skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vimes Boots theory of environmentalism.

Good boots are too expensive, liberal elites should stop trying to subsidize them. The poor are much happier paying more money in the long term constantly replacing "cheap" gas that they burn.

Its ironic that the OP is praising Bush for doing things that are almost certainly saving money and paying back his investment right now, while the poor people continue to buy gas long after the initial investment would have been repaid.

At least the stuff GW installed at the Whitehouse is actually helping towards a leaner, more efficient, smaller government, which people claim to be for unless it involves burning less fossil fuels.
The article is about bill gates, the WEF, and the WHO - and the implementation of the technocratic agenda

"the gates foundation has a longstanding relationship with vaccines that is more than a little sketchy. they were pushing oral polio vaccines in africa LONG after they were known to be unsafe and had actually become the leading cause of polio in the world.""

"gates is not a good guy.

he’s a sociopathic nerd with the most unsavory of associates.

and he knows how to play the crony capitalist game with the absolute best of them. the gates foundation has become a barely veiled international influence organization masquerading as a charity."

"but this is government. it’s worse than government, it’s trans-national organizational government."

"got that? this one is going to be digitally verifiable and global. nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, universal, mandatory, trans-national, and administered by an agency completely unaccountable to you and beholden to proven kleptocrats, authoritarians, and crony corporatists. they are basically a subsidiary of china and gates inc."

"giving this team universal chicken little rights and direct links at highest levels to public policy is bad enough. letting them enable fine grained access into permission to have anything resembling a life will have you eating bugs and tweeting what you’re told faster than you can say #grasshoppers #yummy!"
This, and also the fact that everyone on the team has to use the compiler, no matter what they’re doing. Separate tools are much harder to get into everyone’s workflow.
Yes, I have. Quite elementary, but I use them daily.

- Terminal based Hacker News reader for the lurker [1]

- Terminal based Google News reader [2]

[1]: https://github.com/tapank/hn

[2]: https://github.com/tapank/gnews
A lot!

The one I like most it's a bash script that order all my local pictures on a folder into year and month folders based on metadata.

Other than that, just small misc programs
No joke. Until the invention of cryptocurrency, the ledger of ownership of all the things had to be enforced by a gun. Physical violence to protect property. People would give their lives to enforce a consensus of ownership. We now have a way that doesn’t need guns. It uses mathematics of cryptographic signatures for authentication and integrity, that is verifiable anywhere and without trusted third parties. This is as radical shift in societies power structures.

I think you are not getting it because you are still in the “silly criminal money” phase. Don’t worry, give it another 3 years and you will be wishing you bought sats today.

Ww1 ww2 all were funded by debasement. All parties did it. It’s a lesson as old as time, but no. Different this time!
Any decent developer should be able to install and maintain on-prem Gitlab. It's not harder than running most managed services on AWS (I'd say it's simpler). So you already have the people, you just need a few minutes (literaly minutes, not hours) of their time per week/month.

There's operational risk, but that doesn't go away if you shift to Gitlab.com infra. Just in this case, you can control all of it.
Yup, after the first series of outages (which were much worse for us in Asia than for companies in the US, because it seemed that nobody at GitHub noticed everything was down until the US woke up) we moved all our code hosting from GitHub to self-hosted Gitea (our CI/CD was already self-hosted with Tekton), and set up mirror repos from GitHub for all our dependencies too.

Before we were losing productivity for an entire day due to GitHub outages, now we only notice because there's a post on HN :)

As for the cost of self-hosting, we already host our own services, Gitea is no more complex than any of those. I wouldn't recommend self-hosting to a company with no backend/ops capability in-house, but for any other company it's fairly obviously a better choice IMO.
Several, but not many that I actually used daily/weekly for an extended period of time.

I am not a huge fan of podcasts but I do listen to a select few. I am also weird and only listen to them on my main machine at home while doing something else.

I was a huge fan of Juice[0] but it hadn't been updated in ages and at some point its TLS parts were too old and I gave up updating it to Python 3 after a quick try. So I wrote my own Podcast library thing in C++/Qt which talks to a backend, where the data is stored.

[0]: http://juicereceiver.sourceforge.net/

And I wrote a soup.io clone in Clojure that I use mostly for song bookmarking via youtube (but so I can play them). Then I stripped nearly all of the soup features and now it's just a tumblelog I guess. Then after many years I rewrote it and didn't open source the rewrite.

And as you mentioned, the odd metrics/scraping/whatever job that's being run every night and where I actually look at the output several times per week, in one case it's an actual program, yeah.
I hope you like it! Feel free to open an issue of you have problems with it.

It should be fairly easy to change how the emails are generated too, if you're so inclined - just tweak `generateEmail` in `walrss/internal/rss/processor.go`
I note the only metric they offer is power usage. A poor substitute for actual performance numbers. In particular in any given CPU/GPU you could have all cores busily computing, nothing stalled and still be a good way below maximum power. To hit maximum power you need to carefully construct software that will fully utilize all functional units as well as causing maximum toggling within computation paths (1 + 2 will toggle fewer bits than 0xffffffff + 0xffffffff).

The thread doesn't give any clear indication if their explanation that the GPU sees significant stalls due to waiting on TLB miss has actual data behind it or is pure conjecture based upon observed power usage.
> if they did a bug bounty program, they'd go bankrupt.

I appreciate the honesty! I do think that any company that offers a bug bounty program already has their security in order, to the point where they can no longer find any obvious issues themselves anymore. Not having a bug bounty program implies they don't really trust themselves yet, or haven't reached that level of maturity yet. That probably covers most companies though. I know the codebase I inherited at my current employer wouldn't pass even the most superficial security check. Its only line of defense is that it's only on private networks. Until it isn't. I wonder if I should do a google to look for any public instances... just did, I'm only finding a lot of search engine spam thankfully.
except the swiss (non EU i know). they also have lower limits than most.
Not everyone has enough savings to live off comfortably while they look for a new job. And even if they did, why would they burn through all of that just to be a bit less stressed while looking for a job? I mean the reduced stress from having a completely free schedule would immediately be cancelled out for me by the stress of being unemployed.
The Us are training Taiwanese troops and selling them weapons for the reason I have stated: They are helping them. But I'd repeat that the serious consensus is that they are vanishingly unlikely to intervene directly because that'd mean WWIII.

I think one thing that you and others in the US should realise is that the US won't be able to check Chinese military power in the Pacific indefinitely.

The historical trend is that the US have found a country that is bigger than that they are and that is starting to have the means to assert its own interests. The US' "ownership" of the Pacific is the legacy of US imperialism in the region, but "this too shall pass".

And, maybe, if one day the mainland decides to take over Taiwan militarily it will mean a watershed moment when this becomes visible in facts as they will have no doubt calculated that the US will have no choice but yield.
I found a dove's nest that fell out of tree (thankfully empty). It's an awesome structure that I gave a place in my garden, placed upside down. I think it will serve as a good home to many bugs. I tought my children from the start that bugs are good, useful and cool creatures. They love 'm all.
True - but you're forgetting the executives previously learned experience of telling a team that a due date was September and them delivering six months later. The consequence was missing the marketing/PR window, negatively impacting the future valuation of the company, reducing sales and leading the board to fire the executive.

... most people aren't arbitrary, they have different experiences or perspectives which leads them to 'rational' decisions.
I find https://www.kiwi.com/en/ works well for doing all of this too.
Wouldn't you extract data anyway to another system for analytics? Running analytics queries on production databases seems a bit risky in any setting?
Sure, stainless steel resists corrosion, but it is a pretty bad electrical conductor, especially compared Cu, Au, or Ag. (I'm not disagreeing with you, this is for the benefit of GP.)
As cool as this looks, the amount of innovation that goes into this whole industry to the detriment of normal people sickens me.
Oracle is wildly inconsistent and I'm still not sure if I like their offering or if I hate it.

The good:

- My page runs on the 1 AMD VM and it has been working fine for a few months.
- The VM is faster than the equivalent Github/Gitlab Pages offering and I have way more control.
- Using the ARM VMs under one hood gives a lot of performance and I setup a VM to migrate data from one rclone crypt remote to another crypt remote (which meant that the VM had to download the data and then upload which was brutally slow on my connection).
- It's great to be able to test out some things on a machine and not have to pay for it and I would gladly pay for more VMs if not for the bad...

The bad:

- I had issues activating my initial trial and it took a bit of back and forth to get it running because their fraud prevention system kept blocking me
- The ARM VMs aren't 100% free, but you get free VM time. Which means that after the 1st month trial, the VMs actually get suspended or put on hold, despite you not using up your allowance. I had a Bookstackapp instance running on one and I find one morning not being able to log in. After fiddling about and trying to figure out what to do, I decided to restore my backup on to a new VM but I never felt that these are reliable after that incident
- The entire management interface is hugely complex and lots of parts are hidden unnecessarily (try to find how to raise and ticket and then after a while, try to go and find where your incident is and where you can check its status...)
- You can't seem to get an old account deleted... I had messaged sales, support and a few others. I asked for help on Twitter as well, but while I got I think two emails about "your account is now deleted" I could still log in with that old account. But they DID suspend access to always free resources on that account... So I have this old account hovering, which was made to see what they offered and I could never reactive it to use that one and support suggested that the easiest way would be to make a new one.
- Their Oracle Agent/Resource Monitor is really resource intensive and it's one of the first things I recommend removing
- Their iptable rules are also quite restrictive and it's at the top of the list for things to remove when setting up a new vm

So, I believe I had mentioned this before, but you do get what you pay for. I still recommend them for anything that's not critical or that important and for someone wanting to dip their toes in managing a VPS and some other considerations, but otherwise pay for what you use and go for something that's simple, proven to work and reliable if all you're looking for is VPSes (Digital Ocean, Linode, Hetzner (although yesterday's post about someone losing data and getting 20 euros wasn't that positive), OVH, ServerCheap, etc).
I absolutely detest the google optimised recipes, they're mostly just filler and you have to scroll all the way to the end to find the recipe. I just go to bbc food which has an excellent db of recipes, and they use correct temperatures for the oven too.
Website is back and login to Ferdi is now possible again. This morning I can login to my Ferdi account and https://getferdi.com/ seems to be working again. Similarly Twitter. https://twitter.com/getferdi

Go figure....
A mentalist can also remember the name of everyone in a theatre, using memory techniques. Theatre tickets are sold out months in advance. TV shows too. Names and addresses are given.

Many people have open Facebook profiles. People love talking about their pets, and about their upcoming visit to see a famous performer. I imagine a team might compile the list that a mentalist has to remember. Seat numbers can also be memorised, etc etc...
Yeah that was posted first but this one seems to have more comments now, please merge.
There's definitely something wrong there. We received spending limit usage alert stating we used 216,865,369 minutes in the organization that's been unused since December last year ;)
Like in this trick, Derren appears to know Fry's card is the king of diamonds, but he doesn't. It's just quite probable[0], and if he was wrong you wouldn't even notice he was guessing, the way it's worked into the trick. If he's right, it also doesn't seem like a guess, but like he somehow knew for certain. The initial deck has only 6 different cards, and Derren has 6 different card-cigarettes hidden on his person. By then he's been told what the card is, so he can't fail that part.

https://youtu.be/QI5-NDiY7IM?t=66

[0] I think Derren half-forces a red diamond picture card, by the way he asks Fry to BURN the card into his mind, but not 3 of hearts, i.e. not a number or heart. He probably can force the choice of a King of Diamonds a lot of the time. A lot of his skill lies in increasing probabilities any way he knows how, until the apparently impossible occurs.
>The existing efficiency for those is abysmal, which is actually OK since heat is such a useful product in itself.

How does one lose this heat in space?
Yeah, this is a thermophotovoltaic cell, which uses heat apart from light. But because it uses heat, they called it heat engine.
And weirdly:

> He also noted the unexpected finding of longer lifespans among the exposed male rats. “This may be explained by an observed decrease in chronic kidney problems that are often the cause of death in older rats,” Wyde said.
As a kid making Doom maps in late '90s, the worst part for me was that it was common for the editor to crash, especially during the node building step, often taking all my progress with it.
Yeah. Maybe I'm just getting old, but popular games do feel very "samey". They've dropped a bunch of 3D models into an environment, and you control one of them, and there's a minimap with flashing dots. Next year, a different team has dropped some different 3D models into a different environment, and the minimap is circular now.

The material rendering and poly count keep getting better, and some of these games are really beautiful, but the fidelity of the simulation itself hasn't really changed since 1998.

I do still enjoy games that actually do something new. I liked Minecraft when it came out, and Sleep Is Death, and Yume Nikki... in fact, there's a whole genre of "weird games" that can still be a lot of fun, because you're never sure what will happen next. The sense of wonder returns. Haven't found any good ones lately, though.
If software that actually exists is really already sending "telemetry" that can reliably identify your activities in the real world the concern isn't that theoretical anymore.
You can do the same thing in momondo. Being in Europe, what I like about momondo is that they include the cheap carriers - like ryanair
I wonder if aerogels would be worth the expense or if the added insulation is too minor.
What annoys me most about google search is that they show at most ~500 results for any search.
No way to get to results that are not surfaced . If you're searching for something which contains terms related to heavily SEOd verticals, there's absolutely no way to find "real" results.
Just let me decide if the long tail is interesting, please.
NFT Went on Sale for $48M. It Ended with a Top Bid of Just $280
Wow, true. Interesting mechanisms of action:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09698...
I think hyper optimizing could be good for growth, but it can very well cost too much. I often look at how Aliexpress accepts less popular payment methods and they ship anywhere. US and EU businesses straight up refuse to do one or the other (or both).

They just don't care about smaller buyers. It's their choice, so why not, I guess.

Hence, China will continue taking market share from the "developed economies" for the foreseeable future.
Can you publish more details of your setup and the code?
interesting, this isn't my experience. I've been running a gitlab instance for about 300 people for about 7 years now. :\

To be fair though I'm using docker and watchtowerr to keep it updated, there was 1 time where I had to use an older docker image because the latest wasn't working.
We don't have an overly complex setup, just some automations along the way to make things easier the long way. Sure, it's a bit more complicated than manually installing a server, but learning how to use terraform and automating patching/backups etc isn't rocket science.

Anyone with some knowledge of Linux/Programming shouldn't struggle setting this up within a few days. And it adds knowledge to the company that's very valuable.

With Gitlab, as with most software, restarting it regularly outside of office hours is the best way to ensure a stable service. Also something SaaS can't do, as they never know when their customers need the software.
The Mystery of the Miracle Year
Any source that radiates low energy photons at sufficiently high flux density will inevitably cause tissue damage. For example, green light from a 5 mW laser is fairly safe, but green light will cause serious damage from a 20 W laser source.

The comparison between ionising and non-ionising radiation is really about Watts per photon. Low energy photons need significantly more flux density (i.e. brighter) to create the same amount of damage as high energy photons. So the trope is really about you don't need a very bright ionising radiation source to give you cancer.
I believe you are being unnecessarily pedantic. Real world computer science programs cover software and hardware architecture as a matter of course. If they didn't 90% of them could be shut down for lack of interest.
Probably back in 2016.
You mean Minecraft on an anarchy server? 2b2t is pretty popular for a reason.

Also, I personally didn't enjoy don't starve as once you read through the wiki you understand that the reason you are dying so often is that the game is designed in a very illogical fashion with specific "puzzle" items that you simply die without. Your logical real world brain thinks you need clothes to not freeze to death in winter. Wrong. You need a hot stone. The hound attacks are a joke once you understand that you can build a bazillion tooth traps.

I haven't played one hour one life but it looks like it is actually closer to the original idea that dont starve embodies.
Worst case you just spin up a new instance, install and restore the backup. Won't take more than 1-2 hours (less if you have part of it automated).
Solar concentrators, yes. Or even cut out the steam completely and use the hot exhaust gas from the fire directly. Or combine the element into existing powerplants extracting high temperature and use the residual heat to run steam turbines.
I want to give ahrefs money but can't. India, RBI, credit card subscription rules.
Mountain rescue teams trial drone technology to find lost climbers
This type of thing scares the shit out of me everytime using cloud. The possibility of something idiotic happening and me losing my life savings is just too high.

That's why I use a cloud provider that doesn't charge for bandwidth usage and I use a fixed set of "stuff" such that I always know what my fee's should be.

I understand for big companies with millions of users they can't operate in that way but for me risk vs reward is too high.
Yup millions. Almost a new one every day....

Most are just one-off utilities to solve a problem. Some people would do them in bash, or python, or PowerShell. I do them in C#, because I know it well, and can code it without thinking...

A Few 'Big' programs I've written are:

- Custom SMTP server to proxy in front of an Exchange Server - ran 24/7 for over a decade until last year when I migrated to Exchange Online.

- Gopher Client for Windows which people actually use! [1]

- A application launcher/dock thing that sits at the top of my screen with drop down menus for apps sorted into categories, because I cannot stand the windows Start menu.

- A similarly useful transparent current-month calendar that sits in the bottom right of my screen at all times, which saves me having to click on the clock to find out what date 'next Wednesday' is etc.

- An RSS reader in PHP that I use multiple times a day. It's different to most others in that it only shows the current items in the live RSS feed for a site - it has no history. I prefer that, so I don't get anxiety with unread items.

A nice recent one that's only been in constant use for a few months is a Python script that dumps all the data from my weather station and logs it into a MariaDB table. I'm not doing anything with the data just yet, just collecting it. Once I have enough back history to play with, I'll write a web app to display it all nicely.

I could go on and on.... my 'Source Code' folder is massive, full of useful stuff, and half-written ideas.

Oh, and I'm actually not a programmer by trade,

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[1] http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...
Personally, I didn't find the conversation "honest", even loosely.
Overengineered Japanese Mechanical Pencils [video]
My first try to post in HackerNews, hoping this fits the spirit. I was amazed to see the features of these pencil pens.

Are these pencils common where you live? Here in Germany, they are known, but rather seldomly used...
I tried signing up without VPN and gave up after a few days. Credit card verification succeeded but it seems they need to manually upgrade your account. Support couldn't tell me how long that would take (system said 24h but took longer). And once that was done, you still can't order because you need to increase limits. I gave up at some point and went with another provider. Has been a long time that I've encountered a system that takes several days until they allow you to spend money.
I created a cronjon that automatically signs me up for gym classes.
A few ones, mostly scripts, a few personal webpages with a blogging platform, webscrappers and plugins for language learning in Anki, and a chatbot. For sure more software as part of software development which would be more likely "for work" than "for myself".

However very few of those pass the test of time, as it is hard and costly to maintain the quality of a comercial product which has invested the time in usability etc.

Software is a lot of work, but getting started is fun and people can achieve a lot within the few hours. The last touches is where the real greatest effort has to be brought in.