skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things I am concerned about:

The radioactive core is moving and will eventually be in contact with the water. It may already be. Does anyone know?[1]

If a dump of water used for cooling is a concern (and it is for me personally and I am open to learning it is not), is our situation not far more grave given eventual contact with the water and this source multiplied by however many world water cycles of contact will occur over the crazy long half life that hot core has?

[1] I saw some discussion on this early on and struggle to find it and or current info I trust today. Hoping others here know more.
This is very much the spirit of 2022: You don't change anything, but a butterfly flaps their wings in Tokyo, and now your build is broken.
I have read your long comment and I'm less than convinced by any of your arguments.

Specifically, I would say that number three is mostly false. The companies that receive those contracts are not, at least in my experience, small local shops (and there is an argument that they should be), but instead big consulting companies that know the correct people and procedures.

>>"Alot of folks in government (including me when I was there) wanted to release our stuff as OSS, but there is only so far you can go with opensourcing modules that depend on SAP code, IBM code, or systems that are supplied by the federal government"

The point of the endeavor is precisely to change that.
Moreover, you can pair it with drift detection (available in i.e. Spacelift[0]), and have it automatically detect when a data source changes (and apply the resulting infra changes).

Very common scenario with lots of neat use cases around it. One of the more interesting ones - use a GitHub pull request listing data source to create an ephemeral environment for each PR.

Disclaimer: Software Engineer at Spacelift

[0]:https://spacelift.io
Well... It's just my own personal opinion, but writing Pulumi code (be it Go or Python) feels like I'm writing a program that emits some Terraform-like code (conceptually, not the actual shape) under the hood and runs an interpreter afterwards. I've used that mode of operation because I needed to continuously update infrastructure to match database updates - there's another and probably more mainstream option is that Pulumi runtime runs a language runtime for me which feels even weirder as my program is not really a program but just an oddly-linked library.

I haven't really looked under the hood but I strongly suspect I'm not that far away from truth. At some point I've seriously considered a question why I'm not just templating HCL directly rather than dealing with all those Pulumi oddities.

Either way it feels very different and pretty much alien.
Hi Greg, did you ever consider selling longer books with a higher price outside of Amazon? Maybe using the 9.99 ones to drive traffic to your pricier book/s.
How hard is it to code up a terraform provider if you haven't coded Go before?

I have been considering swapping some python scripts over to terraform but I'm concerned about the time it will take to learn Go and Terraform.

Anyone got some perspective on that?
Is this a negative or positive comment?

> Fake data is a safer approach, and tools exist to help in its creation.

Because the tool presented is exactly what this quote says.
Surely glass of warm water + ice cube is lower entropy state compared to melted icecube mixed in the water.
There is nothing wrong with making an airplane behave like the previous version. In fact, it enhances safety, as pilots can and do make errors when under stress they do the right thing for the wrong airplane. Making airplanes predictable and consistent with existing training is a safety enhancing practice.

I worked on the 757 design, which was designed concurrently with the 767. A lot of effort was made to make them behave in a common manner, even though they were quite different airplanes. This makes perfect sense.

It's the same reason the steering wheel and pedals on your car are laid out the same and do the same things across nearly all very diverse cars. And yes, carmakers adjust the handling characteristics to be predictable and not need the drivers to have additional training.
I believe there is a "second chance" queue that mods can put your article in for reposting later.
How to live longer – a programmer's guide
> it's a huge waste of resources peoples' liberties

Are you an actual resident in Asia or a Westerner armchair philosophizing what people in Asia actually want.

Here’s a glimpse from actual Asian people, from a democratic country. These people here are being polite and aren’t saying outright, but a sentiment expressed here that’s pretty common is Asian people thinks it’s admirable that Americans have individual liberty, and acknowledge there are pros and cons to that. If you actually understood Asian culture and why these countries have these policies, then you’d know it’s not really a compliment. In Asia, maybe / kind-of means no. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8ctmxV-yNhg

My partner is Taiwanese, and I am American. We moved Japan to during the pandemic because we don’t agree with the West and Americans’ attitude towards coronavirus. There is a lot of overlap between Taiwan and Japan, Taiwan being more “liberal” in some respects and Japan being conservative, but otherwise people from both countries on average prefer personal inconvenience for the collective good, especially given both of these cultures have a respect for the elderly.

We prefer what you call “draconian” measures. Let people who are residents in Asia deal with their governments. Who said people want liberty above all else? Freedom requires responsibility, and America hasn’t been for a while. Worry about the host of problems in America, because Asia is doing just fine.

People in the tourism industry are incentivized otherwise, but other people in Taiwan / Japan aren’t minding the inconveniences, so why are you? In fact, people are kind of enjoying the domestic venues without tourists, especially given the high propensity of Westerners who refuse to wear mask ( even when they are vaccinated ).
Ah that explains seamless migration from Heroku and support for Heroku postgres on fly.io. I appreciate not building subpar services just to show 'Yeah we have that too'.

My current strategy is to use Heroku to test waters, If the validation is successful then migrate to fly.io.
No, it's just ethically questionable.
Fixed for the entire duration of the mortgage, and at the rate the commenter mentioned?
While I do think the new kia logo is an improvement over the old one. Every time I see it I think its the Nine Inch Nails logo. I've never said it out loud but my wife mentioned the same thing to me one day.
> Your comments really come off as bitter.

That wasn't my intent. I have done my share of DevOps, it's not for me. Maybe SRE would be.

> I think this maybe just says more about the companies you've worked for than anything else.

Yes, it does :)

> The actual title is less important than the practice. It also goes by different names at different companies, example at FB it's called Production Engineer.

Absolutely. I'm just saying that I've worked with people titling themselves SRE who aren't doing the stuff of that methodology. When last years DevOps team starts styling themselves as SREs but nothing else changes, then they have definitely missed the point about the methodology being the thing that matters!

It's not just those teams, of course! There are plenty of "fullstack engineers" who wrote a Node function one time.

> By the way Brendan Gregg is a Performance Engineer not an SRE. I believe that's been his title for close to 20 years, according to the the bio in his books. I don't believe he has ever had the title SRE.

This seems to be true, but he's spoken at SRE events on "my SRE work at Netflix".
Which country, if you don't mind me asking?
The prototypical HN poster.. this site sucks nowadays
TLDR: It's Postgres.

(I don't have any big opinions about the effort, I just wanted to hear what was the database chosen that was able to track all different data formats... and it could have been sexier, but yes - Postgres would do.)
Labour market is tight because after covid people are not willing to work at many jobs at the peanuts they were paid for before nor are they willing to change the work life balance they would need to sacrifice for these jobs.
It's normal to feel overwhelmed by the amount of information that's thrown at you, especially in this day and age. But here's some good news:

You can control how much information you're exposed to! It can be as simple as deleting a bunch of social media apps from your phone, or setting up filters so that only the emails you actually want are coming into your inbox.

Or maybe you just need a break from the internet entirely. Invite your friends over for a game night, or read a book. Whatever it is, taking time to step away from the information overload can help you reconnect with what matters most to you.
Why can't you just put an index on the filename?

I've never worked with that much data myself, but a lot of people seem to be doing fine with 10+ GB sqlite databases.
This doesn't sound like passive income as I understand the term. Writing a book is a ton of hard work, compared to, say, buying and renting out a house.
No argument. But I see this as vindication.

ISPs are now so sensitive to not allowing spammers that the RBLs can't make money from it anymore.
yeah, except for tiny electricaly movable surfaces that can vibrate too... the other haptic gloves that already give high fidelity haptics do it with micro pumps and also tiny bubbles...

i would love to have the time and material to experiment with this... but i dont and wont :shrug:
Arstechnica really has a peculiar demographic and I heavily disagree with the general sentiment. Former or current content moderators maybe? Would explain the mental exhaustion.

I guess people will have to register under their real name with Twitter in the future. I doubt it will improve that platform and people should not underestimated the leverage some countries have on Musk. He build factories in a number of them and I guess if they don't like the compliance of Twitter, they will retaliate here.

He already said that the right will be unhappy too and I guess it is regarding Twitter very closely cooperating with state authorities and Musk will provide them access to user data. I don't have a twitter account but I think the influence from Twitter is toxic and negative on politics so you have some engagement if you want or not. But anonymous platforms are still the preferable for real discussions.
I think companies that focus on a specific use case or problem where there is a strong value proposition will be the ones that do well in a recession. For example, when you have less money, what are you going to invest in? Probably not something that does everything for you. So I'd expect to see some very niche products and tools take off.
I think struct-of-arrays in this case would mean putting all the keys in one array and the values in a parallel array.
In the UK it's very common, albeit not for 30 years - more often 2, 5, or 10. See e.g.

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/bank-overground/2020/why-are...

(In 2020, more than half of new mortgages were fixed for 5 years or more.)
Isn’t it the same all over U.S.? Even here in the Bay Area I only need to wear a mask on public transport. Everything else is optional.
Yeah, "not a shitshow" seems like it depends on the eventual outcome here. It may be very well organized but if the virus ultimately wins then couldn't it be called a shitshow retroactively?
I'm pulling a late-nighter decommissioning stuff and I stumble across your post. Thank you for the inspiration I needed for a new income stream! Please inbox me I believe we have a few commonalities. Or don't I won't be offended. I needed a little kick in the zen.
Just seems utterly absurd. No one really cares about this stuff anymore in my country. Even the test center down the road fashioned from temporary buildings is sitting empty. Only about 10% are still wearing masks on the train anymore.
Netherlands!

FYI: https://www.independer.nl/hypotheek/rente.aspx
>Russia has been faring so much worse than any observer would've guessed

Ehh...not everyone. In 2020 there was a little-commented-on war[1], at least in the mainstream press, that saw the first widespread use of drone technology in a peer conflict. Lots of folks who pay attention to this stuff suspected that, at some point, we'd see something similar in a larger war with how new technology affected tactical outcomes. Plus, Russian doctrine appears to have stayed largely static since the days of Soviet Union (massed tank columns, massed artillery, infantry moves in later to pick off what's left). That particular doctrine seems (imo) to be uniquely weak against a modern battlefield that's packed with sensors. Everyone knows, generally speaking, where everything is now so things are telegraphed ahead of time pretty easily. So I guess what I'm saying is this isn't really that surprising.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nagorno-Karabakh_war
The JAMStack (JavaScript, APIs, and Markup) is a web architecture that was born out of the need for faster development and better performance. A JAMStack site/application is designed to be as fast as possible, and to be built with a wide variety of different technologies--which makes it easier for developers to build sites without having spent years learning a certain technology.

One of the main differences between JAMStack and SPAs with SSR (Single-page applications with server-side rendering) is that JAMStack sites are pre-rendered rather than rendered on the fly by servers. This means that they can't use any dynamic content on the page—everything must be done when the page is pre-rendered. This makes them much faster since they don't have to make requests to servers in order to render pages after they're loaded in the browser.

That doesn't mean you can't use dynamic content on your site, though! You just need to pull it in after your app loads using APIs. That way you get the best of both worlds: a fast-loading site that pulls in dynamic data when it needs to through APIs.
I like that view. Most things are shit nowadays and everybody is sick of it. You get pissed on, and then you piss on somebody else because why wouldn't you? Nobody is caring for you, why will you spend the little amount of mhntal resources you have left to care for someone else?

It's toxic but it's the direction the world is moving to as long as the people in power keep choking their underlings and taking away every piece of joy they ever had.
And compared to a couple of years ago, that's really expensive.

The mortgage we took out two years ago (2 year fix, ~60% LTV) had a introductory rate of 1.2%.

That falls back to 3.something variable in September. We'll probably look for another fixed but current 2yr fixed rates seem to be around 2.3% (plus a £1k application). That's an uncomfortable increase on a big loan.

What's interesting is the rates on bigger loans (eg 90% LTV) aren't much more (2.4%+application). That's not what I'd expect a bank to offer if they expected a bursting bubble.
> Every building and storefront had a QR code posted at the entrance for contact tracing, and people took care to scan it and text the central authority before going inside. Woe unto those who forgot their cell phone!

As sensational and exciting as it might feel to write that, it's misleading. If you don't have your cell phone, you just grab a pen and fill out your phone number and the time on one of the cards they have right inside the door. Every place of business that has a QR code to scan also has the paper and pen option.

I've filled in quite a few over the past couple of years when going to a convenience store after a workout.

Considering it avoided both a mass outbreak and lockdowns, I'd say the system has worked out very well. There was some interesting work on making it maximally privacy-preserving, too!
Have people that have grown out of heroku considered more dull but battle-tested solutions like CloudFoundry where you run a buildpack driven heroku-like abstraction on top of your own cloud provider (or whatever you want really)?

Very widely used by enterprise, but also free and open-source.
> all the successful authors who spoke about their experience all expressed similar struggles.

Definitely not true.

Some people really don’t have those sorts of struggles.

It doesn’t mean that those who do need to push themselves shouldn’t write/paint/code/swim/whatever, or that the results of their effort are of any lesser quality, or that they’re not in highly esteemed company.

It just means that people have different processes and motivations and drives, and that there are many paths that lead to comparable accomplishment.

To say otherwise isn’t entirely the encouragement I think you’re trying to offer. It’s denying the reality of other people’s lived experience.
My experience writing a 1,200 page technical book was similar to xrd's. It was worth it in the end but I'm not doing it again either. Jerry Seinfeld's "Don't break the chain" is good. I did take days off though (on average, 1 a week). I found this book very helpful even though the genre of book was radically different: https://www.amazon.com/2k-10k-Writing-Faster-Better-ebook/dp...
No. That’s not the case. I had a fixed rate mortgage in the UK. Now I have one in Ireland. Two of my colleagues have taken them in the last couple of months. They’re very common. But.. in both countries such terms are for a relatively short period. E.g 5 years fixed changing to SVR for the remainder of the loan. I haven’t heard of loans fixed for the entire duration. I would’ve got one if I had found it.

I can’t speak for the rest of Europe. It’s a big place you know.
Due to QE central bank bought stock from private equity - and private equity used thia money to buy homes.
Not OP but you don't have contact info in your profile
I used to work for Microsoft and our team's morning rant (on Whatsapp) would start with MS Teams not working. Often meetings would be stopped because Teams hung up for the person who was presenting. And the Teams/Skype Infra team were the slowest in the world to respond to any requests!
"Zero Covid" is only possible until, well, it's not possible. Look at China and their incredibly draconian CCP locking people down in Shanghai in their small apartments for a month (and ongoing). Are they going to do this every single time there is a covid outbreak? It's insanity, but the CCP will probably not want to admit they're wrong.
Who are "we" in your comment?
And you can't ask the butterfly anything unless you sign an NDA.
Mine is fixed for 20 on a 30 year mortgage but you can always choose between variable, 10 year fixed, 20 year or 30 year.

Mortgages are (almost) always 30 years duration.

I don't know what country in Europe you can't get fixed rates but it's not the Netherlands, that I know for sure. (Also there really isn't a 'Europe' for these things, every country is different)
No, no. It's the foreigners' fault. Hypocrisy and xenophobia will fix everything without having to create actually livable cities where people aren't slaves to cars.
In short: the authors make a good summary of these ideas:

- Entropy in thermodynamic equilibrium is well understood. The early theory (before statistical mechanics was developed) fits well with our modern understanding.

- The analogies made about entropy are not always good and indeed, if you try to match the physics with "entropy is disorder" it does not always work.

- In non-equilibrium situations it is, as the author points out, more complex.

Regarding the last item, even Stephen Hawking postulated some strange ideas about the universe having to rewind past some point in time, so that the big crush would be the mirror of the big bang.
Anyone who think they understand entropy is living in a state of sin.
something being prohibited or not doesn't really change the root cause :P. just click bait i guess. lots of things can cause sparks.
Ah right, thanks, that makes sense.
>Contrary to popular opinion, uniformly distributed matter is unstable when interactions are dominated by gravity (Jeans instability) and is actually the least likely state, thus with very low entropy. Most probable states, with high-entropy, are those where matter is all lumped together in massive objects.

That means over time the system becomes more ordered and starts organizing itself into spheres.

I once brought this question up on physics stack exchange and basically the answers were either some form of rolling their eyes at me or dismissing me outright. The people who did answer the question stated that as particles organize themselves into spheres some other part of the universe gets hotter as a result and that the seemingly self organization I see going on with the solar system was just an isolated system.

This answer still seemed far fetched to me. It still looks as if some overall self organization is still going on if the universe gets hotter on one side and matter gets organized into solar systems on another side.

It took me 3 years to somewhat understand what entropy is. If you have loaded dice that always roll 6s then the dice rolling ALL 6s is the highest entropic state. rolling Random numbers would then be a low entropy state.

Entropy is simply a phenomenon of probability. As time moves forward, particles enter high probability configurations. Like rolling dice. As you roll dice more and more... rolling random numbers has a higher probability then rolling all 6s...

It just so happens that disordered arrangements happen to have higher probabilities in most systems. But if you look at a system of loaded dice or the solar system... in those cases Ordered configurations have higher probabilities. That's really all it is. The entire phenomenon of entropy comes down to probability and the root of probability is the law of large numbers.
In the cloud, resources are allocated and deallocated on the fly — servers are constantly being started and stopped or replaced with other instances. The cloud provider does not know in advance when a resource will be requested or released.

This introduces a delay between the moment a cost is incurred and the moment it is billed. This delay can be of several hours or even days, depending on the billing frequency (hourly, daily, monthly).

For example:

- You start an instance at 10am. You are billed for it from 10am to 11am. You stop the instance at 11:05am. The charge should be removed from the bill at 12pm (because bills are generated hourly). If you look at your bill at 11:05am though, you will still see a charge for an hour of usage, since your bill has not been updated yet. If you want to check if your charges were correctly applied to your bill, you will have to wait until 12pm to look at your bill again.

Because of this delay, cloud providers cannot show your consumption / cost in real time: they would either show incorrect information (if they use billing data) or make you wait until they have updated their bills (if they use raw usage data).
> VR is always amazing at first but it hasn’t had a lasting use case for most people I own that own it.

Fair, but I was meaning more of what's coming down the pipeline. Five to ten years of Meta money committed to the "metaverse" - the might address some of those issues ("no-one else is on it" probably being one of them)

> Furthermore, Apple is really well positioned for AR, which may be more adoptable than full on VR

Maybe? No-one's seen their rumoured device. Meta's way ahead in terms of actual adoption today (even if it's VR and not AR). I hope Apple does something awesome, but it remains to be seen. And it's hard to imagine the Oculus team at Meta couldn't do AR if they were asked to.
> There is some risk of the pendulum swinging too far the other way

No, no, no, no! There is no „too much safety“ when we are talking about airplanes.