skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun tidbit, which I didn’t mention in the piece: Drebbel proposed creating some kind of solar-powered central heating system for London in the 1610s. We don’t have many details, other than the fact he thought it would cost £20,000 and would involve heating some kind of very heat-conductive material on top of a hill nearby. Historians assume it would have then involved heating water to be run in pipes to London’s houses.
That was always my thoughts, storage capacity of energy is fairly expensive.

Also there are much cheaper ways to cool than we do today. There are a lot of passive cooling systems. An easy one is to bury pipes a few feet (>3-4ft) under ground and run a fan to push air through the pipes.

You can also put pipes under a near by creek / pond if you have one near by (I have seen this done).

There’s a whole lot of passive systems. Gardens on roofs, sun rooms, underground pipes, water cooled, etc. I’m currently looking at building a house with a combination of these.

The problem with all these is the increased price of construction / inability / unreasonableness to adjust old homes. I do think new buildings should take advantage of some of these. But old builds aren’t really possible to convert.
Archived non-paywall link

https://archive.ph/QDgtN
It’s a Poe’s Law moment for sure. But I get that a lot reading things like Crunchbase and Motley Fool.
Comcast rebranded themselves as Xfinity to try to shake their reputation. Maybe this project should be renamed too.
Happiness is a meter reading of the things you hold dear. The Genghis Kahn quote here describes what makes him happy. Hopefully not many share that.

The question perhaps ought to be about what makes you happy or even what should make you happy. That is deep.
>People have just forgotten what a general purpose computer is.

OK, tell me what it is.
This is Facebook actively circumventing their users' explicit requests to not be tracked :) They have no respect for you
I represent that remark!
A lot of it really is just time management, minimize things that don't matter, and maintaining your mental and physical health. I am by no means part of this elite class referenced - but I am able to keep up with a demanding job, full time school, and a large family well enough.

A couple of books I can recommend on the subjects are Cal Newport's "Deep Work" and Greg McKeown's "Essentialism".
>Does anyone actually say this in conversation?

No. Spam sounds like that because it's trying to catch gullible people, not critical thinkers.
Nim in Lazarus IDE would be soooo good.
Nitter instance hosted on an island on the opposite side of the world from you?

Teddit?

piped.kavin.rocks but through a proxy in a different country?

There are some ways to build in some latency. :)

I like Twitter a lot, but when browsing or doomscrolling I force myself to use Nitter on one of the public instances that gets rate limited a lot, which keeps me from using it all the time.
You cannot solve a thoroughly human problem (compulsion, addiction) with a technical solution. I suggest you find a way to build up your willpower to resist using those sites.
That's amazing, thank you for posting it!
Never heard of it but will check it out
The internet believes the main driver of inflation is "money printing" in the US, and nothing to do with the post covid supply squeeze or the current energy crisis

The correct solution to avoid being at the wim of such friendly countries as Russia, Saudi, and China would be for Japan, Europe, the US, to massively invest in increasing internal free (renewable) energy sources, and diversifying strategic imports like silicon chips.

From 2015-2017 in the US renewable production increased from 558TWh to 710TWh, a 13% increase per year. Staying at that rate for the next 5 years would have put US renewable at 1,300TWh today or 31% - 500TWh more than today, leaving 500TWh of gas and oil to be used elsewhere and reducing the power of Russia and Saudi over the global economy. By 2030 the US would have hit 3,500TWh, up to wards 100% of current electric generation, and by 2040 at the latest to include the extra electric load from things like battery cars.

But instead the US didn't.
Yeah, the day I see RATM endorsing American Express I'll know things are wonky...
I feel like I have this. Can’t remember anything from the past, but my spouse remembers exactly every tiny detail from years ago.
"A move away from fossil fuels requires the wholesale transformation of all these systems."

That is why people do not understand both the scope and the urgency of the issue. Technically it is an easy problem to fix, but to change the hearts and minds of people will take a spiritual revolution.
Why is stevespang's comment flagged as dead?
“I quit UVA after three weeks.” -Wolf Prize winning chemist Stuart Schreiber
Working very hard was never really necessary for moving up in the world. The mindset to make other people work for you goes a lot further.
I use Obsidian[0] with lots of nice markdown formatting and screenshots. Does that count?

[0] https://obsidian.md
Now we need a tool to simulate long time to resolution when you've proven and notified your service provider of an issue, and also happening to be the underlying LEC for the other service provider in your area, so when there's an upstream issue both go down (AT&T).
> On July 13th, at around 18:45 UTC we started to receive reports of an outage from a small number of users. We investigated the status of our services, but were unable to confirm any of the reports. All of our status monitoring and tests reported that everything was operating normally.

> Over the course of the outage, we continued to monitor our service status, and worked with some of the affected users to narrow down the source of the problem.

> On July 14th, at 19:14 UTC we were able to identify that the problem was within our us-west3 region, which we then took offline, directing traffic to other nearby regions instead.

The time difference between when the first reports came in and when it was confirmed is a little concerning.

As an aside:

> ... approximately 18:00 UTC ...

> ... just over 24 hours ...

> ... For a period of around 24 hours, some users in the us-west3 region

> ... less than 30 minutes ...

> ... On July 13th, at around 18:45 UTC we started to receive reports of an outage from a small number of users. ...

"Approximately", "just", "around", "some", "small number of". It goes on and on. I disagree with the stylistic approach of being less specific in posts like these. A "small number of users" is relative. As readers, we have no idea what your typical load may be. Small may be a large number to us. "Just" over 24 hours is 26 hours? 24.5 hours? I implore you to be specific when you have the actual data.

These terms read as weasel words, and impact your effort at being fully transparent.
OP had posted a link to a stats page
Swamp coolers were widely used before A/C was cheap enough to become mainstream. Most people in the southern U.S. for instance may have a grandparent or great grandparent that can still tell stories of how miserable they are compared to A/C!
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but yeah 40C is much more severe in the UK than it is in the tropics for a huge number of reasons: lack of shade from trees (generally UK is pretty treeless in suburbs), more humid, no shutters on windows, etc.
One thing I’ll be mentioning in Part III, as I ran out of space in this one: Drebbel in the 1610s applied his insights into perpetual motion to invent a self-regulating oven/furnace. Using mercury rather than water to trap air in a tube, much like the inverted flask I described, rising temperatures would raise a float sitting on the mercury that would then close the aperture for the air feeding the oven’s flame.
That's because Breathed drew them for the film.
Came here to say this. AFAIK "selling out" has just as negative a connotation as it ever did. Maybe he means commercialism is more prevalent, but that's not what he wrote.

Nobody says "congratulations on being a sellout" unless they are being sarcastic.
How do legislators just allow this? Isn't this cut and dry illegal?
The UK latitude mostly doesn't overlap with the USA, with only Scotland just about lining up with the southern tip of Alaska and everything else only overlapping with Canada.

The UK climate is more like Seattle.

Is this map right? If so, that would be a zone 4? https://www.ecohome.net/guides/3521/climate-zones-map-usa-ca...

I have no idea if that makes any difference to your core point.
No one can tell you how much your startup would have to pay apart from BlackBerry themselves. If you want a quote, just contact them.
>Their attack uses binary search to recover the private RSA key after 1023 client logins

I know this is from the initial paper but it is great to see practical examples of algorithms taught in college/uni.

I always had trouble understanding why we are learning such hard topics to find the number 5 in a sorted list of 10 numbers.

To keep things on topic.

>The patches that MEGA developed to mitigate the original key recovery attack are
effective against our improved attack as well, so updated clients are not vulnerable to the
techniques presented in this work. However, our optimized cryptanalysis underscores the
ongoing risk to unpatched clients

Great to hear that their patches fix the root of the problem but this paper has now significantly reduced the complexity of carrying out the attack.
How the Brain Can Rewire Itself After Half of It Is Removed (2019)
I do see a lot of car decals with Calvin pissing on [insert name of hated automaker]. Now obviously these are unlicensed, but a lot of people obviously have no problem with it.
> Women developers hoping to move into management have far fewer role models who look like them than their male counterparts. That’s because for every 100 men who are promoted into a managerial role, only 72 women are promoted.

Trying to understand what this means. If women are a minority in technical roles wouldn't it be strange for these numbers to be parity? Proportionally I'd expect parity, so like, x% of men and x% of women move into management, but these absolute numbers don't make sense to me - you wouldn't expect 100 women to become managers for every 100 men, unless women and men made equal portions of the technical workforce which they don't.

Am I misinterpreting this?
If energy was generated from wind, solar, tidal, geothermal, hydro etc then sure, knock yourself out

However energy is generated by burning fossil fuels

AC specifically allowed more economic activity in large areas of the world which drove more power usage which drove more AC in an increasing spiral. It's not the only energy multiplier, but cities like Dubai would not exist in anywhere near its current size and thus energy requirements without aircon, and instead economic acitivty would go to places with less energy overhead (you don't need aircon in anywhere near the same amounts in Istanbul for example)
> The ALU may ask you to sign an authorization card or share a QR code to fill out an online authorization card.
> This is a legally binding document

Ooh scary ... is the employment contract signed by Amazon's employees not legally binding? How is it Amazon's business what their grown-ass employees can or cannot sign?

> By signing a card or filling out an online authorization form, you are providing the ALU your personal information.

Like Amazon monitoring my spending habits?

> By signing a card or filling out an online authorization form, you are authorizing the ALU to speak on your behalf.

And thats terrible how?

> The ALU is not part of Amazon and does not represent Amazon

Thats the whole point.
Ours is 1.5 years old now, and I can promise you there's some things that the mother should do, or be the most involved in. Some things us guys are just a bit clueless about. One can go deeply into this but essentially it's about the emotional bond and "reading" your child, in addition to the purely biological like breastfeeding.
> shebang (n.) - 1862, "hut, shed, shelter," popularized among soldiers in the U.S. Civil War, but like other Civil War slang (such as skedaddle) of uncertain origin.

> Perhaps an alteration of shebeen (q.v.), but shebang in the sense "tavern," a seemingly necessary transitional sense, is not attested before 1878 and shebeen seems to have been not much used in the U.S. Bartlett's 1877 edition describes it as "A strange word that had its origin during the late civil war. It is applied alike to a room, a shop, or a hut, a tent, a cabin; an engine house."

> Phrase the whole shebang first recorded 1869, but relation to the earlier use of the word is obscure. Either or both senses also might be mangled pronunciations of French char-à-banc, a bus-like wagon with many seats.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/shebang
A Brief History of the Telegraph
I saw a picture of a stretch of road in the west and started thinking about the 1800's and the striking contrast between the wild and the technological American landscape. It turns out Google has an interesting site, linked.
I mean do you vaccinate your kids? I do—I don’t see that as an indictment on evolution.

Young adults and men are less healthy than ever because we play on our computers instead of tilling soil and fighting in wars.
Here's another way NOT to fight inflation:
https://katv.com/news/nation-world/14-states-approve-stimulu...

To help citizens deal with inflation, 14 states are giving them free money. Giving people free money is what caused inflation.
lemon.markets
"We care about your privacy but not your rights."
"Please suffer privately on your own."
yah, 100:100 women:men is a 1:1 ratio.
If I only used Ruby I'd probably prefer the Ruby example. As someone who jumps across many languages, I prefer the first. I found Ruby's approach to things was at many times too clever, to the point of becoming unreadable and cryptic. Python prefers clearness over cleverness.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, because you're right. This tool is literally a wrapper around that.
About 15 years or so ago, we looked at buying a hardware appliance that would let you build and simulate virtual networks with all sorts of different characteristics. Packet loss, latency, etc.

We developed software for retail point of sale systems, and some of the stores we had to support had all sorts of awful infrastructure, both inside the store and between the store and the “rest of the world.”

I can’t remember the name, but I believe it was an Israeli company, and the device was programmed/configured through Visio (iirc).
Loving those JSON improvements. Looking forward to migrating away from jsonb_build_object and its ilk. They served me well, but were hardly elegant. Now the JSON can look more like... well... JSON.

MERGE will definitely fill in some logical gaps for me as well. A bit wordy but super powerful. Unlike the logic in application tier, there can now be true transactional safety instead of "good enough with the occasional error and/or clean up script" that happens now. Data consistency belongs in the database, not the app.
I don't mean anything bad to Deno's team (I'm very partial to what they're building), but I'm rather surprised whenever a widely-publicized service has an outage that lasts hours or more than 24h. I'm genuinely curious to understand whether it's typically due to complexity of infrastructure and how hard it is to find route causes, how long it takes to redirect traffic / patch temporarily when the cause is found, or is it due to attitude where it's considered normal for these things to happen, and to take time to solve step by step.

Our services are of what I consider medium complexity (~70 services, ~10 different "layers" of logic, db, caching, load balancing etc, AWS, mostly self-managed centralized logging and monitoring) but still quite low-volume (< 100 requests / second), and any more serious issue (let alone outage) is spontaneously met by my team as absolute emergency and typically fixed in < 10 minutes.

We're very modestly funded compared to Deno (in this example) and the team is small...

Not sure whether that changes with traffic volume, complexity, team size, or is more primarily attitude-based and should continue to be cultivated.
> Google doesn't have to play the game of avoiding anti-trust.

No, the problem is with other companies not upstreaming drivers, not Google.
Like Qualcomm, which has a phone chip patent/monopoly, and used forced obsolescence (refused to update drivers) to prevent Google-cobranded phones from working with new OS versions.
The cartesian diver mishmash is clearly a transcription error: it ends with some lines from the next entry on dissolving salt.
Isn't it the government's job to promote competition and regulate / prevent monopolies and oligopolies?
Shadowbanned, seemed excessive to me. I vouched for it at least.
My anti virus software wont let me see any images on that site, any idea whats going on?
I make graphs. For every fact I want to remember I draw a vertex whose label is the fact. Then if I realize that two facts are related I draw an edge adjoining their vertices. Sometimes I use different pen colors to categorize facts and sometimes I put annotations on the edges too. Roughly like a mind map except the graphs are cyclic and undirected and this makes a very big difference.
The American Dream is about living a comfortable, prosperous (as in more than enough, not necessarily rich) life. The 1950s family with 2.2 children, a car, and a house of your own with a white picket fence. It's evolved since then, but the American Dream is not about moving classes, it's about a comfortable life. And from my observation, most people can achieve this, except in the coastal cities, where single family homes with a white picket fence either no longer exist or are expensive.
Graviton is AWS-specific. Arm is not only still uncommon for hosting, non-AWS arm is often not that competitive. Even big names like ovh or heroku won't let you run apps on arm. (ovh only on bare metal)
Qualcomm sells more chips when the software fails after 2-3 years and consumers by a new phone. So they don't maintain drivers.
I’ve found that developing the habit of excellence, “normalizes” it.

Instead of good work being an exception, I believe that it should be the norm (for me).

In my work, I do every project as if it was a “ship” project, to be submitted to the App Store. Even my simple test harnesses are apps that many professional developers would gladly submit for approval.

I write very good code, very quickly. It’s reached the level of “muscle memory.”
It's opt-in behavior. So Facebook is explicitly countering opt-in requests for privacy (without informing you)
Because legislators historically are less interested in corporate/white collar crime.
This is mostly right, but there are quite a few important caveats here.

> And third this project only has builtin support for querying CSV and JSON files.

This is actually not true :)

There's also Parquet, and you can read arbitrary text files line by line (which with soon-to-come regex capture should let you easily work with all kinds of textual log files).

Other than that, there are plugins for other databases which are intentionally kept out of the core.

> I tried to count the number of functions but octosql crashed (a Go panic) when I ran `SELECT count(1) FROM docs.functions fs` and `SELECT count(*) FROM docs.functions fs` which is what I lazily do in standard SQL databases.

Looks like a bug in the docs datasource, thanks! Already diagnosed the issue and it should be fixed soon.

> It will support a limited subset of SQL.

It's not really a subset. It also has extensions not available in standard SQL like temporal SQL, as well as ergonomic handling of columns with multiple possible value types (I.e. a String | Int column), which is a common occurrence in i.e. JSON files and is not well-solved by standard SQL.

There are many features currently in OctoSQL and that I'm planning to add in the future that wouldn't be possible with the SQLite approach, nor with the Steampipe Postgres approach.

Simple example: tailing a log file live while filtering lines using SQL.

But yeah! Overall there are definitely tradeoffs, and you should choose the tool that makes sense for you.

After I'm done stabilizing the core I will move on to implementing a ton of functions available in other engines, so that should cease to be an issue soon as well - there's not that many of them, it just hasn't been a priority so far.
So are my kune-kune pigs. A lot cuter, cuddlier and friendlier than the average horse as well. Doesn't make them less edible, though given their age the meat likely won't be all that.
> Good point, I would like Google using QNX for their mobile OS, too, because of the Hard Real-Time OS feature.

Why?

Everything which needs hard-real time in a phone already does that at the firmware level. I fail to see what is that latency sensible in the rest. If what you want is a faster phone, a hard-real time kernel is not going to give you that. Hard real-time just means you have strong garanties on time of execution (either through return or through failure) it does not necessary means these times are short.

Java on Android is not slow anyway.
Greet your zoom guest, prepare for meetings, and share customizable meeting URLs
Might check the ToS of the existing players before doing that en masse.
It's a huge grey area, largely up to the NLRB to decide when anti-union campaigners cross the line. They did similar tactics in the Alabama vote and were slapped for that behavior[1], and many other infractions, with an order to re-do the vote[2]. Amazon's execs and lawyers clearly think they have enough to lose (and their workers to gain) that it's worth finding exactly where the line is.

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[1] "The [NLRB] hearing officer also found objectionable Amazon's distribution of "vote no" pins and other anti-organizing paraphernalia to employees in the presence of managers and supervisors. ... U.S. labor law forbids companies from spying on organizing activities or leaving employees with the impression they are under surveillance. It also prohibits other actions if they are found to be coercive." https://www.reuters.com/business/amazon-interfered-with-unio...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2021/11/29/1022384731/amazon-warehouse-w...
While generational shifts are a pre-condition to becoming _that_ wealthy, they're not enough. Plenty of people were alive then (and had the resources required to bet big), but there's only a handful of Gates and Bezos. To make it that big you need to:

1. be at a point in history where you can bet big

2. have the resources to do so

3. be right

4. put in the work

All are required. I feel like supporters overemphasise 3. & 4. and detractors hammer on 1. & 2.

Now, the good news is you don't need to reach tech-billionaire levels of worth - and virtually everyone here won't. If you're happy with an orders of magnitude lower net worth (which is still in the 99th percentile), there are other ways to get that which don't require 1. You still need 2,3 and 4. That's good news because there aren't many opportunities for 1. (off the top of my head, trends that _look_ like they'd fit the bill currently are crypto, VR, space stuff, fusion energy, ESG, human longevity)
Interesting to read about this and never knew about it since I’m a fan of Calvin and Hobbes. I can understand his motives and reasoning, but I’m sure after a few decades, when the copyright pass over to his heirs, we’re going to see more of Calvin and Hobbes.
I don't think so. Also, 72 to 100 is "far" fewer? If a division has 10 male managers and 7 female managers, it's not ideally equal, yes, but I think both genders have plenty of role models to choose from.
the point is it's a self-reinforcing issue. lack of representation, harms improving representation