skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm extremely surprised to hear that. I know that there can be implementation differences, but on the level of application-code, this stuff is super simple. Create a javascript function then upload it. Not really much else to it, so I can't fathom what the difference is between your project and my own.

We're not doing anything crazy, it's just a basic CRUD application with minimal data (entire DB is less than 100MB at this point). And yet we're seeing constant, constant lags of several seconds for almost every single request. I can't explain it.
Never learned so much from a background image that looks like a tortilla
Looking through the GrapheneOS source, the servers may not be Google servers but the system is still designed to phone home. As such, have they solved the problem or is this just another case of "Dont' trust them, trust us instead."

Has anyone succeeded in running multiboot on "smartphone" hardware, i.e., where the user can boot into a choice of kernel/userland. One choice might be Android, another might be GrapheneOS/LineageOS, another might be an OS that does not rely on any third parties whatsoever (no conveniences, "app stores", "connectivity checks", etc.) and is fully controlled by the user. In other words, the third choice lets the pocket-sized computer be used more like a pre-smartphone era desktop/laptop OS. Basic functionality.
> With Fargate, users won't run into the cold start latencies - until they do, and the whole request may timeout waiting for that new server to spin up.

In practice that sort of setup is not trivial to accomplish with Fargate; normally while you are scaling up the requests get sent to the currently running tasks. There is no built-in ability to queue requests with Fargate(+ELB) so that they would then be routed to a new task. This is especially problematic if your application doesn't handle overloads very gracefully.
The Green League party in Finland is kind of interesting when compared to other Greens worldwide. They used to be vehemently anti-nuclear, having for example previously left a government due to decisions related to investments in new nuclear power plants (as referred in TFA). However, since then they've:

- Removed the opposition to nuclear power from their official party program

- Just recently elected a known pro-nuclear vice-chairman

- Now this, lobbying for inclusion of nuclear energy in the EU as sustainable

Also, a sub-organization Finnish Greens for Science and Technology (Viite) (also pro-nuclear, pro-GMO, etc.) has taken a nice foothold in the party.

Commendable to see people coming around and updating their beliefs.
You can buy old hardware and have the whole vintage web experience!
I dunno, some of this is also the fact the US people are huge babies about certain things, like being able to walk places. For example, there was a reddit thread from an American flabbergasted that people in the UK will actually go on 30-minute-long walks down to their local shops. Is a 30 minute walk really that absurd?
Not OP, but in a tiny boutique consultancy where we build data products for large enterprise clients. End-to-end.

It's been a blast. We've worked for clients in many sectors (telecoms, energy, banking, transportation, employment, luxury, retail, and other more particular activities).

Personally, it has helped to have read books about reservoir characterization and have worked on multi-phase flows in university when we had a client in the energy sector. It has helped me having worked on heart anomaly detection in university when we worked for a health organization. It's helped that I worked on a personal project in telcos and read books when we had a telco client.

You get to do that a lot and build bridges with their domain experts. It allows them to be more precise when you help them frame the problem.

This leads to the following : one of the most important phases is problem framing and scoping. You absolutely have to nail down the actual problem, the "job to be done", what is a success, for whom, etc.

This is refined conversation. I also use what I call negative framing. Example : one client asked us if we could predict and alert about an event that caused losses in the 9 figures 48 hours in advance.

This triggered the spidey senses. What we dit was ask at what point it would be too late to alert them. The client said "It's never too late. Even if you tell me 2 minutes in advance, we can still do things. We have procedures".

A less refined way would be to accept that requirement at face value. Dig deeper. Question assumptions.

One thing we do is we insist and avocate for everyone to be involved in the project. The people we build for. Before the company reorg, execs at the client company used to be our interface. No more. If I'm building something for your marketing people, they ought to be involved.

We continually refined our way. One close way I found to ours was in a book titled "Cracked It! How to Solve Big Problems and Sell Solutions Like Top Strategy Consultants". It's a bit similar.

I tweeted a mini thread: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/131066829330549965...

If you want to talk further, my contact information is in my profile. Please add a link to this comment so I could start from the same state.
Every extra dollar saved on cheaper energy actually goes to lining some billionaire's pockets in some untaxed hole. And then eventually the people who would benefit from said social program will instead have to pay back a climate debt in the future.
Science: the practice of disproving "consensus" falsehoods through the presentation of falsifying information.

I don't think "science" means what they think it means...
Giving $80M to each side in a war is no lock on a smart solution. Such a move could easily worsen the war, destroy the tanker anyway, and anger from millions towards whoever's give that 'gift'. There is potential direct loss of life from such payments in addition to additional environmental impact.
Yes, I was thinking the same thing. 1% is actually an enormous amount since toxins are measured in ppm. Imagine being asked, for every 100 cups of water you drink, to drink a cup of mystery fluid. Actually, it's worse because any (non volatile) additive will tend to concentrate over time in food (and then concentrate further in animals if the food used for feed), and in addition any chemical is bound to change over time in contact with sunlight and ordinary plant/animal biochemistry.

I've never heard of this use of fracking water in CA, and if it's real it sounds to me like frackers IP be damned, we need to know what's in the damn water!
Yes, of course. But that’s the case for all new languages. You need to learn it. After some time you will be much faster in programming with a typed language as in a untyped.
Compared to COVID-19, HIV/AIDS has killed far more people worldwide and has an untreated fatality rate orders of magnitude higher. But it spreads and progresses more slowly so it seems less dramatic.
Have you considered that the demo may have been faked (for example maybe they preprogrammed it with room geometry that was acquired some other way)?
Using loggers in python can be quite handy for a number of reasons. But similar to this you can log ship the data to DD, NR, ES, Loki, etc. And all you need to do is write a class to handle the deets.
In practice, if you buy the car hypothetically containing heating seats but the feature is disabled, then the hypothetical company (that is probably Tesla) will void your warranty and refuse repairs.

Which is a great argument for Right to Repair, but makes everything a hassle on the consumer side - any future interaction with the company around the vehicle is a landmmine waiting to be triggered.
> According to IDC, the AR/VR market is expected to grow to nearly $140 billion by the end of 2024.

AR has nothing at all to do with VR.

But I guess if you're talking about a technology that even science fiction writers can't show it doing anything other than sexually suggestive ads, your target audience isn't chasing a coherent narrative.
So that Ferry Halim's Orisinal page does not have to show this message instead of presenting you with wonderful games: https://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/
An example that jumps to mind is all of the media and academics that opposed the theory that the virus was a lab leak in china, primarily because Trump espoused the view. As much as Trump deserved ridicule, that was a perfectly valid theory.
Why would you prevent their usage? They're incredibly helpful
This time, but it invites a next time. If we are going to do something it should be send our military (the world's - at least China, Russia, US, UK) take the ship: either from both, or from which ever side we agree to support. Otherwise we should let them fight it out and refuse to send any more oil to either Yemeni or the rebels if any oil escapes.
Are you claiming that it is chaotic in the way that weather is? Or, if not, why would such a comparison make sense?

Like, why does it make more sense than "the people at the LHC claim they understand well enough to be confident that the LHC wont produce a black hole that swallows the earth, but how can we trust that when computer models can't predict the weather next week?" ? What does one have to do with the other?

It is not at all clear to me that the inability to predict the weather is at all a good reason to significantly doubt the accuracy of their models of the impact of the wastewater fluid. There may be other good reasons to doubt it! I'm not claiming their models are good, I know very little about it. But, without a further explanation as to why the two are comparable in this way, I don't see the "but we can't precisely predict the weather for next week" argument as having any non-negligible weight.
... So people will just get a different domain name not in Europe?

What's that supposed to achieve?
FTA: ...what has been a very hard three weeks for my team.

I think /u/urda's comment in another thread[0] feels appropriate:

"Every employee and Engineer that is currently at Facebook is involved in this mess. Every one of them are complicit. To the FB Engineers reading this: it is a saddening you have chosen to use your talents to build dangerous technologies instead of technologies that improve our lives." [1]

[0] Specifically: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28804729

[1] Contained within this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28804173
Yes, what good is a biosphere when we have strip malls to build in the short term, and the Shangrila of Mars to look forward to colonizing in the long term?
You’ve made an error.

There are multiple bands with the name “Sturmtruppen”. One is from Switzerland, formed in 1988. That is the one in the list. You have confused it with the German band from 1996, which changed its name to avoid confusion with the other band.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1917747-Sturmtruppen

It has a Wikipedia page:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmtruppen_Skinheads

> In Deutschland wurde es wegen seiner überwiegend ausländerfeindlichen Texte von der Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien indiziert.

> Mehrere Mitglieder der Band waren in der Nationalistischen Jugend Schweiz organisiert.
That is Blue Air, not Airways.
Maybe you want to play/watch the thousands of Flash games/animations that exist? Use legacy software that depends on Flash?

I agree that it's an insecure piece of crap that shouldn't be used in any modern system, but that doesn't mean that everyone should be restricted from trying to use old software that depends on it, as long as they asume the security risks of doing so.
Likely matches what the respective countries or organizations there put pressure on Facebook for, or which pose a legal problem for Facebook there. E.g. lots of German neonazi stuff in the hate category.
A real scale replica of the Spanish flagship galley can be seen in the Barcelona Maritime Museum.
High Availability Relational Data Store

An example would be AWS' RDS
> Both of these statements are false, but since you provided no rationale or examples

So you claim without rationale or examples.

> you'll have to wait until this executive order is thrown out like the one banning evictions.

The eviction ban had nothing to do with workplace safety. It doesn't come under the executive's power to manage federal contracts and workplace safety via OSHA. In fact, it is much more grounded as an executive order than most of the other executive orders dealt out in the past 8 years.
Yes, the right tool for the job, but because TS covers a set of tools its rare that this is exactly the tool you need. I'm sure there are cases but mostly I think people just use it because of the hype/preference and I really hate to make prototypes with TS.
Many would claim that every extra dollar spent on renewables is reducing the environmental debt that we’ve accumulated, that we have to will pay for, with very real dollars, since we’ve subsidize our energy cost with future remediation costs.

I think there’s some in-between here.
High-availability relational data store.
Sure. I'm only attending things online right now though. Here's a few of my past ones:

- Writing Meetup (talk about what you're writing right now, or share a passage and get feedback)

- Virtual Tour Meetup (a tour guide gives a presentation about a travel destination, past presentations are still up on their website): https://www.girltraveltours.com/

- Improv meetup - practice Improv with others online (now in person so online stopped and I don't live close enough to go to it)

- Game meetups - the local library and another group have regular Jackbox, Among Us, Gartic Phone, and BoardGameArena online game nights

- Book Club meetups - attended one discussing 'How to Avoid a Climate Disaster' by Bill Gates recently, but I've been to others as well

- History meetups - attended a few lectures about past events in history, like Shackleton's disaster of an exploration attempt in Antarctica (pretty crazy story), one on the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior, one on HH Holmes, etc.

- Virtual hack night or coding presentation events - Talking about something related to code, sometimes getting online to talk about and work on our own projects and keep each other accountable, etc.
Why should those things be exceptions? And who should be in charge of deciding which viewpoints get censored?
I'm very sorry to say this, but… a category theory perspective points out a way in which they're not "sufficient". The exponential in a category theory context is basically "like a set of functions", in the same way that the product in a category theory context is "like a set of tuples". The fact that the notions are distinct means that functions are one example of an extremely important concept which is "not an ADT".

Category theory has a wealth of other concepts which suggest more general non-ADT properties, too. For example (ignore the jargon):

* Finite limits are a generalisation of finite products (i.e. the ADT product type), where we additionally require intersection types.

* Finite colimits are a generalisation of finite sums (i.e. the ADT union type), where we additionally require quotient types - and I'm not aware of any language, other than maybe Lean and friends, which has user-space quotients! Think of trying to define the rational numbers in user-space, but without forcing the user to deal with normalisation.
Is it safe considering the 1000 square miles of Ukraine that Chernobyl made uninhabitable? How safe are they against terrorist attacks, an attack by a rogue state or in a conventional war?
> the driver hit the pedestrian

Seems reasonable. Cars don't kill people of their own volition without a driver. And in similar circumstances we wouldn't say something like an AR-15 killed a person, we'd say a gunman/gunwoman/shooter did. Why should drivers get treated differently?
Indeed I have. I have edited my post to reflect that.
I think it's a superset.
Petrodollars, that's how.
We use Azure Pipelines. I'm actively search for better and faster CI. Today we saw fascinating 9 minute build for a web app that on my PC done in 25 seconds. This is extremely annoying. So yeah. Faster CI should be a great solution.
This assumes any cleanup will be done at all in this war torn coastal area.
Strong Bad. Probably Badger Badger Badger and some games, but mostly Strong Bad.
Not necessarily. Nuclear energy gives GHG-free power, but 1) doesn't deal with the priced-in impact on the biosphere that will require us to change a lot of things 2) doesn't reprogram societies to become less impactful.
gives us time and space to continue evolving without the impending disruptive setback.
there is also enough free floating stuff out there it could become not worth it to disrupt the top few inches of land on this planet which is where all the irreplaceable magic happens
I know, but but your costs for both are going up, you're loosing your skills.

(The Macron -- Le Pen culture war politics might be even more depressing than here, too. At least I think the right side is winning here in that arena.)
This is news to me, as far as I know it'll error out when it reads TS on the REPL. How do you enable this?
I wondered the same, I guess the wiki is just empty, and they're open for more ideas.
Blaming the driver starts the root cause analysis in a different direction than blaming the pedestrian.
My personal feeling is that it's always "worth it" to learn more maths. Not saying it's absolutely required, and I'm a big fan of (generally speaking) prioritizing the pragmatic / practical / hands-on over the purely theoretical. But, even within that belief system, I would say that - all things being equal - any opportunity to learn more maths is worthwhile, at least up to a certain point. Figuring out the details of the "certain point" is left as an exercise for the reader though.
“Secure”… not a chance. Flash was a tyre fire and even Adobe would say so. They did their best with massive resources, and still couldn’t claim it was secure. Please please please don’t claim this project is secure. It isn’t.
Isn't it an insurance cost, for repaying when the energy shuts off?
I don't think there are no use cases, but I think they are rarer than people think, and that for the most of development TS will be picked because it's someone preference not because of its actual benefits.
They have a bunch of dead Nazis on that list, like Adolf Hitler, Rudolph Hess, and Adolf Eichmann.

Presumably these folks aren't using facebook so I can only assume that, uh, younger nazis have adopted these names as noms de guerre?
Good time to be a Flutter developer. I’m really excited to see where they can get on web in particular in the next couple of years but this will certainly help.
Right, the US (or other country thinking to do the same) needs to have a plan to get around the mines, do everything they intend to do and be done in a few hours. Not actually impossible, but it is more of a bad movie plot than realistic.
Same overall risk rating as USDC/USDT for example but for varying reasons. The link which was provided breaks it down.

Presuming they are truly equally risky, DAI wins by default imo.
> I don't care if they're starving children in Africa. They're leeches creating, extending, and profiteering off shortages.

Calm down dude, it's just videogames. None of this matters.
I know nothing about the infrastructure in Ireland, but the drivers in the US kill at least twice as many people. Letting people drive cars at 50 km/h in an urban area is crazy, everyone you hit at those speeds die.
I think it’s a depiction of the average skin tone of an FP programmer.
I get that, 100% props for the experience. And I totally respect it. The GP question was "what makes fusion different", and the only thing that is different really is the economics of how much it costs vs how much energy you get out.

Energy out is, by definition, the amount of heat differential you can generate. Cost is, again by definition, the total operating cost of the heat source.

So this is where the author and I see things differently, the author wrote: ... the "levelized cost of electricity", dominated by the capital cost of the plant, will still be much higher than other sources of electricity.

I agree with that statement, the difference with fusion is that the amount of energy produced after accounting for the capital cost of the plant will be a million times greater. And as I related in a later comment if you compare things on a dollars/BTU level the fusion plant will produce extremely cheap BTUs. Much cheaper than even the cheapest natural gas plant.

The key here is that the cost to build such a plant is much higher (and it is), but the energy produced by that plant is way higher. That is the ratio that makes fusion different.
I totally agree about ligatures. My user style sheet works pretty flawlessly for everything.

* {
font-variant-ligatures: none !important;
}

I cannot comprehend how ligatures ever got popular in programming, particularly in blogs supposedly trying to teach new languages or concepts.
Not necessarily -- you can modulate output. The input reservoir gets refilled naturally if your average outflow matches the average inflow.
An UPDATE without a WHERE, or something close to it
C is not "barely typed". It has quite a lot of type checking.

An expression like "obj.memb" in C requires obj to be declared to have a type which has a member "memb".

C catches it if you call a function with the wrong number of parameters, or wrongly typed parameters, such as passing a "struct foo *" pointer where a "struct bar *" argument is required.

C has "holes" in the static safety net in areas like memory safety: object boundaries and lifetimes. It allows some unsafe conversions, like any object pointer to a void * and back. But not only those: C has unsafe numeric conversion and operations.

Still, there is a type system there, and C programs greatly profit from it; it's the big reason why we have so many lines of C code in our computing infrastructure, yet the proverbial sky isn't falling. (Just the odd lightning or hail here and there.)

C compilers also help; modern compilers have a lot more diagnostic power than compilers thirty years ago. In C, it is critically important to diagnose more than the bare minimum that ISO C requires. For instance, whereas a function that has not been declared can be called in any manner whatsoever (any number of arguments), it's a bad idea to do that without issuing a diagnostic about an undeclared function being used. If such a diagnostic isn't enabled by default it's a bad idea not to add that. C programmers have to understand the diagnostic power of their toolchain.

Recently, GCC 11 found a problem in some code of mine. I had converted malloc/free code for a trivial amount of memory to use alloca. But somehow I left in a free call. That was not diagnosed before, but now it was diagnosed.

Another obscure bug that a newer compiler with newer diagnsotics caught for me in the last few years was a piece of code where a comparison like this was being made:

d <= UINT_PTR_MAX

where d is a double. The idea was to try to check whether d is in the range of a certain integer type before converting it. Trouble is that the above expression moves the goalpost because when UINT_PTR_MAX is 64 bit, then its value is not necessarily representable in the double type. What happens is UINT_PTR_MAX is converted to double, and in that process it goes to a nearby double value which happens to greater than UINT_PTR_MAX! And so then the range check becomes wrong: it includes d values in that extended range, which are beyond the range of that integer type, causing undefined behavior in the conversion.
Nigeria’s forex exchange policy benefits few, supports arbitrage ~VP Osinbajo
One of the best (IMHO) Sci-Fi books "His Master's Voice" by Stanisław Lem begins exactly like this.

"It is a densely philosophical first contact story about an effort by scientists to decode, translate, and understand an extraterrestrial transmission. The novel critically approaches humanity's intelligence and intentions in deciphering and truly comprehending a message from outer space."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Master%27s_Voice_(novel)