skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just curious, is there any financial compensation/support going to Richard Hipp with all of this money changing hands?

When I see these startups making a business that is so heavily based on open-source software (like Tailscale on top of Wireguard), I have to wonder what these companies do to actually support the author(s) of the software that so much of their company is based on.
yea, and you can play a pre-LoD mode as 'classic' when making a new char since then ...
My relatives have a similar type of bathroom scale.

When the button cell ran out, I popped in another one we had lying around.

One month later, the button cell was dead, after using the scale a handful of times. Obviously something was draining the button cell battery when the scale wasn't in use.

I could try and debug the scale, but given that even ten minutes of investigation would be more than the amount of time I spent using the scale in one year, I just decided to remove the button cell when the scale wasn't being used.

Two years later, that button cell still works in the scale...
I wish I had misread my sources[0], but unfortunately, 500000l per year per household really is in there.

From the relevant wikipedia article [1]:

"Many homes in Sacramento didn't have water meters until recently. They now are gradually being installed after [...] law mandating meters statewide by 2025." In other words: we pretend to care a little, but actually, we don't.

The famous French saying is more honest: "Après nous le déluge". Loosely translated: "We'll be long gone before the flooding starts.". Both very applicable and not at all...

What we shall tell the children?

[0] http://www.irwd.com/images/pdf/save-water/CaSingleFamilyWate...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California#Urban/resi...
Hamword: Wordle over Ham Radio
I think you have to pair the app. Otherwise anyone could control your thermostat, even from outside your front door.
Liquor, and the ability to sell it. So many places would go under if not for their ability to sell you marked up beer/cocktails. Now, depending on local it may be hard to get a liquor license (shout out New Jersey!!!) for a building and in others you may be able to sell drinks from a truck. But that's one major profit center advantage that building have over trucks.
On the other hand, basically all platforms of the last few years support hardware decoding of HEVC. nVidia does, Intel does, AMD does... so pretty much for every PC made in the last ~six or so years:

- You paid the royalties for HEVC, possibly multiple times

- It can almost certainly encode and decode HEVC without breaking a sweat

- You (practically) can't use it ("if it's not on the web, it's dead")
I'll add this: I don't know how to design and I don't have a designer.
GTA was so cool. Peak 90s edge. Nintendo was for kids PlayStation was going for the teenagers/young adults.
My suspicion is that the Russian weapons and munitions are fine, but that there isn't any coordination, integration, management, or planning. If I'm sitting at an S400, and I see a radar blip, I probably don't know if it's GA, commercial aviation, news helicopter, Russian military plane returning, or a Ukrainian drone. I just know something's flying.

This is all speculation based on how I expect the governments there work.

I suspect that if the Ukrainians wanted Russian munitions, they'd just need to wander over in Russian uniforms, and pick some up...
Is it possible that running a blog is not as easy as you think?
They ignore it because it's a non issue since. We do progressive pricing with all sorts of stuff and the amount of water needed to support a household is vastly different than a farm or other large scale operation.
How organizations can stay cozy and effective while working remotely
Yes, except for the strategic things like hitting AA, ships etc..
I use this daily for taking screen caps after I solve my daily Wordle.
Computers are everywhere, that trend is only increasing.
True power now and in the future is learning the languages that tell those computers to do what you want.

That ability gives you power, money, respect, but most importantly it lets you influence the world around you.

If you want any or all of those things study computers.
SQLite uses dynamic types? Is this an issue in practice, especially for large apps? Don't you lose guarantees about your data which makes it messy to handle on the backend?

Context from https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html: "SQLite uses a more general dynamic type system. In SQLite, the datatype of a value is associated with the value itself, not with its container. The dynamic type system of SQLite is backwards compatible with the more common static type systems of other database engines in the sense that SQL statements that work on statically typed databases work the same way in SQLite. However, the dynamic typing in SQLite allows it to do things which are not possible in traditional rigidly typed databases. Flexible typing is a feature of SQLite, not a bug."
Fittingly, that tree seems to mostly need a larger place to grow, much like the author.
I'm usually at my town $50 minimum and my last quarterly bill was for 100 cu.ft. So 3,000 gallons a year. I would say that of course I'm not there all the time--and pre-COVID I travelled a lot--but not true at the moment. I did grow up in a house with a poor water supply from a well so I probably have a lot of habits related to not running water unnecessarily. I agree it seems low but that's what the numbers say. (And, as I say, this is mostly just one person.)

I live in New England and haven't watered my lawn since it was established and rarely water gardens. Even if things can get a bit brown during the summer, they come back.
They definitely export their knowledge of working with sand and water: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2013/11/18/dutch-firm-agrees-...

And same company has other similar/related projects like: https://www.vanoord.com/en/updates/van-oord-awarded-land-rec...
> I would be surprised if this correlated with a large increase in derailments, as that would have a tremendous impact on average network speed and thus profit.

That would be true in a non-monopolistic situation, but it's well known from the investor side that what the railroads are doing around rates is driven by collusion and lack of regulation.

CSX stock was at $8 in 2016 and is at ~$33.50 now. There is no amount of throughput increase that could drive those financial results. You could lever up your cap structure with tons of debt (even 6-7x) and not even get close to this kind of return on equity.

Throughput doesn't matter when you have pricing power; in fact, abrupt drops in throughput make people even more desperate so that they can raise the freight rates even more.
I totally disagree. This is the mentality of defeatism. Instead, we should be trying to solve "Why is this not abundant" and use technology to stave off scarcity-driven society.

If this was 1960's, our society would get together, move earth and mountains and solve the problem. Today's generation of people are being taught to live a scarcity-driven life.

I will vote against any politician that wants to reduce the QoL but giving a pass to globalisation or unnecessary farming in the region that cannot support it. You shouldn't be growing Avocados in a water scarce region.

First remove your special interest groups that get a free pass for polluting the environment or using resources for their own interest by reducing citizen's QoL.
I worked at an art-tech company when the Salvator Mundi went on sale. It was one of the most exciting things in to happen in the art world during the 3 years I worked there. I got to go on a tour of the viewing room at Christie's to see the painting and learn about its history. I have no idea how to evaluate the claims of its attribution, but it's definitely a great story, no matter what. Hopefully it will go on exhibition again soon.
What an incredible irony that the world’s most regressive Islamic government buys a painting of Jesus by one of the world’s most famous artists; and that same government rules that, according to Islamic jurisprudence, a similar depiction of Mohammed would be a high crime worthy of severe punishment.
I wasn't making a value judgment about "ought to be", but rather an estimation that a politician has a hell of a lot more to lose by doing something unpopular than by doing nothing.

That's the sense in which doing nothing is a sensible default for a career politician who wishes to extend their career.
> the 'West' is helpless to support Ukraine because nobody has anything useful

Are we watching the same war?
It's not strictly "required"; you can just do things the old way; I don't even have DigiD, although quite a few services just assume you have it and will send you "post" over it, which I then can't read. It took me about a week of communicating and 15 emails with my health insurance to get them to send me post.
No more FED put ?

2016, QQQ = 100

2020 QQQ = 400

Why?

It actually very easy to understand the market behavior, just look at the charts.

And, you should decouple the company from the stock. A good company can have bad stock , what count for the stock market is what is priced in, not the actual performance.
Agreed. And the pluggable scheduling is still a key part of it, just doesn’t need to be a thing to get right out of the gate. I’m honestly mega excited that Loom is even a real thing that exists and that you can use.
Yes a decade ago this was the Firefox approach to h264 -- leverage OS/hardware support if available. Can confirm horrible experience for devs and viewers
With the required codec from the store, yes.
I've been reading Jason every day for the last 20-something years. I love his writing voice and his perspective on the world.

There's no other blog I read as consistently or as enthusiastically. I hope he gets the time out he needs from his sabbatical. I look forward to the next 20 years of reading his work.
This is an incredibly detailed study.
Especially the x-ray imaging showing a San Giovanni outline on the back.

I need to reread all of it once more!
I wouldn't recommend this personally, having had bad experiences with poor charge circuitry in integrated chargers like these (in my case it was in a 18650 battery). Get a good charger (e.g. eneloop), and then you can get generic rechargeable batteries incredibly inexpensively for it, without risking poor charge management causing overheating or battery failure.
People say everything (and everything should have user replaceable batteries).

I would not like a pacemaker with an off switch you can trigger by accident or have it have user replaceable batteries - seems dangerous to your health
Could you point to the words that I've used which left an impression that I think anything about Putin or Russia's recent actions are something desirable?

If I've somehow left that impression, I wish to correct it.
If it's on sale, it's on sale!
> A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that refers back to the subject of a sentence or clause. You can recognize a reflexive pronoun by its second half: they all end in -self or -selves. [...] Only the dual-purpose your* has two reflexive forms: singular yourself and plural yourselves. [...] But if you'd been typing in the late 1300s, themself would have been the default: it was the only version around until the mid-1400s. [...] Eventually, themselves became the only accepted form. But themself never fully disappeared.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/themself
This is a large part of what Rich Hickey emphasizes about Datomic, too. We're so used to the database being "over there" but it's actually very nice to have it locally. Datomic solves this in the context of a distributed database by having the read-only replicas local to client applications while the transaction-running parts are remote.
This sounds like schemalessness to me? serious "question".
In UK every power socket itself has a built in power switch.
NO gasp
That's actually correct versioning in Haskell. The Haskell ecosystem uses a different versioning convention from other ecosystems where the first two components of the version number signal breaking changes. For more details, see: https://pvp.haskell.org/
> SQLite isn't just on the same machine as your application, but actually built into your application process.

How is that different than whats commonly happening? Android and iOS do this... right? ... but its still accessing the filesystem to use it.

Am I missing something or is what they are describing just completely commonplace that is only interesting to people that use microservices and never knew what was normal.
It is often said that the USA Supreme Court is politicized because it is chosen by elected officials, whereas in Britain the recommendations for the high court are made by legalists, and therefore the British high court is less political.
Absolutely. In a more private setting, the reminder could be received with much more grace.
> the level of wealth disparity we're seeing is new

Is it, though?

Is it worse than between a serf and a king during the pre-industrial era? Is it worse than during the Gilded Age? I doubt it.
> Whatever form of organization you want to invent for a society, that will be a form of government.

What is the name for this ideology? It feels like it's the political version of Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism, but I've never seen it given a name before. I am of course interpreting this through a Bergerian/Luckmannian lens[1].

1. Specifically by way of "reification is the apprehension of the products of human activity as if they were something other than human products - such as facts of nature, results of cosmic laws, or manifestations of divine will." p 106 TSCoR http://perflensburg.se/Berger%20social-construction-of-reali...
There's something I don't understand, it says that the "data is next to the application", what does it mean? Where is stored and how is it accessed by the application?
Yeah, I'm saying he was not smart, nor was he resourceful. He was certainly mentally ill.

He didn't build a reactor. He didn't build an x-ray machine. No experiments took place. There was no scientific method employed. He took apart a bunch of smoke detectors. He irradiated his mother's back yard, and then he tried to do it again in an apartment building.

He wasn't a misunderstood savant.

The guy did nothing that should be emulated, lauded, or praised. He's a cautionary tale of untreated mental illness.
Update with some papers I found for anyone else curious:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2016.06.067

https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/water_pubs/59
> last week, Musk announced that Alwaleed will not be taking the $54.20. His Kingdom Holding Co. has agreed to keep its shares and roll them over into the new, Musk-owned Twitter. Incredibly, Elon Musk is finally going to take a public company private with Saudi funding.

This is one of the funniest Money Stuffs in a while. God I love reading Matt Levine.
I hear what you're saying, and I think it's true that some people react with hostility when confronted with some of this stuff, but separate from the actual values, this article describes a destructive and unproductive social dynamic. I think the most interesting bit is that the author describes similar cannibalistic dynamics happening in neo-nazi subcultures. Whether the values here are worthy is beside the point.

Questioning the moral standing of those who would criticize the dynamic itself isn't useful or worthwhile. It conflates interpersonal confrontation (useful, good, corrective, it's how we build each other up) with a zillion passersby hurling invective at a guy who, in this case, found it so troubling to have a mass of people condemn him on a moral spectrum that is very dear to him that he ended up suicidal.
Why did you pick a job you wouldn't do in your free time, doesn't that get tedious?
Note that most engineers in the US are not licensed (IIRC about ~20% are), are not liable for things like this, and do not carry such insurance.
I think the list is kinda biased. Among the 11 heroes featured so far, 5 are females. This almost certainly means that the list is manipulated for "representation", instead of sticking to the contributions people have made.

IMO, among the females in the list, only Grace Hopper and Ada Lovelace are clearly good choices. There's no way that Anita Borg and Lynn Conway are of the same caliber as Turing and Dijkstra.

Also, among the men, I think Steve Wilhite isn't really a good choice. The guys who came up with LZW compression probably deserve it more.
They are not flying a lot of missions. It was down to a few sorties a day.

Neither Air Force is spending a lot of time in hotly contested territory.

I suggest UKR AF is really just patrolling within the territory they control as a deterrent to Russian AF.

But neither spending a lot of time directly in each other's turf.

A bit sad UKR doesn't have better AA because Russia is flying a lot more sorties on their lines than they should be able to get away with. They are a bit too fast for MANPADs.
Yes. We (Fly.io) are buying a sqlite support agreement. We also send money WireGuard's way. I'm pretty sure Tailscale does too.

We have also given OSS authors advisor equity. A couple of folks wrote libraries that were important to keeping us going, and we've granted them shares the same way some startups would to MBA advisors.
Agricultural water is taking a growing percentage of the total in California. They are focing residential people to have to ration
I tried "typeof" and "is" and results were not what I wanted.

Is there indexing for language keywords?
NASA Releases Sharp Webb Space Telescope Images
I almost never have Finder open. I usually think "I want to create a spreadsheet" so I'll open Excel and then look for the document. Or I'll be doing some dev work so I'll navigate there in the terminal and then open code via `code .`

I think some of that habit might have stemmed from the fact that I don't like Finder much. I don't like the hotkeys (eg [ENTER] to rename), I don't like it's layout. As much as I disliked Microsoft's "lets turn explorer.exe into Internet Explorer", the editable address bar is actually really nice (you can see precisely where you are and quickly change it to where you want to be).

I'd say Dolphin (KDE) is probably the perfect file manager for me. It's got a terminal baked in (which automatically changes directories when you navigate in the GUI) so you can mix and match GUI and CLI operations. You can add tabs so your file manager can be used as a session (eg if you're working in multiple directories for a specific task or project, you can have one file manager instance open for that task but different tabs per directory). There's so much I love about it. But it's also the polar opposite of Finder, which might explain why I don't like Finder much.

I do completely agree with you about Gnome though.
That's a good point, something I am curious about now is the water costs of desert farming versus cattle ranching. Just wondering how close the gap actually is, I honestly want to say desert farming uses less resources than raising cattle for slaughter but I'm unsure and just guessing from the hip here.
Literally on the PDF ticket it says it is only valid when printed out in full or when loaded in the app that can only be gotten legally through google or apple.
Ask HN: Rewriting any popular Python project in C/Rust/Haskell is better?
The internet's sentiment is that anything that is written in one of the "better language" is inherently superior than anything that is written in Python. The better languages are - Rust, C, C++, Lisp, Haskell and maybe Fortran, Zig, D, Nim.

I have seen this idea constantly popup in most discussion relating to Python and mathematical programming. Numpy being written in C justifies itself to be above criticism of Python's inefficiencies.

I sometimes am not sure if it is programming elitism or a valid argument.

If it is a valid argument, is Python should only be used as tool for proof of concept? And when there is enough traction the existing codebase should be rewritten to one of those better languages? Have you rewritten your codebase in this way and if so what was your thought process behind it?
I love using Preview to make icon backgrounds transparent and to invert black/white icons. The transparency tool for Preview is significantly better than the Instant Alpha in Keynote, IMO.
Why should Free software advocates need to "do better" than to argue from literal first principles?

Fourier could call his transform a "process" all he wants, but that does not make it patentable.

So yes, "oh, math."
Amazing setup for amazing game ! Thanks for this post, i love to read you :-)
How do any writes end up on other horizontally scaled machines though? To me the whole point of a database on another machine is that it is the single point of truth that many horizontally scaled servers can write to and read each others' updates from. If you don't need that, you might as well read the entire dataset into memory and be done with it.

I know TFA says that you can "soon" automagically replicate your sqlite db to another server, but it only allows writes on a single server and all other will be readers. Now you need to think about how to move all write traffic to a single app server. All writes to that server will still take several milliseconds (possibly more, since S3 is eventually consistent) to propagate around all replicas.

In short, 100x latency improvement for reads is great but a bit of a red herring since if you have read-only traffic you don't need sqlite replication. If you do have write traffic, then routing it through S3 will definitely not give you a 100x latency improvement over Postgres or MySQL anymore. Litestream is definitely on my radar, but as a continuous backup system for small apps ("small" meaning it runs and will always run on a single box) rather than a wholesale replacement of traditional client-server databases.

PS: Congrats Ben!
We wish! Currently, the API is supported on Chrome 86+, Edge 86+ and Opera 72+: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System.... It's all quite new, and we hope other browsers will follow.
The USDA has a very different definition for "urban agriculture" than your claim of simply "fields between condos."

"Urban agriculture includes the cultivation, processing and distribution of agricultural products in urban and suburban areas. Community gardens, rooftop farms, hydroponic, aeroponic, and aquaponic facilities, and vertical production are all examples of urban agriculture."

https://www.usda.gov/topics/urban
The Developer of Amiberry, Dimitris Panokostas (a.k.a. WiDWaN) – Interview
I feel like antisemitism is making a comeback (if it ever really went away, although it seemed better for a while in the 90s and 00s). I attended a Bar Mitzvah recently, and they hired an off-duty cop to keep an eye on the doors. When I was young that was completely unheard of, but is sadly necessary today.

I hope that SUSE manages to turn things around, but it sounds like there’s a skunk in the C-suite that will take significant effort to flush out.
I love Preview. It was one of the reasons I switched to Mac back in 2010.

Another fun feature since we’re all sharing. This works across many native apps. Hold Option and drag to select a block of text. Handy for pulling numbers from a table.
Pretty sure this is by design when possible California prefers regressive taxes. Some good examples: gas tax, vehicle registration, highest sales tax in the country (7.25%) with most counties raising it even more, parcel taxes, etc.