skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is going to come up a lot in future, so we should be careful to seperate two things:

1. Money spent on having generators on standby when they are used only 5% of the time

2. Money spent on fossil fuels for those plants when they actually run.

1 is money well spent, 2 is a problem to be solved but just carbon taxing it is probably enough to consider it solved.

Luckily, the high cost of 1, makes it easier to justify adding batteries or a thousand other things that help to reduce 2. But you know people are going to point to the same peaker plants we've had for years and say "look how expensive renewables are!".

Also, we've already built the gas plants. Which is probably a big chunk of the cost (they'll just be spreading that cost across the hours that they intend to run during their working life).
> Are you migrating away from Heroku? If so, which cloud provider are you using (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, etc)? What's your stack and what service are you migrating to (ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, etc)?

I see only two real Heroku competitors: Render and Fly.io.

It seems that Render is currently better at developer experience, and Fly.io – at geographical availability.
The thing about these anticheat/anticrack companies is that they all are founded by previous crackers.
You’re joking right?
The synergistic effect of all the AI's inputs absolutely results in a unique new 'flair', with extensions, reversals, and mash-ups of styles just as in human-made artistic styles.

And AI "builds exclusively on past experience and work of humans" just like any young new human artist equally does. In many cases, you can even tell the different models' outputs apart, not by raw quality or glitches, but by hard-to-describe aesthetic tendencies.

I share your concern on the effect on human artists – both the market for their work, and even their morale, when learning, knowing that decades of practice will still be outproduced by seconds of computation.

But I don't think the genie will be put back in the bottle, by either expansive interpretation of existing copyright law, or even new laws.
When cars were first introduced to US streets there were pedestrian clubs who wanted them regulated as much as possible. Sure, one could argue this was because it wasn't that common to own a car back then and therefore those who didn't liked to "stick it" to those who did.

However I think it is hard (and unwise) to ignore the role which (car) culture has played in this. Before car culture streets were a thing one shared with pedestrians, horses, carriages and cars. If you change that culture and priorize other things in your public spending for a decade you can end up somewhere entirely else [queue pictures of Amsterdam in the 70s vs today]. This influences culture and therefore the way motorists will treat cyclists.

I am not saying that the nature-side of the nature vs. nurture debate isn't existing. It is quite clear that both sides exist from what we can observe. Thr nature side is much harder and riskier to change in our favour than the culture side.

The way it worked in the Netherlands is a good example. If your bicycle infrastructure is good enough, more people will bicycle. If more people bicycle, more motorists bicycle. This means more motorists understand what it feels like as someone cycling. This in turn means there is less conflict for both sides.
Speaking of electric bikes, does anyone have any good recommendation for somebody looking to get started in biking in general for commuting purposes? I'm not a historical biker and not looking to replace the ~20 mile radius I drive with this, but ~3-5 mile radius including smaller grocery trips and going out for dinner/meeting friends/office trips is what I am looking for. If I commit to this happy to upgrade over time, so not looking to go all out now.
Happy to finish it if a company would like to sponsor that work. It works well enough for what it was originally commissioned for. It actually will probably work pretty well for you as-is. Try it!
Are the things you feel are missing from fly/render, or is it just a case of it not being worth switching an already set up project?
So far it’s locked up 32 x 416987 ETH. That’s about 10% of the circulating supply.

The number of validators probably won’t grow beyond a couple million because the earnings/rewards per validator shrink as the total number of active validators grows. The effective APR is already down to ~4%.
I haven’t used it. As I mentioned, I’m sure there are other languages that fit the bill besides Go and TypeScript.
This site has a calculator: https://www.stakingrewards.com/earn/ethereum-2-0/

Running three of your own validators gets you $7,333 a year. You'd have to be in a pretty low cost of living area for that to work.
You're overselling the "true cost" of maritime shipping - it's far and away the most efficient form of freight we have. Ocean freight has carbon emissions of 7g of CO2 per tonne-kilometre. Road freight by comparison has emissions of 137 gCO2/tkm - nearly 20 times the ocean emissions.

So, you would need to ship something 2000km before it has equivalent emissions to a 100km trip by road. So yea you're right that it'd be silly to ship something around the world rather than drive it 100km - but that's a a rather small distance. For a real-world example, you would produces less carbon shipping something from Shenzhen in China to San Francisco (11,078 km) than you would produce shipping it from San Francisco to Los Angeles by truck (616km by road).

No country has the density of population and the natural resources to have every conceivable industry within a 100 miles of every conceivable destination - eventually some goods are going to have to travel a longer distance, and once you get more than a couple of hundred kilometres away by road it genuinely becomes more efficient to move it across thousands of kilometres of ocean.
I've got several SQLite + Litestream projects running on Fly, and I've been happy with the service. Here's my config if you'd like a reference:

https://github.com/mtlynch/picoshare/blob/b246751d5036fdb332...
https://github.com/mtlynch/picoshare/blob/b246751d5036fdb332...
https://github.com/mtlynch/picoshare/blob/b246751d5036fdb332...
"3rd party OEMs" is a bit of a oxymoron.
It's civil, not criminal in the US. Nobody's going to jail for copyright infringement.
It's a capital expense to make the upgrade, and a political question of what should be done to require/encourage it.

All you really need is a standard 120V outdoor outlet at each spot. Consider that for every one or two cars that need a single outlet (even if you put it on a dedicated circut), there is an entire apartment with about a dozen circuts, multiple outlets per circut, likely a mixture of 120 and 240 outlets, and several appliances that switch between 0 and 100% load unpredictably.

If we can figure out the electrical engineering to make that work, I don't see the problem with wiring a garage for charging.
You can bridge bitcoin natively to Avalanche (look up btc.b) and then you can trade bitcoin with low fees, fast finality, get smart contracts, use it in defi.... oh, and it's proof of stake already so more environmental.

Just saying :)
We're adding an extra free month to Nova updates. Why?
I would love it if I could count on my government to look beyond its own self interests here. But I can't. And I don't see this changing without some kind of harm impacting politicians at scale. It's sad that I have to hope for harm to come to my lawmakers but I don't see another way forward.
Yes, I developed Piku because I did not want to deal with containers on low end platforms like the Raspberry Pi.

These days I run it everywhere, for anything between a headless scraper worker pool to a full blown site.
If you're interested in the technical coordination part of it you may be interested in the client diversity ideal that Ethereum has. Changes to Ethereuem don't happen by implementing the change on a client, but by updating a spec and then the ~5 execution clients or the ~5 consensus clients all update their code to become compliant.

It's a really high cost to pay, but in theory (assuming that the mix that is run is actually diverse) can protect against implementation bugs. In the browser world It'd be like running two different browser engines and only displaying DOMs that are consistent with both engines, or JS engine or final render etc.
SQLite needs some 'put your money where your mouth is' benchmarks.

EDIT:Lots of devs have (unfounded) doubts about performance regarding SQLite for web apps, a single machine benchmark against postgres (with postgres and the app in the same server) would clear many doubts and create awareness that SQLite is going to be more than enough for many apps.. The app doesn't have to be a web app (we are not testing web servers) but maybe some code with some semi-complex domain models.
The Original “Universal” Port
How vague and impossible to meaningfully argue. What specifically do you claim they've been fraudulent about?
Cable also paid for infrastructure costs. Streaming piggy backs off internet infrastructure.

Further, every streaming business is deep in the red and are being supported by other parts of the business. If they have to carry their weight they will show you ads and increase prices.
I found another really good moon photo here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/wu9dm3/100_megapixel...
Example of an "extremely nice new ICE for significantly less than" the $25-27k others have mentioned in this thread?

The cheapest new cars I can find (in the US) are $16k for the Mitsubishi Mirage G4 and $20k for the Toyota Corolla. I certainly don't think the Mirage qualifies as "extremely nice". I think Toyota makes fantastic cars and the Corolla is all the vehicle most people could ever really need, but honestly, I still think "extremely nice" might be pushing it.

By the way, what are the consequences for these unrealistic timelines? Some people like to pretend like the sky is falling and we'll have hundreds of thousands of people walking along the side of highways to get to work like some post-apocalyptic wasteland. But the reality is, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work. Timelines get changed all the time. It's a step. A best effort.
I've had a 5900X+X570 machine since late 2020, with fTPM enabled, and never noticed any stuttering. It's a completely flawless system, especially compared to the Intel 4790K machine it replaced, which had loads of random issues like these, unexplainable performance dips and crashes which no tweak could ever fix.
How much does RPKI ROV reduce the propagation of invalid routes?
As an iRacing customer, I am glad the anti-cheat they use, exists.

Otherwise, I would be subjected to shitty racers who would ruin every race in the first lap, and cheaters who compete on hacks instead of talent.

I am also sure there are equivalent bad apples in every single gaming platform.
As I've explained in nearly every comment, one is mined by 100% hashpower, the other is mined by 51% hashpower. The 49% are still using the other blocks, too.
Kind of, but doesn't that assume a linear utility function for holding eth which I think seems unrealistic? Plus, there are costs associated with holding eth (cold storage etc) which seem fixed, so its cheaper to securely stake 1 additional eth when you're already staking 100eth than when you're not running any. Plus fixed costs of actually running a staking business (by analogy with a mining business).
A small aside:

> Because multiple people are wrong, this makes them right?

I am sympathetic to your point of view, but in terms of spoken language, this is actually how it works (to my dismay, sometimes).

If enough people use the term wrong, then that becomes the new definition. c.f. "literally," which can now mean "figuratively." I roll my eyes, but there it is.
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Browserslist is the shared browser compatibility config for popular JavaScript tools like Autoprefixer, Babel, ESLint, Next.js, PostCSS, and Webpack. Now it's got a new website at https://browsersl.ist where you can test audience coverage and behold some hedgehogs.
Maybe Scalingo? They do have PITR. Very similar to Heroku. I plan to move to them in the near future (also Django app with Postgres).
Books: lots available through the public library system in the US. One of the libraries to which I have a membership gives me access to Safari Books online so I've already had the change to read through the new 4th edition MySql Cookbook that was published this month.

Video training: TONS of options and not limited to the US.

Hackathons: find a group who is using a tool/skill you want to learn and offer to help them with anything (getting pizza and drinks, documentation, etc) as long as they teach you about how to use the tool/skill along the way.

Mentorship: lots of folks like to share what they know; a Zoom screen-sharing session can go a long way to learning and understanding new skills.
That's crossing into personal attack. Please don't do that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Good thing we (Fly.io) are a cloud provider you can just use directly. :)
I own my cars forever (until death do us part - either me or the car).

This winds me up because it's a raw, shitty deal: $18/m * 12m/y * forever = infinity.

Even assuming a short lifespan for the car (10 years) it's STILL a raw, shitty, dumpster fire of a deal: $2160 vs the $500 for the actual heated seats today.

BMW knows this. They are double dipping - optimize production costs, ream consumers, violate doctrine of first sale.

Happy life for our corporate masters.
> 99% still means 3 full days of blackout every year.

Presumably the entire grid isn't going down.

Brown outs in small parts of the country is what I'd expect.

This sounds like the current state of California.
Oh man, I hit this with the PACE/iLok DRM company in the early 2000s. I was working on a contract with a company that wanted to add support for it to their products. It wasn't working properly for me during development, so I ended up contacting PACE and the following things happened:

1) They sent me a bash script to run on my system (this was on macOS). The script basically went to the root of my hard drive and listed every single file on the system. I told them I could not send them the output because I had data from other companies in there that was under NDA. They were kind of shocked that I read the script and looked at the output.

2) They wanted me to use GPG to cryptographically sign something. When I pointed out that this was for commercial work and we hadn't paid the licensing for using it in a commercial product, they basically hemmed and hawed and said, "Oh that doesn't matter. There's nothing they can do about it."

So yeah, I don't really have a lot of respect for DRM companies, as they all seem to do the very things they're trying to stop others from doing.
That answers something like "what are the technical benefits to zero-based arrays" but not "why are zero-based arrays such a strong convention in programming languages." For that you'd have to read the article I guess.
This has been so useful and educational!

Thank you!
There are additional goals including in part censorship resistance and it can't be seized without the keys.
Energy reduction is basically the best possible option. It's why insulating houses (in both hot and cold climates) is possibly one of the most effective green initiatives, since so much energy goes into heating. Even with a pure renewables grid where you have huge excess of energy at certain times of day and year you will have bottlenecks due to inflexible demands when supply is at the lowest and that will determine how much renewables actually need building (and mining is suprisingly inflexible: when capital costs are as large a portion of the total costs as they are, miners will keep mining even with quite high spikes in energy prices).
Transmission losses would eat any benefit, unfortunately.

Of course, the author didn't model this at all.

This is the problem with 99% of "actually we could totally rip out our entire infrastructure right now" posts - it's usually justified with crappy modeling that falls apart under slightly more scrutinizing consideration.

Solar-only with low storage overhead might become more viable if we get room-temperature superconductors or something.
Or...they don't want bad word of mouth after (many) someone(s) has their phone pwned and their BoA accts wiped out from within their own app..?
It means different things to different people, but what I mean by it is building cities and designing transit in a way that provides opportunities for people of different income levels, careers, and capabilities. If you're a WFH mom you should also be able to walk your kids to school. If you're a painter you should be able to hop on a tram or ride your bike over to your studio. If you're a white-collar software engineer and you make a ton of money, you probably have a larger house but you live in the same neighborhood and you go the same coffee shop as someone who works at a warehouse or helps take care of older people.

One of the contributing factors to racism and bigotry in America at least that we have stratified society and locked everyone into homes out in the suburbs where they don't interact with people from other socioeconomic classes, different ideas, or different life stages. It's easy to hate people when you read about them on the Internet. It's nearly impossible to do so when you see them at the park with their children living the American dream just like you.

Others may have different interpretations and such, but that's what it means to me in an over-simplified nut shell.
I kind of hope that said cottage industry won't spring up, because then more of these products will be sold than if people just start paying attention to their purchased and avoiding these anti-features entirely.

Hacking these features to work is treating the symptom, not the disease.
Not only WAL2, but there is yet another branch with BEGIN CONCURRENT which also helps with scaling concurrency.

https://www.sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/begin-concurrent/doc/begi...

I really hope these two branches get merged into the mainline sometime soon. I'm not sure what's the blocker, since both branches have existed for literally years and are refreshed frequently.

WAL2 + BEGIN CONCURRENT would solve probably 99.9% of developer scaling needs.
> If you control 51% of the network (actually, with Ethereum PoS that number is 67%, as you need 2/3 of the validators to control consensus) and people know you are malicious, people will abandon the network and you will lose your investment because no one is interested in participating in a network controlled by a crook.

If that 67% is also true of the slasher voting protocol, then that means you just need 33% of the network to avoid being slashed. Is that wrong?

> Can you please stop with the concern trolling?

Can you please stop trying to claim a moral high ground for no reason?
The thing is in Rust this is totally ok. Is NOT un-idiomatic to mix imperative + functional paradigms in the same block.
No.

1. Optimizing compilers exist.

2. Addressing at fixed offsets is cheap (a single instruction): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addressing_mode

0-based indexing is superior (as a default) because it simplifies a lot of common math, as discussed in TFA.
I got one from a UK bank too
Where I'm at, cars are only allowed to pass a bike if they can leave 1,5m of clearance. There is no minimum for the reverse situation
Of course, even the police gets angry at the cyclists for not getting out of the way instead
I'd also want to know how to deal with the worry about someone stealing it while you're in a store or restaurant. I was nervous enough about my regular bike, but an expensive e-bike worries me too much.
> Earthquakes?

Earthquakes aren't the problem, zoning policies and poor decision making skills are.

> Dandelions? Sunburn?

Assuming you mean allergies, these are problems of the human body, not the world.

> Marital infidelity?

1. Financial stress caused by government mismanagement of money.

2. Weakening the relational bonds of men and women and incentivizing infidelity via the welfare system and no-fault divorce.

3. The controversial one: a constant, unrelenting weakening of the male population via manipulation of the food, water, and media (incentivized by government meddling in private industry), rendering them genetically unattractive (or incapable) forcing women to seek...alternatives. And for the pedant that says "what about men that cheat," there's a good chance he's the alternative (and actively circumvents the system others willfully subject themselves to out of naivety).
I mean I don’t see concerns about fertility rate reflected in the Korean movies/shows I consume. Just a glib observation.
I found it interesting that the author phrased their critique so definitely, i.e. "it's NOT this and NOT that", yet concluded the article by saying their whole argument was speculative. That said, I do agree with their premise that it's going to be pretty tough to get a definitive answer as to why 0-indexing won out. And their criticism of others being so ready to declare results is apt, if not a little ironic in this case :)
There is definitely a bunch of math that works out better in 0 based indices. I saw this a lot when I was working on filesystem focused stuff.

I feel like I've also seen algorithms that work out better with 1 based indices, but not as many.
> but man Rust was a breath of fresh air with the amount of tooling that helped me solve problems

The tooling is the #1 reason I'd like to learn rust. I have not kept up with C++ and I'm not sure I ever will... sometimes plain C seems more straightforward. But those languages (C++ especially) have suffered from lack of standard tooling, in my opinion.

Even C# being a few years younger than Java seems to have made a huge difference in tooling availability (I'm sure having a single corporate driver during its lifetime made a difference, too).

I'm excited by the prospect of a compiled language with modern tooling.
No, you're just proving people have been getting dumber in every country because of very rich oligarchs that are men who also cause toxic masculinity. Which is why these incels like Andrew Tate are existing and sexually abusing females. Sexual abuse against females is a symptom of very rich oligarchs making our world burn. The same very rich oligarchs who are attacking environmentalists, activists, journalists, antiwar people, etc. YouTube IS controlled by those very rich oligarchs who attack antiwar people by demonitizing and shadowbanning YouTubers who expose America's imperialistic military-industrial complex. America's imperialistic military-industrial complex is used to keep those very rich oligarchs exclusively powerful and wealthy. Which helps them bully people into poverty, homelessness, dehumanizing jobs with slave wages, child slavery, sexual abuse, drug abuse, alchoholism, depression, suicidal ideation, etc. So, YouTube has become a platform of virtue signalling from popular YouTubers. It's only people that get caught and banned when they are not sneaky enough. This applies to Jeffrey Epstein, Harvey Weinstein, Ghislane Maxwell, Andrew Tate, Bill Cosby, R. Kelly, etc. All of those misogynistic rapists I mentioned are a symptom of when society gets controlled by very rich oligarchs that are men who corrupt their slaves. Women are still treated like second-class citizens when they are paid less than men, getting abused in sweatshops, trafficked by the beauty industry, never have livable wages from fast fashion companies, etc. It's proving that abusive patriarchy is still controlling every country economically. Every country is financially supporting misogynistic sweatshops that are highly unethical overseas while their sellouts virtue signal about women's rights. So, it becomes inevitable that vile incels like Andrew Tate exist when every country normalizes misogyny economically. This is what happens when the world never gets controlled by decent people who actually care about human rights and compassion.