skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not too dissimilar to what they're doing at Tesla with the self-driving beta, really.
A bit of pedantry: BTC is .56% of electricity use, and .28% of energy use according to this site, though I don't grasp where the disparity of coming from other than many miners getting power directly from the energy source versus through the public electrical grid.
Agreed. That's a bit terrifying!
Same here. I have had plenty of cases where the logs allowed diagnosing incredibly difficult problems.
The author basically agrees with you, lots of good commentary in the Conclusion section of the article:

> Designing a building for an extremely long lifespan is in some sense a bet on a certain kind of future - one where tomorrow’s physical infrastructure needs aren’t all that different from todays. And because physical infrastructure is hard to change once it’s in place, it’s also an attempt to bring that kind of future into existence. But if you think agglomeration effects should push cities to get larger and denser, or if you think we’re likely to see some cities shrinking as the nature of the economy changes, or if you think building technology is likely to change significantly, an extremely durable, an extremely long-lived house is perhaps less desirable.
Hes noting a thing he made up? Is "jerking" forward in dead traffic with a big gap a bad thing when theres enough of a gap you are being honked at? Is this causing crashes? Is this even what he recorded here? No to the last part, at least.
Yes it is an issue. Under high memory pressure, we start digging into swap, and at that point, the UI is starting to significantly chug.

Worse, this often happens when there's plenty of cache to evict. I can and have restored a nigh-unusable desktop to normal operation many times with a painfully entered `echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches` from a new TTY, instantly resolving the pressure and giving me time to find and terminate the presumptuous program who thinks its entitled to 3/4 of system memory (usually some flavor of web browser or electron bloatware).

Why's the kernel so jealously guarding its cache allocation and making the UX suck harder? Not a clue. Whatever performance penalty I take from nuking caches is far, far less than from allowing free memory to fill up and dealing with the pathological behavior surrounding that.
I wish there was a 'Modern Python' tutorial that would walk me through all the new python stuff like this or the type declarations or the new libs, etc.
> But eventually, if they want to continue doing the task they'll end up paying for a new version.

Freehand[1] has been discontinued for almost two decades, and ten years ago I was still able to use it to great effect. Heck, if I wanted to use it today I probably could, thanks to Wine[2].

> however it's still got a lifespan that eventually requires the next payment.

Unless you wait so long that a competitor arises or you stop having the need. I never paid for Adobe Creative Cloud and Affinity[3] came along without subscriptions. One could also conceivably do without Microsoft Office updates so long that Open Office catches up to the needed features and surpasses it.

Note I do tend to pay for new versions of software I use. But I have no quarrel with stopping if they no longer provide adequate value, like 1Password moving to subscription pricing to collect rent on a done product yet somehow still managing to make it inferior (Electron).

I continue to disagree with the premise that “one-time purchases are a lie we tell ourselves”. If that were the case companies would have continued as they were. They move to subscriptions precisely because it removes the customer’s choice to upgrade—you either keep paying or can’t even access your past files. And they can jack up the price or remove features at any time (see LastPass).

Though I can get behind the hybrid model of Perpetual Fallback Licenses[4].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_FreeHand

[2]: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI...

[3]: https://affinity.serif.com/

[4]: https://github.com/vitorgalvao/perpetual-fallback-licenses
Yes, another way to spell Slate roof = work. The reason is simple: Slate, layers of fossilized leaves, has a rough surface and frost and the weather in general will work on it and split the layers apart, seeds will find enough purchase to germinate (the handy supply of water certainly helps) and lichen and moss just love to grow on slate.

This whole article to me reads: "I'm planning on an overpriced construction for my house and need a plausible excuse'. It's a status thing and a discussion piece, not a serious project. If you want to build for a millenium: copy the Romans. Done. And even then you're going to have to re-do all the trimmings every so many years because they'll all give out with use. Even staircases made out of solid stone will wear over such time spans.
> Got my third booster recently

Out of curiosity, if you noticed these negative side-effects affecting the health of your heart after the second shot, why did you choose to proceed to get a third shot?
As he is a hero of sorts to you, here is EINSTEIN on the, to him, obvious difference in value between the stupid and the brilliant:

>>In 1918 he was asked by the mother of a brilliant German biology student to dissuade her son from joining the front in the First World War. Einstein complied and wrote: “Can this post of yours out there not be filled by an unimaginative average person of the type that come 12 to the dozen? Is it not more important than all that big scuffle out there that valuable people stay alive?”

>>And in 1922, Einstein told his close friend, the physicist Paul Ehrenfest, whose 4-year-old son had recently been diagnosed with Down syndrome, that he agreed with his decision to institutionalize his son rather than care for him himself, because “valuable people should not be sacrificed for causes without any prospects, not even in this case.”

Source: https://time.com/5314704/einstein-diaries-racism/

Einstein can be seen above quoted as saying things that are very similar to my own writings. Regardless, I just found this interesting today and thought you'd enjoy it.
Qualcomm said they going to be partner with Microsoft.

RISC-V is the future for no backdoor.
Ugh, these cheat sheets are so misleading.

For example:

# Forensically clone filesystems and do other low-level operations on files. Very dangerous:
dd

The 'dd' command is just a glorified 'cat' command. Calling 'dd' dangerous, is the same as calling 'cat' dangerous.

They mention 'sudo -s' but omit 'sudo -i' which is better, and generally more desirable.

The use of 'iwconfig'. iwconfig has been deprecated for 8 years now and isn't even included in RHEL anymore[0].

[0] https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1194553#:~:text=Resoluti....
Not all stone houses are castles or luxury residences. My family's house (northern Italy in the Alps) is at least 600 years old (there is a painting on the outside that has been dated to around 1420) but it is a working-class home. The interior has been repurposed many times over the centuries, but it is still there and inhabited.

edit: spelling
If you work for the public sector your collective bargaining is against.. the “union” of voters who pay you. This is no way to run a society.

“It is impossible to bargain collectively with the government.” - George meany
In this specific situation that's glossing things over as well. I would have chosen locally made except intel completely stalled their progress for years. In my recent upgrade I went with a TSMC (I believe) made AMD chip because it had better access to SSDs and PCI bus and cores that I couldn't get in an intel chip AND better prices. It's hard to buy local if local companies in fast evolving products are going to sit on their laurels.
This is a very odd design document and it makes me think this author has thought a lot about materials and buildings but not actually built anything.

The steel moment frame, to someone with shallow knowledge, sounds so strong and resilient. But in fact, a rigid steel structure is more vulnerable to seismic (and even wind) loads than wooden framing which can flex and move and dampen those loads naturally.

The stainless spec for the frame is just pure silliness. Looking at my notes now, for steel beams buried in the ground:

200 microns of rust per year in very aggressive soils, but it rusts on both sides, so make that 400 microns.

... which means that it takes ~25 years to rust through naked 3/8 steel buried in the most aggressive soils.

... which also means that unburied steel, protected from elements, up in the air, is going to last more than 1000 years.

Oh, and also, the SS is more brittle so you've made your seismic issues even worse.

...

If I had an unlimited budget and was aiming for >1000 years I would pour the piles to bedrock with stainless rebar inside fly-ash concrete and top those pilings with plate connectors into which you could socket large wooden columns (perhaps 8x8) and build the structure with large wooden members connected with steel connectors and column caps, etc.

I would only use steel members if the span called for wood that was too big (like a 24' span needing a 8x14 or whatever).
What would happen in reality is poor people would steal electricity and the whole system would collapse, which is what has happened in many places many time before and is still happening in many places. It's not like it's hard to draw a few cables.

Also "just give money to people" in systems with very poor and sometimes corrupted administrations is a very sure way of ensuring poor people get nearly nothing and it all gets siphoned in the pockets of not very nice people.
Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight
different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real
motivation is not to be hassled; that, and the fear of losing my
job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard
enough not to get fired.

Office Space, 1999
Jail time for texting at a red light? That won't fly in a world where people often don't get jail time for crimes with a victim.

I don't condone it but some people are gonna text while driving. All else being equal it seems moronically counterproductive to target enforcement at the ones who are doing it while stopped.
the smoke goes up the chimney.
I don't think that "consistent" always necessarily refers to pixel-perfect equality. When using this term in web dev, most would refer to browser standards as in spacing, layout, JS apis, availability of native elements etc. In this context, consistency is rather the opposite of negative. I don't think anyone really cares about how date picker looks on Firefox vs. on Chrome.

Maybe you are referring to Gtk/Qt vs. win32 etc. with their integrations in the operating system. I agree that they look and feel the best for their respective OS, but eventually require you maintain multiple unrelated codebases. It is understandable and necessary for this approach to die. A middle ground would be best, say, Qt support on all existing platforms. Or more likely, prettier browser defaults for standard elements like lists and tables, with browsers themselves respecting the underlying OS theme. Probably never gonna happen...
> Their Maps app is OK, but not as good as Google's

Except Apple Maps has definitely been improving and Google Maps doesn't seem to be substantially improving anymore. At the current apparent trajectory Maps will catch up quickly.
Logs are most likely the only data you can get about problems with deployed software. They have saved my ass many times.
Howard Campbell Jr. is a fictional character from a fictional novel. You're relating the personal opinions of a single novelist as if they were representative facts.

You think the average American is poor? You should spend some time in Southern or Eastern Europe, Southeast or South Asia, or pretty much anywhere on the entire African continent.
I’ll offer up my one bag take that’s very much against the mainstream of one bag aficionados. I love traveling light, but think the carefully curated list of expensive branded items are counterproductive. I’d much rather the bag and everything in it to be functional, ugly anonymous and replaceable. If the bag gets stolen, I should be able to walk into the nearest mall and replace everything that was in it without a second thought or single shed tear. And rather than plan for every eventuality, I would much rather buy a cheap thing on the spot and donate it as I am leaving if it can’t carry it home.
My comment was in response to "12 hour days. Sounds pretty dystopian." Maybe it's dystopian, but a worse version has been standard practice in China for a while.
I’ve seen too many times logs used as assertions in tests.
> "When your manufacturing plant is a smoldering rubble, someone is going to want to launch an expedition for those hard drives and try and figure out what caused millions (or potentially billions) of dollars in damages, so if you just wrote everything to standard output and washed your hands of the rest, you might have to find another job anyway."

That's the normal state of life; when a building burns down, forensic investigators pick over the evidence trying to work out what started a fire. They don't ask everyone to record every time two bits of metal touch, every switch switched, every use of electricity, every flammable material entering the building, just in case there's a fire one day. Use a teaspoon in a metal cup? Log it. Post-it note? Flammable, log it. Don't know if your shoes are flammable? Log them anyway just in case.

And yet the cause of the fire is not likely to be any of those things, it's likely to be the normalization-of-deviance fireworks next kept next to the open gas tank where the employees take smoke breaks which people were reporting for ages until they were told to shut up about it.

Beverley Hills Supper Club was known to be overcrowded, badly designed and ignoring fire department reports for years before it burned down. Cocoanut Grove nightclub had flammable decorations and an employee using flames for light. Rana Plaza had big cracks appear in the building before it collapsed, employees were told to go back to work or be sacked. The World Trade Center collapsed because a plane hit it. Titanic sank because it was going too fast and ignoring reports of icebergs and chose nice looking corridors over high bulkheads. Grenfell Tower burned while "everyone" knew the building was coated in flammable coating and nobody in power wanted to pay to do anything about it. Station Nightclub burned because someone accidentally brought outdoor fireworks indoors, and the sound damping foam was flammable not fireproof and it killed people because the emergency exit doors were locked.

We have a culture of log every order the captain makes, every response from the crew, every movement of the rudder, every radio signal sent and received, and at the same time "why did the front fall off?" "a wave hit it" "is that unusual?" "Yeah, at sea? Chance in a million."

> "you can write logs that nobody will ever be able to read, but what's the point of that?"

Cover your ass, cargo culting, habit, defaults are powerful, the cognitive bias effect like psychic powers where
the one time people predict a bad thing happening and it happens is very memorable but the all the times people predict a bad happening and nothing happens are very forgettable, it's easy to remember one time logs helped and ignore all the times they didn't and the costs associated with them. For some possibilities.
Yes, the problem was that to read Perl you had to know every way to express things, and Perl was much, much too flexible there. I wrote a bunch of Perl in the early 2000s and I hated it. Both Ruby and Python were far superior. Even Java was better (albeit with other caveats). I hated Perl. List vs. scalar context is one example of a "feature" in Perl that causes confusion in readers.
like he says, most people who use their phone in a traffic jam are probably not gonna stop there
I think it is a bit naive to think this is a grass roots "protest". This might be a knock-on effect after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. Nazarbayev was a Soviet man, so it's possible this is a western intervention. It's also possible that Islamic interests are using the gas crisis as an opportunity to establish a new islamic state there also.

...but regardless of who may be have helped organize this sudden protest/coup, it's important to remember that Russian politicians have recently made comments about taking back land given to Kazakhstan during the Soviet days. The northern portions of the country hold the 25% of the Kazakh population that is ethnic-Russian - which includes much of the area just up to the capital of Nur-Sultan, also in the north.

https://thediplomat.com/2021/04/is-northern-kazakhstan-at-ri...
How do you know if software is written in Rust? Don’t worry, the developer will tell you
I wonder if it's more complicated that that. Narrowly looking at the CO2 effects of shutting down AL smelters in Iceland, that will make the global supply for the metal lower, raising prices. Perhaps that would make it uneconomical for usage in vehicles, meaning that cars would again use heavy steel instead of aluminum. Perhaps that would cause the global car fleet to burn more fuel and net pollute more CO2.
When multiple CSRs [and thus multiple private keys] are involved you end up with multiple wildcard certificates. There is no sharing, technically speaking, but obviously the hostnames in all the wildcards are the same. However, that doesn't really buy you much in terms of security as any one of those wildcards can be used in an active network attack against any matching service if compromised.

That is, unless you're using some sort of public key pinning, but that's very rare to find today and works only in a custom application or something that supports DNSSEC/DANE.
The more common solution in these industries is 3 x 12 hour days per week, not 70 hour weeks. Does it state which model TSMC is using
Fair enough. Although that seems rather complicated for those of us just trying to get a quick cert for an internal host. The LetsEncrypt forums are full of this discussion:

[1] https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/whitelisting-le-ip-addre...
[2] https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/whitelist-hostnames-for-...
[3]https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/letsencrypt-ip-addresses...
What % of this was caused by the jab mandate that was introduced around that time?
What advancements do you have in mind?
good bills will pass, look at the recently passed infrastructure bill. Also the Covid relief bills all passed. I think it more or less works as intended, with major bill having to provide something for everyone, like in the infrastructure bill.
gravit-all
Appreciate this is about 10 years old but just in case any newbies do actually look at this...

This bit is quite iffy, and potentially dangerously so:

> # All files in target directory. (Be very careful.):

> /*

On it's own this will be all paths in the file system root (system directories like /bin/ /var/ etc.).

A better way to describe it would be:

> # All files in the current directory

> ./*

Or

> ./[dirname]/*

If you're running things as the root user always make sure to check your paths!
An Inconvenient Truce
I hate to be a stuck in the mud, but a concrete pad, with unreinforced piles is not going to last a 1000 years. those piles are going to be impossible to repair without breaking the slab, or undermining, which means it's expensive to maintain. (yes Roman concrete has lasted 1k years, but thats a different type to the cement they use now.)

The other thing that they've not managed to control is moisture. You can't mix and match steel with lime mortar (I mean you can, but its not wise) You can just put a moisture barrier in there, but you need a way to maintain that (its not like a damp proof course, its far more extensive).

Personally if you want to make a house last 1k years, just make a clay lump house. It'll be far cheaper to build, look more realistic and much more well understood how to repair it.
For me, my biggest concern is for fan noise.
if I'm working on Windows, I prefer desktop, as I hate the fan noise from the laptops. Desktops also have lots of options in peripherals and upgradeability, especially in CPU and GPU.

If I'm working on MacOS, I don't have any preference as long as it's M1 based, since they run silent in either as laptop or as desktop.
The parent poster is probably referring to "How Buildings Learn", a book by Stewart Brand with lots of architectural pictures and commentary about how various buildings have been (re)used over the decades or centuries.

Brand posits
(a) human needs change faster than buildings age, and thus buildings must adapt to that change over the lifespan of the building

(b) there are two reasons a building lives to be more than 100 years old: either the building is historic / well loved enough that we live with a building's warts even though it doesn't meet our needs perfectly (a Parliament building, a church, a house that cannot be modified) OR it is so flexible or easy (cheap) to modify that it can suit many purposes. (A small commercial building that can hold a dentist office or a restaurant or a law office or a nail salon, a house with an extension, a warehouse that can be converted to a modest factory floor, etc)

Buildings that cannot be adapted are torn down and replaced.

The book is excellent, and beautiful, and I recommend a physical copy to everyone.
I live on a busy street and we can see into cars at the stoplight.

The majority of drivers have their phones in their hands while waiting at the light and always take an extra second or two to get going when the light turns green.

People don't realize the gravity of operating two-ton deathmachines and would prefer to do anything but pay attention to the road and their surroundings.
Currently the Japanese ministry of health recommends that ivermectin only be used as a potential COVID treatment in clinical trials. It's not otherwise authorized. Some physicians do prescribe it off label, and it's possible that could have affected the course of the pandemic in Japan, but at this point we have no reliable data either way.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/12/21/national/iverme...
The author cites London as being a desirable city given the historical lack of disasters, steady government, and cultural preference for preservation etc. London was also my first thought as a safe haven for a long lasting build.

On the other hand, I can't help but feel London would be an obvious target for nuclear annihilation in some future conflict; UK commerce / industry / power / wealth is deeply centralised in London.

A better option would be to stick to the UK, but maybe a 100 miles outside of London proper.
Maybe hyperbole.
> “It’s not understood in the broader public discussion, people aren’t quitting their jobs to leave the labor force they are quitting their jobs to take other jobs”

Well maybe it would be more well understood if you didn't run titles like "A record 4.5M workers quit their jobs".

The linked BLS report gives some more useful statistics:

> "Over the 12 months ending in November 2021, hires totaled 74.5 million and separations totaled 68.7 million, yielding a net employment gain of 5.9 million."[1]

[1] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.nr0.htm
It hasn't fully deployed yet. We'll have to wait and see.
The traffic jam is almost certainly exacerbated by hundreds of drivers doing the same thing....
But wouldn't that be an apples to oranges comparison because shutters are fully opaque while curtains are only partially opaque?

I would also expect outer shutters to insulate the window a little bit and thus limit the heat loss no?
Venice has been around for ages and it is just brick houses build on top of a lot of tree trunks driven into a lake and wooden platforms with stone on top - no complex engineering here.

I think the biggest issue having a house lasting is doing constant preventative maintenance or swapping out bits with more modern longer lasting bits e.g replaced all wooden window frames with aluminum.