skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Guess what, those who believe that bugs are the answer. Bugs eat plants. Bugs don't burp, but to grow insects at scale, the plants need to be processed and brought to them. Guess what that means? Burning fossil fuels in transportation.

>Cows, on the other hand, can feed on grassland.

That's a feature, not a bug (hah) for them.

As you point out, bug farming requires a large number of inputs and a complicated process. This makes it highly amenable to centralisation & control.

Whilst modern livestock farming is similar in complexity, in theory, it can go back to having more decentralised inputs, with a drawback of lower yield.
That's MEGA! :-)
Very interesting - I’ve always been confused by why aluminium is often stated as being rust-proof, but doesn’t appear to be as useful in the real world.

Aren’t there quite a few aluminium engine blocks in cars though? For example, the LS small block is now aluminium.

Or do you mean used in marine applications, where rust is an issue? That would probably make more sense (and may actually be implied by the context).
The thing about Tolkien (and I think good story telling in general), is he gives a feeling of consistency, depth and complex choices. But that's completely different from needing fine-grained consistency between chapters of a long book. I'm not a Tolkien expert but I think are a whole variety of "plot holes" one can point to but these don't particularly matter for the development of the story, where the main thing is the suffering and redemption of the main characters which only has to feel real and as well as feeling dramatic.

I think Elrond hadn't heard of Tom just because that made the council scene more dramatic, for instance.
Yes. Apple should have such a mode.

Maybe make a support page about one of its features.

That could get posted to Hacker News.

I could continue.
You're talking about PWAs, right? It's still bizarre to be that the feature was dropped. PWAs are the top idea on their feedback site as well.

I suppose while it has your attention, please vote for that feature https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/bring-back-pwa-progress...
Performance...lines of code? The complexity of a solved solution or how many buddys you have (aka network)?
Don't make me come over there again. I swear, I will turn this car around and no one's going to Disney World!

- The USA.

(I kid, I kid—I know we always just show up late then claim all the credit)
If paying for stamps can't stop junk mail, I don't see how paying for calls could stop cold callers.
Yes, but it does blow up TOAST and has a lot of impact on the deletion behavior on busy tables. We removed all larger json blobs from PG. typical settings or config stuff in json in PG are fine. We use that all the time. But larger json blobs of several kilobytes are still an issue for semi timeseries data.
what kind of compass are ya reading lad?
I see some truth to that, but I tend to focus on all the possible versions of the internet we could have designed, probably some would be dystopic, and others utopic.

I also can see the irony in democracy falling to democracy, but, at the risk of sounding preachy, we should remember that the most infamous dictatorships of the 20th Century sprang from democratic elections.
Ok, I'll rephrase. I'd choose most any Western democracy over a Communist/Socialist government any day of the week.

I'm not making any excuses for any country. A crime is a crime regardless.

The GP likened the US to Russia and I to an extent, disagree. There are fundamental differences in worldview, value for democracy and freedom, respect for individual rights, rule of law, the right to protest and criticize the government, freedom of the press etc between those two nations and between Western democracies and communist/socialist countries. I come from one of the latter and live in the US now so I have first hand experience to compare.
> had to be printed AND available as PDF.

You just reminded me of a customer I was working for as a junior ERP consultant. They required us to have the proof a document was printed by a user.

I went far down the rabbit hole trying to come up with an end-to-end solution involving cryptographically signed messages sent to the printer, a physical QR code on the document to be scanned back for validation, and others convoluted half-backed contraptions. But I couldn't find an unhackable way to reconcile the state in the machine with the reality of the physical world.

A senior consultant solved it in 10 minutes. Showed them. They were ecstatic and we were paid.

What has he done? Just updated a "printed" column in the database to "True" when the user clicked the HTML "print" button.
This. People working in IT naturally think keeping IT systems up 100% time is most important. And depending on the business it often is, but it all costs money. Running a business is about managing costs and risks.

- Is it worth to spend 20% more on IT to keep our site up 99.99% vs 99%?

- Is it worth to have 3 suppliers for every part that our business depends, with each of them being contracted to be able to supply 2x more, in case other supplier has issues? And pay a big premium for that?

- Is it worth to have offices across the globe, fully staffed and trained to be able to take on any problem, in case there's big electrical outage/pandemic/etc in other part of the world?

I'm not saying that some of those outages aren't results of clowny/incompetent design. But "site sometimes goes down" can be often a very valid option.
Have you ever tried to look? The federal budget is publicly available: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/collection/budget/2022

There are even government sites with fun visualizations you can explore: https://datalab.usaspending.gov/americas-finance-guide/
cough Meta cough
> J Kenji Lopez-Alt and Chef John

The 2 of them are true OGs of food media education on the internet.
You are right back at the same "distinguishing legal from illegal calls" problem.
Are you seriously suggesting that S3 is a monopoly with means to block competition. I mean even when discussing cloud in general, what you are suggesting is a joke.
You have to admit, that's kind of funny you based your criticism off an incomplete reading of the source material. I think complaining about clarity is something that should probably happen after one has contemplated the whole of the thing.
don't all the multi-AZ deployments imply at least 1 standby replica in a different AZ?
What? Republicans in Congress will routinely vote against funding legislation and then show up at ribbon cuttings bragging how they fought to get the funding for their district. Just out and out lie about voting for it.
very nice.

you may want to check out openziti (open source) to eliminate vpn (while closing EdgeDB server and Postgres server link listeners and open IB FW ports). can be done agentless via sdk, or modified jdbc driver. basic postgres example video here:
https://youtu.be/s-skpw7bUfI

disclosure: i run a company that built saas on top of the openziti open source.
> Most of my peers

This is the job market equivalent of "it works on my computer."
> The idea is that this would promote more use of local businesses. It does not usually work out that way though.

Great Youtube video on this topic, especially since you're likely talking about Vancouver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU
Vs. silicon's 1.12 V.

So, more noise resistance. But more energy loss, typically, although there are ways around that where it matters.
I think you may have slightly misread. I think what’s being said is that a single logical AZ may actually be multiple physical datacenters in close proximity.
The whole XFCE, LXDE, LXQT always leaves me confused but probably just because of the name :D

On Manjaro I've always used XFCE and it's a very nice DE for sure.
Hollywood hacking scenes that are actors running basic terminal commands
It honestly seems like it would have been fine if they had been like "you tripped our fraud detection, and because the payment was made with a CC money will be held in escrow until the dispute period ends. There's no point in providing documentation because customer can still issue a chargeback."
Would really appreciate it if you could open issues in the main [1] repo and we'll figure it out. We're investing a ridiculous amount of time into our docs and want them to be the best possible.

[1] https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb
It's a very common acronym that I hear in ordinary daily conversation, and its usage has passed that of the original phrase. Easy to Google, too.
I have 2 takes on this:

1) AWS is already really expensive, just on a single AZ. Replicating to a second AZ would almost double your costs. I can't help but bring up the point that an old-school bare-metal setup on something like Hetzner/OVH/etc becomes significantly more cost-effective since you're not using AWS's advantages in this area anyway (and as we've seen in practice, AWS is nowhere near more reliable - how many times have AWS' AZs gone down vs the bare-metal HN server which only had its single significant outage very recently? - it makes sense considering the AWS control plane is orders of magnitude more complex than an old-school bare-metal server which just needs power and a network port).

2) It is extremely hard to build reliable systems over time (since during non-outage periods, everything appears to work fine despite accidentally introducing a hard dependency on a single AZ), and even more so to account for second-order effects such as an inter-AZ link suddenly becoming saturated during the outage. I'm personally not confident at all in Amazon's (or frankly, any public cloud provider's) ability to actually guarantee seamless failover during an outage, since the only way to prove it's working is to have a real outage as to induce any potential second-order effects such as inter-AZ links suddenly becoming saturated, which AWS or any other cloud provider aren't going to do (as an intentional, regularly-scheduled outage for testing would hurt anyone who intentionally doesn't use multiple AZs, essentially pricing them out of the market by forcing them to either commit to the cost increase of multi-AZ or move to a provider who doesn't do scheduled outages for testing purposes).
you should definitely fix this!

find "Messages -> Emails" here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/datasafety?id=com.tapforc...

and as per the google play documentation:

--snip--

Messages Emails

Your emails, including the email subject line, sender, recipients, and the content of the email.

--snip--

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/11416267
AWS is great if you have lots of money and little time. Which was very true in the last ~decade, where we had lots of venture funded startups that had very much money, but little time.

Also, while you definitely pay a markup, the standard EC2 pricing also contains instant availability. If you skip on buying a car and instead pay a taxi to wait 24/7, your costs will also be insanely high. Additionally, AWS provides a great ecosystem where your app can easily be managed in - things like getting a https certificate, setting up a redundant load balancer and even a CDN, database or a Kubernetes cluster can be made simply with a few clicks in an UI. If you don't have someone who knows how to configure those services, it can detract a lot from what you're actually trying to do as a business. Lastly, it has all these enterprise features you suddenly need - solid billing, encryption, certificates etc..

Don't get me wrong, it's expensive, but there's a reason so many businesses use AWS.
100/s is 3 billion per year. Postgres has a hard limit of 4 billion blobs in a column.

that ignores the reality that RDS storage is comparatively expensive.
Good thing we don't have EVERYTHING on AWS, so no threat detected.
The goal we're building toward is that you can pick any recipe on the Internet and learn it in this way. But first we have to start with a small group (beginners) and make sure it's actually fun and interesting for them.

I explain how this works at https://parsnip.substack.com/p/a-new-hope

The unintuitive observation for beginners is that their pain doesn't seem to be cooking the food and making the recipe. It's "I don't know where to start", and building up confidence, and not being intimidated by that literal fire on your stove.
A single AZ may have neighboring datacenters, but they are very strict on having datacenters for different AZs be at least 100km apart and on different flood plains and power grids.
Firefox recently removed support for SSB (Site Specific Browser) and PWA (Progressive Web Apps). That's the only reason I have Chrome installed, since I like to have different apps in different windows, and keep my browser tabs for websites.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1348811
John Seely-Brown famously opened a youtube with "I would rather hire a high level World of Warcraft player than an MBA from Harvard". The quote gives good google.
Anti-competitive practices (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-competitive_practices) don't require a monopoly.
This can be done today:

Chrome: Menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut -> Check "Open as Window"

Edge: Menu -> Apps -> Install this site as an app
Lens IDE for Kubernetes goes subscription only
Washing ground meat? Just no.. There are few cases when it might make sense like when the skin has impurities like feathers or hair, but generally it is not recommended. I would throw instructions right out if they even suggest something going against modern basic foot safety.
NYPD Stop, Question, Frisk Worksheet; My attempt at getting the latest version
Funny question. I always wonder, why are delivery apps so cheap. Here in Prague, i can get 6 USD pizza delivered for free, which seems absolutely insane.
The multi-armed bandit problem[0] is an interesting example of optimizing a reduction in FOMO. Basically you need an intelligent way to assess a good use of limited resources.

0. https://towardsdatascience.com/solving-the-multi-armed-bandi...
There is not much that is more annoying than an author assuming the reader knows the acronyms that they want to use.

This particular case isn't as bad as others, but especially when getting into any sort of technical conversation it's wildly frustrating to see multiple acronyms used with no indication of what they stand for. Then you go to look it up and there's like 29 results that fit the acronym, half of them being plausible.

I was always taught to use the full word/name/whatever the first time it occurs in writing and immediately provide the acronym in brackets (I've also seen vice-versa, which is fine), then feel free to acronym-soup the rest of the text. I sorely miss when that was the rule, now that it seems like it is the exception.
That doesn’t really work though, people vote for their rep, not some amorphous party blob.

On the other hand, it gives pols plausible deniability that they aren’t getting bought out.
Regulation for bringing down prices for unnecessary cloud services like hosting a file?

Let's focus on things users cannot change. Using the cloud to host files is an easy and expensive way to store files that should be a luxury or a tax on the foolish.
Yes, Citizens United made it explicit that money is speech and as such can't be hindered. I suspect that because of this ruling, we couldn't just pass a law that prohibits money in politics because the ruling precludes it.

A constitutional amendment would nuke the current limitations, but it's impossible in practice for us to get there. On the other hand, as we've seen as of late, no decision by the Supreme Court is set in stone, so we could, in theory, get Citizens rolled back and then some. That also seems unlikely in the short term.
no, healthcare and social programs are statutory, not constitutional. and individual and bodily sovereignty (inalienable rights) trumps any such potential claims the state has on population control in that regard.

those ideas are seeping in from social and religious debates, not legal and civic ones.
There's an older short story "Thirteen to Centaurus" by JG Ballard with an interesting take on this.
I think there's a fundamental difference between "someone breaks into your house and commits a crime" and...purposefully allowing someone use of a gun or vehicle, or negligence leading to said use (ie, leaving your car running in front of a convenience store, and then someone stealing it and going on a high speed joyride, running a red light t-boning a minivan, killing a family of four), and someone, with no negligence on your part, using property of yours to commit a crime.

If you leave your gun on the floor of your car, someone smashes the window and steals it and shoots up a convenience store: you should be charged criminally and subject to civil liability.

If someone breaks into the gun safe in the trunk of your car and shoots up a convenience store? No crime, no liability - you took reasonable precautions.
Twitter DMs and GMail for all things related to the outreach and management of the content.

Substack for the actual publishing.

As barebones as you can get! (This will be changing a tiny bit next week)
IG and FB feeds are about to be swarmed by accounts users don't follow
Yeah, I understood what you said, I just would be against it in general unless advertising is strictly decoupled from it. Even then, I'm not sure there is a huge benefit to it.

There used to be a news app called Pulse that LinkedIn bought and killed. To me, that was the best possible execution of the feed concept. It was essentially RSS with a scrollable feed component. You could browse feeds by category, but it wasn't recommending things based on current interests. If you wanted to go down a right/left wing newshole it was possible, but you had to consciously seek it out and go down it. The app wasn't breadcrumbing you.
As a TPM, I actually use ClarisWorks 4.0 (in SheepShaver) in drawing mode when running retros on one of my teams (iOS). Originally did it as a joke a couple of months ago but ended up sticking with it since it is lightning fast and works just as well as any modern tool for that purpose.
If you access Ebay through an VPN from another country all your auctions will get canceled and your account will get locked. That's why I included this post.
Why do you think it's satirical? Read the other articles on the blog, they're all like that. Dull, plodding blobs of boorishness. Check out the screed on gay marriage.
Architect here. We had an outage and we have a very complete architecture. The issue is, the services were still reachable via internal health checks. So instead of taking the effected servers out of service they stayed in.

We had to resolve it by manually shutting down all the servers in the affected AZ. Which is normally not needed.

There are of course a lot of companies that aren't architected with multi-AZ at all (or choose not be be). Those companies are having an even worse time right now. But because the servers generally still appeared healthy, this can effect some well architected apps also.

Only reason we knew to shut them down at all was because AWS told us the exact AZ in their status update. We were beginning the processes of pinging each one individually to try to find them (because again, all the health checks were fine).
IIRC Gandalf knew who old Tom was.

That being said, I thought that his appearance in the book was just a contrivance to introduce the sense that this was all middle earth, successor to an older earth older than the "old" things of Middle Earth, perhaps a purer and less subtle place.

We have such a brief time with him in the books but he's one of my favorite characters because of his hints of depth in the narrative and in himself. I think his carelessness is partially an act: sure he's old, and sure he just lives for the moment, but perhaps he knows some deeper sins he's trying to drown out with drink? Or maybe it's simply that his perspective is so long -- so much longer than, say, the elves -- that anything he encounters seems transient.
Endurance cuisine spreading via social media is quite silly but I did want to provide a brief counter example. My SO and I are lactose intolerant so we make occasional big batches of cheese at home - given that we're doing this if we're making lasagna or calzones we'll often set aside a portion of the cheese to tune it to the right moist/dryness level and that makes a big difference in the final product.

Knowing how to make homemade cheese and applying that skill economically when it'll make a significant difference in the final product is useful... that ends up going with a home made puttanesca sauce instead of some canned pasta sauce... but those two end up covering some store bought noodles because I have priorities about my time.

Much like a lot of we programming folks learned the basics in university (assembly programming, building basic data structures in C++) comprehending the basics can let you make a judgement call on when it's appropriate to put in the extra effort. Someone who has never cooked a load of break may find that task daunting and insurmountable... but someone who regularly cooks fresh rolls for their daily grain and just keeps a weeks worth of dough in a tin in the fridge can whip up fresh rolls for dinner in a matter of minutes.
Bribes need to increase proportionate to salary to maintain the same risk/reward calculation.

Famously, Singapore maintains a very effective, clean civil service by paying market rates, and sometimes for some ministers that is actually millions of dollars a year.
Not only do I not know how to make a bechamel, this is the first time I've heard this word or the expression "mother sauces". (Maybe because I'm only a quarter Italian?)

If we're going to gatekeep cooking behind a lot of prior knowledge perhaps it would be even more efficient to reduce the lasagna recipe to a single sentence: "Make a lasagna."
A share actually represents a legal piece of ownership of something.

If you own 1/4 of a cookie company and the cookie company goes out of business, you still get 1/4 of whatever is left over from the cookie business (in this case, probably some equipment and hopefully a lot of cookies).

But most crypto is not comparable to stocks. It's comparable to currency. Currency markets exist, and there is an awful lot of speculation in them. And a lot of currencies do fail! But the main difference is, if I buy a bunch of Swiss Francs, I at least know I have one person who will take it - the Swiss government. If I buy a crypto from a blockchain, will the chain buy it back? No.
Have you looked at Kinesis Firehose? It was pretty much build for this use case although you will still need to see if you can define a partitioning scheme probably in combination with an S3 Select query to meet your query requirements.

https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/data-firehose/?nc=sn&loc=0

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/s3-glacier-select/
The metadata repository is really interesting. Hopefully that can help relieve some reflection woes for projects with lots of dependencies.
I found and fixed a small Godot bug, starting from zero knowledge of the engine code, in about a day and a half free time. It's really not hard to just patch stuff yourself if you're comfortable with C++.

Godot is not beautiful modern code or anything, but it's definitely not inscrutable layers of spaghetti which require deep expertise. It's very readable and compiles reasonably fast.