skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly how I got into coding. A friend had the computer, and the 2 of us would hunt&peck the code in. We were maybe 12 years old. The DATA lines were the tricky spots. Everything else used words we could understand, and it just made sense after doing it enough. The DATA was just jibberish. We found it easiest if one typed while the other called out the data. Faster and fewer mistakes.
https://www.prisonerresource.com/prison-reform/the-purpose-o...

As per the article, prison has three functions: punish, deter, and reform the prisoner. In regards to the deter function: any attempt to imprison a person can be viewed as an attempt to "ruin them" (through loss of freedom and through the scarlet letter of a felony conviction) in order to "scare... people from running similar actions."

The question in this case is: why is the U.S. trying so hard to extradite Assange? If it is because they don't want a repeat of wikileaks, then the grandparent statement is very reasonable. And I suppose another reference would be the U.S. relationship with whistleblowers. I don't have the energy to do the research myself, but I too have heard they come down on whistleblowers like a ton of bricks. But maybe someone else can supply that reference.
> mild climate

When I visited Hawaii long ago, typical homes were not even sealed. There'd be a large gap between the top of the walls and the roof. The idea was to let the breeze blow through. The air temperature never varied enough to make it worth installing an HVAC system.
Look at this page: https://www.freenom.com/en/freeandpaiddomains.html

"Our mission is to bring people online and help countries develop their digital economy."

"Pricing: FREE!"

"Payments: No payment needed"

This sounds a lot like a scam if they are later charging for those domain names.
>just want to remind everyone how far California has gone in energy efficiency

How can we know how far California has come when the citation only has a single point in time referenced? What was the per capita consumption before 2018?
If the fireball took half a minute (or seemed to) it was probably reentering spacecraft debris, like an upper stage. These are slower than meteors and tend to be going nearly horizontally, which extends their lifetime.
XSS and SQL injection should be impossible by design, by using proper libraries which treat HTML/SQL as structured formats, and use this structure to properly embed text as text, rather than allowing user input to be interpreted as surrounding HTML/SQL constructs. (I suppose parameterized queries are "good enough" even though they treat SQL as a string rather than an AST, because the SQL engine hopefully interpolates the text/numbers/etc. after parsing the query into an AST.)
Completely miss the point there. The basic principle behind entropy is that any ordered system will eventually become disordered over time and reaches equilibrium. Some systems go easily disordered within within a human lifetime, or even in seconds. For example, add milk to you coffee and watch it become diffused.

In the context of a human body, the coded information in our DNA, the structured cell walls in our body, are states of matter that is low in entropy. They will eventually get damaged due to interactions with other matter around us. The damage in this case will manifest itself as "aging".
The company I worked at pushing the "diversity" agenda is Cruise. It seems unfair to name and shame the other company as I can't actually confirm that was why they declined to interview me.
Yup, pretty much just a shuttle service driving Model 3s trough tunnels, they ain't even allowed to drive faster than 35 mph [0]

[0] https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a36686635/las-vegas...
I remember moving to the UK and being shocked at how much some people “butchered” their own names (mostly Indian origin ones in a British accent). I don’t even know if that counts as mispronunciation at that point.
It’s funny how wrong people are about what consumes electricity and not. Washing dishes by hand is far less efficient than a dishwasher. It depends on exactly how you load it and how your water is heated, but running the dishwasher produces probably half the greenhouse gasses that washing by hand does.

As a general rule of thumb, the guide here is to track heat and where it goes. Hot water down the drain is a bad thing to be avoided as much as possible. Dishwashers reuse a small amount of hot water repeatedly in an insulated box until it’s fully spent (from a cleaning perspective). Hand washing sends a continuous stream of hot, soapy water down the drain, wasting both water, soap, and the energy required to bring that water up to temperature.
It's annoying that devices don't have physical power switches anymore. I usually use a bus strip with a switch on it.
A lot of them don’t want the free housing because they are not allowed to do their vice indoors. Can’t smoke or shoot up illicit drugs so they opt to not take the free housing.
Once you add a camera to it, it's called a lab.
Technology Accelerated Singapore’s Covid-19 Vaccination Rollout
> In the age of Amazon, it seems the way to thrive is to specialise

Specialize, sure.

Have a brick-and-mortar shop-front, probably not.
This assumes we can live in space indefinitely without any problems or that settling other planets won't be a problem. Both of those could be great filters.
Wonderful pictures. Lora Webb Nichols was a gifted photographer. They feel like the real illustrations for stories like "A River Runs through It." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_River_Runs_Through_It_(novel...

Edit: typo
Suburbs That Don't Suck
Are they actually selling replacement parts? I couldn't find any listed on their website.
You put such a positive spin on spending more for less. You’re welcome, Californians, we’re doing you a favor!
> where do you think the electricity from your outlets comes from

Power generation sources that can and should be made cleaner. And those sources can be made cleaner regardless of how much individuals use (and pay for).

> People still pay for the car and the gas - just like you do for the electricity that is result of work that pumps shit into the air too.

An individual's selection of vehicle directly affects carbon emissions in a way that can't be mitigated in a society-wide fashion. Electrical power generation, on the other hand, can get cleaner without the end user changing anything. So it makes more sense to have regulations about the carbon emissions on a car. A laptop doesn't have carbon emissions directly, it just uses electricity, so at a societal level that seems better managed by improving electricity generation.
Imagine this hypothetical discussion is discovered and read by someone in 10,000 years from now, when living over 300 years is already a reality and the normal. What a feeling to realize that the things you now take for granted, were at one point simply out of reach. I wonder if we have specific examples of such recorded discussions of things that today are a reality.
Cosmic justice applied with the hand of communist tendencies. Forced outcome at the expense of others livelihood.
I've had some luck with looking up name pronunciations on forvo.com. For common names, you can sometimes get several different recordings by native speakers, which may also help with regional variations.
Lots of athletes are proud of their rankings despite generally having genetic advantages. Fourth from the bottom per-capita is fourth from the bottom per-capita regardless of how you achieve it.
I'd really like to see that trended over time.

California's energy mix tends to be low due to a lack of both a heavy heating (northern climates) and cooling (southern / south-eastern) load. Housing stock has been notoriously inefficient in insulation, though newer construction gains on that.

Major usage has been in transportation. Sprawl'll do that to ya.

LLNL has historical energy usage charts, and began breaking that out by state sometime since the 1990s (possibly only in the 2000s / 2010s). History since 2010 is readily available here there's also an archive though you've got to hunt for it:

https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/energy

US EIA have 2019 data, but no trend-over-time. The map clearly shows that high per-capita energy usage is concentrated in states with either weather extremes, a large rural population, or both:

https://www.eia.gov/state/rankings/#/series/12

Intersting, New York is directly after California in per-capita usage. Rhode Island just edges out both.

A 2013 NRDC report shows that CA's per-capita usage has been flat since roughly 1980, whilst the rest of the US has increased. I suspect much of that growth is due to population increases in the South, with growing cooling load.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130714131300/http://www.nrdc.o...

Charts here: https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/California-Is-P...

There may well be a case to be made that California's accomplished significant progress in energy efficiency. But I've a strong suspicion that what we're looking at instead is credit-claiming where not particularly due, based on dominant other factors. That's unfortunately rather common in this space, in both senses of the word.
Oh, "they" knew. Cyclists talk amongst themselves. Shapira and Plichta fell back to the peloton and they knew.

Not everyone knew, but then they let a group break away and build an 11 minute lead at one point. If you weren't keeping track of every rider in that group you are probably just trying to hang on to make a play amongst the rider left around around you later and not thinking about Gold.
You can set daily (and weekly, monthly etc...) budgets in AWS now, which helps. I think other providers have something similar.
If Assange is found guilty on most charges, it will effectively work as case law banning the publication of classified documents. The indictment alone shows this is part of their goal.
I think it's become obvious who the actual criminals are here.
My city replaced it's old sodium lights with LEDs this year, and I was afraid they would do something similar but it's actually much better.

The LEDs they installed have a much narrower beam, around 45 degrees vs 180 for the sodium lamps. My apartment is at the level of street lamps, so the light would shine in directly through the window in the living room. Now I get only reflected light in.

The LED lights have around the same intensity as the sodium lamps, and because of the smaller beam angle, streets feel darker. However as the light is directed mainly on the road, it doesn't have any impact on driving.

The colour temperature is around 3500K which is still a bit colder than what I'd prefer. The colour temperature of sodium lamps definately invokes feelings of nostalgia. Part of this is because getting warmer than ~3000K LEDs is basically impossible as there is very little market demand, so nobody makes them.
After having spent way too long arguing with people on reddit, I'd certainly tend to agree with the hypothesis, even if the claimed evidence has a pile of holes.

And not just politics. Most people can't analyze a car accident without a pile of cognitive distortions.
Everytime I'm in Berlin I go to Jünemann's Pantoffeleck. Maybe it's not as specialized as some of the stores in this article, but it was the first to come to mind when I read the title.

For me it was a different experience to buy shoes over-the-counter, not the usual way to buy shoes!
Growth without order is cancer. It's a form of entropy, not extropy. Extropy is measured as the increasing signal to noise ratio in a system, not how much space it occupies. The systems least prone to entropy are often the most compact. This is also why it's astonishing that elephants defy entropy by not getting cancer at the same rate per cell as smaller mammals.
Sometimes linguists transcribing particular languages have developed conventions so they don't have to hunt around in the special characters. For example the English r sound is really ɹ but people writing about English might write it as r. But in standard IPA, rolled r is the symbol r and nothing else.

Some of the other things that look like nonstandard IPA are actually Americanist notation, which a lot of older linguists were trained in rather than IPA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanist_phonetic_notation

Still it's a lot less ambiguous than "sounds like 'ah'" which could be just about anything.
Our ancestors didn't really need air conditioning in the ice age.
TeX -> PDF ... but I'm looking forward to trying this next time:

https://tools.suckless.org/sent/
Sometimes you wish trump were president again so media would be more vigilant
While I agree those will yield a saner society and are worthy causes to focus one (personally, I still can’t get over the fact that you have to be at least a $50M+ net worth individual in US to truly not have to ever worry about medical-related bankruptcy - it won’t happen to most, but that fact that it can, short of a huge fortune, is just mind-boggling to me).

The deeper driver for this loneliness is how fractured family and community ties have gotten over the last 50 years. When growing up outside of US, it was u thinkable that my elders could be left alone without much contact. It seems to be the norm here and thinking to my eventual future, I really don’t know what it will hold.
Absolutely. In the 1970s, bugs on the windshield and grill happened every single day.

I drove the length of California a year ago, and not a single solitary bug was on my windshield or grill. Completely coated, so you were driving you'd have to run the window washer and wipers every 15 minutes to clean the windshield so that you could see out of it.

California is heavily agricultural in the Central Valley, so I'm sure all the farmers spray the f-ck out of their land to kill every single bug.

Spray the length and width of the valley in a carpet of bug spray, year after year for decades, and there's not going to be any bugs left. Appropriate link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5foZIKuEWQ&t=20s
Not by caterpillars, but by something larger that would distribute the seeds.
"Vowels are like in Spanish ("a" always sounds "ah" etc.)"

This is mostly true for every language that uses the Roman alphabet and isn't English. The great vowel shift in English changed his vowels get pronounced in English when they were a lot more similar. This even holds for transliteration systems like Hepburn and painting. If you try to pronounce vowels in a language other than English you are likely gonna be less wrong pronouncing it as if it were any other language that's not English. English speakers literally decided to pronounce vowels differently at some point due to fashion. This should get drilled into all school children in English speaking countries!
Hibernation with kernel lockdown on Linux doesn’t work yet. Background post from a few months back: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/55845.html
This is very interesting article from 2008. I would be interested to also read one which does an analysis of current trends and market in Japan and compare how it evolved.
There are so many shops in Berlin where I constantly wonder how the hell they make enough money to even afford the rent.

I suspect that the rapidly rising real estate prices in Berlin will make most of them infeasible soon, but so far Berlin is still relatively cheap compared to other cities of similar political and cultural capital.
domain registrars are a pretty competitive business, so I'm pretty confident that at least a few would offer it at that price.
It occurred in both Windows and Ubuntu. In Windows “Never” wasn’t an option for Sleep (edit; I forget if it wasn’t an option or selecting it didn’t work), in Ubuntu the usual disable sleep commands didn’t work. Someone in the Ubuntu forums suggested there was a recent power management change due to EU reg and the code around it was freshly buggy. I spent a day on it before cutting my losses.
Can you elaborate on ‘sleeptech’? Are you doing more than simply monitoring sleep quality?
Rust resistance might make cybertruck very resilient machine... Only question is how is Tesla going to support them without online DRM 20-30-40 years later.
I don't think anyone who cares about whistleblower protection, or the freedom of the press could write "Obama good" or fail to notice the Trump administration is not current.
I didn’t know of such issues. What are they?
Any good outcomes from being out of work for a year?

Every now and then I am tempted to try that but worry getting a job afterward may be difficult (not to mention surviving due to lack of money)
There are loads of free DNS services that hand out subdomains at no cost.
Yup. Every business decision I've ever regretted started with ignoring a bad feeling about someone or justifying it with data.
Your anecdote is not data. Please present data to back up your argument.
A two stop park-n-ride shopping trip with three young children sounds substantially worse than chilling in traffic.
Smuggling a subpar gaming machine is a pretty dumb way to get in trouble, assuming anyone cared to check.
I’d recommend reading this article[1] which goes into more depth than the article here with a detailed critique of the entropy theory.

1. https://link.medium.com/CGktsSNhcib
The cooling requirements of nuclear require reactors to be built next to large bodies of water. So I'd guess water damage is most likely - flooding, hurricanes, etc.
Good lesson for the boom/bust bubble noobs, we have at least 1 someplace in the world every decade. Learn the lessons quickly and stay away. You are not savvy enough to be early.
The original FreeType autohinter was implemented as a way to avoid the (now expired) patent covering interpreting the TTF hinting bytecode. This one refers to using the FontForge bytecode debugger so it's a newer development.
When will it not last till? There will always be another crash...
Plenty of people are pro cycling, public transport, infrastructure etc.

Designing cities mostly around the need for cars is a disease and a blight on urban landscapes.

Don't simp for them.
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> I'm still not great at starting words with "ng" despite years of trying

The trick that worked for me is that I know how to end on "ng", and that I can hold that sound. So I froze my mouth in that position, and used that position at the start of the word. After doing that a few times, it became easy.
> isn't this passing an array into a parameterized query for that use case?

Yes, I definitely should have been more specific there - what I'm referring to is passing it as one parameter, instead of potentially dozens or hundreds. There's a lot of ways to do this safely, but none of them are elegant. In the example presented here I believe it's the case that you can't do the ->execute($params) and bind some parameters explicitly, so if you had something like " AND status = ? AND due_date < ?" at the end of your query you have to chuck those variables into the same nondescript array.

I prefer the looped bindParam() method for this reason, but that has its own challenges. Firstly, it requires some boilerplate (not a big deal, but no-one likes writing boilerplate), and more pressingly it still has the issue where it actually is each individual element of the array being parameterised, and spams the ever-loving crap out of any debug outputs.

Obviously all of these issues are way less concerning than SQL injection vulnerabilities, but life would be so much easier if you could just do $sth->bindParam(1, $params); on a single question mark, and have that show up logically in things like debugDumpParams(). Even if you had to use special syntax to indicate when a parameter is expected to be an array, that would be a huge improvement.

I'm sure there's technical reasons why this is more difficult to implement than it would initially seem, but I've seen enough string-concatenated queries on StackOverflow from people who just give up on getting the parameterisation to play nicely that I believe it's worth the effort to make doing things right as frictionless as possible.
That’s about a 2,000 node Cray, something like 14 cabinets which isn’t that big of an XC configuration.
Having visited nursing homes many times, what is going on in there can barely be considered living, even though many of the inmates linger for years in it.

I say linger because that's what it looks like. I'd rather die before being placed in one.
A question if you don't mind: Did you feel like a god when you wrote all this?
Is this actually true for English speakers? Especially prominent Latin names have been totally butchered. For example Markus Antonius always gets butchered as Mark Anthony which clearly isn't a name anyone in Rome would have had. This also seems to go hand in hand with the general ignorance of the huge problem that's the great vowel shift that messes everything up for native English speakers pronouncing words from other languages.
"AMD Ryzen 5000 series CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30-series graphics."

One wonders where you think these chips were designed?

I used to live between the AMD and NVIDIA campuses.
I'm describing a specific sentence as naive, not the person who wrote it. I had no awareness it was your blog, so I'm sorry my comment hurt your feelings. Nonetheless, we hold different opinions on this.
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> it's pretty obvious that any developer involved in a project can make a reasonable assumption of how rare a bug is

... is it? The fact that a bug exists means there's a logic gap. You can try and patch it with theory, but that's just adding assumption to a scenario created from broken assumptions. Also, the job of telemetry in incident reporting isn't to be vague - its to add precision.
Chinese has the same saying as "you get to know a real friend in bad (times)" "患难见真情"

It's interesting when something almost identical appear in different cultures.
Anecdotally if you can afford it, it's worth a shot even just a couple months. It makes you dull on some places, but sharpens you on others. You get to explore and try stuff. You get to reflect and realign yourself. And you can call it being "in a sabbatical", instead of "unemployed" lol.
Every now and again I read a comment like this and tell myself, "this is why I read Hacker News".
Funny enough, first time I was in Berlin, I was meeting with a friend and one evening we went to a random currywurst stand to grab some food. There was no one else around and the guy came out to talk to us. I generally avoid interacting with people so the guy started talking to my friend(who is the complete opposite) and when my friend told him he was French, the guy entered some strange mode and began a lecture on French potatoes, and 10 minutes later he asked if I was French too. I said I was from Bulgaria, at which point the guy gave an even longer lecture on Bulgarian potatoes, incluing regions, villages and whatnot. I guess by the time he finished I had my wtf face on and he paused for a few seconds and said "Haha, I'm the potato master, I know everything about potatoes".
But I'd say the expectation that professionals who have to pronounce Chinese names pretty frequently, like those who do announcements at an airport, or newscasters, could spend the time to familiarize themselves with it IS reasonable.
Really? I can't get to the original CEC announcements.

From this article:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/16/505856155...

They cite:

https://ww2.energy.ca.gov/2016publications/CEC-400-2016-010/

Searching the website for anything related to `computer` on the CA website doesn't give me the thing I'm looking for which is that table V-7 on a gov source (not a lawyer's website).
by turning off dynamic power management on their database servers

That reminds me of how turning off "EuP mode" in the BIOS of an Atom nettop (it's an Atom, they're going to be using very little power even at full throttle) stopped complaints of stuttering and lag from its owner, several years ago.
When writing my reply I actually thought about mentioning how ironic it was that every upvote on my comment would have exactly the effect I describe. I completely include myself in the "human" group.