skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Climate-Driven Decline of Tiny Dryland Lichens Could Have Big Global Impacts
Let's encrypt
Doesn't sound like that protects against power failure.

Most databases I use keep a write-ahead log, which guards against power failure without requiring an external service. Multiple writes are handled without an issue. If power is lost, the database recovers automatically using whatever is on disk, no matter when it was interrupted.

So a file system snapshot behaves the same and the database can start up from the snapshot even if it was taken at an arbitrary point mid-write.
If you equate Musk with Holmes I cannot take anything you say seriously. Wishful thinking at is finest.
from the readme section:

"This is what mechanical keyboard users deserve" -- super guy

Ouch
> FISH - mainly because of it's excellent auto-completion that displays as you type.

Said functionality for zsh:

* https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions
Because that would require porting all their code. The syntax is similar, but they're different languages (and I'm saying that as a person usually mentioning they're not that different). At their scale even updating to a new minor version of Ruby and fixing all warnings is likely a multi-day adventure. Moving to different Ruby runtime would take weeks/months. Moving to crystal would be effectively a rewrite from scratch.
I don’t think there is a reason to think that we are close to any limit. I agree that progress is not linear.
A Useful Stablecoin Analysis
Thanks for this reply.
I'm guessing the first two points are the most important?
And I would have hoped that after 2 years of planning, China could have figured out a lot of ways to improve 1. They certainly have some workforces who have been obligated to live at their workplace, with regular testing.

For 3-5, even if "lock down for 3 weeks" can't literally stop all cases, it still sounds like it could have been achievable to bring them back down to the level where track-and-trace could be effective, and China's efforts would be much more successful than they have been.
They’ve consistently prioritized backwards compatibility over pretty much anything else.
Spam/scam bot farms exploit residential IP addresses. If that ever happened to me I'd backup/wipe out/turn off and then store all my devices, switch to another Internet provider/phone company, buy new devices, and create new accounts on them, then sell the old devices making sure the new accounts are never linked to these. If possible I'd move to a new place in between step 1 and 2 just to make sure. That's actually my escape plan if Google ever locks me out, they do location tracking.
Still felt quite a bit like weaseling out from answering the stronger claim.
The registrar doesn't really have much to say about which CA you use, but a hosting provider would.

Given that all certs are limited to a year, we're only a few steps away from the Let's Encrypt setup being automated everywhere.
The greatest users of these tactics: politicians. They're great at not necessarily "winning an argument", but making it seem like they won to the weaker minded.
post-Snowden approach is E2EE

TLS only addresses minor threats, it doesn't help against NSA/CIA/etc and their equivalent in other jurisdictions. corporate websites will give up your plaintexts, the cloud providers will give up your private keys hosted on their servers.
Probably trying to get rid of people using their service like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ufa4v4/google_...
Meld is a Gtk app. I like it enough that I choose to use it on Linux (for personal) and on macOS (for work).
Some 10ish Years ago what I really needed for work was a way to have a dynamic/staging environment with wordpress, and then to be able to deploy a fully statically generated version of the site. We had dozens of government agencies we were working with at the time, and there just wasn't anything suitable available.

One of wordpress's delights on the DB layer at the time (may still be true?) is that a sizeable number of the database entries were marshalled php objects. So many of them also ended up encoding the domain name in some way, that what we ended up doing was writing some code to essentially just rsync files from one server to the other, and then download the tables from MySQL, update all the records one at a time, and then upload to the new database location. It worked, remarkably well, but yikes. The potential fragility in that solution always scared me.

When I left that company was when static site generators started to take off, but they were all still very techie oriented, with markdown files, rather than any kind of dynamic website to create the content in.

That was one of those rare cases where it felt like I could actually see a potential product & market.
It's interesting how hard this nut is to crack. I have hit all the same types of problems (R is obscene as a programming language, Python too slow and lacks multicore, C is too low level etc etc). I've ended up using Groovy (JVM) for a lot of my scientific work because it is the "least worst" language - dynamic when you want it to be, static when you want it to be, decent if not stellar set of scientific libraries and performant enough (mostly as fast as Java). I have hopes for Nim but it's still not quite there.

But why isn't there something else? Can we really never have our cake and eat it too in this domain?
We may hit a wall in one area and make progress in others which then feeds back into the first area. I think it was always that way.
But why? You export in parquet to retain the schema and data but ingesting that data back in requires CSV which loses the schema. How do you restore your table schema if someone deletes it? Why not just use the same ingest from s3 function to write out to s3?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/postg...
I have the official Living Worlds app on my iPhone:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/living-worlds-mark-ferrari/id1...

My favorite $2 purchase, it's a masterpiece. My "go to sleep" routine is to watch it on my phone in bed until my eyes get droopy.
I think the logic was that in a 'zero COVID' country, the health risk associated with vaccination (for the elderly and vulnerable) was higher than the risks of COVID itself.

I'd hope they are trying to push for increasing vaccination of elderly now, otherwise there will be no end to these lockdowns.
I transitioned to fastmail for e-mail and am happy I did. I really like google docs and google sheets, but I'm moving off of google drive for everything else and just using syncthing.
I just went through the opt-out process and my Google Voice number still works.
Ah, that looks... likely. Thanks! I know it's been a concern of various groups at a low level for some while, but it's been popping up far more than I'd expect lately, and I was curious as to what triggered it. The people who've brought it up (at least in person) don't seem particularly well informed as to the technical details, so I assumed there was something talking about it, I just wasn't sure what.
"Introducing Envoy Gateway" is kinda misleading, as it appears no code has been written yet.

Emissary-ingress and Contour are mentioned, but not a word is said about how this will be different and why they're starting from scratch.
I keep seeing this conspiracy. It came out during the epic trial that the vast majority of revenue from the App Store comes from pay to win games. Apple isn’t making money off of apps that could be a web apps.
Same. Next whatever startup or what I will do will be done in TypeScript(/JS) for the back end and front end. The ecosystem is so massive. And most of the time people will do a library, tool, database, or whatever, and the next language they will support to interact with it is JS/TS.
Yeah I can see that, I guess I wasn't taking it as literally.

> But the worst counters that if we’d like to de-emphasize things that we don’t want to be the focus of our life, we probably shouldn’t start by obsessing over them. That we don’t simplify by getting the very best of everything, we simplify by arranging our lives so that those things don’t matter one way or the other.

My take away from the conclusion was "care less about stuff" and I interpreted the counter-examples as more demonstration of why "the best" doesn't always literally mean "the best" and that sometimes "the worst" ends up better in a different way.
This is great, but really should've been done in the first place. Must've been a major PR oversight/disconnect, no clue how that happened.
> If you can add new methods or change their implementation at runtime, performance optimizations get a lot trickier

This particular example is a non-issue though - it's completely solved through dynamic deoptimisation (as in the machine code with and without method redefinition is exactly the same.)
That's neat looking, but it really strikes me as a kind of cosplay than anything that would actually be useful in any kind of disaster situation:

1. If you're off the grid, where are you going to get power to run this?

2. If there's no power grid or internet, you probably have much bigger problems than "how can I browse an offline copy of Wikipedia." Those problems would probably last longer than you want to schlep around and item like this.

3. I'm not under the impression that Raspberry Pi's are especially durable, though the SD-card storage is probably the weakest link (though both those things probably have benefits of being common things that allow for the scavenging of replacement parts).

4. If you need to protect from an EMP, I don't think "tinfoil lined cardboard box" will be sufficient. I was reading up on that a couple of months ago when the war started, and it sounds like little gaps in the shielding can seriously compromise the effectiveness of the sheilding.

5. Mil-spec connectors look cool, but if you need to use something like this, you'll probably want connectors that are a common as possible. A connector is useless if you don't have anything to plug into it. Some kind of terminal block would probably make more sense. Using a male connector seems like a particularly fatal flaw (if you used female, you'd at least be able to stick wires in the holes in a pinch).

If you want to usefully prepare for any doomsday scenario, you probably need to really carefully think about your actual requirements in that scenario, and then build to those requirements. IMHO, if it's an actual doomsday, it's probably safe to assume technological society will collapse and not recover for generations, and any high technology would in reality be a short-to-medium term consumable that will break without replacement.
Sublime Merge (when it comes to git integration) is the best choice now - at least for me.

Meld, on the other hand, is the best tool for comparing local copies and directories.
Are you in the US? If so, who is your provider?
I found this website a few years ago and became infatuated with it. It's such a simple technique (in theory, I imagine creating this would be a headache) but it's possible of such powerful results. Not only is there simple animation, but it also supports different times of day using the exact same image. It's some of the best "retro" art I've seen. With this sort of artistry coming back into fashion, I can only hope other pieces like it are created.
Sure, there is some value in the information printed on the checks, but they're worthless because they can't be redeemed as they've already been redeemed. These checks cannot be "stolen" for "millions" contrary to the title.
I think this stuff looks beautiful on its own merits.

I always thought there was something aesthetic about older games - and I think the limited tools they had to work with was a big part of it.

I'd play the hell out of a modern game that looked like this.
Look into some kind office internet ISP, who offers static IP-s. At least my experience with those is good. You probably need to make exception in Spamhaus PBL list ( end-user IP address ranges), I haven't seen any problems after removal. If that isn't possible, go with some solid colocation (old school company, who don't offer cloud services).
It's crazy that they didn't put at least an extra camera in the place where for example BMW has their "side view camera" option for pulling out of parking spaces. That's right at the sides of the nose. Would have cost them less than $ 100 per car, while FSD costs thousands...
Seems like stereo from cameras in the upper corners of the windshield would provide valuable depth perception. But what do I know...
only 5 percent is real users IMHO
Zookeeper-less trend. Cool Stuff.
If your main value-add was a bridge between sales and engineering, then you didn't add much value and I guess I'm glad that is going away.

I never viewed PM as that. I always thought it was a person who understood how the tech works, and understood real world problems.. and helped create real solutions to real problems with tech.

Also, design by committee is awful.
This reminds me of that time I tried removing comments on HN...
I think the billions in government loans, contracts, tax credits, and subsidies contributed significantly: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-list-government-su...

"He enabled the engineers at these companies to do what they did" is a weird way of saying he's an extremely abusive manager.

Work at enough companies and you'll see that a lot of them succeed despite their "founder"/owner, not because of them. They end up surrounded by people who insulate them enough, clean up their messes, and so on.

With a competent manager, it's likely Tesla would have long ago mastered things like "paint a car properly", not taken a decade to make a single-gear transmission that lasts more than 30,000 miles (and can be driven in heavy rain without risk of water ingestion) and "have body panels align the same on the left side of the car as on the right", as well as not faced the huge production problems they did because Musk was obsessed with switching to automated production.
Personally I feel JITs have gotten too much hype. While they have some advantages in optimization, it seems far outweighed by the downsides. I’d rather have an interpreter for development and a static compiler for production.
Some of the sentences kind of make sense, but the article itself doesn't lead to a useful conclusion. With arguments similar to the ones the author is making, it's easy to show that pretty much any profession is a LARP. I will not be buying your NFT.
Computer work lying down comfortably with a home-made stand over the bed
Agree. Unfortunately your USD (and mine) are currently losing about 8% of their value (annualized)…
It is obvious if you think of what a garbage collector is; it's a simulation of having infinite memory. So objects in a GC world live forever, and thus are never destroyed. (Of course, behind the scenes, the garbage collector will _deallocate_ them, but only when your program can no longer care because it doesn't have any way of reaching them.)

Of course, a garbage collector can be made to run finalizers, but then you either have to do a pure refcounting GC, at least for those objects (which is highly suboptimal for speed), or live with unpredictable finalization (which is incompatible with using RAII for e.g. locks, as the article points out).
Congrats to the team! And a special thanks to cperciva for all the work he's done specifically for BSD in EC2.

It's hard to imagine that my FreeBSD journey started with 3.1, and I'm glad to see it's still going strong (and why I keep donating to the project).
NameSilo [0] is reliable and has the cheapest pricing for .com and some other TLDs. You can also look into Cloudflare [1]

I personally use NameSilo over Cloudflare because I don't want to give Cloudflare everything.

[0] https://www.namesilo.com/domain/transfer-domains

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/products/registrar/

https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/get-started/tran...
Just moved my legacy plan over to the 'new' personal use/free plan and it seems fine. Good grief how this wasn't the plan from the very start is just beyond me. I hope the complete trashing of trust and perception with the earliest and most tech connected users was worth it, Google.
"Seems"?
Actually, try https://slack.timescale.com/ instead if you are signing up for the first time.

The link above is the right slack group, but you need to go in through the URL I provided to get the right invite tokens. Sorry, Slack isn't fully designed as a community platform, even though many use it for such.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31391849
transacting nfts can happen on multiple platforms, and do. looksrare, dxdy, nfttrader, etc.

now try that with your steam game.
Created my own logdrain for some side-projects hosted at Vercel. It's a fun weekend project and definitely makes you appreciate the many parts and complexities that go into creating a "proper" solution such as what Axiom looks to be!

Slightly off-topic but Vercel's docs are really awesome these days. Good job Leerob and co. it has all come a long way in only a few short years. Not much left for me to bitch about ;)
These are nicely sophisticated - didn't we all love doing this kind of animation with Deluxe Paint on the Amiga. Nice to see that this still is a thing, or at least was 10 years ago!
Based on the title I think OP meant to link https://blog.1password.com/1password-ssh-agent/.

Is anyone actually using these 1Password CLI tools in a serious way? Their CLI stuff has always seemed like a toy to me, like a fun side experiment, but I'd be interested if any organizations out there are actually putting it into their core workflows.
> You should never ever allow statistics at this level impact your decision to start a family. If you are intelligent enough to be reading an article about statistics on the Internet, please reproduce.

I think that reading articles on advanced topics on the internet at best demonstrates one's self-assessed, not actual, intelligence. There are more than enough people in the world who are sure that they're the smart ones.
Or Brodaway Musicals.
I haven’t watched the Netflix adaption but I think they were trying to suggest it’s a fixed loop with no driver. That felt thematically appropriate
This article also fails to consider that on modern systems writes are often batched and not immediate. The only way to get an actually consistent and safe backup of any file / file system, is to actually shut down the machine so that all applications, and the OS, have shut down gracefully.

As an intermediate step, it may be practical to consider shutting down your application, flush all writes (e.g. via sync command), and taking the file system snapshot then, restarting the application, and then taking the backup from that file system snapshot. At least then your critical data should have a consistent and safe backup, even if the rest of the OS _may_ be in a suspect state.
This is exactly what Charlie Munger said when asked why he and Buffett invested in BYD and not in Tesla. He said Elon was a certified genius and a lose cannon. (That was before TSLA did 20x. And also well before Musk teased them about their love of moats and candy.)
The Dana is great, but the regular Alphasmarts are particularly rock-solid and 2 AA batteries will last you over a year.

The Dana touchscreen isn't as contrasty, the backlight eats battery, and if you use up all your batteries you will lose your data without backups. It's all quite manageable of course (since as you say it's just a Palm PDA with a keyboard) and has much more functionality, but not as bulletproof.

(I'm just happy to participate in a Alphasmart discussion LOL.)
Absolutely. I think DuckDB's future is bright and excited to hopefully work with it in the near future.
Don't forget to click "Options" and use the "Time of Day" slider. It adds even more atmosphere to these animations.
Deliberately feeding the spam bots into an endless loop of captchas might slowly drain their accounts if they are paying 3rd party captcha farms.
I’m sure someone as experienced as you knows commenting about up/ down votes is explicitly against the guidelines. No worries though. No need to fret, just imagine those sad souls, and what most be going through their heads, as to find your comment offensive :)

Maybe they were pushing back against the idea of paying money, for good quality software, that provides value to your life?!? Haha, joking of course. But seriously, I agree with you. If it is a tool that I use all the time, makes my life easier, and is of good quality… I’m happy to pay up for a license.

I’ve spent way more than that on my favorite database GUI clients over the years. Money well spent, and the developers earned it. Happy to support them!
I see. Yes, that makes sense. Unless the application do write / rename trick, otherwise the backup process will see torn write.
This article opens with a video clip of a reporter speaking in Swedish about Erdogan/Turkey's opinions on Sweden and Finland joining NATO. Although there are captions, manually typing in each caption to a translation service seems very tedious.
Closing McDonalds surely is a good for the general health of the populace. I'm against banning fast food but I see no downside. McDonalds is a symbolic offender in the sugar epidemic and the McPutin rippoff surely won't be as popular as the Big Mac.
The only thing I use Ansible for is to parallelize running the same script on a bunch of servers. Would be nice to have a simpler app to do this.
I don't read much about users modern languages with 0-based index requesting 1-based options/alternatives.
That's become me, to be honest. Money has reached the point where it doesn't mean anything any more. For the last year or so I've taken cabs everywhere I've gone, even down the road to go to the shops. This sounds like a brag, but it's really not: I'm not rich, and it means I'm pinioned to my job and can't quit. I was addicted to heroin before, but I think quality-of-life addiction is possibly worse in some ways.
Show HN: MyQ to IFTTT (Garage Automation)
The FSF FAQ explicitly states that internal use within a corporation does not count as distribution. It's one legal entity and can't violate copyleft on its own. A gray area would be a subsidiary or joint venture sharing with a parent.
Sometimes when people 'shut up and calculate' [0] they find surprises.

[0][https://aeon.co/essays/shut-up-and-calculate-does-a-disservi...] (Baggott, 2021): (Revisited this earlier today, coincidentally)

"a dogma of indifference to philosophical questions was at least as much to blame for the rejection of foundational enquiry as anything Bohr might have said."
Modern journalist are narrative fiction writers. Articles should come with a disclaimer "based on a true story". You don't exactly know which part is true.
Is this Rust or a different language?
Well, I guess eugenics is back... It was a nice 100 years.

Scary "Idiocracy" figures aside, this discussion is incomplete without the incel statistics. The data is relatively conclusive that anyone below a certain threshold has no chance of getting a date. I think you will find that all the eugenics you could possibly want is already happening, the "program" is being administered by everybody, and the social norms that permit it are unimpeachable.
https://github.com/mikefarah/yq
Do you know when the clamping will be removed?
I was referring to this https://chromestatus.com/feature/4592567062626304

Have I hallucinated? I wzs sure support for it was added recently

Edit according to the last comment in the issue you linked, this is on the 2022 roadmap, it's about time to properly support HDR!
The Aerodynamics of a Falling Maple Seed [pdf]