skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the Android side, this would be a small but welcome improvement. Though, with smartphones approaching commodity status, I'm sure we'll see more and more upstart phone vendors that go out of business 2-3 years in to dodge support requirements. I'd be curious if the regulators have measures against this. I'd expect not. I'm also a bit wary of legislation that would require hardware vendors to be good at software. They're different skill sets and there's a risk that any such measure would stifle smaller companies that serve more niche markets.

For any vendor that locks down hardware to a specific OS like Apple, I think this does very, very little. For a personal example, Apple botched the battery management software in iOS 14 causing several older model (but recently bought and healthy battery-wise) iPhones I own to drain from 100% to 0% in 2 hours with no app use and from 100% to 10% in seconds if apps like Podcasts or Mail try to sync. These phones are nominally supported, but unusable. Apple's approach to responding to user (or developer) bugs is notoriously useless unless you get media attention, and their user-interface philosophy is that no problems happen ever and if they were to happen, you the customer should not be allowed to know the information you would need to solve them. Apple is up to 14.7 and soon 14.8 and still has not fixed all the battery management issues they introduced with 14.0

If this were a PC, I would just roll back the OS, but with iOS devices, Apple requires sign off with their servers and only allows the most recent version (+/- a security update) to be installed. They do this for security, supposedly, but don't seem to care that they prevent people like me from running alternative software that might fix the problems that make their otherwise perfectly functional devices unusable. Unlike their M1 Macs running on the same architecture, they don't even give the option. Their phones ship with special fuses that get blown when given to customers to lock them down at the hardware level. That's how far they go.

Right to repair is hollow without the right to install alternative firmware and software.
Flour Advice from Washington State University's Bread Lab (2020)
I see what you mean, I think you must be right
Of course not, because a company that strikes the perfect balance of being sorta-in-the-right-direction but then also using deliberately deceptive language to pretend they're all-the-way-in-the-right-direction is going to outcompete companies that genuinely go all the way.
This is arguing that all of Earth's energy needs could be supplied by orbital solar-power, as early as 2050. Is that realistic in any way?

It seems to me that this is a bit like the iPhone, before it existed. Almost all of the technology exists, but nobody has put it together in the right way yet. Is that true? I wish I knew.
While this is true for supply, the same can be said about demand. Foreign investors drive prices up by seeing some other county's housing as an investment. If taxes were increased for these investors, or some other disincentive was in place, demand would fall driving prices down
I think it's the likely reality of far more projects than just terraform, and I don't fault the project completely for reaching this state - attrition is a brutal thing.

It's distressing personally though, that it's an issue unknown to me before I read this post, and affects a product I use and champion.
Postgres can store (and query) unstructured JSON quite well (and I don't mean as text, I mean as a mongodb style document)
> If current trends continue we'll be at 500 before 2100.

Urban areas are already regularly over 500ppm. I know because my dad certified hospital air systems with a 500ppm limit. Hospitals are having to put carbon filter on their air intakes.
The Lives of the Last Neanderthals
Exactly!

Here in Australia we are seeing remarkable growth in property prices over the last quarter!

Sydney prices grew at $AU1200 per day!

In the residential housing market there just isn’t enough supply!

I can say anecdotally that’s younger buyers are being accompanied by their parents, who are assisting with finance.

Its well observed that people are queuing down the street to inspect properties, and literally writing offers out on the kitchen table!

Properties are selling on minutes, with prices being pushed up by desperate buyers with access to finance from loans with low interest rates with deposits from their parents!

When you take a 20 or 30 year mortgage, what’s $20 or $30k here and there!

That’s what’s driving prices up!

Supply and demand!
what we would then do is work with them to get that login through tor nodes we monitor and go from there
We can't eradicate it, but he can coral it, make it less deadly.
Not sure where your 2 year statistic from. In 2020 about 6% of US population caught it, since then another 6% of so have caught it. It will take like 10 years to hit that 99% mark.
If not me, then who owns my body? The state? Pfizer? You?
Oh come on Charlie! At any level of abstraction, nothing is new. But stories aren't abstractions; they're fundamentally about people, emotions, and reactions. "Oh geez, another story set in WW2 London," said no-one, ever. Heck, I challenge you: go through all of the Black Mirror episodes and write a story that, rather than emphasizing the worst, most cruel and horrific outcome of the setting, does the opposite. It's not the idea that makes the story, it's the people. It's the emotions.

Imagine a close-up on a door-knob. It begins to turn. The door creaks....

What do you feel? Portent? Eagerness? Fear? What about a door-knob turning is unique?

It's like human faces. They (mostly) have eyes, a mouth, nose, lips, etc. But a few are extraordinarily nice to look at, even though they really only have those same things. Stories are like that. They've got to have plots, characters, (and in SF) presumptions about the world, but the extraordinary ones don't need a new kind of orifice, a new kind of sensor. They present something extraordinary with the thingies we already have. No-one ever said about a super-model, "Oh her? She's just got eyes and a nose and lips. Nothing new..."
A comment there mentioned “human panspermia” such as Niven’a Protectors, but I’ve also seen “humans evolved independently on every planet in the universe exactly the same.” I hunk this was the justification in Dickson’s Wolfling for example. I really like the absolute lack of concern for this entire list and the mindset behind it that drives a decision like that.
Yeah. We built this for our own use and haven’t really documented it extensively. We use it in conjunction with an elastic search ORM.

https://github.com/data-axle/elastic_record
>And there's a reason Entergy continues to operate as a completely separate corporate entity in the city, and it's not because "used to be nopsi".

Because the City Council-as-regulator can be astroturfed and snowed easily by false promises about "black-start" capability for power plants and work on distribution systems?
I looked into that at one point, but IIRC, the challenge was that the alternator was tuned to have the most optimal output when it was running at thousands of RPMs, so it's not just a matter of hooking wings to an alternator.
There are at least two sci fi stories based on the premise of vacuum-creating quantum black holes. In one, ("The Hole Man" by Larry Niven) aliens left such a device on Mars. Astronauts discover it, and one of them manages to release it from the force field that holds it in place, with disastrous implications for Mars.

In the other story (whose title I don't recall, but it was probably published in Analog), a bare something (perhaps a wormhole whose other end is in open space) is created, and begins to suck the Earth's air away. The hero builds a dome around it, but leaves a valve in the side to sell vacuum.
From my understanding it depends on how naughty your current exit node has been. Most tor exits in my experience allow creation and you just need to verify another email (just use a random burner- they only block a few. Supposedly some well behaved exits require just a captcha but I've never seen it.
The above parameters were measured before and after the patients were treated with 150μ g/kg body wt
of ivermectin for ELEVEN MONTHS . . .
What can I do when I see passengers without masks on my flight?
The violent anti-nerd sentiment of the 1980s had real life implications for anyone who was into computers or other nerd behavior well into the 90s. I actively avoided any public association with nerd things, only using them secretly and not talking about it with friends. The stereotype radically changed into a cool thing in the late 90s with the hacker becoming the new architype.

Moving forward it's important to remember that mainstream films effectively doomed almost two decades of smart people to either closet nerd behavior or condemnation and ostracization.
so what, it's a moral failing that people try to treat the infection they caught by not thinking ahead and masking/getting vaxxed?

I strongly disagree. anything that helps, before or after, should be tried and studied, and available to whoever needs it, regardless of whether they did it to themselves.

also, ivermectin is being used as prophylaxis for covid infection.
Not sure if you knew this or not, but Phil Eaton (the OP) writes databases for fun[1]. This post isn't saying Postgres and MySQL aren't modern, but is more trying to get ideas for what to play around with next.

[1] https://notes.eatonphil.com/database-basics.html
Not surprised it's a clickbait title. Seems more and more posts are clickbait here.
Or it could kill off only males (or only females). There is at least one SciFi story based on that premise.
Peacock is a beautiful bird with huge tail that is very costly to grow and the only purpose it serves is attracting a mate.

You can appreciate beauty of the tail while knowing why the bird has it.

Same way you can appreciate beauty of gifted flowers while knowing what purpose gifting them serves.
I think it's safe to say that Delta has made kids (especially pre-pubescent kids) more contagious than earlier strains, but they still seem to be an undersized proportion of cases currently being reported. Even in states with spiking case loads and school in session with no mask mandates, the proportion of reported cases in children is less than their proportion of the population. That doesn't even factor in the proportion of adults who are vaccinated or have been previously infected and are much less likely to be infected now.

It's honestly a pretty interesting phenomenon given the fact that most people's "common sense" is that kids transmit viruses extremely well.
Are we on the road to civilisation collapse? (2019)
Postgresql can do everything I need, but not everything I want, and apologies to mysql fans, but I refuse to touch it.

And, I think over the years they have been such an awesome community that has helped me irregularly when I popped into IRC every year or two for a problem I was having. https://github.com/davidfetter ; https://github.com/RhodiumToad ; https://github.com/bmomjian - you are great peeps!

What I would like to see are more security usability enhancements over and above what you find in https://www.crunchydata.com/products/hardened-postgres/

Security Enhancements List:

Attack Resistance

Better protections for the DBMS itself in assume compromised scenarios, or malicious users

Customized implementations per compliance/security regime

Accelerators for various security configurations

Self-audit, self-secure

Functionality Enhancements List:

Continuous Sync Postgres to other serious DB (not a one-way sync, not a DB move)
"We already had moon rocks on Earth, blasted off of the moon by bolide strikes." True, but they (and any other meteorites) were likely sterilized during passage through the Earth's atmosphere.
Had a great win this last week with JSONB. Basically I needed an aggregated materialized view for performance but still have access to the non-aggregated row data. Think aggregate by account ID but the query may access any given month of data for that account. It’s cheating a bit to use a non-relational structure, but the correlated subqueries I had to use before were 20x slower.
Although most of the responses have been for ideas that did exist back then, but have significant trade-offs, both then and now. They're mostly just different approaches to db, not something fundamentally "modern".
Amazing is the cognitive dissonance on display. The business owners one and all took the PPP loans which were essentially grants, and that was OK, but when it's for the workers it's destroying their predatory businesses. And they would rather close than make less profit to pay a living wage. We already get no healthcare and no retirement. How much further down can we be pushed?
I've owned a lot of cars and driven over a million miles. After all of that, for me, the full-in the $ and time costs associated with owning a car tips me into the "I'm done with it" camp. I'm glad you still enjoy it, if you ever need a freeloading passenger, I'm your guy! :)
You're describing exactly I2P (darknet similar to Tor but more focused on internal services).

There's also a builtin I2P-Bote messaging system (bundled with the official I2P client) that is in a sense a substitute to email.

The tech is there, what the I2P ecosystem needs is a lot more users and a lot of UX improvements to make it 1-click accessible.
More characters. I believe there are a mandated 2000 characters that learned in school and used by newspapers. I believe 3000 Chinese characters only gets to 97% and 5000 is still 99.44% [0]

[0] https://lingua.mtsu.edu/chinese-computing/statistics/char/li...
Measles spent have a nonhuman reservoir making it possible to eradicate it, even without a 100% effective vaccine.
If universities go online their value plummets. It's vital they keep their IP and brand offline to continue to have value. This is a tightrope walk atm with global travel restrictions and the money overseas students supply.

You might want to smash the universities into the ground, but their logic is sound.

A world with one university, like one Uber, is possible if you can sort out all the known issues with MOOCs.

I would say it's not a better world. Sitting at home for most of an degree would benefit some people but would be a loss of an experience for most. And there is no between, once the race to the bottom happens, like Uber you just won't have the choice.
- DMCA takedown

- Offer bonus that cannot be copied (access to private FB group, Zoom mentoring, etc...)

- Use the illegal copies as marketing for yourself: put watermarks all over the content with your own web address that are difficult to remove. Mention your web site in your videos, etc.

Often people sell books at a loss just to get their contact information:

- https://supplygem.com/clickfunnels-free-plus-shipping/

- https://www.clickfunnels.com/blog/mechanics-behind-free-plus...
Planet Money or something similar did some interviews with people who use payday loan/check cashing places and asked them why they don't just have a normal bank account. Pretty much to a person they said it was because the fees that the payday lender charged were smaller than the banks and more predictable because they (or their brother or uncle or whatever) got charged an overdraft and then a convenience fee for an account below minimum balance and then and then and then and it all turned out to be way worse than just paying for a single financial service. Most of the "unbanked" are just as intelligent and rational as you or I, but for other reasons choose not to get entangled with the banks.
> Domestic cybercrime is rampant in Russia

sure. It is different endeavor/specialization though. Stealing just several thousands CC from Sberbank leads to Sberbank security paying you visit at home late night with you completely voluntarily signing confession and a letter of apology well before the dawn.
The authorities don't need to run exit nodes, they just pwn enough routers, have enough interception devices or buy enough netflow data that they can trace data flowing through the Tor work back to its original location.
You can stash unstructured JSON data in Postgres just fine!

https://scalegrid.io/blog/using-jsonb-in-postgresql-how-to-e...
Biden Administration Advised to Scale Back Booster Plan
This is a very optimistic take for Australia. After enduring so many lockdowns, people are going to be reluctant to open up and give up on #COVIDzero.

Opening up will need to happen at some point, but apart from NSW and maybe Victoria who have lost control of the spread, I don't see the other states doing anything but kick the can down the road. I predict 80% will become 90% which will become booster shoot #1.
I don't think CockroachDB supports anything other then serializable isolation level, so of course they are going to be pushing this type of argument. Its an interesting philosophy really. It would be one thing if the performance penalty of running all transactions at serializable isolation level vs weaker isolation levels was reasonably low, but its not (see [1] - yes I know the entire difference in performance here is not due to CDB using serializable transactions for everything, but I'm guessing a very large part of it is). Its kind of like saying the only cars in the world should be ford pintos because we don't trust folks to safely drive faster cars.

[1] https://www.scylladb.com/2021/01/21/cockroachdb-vs-scylla-be...
And here I thought Google used their search data to spot YouTube's relevance before anyone else. Nope.

I enjoyed the one guy saying they just need one more front end guy to keep up, but they were estimating $10-15M to acquire the company. Must have been just to keep it away from Yahoo... or maybe they realized there's more to good products than throwing another developer at them.

The whole thing seems so casually uninsightful.
I've gone in the opposite direction. Stuff is just... stuff. It breaks down a lot, and while sometimes I wonder if it would be cool to have a PDP-11 or VAX to play with, if I think about it for a while it just makes no sense.

A modern phone has more power than a 90s supercomputer. The classic 90s super-deluxe workstations are easily outclassed by a Raspberry Pi 4, never mind an M1 Mac.

Modern consumer hardware is so unbelievably fast and powerful it's a much more exciting thing to play with.
These are "Movies" in the sense that they're moving pictures, not necessarily feature-length films with >$1M budget - for example, this 14 minute movie titled Herbert White[0]. They do all seem to be hosted on YouTube, though, and the few I clicked on were all public domain, so there shouldn't be much illegal about them.

0: https://youtu.be/hPLzZNL76yI
I disagree, when someone opens a PR on my project it's an imposition of my time. I appreciate the help but I will review when I have time and feel like it's a good time to do it.
So you are suggesting hydroplaning?
The adjustable screens on those were such a cool design, one of my schools had that for the instructor in the computer lab (and eMacs for the students).

Weirdly, that G4 "sunflower" form factor was only around for two and a half years (early 2002 to mid 2004). They followed that with the iMac G5 mid 2004, and then swapped the processor to Intel a year and a half later (bummer for anyone who bought that G5), keeping the design unchanged.

Then the 2007 redesign with aluminum chin and curved back stuck around for 14 years (from 2007 to 2021), still in production if you don't want the M1.
Most of these things are kinda useless without software support anymore though. Like where are you going to get any apps for an iphone 4 with the ancient OS? If you can find FOSS software replacements for some of these things like laptops you might be in luck, but things like old smart phones might as well be bricks, sadly.

To be honest I mostly feel like I have the opposite problem this article describes. I have plenty of old working electronics that I pretty much can't give away because nobody wants it, but I feel bad throwing away something functional. I really wish these things weren't abandoned so quickly by the companies that make them.
So ... squating a building and running a punk climate action is enough to de-anonymize a proton mail account? Jesus.

https://twitter.com/OnEstLaTech/status/1434661903293423618
Sure, the capital expenditure is primarily around the site, the base, and the tower. If you are putting one in at all, it pays to go big. The site is generally the only recurring payment. That’s why a lot of farmers who host them on their land stop farming. Wind farm operators pay really well.
Nice project. I recently achieved my e-ink typewriter dream with an Onyx Boox paired with a Jelly Comb keyboard. More expensive than using an old Kobo but pretty flexible.
> What bad things would happen as a result of the non-existence of the gratuitous rule?

Chess would be a game of gotcha instead of the game it currently is.

The rule is there to support the preferences of the kind of people who think chess is fun.
TBF, even if your PR solves an actual issue a number of users have, it still might not be a good fit for the project's future, and starting a discussion about it might not be worth anyone's time.

More importantly, as you disclosed your solution, other affected by the issue can rely on your code in the meantime (= the rest of the project's life in some cases. I've been there). If it really is a critical issue that isn't solved, your fix can always be used in a different fork with better maintenance.

All in all, the upstream repo not responding to a PR isn't the end of the world I think, and the openness of the system makes it an acceptable state in many ways IMHO.
Measles doesn't have 'safe harbours' in so many other animals. It's a human-only virus. Coronaviruses infect many other animals. Merely vaccinating all the humans is tough (who's going to be doing it in all of the world's failed states?), now try vaccinating all the deer/minks/cats/dogs/bats.
I used to ride the Muni buses in San Francisco. They have the power lines that they use overhead. I talked to a guy who repaired them. The electrical motor for buses has to be a lot lot lot greater than in a passenger vehicle like this Ford truck. He was saying that the engines, if used at full power, could break peoples' necks if there was no kind of head rest behind them. Don't know if it is true or not, but it was a good story if it wasn't. Never forgot it.
I was disappointed to hear the term "100-yr flood" with the latest storem because I remember at least two other such floods in the area in my life -- one was in 2012 (Hurricane Sandy) And one was ~1992 (a Nor'Easter.) So that is three in thirty years. Is our distribution incorrect, or is "100-yr flood" just a media term? Or is it a way to make something sound rare so we can justify unpreparedness?

Of course, all three of these were different things -- one a Nor'Easter, one a Hurricane, and the latest was the effects of a Hurricane down south.
>> there must be economies of scale that are pushing toward absolute garagutan wind power converters

Well yeah. Twice the diameter is 4x the available power at the same wind speed. Wind tends to be faster higher up too.
Longitudinal Content Analysis of Nerd Representations in Popular Television
It would have absolutely prevented this person from getting identified. It looks like some kids doing a climate protest.

I can't but help read your post in comic book guys voice.
Comparing programming languages to individual open source projects is silly. Lots of Node and Rust projects are behind on PRs. Also Vue just doesn't allow community development, which makes everything much easier.
If current institutions possessed such competence we wouldn’t be facing such a dilemma.
I don't know the history, but it's consistent with all the other rules, e.g. checkmate stops the game one move before the king is captured, stalemate occurs if the king would have to open himself up to capture, etc.