skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I went back to school full time at 28 and graduated at 30, for computer science. I figured it was now or never. I already had two years in but dropped out for what in retrospect were dumb reasons.

Tuition had and has gone up an insane amount even since I've been out, I'm not sure I'd make the same choice today. As it is, for two years of school I spent 10 years paying it off (probably could have done it a bit faster).

But from an education and experience standpoint I don't regret it. And the feeling weird about being the oldest person there in most classes feeling went away after about two weeks.
None of these things relate to what the "Corona-Ausschuss" has been doing in any way. Just because the government does shady things, doesn't mean the quack theories by some people on the internet are suddenly correct. Especially when they do not believe Covid exists, or if it does that it's a bioweapon, which is apparently harmless for some reason, but masks don't work and vaccines don't work, either...

They also receive lots of support and attention from Russians state media. It is to be assumed that the Russian state has an interest in fanning the flames here and to sow doubt in the German government. Isn't it ironic that the Russian media in Germany pushes any negative vaccine story they can find to foster hesitancy, but urges its own population to get vaccinated ASAP in domestic media?

I will leave it at that.
Poverty line = $12,880/yr : https://aspe.hhs.gov/topics/poverty-economic-mobility/povert...

"A $12,880 income in the United States has enough buying power to put you in the 84th percentile globally for per-person income" : https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/global...
This dispute might originate deeper into Graeber's other work on debt in "Debt: The first 5000 years." In common parlance, Treasury Bonds are the debt. But, in Graeber's theory of debt, the currency itself is also debt.
Mainframe Container Breakout: Cybersecurity Lessons Learned
without a 3rd person to judge or an already set criteria that dictates what is "good" and whats "not so good" art it's impossible to tell who chose the better art out of those 2 people.
Rethinking front end development with Go
Also a long time user. I'm only speculating on abandonment because: it hasn't had an update since Nov 2019; I believe the fix for Android 11 would be a fairly simple permissions change, and; from the comments, no one has had a response from the author on the issue.

It is a shame, it has been a mainstay for me, restoring apps and data across at least three phones now. I'm hoping OAndBackupX works out, but have not really battle-tested it yet.
Last year one of the fires was blamed on a metal hook wearing through after 75 years in the field. It seems like doing a slightly better job at maintenance might be possible.
In principle, yes. But Google seems to hold a unique position because of network effects. Countless YouTube clones have been created but none ever seem to gain enough critical mass to become viable competitors. Trying to build a competing platform on the value proposition of being anti-censorship is also fraught with perception issues.
Huh, that's a really interesting question. I've never really considered the idea of "technological prepping" even though I might - to a small degree - self identify as something of a "prepper" in the general sense.

Part of it depends on that threat scenario you are prepping for. For example "disintegration of global supply chain" absent some more generalized sort of disaster resulting in the collapse of advanced society (eg, rise of the zombies, meteor strike, etc.) is one thing, where the more generalized disaster "SHTF" scenarios might call for different tactics.

For example... if you're worried about a more general "collapse of society" model, then it seems clear that simply having access to electricity at all would be a key thing to consider. So one might want to focus on batteries, solar cells, wire/cable, power electronics, etc., that would be required to get some juice available at all.

But something like a further decline of today's (largely pandemic created?) supply chain disruptions, where society is mostly intact, the power grid is up, etc. is a different question. What's the goal, commercial production of products for profit? The ability to repair commonly used household devices if they break? The ability to create innovative new devices from scratch?

The "repair parts stash" scenario seems to me as maybe the most likely one to be useful. So it seems like you'd want plenty of commonly used passives in wide range of values, a ton of "jelly bean" IC's, transistors, etc., probably transformers, fuses, etc. Microprocessors get tricky because there are so many out there. One might also want to tailor a stash based on doing tear-downs of the exact devices they own and pre-identify what parts would be needed.

Wow... I dunno. The more I think about this, the more it seems like a huge rabbit-hole to go down. In a good way, of course. It's just that there are so many parts that could be useful, it starts to get hard to figure out how to filter the list down.
Total losses in case of 1100 kV line can be found as follows. As correctly commented below 3.5% loss per 1000km yields to 58.6% retained power over 15000km. So I will use 41.4% loss on that distance for my napkin calculation.

P_total = V_in * I_in, and P_loss = (V_in - V_out) * I_out

Since the charge flowing into the cable should exit on the other side I_in = I_out, then:

1 - V_out/V_in = P_loss / P_total = 0.414, and V_out = 0.586 * V_in = 468kV.

Voltage drop in 800kV line: V_in - V_out = 314kV = I * R (since lossses in DC lines are mostly due to heating, unlike AC lines where there is also capacity induced resistance).

Assuming that the same wires are used to transfer 1100kV DC current (i.e. resistance is the same) we can outline two cases:

A) you want to transfer the same inflow power on the Chilean side, then the voltage drop would be a 800/1100 fraction in comparison with 800kV line, i.e. V_in - V_out (1100kV case) = 314 * 800 / 1100 = 228kV. So the total loss is 20.7% (1.54% per 1000 km)

B) you want to transfer the same outflow power on the Asian side (i.e. smaller current due to lower voltage), then the voltage drop would be 162kV (there is a simple quadratic equation, if instead of considering inflow powers, one considers outflows which depend on V_out), so the total loss is 14.8% (1.06% per 1000 km)

Summary: same (as in 800kV line case) inflow power on Chilean side - 20.7% loss, same outflow power on the Asia side - 14.8% loss.
Are you sure you meant to toss the Maine in there?

Because history strongly suggests that was a maintenance failure / expected consequence of the volatile coal used at the time. If anything, the story of the Maine proves the rule; it reminds us that sometimes conspiracies aren't.
The “total free for all” is used as a scare tactic to justify an otherwise unjustifiable infringement on property rights.

Arguing for the us local property zoning scheme is the same as arguing for corrupt local developers to control local land use.
The problem is that apparently the authors of memory testing programs were somehow convinced to hide the severity of this issue when it first appeared, claiming things like it being a rare edge case and that too much RAM would fail.

I believe newer versions of MemTest86+ have Rowhammer tests but it's disabled by default.

See my previous comment on this matter:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12410274
This is what I do to.
Guido wrote Python (and worked on its predecessor, ABC) while working at academic research institutes -- CWI, and later CNRI.
I have no idea what the right answers are in this area, if there are any. But for me, I don't know that it's so much about skill as it is something that results in the bettering of experience. That might require skill in the sense of technique, but it also reflect lots of thought or insight, or something else.

Where it gets tricky I think is that "bettering" can be with reference to many different criteria — morality, empathy, insight into ourselves, insight into others, bearing witness, emotional peace, and so forth — that it becomes very complex very quickly. I also think that it necessarily depends on where someone, or some group of people are, at some point in time, so it will shift (this also arguably speaks to how taste is a function of the creator, creation, and the beholder simultaneously).
Many years ago I worked at a place where we all had external drives plugged into cinema displays that acted as Time Machine drives for our laptops. The backups regularly failed, OSX would suddenly decide it didn't like it and you'd have to clear it and start again. I don't believe Time Machine could reliably cope with drives that were periodically disconnected perhaps. I had the same problem with a NAS device and my personal mac, it would periodically just decide the backups were screwed.
Have you considered a hardware defect? Even Ubuntu doesn't crash the whole time. Also you see usually at least some obvious reason in the logs if it's software related.

Regarding the "extremely broken stuff": I came here from another thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29229881

I couldn't help to post the above after also seeing what's described here. (Given all the down-votes maybe not the smartest idea, but I honestly couldn't help :-)).

The problems are in my opinion indeed extreme and by now the mess gets undeniable even to die-hard fans.

What makes me really scratch my head is why otherwise reasonable people don't vote with their wallet and still buy this things (even at a premium!).
Yes, you are right we are getting that feedback. If you type in options it will show you what options you have. We are planning on making it so you see the last set of results when there are none. We are also planning to make it easy to remove options
Much of the world still does not have stable and reliable power grids. It’s hard to see how v electric cars could possibly work in areas where you might get power for 1-4hrs a day. If it look at where the hilux is #1 it’s those areas
Usually, otherwise a DDG search.
Value of investing time and effort in building internal tools
>You mean paid parental leave? You should be able to take unpaid parental leave under FMLA for medical reasons.

No working class person can just take 6 months off and still make rent.

In many countries you can take leave before having a kid or after. America lacks any such framework, or general worker protection. A family member of mine missed significant time from work due to a difficult pregnancy. Lucky the kid was fine, but her employer just fired her.
*Yes this was illegal, but their wasn't any real recourse she could take*

Most of us here are very privileged. But no normal person can sell some RSUs and take off half a year
Because if they weren't limited, they soon wouldn't be nice anymore.
That’s a good point. scanAll() and applyAutomatedTakedownAI() would not be applied equally because of course big corp never pirates
The NC part was mostly to avoid having someone to sell the book on some platform without my knowledge.
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The single biggest reason Twitter stagnated as a platform (compared to, say, Facebook, who they were neck-to-neck with at the start) was their failure to realize the potential of their developer ecosystem. Twitter has always treated their APIs as a liability and an avenue to make a quick buck, which always was and still is a losing strategy. Even in this press release the first thing I see is pricing tiers, which is an immediate turn off.

As an anecdote – I work for a large company with a popular consumer-facing service and we were interested in building some Twitter bots/integrations. We quickly ran into API roadblocks on their end, and when we contacted them to work out a solution we were only given a series of aggressive sales pitches and very expensive contracts to sign. Needless to say those conversations didn't go anywhere. They couldn't even comprehend the possibility that giving developers free access to build unique experiences for their users could actually be a net positive for them.
While it can not protect from bit flips it can most likely warn about attack in progress due to a large number of bit flips.
I can't take your quotation seriously because, obviously FED "knows about the auditing issue", and there is a conflict of interest. The Fed was created by an Act of the Congress and a collusion.
I believe Ron Paul thinks that the FED is engaging in actions that the congress has not given permission to do. Is that argument about FED creating money (purchasing assets) and not having permission by congress to do so? Is it stated somewhere that there are rights to "mint coin" and it is interpreted by the issuer in a way that "allows to add zeroes in a computer"? ...if you understand what I mean.
For me the issue is notifications that appear, then disappear, and I can’t find them again, or what they refer to. If it’s important enough to do a notification, it’s important enough to keep in a notification log that I can go through chronologically, search, group, sort, etc. I will high five the person who tells me how that feature exists and I’ve just missed it.
If they were giving up on coal, they should just shut down the mines, not sell them to private companies for ongoing development.
If your app is particularly paranoid you could just double your memory usage, and verify errors against the clone.
Lots of firms, especially those whose value is based partially on "predictable" profits, want to schedule payments in Q2 rather than Q1.
doubt.

Over the last 6 years there have been toooooo many coincidences which go in 1 direction politically instead of equally in both directions.

You only need to flip a coin 5-6 times before you suspect it might be rigged... and after 100's of tosses there is no longer any question.
Yes, code is BSD licensed.
lol what makes you say that? I'd consider apple TV, apple music, apple maps, etc all as services. What is your definition of "services" and do the ones I listed fall into your definition.
While I don't believe the COVID vaccines make you magnetic, the default of trusting governments and major corporations despite their long (and well-documented) histories of atrocities and deceits is just naive. We're talking about things like:

Intentionally feeding radioactive oatmeal to mentally handicapped children https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-12-31-19973650...

Kidnapping homeless people and force feeding them LSD: https://www.npr.org/2019/09/09/758989641/the-cias-secret-que...

In the case of the German government specifically, knowingly and intentionally housing orphans with pedophiles: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/07/26/the-german-exp...

And specifically relevant to COVID vaccines, Pfizer subcontractors falsifying test data: https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635
AI surveillance takes U.S. prisons by storm
"Value" is just another way to say it is a nice neighborhood.

If only number of available housing units is your concern, then why not simply build them elsewhere?
I believe you're looking for a "macropad". I recently bought this one from Adafruit and while not life changing it is pretty nifty especially combined with BetterTouchTool.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/5128
The open source developer of amfora is about as far as you can get from a corporation, though. And behind every cloudflare reverse proxy connection is a human. Blocking them for nothing other than their choice of Internet route stands antithetical to the foundational spirit of the net, which he is ostensibly trying to protect.
I don't think Google could manipulate only one person. They can't count that low!
Can anyone speak to "responsiveness?" Is this essentially the inverse of latency?
The SD form factor is over two decades old, but the technology inside the cards and readers has advanced significantly, so you're effectively complaining that nobody has broken backwards compatibility by switching form factors.
Relevant Twitter thread by the author:
https://twitter.com/aaschapiro/status/1460276185355612162?s=...
I did move to Fastmail, had enough of Protonmail. UI is bad, important and useful functionality is missing and their release cycle is appallingly slow.
Reptyr: Reparent a running program to a new terminal
>> the weird conspiracy theory of becoming magnetic after being vaccinated.

> Everything is a conspiracy theory till proven otherwise.

Please tell me this comment is ironic.
What are the top fintech companies to analyze and choose niche for my business?
I really hope this comes back to bite them. I already find myself not watching as many videos simply because I can't gauge the like/dislike ratio on them. In the short term I expect an explosion in clickbait and low quality videos because people won't be able to immediately see that the video is bogus from dislike counts. I suspect people will tend to retreat into watching the channels they already like and cut down on consuming recommendations.

I'm already trying to gauge likes vs watch count as a sloppy proxy for video quality but it's just not the same.
Bold but sadly correct. The industry runs on misdirection and deception.

If users knew better, we'd have the equivalent of another Pentium FDIV bug.
> The sinister part is that plenty of people, left and right, will defend Google's ability to do this merely because they are "a private company".

How is this sinister, it seems trivially correct

It course Google and other companies will mess up with their moderation and should be called on it when they do but what exactly is wrong with them moderating in general?
Interesting take, I found the trial to be aggravatingly slow because the bitcoin community is too risk averse and also inattentive, whereas people (person) disagreeing with you basically have no idea how long it actually took and use it to bolster their view that bitcoin is centralized and amorphous.
I'm not sure what the directions are as relates to dropping signal on the Rittenhouse trial.
> In the last 3 years it has become so unreliable (every time it tries to backup it claims the backup is corrupted and needs to be re-created)

This bit me and I've not fully recovered yet. I had some stuff backed up manually, but some stuff I just trusted to the time machine backups. Now that some of the backups are unrecoverable I only have easy access to the stuff I backed up manually. I'm interested in trying CCC, but part of the reason things went south for me was apparently due to closing my laptop mid backup to a network TM volume and I'm curious if CCC can handle that any better. Do you use CCC for network backups and have you ever had issues with it?
That's accounting for PPP adjustments.

Poverty line is a published official statement.

Percentile of world incomes, PPP adjusted, are easily found. Find and compare them.
https://json5.org/ maybe?
China and South Korea can build nuclear plants at a per-megawatt capital cost similar to coal plants, so I agree that the problem looks political.
Did Russia just launch an anti-satellite test that created cloud of space junk?
Resistance losses aren’t a huge problem (standard currently available HVDC can do 3.5% loss per 1000km, or 1-(0.965^20) = 51% loss between opposite points of the planet, which is fine given how cheap PV is).

The cost for both is the big thing: even just assuming overnight electricity replacement, 12 hours * 2 TW * $100/kWh = $2.4 trillion; the 8 GW English Channel link cost $1.6/km[0][1], which a naive scaling up to 20 Mm and 2 TW would cost $8 trillion. Then the question is “which lasts longer, and which is harder to refurbish at end of life?”. (Numbers are just a guideline. On the one hand there is less demand at night and there will probably be wind and geothermal in the mix, on the other hand we want something that allows everyone to have an energy use currently only available to rich people and this doesn’t cover anything except mere electricity).

I have not been able to find the size of the global energy industry in dollars per year to compare this to, only an un-cited claim of “$5 trillion per year … subsidizing the fossil fuel industries”.

That said, at this scale I have to ask about the economics of making an orbital ring, transferring power kinetically in what is essentially a ballistic superconductor[2], and now you can put the PV in space on the ring without having to solve the political aspects of “can I convince everyone else I’ve not sneakily designed my power satellite to be used as a death ray, and can I be sure everyone else’s can’t all be told to collectively focus on one place even if I trust the owners’ intentions?” that usually follows any discussion of space-based solar.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current#Co...

[1] I’m ignoring converter stations because over 1 Mm they amortise to negligible

[2] i.e. purely classical and without the fun quantum magnetic effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_conduction
There was another paper last year that showed something similar, and it went into way more detail on what TRR actually is.

TRRespass: Exploiting the Many Sides of Target Row Refresh

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2004.01807.pdf

Memory controller mitigation of RowHammer can work pretty well, if one actually has it turned on. Which is unfortunately rarely the case even in 2021.
rqlite author here, happy to answer any questions about it.
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Well, since you ask. `git add -i` has different "escape"/"exit" semantics for different actions.

If I want to quit/escape adding a patch in the interactive mode I type `q` and then enter.

If I want to quit/escape the interactive add subcommand I type `q` and then enter.

But if I want to quit the `update`, `untracked` etc. I have to enter nothing and then press enter. It would be such a wonderful thing if it also accepted `q` so my muscle "memory" is correct.

I looked into changing this once, but it is written in shell and Perl, which I don't know enough about to figure out.
Ask HN: Do you have problem with keeping db docs up-to-date? Can AI solve it?
Hey, my name is Igor and I am trying to make a startup.

First of all I started doing something called [DataQuestion](https://dataquestion.io), which is a text-to-SQL tool. Found out no one needs it :)

Now I am switching to another problem. Many of the people I talked to say that their data storage is a mess. No one updates docs, it's hard to find relevevant dataset and onboarding of new analysts takes a ton of time.

Do you have some of this problems? How painful are they? Do you think it is possible to automate updating of db docs using AI? (so using schema and field values algorithm will compose a text description on every change).

Btw, here is a [link](https://datafresh.unicornplatform.page/) to a page that a bit illustrates the idea.

Thanks for your comments!
The competitive advantage of a good API must wear of at some point because Facebook's API is borderline useless at this point.

I totally agree that Twitter trying to monetize their API was a bad idea though.
It's not their job, but third parties have failed.

It'd be nice for them to make one base level device (like a smart switch) which supports most of the use cases.
I'm not so sure that's the case. I think the big push now in France and China could open the path to more nuclear elsewhere. I also think that if places start to have issues with grid stability or intermittency of power, they'll be inclined to give it a second look. That said, there could be some heretofore unexpected leap forward in battery tech, but that's not necessarily going to happen.

The political situation in all of the West is moving rapidly and in unexpected ways lately, so the realm of what's possible could easily change.
> That's the purpose of the Senate. The Senate is there to represent states, not people.

But what are "states", if not the people in them? Land area? Then Texas and Alaska should have what, hundreds of senators for each of Rhode Island's?