skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that Apple, if they ever do release such a thing, will not provide an HDMI input to make the product versatile and useful. It'll be gimped by Apple's fear of connectivity, just like all of their iOS devices.
That might be a valid explanation for some of the more difficult and expensive problems, but providing water and sewer services to a low-6-figure population is hardly a problem requiring innovation or massive amounts of money per person.

My own city has about 28% fewer people than Jackson, yet is able to run a sewer and water department whose operation is funded overwhelmingly by water/sewer bills (averaging $115/resident last year) and capital projects funded by a Water Fund the city has banked (averaging $50/resident last year). These are not “gotta call Uncle Sam for help” figures.
> and we are the abnormal ones.

Speak for yourself, Down Syndrome isn't just a cognitive or genetic condition, they have a lot of physiological problems where the organs malfunction, hence the usual premature deaths and suffering.
Had to look those up on YouTube (had a Mac, not a PC). I am definitely missing that era of gaming. I'm wanting to write and play 90's games again.
Used car dealers
Someone else in the comments of this post has the same issue and they think it’s static from the weave of the material. (I lost track of the comment, sorry for not linking it)
Something related that I've noticed in government projects is that they will spend $100K on a tender process to eliminate a fraud risk of 5% that amounts to at most $10K if it does occur. So if you amortise the total "value" of the fraud, it's 10,000 x 0.05 = $500!

Spending $100K to avoid a loss of $500 is something most sane businesses will not do, but to government this makes perfect sense, because they have a rule that the acceptable amount of fraud is zero.

Hence, they'll spend nearly infinite resources to try to bring fraud down to closer and closer to zero.[1]

You see similar things with risk aversion. Some risk is inevitable, but again, government departments will cheerfully blow billions of dollars to avoid the slightest risk. Projects like ITER and the SLS are highly risk averse and their costs reflect that. Meanwhile smaller, newer, more risky projects will run circles around them.

[1] At least what is perceived to be zero. In actuality fraud remains rampant, but as long as it is technically legal, it is not subject to this rule.
I thought OP was saying that Middle-Earth was Europe. Apparently, that wasn't his argument. But I wasn't going further than what I said: view Tolkien's map of Middle-Earth in a mirror and you will recognize the coastline and mountain ranges of North America. It is not exact, but it is too similar to be a coincidence. Tolkien did not randomly draw Middle-Earth in that shape, he used a mirror image of North America as a starting point to create the map of Middle-Earth.
Can you clarify what point you're making? If you're trying to argue that adding an extra layer can only reduce performance, any cache is an obvious exception to that. Are you saying it's extraneous to use a database as a storage abstraction because they have to sit on top on filesystems, and filesystems already exist?
Do you remember the shareware games website HappyPuppy?

For some reason, a few years ago I tried to find out what happened to them, but it's like there's nothing but a few archive.org captures.
>> Educate felons when they're in prison

That's dangerous. I know people who went to prison.

We want educated ex-felons, what you might get is educated felons.

>> We know how to reduce recidivism

Do we? Again, I know criminals. They're hard core. A guy says he's gonna shoot up meth every day until he dies, he's going to finance that any way he needs to, what is the known way to reduce that recidivism?
The rot is deeper than just the UI, unfortunately.
I believe new Mazdas come with no direct connectivity and have no touchscreens. You can still connect your Android Auto or CarPlay device though, and control it with a knob.

It is the balance I like.
I don't own one (yet).
I hear about D often on HN but I never see it being used in the wild so to speak. When I looked at it, it seemed, like C++, a hodgepodge of features built up over time rather than being a more deliberately focused language.

I hate to compare and contrast but Rust comes to mind as one of the latter, probably because it has a somewhat more intensive and extensive RFC process for adding new features.
I think this is exactly what my Logitech M510 does. When the mouse goes to “sleep” after being idle for some time, bumping it very slightly doesn’t seem to do anything; you have to move it about a quarter inch or more for it to wake up. This effectively prevents minor bumps from waking up my PC.
If there is code running in that low power state, it's likely firmware on a microcontroller somewhere inside the motherboard chipset. Microsoft probably can't do anything to fix that, other than make more robust mouse wakeup a requirement for branding future products as "made for windows".

Suspend isn't even usable at all on my desktop when running Linux. The AMD GPU doesn't come back up properly 3 out of 4 times, and then any userspace processes that were using any graphics APIs (such as the desktop environment) are borked. Fixing that would probably save me 1kWh per day.

In my experience, I can't even get monitors to power off reliably, and I spend hours and hours fiddling with that sort of thing trying to debug it. Anything power-save related is a mess.
I find the comments responding to you, defending their behaviour, thoroughly unsettling. But neither is the behaviour of the team, nor these comments, surprising. It's a slice of the culture that pervades the user base and development team and has been so for several years.
The Power of Forgiveness, According to Neuroscience
This would be more secure than what I proposed, but requires changes that are out of the control of the credit card companies.

For the card to sign the transaction, you need to add some kind of card interface to the users device. Maybe this is what happens with chip cards when you use it at a shop with a card terminal.
If it wasn't already, you aren't paying attention.

Cloudflare is quite literally the largest bulletproof hosting provider for bad actors on the internet, and unless you know someone at the company personally takedowns are like pulling teeth.
Paperwork for the Blue card program by the EU, honestly.
I don't work yet, but I can write code.
I'm right about this milestone as well. I started programming circa 1980
(BASIC on a Sinclair ZX81). I'm not coding as much as I used to or want to these days...

A lot has changed in terms of technology but has it really. The industry has changed though. I don't know if this is just my narrow perspective but it seems the % of challenging/interesting work is much smaller than it used to be.
It's not that it's hard, it's just that it is not inline, so it requires a context switch because the CM is defined outside, even when it's doing something specific.

The most common problem that defer is trying to solve is cleanup when the function returns early (ususally because of an error). Writing the cleanup code inline before the early return results in code duplication.

C#/Java/Javascript have try/finally for this, C has the "goto cleanup" idiom, and C++ and Rust have the guard objects. Go and Alumina have defer.
Much of this is just threshold effects for algorithm performance, not special cases per se.

You don't even need to have specific knowledge of the hardware as long as you can identify cross-over points where one algorithm starts significantly outperforming others. An old HPC trick is to write software that thoroughly measures several algorithm strategies on your specific hardware environment and then code-gens an algorithm that has an optimal set of strategies and strategy-switching thresholds. The meta-algorithm is mostly focused on cheaply detecting these thresholds at runtime.
What a disappointing link.

Not because it was unhelpful - it explained the issue rather well - but because it shows our colleagues eagerly lining up to beg a corporation to silence people they disagree with.
What's the point? Your slaves would retain their value during precipitous collapse?
> I was unaware of (...) my thoughts

Yes. Observer vs observed, the inherent contradiction of meditation. At the limit, everyone is a schizophrenic.
You seem to assume that the amount of carbon pushed down is roughly identical to the amount of additional carbon brought up. Is that just a hopeful symmetry reflex or do you know any numbers? (I don't)
Jackson is a black city in a state run by white supremacists. What is happening there is exactly what the state wants to happen.
I think the sentiment of the analogy was "the brain is a tightly integrated complex system" which would support the 'multiple changes should be required to accomplish an increase in throughput'
The biggest thing about lists on the Internet is that a huge portion of them are content farms, which pretty much overshadows everything else. And for many subjects, this is far worse than it is for books.
Someone just posted up a pull quote the other day on Hacker News about how Cloudflare doesn't bend to cancel culture, and I remarked that they all ready had more than once. Now the big reveal is they ARE Cancel Culture, but they have no idea they are!
A ton? Relative to what space program? Or do you mean a physical measurement of the weight of people?
Switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed after over a decade of Ubuntu. Love it. No snaps.
I happen to be forced by the city to maintain a green lawn. That's why I came to believe this.
I legitimately can't tell if this post was written facetiously, what's your alternative? because the alternative of giving them no education is almost a sure fire guarantee that they'll be ill-equipped to be able to get a job with the potential to become a productive member of society.

He's not advocating that we teach lock picking 101 for chr##-sake.

But it's OK because you "know criminals" so naturally that extrapolates to all criminals in perpetuity throughout the universe.
> Six out of seven patients improved their cognitive tests by 20 to 30 percent

My 9 year old daughter has Down's Syndrome, and this is the most exciting paper I've seen! I know we're a long, long way off any kind of treatment being available for people with Down's, but still, I can't help but feel some hope.

BTW, you can AMA about Down's here if you want!
My wife tells me the same things about wanting a lawn for the kids to play with. It’s only recently that she has opened up to alternatives — from having native grasses and ground cover, to shaping the terrain.

I live in suburban US in a
major metropolitan area, and I grew up here. When I talk to people around me maintaining lawns, they don’t think they are signaling wealth either. But some look at me like I am crazy for developing a front yard with native plants. I am not assuming nor am I projecting.

That signal for wealth is largely unconscious. Used to be, those lawns were maintained by sheep. It was a sign of wealth when you can have a lawn that was not pasture. Then people got their own patch of lawns, didn’t have sheep.

If you were to propose to people to get rid of their lawn, there is usually an unconscious resistance coming from wanting that aesthetic. But rarely are those aesthetics and why it is pleasing ever examined. Instead, there are nebulous notions about property value, or about how a trim, neat lawn reflects the work ethics, or caring about one’s property. It’s stuff that has been conditioned.

Furthermore, I was responding to someone from Nigeria. From the perspective of someone whose community have to dig for their own water or sewage, running water is a huge deal. I recall a Netflix documentary of one Indian woman’s fight with the local government to get flushing toilets for a school.

Those people who are not consciously signaling wealth are instead taking the wealth for granted, not even knowing the history of lawns. The point still stands: 70% of residential water purified to drinking water standards are used to water a lawn. From the perspective of communities where you have to fight tooth and nail to get purified drinking water at all, that’s not so admirable.
Thank you, too!
Seriously. I once worked for a company where Marketing and HR had a cross-functional team of three people working full-time to game such surveys, counter/contest bad reviews from former employees, writing fake positive reviews, etc.
A recent tooling announcement <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32600821> that uses nix under the hood finally got me to look further into it and while I know this isn't exactly what you asked, looking at their uninstall instructions <https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/installing-...> leads me to believe ... it's probably not a great fit. I recognize that I'm probably more skeptical than most about "curl into bash" but if one needs to run that many sudo commands plus whatever "dscl" does in order to change your mind, that tool is not for me
Failure condition is an exploded rocket, not the number of scrubs.
Does it not compute?
From OP

> Captured carbon has mostly been used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR): enhancing oil production is not a climate solution.

> Using carbon capture as a greenlight to extend the life of fossil fuels power plants is a significant financial and technical risk: history confirms this.

Also from OP

> Some applications of CCS in industries where emissions are hard to abate (such as cement) could be studied as an interim partial solution with careful consideration.

Unlike nuclear fission in 1950, we don't have twenty years to continue extracting oil and gas. Most oil and gas extraction should have been hard stopped twenty years ago.
I wouldn't call it "woes".

I have been driving an VW ID 3 since last year, it runs their custom Android OS System and should have all of the latest features. It has been quite an experience.

The car is fine, basic driving functions are fine, even the driver assist features are generally fine if they are running.

The software running all the displays and the "augmented" heads up display is ridiculous.

The car one did shut down all displays (including speed) while driving on the Autobahn (error message: no input), I stopped in the next town, charging the car was no longer possible. I tried to find out how to do hard reboot, my wife found a thread in a forum, "leave the car with all smart keys, go at least 50 meters from the car, wait for 15 minutes". That did the trick.

Sometimes the voice recognition comes on and does something weird, I have no idea why or what it tries to do, sometimes it starts a specific radio station, it has not once recognized anything I said.

Some Update added a blue light glowing in front of the driver in the small LED strip, it just ominously glows for a second. It looks a bit like a warning, I have no idea what it is warning about, it just happens sometimes.

Sometimes in the night the alarm starts and wakes the neighborhood, but I was able to solve that by disabling the proximity features in the smart key system.

The navigation forgets that I can charge the car at home after every update. 20 kilometers before I am home it recommends I should charge for 2 hours.

The UI/UX is unintuitive and ugly. It shows a lot of useless information in weird places and a lot of stuff is hard to find.

The list of weird experiences I had with this car is endless, and a lot of is just just bad software development, like the issue on the Autobahn.
Hmm, that smartphone integration implies there is something at the other side communicating. Don't think I want that either. Guessing many folks would be fine with bluetooth audio for music and directions.
It got back to Tavis, which suggests it was not just a single private conversation between acquaintances.
Any recommendations for museums with analog instruments that we can visit?
My computer started rebooting when I went to the next room for a drink of water.

Turned out there was a loose floorboard and a short in the power supply.

The motion of standing up was enough to trigger the short.
The problem now is that the change is some orders of magnitude faster than they used to be.
So I would strongly disagree with your notion that an OS cannot be a distributed system. Several OS's, such as Plan 9, were explicitly designed as distributed systems from the beginning. For Plan 9, running it on a solo computer is more the edge case than the common case they designed for, which was a small team with workstations sharing a central server.

All of the computers are "running" the OS. The OS is more than one service on more than one machine.
I suspect it is the credit card company rather than the banks that have the power to fix this, but yes the incentives seem wrong.

They have successfully shifted liability for the problem to banks and merchants.

Instead the innovation has gone into things like Paywave which reduces payment friction.
But then that rolls over every seven "days" incrementing the "week" counter, and then either 28, 29, 30, or 31 days in a bizarre pattern incrementing the "month" counter. Then - get this - every 365.25 days it increments the "year" counter, which is just so spectacularly half-assed. Three hundred and sixy-five *and a quarter* days. WTAF.
From my experience in management consulting, it’s more industry related than rate related.

Clients in finance tend to be assholes even when you are cheap. The field just tolerates it.

Similarly, industrial customers are used to be put under a lot of pressure regarding costs and delays and will treat you as they are used to be treated.

Here is my trick: if you want to work in a nice environment, choose a job in an environment known to be nice.
If I’m reading you right, you’re correct that the database is still technically passing its data to the filesystem at the end of the day.

However, databases generally subsume most responsibility for the on-disk representation of data as well as I/O patterns. What’s really being compared here is the performance of the database as a storage engine vs. the file system itself as a storage engine - not the raw I/O potential of the filesystem itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_engine
100€ per hour.

I'm a contractor on paper and work with my own company (so I can pay 15% in taxes) but it's a long term job, full-time and I don't take holidays.
I live in a nice low cost of living European country, even if everything is slowly degrading and I give it 10-15 years before I'll need to move.
Found the job (like all my jobs) via word of mouth / personal network.
Recruiters offer you significantly less per hour in my experience.

I tried working with the States but I couldn't charge more (they try to pay european prices) and the work was way more stressful. Living in the States is definitely not for me though, way too many homeless and mentally ill people, not to mention the culture gets "progress"ively worse and worse.

If I were employed by a FANG (even ignoring the waste of time of preparing for the interview) I would have to pay way more taxes because I would be an employee. Also they pay way less in Europe.

I guess over time I could make more money, once I progress inside a FANG but that sounds hard, shaky and absolutely not fun.

I need money to build a house so my current plan is to keep contracting and run side businesses to make passive income (currently at around 1/2k per month passive) until I don't need money anymore.
Using this for significant amounts of non-html content will get your account disabled. They only allow it for R2.
Define “extra”

Do you consider hot/cold plumbing to be two systems?
If it works for the president of the United States...
This is a bit like the clients with low rates or clients with high rates discussion. Clients who will pay high rates actually tend to be more respectful of your time and expertise.

Similarly a chargeable day is a day when you provided the contracted services period. It doesn't come with fixed hours or even a fixed amount of hours. It doesn't come with a guarantee that you won't take a quick call with someone else in the middle of the day or a two-hour lunch date. It does include travel, phone calls, answering "quick questions" on Teams or Slack or whatever they use, and anything else you do to provide the contracted services.

Anyone who doesn't like that can find someone else to work with who is willing to put up with all the other nickel and dime stuff that client will surely try. No-one I worked with on a day rate ever even questioned it. What you get done on the days you charge for will tell a client soon enough if you're providing the value they're paying for and if you are then they won't have any reason to worry about nit-picking the wording in your contract.
I’m really curious about this. Are you able to share a bit about your use case and how you use roaring bitmaps outright (vs. through search infra like Solr or ElasticSearch)?
I have a G.E.D. A bit of redneck tech school. The rest is OJT, seminars, nights and weekends, and side work. Lots of volunteer work.

Worked for me.

I can also relate to the topic. I work daily with many folks that have had to rebuild their lives; as both victim and victimizer.

Tough room. Many of the folks you try to help aren't gonna make it. Some will try to take you down with them (not always the criminals, either. Some of the victims get fairly primal, as well). Learning to balance and hold your boundaries is key. Don't get punked, but also, don't let the punks stop you.

Long story. Get your hanky. Things have turned out OK, in the long run.

I salute and support Mr. Wolter, and wish him all the luck in the world.
> The brain is a computer

The brain is a bunch of chemicals floating around in salt water.
Smart metering is installed and rates vary with the time of day. Some people can afford to not care about that so asking people not to charge their cars might help.
> Trying to “map it out” in complete detail would be like trying to map out sex. I’m not convinced I can fully explain my experience, and even if I did, I bet your experience would be different from mine.

That's exactly right. I think of it like this: you've spent a lifetime building and entrenching filters around your perceptions and thought patterns to react to them. They persist because in evolutionary terms you being still alive means your behaviour is "adaptive" in a sense, irrespective of how you actually feel.

Psychedelics temporarily tear down most of those filters and
disrupt those thought patterns, allowing you to perceive things in very novel ways and react to hem very differently.

Nobody's thought patterns or filters are going to be the same and so nobody's psychedelic experience will be the same even though many of them will have similarities (we are the same species in the same culture after all).
Interesting. Was there actually a N__ Island?
If Ukrainians are shooting themselves in the foot by doing memes about bombings, how would you describe Russia's invasion? How will that be judged?
AI images are rapidly becoming just like clip art and stock photos: i.e. you can, with some training, recognize the signs. And, just like clip art and stock photos, you should recognize when an image is used without much effort, since it is probably not additive to the context of whatever media it is embedded in, and can be safely ignored.
Well, lawns are the worst culprit in the “urban water use” category, so the true comparison is “let’s ban beef cattle” and that will become an increasingly less crazy-sounding idea in the coming years (especially in the US West)

Avocados use an order of magnitude less water than beef.
China’s domestic conversation is limited to what The Party will permit. Calling it “mature” is…misleading at best, because it’s an incomplete, sanitized discourse under the threat of retribution for expressing the wrong sentiment.