skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Fake it till you make It" implies when you make it, stop faking it.

We apparently didn't "make it" enough so had to keep faking after 2008. Now, we apparently think we can live on fake forever but the universe will likely not oblige.

Look at the world. The massive amount of people coming online. The pressure on resources this causes. The diminishing low hanging fruit (oil, water, fertilizer etc). The democratization of knowledge around the globe leading to technical talent in places besides the West and their close acolytes. The broken nature of Western BigCos many of which are one step above Soviet factories at this point in terms of actual efficiency, worker buy in and productive honesty.

I don't know what happens from here, but do believe is we are at the cusp of a radical paradigm shift over the next decade. The next 100 years in the West don't look like the last 100 in which Western companies and their captive governments ran the globe unchallenged.

Maybe I'm a cynic and a pessimist but have zero desire to invest in indexes of ossified Western big company stocks at the moment. Their paper value (in my mind) generally doesn't support their true value and potential earnings going forward. Now, there are no doubt some winners in the bunch and when things settle they are worth picking through. The US still has a lot of potential but so much faking it backed up with regime change military/intelligence ops instead of encouraging productivity and innovation has to be sorted out first to give a stable platform for growth again. We have much further to fall in my opinion before stability is achieved, and I'm not tossing dice in expectation of a reward on that right now. And that includes things like the obscene housing ponzi. It has to wash out and return to a stable base.

Other people might feel differently and they might be right. I thought the same things in 2006 and people with more faith made a lot of money but eventually reality catches up, and perhaps this decade is that time. I'm not a person to bet it isn't.
I don't understand how you can use cryptocurrency as backing for a stable coin. Just as a matter of definition, if your stable coin is meant to be worth $1USD then your backing fluctuates with the price of the crypto that backs your stable coin. And to make matters worse, when BTC drops in value that's likely because there's a net outflow from BTC back into fiat, which is going to occur at the exact time that people want to redeem their USDT for their actual USD. So at the time that you're most in need of liquid collateral, you're least well collateralized. The only way I see this working is if you're not net long crypto, which I guess is possible but gives you heaps of market risk.
I wonder if we'll ever see an embedded version of PostgreSQL?
Note that the popular Node.js ORM Prisma does not support WAL.

https://github.com/prisma/prisma/issues/3303
official twitter update from terra https://twitter.com/terra_money/status/1523749536379793408
We like rqlite a lot. There's some comments in your issue tracker from Jerome about it at the time. The decision wasn't against rqlite as a piece of software so much as it was us deliberately deciding not to introduce more Raft into our architecture; any place there is Raft, we're concerned we'll essentially need to train our whole on-call rotation on how to handle issues.

The annoying thing about global consensus is that the operational problems tend to be global as well; we had an outage last night (correlated disk failure on 3 different machines!) in Chicago, and it slowed down deploys all the way to Sydney, essentially because of invariants maintained by a global Raft consensus and fed in part from malfunctioning machines.

I think rqlite would make a lot of sense for us for applications where we run multiple regional clusters; it's just that our problems today tend to be global. We're not just looking for opportunities to rip Raft out of our stack; we're also trying to build APIs that regionalize nicely. In nicely-regionalized, contained settings, rqlite might work a treat for us.
What I don't get is that my phone doesn't have a windows OS. It has an Android OS. Like yours, it should not need a reset. Let alone three. So what's up with all those resets?
>I dont believe we are near the limit yet.

On what basis? We are already objectively destroying this planet with absolutely no meaningful action being taken to change, much less reverse course. At this point we will be incredibly lucky if we even manage to sustain a technological civilization long enough to settle other planets.
"Why are we still writing HTML by hand? Could we do that visually instead, and have that kind of immediate connection with our app?"

It seems to me there's a rich answer to that question. It's not a good one per se, but it's a lot richer than meets the eye.

I've used any number of live HTML coders, going all the way back to the 20th century. (Dreamweaver, for instance, goes back to 1997!) But they always seem to suffer from the same problem for coders: They don't just take the HTML on the screen and then make it something you can use in code, because they always end up with a foreign model laid on top of them.

That is, for instance, you don't click the "center" button and get just the <center> tag added, or the correct CSS attribute, or dream of dreams, get center added to the "correct" CSS style. (Though that's starting to ask for a lot there, since multiple could be in effect.) The graphical editor invariably turns into a piece of software that receives that you want to "center" something and the "interprets" that in a way the manager for the product believes you "meant" for that command to mean. This generally involves spans and divs being thrown about willy-nilly as the programmers internally struggle to implement this vision in a way that works with HTML all the time. The crazier the manager setting the direction gets, the crazier the program gets. They start asking for things essentially impossible in HTML (or at least until recently), like, let me add this image with transparency and flow the text around the border rather than rectilinearly. The managers don't want their bullet-point feature list to be confined to merely what is good in HTML. They need more shiny flashy features! So, in this case, you probably end up with the text hard-laid out, losing all reflow capability, since that's all that was possible.

Run through a few iterations of "features" like that, and the resulting HTML is a monstrosity and useless to programmers. FrontPage was notorious for that sort of thing. Back when people still cared if you could hit "View Source" and learn something about how the page worked, FrontPage was something that made you groan... the sea of HTML looked like, well, what it looked like was a lot like a lot of modern pages, honestly! Only with a lot more "style=" attributes.

It would be interesting to build an HTML editor that worked like the Inspect mode. With enough source map support, you might just be able to scrape it all together now. UI will still be a bit klunky when it comes to "what CSS rule did you want to add this change to?", and whether it can integrate with every glorious CSS framework out there I don't know. But it might just about be able to work.
One of my biggest annoyances is that, for whatever reason, Nest and ecobee haven't continued to expand their thermostats to support more sophisticated HVAC setups. I recently updated to a variable speed furnace (just the furnace, not the AC) and the Trane thermostat is complete shit, exactly what you'd think a "smart" thermostat made by an HVAC company would be. But I can't replace it because the third-party thermostats don't support variable speed furnaces, humidity systems, or electronic air filters. Why?
>>> the plant is listing so badly to one side that the whole thing tips over without the weight of water in the pot

It is listing towards the light of the window. All trees do it. Give it a 180 deg rotation and maybe it will straighten up. Good luck.
You are completely right. I have never gotten HW accel to work in ANY browser. It's honestly baffling that hobby project level video player get this to work without a hitch but Google and Mozilla can't. Even of decades.
It’s becoming unbearable that every issue facing society is the consumers fault. I take a ten minute shower and I’m destroying the world but the farmer growing crops that wouldn’t exist in the region without imported water is fine.

I realize we can fix more than one thing but the arguments i am always seeing is stating the consumer is the biggest issue and it’s infuriating.
Just make the first 3-4000 gallons at typical rates, and ramp the price way up over said threshold.

Water companies already charge gallon prices by usage today, just not to any deterrent extent.
The problem with using AA against drones is that saturating an area with very cheap drones is a great way to depleting the AA resources, as the Armenians unfortunately found out.
I think you're missing the point of the conversation up-thread. OP is pointing out that 53' trailers are actually already banned, but the ban is not enforced. GP suggested that enforcing the ban would bring the city to a halt. The OP provides a discussion of an alternative that could be used if the 53' trailer ban was enforced.

> 26' box trucks already exist and could be used, but aren't for a reason.

Right, at least partly because the ban on 53' trailers is not enforced. Nobody is claiming that these smaller trucks are strictly better in the current market environment (including the assumption that the ban is not enforced). This thread is discussing what would happen if the 53' truck ban was enforced.

Your analogy doesn't make sense in this context. Neither C++ nor Javascript are banned. To fix your analogy, try this: If you banned C++ (and enforced the ban) in NYC, then you'd expect to see an increase in use of JS and other languages. Programming would not grind to a halt, if you gave enough notice then the pieces currently implemented in C++ would be re-implemented in another language.
Ask HN: Why is the market favouring companies with FCF?
Every company in tech is getting hammered in the stock market. I keep hearing that companies with high free cash flow are being favoured and the market is punishing companies that are poorly optimised for FCF.

Why has this sudden shift happened? Hasn’t it been obvious that interest rates will rise eventually?

Looking for some insight and plausible explanations. Predicting and understanding market behaviour can be like reading tea leaves but I still think there’s some value/signal in discussions.
That's not font fatigue. That means the font designers did their job.

You're not supposed to be able to tell if a font is new or not (unless you work as a typographer or graphics designer)

You should ask yourself: is the text legible, does it make reading easier? Does it add a bit of visual interest or flatten visual interest (ie fades into the background) depending on what the design calls for?

Those are the important questions. As to whether a font is new or not, if you are a typographer, then that is your bread and butter. I had a friend who's a typographer and they would be able to point out all the ways Helvetica is different from Helvetica Neue (and talk about it for hours and days on end), for example:

https://creativepro.com/helvetica-vs-neue-helvetica-same-but...
Maybe some janitorial work, cleaning toilets, cleaning cess pits. Ofc, plumbing, electrical, carpentry, road work, list goes on and on. Maybe also teaching various subjects like, math, physics and chemistry, Just to get some basic understanding of world.
This story makes me feel ill every time it surfaces.
Sure, that's all bad stuff, I agree.

But cross a picket-line or hire on as a scab during a strike in a small town and you'd best watch your back... hence the motivation for the "wear a helmet" comment. My hometown was founded on steel and railroads and I knew of more than one person growing up that got jumped for not toeing the line and playing ball with the union.
How's this lesson been taught since then?
Meet the California Couple Who Uses More Water Than Every Home in Los Angeles Combined

How megafarmers Lynda and Stewart Resnick built their billion-dollar empire.

https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/08/lynda-stewar...

Having shrewdly maneuvered the backroom politics of California’s byzantine water rules, they are now thought to consume more of the state’s water than any other family, farm, or company. They control more of it in some years than what’s used by the residents of Los Angeles and the entire San Francisco Bay Area combined.

[...]

Their land came with decades-old contracts with the state and federal government that allow them to purchase water piped south by state canals. The Kern Water Bank gave them the ability to store this water and sell it back to the state at a premium in times of drought. According to an investigation by the Contra Costa Times, between 2000 and 2007 the Resnicks bought water for potentially as little as $28 per acre-foot (the amount needed to cover one acre in one foot of water) and then sold it for as much as $196 per acre-foot to the state, which used it to supply other farmers whose Delta supply had been previously curtailed. The couple pocketed more than $30 million in the process.
Wow Litestream sounds really interesting to me. I was just starting on an architecture, that was either stupid or genius, of using many SQLite databases on the server. Each user's account gets their own SQLite file. So the service's horizontal scaling is good (similar to the horizontal scaling of a document DB), and it naturally mitigates data leaks/injections. Also opens up a few neat tricks like the ability to do blue/green rollouts for schema changes. Anyway Litestream seems pretty ideal for that, will be checking it out!
Not sure what the downvotes are for. I live here and I worry about what happens if I buy a new house (which is ridiculously expensive nowadays — like 3x-4x more expensive than just 5 years ago) — will I be able to sell it in 30 years when people start worrying about 30% of the country flooding in another 30 years? It's not some nutjob idea that only I have, the newspapers have written about how the market currently completely ignores the issue: https://www.trouw.nl/duurzaamheid-natuur/wanneer-zullen-klim... In my pension plans I already planned for the worse by assuming that my house will be devalued by 50% rather than having risen in value.

jacquesm seems to believe that we have a solution. That's not the sentiment being brought forward by the newspapers. Even reputable newspapers are like "this time we're really screwed, we can't win this one". I'm not a water management expert so I don't know any better than what I hear, but I've yet to hear from someone authoritative that it's going to be okay — the authorities just seem to be quiet on this issue. That really doesn't help me with my long-term plans.
> If you start charging $20/CCF instead of $5/CCF to fill an olympic-sized swimming pool, immigration into California might come to a screeching halt.

1.33 CCF = 1000 gallons.

So $20/1 CCF = $26.6/1000 gallons.

It's already near those rates, my water bill which I paid last week was roughly ~$20 per 1000 gallons.
This story always reminds me of the Nth Country Experiment, from 1964, where the United States wondered how long it would take a country to design a nuclear weapon, starting from no particular expertise or classified access. One answer, they learned, was three new physics PhDs and two and half years. I don't know if that's when the US started focusing on enriched uranium, but that is really the only limiting factor in the whole deal.
A suspicious person would think they're billing by the actual seconds and dividing the total amount of actual seconds by the budgeted seconds in the ad to bump up the ad impressions.

But I'm not that guy.
> all code goes under Apache 2 to maximise freedom of people to use that code for any purpose

GPL do not prevent using the code for commercial reasons, does it? IIRC, it just ensure that any derivative work is open-sourced as well. Which I would like to.

> rather than getting glory for it

It's really not about the glory, but more about ensuring that work done on the compiler can come back upstream, so that every one can benefit from it.

Usually I don't mind it, but in this case, if someone can do this better than me, I'd love to be able to learn from it.
The alfalfa must flow.
Food-miles sound good, but the reality of modern shipping is that it takes far less energy to move food than grow it. The carbon/energy cost of bringing a plant product from a hot country to a cold country is far less than the energy needed to grow that product in a cold country. That's why nobody grows bananas in new york. We could, but the cost/energy to do so is hugely more than the energy to ship bananas from place where they grow easily.

If we want to address global climate change, then we need to look into minimizing total energy put into things like food. Often that will mean growing things where they can grow most easily, with the least amount of energy. A banana brought thousands of miles by very efficient transport is more sustainable than grown in an ill-suited climate through the application of energy-expensive heat/light etc. Distance is not everything.
You could have done (a better job). But that is uncertain, and untestable. Nobody can prove you are wrong when you say so. But not a lot of people will believe you either. Or they say yeah maybe. As to the previous president, I believe you. :-)
Imagine being the one that thought "no one will ever find this at the bottom of the lake!"
https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022141

Here are the NAY votes.
"acre-foot"

I mean it's not Beard-seconds but not far off.
Climate change is bad, and is caused by man produced Green House Gas / Carbon / Co2 emissions (OK, you know this).

IT and digital services direct impacts are accounting for a small but growing part of the GHG emissions.

In this fight, every degree counts, so we need to lower those impacts.

To do so, we must assess them first, idealy at the corporation level.

But this is a difficult task, as we do not yet have the right methodologies, data and tools.

[Boavizta](https://boavizta.org/en) is a non profit work group of 130+ people working exactly on those issues.

Today, we're launching an open source API to assess the environmental impacts of IT infrastructures and cloud services.

You can read more [here](https://boavizta.org/en/blog/boavizta-api-automated-evaluati...), check the documentation [here](https://doc.api.boavizta.org), and check the github [here](https://github.com/boavizta/boaviztapi).

The project is still early stage, but we're very enthusiastic about it, and have lot of features on our roadmap.

So, if you wanna fight climate change, and have a few hours available to help on methodologies / data / code, check it out!
>"One acre-foot, about 326,000 gallons (1.23 million liters), is enough water to supply one or two households for a year"

Did anybody else find this number astounding? That's 3370 litres PER DAY per household. Assuming this numberis accurate, this is not people living in condos. This is people watering their lawn daily, filling their backyard pools, liberally washing their cars every week. I think the water crisis will be an easy fix as soon as the immediacy of the problem causes people to accept higher pricing. No other incentive will eliminate the lunacy which is watering lawns and every-backyard pools in the deserts of Utah, Nevada, and Southern California.
That's true, but there are also engineering principles at play unrelated to probability. If I squeeze a piece of hard spaghetti on it's ends, would it be easier to break a 20cm piece of spaghetti or a 1cm piece of spaghetti? 20cm, obviously, and that same principle applies with trains. Longer trains are harder to stop, harder to control, less robust to disturbances. Likewise, if I squeeze a piece of soft spaghetti on its ends, it's harder to predict how it will bend if it's really long than if it's really short. You won't see a 1cm piece of spaghetti contort itself into loops, but a 20cm piece certainly will.
Not to get too far into the weeds here, but Eric Adams, the black mayor of NYC who was formerly a police officer, was certainly not voted in by either the religious right or the ivory tower left.
How the Troubled Salton Sea Could Become the World’s Largest Lithium Supplier
Or, more simply, you can just consume the product as produced, or not.
Now that CW is Apache licensed, does it make AWS “do it’s thing” more likely?
Right, take out a mortgage. That is tax deductible
First, 1999 was a generation ago (about 25 years). Priorities are allowed to change in a generation, in this case for the better. Sorry that your first response to drawing a line at bombing schools, bridges, busses in Ukraine is to shout 'what about...' instead of to be glad people are willing to you know, be against bombing schools, bridges, and busses in at least one situation.

Second, do you believe in preventative maintenance? In this case, Ukraine is preventative maintenance for future actions Russia will take (Russia has already shown from 2014 to now that it will make a peace deal, build strength, and attack again) that will result in more lives lost and worse economic impact. While the price is painful now, it is much less than it would be in 10 years.

Third, what countries meet the definition of being occupied by European/American/NATO soldiers in Europe? Definition: control and possession of hostile territory that enables an invading nation to establish military government against an enemy or martial law against rebels or insurrectionists in its own territory. Your twisting of you know, the actual meaning of words shows your comment is nothing but propaganda, in this case propaganda promoting the bombing of schools, bridges, busses and trains full of people because it has been done in the past and appeasing violence because it impacts your pocket book.
H.265 works for me in Firefox using hardware acceleration via VA-API.
A 3D model of the Boxford Mosaic
There used to be quite a few pay-phones…
Then why complain? I don’t complain about how crappy public access cable tv is (ie YouTube). I just don’t watch crappy public access TV.
Foone doesn't submit his threads here and he doesn't charge for them.

You're not an intended consumer.
Good solution probably, to vent of some steam, but otherwise there are a million things I would rather do, than fighting windmills.
My experiences with the immigration process lead me to believe that immigration policy is more about maintaining status quo systematic-racism for political reasons, than it is about economics
Fly is putting together a pretty great team and interesting tech stack. It's the service I see as a true disruptor to Heroku because it's doing something novel (not just cheaper).

I'm still a little murky on the tradeoffs with Fly (and litestream). @ben / @fly, you should write a tutorial on hosting a todo app using rails with litestream and any expected hurdles at different levels of scale (maybe comparing to Heroku).
I was consulting at BP back in 2002 - even back then the health and safety environment inside their offices (I was all over the world with them) was the same as their oil rigs ... no trip hazards go unreported, always hold the handrails, always cover a hot drink, no calls in the car even with handsfree, very low speed-limits (with cameras) on-site etc - it's lived with me all my days and is very valuable safety advice TBH - none of it was theatre.

Also, every meeting would start with a safety announcement, all fire exits would be noted etc. I've also worked for BHP in Oz and it was exactly the same - drill this into everyone and the risk of an accident is reduced
Two words: HTTP compression