skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, how many cities have to be destroyed before they sign? And they will be destroyed if they don’t fold.

There is exactly one way of ending this, only difference is how much Ukraine is willing to pay in blood and resources before they sign.
There are no citizens, only consumers.
It's not "all for show". House heating and cars are very significant polluters and energy sinks.
Ukraine's been unable to take it back in eight years of conflict. Formally ceding it might be the sort of concession that lets Putin claim enough of a win to end the conflict. Right now, he's got no ability to save face, and that risks continued escalation.
Thank you Canadians for your hard work!
Kids like princes and princesses, I would guess. It's a theme that goes way back in children's literature.
This ignores the bigger question, "In these times, is San Francisco's Shoplifting Statistics worth our national concern?"
Probably because it's reusing existing characters from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, and they didn't change it.
Incorrect -- the US treasury did not spend nearly this much (as a percent of GDP) until recently: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S
Atomic Counters and Batch Operations for Serverless Data
Small nit: bigtable does support transactions. They just have to be contained within a single row.
No kidding. Living in the human equivalent of a factory farm.
This sentiment often comes up on this topic, and it's a false equivalence. Television and advertising execs from 30 years ago didn't have the sheer massive volume of interactive data that the internet provides - TV from 30 years ago didn't know you were watching, and more importantly didn't change the program schedule based on what you, individually, watched.

TV from 30 years ago also didn't have legions of extremely highly paid PhDs scouring data whose sole job it is is to get 9 year olds hooked into watching more content.
I'm leaving Rails core and I'm not interested in being in the alumni
Solar doesn't work that well the further you get from the equator.

Nortern Europe? Freezing in the winter (so lots of heating necessitating more electricity), and generally poor weather, plus the daylight hours can be incredibly short.

I'm not sure how solar works in places like this unless you massively overbuild (not exactly appealing, efficient, or environmentally friendly), and/or rely on electricity transported over vast distances (which I understand is not particularly viable).
What a terrible article. It essentially argues against a previous position that amounts to a bunch of "I guess"es...

And does so with nothing but it's own, new guesses.

When they do deal with data, they are both unclear and, it seems, aim more at manipulating emotion or finding "but"s than honestly considering probable causes/consequences/correlations

Skip this article in favor of better, data driven ones
its also 10mn per employee for a services company (afaik their saas revenue streams are secondary)
Sure, but the decision to allow e.g. baby shark, and not dubbed Soviet children's cartoons about how good of a leader Stalin is, is certainly a political decision.
that is then extremely misleading. Try redoing your calculation assuming all heat is electric, be that heat pumps or an electric stove. Same for water heaters and EVs.

Your post, although interesting, is the edge case.
> we don't make laws depending on what the media is trying to make people of the city feel like

Don't kid yourself, that absolutely happens all over the place.
Google doesn't buy revenue, they buy employees.
> Putin's stated goal is total destruction of Ukraine, including the people and the culture

proof?
Does anyone else find that they can't ever tell a difference in browser speed in day to day use?

I switched to FireFox for my personal use a few years before the "Quanutm" update when it was theoretically much worse than Chrome and didn't notice a difference. For the last few years, I've been using Chrome and FireFox side by side with Chrome for work and FireFox for my own stuff and switching back and forth feels pretty seamless. (With the exception of Gmail which is abysmal on FireFox, but I somehow doubt that's Mozilla's fault)
We are a successfull hardware startup and our line of products are built around TI F28004x series MCUs. Even if we wanted to use Rust, none of our chips are in any of Rust's supported platform tiers. That's a nonstarter.
It's March, so it'll be more than 6 months before serious heating is required again in middle Europe...more than enough time to get Liquid Gas from the middle east.

Would that be inconvenient for Germany and other countries in the same region? Certainly. Rising prices, economic fallout, the whole thing will be very inconvenient.

But to Russias economy, it will be outright devastating, as production and sale of natural gas and oil are a major pillar of it's GDP.

The west has ways out of this, and the financial and structural resources to use them. Liquid Gas from the middle east to bridge the gaps, development of the Norvegian production as a middle-tier solution, and ultimately changing it's energy politics entirely to renewable energies, nuclear power (the latter includes researching fusion energy, which will become the dominant energy source at some point).
I tried looking into why Mr Roger's Neighborhood had a monarchy (since the show is based upon that) but all I could find was references to him as an authority figure who cared about his people.

Given how intentional he was, I'm sure there's got to be an explanation for why he selected that. Unless it was just because it's the kingdom of make-believe, and hence has a king.
Does My Son Know You?
Remember: We need most of our energy in the winter, for heating, when there is less sunlight.

I'm a huge fan of solar, but until we have things like flow batteries, it's only a partial solution. (A flow battery would allow stockpiling charge during the summer to use in the winter.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery
With higher memory usage you have less free memory for caching so you hit the disk/SSD more often. If it gets too high you start swapping which is really bad.
Counties sign such peace treaties when they lose hard enough to start losing their territory proper, or they are forced to capitulate, are occupied. How would a nuclear state lose their territory proper? There were indeed various peace treaties in the past, but not a nuclear state losing their territory proper.
Well, shouldn't, I guess.
If you sent me a 90m(!) takehome non-coding test I would absolutely nope out of that process. You're not respecting your applicants time. At all.

Your funnel is steep because it has bullshit steps. And the only people coming through it are probably desperate, which is why your signal/noise ratio is "already terrible".
> The rate of cancer has risen about 30% for young people since the seventies. So it seems that there's something wrong in our environment or lifestyles that could be increasing risk. One would do well to read the research (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...) from which that widely quoted 30% figure comes. It does not suggest any simple conclusion as to what is causing the increase. Rather, it paints a very complex picture, with likely very different causes for increases in different cancers, and also documents significant decreases in certain cancers. Among the three categories of causes for increases listed, increased detection is prominent.

Note also that the study is a retrospective study, and comes with all the statistical cautions that are inherent in that methodology.
Honestly I live my life in Slack. I've been fully remote for close to 5 years over two jobs. Both jobs were the same (even though the first job at apple only adopted Slack a year or two after I started)
Agreed. It means I can claim that my ancestors accidentally the languages!
Because Queen Sara Saturday and King Friday the XIII were from Mr. Rogers Neighborhood, specifically the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and that's where Daniel Tiger originated.
If you go deep enough, there are criticisms of the nuclear family structure which Baby Shark assumes lol
Could someone ELI5 why a few hundred above ground nuclear explosions today would "wrap the planet in a blanket of soot and block out the suns rays" when post world war America detonated hundreds of Nukes outside Vegas and nothing significant can be said about the environment there?

Yes, the size of the blasts possibly, but the pacific and the siberia tests by the US and USSR were probably much bigger than anything a ballistic missile could carry today, so . . .what are we missing ?
Agreed it is mostly nostalgia. But it _was_ a unique time: the internet was pretty new for many people, and not ubiquitous like it is today.
(following a discussion from https://github.com/alcover/buffet/commit/eab9648ff19483f57fd...)

> if nobody's looking, we are go

https://github.com/alcover/buffet/blob/dee3eb65f37ca07ea3d27...

And otherwise, when is it freed?

The refcount mechanism looks wrong to me: either the ownership of internal data is shared between instances (it seems it is not the case), either the owner is well defined and does not need a refcount.

It appears that the refcount is used to avoid freeing the owner data if Buffet views are still alive. But using the views after freeing the referenced data is incorrect usage anyway, so it looks like defensive programming, trading a use-after-free for a leak.
Loss of life and refugees who might not return home after the war.
As the last autumn in Europe showed solar and wind were not stable when for months there were quite heavy clouds without wind. Big energy storage is required.
That's why I said "retry/drop". Handling back-pressure means you must propagate it backwards to a point in your program where there is enough context to enable decision to be made on how to handle the failure. Also, a retry can wait some amount of time until the system is less busy (and this can be enforced by some other part if needed). Further, you may have many callers and one central thing processing requests so propagating back-pressure to callers also allows you to push the problem back to a point where there are potentially more resources. In a silly example, if someone spamming your queue starts to experience a sluggish UI or run out of RAM because back-pressure has forced the queue to grow on their machine an not your infrastructure, perhaps they'll get the message and cool it (ideally the program handles this gracefully too and tells the user a maximum has been hit, but even without that back-pressure is useful).

So, yes. But that's the point.
You can't control the hand youre dealt.

You control how you play the hand

And you control at how you take joy in the game.
What really set Steve Jobs apart is that he never should have gotten to where he did. I don't mean he didn't deserve it or anything but based on that structures that exist to filter people who attain the positions that he did. By luck, or accident, or raw determination, he became a person in the drivers seat that no one would have chose to put there. He was so much not the person they would have chosen that they kicked him out and replaced him with someone they did choose, John Sculley.

Because he was outside of this normal system he made decisions that were baffling, treated people in ways they felt uncomfortable with and achieved things that people thought were out of reach. They seemed out of reach because it was out of reach given the world of possibilities they allowed for themselves but Steve Jobs lived by a different set of rules. Steve Jobs rising to the top and succeeding in a power structure that didn't share his worldview is what makes Steve Jobs truly remarkable.
I choose to not worry about things that are outside my control. and instead focus on things where i can make a difference. it is empowering
Variable energy sources like wind and solar have a cost - a balancing cost that you do not currently pay. If you have solar panels, the grid buys all your energy, whenever you are able to deliver that energy. The rest of us subsidise your costs.

Renewables like domestic solar appear to reduce costs because those costs are socialized. Compare the cost of drawing power from the grid with the cost of generating all your energy via solar PV and storage batteries.
This is a good thing. Enough with the birthrights.
Of course, there are uses.

But if you have many jobs that you have to maintain and run, standardizing the tool and workflow is really helpful.
I personally don’t get the fuss about that video. It’s not reflective of the videos he makes today. The videos he makes today irritate me deeply and I try to have my kids watch them as little as possible, but I still don’t care about the poop video.
OT: popups and banners managed to cover the whole page... :/
https://photos.app.goo.gl/PqV9FpqyPCujtFTJ6
My boys love Blippi, and I think his content is really good as far as these things go, for preschool educational-entertainment content. He basically goes different places and shows kids things.
Firefox 98
Ah, the good old <script language="JavaScript1.2"> days.
backpressure is the mechanism that solves this

or less elegantly, circuit breaking / fail-retry
“Everything is political” is one of those technically true, but ultimately meaningless platitudes. Yeah sure, technically there is implicit ideology in everything, but there’s also a pretty vast difference between something that is passive and only has ideology by virtue of existing in the world and portraying it and something that is politically charged. Most of the time, the passive kind is too benign for anyone to care. There are exceptions, of course…
>While it was just "postoperative brain swelling" and the brain "can heal".

As i said, brain swelling from the surgery. The article first gave me the impression it was because of what was implanted, ie his implant not working. Which wasnt the case, it worked and he collected his dataset with his ancient hardware till it had to be removed again.

I indeed read over the part of the sentence with the facial nerve though. His wording seemed fine though, i have met quite a few people who talk like this. People who go to Belize for brainsurgery are expected to be a bit eccentric.
Fine. Maybe a bus or taxi service.

But standardizing helps and hadoop and other tools provides that.
> Oh, you mean children shouldn’t use a computer unsupervised? That ship sailed a long time ago.

Depends on the definition of 'children' I think.

The 5 year old probably shouldn't be turned loose on an ipad, and probably neither should a 10 or 11 year old imho.

I could see an argument for 12 and up though.

Now, will people be careful about that? Absolutely not, but probably should.
Putin propaganda says that russian military forces has been ordered to minimize collateral damage as possible. (minimize != avoid. just minimize)

So, if civilian could stop tank with bare hands just because he is civilian, not a soldier, not trying to kill russian soldiers or throw molotov bottle to tank - may be (just may be, I am not sure) this part of propaganda is true or at least truthy
That doesn't make any sense in this context. As the article says, they have 1000 engineers there and they've been there for 15 years. It is neither new nor outsourcing.
Glibc allows specifying the version of a function at call time, so that you can call a specific version of a function in a library. This means that regardless of when you released some software, you can pin how it works, so even if you upgrade the library 10 years later, it will work the same way (as long as the library keeps the old version of the function). This needs to be extended, made easier, and every programming language should do it by default.

The filesystem is also a limitation. We need to refer to versions in files and directories in the same way, due to application dependence on files. This can be accomplished probably just by adding versions in paths and then defining version compatibility in code. Would be nice if the filesystems all got versioning built in, though, so we could just call file functions with version arguments rather than hacking around path names.

Data formats and protocols also need explicit versions for all operations, so they can advertise their compatibility and thus be backwards and forwards compatible.

We must also be able to execute software with a specific combination of versioned functions at exec time. This requires kernel modifications / new syscalls.

Libraries and applications should keep old versions of functions indefinitely, and only load code when needed. This will cause some consequences which we need solutions for, such as how to handle the reduced disk space and shared memory. It will require rethinking how applications are built, stored, and executed.

All of this rethinking of software design requires a lot of effort. But it would provide a world of benefits that we currently need hacks for.

We could upgrade randomly to bleeding edge software without any change to existing applications; any software interacting would continue to function as before. But newer function versions would be available and could be enabled via feature flags. We would no longer need containers, maybe not even package managers. Software could be upgraded continuously and remain perfectly stable. Users could define what versions they will execute depending on their wishes. And legacy software could be supported for decades, maybe centuries, with no extra effort.
That is why I said technically :-)

"A peace treaty is an agreement between two or more hostile parties, usually countries or governments, which formally ends a state of war between the parties"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_treaty
> Should we support the concept of the Confederate States of America seceding from the United States? If California or Texas wanted to secede, should we support it?

Yes. The Tenth Amendment reads, 'The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.' There is no power delegated to the United States by the Constitution to eject states, therefor the power to leave the union is reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

Secession was and is perfectly constitutional. The fact that the Confederate States did so for a truly bad reason doesn't change that fact. The right thing would have been to … let them go.

Brexit is a great example of how things should work: a state freely decided to leave a suprastate body, and that body let it.
Hey, I'd be curious to hear what's stopping you from using Arrow Flight (unless you mean that you plan to use Arrow Flight for remote things, and a zero-copy interface locally). (I am an Arrow maintainer and have worked a lot with Flight, though I speak only for myself here.)
Social spider collective performance in noisy environments
Same here. We have a modern heat pump water heater. It uses 2.6 kWh per day, set to cycle down at night and during the day. Three people, short showers every other day.

(I just switched it to always on. Trying to optimize water heating timing was just preventing it from storing solar electricity as heat, and didn't change daily energy consumption much.)

Edit: I should add we almost exclusively use a dishwasher to wash dishes (< 4 gallons a day). Laundary is probably our main water consumer. Showers have High Sierra shower heads. They're inexpensive, strong stream; 1.5 gpm (5.7 LPM)
This atrocity (and the well from which it springs) might be an interesting variant of Dunning-Kruger, one that also seems capable of infecting academic institutions. The belief is not supreme knowledge of a poorly-understood subject, but the belief that any such knowledge is superfluous, naive, or partisan when compared to a suitably abstract empirical method or algorithm. It's not unfamiliar to the attentive, because we all live in a world built by this effect, and it is precisely what happens when one removes the human from the humanities, and the humanities from education.
It is shameful how NFT grifters exploit absolutely every social trend.
For an alternative take on this, read up on the LMAX Disruptor. Of particular note is section 2.5 "The problem of queues."

https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/disruptor.html

It has a completely opposite pattern: the more you load it the faster it goes.
Ooof. That guy acts so infantile it's scary. Like a creepy grown man cosplaying as a toddler.
That was essentially a fictitious talking point used to demonstrate how out of touch defund police protesters were. No one was actually saying it.
Connecting Search Console to Data Studio
Statistics without calculus relies pretty heavily on memorization to get the right answers. I'm remembering my AP Statistics class (high school) where most of the time students got lower grades because they looked up numbers in a table wrong, or used the wrong table. Never mind when you start using regression models and need to start understanding axioms of the models you are using like homoscedasticity. There's some intuition there, but generally speaking, calculus is where most people "mature" into mathematics. I would argue that most people (NOT engineers/doctors/etc.) don't really get the point of math until around calculus where it starts to really open up for them. While statistics would certainly be useful, and is a must for modern day ever-connected society, it would just be another math subject that needs to be memorized like trigonometry. Some people mature in math a lot younger, but it entirely depends on the quality of their math teachers when growing up (and the curriculum/testing focus in which they are subjected to).
Most of the HN crowd use adblockers
The most impactful class I ever took as a programmer was Theater. Because of theater, I can confidently demonstrate a new feature in front of 150 people, and effectively lead retros and sprint demos. Communication is the most undervalued skill by other engineers, and getting good at it sets you apart far quicker than technical growth alone.
You really think there aren't computer security experts from government organisations on 4chan? I thought half of its schtick was it was a wide range of humans from all walks of life, pretending to be (or actually being) whatever-it-is that humans become without any form of supervision.
Rising Gas Prices Have Drivers Asking, ‘Is This for Real?’
Sounds like a profitable niche.

But I suspect heating is more expensive than cooling.

In Romania (45-46 degrees latitude) I can tolerate up to 25°C, and an uncooled room (that is not directly below the roof) only ever gets to 28°C, so it'd need 3Δ°C.

Whereas in winter, an unheated room can get to 14°C or lower, but the lowest temperature that doesn't affect me working from home is 23°C, so it would need upwards of 9Δ°C of heating.

Therefore, a heat pump for heating needs more power than an AC for cooling, which is why it would be more expensive.
> Where the large scale storage clusters shine is when the sheer scale of data won't fit in anything else, i.e. there's no other (sane) choice.

In general, this can be an effective approach, but at least fulltext search is another story.

Storing hundreds of MBs (actually, I think even tens of MBs can be problematic) in text files or a db like MySQL (whose FT engine is terrible) will result in slow fulltext searches.