, man. If you feel that bad you need to deal with the underlying reasons why, not just run back to the office.
I get a 404 error message "Github site not found" message on Chrome, Firefox and Brave browsers using a Galaxy Note 10+.
Construction is labor-intensive and can’t keep up with other sectors technologically. Cost disease is the kind of problem you want.
I mean - I don't think this article falls under the category of "those whacky japanese." It was a pretty respectful and borderline poignant article.
You are not wrong about the messaging but lets not pretend trade work is green fields and roses, a lot of it absolutely fucks up peoples bodies.
I tried to get either of these two to be clear about how precisely this attack works but they reply only with word salad and non-sequiturs (true but irrelevant statements like "one should not deliver enemy agents to users"). I think neither can offer actual code that demonstrates the problem. Given their assertion that "the user agent is not enemy territory because it runs code from your server" I think they're maybe very young or new coders.