skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are very close to having WASM SQLite with persistence in the web platform. Until now SQLite compiled to WASM was in memory and you had to write the whole database out as a binary array to save changes. There is absurd-sql (https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql), which builds a virtual file system on top of IndexedDB for sqlite, it's incredible, but a bit of an ugly hack.

However, the new File System Access apis (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/File_System...) that are landing in browsers will fix this. One of the things it does is enable very efficient block level read/write access to a privet sandboxed filesystem for the websites origin, perfect for persistent sqlite. There is more here: https://web.dev/file-system-access/#accessing-files-optimize...
non-nuclear green energy works as part of the system. I agree you need nuclear, but you don't need 100% nuclear. If I understand it correctly, the problem now is AC demand which is easier to satisfy with solar. On hot days it tends to be sunny.

Nuclear needs a ton of water for cooling which might also be a problem in the desert. AFAIK that's one of the reasons why France's nuclear plants are struggling currently.
A priceless layer of diamonds may be hiding near the Earth’s core
Look mr prudent, you don't get the motivation why folks do it, fine, but show some respect. And yes there is huge difference between swimming naked and in some swim shorts. I couldn't care less about rebelling against something, and I am definitely not any kind of exhibitionist.

Done it cca twice if I don't count swimming during night, second time got sting on the shoulder from medusa that left burn scar for years and hurt like hell back then. The idea of getting something similar on my johnson makes me shudder even now.
The population of the entire state of Nevraska is less that 2 million.

The population of a single city in CA (LA) is twice that.

Not an apples to apples comparison.
Writing fizz buzz is practically a meme, but worse, what can you really talk about?

I agree about live coding which is why we send that test to them pre-interview - it's to screen potential candidates.

If they get to an interview, a reasonable amount of it is to ask what they've done and why, e.g.

* Did they write a CLI parser?

* If so, did they add sensible options (e.g. to force overwriting files that exist on the destination or not), or aren't they bothering to check whether files already exist on the destination

* Did they add/stub out tests? If so, to test what?

* What does error handling look like? Boto performs retries by default. Is this their justification or didn't they think about it?

* How else could they have done it (e.g. use a library vs shelling out to the aws cli binary).

It's complicated enough that it helps show their proactiveness. The instructions include 'making it good', and also say they can just stub out/write comments for what they would do if they were doing it for real.

It's saved loads of time in the past by filtering out people who don't even have the basics, and it's relevant to the work.
I have 2 cats, and they both have a very similar language to what you described.

For example, the "lonely" call is one mine do regularly when they want the other to join them. One will let out a mournful yowl from the other side of the house and the other will swiftly join them for cuddles / playtime.

The "frustrated by inaccessible prey" is another interesting one to hear because of how unique it is. You described it perfectly!

Like you, I'm convinced that they have a specific lexicon of meows that allows them to both communicate verbally and when they're close to each other they use more non-verbal methods of communication.
> Inconveniencing a people, by taking down a website is not violence or intimidation.

The intent of the DDoS in question is very clearly a form of intimidation. DDoS in general does cause real economic harm and not merely inconvenience.

> Keep in mind who you're defending here.

That's irrelevant. Murdering Nazis is still wrong and illegal.

> The site in question doxxes trans people so they can be harassed and sent death threats. That IS terrorism.

If it were they would have been charged. You're imputing intent and actions without sufficient evidence, because if that evidence existed we wouldn't even be having this conversation. Extra-judicial actions of this sort, no matter how plausibly justified, are not how society works. We have laws and a justice system because mob "justice" is wrong.
Fair enough, and I think your description that quality depends on an individual's own weighted dimensions of interest is spot on.

But I'd also append what you said with: human individuals probably share a lot the same dimensions of interest (and probably close to the same weights). Plus, those dimensions/weights would probably become more refined as you gain experience evaluating+generating art.

If there is such a thing as "quality", the key question would be whether professional art critics and experienced artists are any better at finding it.
Heating in cold locations consumes much more energy than AC in warm locations:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/014...

"Energy demand for climate control was analyzed for Miami (the warmest large metropolitan area in the US) and Minneapolis (the coldest large metropolitan area). ... The results indicate that climate control in Minneapolis is about 3.5 times as energy demanding as in Miami."
It's just a perception. Nebraska had rolling blackouts as recently as 2021 (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/us/nebraska-rolling-black...), although that was for extreme cold rather than heat.
It was never closing down early, it was just ending its life at the end of its license.

A long time ago, once-through water cooling systems were banned in new generation, due to damage to water ecosystems. Retrofitting the cooling system was deemed to be in the 2010s, and other resources were planned to replace Diablo Canyon.

Since then, heat waves have gotten far far worse due to climate change, and climate change was not taken into account during the planning.

Since utility planning is typically at least five years lead time, there has been some adjustment, but not complete adjustment to the new reality we are facing.

California also suffered the disaster of the Aliso Canyon natural gas leak, which accelerated the shift away from natural gas generation.

It's unlikely that California will ever install SMRs, as they are far too away from deployment to be able to help with any problems. California needs new generation now, not in 2035.

Advanced geothermal is being deployed here, and in general I think geothermal has far far more potential on the future grid than SMRs.
The author missed a benefit of `calloc` that it can avoid re-zeroing memory. For example if the allocator knows that it just got a fresh page from the OS (which has already zeroed this memory for security reasons) it can avoid doing another zero. This is not only a performance improvement but can avoid touching (and forcing the OS to actually allocate) all of the pages. Maybe the best approach here would be an extra `is_zeroed` (which can be a false negative but not a false positive) field on the return from the alloc call.
Good riddance. The West heavily built him up, but that positive opinion is not universally shared by the peoples he oversaw.
Everyone likes to point and laugh when a state has grid problems. I live in Texas and so have been in the receiving end a lot.

The article is mostly about the prep work and conservation going on now to deal with the heat wave expected over the coming week. It all seems reasonable to me, exceptional circumstances need exceptional prep work and action.

In the larger scheme I think city planners are going to have to start accounting for weather events outside of the typical boundaries as more and more effects of climate change take hold.

I’m not going to point and laugh at CA, I hope you guys make it through with minimal interruptions.
SQLite. The most performant configuration is unsuited to most usage, and may lead to database corruption on a system crash.
Because the only two platforms that matter have multiple incentives to keep it that way, and little, if any incentive to make them more useful.

Even if we lived in a world where new features didn't have to be continually gimped and restricted in the name of tracking prevention and general security, there will never be any significant motion on PWAs so long as the Apple/Google duopoly exists.
Linux on Desktop Is Not Ready, and May Never Be
Didn't California just ban non-electrical vehicles?

If they don't have the grid capacity to support what exists now with a small spike...how will they support a hundred million EVs?

EDIT: For everyone saying there's still 13 years until that happens.

CA hasn't increased it's energy capacity since 2001. People think energy prices are bad now try 13 years with 100 million EV's.

And by disallowing any source of cheap non-green Energy...democratic policies will essentially favor the rich who will be the only one's who can afford a 50,000 solar array to power a 30,000 EV. The non-rich will be on a bus with the homeless crazy people.

Sources and clear evidence directly from CA dept. of energy.

https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/califo...

Found this out from this poster:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32676518
Nebraska gets half it's electricity from coal, so it's basically in a continual, decades long emergency, they just don't care.

Meanwhile, in California, you can't do certain things, like run a ship engine for power, most of the time because it causes unnecessary pollution that affects human health, but when this kind of emergency is declared, they relax those rules for a short period.
Why in the world do small screws need nearly 20 ft-lbs of force? That's a level where I'd be breaking out a much larger torque wrench. I'd be shocked if the kind of small machine screws in a PC can even withstand that force.
Is there a better source? “Freethink” seems to be confusingly mixing terms.

FWIW, we don’t have telescopes to resolve the surface of planets like this so they’re using inferences to approximate composition and extrapolating surface characteristics. Ie by these methods at a similar distance the statements are roughly equivalent to what we’d say of earth if we were seeing it at this distance. The crucial takeaway seems to be it might have a proper water cycle with or without surface rock.

Edit-another comment or pointed to https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06333
Be politically driven (company politics) driven.

Good arguments should take in account people's ambitions, and political aspirations especially at big fortune 500 companies.

Startups can be more honest.
I find that doesn't happen as consistently as I would expect / folks to notice.

It's one thing to ask technical folks to do a thing, another less technical.
They all look like psychedelic album covers. I would listen to every one of them.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06333

("TOI-1452 b: SPIRou and TESS reveal a super-Earth in a temperate orbit transiting an M4 dwarf")
What a lesson in unintended consequences of overbearing policy.
This is baffling to me, Google is promoting PWA and at the same time promoting Flutter for web development and native mobile development!
Absolutely; the following countries have most of their electricity made by nuke plants[0]:

France 69.0%
Ukraine 55.0%
Slovakia 52.3%
Belgium 50.8%
Hungary 46.8%

[0] International atomic energy agency; US Energy Information Administration
Updated: August 2022
I'm not sure I get what you're saying. Can you clarify? No one can stop you from calling yourself an artist.
Would you say european cities are a pile of crap? most of them were not built to plan
TikTok vulnerability allows one-click account compromise
Interestingly, gay men are moving in the opposite direction. The stigma around showing your body in public and online has always been lower for gay men, but there’s been a marked change in the past 5 or so years.

De facto gay nude beaches have become much more popular among younger gay men (I’d posit that they’ve always been popular with older gay men.)

There’s a pretty likely cause of this - I think gay men are completely desensitized to showing their bodies and being seen thanks to platforms like Grindr, OnlyFans, and the rise of the “alt Twitter.” It’s also easier to discover these places through social media where word of mouth was likely how they continued in the past.
Who is being defended as a consequence of being against DDOS is completely irrelevant, as it should be.
Attempting to boil it down to Oxford's definition is quite reductionist, especially when literally anything can be a political aim(even a rejection of politics can be seen as a political opinion) as well as violence not being that set in stone either. Encyclopedia Britannica said it best: "Definitions of terrorism are usually complex and controversial, and, because of the inherent ferocity and violence of terrorism, the term in its popular usage has developed an intense stigma."[0]

But even under your definition I fundamentally disagree that this instance of it doesn't fit. It is an unlawful attack on infrastructure with clearly political aims against a service used by civilians, it is clearly being used to intimidate hosts to drop them so that the DDOS doesn't create more collateral damage for their other customers as well.

It's fine to agree with terrorism, one man's terrorist is another freedom fighter and all that, but I doubt most people would agree that it isn't terrorism.

[0]: https://www.britannica.com/topic/terrorism
There's a difference between flowing piped water, which is a technology as old as Rome, and static piped water, something that was figured out only in the 20th century.
Not trying to be cynical, but I hope this gets worse before it gets better, for the sake of publicity. I think non-nuclear green energy expectations need to be reined in.
Diabolo Canyon runs on recycled Pacific Ocean water. That could certainly be a model for future nuclear plants in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant
You could sign them up using many + emails
I absolutely love this, but that's not the direction the world is headed.

If we're to make anything close to what you describe widespread, I think a minimum of two ingredients is needed-- 1, multiple collectives/co-ops of multiple semi-anonymous people who are willing to pool their reputations together (who need to trust each other somewhat so might need potentially identifying info to cement that initially), and 2, companies or investors willing to take a chance on such collectives by putting them to work and developing a rating system.

I think doing both at the same time would be difficult to say the least. Could be a challenge worth learning from for some brave folks, though.
Far better than dinosaur juice imo.
When and Where to Protect Forests
You can't do 100% nuclear as you need something responsive that can react to spikes.
> the Moon isn't teeming with life

The Moon is responsible for tides and is believed to play an important role with wildlife.
The proximal cause of liability claims is breaking one’s neck on a roller coaster made by an undergrad. :-)
"reined", like a horse
Interesting: geothermal is an order of magnitude more than I would have guessed.
Ok! Point taken. Sorry!
psst... "reined", like a horse
California is such a depressing thing. You have some of the most beautiful land in earth (the California coast is uniquely beautiful imo) you had some of the smartest people in earth in the highest concentration, some of the best weather in earth, the best companies, the best most innovative industries. Everything.

And they just…squandered it. In like 15 years.

At some point does California look in the mirror and wonder if just maybe it wasnt those darn republicans after all?

What’s infuriating is watching Californian refugees flee the disaster that their policies created and then try to implement them those same policies in their new host states. I’m already seeing this happen in my state.
The fact that this has to be done is sad.

This is like saying "get to the breadlines early to be able to get your bread for the week"
I don’t think this is a great analogy. The issue here isn’t the tool, per se; it’s that the tool is reproducing work from other artists found in its training set. The antecedents here are things like pop art, Duchamp’s readymades, sampling in hip hop, collaging.
It's okay to point and laugh here, because one week they're banning non-electric vehicles and the next they're saying people shouldn't charge their electric vehicles due to insufficient electricity.
All eyes on Germany this coming winter.
> if the end result is that infrastructure companies received more money

Ha.

If you literally mean infrastructure companies, then no, there wasn't any direct money in it for them. Okay, a few extra trains ran, so the infrastructure operators got to charge for those additional train paths, but in the grand scheme of things that doesn't make much of a difference.

And if you actually meant the transport operators actually operating the vehicles – if the federal government mandates massively lower fares in order to score political brownie points, somebody still needs to pay for the operating expenses during that time. If you subtract that loss of income, I doubt that there was that much extra money left over, especially given significant increases on the cost side of things (rising fuel and electricity prices, staff demanding higher wages due to general inflation).
California made those small gas generators illegal.
> Sorry but having watched every race and attended 11 in the last decade+, I know not only that the event you are imagining didn't happen in the modern era, it simply would not happen to any team during any season.

That would be the crash in 2008, to the advantage of Fernando. Renault did not contest the charges. In the words of Nelson Piquet Jr.:

> During the Formula One Grand Prix of Singapore, held on 28 September 2008 and counting towards the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship, I was asked by Mr. Flavio Briatore, who is both my manager and the Team Principal of the Renault F1 Team, and by Mr Pat Symonds, the Technical Director of the ING Renault F1 Team, to deliberately crash my car in order to positively influence the performance of the ING Renault F1 team at the event in question. I agreed to this proposal and caused my car to hit a wall and crash during lap thirteen/fourteen of the race.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20091001201052/http://www.f1sa.c...
The common scene I see is that the majority of <insert ideologically identifying term> don’t rejoice in other’s misery but rather do rejoice in pointing out how much those others deserve it.
I really have no idea
> This sort of experience frustrates me to hear. I'm out here trying my damnedest to be knowledgeable, well-spoken and engaging during interviews, and failing to get an offer. Someone with a buzzwordy resume and Google for interview answers gets hired instead...

Blame the automated candidate selection process that these very tech companies helped create and standardize in order to be 'ultra efficient in on-boarding qualified' candidates; this is the problem with just slapping AI to something as a branding exercise without considering the underlying mechanics and unintended consequences.

I guess be glad you got to even speak with a Human at this point because so many are just getting binned for not having the right buzzwords in their resume to pass the first screening.
Disagree. There’s lots of natural gas generation in the state. The issue is large weather events that is spiking demand much greater than the historical forecast.

More EVs and V2G would go a long way to stabilize the grid.
It's the only energy source that can run 24/7 on a tiny land footprint without emitting carbon or being overly dependent on local weather.

The one nuclear plant in California makes 10% of the entire states electricity. And last night the state assembly voted 31/1 to not prematurely shut it down as planned.
I used to go there thirty years ago when I still lived in the area. Great place to have fun.
I stand somewhat corrected! :) Always happy to add new tracks to my mix.
Do people calculate total cost of living, including heating and cooling electricity? Or AC size? There's some SAAS opportunity there...
The problem with easy solutions is that they aren't solutions, and they aren't easy.

It is massively unfair to a top athlete to not being allowed to compete because he's the second best in India, or China, or the United States, when a much lower-ranked athlete from, say, Burkina Faso is allowed to run merely because of their nationality.
The title is trying to get rise out of everyone. It is more like: Human using AI as a tool to generate art to win contest annoys some people on Twitter.
In general, you have to be scrupulous about opt-in in regards to SMS.

It only gets tricky when you want to have portability between SMS marketing vendors.
And I'm pretty sure that even in European counties that theoretically require consent for publishing identifiable pictures of people in public, many thousands of such photos are posted every day.
Europe is learning (or not learning it?) the hard way...

https://twitter.com/DolanGeraldine/status/156439235330088960...

Their choices are to start building reactors now, suck it up and remove sanctions against Russian energy or massive de-industrialization and back to the dark ages.
Good grief. I linked to an article describing the exception and the exceptions to the exception. This exception to free speech is widely titled, cited, and summarized as the “false statements of fact exception” to free speech. It’s a name, not a complete description, which is why I provided one version of a complete description that has links to all sources.
It is much easier to point and laugh when just last week they were banning gas cars by 2035, and here they are telling people not to charge their EV during outages.
It's interesting to watch it decline. And to see the lessons learned.
Amongst the many video experiments, I find Karen Cheng is making some interesting concepts by piping AI output to a range of other interpolation tools.

Below is a mini tut where the content from Dall-e it piped to Ebsynth and then DAIN.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ch7aV2mjWOD/

In summary:
Dall-e generated the outfits,
Ebsynth mapped those outfits to a range of frames (instead of having a new random artwork on each frame) &
Dain smoothed the transitions between each outfit change.

Another example of this concept is here:
https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChmyFNoDHZY/
Australia’s epic wildfires expanded ozone hole and cranked up global heat
That is what a lot of conceptual artists do nowadays (not new at all). Even Rembrandt had a workshop where other people would finish some details, apparently.
> Implementing this would not be that hard

The fact that no one has been able to demonstrate it convincingly makes me think that it might actually be quite hard.
Texan here. Sorry for my brothers and sisters in California. It seems that people like to talk politics about crap like this - who knew? That said, this seems to very much to be just the new norm when we want to live comfortably in an environment we've made uncomfortable. It's going to take effort, money and above all love for your fellow man. And for some reason in this country we are severely lacking in that last department.
You should interpret "programmers believe" not as literally thinking that this is true, but rather as "some systems are designed as if their programmers believed that" - and the latter is very definitely true; "Everyone has exactly one email address" is a very relevant falsehood, because there are systems with this baked in as a fundamental assumption.
The normal argument I see against this is that it's easier to mine nearby asteroids. You can reach them without needing to deal with another gravity well -- both landing your mining equipment and launching the mined material again are expensive and potentially risky.