skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess the most correct context is that the script was running "periodically".

https://zenn.dev/mattn/articles/5af86b61004bdc
https://iww.hateblo.jp/entry/20211229/file_lost_insident
The OED is a historical dictionary that records over 1000 years of the language's development. It aims to be a complete dictionary of the English language from its origins to today. It frequently adds new entries and new examples of older words. I don't know that £100 per year is a reasonable price, but it's not an inexpensive endeavour to run; it employs many lexicographers.

Most people don't need the full OED and should probably just buy one of the smaller Oxford dictionaries. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is an excellent single-volume dictionary of modern English based on the Oxford Dictionary of English (which is not the same as the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED is a historical dictionary, while the ODE is a dictionary of contemporary English).
Here is Eric Buijs[0] thread[1] on Fosstodon (Mastodon instance).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=homehack.nl

[1] https://fosstodon.org/@ericbuijs/107530056245156549
Fresh water will become the most important resource in the world, and will be traded like oil is now.
There exists a feasible way to fly aircraft with passengers purely on the forces of the sun and atmosphere.

This is heavily influenced by me being a glider pilot. Our aircraft are able to fly vast distances using just thermal energy. I believe that by working with nature, we can fly passenger aircraft without burning fuel.
There is a lot of industrial processes that take hours or days to ramp down or up and sudden loss of electricity breaks equipment/infrastructure. Yes they have local batteries/generators for backup but those should not be used during "normal" operations.
A year of space tourism, flights on Mars, China's rise
The crypto market is indeed very competitive and volatile. But the industry is exploding and keeps expanding, and many crypto projects succeeded during 2021, and some failed to maintain their position. However, NKN was able to keep its position which grabbed traders' attention. In the first half of 2021 NKN price surged, making it a most-discussed coin.

NKN stands for "New Kind of Network. It's an open-source protocol that creates public blockchain-based peer-to-peer networks for sharing network bandwidth and Internet connectivity.

This NKN price prediction article lets traders know if NKN is a good investment this 2021. Read here for more.
Fascinating detail. My father used the book to teach me some English as a second language, the book is written in a clear and simple language. I wonder if these qualities have been preserved in the translation.
Idle Puzzles
Use SSH (SFTP) Luke.
> You don't need to look for it. You use it every day.

This only goes for young kids in their native language.

In the other cases, it would just take too much time to get better at it, without that minimum of effort. (Which you might not be forced to do after high school.)

Not to mention that language is not just for communicating, but also for thinking.
That's a stretch. Fortran used by group with nukes does not imply Fortran used to contol the nukes.
Don't like their (relatively) complex syntax and inferior tooling support. Elm also lacks generics. Lisp is out of the question, for obvious reasons. Haskell has difficulty with side effects.
Its really sad that such achievements in Europe always comes from public investments and not private only funds https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/pt/ip_20_...
Except that I totally didn't get what "éclair" is.
not sure if people realise it - Freshdesk grew out a comment around how bad Zendesk is on HN right here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1358398
How to make New Year’s Resolutions that you will keep
Expanding our Waymo One fleet with Geely’s all-electric vehicle
I guess this is as good of a time as any other to remind people to use the "unofficial" Bash strict mode:

https://gist.github.com/robin-a-meade/58d60124b88b60816e8349... [^1]

And always, always, use ShellCheck (https://www.shellcheck.net/) to catch most pitfalls and common mistakes on this powerful but dangerous language that is shell scripting.

[^1]: I think this gist is better than the original article in which it is based, because the article also suggested changing the IFS variable, which is not that good of an advice, so sadly the original text becomes a bad recommendation!
Isn’t this just like https://kalshi.com/? But Kalshi decides true/false outcome as compared to the question poser on this platform.
Yes, however it's pretty certainly going to be a part of the final answer to that question. Thus we're still going to want local datacentres, but maybe we will require that they are run by EU headquartered companies that don't report to foreign conglomerates.

I can't 100% know this of course but it seems fairly obvious to me.
Huh. I may be remembering incorrectly, but I recall having somebody somewhat entrenched in related business tell me that HP has been going downhill from an industry perspective roughly two years ago…

Nice to see them completely own up to the mistake right away. I wonder who made the final call on doing so, companies admitting fault so transparently & immediately offering recourse seems pretty damn rare anymore.

Without the intent of sounding xenophobic, I wonder if it’s because it’s HP Japan where reputation is much more culturally important. US MBA’s admitting fault… haha…
Ask HN: Any tool to open HN comments for random posts from the archive?
There's a difference. If you invent a character or create some art and it gets popular, you deserve to be protected from people making money of off that work, to a reasonable extent (fair use etc).

The difference to patents is that they're routinely abused. Patent trolls file or buy up patents that are as general as possible to drag smaller companies through the courts, or charge exorbitant licensing fees, stifling innovation. Pharma companies build monopolies around life-saving drugs and engage in price gouging. The patent holders get rich, not the biochem majors. Extending the effective period for patents will make things worse, not better, as the real problems are elsewhere.
Interesting idea, although I want to understand why do this? What is fundamentally wrong with the current system, I honestly want to know?

Also, this is a tax on unrealised gains is it not?
> … had nearly run its fuel dry.

That’s a serious claim about fuel reserves on a commercial flight, but nothing in the article supports the implication that the situation was that dire.
Modulo 2?
> This is nonsense. Email is orders of magnitude cheaper and faster than snail mail. Talk to any business owner who made the switch from physically mailing bills to emailing their clients invoices and ask them how much time and money they saved. The value proposition for email is obvious.

Sure, now it is obvious, same with the web. But it wasn't always obvious to everyone, although it was obvious to some at that point in time. Email didn't become mainstream as soon as it appeared, and same with multiple "obvious" technologies. Something doesn't become obvious until it is, but at the beginning, there are always people who don't see the value even though many would say it's obvious.

My gradma never understood the value proposition of the internet, even though even her neighbor of similar age did and countless others do understand the value proposition.
I've worked at places with shit pcs for developers, it was maddening. It cost so much time that would easily cover the cost of new machines.
Also I dread ever moving to a company that uses VMs in the cloud for developer pcs
You're right, but most universities also have a SSO-based proxy to let you do this, or alternatively have integration with an access federation.

That means you have to do an SSO (or have a browser session already authenticated through SSO), but you should still have access to journals and resources without using the VPN.

With Covid, I believe any that didn't do this have implemented it, so they weren't overloading their VPN routers with traffic. I've seen a few trying to remind people how to use resources via SSO and access federation, rather than VPN, just to reduce that load.
No, they are not the same. You exchanged 10 TW with 10,000 MW.

10,000 MW = 10 GW = 0.01 TW.
Somers, too, implicitly criticizes "using fancy language where fancy language isn’t called for"—"fustian" isn't a compliment when used of prose. The adjectives paired with it in Wiktionary tell the story: "Dutch fustian", "wretched fustian", "mere fustian", "genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism".

But he doesn't really give any writing advice in his essay. He doesn't recommend that you write fustian or that you write like Hemingway or indeed that you write at all; instead, he recommends that you read the dictionary because it will be fun. So, if we're talking about writing advice, we need to look at McPhee's essay, not Somers's.
Language changes slowly but constantly: words evolve new sentences, new phrases are coined, others become less current. The OED is so big that the only practical way to revise it is continuously, a few entries at a time. Every quarter there are hundreds of changes: https://public.oed.com/updates/ . As with software, it turns out that financing a product that needs continuous updates is more effectively done with a subscription than by selling products as one-off transactions. (FWIW the print version of the 2nd edition OED is 20 volumes and is listed on the OED site at 860 quid.)
I wouldn't go as far as calling it an "IE", because those of us who lived through that know it was a completely different experience.

But yes, Safari is slow in implementing new features a bit and it does get annoying from time to time. But it's nowhere near the IE hell from ~2000 - 2008.
this x100 - "IF you know what you're doing." when everything works and its areasonable success, it looks so easy - but getting all the different people talking to each other and building a product that a customer would pay to use is quite a challenge regardless of your product cost base (which anyways for the proper proudct market fit is a very small fraction compared to the revenues)
If there are no gains, the option is to release it or value it as nil and let someone else do it. So it's up to the owner of the copyright and I see no real unrealized gains tax.
So much great work but form over function: no color coding, minimal labels, not web based, not mobile friendly.

How nice would it have been to have something uniform and usable. Like ground 5v, 12v always with consistent colors so you can read it really quickly.
Wow, never before have I met anyone with the same nick online. I have been carrying the Elvish name around since approx. 1995, when I was a young Tolkien fanboy.

This railway is on my visit list. I hope that tourism recovers enough for it to reopen.
Well, if we're to believe all the hoopla about finding a treatment to end cancer or some procedure for living 1000 years like Kurzweil and co believe is "within reach", we better be able to first do much simpler things like turn strands back into their color...
For this reason I actually use simpler tools than rsync.
Studies that don't either establish causality or show extreme results should be banned from publication.

At this point, we can be pretty confident that everything is "associated" with everything. Further results are just wasted time and energy and are fodder for people to worry about unnecessarily.
It's blackouts that Sweden is dangerously close to, because the majority of power is consumed in the south but it's produced in the north.

There's not only a production issue, but also a transport issue.
Not really. What's a mess is having a single value NULL that means very different things in different contexts. For example, an unknown value is different from a missing value is different from an error value is different from an elided value. If you need to return all these kinds of values from a function, how would you distinguish between them?
From the C abstract machine's perspective it is undefined:

1. To substract the two function pointers after casting to BYTE*.

2. To read the bytes through those pointers.

3. To cast the copied bytes back to function and invoke it.

The article only focuses on 3, and only about how it's undefined because the compiler is not required to generate position independent code. But an optimizing compiler in theory can just optimize the whole function away from looking at the very first undefined line.

The message is that yes, you need to step out of the standard to do stuff like this, but you may have to consult a lot more about your implementation defined behavior than you originally signed up for.
I maintain https://committers.top which does this -- it's a fork of commits.top
Not sure :/ Is it collision resistant?
I always find the need for HN to look at these countries ruled by literal dictators and say, 'but America is bad as well!' incredibly perplexing.
I use a simple python http server that supports uploads. Good for transfers of photos and files both ways.

https://gist.github.com/UniIsland/3346170
Dan Luu reports that Google penalizes his pages in search rankings because they don't include enough CSS and JS. It's not really half of the websites; it's the half you're being guided to.
Just fwiw sample size isn’t a robust defence against this kind of attack. Check out Differential Privacy.
Not only Sun Tzu, I think any warrior can tell you that war is knowledge and misinformation. War is not an everyday life (for the lucky ones), which I assume this test tests.
This is an oversimplification.
Would love to see wider support for temporal tables, but application level approaches like https://github.com/jazzband/django-simple-history have worked for the business issues I have.
Try www.altavista.digital.com
> other than pumped hydro

What your reason to exclude pumped hydro in this logical reasoning?

And also regular hydro power as a storage already complements wind power since you can choose to not use it when there is wind. You don't need to pump the water.
Gigafactory becomes the retina display of manufacturing.
A lot of them prohibit any of the work from being conducted in Colorado in the job description.
My point is that prices will be dynamically raised as 100% usage is approached. That way larger energy users in industry are pushed to scale down operations temporarily.

Already governments/suppliers have agreements with large users to scale down during peek usage to ensure no loss of frequency, my suggestion is this is expanded to the whole of industry and made dynamic based on pricing.

I suspect that some consumer protection would need to be introduced so domestic customers don’t see quite the same level of price fluctuation.
You have to be very confused to claim Arch is for novices.

I used various Linuxes for 12 or so years and I'm still lost if I try to install Arch. Just 5-10 minutes later I'm like "fuck this, I got better things to do" and off to Manjaro I go. And I have a fully working system another 5-10 minutes later.

And that doesn't even touch on what do you think a "novice" is. If you mean people coming from Windows, your best bet is Endeavour / Manjaro / Mint, and never even mention Arch.
Show HN: How I completed a project I abandoned 5 years ago
I scored very very left on this, but plenty of people still think of me as a jerk because I don’t always hide moral criticisms against others - and I think there is a strong grouping quality to being at the center of the darkness bell curve. In that area you push out both the very left and very right people.
A blank grey page is not a reasonable way to handle JS being disabled.
So, what type of therapy should one seek out if they get severe depression for a week or so every month, always during their period?

If the "theory" that depression can be caused by chemical or hormonal imbalances is wrong, then what externality is causing such severe depressive swings on such a regular basis, like clockwork?

What "mindset" should a pregnant mother with a history of post partum depression put herself in so that she doesn't feel depressed even after everything goes great and she has a perfect baby and all the support she needs?
Linguee is also great because it gives many examples of words in the context where they are used. (Context which isn't necessarily high quality though.)

And of course if you want to go deeper into a word, Wikipedia usually has its etymology... though I guess that for English that old Webster might be better ?
This is quite similar to Harberger Tax.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Harberger
Elon's giga factory benefited from enormous tax breaks which in effect is the same thing.
Yeah. Everyone's got the same problems; practically nobody has invested enough in transmission. (I'm hoping someone sees this and corrects me, I'd love to see a good example.) Good luck up there.
> Annual human global power consumption is only 20TW.

Whatever the original post, "annual consumption" could only be measured in TWh, which is several orders of magnitude larger than installed capacity (usually given in MW). Popular media usually mix these so one has to just guess based on context.

(And annual consumption is usually misleading in this context due to seasonality of both hydro/wind production, and the higher power demand during winter.)
There's a word for that : "Globish" !

;)
Sorry you had to endure this. It's true that adult life is wide and chaotic and you can slowly end up in a black hole situation.

A bed room theory is live small and grow through tiny risks. Small means your life is easier to secure and you can try stuff and fallback as soon as something goes wrong.

It's only a theory, that came up through the realization that a lot of pain comes from bad obligations. Too much mortgage, obligation to stay in a toxic job. Also contexts too large to really know if what you can do or not (such as politics at work).
Because you deserve to be compensated for your work. And maybe there is value in allowing you to sell your work for continued publication and protection against copying. The idea is that copyright encourages quality content. I don't know what the exact duration should be, but lifetime of author as a basis plus some time seems fair to me.
Short “Russian” natgas, and long renewables. CDU began this game, but the Greens are going overdrive.
Why is it fair? After you are dead, no copyright protection can convince you to write more books. After you are dead, there is no point in protection.
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#The-Set-B...
It was a common vernacular figure of speech in Twain's time and for decades afterwards. I haven't ever heard of a writer budgeting a dollar figure for each paragraph and adding up the cost of each sentence.
Quite true, and those industries would need to either adapt to a new energy pricing model or innovate on technology to be able to scale more rapidly.

Just because there is a status quo doesn’t mean that change cannot and should not happen.
An example would be if you want to find the month corresponding to a timestamp. The obvious thing to do is to scale the timestamp so that it gives you the number of months after the epoch, take that number % 12, and map 0 to January, 1 to February, etc. (assuming the epoch is in January). But if you try to do that with a timestamp from before the epoch, you'll end up with 0 for January, -11 for February, -10 for March, etc.
I have seen a person so depressed they didn't even care to get out of bed to have a bowel movement. They just stayed there in it until someone else came to clean it all up.
According to the author, Neoliberalism is:

"Attempts to limit competition are treated as inimical to liberty. Tax and regulation should be minimised, public services should be privatised. The organisation of labour and collective bargaining by trade unions are portrayed as market distortions that impede the formation of a natural hierarchy of winners and losers. Inequality is recast as virtuous: a reward for utility and a generator of wealth, which trickles down to enrich everyone. Efforts to create a more equal society are both counterproductive and morally corrosive. The market ensures that everyone gets what they deserve."

How is this a problem of the left when it's also the agenda of the right?? The only difference is the left pretends to care more about social issues. And far left candidates like Bernie oppose most of these ideologies, so I still don't get how it's a "left" problem.
Ah I see, I didn't know the two were distinct, thank you.
At the same time, a friend who interviewed there got told "You need to work hard and probably on evenings and weekends too". Not a big selling point in Sweden where work / life balance is important (especially to those having or wanting a family).
It's a bit different:

Scheme:

> (mod 5 2)
1
> (mod 5 -2)
1
> (mod -5 2)
1
> (mod -5 -2)
1
> (remainder 5 2)
1
> (remainder 5 -2)
1
> (remainder -5 2)
-1
> (remainder -5 -2)
-1

Haskell:

Prelude> a = 5 :: Integer
Prelude> b = 2 :: Integer
Prelude> mod a b
1
Prelude> mod a (-b)
-1
Prelude> mod (-a) b
1
Prelude> mod (-a) (-b)
-1
Prelude> rem a b
1
Prelude> rem a (-b)
1
Prelude> rem (-a) b
-1
Prelude> rem (-a) (-b)
-1

So in Scheme mod is the Euclidean modulus (always >= 0) and remainder takes the sign of the dividend (comes from truncated division, same as C's %). In Haskell mod takes the sign of the divisor (floored division, same as Python), while rem behaves the same way as Scheme's remainder or C's %.

I prefer Scheme's way, because it was what we always used in classes when I studied maths. mod returning a negative number is just too weird.

EDIT: It appears that Scheme also has modulo, which comes from floored division:

> (modulo 5 2)
1
> (modulo 5 -2)
-1
> (modulo -5 2)
1
> (modulo -5 -2)
-1
Instead of batteries why can't we reverse the turbines in hydro power plants?
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/powershell/latest/reference/item...

# this would wipe all EC2 instances, assuming you are authenticated and there is nothing else need to get a list of them

Get-EC2Instance | Remove-EC2Instance -Force

If there is a way to enumerate objects without explicitly specifying some properties then PS makes it very easy to pipe that output to remove or disable cmdlets.

I never worked with AWS but if I needed to write such killer script I would kill instances (as in above example), remove all S3 objects (quite similar, Get-S3Object | Remove-S3Object) and finally wipe out all IAM roles and users (similar Get/Remove-IAMGroup, ..IAMUser etc). And thesubscription/account things, as @jiggawatts says, I'm just not familiar with the AWS lingo. And secrets/creds, of course.

By the time a human starts to investigate why the monitoring gone mad (assuming it wasn't hosted with all other infra on same account, lol) there would be nothing to do, too many thing are gone already, too many things are on the way to be purged and even if they could be restored there would be too many things to tie it again to something resembling a functioning system.
To twist the knife further some maniacs are now looking at hydro power and decrying it as too dangerous for wildlife. It popped in my YouTube recommend.

Like motherfucker (to the video maker). You think the salmon are going to exist if the acidity of ocean rises?

It's akin to burning in a house, fireman arrives with a hose and then I ask him, is the water iron free or not. I think I should have bigger concerns rn.

At this point, I am wondering if some of these videos are sponsored by oil associates.
Very cool, but I didn't found a way to configure the delimiter (most of my files use ; as a delimiter)
How do you set up and feed the warehouse? Temporal-ish tables have been an obvious, simple, and mostly foolproof solution for many of our historical analytics and reporting needs.

Bitemporal stuff (enabling edited versions of history) is where things get hairy and I definitely question the utility outside of a dedicated use case.