skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But a flat spider can't save you from Zika, Malaria, Yellow Fever, Rift Valley fever, Dengue, West Nile or Saint Louis Encephalitis, neither can save our pets from dog heartworm

So we need to sign some peace treaty with them, because the world would be a really dangerous place without spiders.

There are like 3000 spider species and less than 30 are dangerous for us. This is a really small percentage. the truth s that most spiders will break its fangs if would try to fight against our skin cheratin.

So maybe when we see the next spider at home we should identify it, realize that is a calm inoffensive species (99% of probabilities), give it some cm in a quiet corner and tell the children that is its personal friendly bodyguard monster (but unable to grant spiderman superpowers) and should be left alone doing the job.

Of course I would not advice to have brown recluse pets, but the spiders that eat brown recluses and will never ever quit their small corner in the window? well, is a better deal than having roundworms swimming in your lymph. Think about it.
China is currently building more than 20 nuclear reactors IIRC. They're building them at an incredible clip, faster (like 3 years) than anyone else in the past.
I just did a quick calculation:

PV produces ~150W/m^2 for a very optimistic solar input of 1000W/m^2.
PV produces this output only 50% of time (when sun is up, very very optimistic), so 75W averaged on 1 day

France Nuclear production is 61370MW [1]

To replace all the nuclear power plants, we would need 818 million square meters of PV panels, which amounts to a square grid of 30km.

Obviously you'd have to spread this along the longitude so that eastbound PVs would still be alight when the westbound have fallen out of the terminator.

It doesn't look like much actually. But I'm not counting the batteries to compensate for the night fallout, and I'm assuming 100% sun input all the time.

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[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
YSFlight (YS Flight Simulator) is the only free flight simulator where anything is possible.[0]

Here is a discussion thread on YSFHQ (YSFlight users forum).[1]

[0] https://ysflight.org

[1] https://forum.ysfhq.com/viewtopic.php?f=167&t=10850
Its interesting to me every time a company goes down because of a cloud provider went down...

> Should I be posting my download speeds to keep them excited?

But either way, a website going down has nothing to do with download speeds. Unless you are talking about zero.
He spent his life (50 years) making this.. I think the audience are those are willing to pay ridiculous prices for "high contemporary art".

If you don't regularly buy paintings for 100k+, I don't think this is for us :)
On the Rationality of Divination Practices
"council taxes / water and sewage"

The immediate question that comes to mind: Can you opt out of those to do your own thing?

If not, then imho they're taxes.
One of the most pointless wastes of money I’ve ever seen. I consider myself an artist and understand it’s value, but a 30M fund for what, some blocks of concrete in a desert??? That money could go to far more useful applications, and instead it’s dedicated to a monument to hubris. ‘Magnum opus’ my ass.
Because tech has a left-wing bias [1], and HN is mostly a tech forum.

I personally think that will change in the coming years though. There's a limit on how much tech and denial of reality can coexist. Perhaps the reason that they have been able to coexist for while is that most tech workers tend to work in fields adjacent to computer science. They live in the world of bits, not atoms.

By denial of reality I mean things like denying the enormous role of genetics, or basic economics (see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory), or insisting on human equality at every level (which is of course utterly untrue, e.g. von Neumann was smarter than almost all of us here), or the war on merit (i.e. "affirmative action"), or heavy use of propaganda and censorship and doublethink to avoid social stigma for particular groups, or denial of basic biology (when it comes to fitness, or gender differences), or even Orwellian [2] insistence on the "fact" that 2 + 2 = 5. [3]

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/07/02/most-liberal-tech-compan...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%2B_2_%3D_5

[3]: https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/129047933047724032...
As horrendously user hostile as that is, the use case here seems to be you find an event to attend when in service range and want to check back on it when you’re nearby, which may be out of service. The 7 day expiry wouldn’t be hit.
Ask HN: So, what's up with Phoenix (web framework)?
While I have noticed that Phoenix is a thing people are generally happy about, I was surprised to see, that it beats the Loved/Dreaded section of the current stackoverflow survey by a staggering 20% over Express and RoR.

I suspect this is due to some rather fanatical following and coordinated effort to skew the outcome. Still, I am curious, specially since the latest blog update is nearly from one year ago, which gets me at least a little suspicious in web world.

Any takers? What's the current feeling around Phoenix? Is is the end all superior fullstack framework (at least form the devs side) this survey makes it out to be?
Yea I have a 2009 Macbook laying around just for screen share to my work hackintosh.

VNC Linux/Windows > MacOS is so incredibly painful and unusable:

Multimonitor: No.
Correct scaling: No.
Copypaste: No.
Thats only some of the bigger problems.

I wonder what Apple is doing differently with their VNC connection.
just like Art... money is subjective.
It’s not neglect, we just don’t put 3 lines to the screen by CPU rendering anymore.

With the advent of GPU, resolution, complexity of a scene all increased several times, making the problem essentially a completely different one than back in the XMotif days.
It's kinda hard to believe that Diablo was a cRPG at some point.
From the NYT article:

> Visitors will also need to get themselves to Alamo, Nev., a nearish town. They’ll then be picked up, allowed to roam “City” for a few hours and, because there are no lights on the road and no cellphone service, they will be driven back before dark, meaning they won’t get to see the sun rise and set, prime hours.

I feel this is such a bad decision, hope they reconsider.
Transferable tax credits is the most interesting idea for a universal basic income implementation I’ve come across!

It also has the benefit of appealing more to libertarian thinking (tax reduction and market-determined value!) than traditional UBI government handouts and by tying income to tax breaks looks less inflationary to critics.
If your whole neighborhood goes up, but not the whole city/municipality, correct. If the entire tax base goes up (not just one neighborhood), you should expect the mill rate to fall.
You are forgetting that you still have to create the electricity. So you have to multiply with the thermal efficiency of the electricity generation (if it uses fossil fuels).

The TEs for car motors and gas turbine electricity generation are roughly the same (0.4).
So the electric motor has to have an efficiency of 1 (read 0 losses) to not be less efficient overall.

So, no, just electrifying is not more efficient.
We need a sustainable, renewable energy source like solar.
Looks more like a skatepark to me
I was gonna say indeed Id like to bring my rollerblades (yeah Im old).
You would only apply the compression on the internally stored file and then decompress when retrieving it for the customer again. That way all the hashes and original structure of the user are retained.
The http/2 stream is multiplexed over a regular tcp stream. At least some push HEADERS and data was most likely already send over the tcp stream, and is most likely already a few hops away from the actual server. By the time the server actually gets the first http/2 RST_STREAM(s) a lot of data from multiple useless pushes could be inflight already. At this point you cannot just close the http/2 stream to avoid data being send. You can only either RST the entire tcp stream and kill all multiplexed http/2 flowing over it (avoiding some data transfer), or accept the data that arrives on your closed http/2 streams and send it in the direction of /dev/null.

Server push, as opposed to preload/hints, only makes sense when you know a) a client will absolutely need the data and b) you're reasonably sure the client does not have the data yet (e.g. data that is uncacheable).
Let's blame them for trying?

iPhone and galaxy s series cameras usually go head to head every generation and reviews are mixed, there's no clear winner.
ASCII has infrequently used control chars meant to serve as separators.
Pretty good list. Don't agree with it, but it's a list indicative of a different world view. You think tech will swing to this reality? I doubt it. But you know, time will tell.

I think the bitter economic reality will swing to more radical views and towards increased collective views. That's because the wreck of AGW is going to be so disruptive, it will be necessary.
This is what I was wondering. Or why isn't there something like a 2 GB HBM2 cache on GPUs? Is it cost or latency?
It's not just you.

I regularly use both Windows and MacOS, though I started with Windows king before MacOS... and I just fine MacOS so unintuitive, ugly and clunky!

Also, it regularly crashes when plugging/unplugging an external monitor. Actually, it crashes every now and then for no discernable reason too - feels like Windows back in the day when BSOD was common!

And not MacOS' fault, but I absolutely loathe my MBP's touchpad! Even on the highest sensitivity setting, presses take too much force. And it just feels... weird. Nothing I can put my finger on, but using it still feels unnatural somehow. Plus, it regularly registers phantom touches, which is incredibly irritating.
I think a main problem is we [westerners/americans] tend to consider capitalism as fundamentally existing at the same level of our democracy. Capitalism is itself an extreme case that people seem to feel compelled to follow because it is a convenient label which allows them ignore the fact that it will naturally erode societal fabric as said level.

I think there is a natural selection that these terms go
through. For example, Capitalism is favored heavily because under such a system, anyone can technically amass great riches, which feeds the desire for more of it by both the people who have amassed riches and those who have “yet” to do so, thus the constant buzz and support for it. Anarchy as a concept is never going to be in a place where anyone of power or means, will publicly support such a thing because Anarchy threatens the very structure that has allowed them their amassed wealth and power.

In many ways anarchy is closer to capitalism than it is to socialism. Only slightly relevant, but I wonder what kind of shifts we would see if we were able to separate the concept of a free market from capitalism. I personally think a free market is one of the best incentive structures we have for a network of independent actors, but we should, as a society, support those who wish to invent mand take risks without the potential outcome being literal starvation and homelessness.
You can see Uber as being a chaffeuer to many different people, I wonder if someone will Uberize IT jobs, e.g. you have 3 or 4 clients, and your work for the next hours/days might be a piece of code client A needs solving, or setting up a server. If you're idle after that, hey client B has this task...
Can someone with eye for art enlighten me on whats so good about this? Feels like a skateboard park in the dessert.
I prefer all my apps fullscreen and it’s so easy to swipe left or right to change desktops or between fullscreen apps - life savier when you’re in a single screen (I actually use it with multiple screens too). Windows is only now catching up in 11.
Yeah, some guy jacking off in the desert for 50 years. Good luck with that mate. Not really my cup of tea, and frankly a bit of a shame you couldn't have done something a little more productive with your 50 years, than move a bit of sand around...
Most spider species can't be identified at species level without a microscope, but if you can post the link to a good photo here maybe we could take a look to it.
That is interesting. I’m not using my phone intensively. So I suppose any work Tailscale does in the background will have a lot of impact.

I do use Tailscale to also proxy all my traffic over my exit node. This means it has to be always active. For just dns I wouldn’t need to do that of course. Might save a lot of battery.
https://archive.ph/stHER
I won’t argue with “keep things simple” but if you’re ever forced to work with multiple inheritance in Python try inspecting:

SomeBusinessyThing.__mro__

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#class.__mro_...
Fair enough but if I decline once why does it need to keep nagging me to upgrade?

Likewise, if I just want to play music, and I decline the free introductory offer of an Apple Music subscription, why does it keep offering?

Like newsletter popups, having something get between me and what I want to do is annoying.

It’s the creeping “Not right now”, “Maybe later”, “We’ll in your face again after a random timer” bullshit I hate.
>I think it's highly unfortunate it became the "de-facto 'modern' standard".

Perhaps you're right. Perhaps. However, the most important consequence of bash creation and dissemination is that there is a de-facto standard.

So until we don't have another de-facto standard hundreds of thousands of typical shell users are happy with bash. With all its issues, weaknesses and disadvantages...
Yeah like, I see that it's cheap to run those scam ads on fishy websites and just wait until someone is tricked into calling, or run a robocaller and wait until someone presses 1.

But having all this designed, ordered, packaged and shipped, just so maybe the receiver calls seems way too much effort. How does this scale? I'd see this make sense for targeted attacks, but like this? Wow.
> If a degrowth advocate came out and said point blank that under their proposals it would be only say 2 billion people, at least that would be intellectually honest and I would respect that as a coherent point of view.

Except that the _healthy_ carrying capacity of the planet _is_ 2 billion people, assuming a vegan consumption somewhat less than a first-world level.

Put an omnivorous consumption at first-world levels, and it’s somewhere between 500 million and 1 billion.

Sure, the planet can “support” ten or twenty billion or more, but only by farming 100% of the planetary surface and making 99% of all species extinct, whereupon a complete collapse of the biosphere would quickly ensue, resulting an effective planetary carrying capacity of 0 humans for the following several million years as the biosphere recovers.
No, but I regularly notice recommendations on extremely random subjects I have recently mentioned out loud. No schizo.
> " If he gets bored/throw in towel, he can just pay back with his money and move on."

> "Just to train a large model once will eat up 20% of this money."

Aren't these 2 statements conflicting?
Agreed. I love art that challenges our perceptions of reality, society, even that which questions urbanism as a form of aesthetic pursuit. But this is just absolutely poo. A self-indulgent stain of hubris.
Feels like this completely misses the problems of habitat destruction, biodiversity, etc. I don't want to live in a big mall, so I'm not really in favour of plans that go "let's go live on Mars, the goal is only for the human species to survive".

IMO we need to produce less, consume less, and stop destroying whatever remains of life other than the human species. More energy doesn't seem like the solution to that.
Disagree. You could say that about any monument but really over the long term that’s what builds culture and meaning.
I’m not sure as I don’t work at Google and didn’t see any follow up. Maybe some in the winning teams would know.

I do think there is some temporal logic already present in Google’s algorithm which wasn’t part of the challenge.
UIKit after four iterations (i.e., iOS 6 in 2012) was far from its "very early days": it was a well-designed, production-ready, powerful UI framework that was way closer to AppKit than SwiftUI (in its fourth iteration) is to UIKit now.
This is coming. The price per watt for solar panels halves every 4 years and every 5 years for wind turbines.
Honestly, why is this even considered art?
Apart from wanting to delete all hentai and open the door so that my nice landlord doesn’t have to deal with a two weeks corpse, I only feel free and not particularly terrified. Also miserable because nothing made enough sense, as usual. Of course in a real situation a pure biological drive would kick in, but not in this thought experiment. The last time I’ve got the most popular disease of the decade, I actually thought I may end up dead and did the two things and felt as above. Thing is, people may have very different views on life and reasons to worry about it. I for one seem to not really worry about the end (still to be explored in case of something long like cancer), probably because I don’t see it as a period of existence. The period of existence and the fuck is with it is what worries me.

Disclaimer: I’m not in debt, pain, legal/criminal trouble, not relatively poor and not suicidal.
It's not quite that simple. If you have customer data that's already encrypted, then compression won't do much because it looks random. But of course by the time you get to your infrastructure layers, that'll be the case (or you really messed up your security story!). Which means you'd have to compress right at the edge. They might be doing that (which would basically mean it's the customer compressing it before they encrypt it with their keys because AWS has no business seeing the clear text), but then you get to compress each item separately, which might not be very effective for small values.

tl;dr:There's a real efficiency/security/insider risk trade-off here.

Edit: I should disclose that I work for a competitor. Don't intend any astroturfing.
which clearly is not the case

quoting the IMF el Salvador team

This has a lot to do with the pick-up in external demand, and El Salvador’s response to the pandemic. Though it is one of the most densely populated countries in Latin America, El Salvador had one of the lowest reported rates of COVID-19 infections and fatalities in the region and has a relatively high vaccination rate.
+1 if you are storing objects uncompressed, I'd be amazed if AWS doesn't compress them and charge you for the full space anyway
Ubuntu / Linux definitely has come a long way. I used to compile kernels, write X11 config files, now it just works. Timed perfectly with my lack of time / willingness to tinker for hours to get stuff working.
How do you set this up? pfSense?
I’m using a windows machine for work and I hate it. Explorer and outlook change application icon depending on what you are doing. I can never find them when I alt-tab.

I can never find anything in word or excel or any other application that use windows style menus. On Mac you at least get a real menu.

I never got used to macOS’ alt-tab when I switched more than a decade ago, but now that I’m back on windows I find that their behavior works even worse. So maybe that’s a “don’t ever try to learn another alt-tab behavior than what you already do now”

> Why are 3rd party applications distributed as Disk Images? Then some as package installers? It's weird and nonsensical.

As if the installation experience on windows is consistent. Some things come as a zipped exe, some as an msi, others as a zip file that extract to an exe which runs an install program.

> Mac hardware feels great, but I just cannot understand why it's the preferred developer platform.

Isn’t that because it comes with a Unix shell? I’m using wsl and only like 1 or 2 gui programs can talk with my Linux files in a reasonable fashion.
I guess I am. I really like it.
I love it! I don’t buy paintings. I just like the look of it. If I were in the area I’d definitely visit.
X-macros in C [1] are great for doing compile-time code generation from tabular data. Especially for things like pinouts and their respective capabilities on microcontrollers, I haven't seen any other language give such a succinct, easily maintainable way of interacting and representing data such that it can be used for full function generation that an IDE can autocomplete names, types etc.

Sure there are other "newer" ways but they invariably involve so much boilerplate that you might as well just write all the code by hand.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Macro
Agreed, though this comment feels a bit unecessary to the point of the article? Anyway, interesting is that these two points

"Towson knew that icebergs posed an existential danger to the wooden hulls of nineteenth‐century ships. Steel hulls were invincible, he said, but that was based on assumption, not experience"

"Only 1 percent of northern hemisphere icebergs survive this desert zone, and finally, only one in several thousand would make it to 41 degrees north, the same latitude as New York City and directly in the path of transatlantic ships."

even challenge this a bit?
Monetization details for D4 were released it’s not pay to win but it’s cranked to the max : game purchase + dlc + cosmetic skin + paid currency + battle pass + paid battle pass upgrade ...

I was vaguely interested in it but meh, guess if I need to scratch that itch I’ll test POE2 or relaunch d2r.
Surely there is an ethical duty for the doctor to offer options. It is not for them to decide what path the patient should take and holding back something that the patient may want is unethical.
For some, there is a lot to see. I’d definitely visit it if I were in the area. I think it looks super interesting.
I believe you, sounds like you're actually doing some business in that area. You should really look into the theory then. Feel free to reach out if you need help.
I don't think it's so clear cut. They have to pay to compress it. If the data the customer stores is short lived it may not be worth it to them. They don't know if the customer already compressed it so they might be wasting their CPU. They also have to pay to decompress it on every access. They allow you to slice an arbitrary byte range out of an object which is technically harder to implement on a compressed file. They charge by the GB and are not exactly super cheap so if the customer wants to store a big fat file of easily compressible zeros then whatever, they got their money.

It might make more sense on their "deep archive" product maybe where the customer has to commit to a minimum storage retention and also pay a retrieval charge which scales with the amount of data recovered (hence paying for the CPU to decompress).
He could have done us all a favor and ratted out LRH.
Actually I got this mixed up with taking a screenshot, which kinda proves my point because I had to Google to find this out. Also no one can say CMD+shift+5 is intuitive to take a screenshot, prtsrn is much easier.
Autorun.inf plus some html file or simple app displaying a msgbox.
Well if watching stuff obviously is the hobby of your family and gives you hours of "joy" Nacht day then it really is a problem... Or you get more fulfilling hobbies.

The day we banned the TV from our living room ten years ago was the best description ever. Also stop reading news (even HN) every day.
Yes. By any moral framework.
>Were as Windows has been used to support

It's turning things upside down. Windows has been used in remote because it became dominant, not vice versa. It won in enterprise segment before e.g. even remote support, not to mention remote apps became widespread. And Win's success wasn't that much related to its technical excellence as most of admins from 90s would say