skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're mixing up I/O-based pricing with rows-based pricing. Aurora is priced based on I/O operations, with 16KB pages: https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/faqs/

If you're doing a range scan query and your rows are reasonably-sized, you can conceivably get tens of rows to maybe even a few hundred rows per single I/O operation. Or even 0 I/O operations if the pages are already in memory in the buffer pool cache.

Planetscale prices based on rows.. And scanning a few FAQs I don't see anything about cached rows being free, but maybe i missed it.
It's not about selling the house, it's about being forced to move out of a city / neighborhood they've been in for decades, simply because it got more popular and they can't afford a property tax bill several times higher than their largest mortgage payment ever was.
>but I'm sure there were as many witches (people who believed in that stuff) then as there are now.

There weren't any witches the way witches were defined back then, which was people who entered into pacts with the devil to gain satanic powers to wage war against Christianity and undermine the community. It was a conspiracy theory not unlike the satanic panic of the 1980s or the red scare.
One might argue that they were too interested in internet points on a forum and on maintaining an ideological position that was pretty obviously already untenable.
Hah, while that could help a bird (if ACTUALLY 10 bar, which is insanely high - 145 psi, compared to 14ish now), it wouldn’t help as much as you would think. At STP, air is 1.3kg per cubic meter, and at 10 bar, it’s still only 11kg per cubic meter. Water is 1000kg/cubic meter.

So yeah you could get some bigger birds, but t-Rex or brontosaurus weren’t meaningfully supported by the atmosphere in such a scenario even if they had some kind of lifting bladder, which no one has seen any fossil evidence of anyway.

The amount of additional mass required to have a 100 bar atmosphere instead of 1 bar is rather incredible, and there is so far no plausible method known for such mass to disappear.

If it was somehow subducted, then hey maybe. But we also don’t know of any way for that to occur right now.
Also related: Liz Truss (the UK's Foreign Secretary) is questioned on TV about a Kremlin-linked donor to the Conservative party:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14QV_VkqTEw
Wow! I didn't even realize I unlocked the custom top bar color, exciting! I'm going for a light grey haha.
First of all, I agree there are gotchas. We have roadmap items that will eliminate this problem in the medium term.

I do however disagree that this is any worse than idle RDS hosts sitting around when you have no traffic, costing you huge sums for a service that is basically `apt-get install mysql-server` on top of EC2.
Just post the transcript of the full speech, it was not hard to find it:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/full-tran...

Here's the relevant part (interpret this as you will):

"I would now like to say something very important for those who may be tempted to interfere in these developments from the outside. No matter who tries to stand in our way or all the more so create threats for our country and our people, they must know that Russia will respond immediately, and the consequences will be such as you have never seen in your entire history. No matter how the events unfold, we are ready. All the necessary decisions in this regard have been taken. I hope that my words will be heard."
People are so powerless and they don't like the feeling of it, so they will do whatever makes them feel a little less so.
Yes, Russia has a finite window in which it can bring in its tanks and heavy artillery, which are its strengths, before the spring thaws mire them in the mud. It's not entirely clear what the endgame is here, though. They can not sustain an occupation, and they will suffer heavy casualties if they do a street-to-street urban war; they will face questions at home if heavy Russian casualties are incurred, which is entirely possible given the US and UK have armed the Ukrainians up the wazoo with antitank missiles; they can not sustain a 'fortress Russia' with $630 Billion in USD reserves indefinitely; and they certainly can not stop the long term turn towards NATO and away from Russian energy exports, which will get a jolt in the arm after this disastrous war.
I mean, I wouldn't expect the distribution to be normal. It would also be interesting if the headline was "1 in 3 young people say they don't mind getting run over by a truck". You'd think things which are generally viewed as negative would tend towards a biased distribution, so if that's not the case I'm interested.
Intel appears to have squandered it. Strangled in bureaucracy at a guess. Not much sign of the fabled FPGA/x64 hybrid from Intel.

AMD + ATI didn't look totally smooth from the outside but the graphics cards are still with us and I'm using an APU as my desktop.
Even before it was dropped it still did not remotely affect our democratic status. There is a great deal of misinformation about this in the US media. It did not invoke a state of martial law. It did not invoke the military.

What it did do is allow higher level police to override local police that were refusing to do their jobs. It also allowed the government to temporarily use heavy tow trucks because the contracted companies were also refusing to honour their contract. The blockades were already illegal under normal laws. Protesting was always allowed and still is. Breaking other laws while protesting is not allowed.

More, our government has multiple checks and balances for using the emergency act, and they were all in play. Opposition parties had to agree to keep it in play, which they did. It was under continual review. At no point was it "not a democracy."
Maybe the word that better describes it is 'systemically' or 'meticulously'. When I am in a mood to get drunk, I will prepare by buying the alcohol, invite friends, prepare the food, and then get myself piss drunk. Not sure if the world 'rational' fits ill conceived plans that are just well executed.
There is a fallacy here: it is not just "one homogenous group of homeless" that you can help with the same turnkey solution. No, there are easy cases (people living out of their cars, still capable of holding down jobs, they just need help) and there are hard cases (people who lost their jobs and housing because they got addicted to drugs or couldn't stop drinking, or fell into mental illness), and probably many cases in between. We should throw lots of resources at easy cases: get them housing, make sure they can continue working or get them work, subsidize their rent but don't just give them a place (because people will value what they have to pay for vs. what they are given).

Hard cases...I'm not sure if many of them are ever going to be normal again. Many people with fentanyl addictions are just really messed up, and there isn't much we can do to solve their addictions. Same to a lesser extent for alcoholism, and mental health problems. Housing first also doesn't work well for them, because their addictions are so strong that they trash housing given to them, sell what they can, and wind up on the streets again because it is the best way to support their addiction.

I think because hard cases are so hard to solve, we should devote almost all of our resources on (a) kids (so they can avoid this fate) and (b) easy homeless cases so we can prevent them from becoming hard cases.

Many homeless advocates seem to want it both ways: that not every homeless is an addict (true), but that we should throw the exact same resources at addicts as we do at people who just couldn't pay rent (false). I don't understand why they do this, it doesn't help their cause (and they don't make progress because their solutions are not well matched to the problems they are solving).
There's also the possibility that knowing early enough we might be able to prevent an impact altogether.
Why would they call these the largest when things like this [0] exist? It's my understanding that even these large cells aren't the largest.

[0] https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/...
Or to steel smelters.
They have already encircled a sovereign nation with their army and are moving in. Our "proportionate" response so far has been to shut down a couple of banks.

I'm not talking about a nuclear strike. All out nuclear war is clearly in nobody's interest (what's the point in ruling over a nuclear wasteland). Putin is relying on the fact that we are all so scared about that scenario that we will be weak in our support of Ukraine (and Latvia, Lithuania, Poland....).

China talks a good game now but how long do you think China will tolerate Russia bombing their most valuable customers?
Yeah, I totally get that. Everyone is replaceable. It is just a new information that my job is much less secure and valued than I thought. Despite the truth of this, surely you can understand that it can be detrimental to morale. I always knew that I can wake up any day and be out of a job, but normally feel that this is very unlikely. This type of corporate Behavior makes me feel like it is more likely then I thought
It is not just "a bit unfair", it is part of the nonsensical "all bad things are the fault of 'the west'" attitude which has gained so much popularity in the last decades. May I suggest the time has come (or, rather, has been here a long time) to stop (self-) flagellating and to start looking at the things which that much maligned "west" actually does right, things which are - gasp - worth defending?
It is a good thing, then, that pumped hydro is not limited to existing dams, or even to places where a hydroelectric power station would be practical. Pumped hydro does not need the large watershed and elevated river valley a hydroelectric dam needs. All pumped hydro needs is an elevated depression somewhere not too porous. There are myriads of those, and building a penstock up to one is very cheap.

Some places have no hills, so are not candidates for pumped hydro storage, and would need to rely on something else, such as long-distance transmission lines, or liquified air, or synthesized hydrogen, or synthesized ammonia, or underground compressed air, or iron-air batteries, or numerous others, or (most usually) some combination of them.
Please highlight the word nuclear in that transcript.
Plus 10TB of outbound bandwidth.

That's my favorite part of Oracle's always free tier[1], in comparison to other offerings.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/FreeTier/freetier...
With military aircraft? I don't think that's covered by international law, it doesn't sound right. Any country would object.
> superpower.

Yup. Because when I think of superpower I think of an economy that is barely passing Italy's.
What’s the longest choose your own adventure book? I can imagine relatively ever-fresh side quests that could make up an absolute tome of a book.
Do you think Stinger missiles will make a difference?
Some would blame it on the CIA. The more likely perpetrator would always be someone in Russia trying to replace Putin.

Assassinating or targeting political leaders is a war crime. The CIA might have done that - quite a while in the past, mind you - but never against an adversary like Russia. At the very least you would expect a few US politicians to drop dead if there ever were such an attempt.
In the cold, with just a backpack for supplies? I'm in good shape and love biking, still wouldn't want to take that bet.
It's pretty cold there. I think you'd need to be very diligently prepared for such a journey and probably more than "in decent shape."
Have you looked at the Phoenix Guides [1]?

[1] https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html
Are you genuinely telling me there are no issues with sharing memory between different threads?

Node.js is 13 years old now. I get that a lot of people think it's some new thing that only dumb frontend programmers who only know JS use, back in my day, grumble grumble. But at this point it's established, mature technology, es6 is an expressive language (much, much more so than Go, C# or Java). The multi process concurrency model is sometimes a pain in the ass and sometimes just want you want.

I've used ASP.NET and node.js in anger, have you? Or do you just attack it because you hate the JS of 2010?
Fast and furious: A shock wave that extends for 6.5M light years
I don't think Putin is worried about loss of life of Ukrainian citizens. He is worried about losing soldiers, or more importantly dead soldiers being repatriated on the news. They will cover up civilian casualties or blame them on Ukrainian troops. The only support for this will come from Russia domestically and it is that which he seeks to maintain with this war. Which I'm guessing he hoped would be quick and decisive, avoiding the bloodshed of Russian soldiers that will be his undoing at home.
What people are you talking about exactly? Those in Ukraine?
I listened to a great CBC-produced story on all of the "propaganda" surrounding soybeans back in the 90s... there were stories floating around that it raised estrogen levels in men and made you grow man-boobs basically if you ate it. I remember my friends joking about it at the time.

CBC wrote it off as completely without basis, said the chinese had been subsisting off of them for thousands of years, if they are fine eating it so should we be etc...

It was a convincing argument... but then again Canada grows a huge amount of soybeans and CBC is always pro-government so what to believe?

Perhaps there was some truth to the rumour?
Of course he did. And he'll threaten the same thing the next time wants another piece of Europe. There's zero reason to believe him; he wants to live too. More importantly, the vast bureaucracy that supports him wants to live.
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> imagine if US tried to take over Cuba or some other coastal island.

Not like they haven't tried:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion
I just mention that as a way to illustrate they they were not reinvesting their capital into verification/quality and R&D or focusing on their core competency.

this was during the period when intel was riding the IOT hype train and made some dumb purchases.

see here for more

https://www.businessinsider.com/intel-is-probably-the-worst-...
It is counterproductive to try to apply that local vernacular meaning of the word "nation" to understand the term "nation state", which describes a particular kind of state that is different from other kinds of states. It will only confuse you. It would be like trying to understand the term "laser cooling", which describes a refrigeration process, by using the vernacular meaning of the word "cool" that is "in fashion". Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state.
How do you unwittingly run a rooming house?
Just FYI, it's possible to backup your codes on Android using Aegis too. No root needed.

https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis
NATO is mostly an American instrument aligned with American interests.

As such, it does not make sense for Russia to join nor does it make sense for the US to accept them in unless it means that Russia has essentially been subjugated by the US (nothing could be farther from the reality, of course).
Ukraine is not getting nuclear weapons on its territory. If that were really the issue, Putin would have invaded the Baltic states and Poland. You know, where the weapons actually are.
We hated it back then too.
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Why are you presuming PUFAs are bad? This study doesn't seem to make such a suggestion.
Came to comment just that!

Isn't that ironic?

The "best" part is all this bloat doesn't even add any real extra functionality of value. Simply extra bullet points to the resumes of the folk who build all these sites.
Then they're going to have to remember what a world without police looks like.
It's not about form fields, it's about type-to-select. No one said anything about context menus being the same as form fields.
I shouldn't have said they "need" to. More like it would be very much appreciated if they did. I've made sure to keep track of that now, but I think they could do a little more to help people, who haven't learned from making the mistake yet, avoid losing their domains.

Funny thing is that I had a domain with a different registrar about 9 years ago and I couldn't get them to stop mailing me expiration reminders. They kept coming well after I intentionally let the domain expire.
Sounds like a reason to justify tyranny to me. What do you mean mob rule. In a (true) democratic society just a small group can change something the majority disagrees with because they got together? The majority is also together in the same matter isnt it?
Homelessness, like healthcare reaches a point of diminishing marginal returns where the problem just gets worse when more money is spent on it. If there was a hard upper limit on spending and then the government just had to get creative on doing things efficiently, things would work out better.
websites are now meant to be "content" for google or social media. Social media are allowed all the permissions, websites no.
Bernie was saying the same things before Trump showed up - this is a general trend, not caused by anyone in particular.
He says no. Probably enjoying one last sunset outside before closing the hatch! I can't help but wonder about our h n founders, safe in their bunkers in NZ, reading dog eared copies of The Soveiregn Individual. And then I wonder about all the Ukraine war news stories leading up to this being and flagged and burried here. I hope it's just coincidence. As I have said before, they think they can survive nuclear winter, no problem. But those assumptions are built on test of single small bombs. 10,000 going off at once is an order of magnitude worse, and might easily produce surprising effects. Science is always finding surprises in old experiments when they crank the power way up.
I'm happy to increase renewable energy production where possible. My point is that saying "we can just be 100% solar" is just as impractical and far fetched as saying "we can just be 100% fusion".

Renewable advocates would be more successful if they were realistic about the problems with significant solar reliance.
Optimizing for profit greatly incentivizes innovation as corporations compete, I'll definitely give you that.

But it also leads to a poorer customer experience (long hold times as call centers are understaffed, cheap and flimsy materials, I could go on...), exploitative dark patterns, rent-seeking, and more.

And then there's the fact that corporations would happily dump toxic waste into rivers to save a few dollars if the EPA didn't exist to stop them. They will gladly burn the atmosphere in order to show growth on their quarterly report.

> So the obvious question is how you balance those negative effects against the positive. This is where regulations and governments have to step in, though that certain has it's own massive issues.

Agreed. Corporations can't be free to do whatever they want, but finding that happy medium of reining them in without stifling them is hard.

It doesn't help that our politicians are for sale. Corruption runs rampant.
>But a $100 million kickback to a developer to add 1500 units is somehow less politically popular than $1 billion dollars for 1200 units.

Even assuming this is true, there are plenty of reasons this might be a good deal. One is greater control over construction, alignment of incentives (i.e., the developer incentive is to put up the worst pieces of junk they can get away with), long-term ownership if this is to be a long-term program, etc.
We are down for many, many times the cost of Apollo, regardless. The only question is how much available power we will get for that. The very best one running is solar+wind+storage, far ahead of the others.
> 200 checkboxes make about as much sense as a 200-item dropdown. Neither is manageable.

Multi-select is okay there, apart from the problems I mentioned above: https://jsfiddle.net/z0Ltxh47/2/ . I can navigate to i19 with a few key strokes. Only if it were then possible to easily select a1...

> An input box with pill-style auto-completion (see e.g. the tags control on Stackoverflow) would be a reasonable alternative

And we are back at implementing our custom controls again.
It surprises me to hear that residents were surprised. Among everything else, the most alarming/clear warning that a serious safety threat was looming was when Russia's diplomats started leaving the country. That strikes me a pretty certain indicator of imminent and real danger.
Exactly, developer time is extremely valuable! Plus, even on an individual level wouldn't you rather spend less time doing something a machine can make a reasonably good guess for you? My internal heuristic has been anything that can be easily guessed is something AI + PL techniques should do for you.

I think developers in the future will have way more mental free space because of this trend towards accelerating developer tooling with AI.
There isn't one. I am not the person who was claiming there was, if that's what you're implying.

Some people think that his words imply nuclear, but as it's not directly mentioned, that's just one interpretation.

If you ask me, I think that means just some secret weapon pointed directly at whoever Putin believes may interfere... but no one really knows.
That's the thing. There is a war going on between Saudi Arabia and Yemen, and Syria is still festering. Nobody seems to care.
Thanks for the rabbithole history lesson, reminds me of Bannon's "deconstruct the state" angle, an optimism that somehow things can improve after everything is destroyed...
> One thing to note: a huge threat to democracy is war.

> Frequently autocracies invade democracies

These are not claims? Evidence was provided for one side of this argument already, and it's not yours.
They're discussing the move to C99. Not sure that counts as modern C at this point.
Also basic density calculations doesn’t favor the theory.

Even at 100bar, even with some weird composition difference (but not completely bizarre like sulphur hexaflouride) the atmosphere is on the order of 10-20kg/m^3.

Even with the most implausible ‘what a dinosaur is made of’ theories I can come up with, unless the larger dinosaurs were born carrying around 100+ m^3 balloons full of helium, it doesn’t seem doable. There literally isn’t enough space in them to have enough sacs of lighter than air gas for that to make sense.